Chapter 268: Ring (5)

|Author's note: I'll post 2 chapters tomorrow, I've gotten only 12 hours of work in the past 3 days.|

3rd Person POV

A paper arrived at Aminu's desk, personally handed to him by Laker, on there was a picture of the moon with a large visible grid pattern on it.

"It's said to be green in color, delivered to us from our spies in the demon continents." Laker reported as his chief inspected the picture "It lasted about an hour before the green lights disappeared."

"Didn't the lady of the blue rose say that they are heading to the moon?" the chief asked

"Yeah, but I can't lie to ya, it sounds like a half lie, but now..."

"How did it sound like a lie?"

"Do you not read books on idiots trying to fly past heaven and yet none of them ever returned? The air gets thinner and thinner, and there's this guy whose last words were 'I'm out of mana. Shit.' before falling and turning into a burning corpse."

"Oh yeah, he was testing out just how much mana a 3-star possesses and how far up can he fly."

"Either way, those who made it past the heavens never return, and I'm including previous 10-star mages in that statement as well, so it's not stupid to assume going to the moon is impossible, the moon god or the sun goddess would not appreciate us trying to go to their territory, heck making it past the seasonal gods would be lucky."

"Well, I don't know what you want out of me, but I don't know what's happening, but we at least know that Perseus is the cause of the moon being like that. What are the reactions of other nations?" the chief asked before putting down the paper.

"The human continents are seeing this as a blessing as the spring god's followers were praying at around the same time when this happened, they were praying for a blessing to fight the anti-magic cult and elimination of demons, and that looked like a proper sign.

"The other 3 continents are joining forces with them too since they believed that they will also receive a blessing if they join in the fight. The news got to them fast despite them being on the other side of the world.

"Tehios on the other hand, most of them saw it as a warning, they think that a catastrophe may be happening. And last but not least, the anti-magic cult saw this as a sign from their god, so it helped them erase the doubt of the 'prophecy'."

"So since the 2 of us are the only ones that they told about them heading to the moon, we're the only 2 that knows?" Aminu asked

"Not really, the brat did kidnap the 2 future saints of the autumn goddess and winter god, so if those 2 chose to spill the beans, us 2 will no longer be the only ones."

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Jerah, despite being on the other side, can feel it. Perseus has activated the artifact he creates back in his original world.

Only Perseus could have activated it as the barrier blocking anyone else from approaching the guardian's room, which has the only entrance to reach the artifact, will only shut down when the challenger dies or when they activate the artifact.

The room blocks any magic from the outside, that includes teleportation and even Leilah's shadow travel power, so it could have only been him.

The relics would have then flown back to their original hiding spot if the challenger dies, but he doesn't have to worry about that because it seems that Perseus succeeded.

"That means that he should have enough energy to come here whenever he wish." he said aloud.

His girlfriend was nearby at the time and stared at him for a while but just went on with her day.

"I can't wait to beat him up, I can't give away Leilah that easy." he then laughed to himself which earned his girlfriend's concerns.

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Perseus POV

The motherfucker made the moon itself as an artifact, no wonder everything was so painful, I got the power of the moon itself and not just that, I got upgraded to an 8-star mage almost instantly, this was so worth it.

But for now, I spent my time writing the instructions on some letters in preparation for my future self, the same instructions and everything, and kept it in my storage spell, whether I'll fail or pass, I'd at least have these letters to keep the infinite loop going.

There's one paper that I didn't read, and that's the last letter that apparently contains the exact date of when I assigned Orion to do this, his reaction, and what I did during then.

We then organize the things we got from the moon, I gave a majority of it to the 2 to-be saints as thanks for their sacrifice, they had to torture themselves along with me, and not only that, they didn't even have to come here since it's not their duty.

I did force them a bit because I would've kidnapped them otherwise, I did somewhat kidnap Mark, but at least we're done now, and with Maple ordering to not tell them who they are and what happened, our secret should be safe.

Lilith even came up with a believable story for what happened while they were here as she was searching the other house. And while everyone was linking the 2 houses to teleport back home...

"By the way, do we want to fake my death?" Lilith asked

"What? Why?"

"I was going to do it sooner or later, we can just add a bit of me losing to an 11-star guardian. Besides, I can live with you permanently."

"..."

"Why are you hesitating? I'm quite literally offering to give you my full attention instead of sparing half the time living a double life, and I've never done it with anyone else."

"Why don't we just keep the status quo?"

"If you're scared, just know that the relationship isn't just about sex, I can control myself very well...that's why you're hesitating, aren't you?"

"No."