The Burning Fiend

After leaving the Necropolis of the Gods through the portals the surviving saints that had remained on the lower levels made their way to met with their acquaintances, Barked among them. "Reynolds? Congratulations! But damn you... it took me 5000 years and you have only been alive for what? 50 years? This is so depressing". Cesar voice gained the attention of the three other Gods as well as the other saints.

The Neutral voice of the High Priest seemed to have a calming effect. "Congratulations Reynolds, my name is Catherine". After that both O'Brien and Dylin were about to speak but were cut off by a wild laughter as a devilish youth appeared next to Reynolds and had an arm over his shoulder in a half-hug. "Kid I knew you could do it but you surpassed my expectations! Dylin! Is that you? It is so good to see you my brother!" The next moment the youth was hugging Dylin who seemed a little bewildered.

"Tarosse, come over here. You as well Reynolds". Beirut's voice calmed everyone and he continued speaking after both Reynolds and Tarosse were next to him, he directed his words to the Gods but spoke loud enough for the saints to hear. "This is Tarosse who managed the saint levels of the Necropolis of the Gods for a few thousand years as punishment for breaking my rules... and this is Reynolds who became a God after conquering the 11th floor of the Necropolis." Beirut words contained a warning to both Tarosse and Reynolds, but they both were quite excited to be about to return to the Yulan Continent, that it didn't seem to have great impact on either of them.

"Hello there! I know you Catherine and you two should be O'Brien and Cesar!" Tarosse happy voice seemed to wake up Reynolds who was still a little bewildered as he found that he was on the same realm as Cesar while Catherine and Dylin were stronger than him and O'Brien was the weakest of the Gods. But Tarosse and Beirut were on a different realm as he could not even feel their presence.

"Hello seniors I'm happy to met you all" Reynolds voice was also happy and a little restless as he had not seen his wives for 10 years, but he still smiled politely to them. "Well lets go back to the Yulan Continent". Beirut commanded and led the way towards the interspatial door. "Lord Cesar, do you know if my companions are alright?" Reynolds voice was calm but the concern was still there if one paid enough attention.

"Just call me Cesar, yes they are perfectly fine I kept an eye on them from time to time and they have improved in power... especially that little velocidragon what a clever creature she is". Cesar voice seemed a little envious and then asked with a little frown. "Kid, why is Rossarie looking at you like that?"

Reynolds couldn't help but chuckled as he explained. "I grew bored of waiting so I pranked them a little, I pretended to be the Ba-Serpent guarding the door and released the divine field when she tried to pass to the next level" The mischievous trait of his voice seemed contagious and Tarosse laughed while Cesar chuckled. "Be careful of she might end up pursuing you... I have been runing away from her for thousands of years now. If I had known that she would turn out so obsessed after I bullied her a little 4,000 years ago I would have thought twice." Cesar voice seemed to carry glee and Tarosse laughed even louder.

Reynolds smiled thinking. 'Well then I would just have to tame her, isn't it?' but shaked his head as he was truly missing Windsor, Jenne and Koral. They soon passed though the interspatial door and breathed greedily the air that made them realize they were finally home. They made their way in silence towards the Dark Forest but Tarosse stayed behind as the sea was actually his home and Reynolds invited him to visit if he wanted to drink wine, he was fond of this mischievous snake, he had already realized that Cesar, Tarosse and him were made from a similar mold.

When they arrived at the Dark Forest the group started to break and each took his own direction, when Reynolds was about to leave Beirut send a mental message. 'Kid, go home but come back after two days I will explain to you the rules of the Yulan Continent.' Reynolds nodded politely and started flying towards his little island.

But before he made much of a distance another mental message reached, it was Catherine. 'Reynolds you are welcome to visit me at the Yulan Empire. I think you are also a practitioner of the edicts of life and a conversation might help us both.' Reynolds smiled and also send his mental message with a small nod. 'Will do, though I have only touched a fur of the edicts but I will be happy to speak with you. Thank you Catherine'.

Not long after he was already above the familiar lake and took a moment to enjoy the feeling of returning home, he then started looking for Windsor, Jenne and Koral and smiled fondly as he found them. Koral's humanoid fire construct had improved as her factions and even some human emotions were visible on its face, she was also holding a fire spear as she faced both beautiful women.

