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Asakura P.O.V
I groan and try to wake up, only to find out that I end up in the middle of a dessert and its night.
“At least the air is a little bit cold.” I thought while I put my waist belt on from my dimensional bracelet and checked my desert eagle.
It did not take for a bunch of wolves that have red eyes that have the appearance and size of loth wolves from star wars series to run towards me and it seems they found their next meal.
NOTE: At least 12 red-eyed wolves.
I draw my desert eagle with my right hand and wait for the wolves to get in range and after that, I start firing with my desert eagle. I managed to take down three wolves but the rest were running at a different location to avoid my bullets.
“At least it has intelligence on them.” I thought while I dodge an incoming attack from a wolf by side stepping to my right.
I use the skill fsh step to get out of their encirclement around me, quickly reload my desert eagle and put it back on my holster. I also summon wind’s edge on my left hand and point my right hand to cast my spell called chain lighting. It did hit only three of them since the rest managed to get away with it, one of them suddenly threw a fireball from its mouth and it nearly hit my left arm.
“Let’s finish this.” I thought.
The fight sted only for one hour since all of us decided on a hit and run tactic and I managed to use the skill in my wind’s edge called wind cut. I could extract their magic crystal but I rather found a way out and went home.
“That’s a warm up.” I thought while I looked around.
I managed to see a big tower and I hoped I could find a way out that is a portal that will take me back home.
“I hope there is some treasure too.” I thought while I walked towards the tower.
The look of the tower.
Dragomir Aleksi? P.O.V
It's been three days since Asakura, the son of my dead brother went missing and his girls are very worried about his status now.
“Well, all of us tho.” I thought while I sat in my office area.
Well, it's a good thing that some people manage to see that he got sucked in by a portal and now all of us are now trying to figure out how to make a portal towards the location my nephew got sucked in. The issue is that some enemies of the family manage to get word of this and decide to attack them, thinking that is a sign of weakness of the family.
“Well, the good news is that his girls went ham towards these families along with the reinforcement I sent to them.” A bitter smile got on his face.
He heard a knock and he let this person come in. One of his wives, Seraphina, sits towards an avaible chair in front of his desk.
“Any updates? We need to find him as soon as possible.” Seraphina said it with a frustration in her voice.
He could only shake his head and he also let Seraphina know that Idgel is working as possible.
“He could be any random other world. The hardest part is trying to find the location where that portal dumped him.” He also expresses his frustration towards Seraphina.
“His girls?” Seraphina asks.
“They managed to calm down but both of them were trying to look for some info if this was an attack or just a portal randomly open and our nephews were just unfortunate to be in the area.” Seraphina says.
He still recalls about the info that his contact in the clock tower passed to him that some nobles were suggesting to make a team of enforcers to be sent against his nephew's girls but Barthomeloi Lorelei stops it since it's a waste of resources.
“It's also a good thing that his contacts also manage to give him some names that those people who suggest.” He thought while both of them rexed in the office room.
“Still, we need to deal with that person.” Seraphina says.
“Who?” He asked.
“Kiritsugu Emiya.” Seraphina said it with a venom in her voice.
Now that Seraphina said it, that person was a thorn in his family in the past and that person was recently hired to poke around his family.
“We will deal with that person when the time comes.” He answered.
Seraphina gives him a nod and she tells that she is going to see Idgel if there is progress.
After Seraphina exits the room, he sighs knowing that his work keeps piling up.
“Stay strong and sate my dear nephew.” He thought while he got back to work.
Asakura P.O.V
Ever since I stepped inside the tower, a bunch of orcs started appearing and these orcs had the same appearance of those orcs when that tower caused chaos in redgrave city. I use the lever action shotgun that was given to me and I start bsting these orcs when they come in range. I also summon wind’s edge on my left hand and I start hit and run tactics while narrowly avoiding these big hands.
“That was close.” I thought while I gave an orc two sshes.
I used the skill Fsh step backwards and a little bit farther since two incoming arrows were heading towards me and it hit the ground.
I look at the back of the remaining orcs and see more of them just arrived.
