The Nine Wonders

Finally, at sunset, Jayde made it to the island, though he found it strange, from his calculations, he should have gotten to his island a day sooner, but anyway, he still made it, looking at the familiar sight before him he felt emotional truly there was no place like home.

Quickly he moved towards the direction of his abode, he knew the moment he stepped onto the island elior would be aware with Jowell's talent there was no way his presence would go unnoticed.

Quickly the gate to his mansion came into sight, and as expected elior, his aunt and some servants were already there waiting for him. Immediately he reached them they all bowed except for his aunt who just went ahead to embrace him, her eyes red, it was evident she had been crying as she was worried for him.

Seeing this sight jayde felt bad if he had known she would get like this he would have informed her before he confronted the Minoan, even if he didn't tell her the truth just telling her he was going for a trip would have been better.

"YOU Inconsiderate lad you just went ahead and dissipated for days do you know how worried we all were …." jaydes's aunt went on and on berating him, seeing his aunt get like this he could only apologize as he consoled her.

"At least let me get inside I'm starving, I haven't gotten a good meal since I left, I'd like to eat your cooking aunt," Jayed said as tried to escape her nagging.

"HMPH, you're in luck I happened to have prepared something before your arrival" his aunt responded, as she led him into the mansion the rest following behind.

Looking at her jayde smiled he was sure she had prepared food every day expecting his arrival, honestly he didn't know what to do with this aunt of his, she always went out of her way when it came to things concerning him.

"Alright you just go shower and change let me go set the table." jaydes aunt instructed when they got to the corridor, Following which she wandered off.

After she left Jayde finally had time to speak to Elior. "my lord how was the trip" Elior finally had time to greet him.

"it was exciting, I discovered a lot of things when I was away, speaking of which how are our nine visitors doing." jayde replied while also inquiring. Elior gave him the details of all that happened when he was away, when he heard of their actions after they exited the dungeon, his eyes squinted as they carried a ferocious glint.

"the door to heaven is open but some fools still chose the path to hell" Jayde sneered, he could imagine they'd grown so strong which made them arrogant and cocky. His eyes gleamed they had two choices either they submit or they become food for his blade.

After Dismissing Elior, jayde went ahead and freshened up taking a shower and putting on some real clothes, he quickly went to the dining where his aunt was already there the table was littered with dishes.

He sat he had his fill while he also conversed with his aunt, while they were talking one of the nine passed the dining room it was none other than one of the two siblings Mark Sin, he passed twice not once greeting or even acknowledging Jayde's existence.

Noticing this behavior, he sighed honestly, this time Jayde specifically gathered the nine that he used to feed his legacy weapon in his last life, he had planned on making them his subordinates while he went ahead and found other talents he could steal that was suited for him. But it seemed that once again he would have to take their abilities, that was the only fate that awaited them the moment they refused.

One could see jaydes arrogance throughout the topic of the nine guests not once had he considered himself losing, well who could blame him, jayde wasn't a savant and back then in his previous life he had fairly dispatched them with ease, even number three Valesco Grifith, was defeated by him with ease. But unknown to Jayde he was making a mistake, those versions of them he faced were the ones who never had the chance to gain the needed resources for their growth, so it was understandable he made this mistake.

Though he accounted for them encountering a second awakening, he would never have expected them to get so strong in such a short amount of time, well he would soon find out about this as their clash was inevitable.

Finishing up with his aunt he went to his study with Elior in tow.

"to imagine such beings exist" Elior responded his shock was palpable on his face, jayde had just finished informing him about the ancient civilizations, and his discovery of the mythical civilization also.

Then thinking of something eliors brows furrowed, "what is it?" jayde asked noticing his expression.

"no it's nothing my lord, but back then when I was young my father was a sailor, my dad always told me folktales about the sea, and there was one story in particular that I just recalled….." he paused hesitant to continue. "continue" jayde said noticing his uneasy expression.

"This might be nothing my lord but he once said something about the Pacific Ocean, according to him the sea was filled with countless wonders and in the north of the Pacific there were nine great wonders, that dells there namely, the Minoans village, the giants of the aurora, the Devil of the sea, the blessed island Avalon, the isle of the sirens, hy-brasil, the lost continent mu, the island of the seven cities, the sailing island. These were nine different mythical legends he once told me about." by the time Elior was done talking jaydes back was drenched in sweat as a chill ran down his spine.

Come to think of it hadn't he met three out of these nine, the Minoans, the giants and the devil of the sea, that monstrous abomination he encountered when he was out in the sea, the Megatron was it? Yes, that had to be it, he remembered watching a very old movie with his aunt about it when he was young a colossal man-eating shark that was bigger than a blue whale.

Suddenly jayde shivered if those three were real who was to say..... "Elior quick get me a map" he hurriedly ordered. To which Elior went to the corner of the room brought out a map from the shelf he handed it to Jayde.

Opening the map, Jayde quickly took board pins, pinpointing his island he quickly marked it stamping a pin there, tracing from his island he pinpointed where he located the devil of the sea. Stamping a pin there, from there he also traced the bone henge island pining the location.

Quickly moving back to his island he traced the path which the Minoan arrived from, which led to a small island too far from his own, to get there with his speed would probably take three to four days. He pinned it also, then gazed at it for a few minutes, as his brain processed at full speed quickly he began tracing some islands, which he pinned after some conclusion, this process went on and on until there were nine pins on the board, the pins were marking nine different islands, his island included.

Looking at the map jayde wasn't concerned about the other eight and he was focused on something else, he was calculating the distance between them precisely between the stone henge island and his, quickly he finished his math looking at the result, horror painted his face.

"I'm fucked" Jayde collapsed on his chair in exhaustion, suddenly his second life didn't seem so fun anymore.