“Kyr we have an emergency! We found Sera! She’s bleeding everywhere. They took her eyes!” Issac said through his phone.

“Thats not much of a big deal. People lose them all the time.” Kyrion stated calmly as he traced the signal to their location. He’d picked up an enchantment to manipulate the phone waves and could now take them in through his eyes and ears absorb the information, and track the speakers. The design was Dwens but the bio implant was something he did very recently. Only those who knew him could call said line, yet good ole S. Cam, did learn the hard way multiple times.

“Not a big deal!”Issac seemed surprised.

“Human experimentation, Kyr, she’s a child by society's standards here.”

“Can’t she just grow them back?”

“Did you grow back your eye?” Dwen asked.

“I can, well could, but I prefer a good prosthesis. I also don’t need to see through my eyes to see.”

“You’re being stupid. Why are you being calm about this? They took our friend, turned her into a weapon and mutilated her. To create a weapon, to kill you!”

“Issac. Thats enough.” Kyrion stated calmly as eyes opened on much more than his arm. Tens of thousands of eyes covered his body and clothes as he looked through the eyes of each of his thorns finding the location in the real world.

“No it's not enough!”

Jin took the phone. “We almost died. Had Dwen not been here and my power not been what it was, we would have all died. We are surrounded by auto turrets and the second we leave this world of yours we’ll be gunned down. I know what your–”

“You don’t. It’s fine. Pour a drop of the pink vial on Lee’s waist into each eye socket then have her drink the rest. Don’t go anywhere. But please close your eyes, becuse in thirty seconds from the bottle being used. I’ll be there, I don’t want you all to see what’s about to happen.”

“Uh. Already taken care of. The kids are overreacting.” Dwen stated.

“Oh right! So I don’t need to execute them?”

“What?” Issac seemed confused.

“Kyrion. Did you ever encounter a mushroom in your Limguard trials?”

“Yes? Why do you ask? It almost got me?”

“Meh, your blood likely consumed them first. No, the spores of said mushroom turn people into thralls under my command briefly. I can give them simple orders. The human problem took care of itself. The turrets may still be a problem though.”

“Oh, thats a lot less bloodshed then.”

Kyrion stepped out of his domain and began closing it as Karl distributed rewards based on contribution to those who killed monsters with Ander getting the highest by quite the margin followed by Chiyo, then Jin. The next few names were none Kyrion recognized Nor cared about as he was busy. After a third teleport, he appeared somewhere underground in an area strewn with corpses that showed no signs of damage despite various anti-magic bullets littering the ground.

The thing about anti-magic bullets was that they negated magical defenses like barriers by dispelling the unnatural. His natural endurance took multiple volleys head-on as he conjured a wave of divine wind.

“Dimensional Cyclone.” Kyrion chanted. The devices were swept up and smashed against the walls of the underground area and then traveled upward to the uninfected people above. Members of the slayers that were still loyal and in on the atrocities. He wasn’t ready for that weight, so he’d played a minor trick with his spell. Sending his senses out as the wind tore the base asunder. In minutes a skyscraper had gone missing from the world.

That action followed by the knowledge that he seemingly killed over a hundred people despite being twisted, were still natives of this world. Said thoughts irritated him for all of ten seconds as the rest of the barrier failed and he was surrounded by 8 pissed-off Slayers with supernatural abilities. His friends and sister were nowhere to be found.

“Oh…You’ve figured out how to mess with my teleportation.” Kyrion stated with irritation.

“And you just murdered civilians in cold blood.”

“To be fair. I feel a little guilty now. But why all the auto turrets and other weapons if that was a normal office building. You can’t blame me for this when you interrupt my travel and put your weapons near civilians. This is a setup, and you did get me, I’m trapped unless I choose to go renegade and destroy the planet.” Kyrion dropped a cannon out of his domain with the slayer emblem. He then sat down on it and relaxed.

Four of the espers used the same power in conjunction, creating chains of energy. Said chains wrapped around Kyrion and tied him in place.