I de-summon both of my weapons and summon tempest and a pair of red point arrows, I hurry my aim since some orcs manage to get a hint for what am doing and release the pair of arrows from my bow and the pair of arrows detonate towards the archer orc. The fight took about four hours since there orcs just keep pouring in while I spam my fire magics and my arrow conjuration and I already feel like I'm low on mana.
“At least I can spam my fire magics, but still, my lighting magic is a little bit high usage on mana.” I thought while I rested a little bit.
I look at my back and see I am back outside of the tower and it only shows that this tower probably has more orcs than I killed so far. I look back in front of me and see charred corpses of orcs. I had to move back a little bit farther since those corpses started to smell back and when I checked my desert eagle and pouches, I didn't have any more ammo.
“Well, before I start using my lever action shotgun, I already used all of my ammo since before orcs started pouring in, I already killed a wave of red skin goblins that have crude melee weapons.” I thought while I removed my waist belt and put in my dimensional bracelet.
After resting for a little bit more, I summon my lever action shotgun on my right hand while I have wind’s edge on my left hand.
As I enter the tower, I see a massive Circur staircase that goes to the top and it's very high up that probably might take me at least three hours if I won’t be disturbed walking up.
“Let’s get going shall we?” I thought while I prepared myself.
It did not take long for me to engage in battle after spending at least one hour going upstairs and at least 7 Lesser Stygians from the DMC reboot version appear in front of me and all of them charge at me. A chaotic fight just breaks loose as I priorities dodge since these demons were quite aggressive despite being lesser demons.
“Maybe they were created with higher difficulty from the game.” I thought while I dodge and managed to slice that particur demon in two as I managed to find an opening.
The fight did not st long as the final demon fell from a buckshot to the face.
I de-summon my weapons in favor of raging fury and summon it to my right hand and proceed going up the stairs. As I reach the top, In front of me is a big door and I open it with all my strength. As I walk in I see two red hobgoblins with spear and at the center a female humanoid.
The look of the female humanoid.
The female humanoid pointed her finger at me, the two red hobgoblins suddenly ran towards me in hope of stabbing me with their spear. I use the skill fsh step forward to cut the arms of the two red hobgoblins swiftly and give them at least one deep cut while all those cuts will also burn them due to the effect of raging fury. As those two red hobgoblins burn away on the floor, the female humanoid snaps her finger and a big gold color magic circle appears, summoning five dreamrunner and these dreamrunner attack me.
They attack one by one by making a portal while I parry or block them one by one. I manage to get a clean cut on two dreamrunner while I use the scabbard as a blunt weapon to hit a dreamrunner to its face. The fight did not st since I managed to chase them with my fsh step, parry their attack with the scabbard and manage to give the rest of the dreamrunner a deep cut on their chest while burning.
“One hell of a warm up.” I thought while I looked towards the female humanoid and put back the bde inside the scabbard slowly.
The female humanoid summons a transparent green trident on her right hand and taunts me to come at her.
I put my left hand out towards her and use the skill firebolt and suddenly use the skill abyssal chain to hold her in her pce but the creature vanishes and I suddenly turn around to block an attack.
“Thanks for the Mind's Eye (Fake) passive ability.” I thought while I blocked the attack.
This is probably my first long fight since the fight sted for six hours. I use all of my offensive magic spells, My bdes of nullification, raging fury and wind’s edge are broken. Here I am on my knee and in pain since I still feel the feedback of my devices getting destroyed and coughing some blood and I got some stabs and cuts on my body and on my shoulders to the point my clothes are all gone and half naked since my pants, my leather gauntlet and my dimensional bracelet all that remains. Also, that female humanoid was casting magic spells quickly and I have at least five near miss moments.
“Need… more…. Power.” I thought while I struggled to get some red potion from my dimensional bracelet to heal some of my injuries.
I hear the female humanoid groan while I de-summon raging fury from my hand and summon reckoning in my right hand. I still struggle to get up and walk towards my beaten enemy.
“You know, you did give me a good fight and I probably learned a thing or two.” While I point reckoning towards the female humanoid.
"Th…thank you,” says the female humanoid as she looks at me.
“Why?” I ask with a weak sound voice.
“For…freeing me…from my…duty,” the female humanoid told me with a weak voice.
She also tells me that I have the right to pass since I defeated her and beyond her a massive double door that lies treasures that I can get for myself.
