Return of the Fallen Volume 3 Chapter 45
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Author: Blue_Rat
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“Earth, you said you can tunnel your way through time and space, can you take my friends back to earth?”
Kazuki was quick when he brought up the reward. Fake Zetsu was obviously capable of traveling great distances. A god should be able to take a few humans back to their home right?
Fake Zetsu noded.
“Is that all you want, fine with me. Just tell me where this earth place is and I’ll deliver your friends there as soon as our mission is complete.”
Kazuki’s mouth almost hung open.
“Wait, I…I don’t know where it is. Aren’t you a god, can’t you figure out where it is and just take them, how do you not know?”
Fake Zetsu twisted his body and stretched.
“Boy, do you not know how many planets and stars exist in this universe alone, nearly an infinite amount and that’s just this realm were talking about. I’m an expert of my own realm and I’ve only traveled to a few million different places there. To expect this great one to just know, heh, your friends are from there correct? Won’t they know where their home is located?”
Kazuki shook his head.
“Humans don’t work like that, you can’t expect us to know where a planet is.”
Fake Zetsu lifted his antennas as though he were shrugging his shoulders.
“Is there no one else in this world who you can ask? I mean you were summoned here correct, who summoned you? Can you not ask them?”
“That person…is an enemy. We can’t.”
“Hmm, it looks like your reward won’t be taking them home. Without an exact location its basically impossible, not only that it becomes increasingly more difficult if your world moves. Ah well. Anyway, what else? I don’t do items or money and you can’t tell me where your friend’s home is. Anything else come to mind?”
Kazuki was stumped. He could be greedy but this so-called god in front of him seemed to have nothing of real value to offer.
“Can you travel back in time and kill someone for me or save someone?”
Fake Zetsu’s brow rose in interest.
“For a mortal, no absolutely not and for a god, there would be a high price to pay. You see I’m not the only being in the universe that deals with time. Not only my entire clan but millions upon millions of gods are time experts. If one tampers even a little…well let’s just say the other gods do not look favorably upon that someone. Traveling through time is something usually done to observe past events. To interfere though, the last god who did that, things did not turn out well for that being.”
Disappointment was clearly felt.
(Can tunnel through space and time but can’t help me or get Asuna and the others home. He has godly items but they will destroy me if I use them. He has no currency because he doesn’t use gold. Manipulator of souls and space-time expert my ass.)
As soon as he thought it, Kazuki felt like an idiot.
With a wave of his ring, several objects fell into his hand. Almost shoving them into Fake Zetsu’s face, Kazuki’s voice grew excited.
“You said you can manipulate souls, what about these?”
Fake Zetsu eyed the round orbs in front of his face. Picking one up with his antennas, he inspected it closely.
“What the…With your excitement, I thought it would be something difficult or at least halfway interesting but these are all just Beast Cores, tier 1’s at that.”
It was exactly as Fake Zetsu said. What Kazuki had brought out were indeed tier 1 Magic Beast Cores. There was something people didn’t seem to know in this world but Kazuki had figured out long ago. The reason why Beast Cores were so unstable, the reason why they would explode if not stabilized or sealed was for one major reason. Most believed it was because of the uncontrollable raw energy within but that wasn’t entirely true.
In actuality, a small piece of the Magical beast soul resides within the physical Beast Core. Because it is only a small piece, it’s full memories and intelligence is no longer there but its feelings from it’s dying moments still remain intact. All of its anger, hate, and malice from being killed brews within like a storm. This pure emotion uses the raw energy of the Beast core and without being pacified…BOOM!
Kazuki had learned this from his own experience. After his Mage core was stolen, that feeling of having something very important ripped out of you, Kazuki discovered in fact that with his Mage core gone a piece of his soul had been removed as well. He didn’t know what this meant for his existence or even what a soul really was but one thing was for sure. Ever since that day, He’s never felt the same.
Holding a Beast core in his hand, he sometimes got a familiar feeling. One in which something was missing, a small piece left behind. Kazuki sometimes wondered deep within his mind if his missing Mage core, the small missing piece of his soul was the reason he had turned so cold in the first place.
“Fake Zetsu, you said you could manipulate souls correct, does that mean you can increase the tier to these Beast Cores?”
Fake Zetsu could see a desperate look in Kazuki’s eye and chuckled softly.
“Hehe, the simplicity in that is so easy I can do it with my eyes closed. A soul is something that grows with experience. It can grow stronger through hardship, sacrifice, struggle, and pure determination. Even when it is thrown against the rocks and is on the verge of being torn to shreds, as long as there’s a sliver of hope, no, even without hope. As long as that person can overcome, the soul will transform and grow even more abundant and substantial. To upgrade these lowly beast cores is nothing. Hmpf, even if you wanted me to improve your friend’s souls I could do it.”
Kazuki almost had to do a double-take hearing that.
“My friends, you can improve their souls as well?”
Fake Zetsu stretched himself up tall with a proud expression on his face.
“In this form, I may be relegated to a tier 2 Beast but I can still improve the souls of a living creature or two. Albeit at your friend’s current level my power is limited in this realm but I can easily get them to the 3rd stage. That’s what you call it right? A Mage at the 3rd rank, I can push their souls up to that level. As I see it though, most of them are on their way already, the only one not moving anywhere is…you. Of course, we know why though.”
“If that’s the case, then that’s what I want. I want you to improve one of these tier 1 Beast Cores into a tier 2 and I want you to improve my friend’s souls. After we capture the real Zetsu, you swear to do these things.”
Fake Zetsu nodded and crossed his heart with his antenna.
“I swear to do these things. So its a deal then.”
“It’s a deal.”
With the deal finally worked out FakeZetsu was still curious about something and placed a antenna next to his mouth as though he were going to whisper something.
“So I get why you want me to improve your friend’s souls and all, you know to increase their strength but why in the world do you only want a better Beast Core? I mean with your strength you and your friends could simply go hunt a creature at that tier down, why do this roundabout?”
“It’s true we could simply go hunt but that could take too much time, especially seeing as you can’t just go find one, plus I need a core as soon as possible. The reason you asked why I want a better beast core…I wish to reforge my Mage core.”
Fake Zetsu sucked in a deep breath of air and went quiet. For the first time in his entire existence, a mortal actual stumped him.
“You…you want to what? Reforge your Mage core. Is…is that possible?”
Kazuki shook his head.
“It should be…I don’t know for sure as I’ve never tried it before but I believe it can be done.”
Fake Zetsu once more was left awed.
“I’m having trouble wrapping my head around this. Your Mage core was stolen and from the sounds of it, the person who stole it is still alive and well. If true then that someone has a large portion of your soul. If you make a new Mage core…what happens to the original piece of your soul. Does it disappear into the aether, does it fully infuse with the person who stole it, does it act as an unstable Beast Core and explode… Interesting. This is a concept I’ve never thought about before. Boy, to come up with such a mad idea without knowing the consequences, I’ve grown infinitely more curious, just which god clan do you hail from.”
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