Kyrion patiently examined the chains and found that his D.E. was sealed along with his mana. But with careful movements, he could slip through or break through if given enough time. Kyrion also kept his connection to the thorns that had left his body. His ability to transmit information through phone waves was gone. But he could still communicate his location to Ceres which he did.

“So what do you want from me? Be very specific.” Kyrion stated as he received confirmation through his thorns.

“What we want is your death. Ever since you’ve arrived you’ve been making trouble for our organization and even set up a competing force. But with you dead the head falls off of the snake and it all crumbles.” A blond-haired man stated. His glasses showed his dark brown eyes and a brown goatee.

“Ah. You guys are like an infestation. The more I get rid of, the more I find in other places.” Kyrion sighed.

One of the other espers punched Kyrion with a fist coated with bone armor that did no damage to the victim. As the bone armor shattered revealing a shattered hand underneath the surface.

“Oww. I think that stung a bit, try it again with your other hand.”

“You asked for it.” The man punched again the simple taunt working.

Then again had these people been smart, they would have jumped ship instead of trying to capture him.

Kyrio jumped as the fist came causing the chains to be heavily damaged by the blow, exploding into a flash of light. The four Espers Gasped as their concentration was broken, which was enough for Kyrion to do something he didn’t like. He rapidly increased the temperature before decreasing it, putting them into a form of shock as their minds cooked, then chilling. The spell damaged the part of their brains that controlled Esper's abilities and seemingly locked them permanently. “You need to know to quit while you’re ahead.”

“Plan b! We have a warheads underneath Seattle. One wrong move and the entire north west coast goes up in flames along with all your friends!”

“How does it work?” Kyrion asked.

“I press the button and everything goes boom! It will send a signal to our satellite then beam it down to…Wait why am I telling you this?”

Kyrion clicked his tongue and covered the area in his domain, much like he did with the planet on a much smaller scale. Then it hit him, this was the right place, his destination was just off a building, and the sounds of bullets being fired shot through his senses.

“This is a deception. You’re trying to trap me. But that won’t work. There are no warheads. There is no explosion and you are no Slayer.”

“And they told me you were slow. We are the Order of Zeroth, or O.Z. Our goal is to push humanity to new heights. We don’t need people like you interfering.”

“Admirable. But you messed up when you kidnapped our clubmate.”

“Clubmate?”

Kyrion didn’t give him the chance to explain as he knocked the remainder out physically and then flew to the next building as his ability to teleport seemed to return.

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Quest Obtained: Destroy 8 auto-turrets before the dragons come. 6 minutes remaining.

Rewards, a level up for every member of our party, access to a branching quest. The Slayers of Humanity must be annihilated for humanity to prosper.

Jin drew his phoblade and stood in front of Moca. “Sean get ready. Moca, surround yourselves and the others in a dome of wind. Kilo and Dwen stay in the back. They have anti magic weapons.”

“Got it.” Sean ignited his red weapon and took the front.

Kilo didn’t respond. “The second we’re connected to the real world I’ll begin disabling defenses.”

Stolen novel; please report.

Dwen pulled out some seeds which she embedded in the ground as a mushroom plushie fell to the ground in front of her. “Alright. I’ll let you kids handle it.”

The barrier went down as Jin snatched a ruby pendant out of the air placed it around his neck then drew his second pho blade igniting both at once as the world around them returned to the way it was supposed to be.

Sean moved through the raining hail of bullets cutting the barrels off and slashing through the generators at speeds impossible to watch.

Jin deflected the barrage with disturbing ease as he danced through the hail and created a cross of flames that destroyed the next turret.

Moca’s barrier went up as missiles and bullets slammed into it ineffectually.

From there Sean and Jin continued to clean them up with ease. As he did however a muscular figure standing eight feet tall with metallic weapons attached to every part of his body appeared.

“I am Jac! You trespassers will die!” The figure said with a mixture of robotic and human vocal cords.

Branching quest 1, survive until help arrives, 2, defeat the Jac clone.

Jac felt his body grow slightly stronger when the brute arrived. “Sean?”