“Thank you and I hope you got a new life after this.” I walk towards the other massive door after I watch the female humanoid’s body turn to ash.
I drag my body since despite using at least five red potions, it still hurts and I forgot only the physical minor injury that the red potion can heal and not the pain I feel when my devices get destroyed.
“Looks like I have to wait for some of my devices to get repaired for a long time.” I thought while I dragged myself towards the massive door and de-summon reckoning. I struggled to open the massive double door and after opening it, a certain person managed to hold me before I fell down on the floor.
“It looks like she is dead.” A man helped me to stand up.
“Thx.” I look at the person who helps me and an old man dress in your typical wizard from a fantasy world.
“How about we sit before we talk shall we?” the man said while he pointed me towards a pair of chairs.
I look around the room after I sit on a chair and I see some books on a big rectangur table along with some orbs and crystals.
“First of all, congrats for making this far alive. And thank you for freeing her from her duty.” the man gave his regard.
“Why thank you. But first an introduction.” I said it in pain.
“My name is Strokore. The owner of this pce.” The man introduced himself.
Strokore gave me a green potion and told me to drink.
“I understand your caution, that potion will heal you and that feedback you're still feeling it.” Strokore reassured me.
The potion tastes like charcoal but I don't feel the feedback anymore from my broken devices. I give him my thanks for the potion.
"Am sure you have the time for a question and answer right?” Strokore asks.
“Sure.” I replied.
He asked for my weapons since he was watching from his crystal ball, I summoned all of my broken devices from him to see. I asked why and he said that, back to his homeworld, most of the empires and kingdoms have a ceremony for a 12 year old child to receive a blessing from their goddess to have mystic arms for the rest of their life.
“But not all can receive mystic arms eh?” I asked.
“Indeed, only few can receive mystic arms but most of the people can be a mage or mana knight that manipute mana to augment their weapon or their body.” Strokore answered.
“But there people who receive mystic arms will have a boost in reputation and probably will have those nobility’s eyes on them.” I said it.
“You’re right, it's also another way to get married to a noble family. It also increases a little bit if they have a child to receive mystic arms from the ceremony.” Strokore answered.
Strokore also tells the name of the empire called Rithia Empire.
“I wonder why you are here, it seems you are a successful mage.” I asked.
He told me that he gots some powerful enemies, some of his friends threw him under the bus and he lost most of his political benefit when he was in the academy where people teach magic in his homeworld.
“Also, I am getting old and the goddess sent a priestess to tell me to prepare to move here. Also, I manage to make a crystal orb that can repair mystic arms by making that person absorb it by ritual.” Strokore chuckled.
He also asks me what kind of a world I live in and I tell him the situation of earth to him. Also, the supernatural monsters that lurk in the dark via portal and random portal. The bzers with their devices and mages waiting to be revealed to the public in the future.
“I see, a little bit chaotic but manageable in the long run.” Strokore replies.
“Indeed, since magus from my country and countries from my world are already in closed meetings and its pn when they reveal about magus and the supernatural around the world.” I answer.
“Those devices are very simir to mystic arms but these people gain by birth and probably those bzers are probably the most concern due to the way you describe to me.” Strokore replies.
“It's just some of them are way off their head or their head is buried in the sand.” I still recall some of my encounters.
“But you're the same as them too.” Strokore asks.
I tell him my situation and why I didn't register to the UN about me as a bzer. I also kept to myself as an isekai person.
“I guess that’s the price for power eh?” Strokore chuckled.
I give him a thumbs up.
“Anyway, there is more to this.” Strokore says.
He was the one who opened that portal and tested me before talking to me and also gave me some reward.
“Well, here I am. And can you help me fix my devices?” I asked.
He said that this pce is a pocket dimension just from him due to his service and sacrifice from his past since he advanced the magic system for a little bit and for magic items that can be used by the commoners in his homeworld. The goddess from his homeworld said that, either those fools from the Rithia Empire open a permanent portal to my homeworld or somebody from the pce she called New Mexico opens a portal.
“Take this with a grain of salt and be prepared if my goddess’s vision came into life.” Strokore warned me
“Got it and I know this pce you called New Mexico. That location is in my homeworld.” I replied.