Windsor was perhaps even more beautiful than he remembered, her long dark hair reaching almost to the ground seemed to dance in tune with her sword. Her gray warrior attire adhered perfectly to her wonderful figure that produced a little drooling on the smiling Reynolds. She had already become a peak warrior of the 9th rank and she seemed to have just entered the rank 9 as a magus, quite a good achievement for a 50 year old woman who started training at the age of 18.

Jenne's silver hair now also was as long as Windsor's and her outfit was also a gray warrior training suit that seemed skin-tight due to the sweat from exercising while her spear kept a guard stance facing Koral. She seemed to have just reached the rank 8 as a warrior and was a peak rank 7 magus in both water and death magic.

He appeared smiling next to the three of them who seemed stupefied for a moment before running towards him with tears in their eyes. Koral dissipated her fire construct and coiled herself in his arm while frotting her head against him and purred happily, soon Jenne and Windsor were in his arms crying. "Master! Y-you finally came back" Said Jenne holding him as if she was afraid he would dissapear the very next moment. "Master! Don't leave us again p-please!" Windsor was also holding him tightly unwilling to let go.

"Don't worry I would no longer leave for long periods of time and if I do I will bring you three with me, all right?" His voice was gentle as he carried the two women and headed for the bath, he felt a little guilty but he was suspecting that the two girls would be begging him for mercy after a few hours... 'Perhaps I should had played a little with that Rosarie as it seems that Cesar was not all that concerned about her... more like he was fond of her but did not seem to think of her as his woman. Anyway I will compensate this two poor souls later'. His mischievous smile grew as they reached the bath and jumped with his three companions who screamed taken by surprise.

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The next morning Reynolds looked with a bit of guilt to the two unconscious women laying n.a.k.e.d in his bed and released a life healing spell to make sure there would be no problems with them. 'Master, don't you think you were a little bit too... excessive with them?' Koral seemed concerned and amused as she had not left the room all night.

Reynolds chuckled and sent his response. 'Well a little, but they should be fine as I just released a life healing magic spell on them. Besides i had not touched a woman in 10 years... I really could not control myself'. Koral was even more amused and she coiled in his arm as they left the room.

Reynolds divine fire body had been within the training chamber since yesterday while his saint body tended to his two wives. 'I seem to have deviated from my path while training... the Ba-Serpent construct was useful as an exercise but it is not very useful for battles against other Gods. I need to return to the basics while using my spear and turning my body into a humanoid fire construct using the two merged laws that I control'.

The divine fire body turned into a flames and continued meditating while maintaining this form, since the creation of the divine body his flames were no longer purple as it was a pure fire avatar. His saint body still had the purple flame because he had not used divine power to strengthen it, he understood that this situation would change as soon as his life and death avatar were created and apparently he only would need to concern himself in keeping balance between the two edicts as his fire was predominant and would not be affected after the first merging at deity level.

He was curious about this situation but felt that he should find out by himself and not go asking around, especially Beirut as the difference in power was so great that he would be at complete disadvantage. He wasn't aware that Beirut already knew of his situation as he could read the thoughts of any creature below the deity realm and his soul mutation was exactly the reason that Beirut was slightly fond of him.

He seated and took a few of the swords that he obtained on the 11th level, the artifacts would not help any of the three women at this moment and might even hinder their progress so he decided to create good weapons for them and save the artifacts for the moment they reached the deity realm

The swords melted under his purple flame burning the impurities and started to change form... soon two identical spears with engravings of dragons were created and he felt satisfied with his craft, then he took another three swords and used his fire to melt them burning away the impurities and forming the metal into a rapier type sword. The guard had the form of falcon wings with an exquisite falcon head in the middle with its beak connected to the blade.

He smiled satisfied thinking that the three weapons would be perfect for Koral, Windsor and Jenne. Koral's eyes were fixed to one on the spears causing Reynolds to chuckle and said while scratching her head. "Wait until Windsor and Jenne wake up and you will have your spear as they receive their weapons as well." Koral's voice seemed aggrieved as she responded. "Master... but they might not wake up for days after what you did to them last night..."