“I feel stronger as well. What is this?”

“I’ll explain later. Protect the others. I’m going offensive for a moment. In thirty seconds have Lee, join in, then let Mira provide cover fire after we get a good rhythm going. The second that barrier goes down. That crazed bastard will kill Moca, Issac and Sera.”

“When do I join in?”

“If I go down. You take over.” Jin stated as he ran towards the brute which seemingly moved behind him with impossible speed and slammed an arm down.

Jin spun into the strike jumping before it could hit the ground and slashed into the clone's chest watching as his swords grazed and cut through skin and muscle revealing three hearts, one human and the other two belonging to different monsters.

Jin then watched as a stomp came down and shook, just before he landed. Rolling to the side as a fist nearly caught his head.

Jin slammed both of his blades into the outstretched limb before rolling into a haymaker and embedding his swords into two of the creatures' hearts causing him to wail. Grabbing Jin by the head and throwing him into a wall.

Jin spun into the air as Lee Joined the fight slamming fist after fist into the monster’s torso. Dodging each strike that came and landing reverberating blows that pushed the blades Jin placed deeper.

Jin drew two smaller pho blades that charged forward, running up the side of the wall as he jumped past the monster's head driving one sword into his eye and another into his head causing its perception to falter for a moment.

A black bolt of light hit the clone in the chest and neck, these wounds didn’t heal and Lee evaded a kick only to get grabbed and thrown.

Sean appeared cutting cleanly through the exposed human heart as he buried a grenade into the hole of another as he sped off and caught the flying Lee.

The grenade went off destroying the revealed hearts causing its regeneration to cease. But it still didn’t die as it charged Mira.

Kilo appeared, easily slicing the clone's arms off with a blade hidden in his arms he spun a blade in his leg, cleaving off his head as a roundhouse cleft the exposed limb off. The steam then rose out of his body as his body began to rapidly cool.

“Kilo. How many weapons are you hiding in you?”

“Quite a few. When I’m in a body meant for fighting. I don’t go to school with 37 weapons hidden inside me.” Kilo joked as his body went limp, the connection stuttering.

The clone's head rolled to Kilo for a while. Just as it was about to hit his leg Sera yelled.

“Mind Rend!”

The head was bisected and then shredded from the inside revealing a bunch of legs under its body as it was being controlled externally.

Sera blinked while holding her head as she looked around in confusion. “Why aren’t we gone? We need to get out now!“

“Now now. You have no need to run. I assure you. You are safe here. Right Moca?”

Moca froze as she saw her father. Was he her father, was she like Jac or the other clones? “Moca held her head.”

“Daddy’s worried dear Moca. Please answer me.”

“Oh no,” Jin stated as four more of the juiced-up clones appeared at the man's side.

“No…We took down one, but if they have the same power.”

“Dear Moca, take care of Sera for me.”

Moca turned to Sera and began to conjure wind spears only to fall unconscious before they could form.

“Moca, get up.” The man ordered to no avail.

“Guess we do this the hard way. Go, my sons!” The man pointed his right hand forward and noticed a brown eye on his palm. The eye blinked shut.

The clones moved to attack only to collapse like Moca did. Shortly after.

“What is going on!” The man drew a gun and pointed it at the down Sera. A small mouth appeared on his finger. A tongue came out of the mouth and brushed against the trigger. Sending the taste of steel and sulfur to the holder.

“Go ahead, pull the trigger I dare to.” Stated a whisper in the wind. A pair of blue eyes grew on the side of his head while another mouth was inside his ear canal.

The man panicked and fired into the air behind hitting the wall and causing the ricochet to branch off and hit him in the shoulder.

“Again!” The voices cheered as more mouths grew. Covering his body in eyes, mouth, nose, and in some cases ears. The man appeared more like an abomination than a human.

“More!”

“Entertain us!”

“Feed us your madness!”

“Give us your soul.”

“Where are you. Come out! You guys help!”

“Above!”

“Bellow!”

“Inside!”

“Behind!”