I asked how his empire would open a portal and he said that they got his research paper. I asked about the academy of his empire and he said that each element has their own academy.
“What would happen if a person had two to three elements?” I asked him.
He said that there is also another ceremony finding out a person's elements before entering the academy they are best suited for. He manifests a blue crystal ball, he recites an incantation in tin, after that, the crystal project images around us.
“Is this the vision your goddess saw?” I asked.
“Indeed.” Strokore replied.
As I look and study the images, I could see some of the images that have me fighting against monsters with probably US personnel in the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit from half life series and they are using M4 with acog sight instead of a MP5 with grenade uncher.
“Some of the images too I see that some people are also casting magic too.” I thought while I looked at the image.
After showing me the images, he leads me towards another massive double door, inside a golden orb and a big gold color magic circle on the floor.
“This ritual will repair your devices, upgrade your soul vessels and upgrade your devices.” Strokore said.
“And how will that work?” I asked.
He tells me the procedure that I need to keep the orb in my hand and not leave the magic circle.
“This is the reward from your trial and setting my friend free from her duty.” Strokore said while he misses his friend.
“May she have a new life in the aftermath.” I replied
He nods and tells me to proceed touching the orb. He recites an incantation again in tin while I hold on to the orb. Suddenly, I feel pain while I absorb the golden orb and some bck smoke a little bit that the magic circle releases. I was on the floor after being in pain for at least 5 minutes. Strokore helped me to stand up and conjure a mirror in front of me so I could see the changes in me. Instead of yellow eyes, I got a gold color now.
New look.
“You know, everything that just happens is very coincidental.” I thanked him.
“Well, the goddess back from my homeworld said there will be a man with yellow eyes that I need to talk to. But there is more to that. Right?” He chuckled knowing he was correct.
“I might look young but, am in my early 30s. For that, let’s just say potion.” It's not like I am lying in front of him.
“Anyway, why don’t you take a look at your devices.” Strokore suggested.
First, I summon raging fury from my right hand and I see the color change. The scabbard is now color bck, when I draw the bde slowly, the bde is now gold color and the fmes around the bde are now gold color. Finally, the Handle is colored bck too.
“Nice.” I thought.
Strokore asks if he can use his magic spell called appraisal magic so that he can tell me the upgrade my raging fury has.He said that it has at least 65 percent demonic energy on the weapon.
New look of raging fury.
Also, I summon wind’s edge to see if it got a new look after I de-summon raging fury and the kukri got a new make up and I could probably tell it got more deadlier.
The new look of the wind's edge.
“Nice.” I thought while I de-summon wind’s edge.
And now, finally, the bdes of nullification. I summon the bdes, It floats around me while pointing downwards, it only has six bdes instead of eight. Strokore suddenly grabbed my attention and he said that he still needed to give me something and go back to our chairs.
“Alright then.” I reply while I de-summon my bdes of nullification.
The new look of the bdes of nullification.
Both of us went back and Strokore asked for my leather gauntlets and my dimensional bracelet.
“Reason?” I ask while I remove my dimensional bracelet first before removing my leather gauntlets and giving it to Strokore.
After he received my leather gauntlets and my dimensional bracelet, those things float in front of him while he recites an incantation and after that, he gives back my leather gauntlets while my dimensional bracelet turns into a white orb.
“The leather gauntlets can now be infused with fire elemental, making your hand to hand combat more lethal when activated.” Strokore answered while I was equipping my leather gauntlets.
The orb went inside me.
“The orb?” I ask him.
“I just turned your dimensional bracelet into an ability. Those items inside the dimensional bracelet did not get lost.
“Thank you.” I replied.
“There is so much to talk about but take this amulet.” He gave it to me.
The look of the amulet.
He said that it's a magic tool to open a portal here, he said that I’ll come back with a official from my homeworld since he wants to tell something to them too.
“I have more something to tell you but it looks like you need to go now. Also, that x-shaped scar in your chest is colored gold.” Strokore says.
He manifests a mirror for me to look at and I see the scar I got from an earlier fight and probably the ritual I got.
“Battle scar.” I said.
He nodded and opened a portal, he said to me to enter it since it will lead me back to my homeworld.
“I look forward to seeing you again.” He said before I entered the portal.
I give him a thumb up and enter the portal.