C145: Rescue
Alt Title Teaser: New Form
Overall Word count = 1319 on 10/2/2024. Next chapter on either Saturday or sunday.
As I'm writing this chapter, I am slightly unsure if i will be able to publish the new aux page for Axel's current status on the same day, if that is the case then i will try to publish that before the next chapter is released.
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Orario has been weird for every citizen for the past year but to the current civilian viewpoint, what they have just witnessed is beyond bizarre. The current strongest adventurer, a level 8 (news of him reaching level 9 was not spread yet to at least make it believable. Raikou had always been delaying informing the guild about his growth ever since he broke the record the first time around), had just had his body melted down into liquid with not a single change in his expression.
Then that same liquid had gathered together into a cute blue ball of said liquid. Then the immortal who, from context, had seemingly been attacking their home was spouting weird stuff before that blue ball exploded into all directions which then converged into a ball like prison for the immortal.
That same prison then began to compress until the immortal seems to have either just disappeared or was melted down by the blue ball. The 'slime' then just sat there in place for a bit before it exploded once more but this time more upward as it's shape began to morph into that of the immortal he had just made disappear.
That is where mixed reactions began to appear from the civilians. The common theme was terror as the slime's color began to change to a more skin tone/peach coloring but of course they had no clothes on so the nude form of Koyanskaya, but with blue hair, was made visible to all. Her tall alluring figure and supple hips were made manifest to everyone's eyes.
This changed the fear of a good number of people into that of lust but then tears flowed down the faces of many as once this new koyanskaya took a step and her breasts shook from the action, 'she' stopped and with a light raise of their hand. They slammed their chest, essentially causing both breasts to be popped.
The female members of the civilians hug their own breasts in fear of them suffering from such an action. Meanwhile the males cry tears and offer prayers to the fallen breasts.
Clothes soon magically appear on this 'being' before its bones began to be 'slightly' modified until her form became more masculine and handsome instead of drop dead gorgeous.
This 'being' is naturally Axel Gram, who had used his innate racial ability to [shapeshift] into Koyanskaya to regain his human form. He then began to minorly adjust his body to what he is more used to.
Unfortunately for him, with his falna having been devoured, many of his fragments' abilities had been reformed into new and stronger stats. This includes his Odr ability from freya, the boosts he receives from his lover is greater than before.
He is currently making his way home while getting a proper update from [Raphael] about what his current powers actually are. He soon speeds up his pace home as he feels a tremor envelop the city and surrounding area. Many nearby mountains begin to break apart with the ground splitting apart.
After a brief moment, he arrives at the Miyamoto residence and lifts his hand, a powerful suctioning force spreads out and the mist that Koyanskaya had released is fully absorbed into him from all over the city. With the mist gone, people will start to rapidly wake up as the sleeping gas was one that needed to be regularly applied, especially with tons of people acquiring falnas because of Axel and his magic items.
Without the mist, he can finally see that his home has been made a mess of. He spots a variety of magic spells beginning to be stuck in many of the walls, but also some of the knights of Camelot are stumbling around like they are drunk but Axel quickly notices the magic energy flowing into them that they are stuck in an illusion.
He does the nice guy approach and makes them all go unconscious by giving them a quick lightning shock so that they can rest. He temporarily stores them in his reality marble until he encounters the 3 Saints from the Knight group.
Axel uses his new magic power to release a pulse through the earth that then flows back into him regarding all the information of people walking around. His new [Tremor sense] is quite useful for tracking anyone in contact with the ground. He gets the necessary information that he needs for his plans.
He begins to teleport around the house as he brings all his dear people into his Reality marble. The first of which is Aisha who is actually stuck in an illusion where she had essentially been manipulated to think that her child was a demon spawn that would harm her unless she killed it first. It took all of her willpower to resist stabbing her sword into her stomach.
Thankfully she was knocked out of her illusion when her ring exploded due to Axel's 'evolution'. He now safely extracts her and then moves on to Bell and Hestia who were fighting off 'Robots' since neither had fallen for the illusions. Yet Bell was still struggling to win as while he is plenty strong even without the ring, he is far outnumbered. Artemis is also there, supposedly visiting as they had already gotten their own temporary home until they could venture back out again.
Bell tried to almost attack Axel since he does look a bit different than normally but he just swipes his hand and makes all 4 (hestia, Artemis, Bell, Kyrene-huntress) disappear into his [Territory]. The Four are confused until they find Aisha there and start to theorize on who that was or where they are. But they choose not to leave the central house upon seeing the mountain sized blue dragon on the outskirts of the city.
Sure it's sleeping but they can clearly feel the threat from it. Though strangely hestia and Artemis doesnt feel much threat from it. They can even feel a strange form of divinity within it. This strange feeling comes from the fact that this is the first dragon god they know of as well as the fact that it was created from Axel's power which is a mimicry of the world around them.
While Axel continues saving people from the Miyamoto Household, the rest of the city gradually wakes up and the weaker/newer adventurers that weren't originally civilians begin to panic upon seeing that the tower of Babel is missing from the city center. Their fears only escalate as they begin to feel stronger tremors throughout the city as they rapidly build up.
Of course that is not the least of their worries. With Koyanskaya gone, the original commands to capture people who were awake were modified into the killing of all living beings inside the city. Also the golem factory, Iz Tulo-paradiso, begins to move away from the city, keeping itself relatively mobile as it sends wave after wave of robots to Orario until it falls then it would do this to all the surrounding lands.
The new plan was to lay claim to the surrounding land and begin to modify robots until they no longer require monster cores as power sources since there is still a limited supply of them.
The change in the robots put many lower level adventures on the back foot as they try to make sense of anything that is happening in the gradually crumbling city.
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Alt title Full: New Form, Orario in Shambles