A Journey For Another Tale!!!

Meg blurred into existence.

She took off her hood, letting her beautiful red-brown curls fall down her cheeks.

She looked a bit breathless, her Mana running dry because of the Lesser Bounded Field.

Red Sun appeared on Meg's left, wearing a tight, white t-shirt and blue jeans shorts.

He eyed the hundreds of petrified beings and puddles of blood becoming a lake behind him. Then he looked forward and began picking his nose.

To Red Sun's left appeared Spawn in her Spawn form.

Her red cloak billowed with a life of its own, ignoring the gusts of wind.

A giant serpent with draconic white scales slithered towards them from behind. On the Time Devourer's forehead, a murky, yellow eye glowed with unmatchable intelligence.

Silvery, white bundles of mist churned around Kai's throne and the Space Devourer took form.

Her long white hair danced as she sat on Kai's throne's armrest. Her stony-eye were hidden behind her closed eyelid, but she still shifted her head left and right as if she could sense each of them.

Boom!

From high in the sky, the third sister fell like a boulder, shattering the earth, and bursting into mist.

The mist slithered toward Black and when she regained her form, the short, white-haired girl was sitting on his back, with her legs around his shoulders.

-Kneel!- the Life Devourer hissed, an evil, devouring instinct bursting out of her wormy, black eyes.

As if understanding the hiss, the White Serpent Pirates together fell on their knees, their heads down.

"YOUR MAJESTY!"

Kai eyed them silently.

Suddenly, Old Sage jumped off her chair. "The White Serpent Pirates!" she screamed, recognizing them from the Wanted Posters. "Then you are…"

For the first time, Old Sage's eyes gained a look heavier than curiosity. "The Five-Crowned Prince…"

The Supreme Protector looked at the Old Sage.

"You do not deserve a position among us, child," he said, smiling. "Not yet."

Old Sage grinned as the monsters looked at him. He could feel it now; clearer than ever.

There was a clear feeling in this place, even if it wasn't so obvious. He had thought that the White Serpent Pirates were like Straw Hat Pirates…

He had been wrong.

They weren't friends…

They were the Five-Crowned Prince's servants…

"I will become a Top-class 9th-floor Contestant," Old Sage said, selling himself. "I have an Inheritance. There's no other Contestant in the entire 2nd, and even 3rd, Set of both Order's Peak and Chaos' Valley who can surpass my knowledge of Magecraft.

"I recognized the Bounded Field runes the moment I saw them. I am still learning, but I can best any Contestant in the field of Magical Runes and Crests. I…"

Black lifted his hand.

"Give me a reason to let you live, Tina Slovaker," Kai said, his smile gone. "All you have… now already belongs to me."

Two yellow crystals bobbed up and down in Old Sage's eyes, finally hacking into the tight security zone hiding the Multiverse ID of a Fate Timeline.

Old Sage also knew what had just happened.

All his shrewdness and survival instincts failed at this moment.

The only thing Old Sage had left right now on him… was his curiosity.

"How…" he mumbled, his blue eyes shining purple behind the round glasses. "… How did you break through my Mystic Eye Mindscape? You weren't even trying… It was like a… hacking? Uh… Uh… can you tell me before killing me?"

"No." Kai looked at the Space Devourer.

The single, vertical eye in the middle of Selene's head split open.

Old Sage's eyes involuntarily fell in that direction, and then… with a bang…

— his round glasses gained a crack.

As I thought… Kai nodded to himself. Mystic Eye Killer… So… Selene's gaining Multiversal Interdependencies of her own.

Masterfully, not only did Kai confirm his guess related to Selene's Petrification Ability, but he also implanted a cruel intention within Old Sage's mind.

Because Old Sage didn't know that Kai already knew about the Mystic Eye Killer.

"Oh… you survived…" Kai said, feeling quite amused. "Hmmm… Very well. Meg. She's your responsibility."

"As you wish, master." Meg looked up at the tiny Contestant, her lips twitching. The blue-haired girl smiled back at her curiously.

"You think she's of a marriageable age?" Red Sun whispered in Spawn's ears.

Spawn gave the deadest stare to Red Sun before getting up and moving a bit away from him.

"Hey!" Red Sun shouted. "I wasn't asking for me… No. Believe me!"

The corner of Kai's mouth twitched ruefully.

Suddenly, he looked to his right and eyed the Life Devourer.

"Stand here," he said, pointing to the ground between him and the others.

Behind the kneeling Contestants, the Time Devourer hissed, coiling around itself, refusing to assume the false humane form.

-Tch!- the short-haired Selene jumped off Black's shoulders and landed where Kai commanded her to.

-We could sense your Luck, master,- Selene, sitting next to Kai, hissed. -Also, we can't use Unlucky Gossip unless all three Consciousness take part in the gossip.-

She threw her hands around Kai's shoulder and then melted inside him.

Kai felt a chill inside his bones, his soul resting as if tired from working for an eternity.

She still has Soul Chill, like Dementor's inherent coldness, he reflected, taking a deep relaxing breath.

-What a bitch!- the Life Devourer cursed, throwing her hands inside her white miniskirt's pockets.

Black snapped.

He lifted his right hand and unfurled his fingers.

The Selene standing in the middle must have sensed the doom coming for her. She instantly tried to burst into a cloud of mist.

Too late!

A thousand yellow crystals danced in her eyes.

The Ad Infinitum could already manipulate Consciousness as it was one of its core strengths. Now it began nudging the Life Devourer ever so slightly, enhancing her desire to become mist.

The short-haired Selene couldn't hold back her desire and exploded into a cloud of mist.

The silvery, white mist churned furiously and then melted into the body of the Time Devourer.

At first, the giant white serpent had only one head. Now, slowly, a second head began taking shape, with a vertical, hideous black eye in the middle of its forehead.

The Life Devourer thrashed its head, but no matter what it did, it couldn't escape the two-headed mist form. Nor could it let out any hiss as if it had lost its voice.

Kai let out a sigh. "Children…"

"Don't tell me…" Red Sun rolled his eyes.

Meg lifted her head and gaped at Red Sun as if she hadn't met a greater fool than him in her entire life.

"Take her," Kai said, ignoring the bickering.

A blue-black vortex opened up behind Black as he stood up.

The Two-Headed Devourer became mist and entered his chest.

With one swift jump, Black entered the vortex, beginning the journey for a new Tale.

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