“Everywhere and nowhere. We’re crawling inside your skin right now.” Triangles moved between the layer of skin and bone sending him into a panic as the sensations multiplied.

“No! Get out of my head!” The man fired more and more at the wall unmoving as the others watched in confusion.

“There is only one way to make us go away!” The voices spoke in perfect unison as though they came from the same person.

“Only one way to make us stop. We’ll just grow louder and if you get captured. The dumb little humans will keep you alive. You'll get brought back multiple times back to the voices, back to the terror while we crawl and eat, until your bones are mush, your muscles bits. Your eyes empty, but your ears will hear and you will feel us moving around and chewing.” The voices gathered and spoke as the man collapsed holding his arms.

The gun fell from his hands as he ran out of bullets. In the next instance, Kyion appeared from behind and caught the weapon, then watched the man panic and buck like a wild animal as he threw himself to the ground.

“Was it you? Were you messing with me?”

“I have no idea what you’re talking about.” Kyrion lay with a straight face, his mouth in a confused frown. Kyrion manipulated the man’s nerves remotely triggering full-body spasms and breaking sounds as his thorns moved around.

“You lie!” The man swung as he tried to get to his feet and Kyrion moved to the side dodging with ease as the scared man collapsed to the ground. Sean approached the prone figure and withdrew a blade.

“Stop! Make them stop!”

Kyrion lightly dusted off the man's shoulder and he began to writhe in pain. He whispered in the man's ear. “I don’t take things this far often. Usually, people learn to avoid my ire before this point. This is the least you deserve for what you’ve done to the people of this world as well as my friends. “You now look like what you're on the inside. A gluttoning mass of flesh and bones that will mutate for as long as you live. Unable to live like a human.”

Kyrion then moved away and nodded to Dwen before addressing the others as Shen approved the body.

“Sean, you Alpha, and the others can decide what to do with him. He’s done for now. His pain receptors have been magnified greatly so too much torture could kill him. I do I’m opening a portal back to Kilo’s house and order some pizzas.”

“So after risking our lives and saving our friend you want us to wind down with a pizza party?” Mira said with an eye twitch.

“I’ll get some ice cream, soda and wings as well. Look, I’ve disabled the mind control bugs and hypnosis effects on the flesh golems and Moca. Sera’s was removed when you gave her the potion. Just a question, does anyone know how Sera slipped through the cracks as an Esper? I didn't pick up anything odd or strange.”

“She was capable of minor suggestions. She could get people to do things or make decisions. Never something people didn’t want to do, mind you.” Issac woke up and stood in front of Sera.

Letting out a deep breath before continuing.“An example would be, if someone was on the fence on a decision, she could make it seem more urgent. If it makes sense, she was the reason our club is likely loyal to begin with it. Everyone wanted to be there. Well, except her, she was likely there because I was.”

“But she was there because you were there. Right?”

“More or less.” Issac crossed his arms and looked Kyrion in the eyes.

Kyrion saw resolution in them and steepled his fingers like. “You’ve grown much in the time I’ve been here. So I’ll ask you another question. Are the two of you holding hands? Like Kilo and Mira?”

“What?!” Kilo and Mira said in sync.

“Thats! Well. I mean…” Issac stammered at the question that caught him off guard.

“By the gods! You’re practically making the pizzas aren't you! No the calzones. Does Pizza Czar have calzones? Wait, focus, Issac answer the question.” Kyrion held his head as words were mixed up in his head.

“Yes, but only three meats total.” Issac answered.

“Not that question. The other one. Are you making Calzones?”

Issac stuttered, reddened but eventually Dwen swatted her brother on the side of his head with a piece of flat wood.

Issac was then lost as Kyrion moved about as if he were being pulled away. “You know what. Change of questions. Where did you crazy kids meet?”

“At an orphanage for people with patents from this world. I don’t really know what my real parents were but I was always athletic, taller, and more durable than most. When I broke a bone, it alway healed faster than normal. The powers you granted me enhanced that greatly.”

“So Sera was also there and by coincidence she happened to get adopted by people who lived in the same neighborhood.”

“The opposite. She was adopted first. I was in there for a year before a young couple picked me up. People saw my size and thought I was older than I was, my muscle tone was not normal for age.”

“I know the pain. When I was ten, I was about half a foot shorter with a face that matched my age and a body carved out of Beefcake Biweekly.”

“Shelving that last part for now but getting back to it later. Issac, did Sera choose your parents?”

“Yes, and by coincidence they lived right next to her as well. Which probably was some negotiating. Most people in our world tend to live close by. I think Mira would be the only one who broke into the world subconsciously.”

“So she can tell me to sit down and I’ll only do it if I'm thinking about sitting down? So, if I’m on the fence about between Anchovy and Artichoke Alfredo pizza and Meat Master’s.”

Sera looked at him for a long moment before letting out a deep breath.

“Oh that's neat. It sounds like a thought I’d have but my defenses tell me it's not. Curious. I’ll get both. It’s weak, but a good ability to have if you’re dealing with unstable people. Could be used to help people if used for good. But something tells me it's stronger than it was.”

Dwen stretched and then looked at her brother. “Did you take them down so I wouldn’t have had to kill them?”

“Yes. You should also teach Sera how to use her esper abilities.”

“Going to take over the world?”

“The penguins are incharge of Australia, apparently they made friends with the King of Roo’s and taught the wildlife the way of Kao. They even gave me some new little buggy friends.” A portal opened above Kyrion’s palm as a black spider with a red rectangle on its back crawled onto his palm and looked around. Very confused, it raised its right arm.

“I am Kao and these are friends.” Kyrion placed the spider atop his head and let it crawl about.

Mira passed out standing up.

Lee fell to the ground catatonic.

“Are, they scared of you? They do know that they are immune to your venom. That's a power I gave to all of them.” Kyrion asked as he scratched the spider a bit on her thorax. “Well, I know a tailor who would love you.”

The spider vanished into Kyrion’s domain.

“Why did you let that thing crawl all over you?”

“Did you see my Jellyfish boxer? Anyhow, come on, this is the day before I make my grand proclamation. Prep is complete.”

“Prep?” Mira asked.

“Santa Claus is coming next week. And he has to make his schedule known to the world. After that I go home.”

“It’s that time already?” Kilo asked.

“Yup.”

“Hey Kyr, mind if I go to your world to train for a bit?” Jin asked innocently.

“What?”

“I received a quest to train in your world. It’s very important that I do so.”

“Ugh. Ask you parents. I won’t be responsible for your life decisions. Now lets go!” Kyrion opened a portal to Kilo’s house.

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The Pizza party was a farewell party for Kyrion and Jin as well as a celebration. For the next two weeks were preparation and bulk market raids where Kyrion stocked up on all of the toilet paper. Tens of Thousands of rolls were purchased along with the factories that created it from materials to the end product. While he could live without it, such implements would be quite useful to his friends. He was quite sure Ander had gotten spoiled as well.

Every recipe for food he found interesting, and all of the information he’d gathered was on multiple hard drives and books. While a few laptops, supercomputers, and other devices that didn’t belong in his world were there as well. Kyrion would have access to all of this world's knowledge and in turn, Cecil and his father could get that going.

As far as he was concerned all of earth was as ready as he could get it and in time. He knew that they would survive what was to come. The guardian of that world was left behind to act as the icon and head of his patron system while he was away gathering power and using it to protect the natives.

The Cowboys were integrated into the Alliance of Animals. Quite a few penguins and other animals joined him on the way back to act as dungeon monsters that would revive in time to act as protection.

All in all. Kyrion and Ander were leaving happier people than when they arrived. Both knew that they would be back when the monsters came to help out, but for now, they had tournaments to finish. Tests to take, and many more battles ahead.

The Cult of Kao even wrote a children's book in a fairy tale format to show how Kao used his abilities to obliterate the evil monsters as well as the Slayers of humanity. The book lacked details and the words blood, guts, and gore fountains were replaced with rainbows. Fairy dust, and sour candy worms.