In ten years Costas had advanced by leaps and bounds and was the one to inherit the legendary Dark mage title from the emperor, problem was that he would be given the title only after the emperor had left, thus leaving him at level 1000 like the other.
Of course he was now living a carefree life ruling over the fifth floor, which he decided as his base, he had even a few noble mages as his subordinates.
The day he learned about the class gathering he didn't want to go, but he had heard rumors about returning to earth, although at first he had wanted to stay in Axis, after experience everything life had to offer, he wanted to return to earth and live his life like a regular human, slaves were good and all, but he didn't feel himself free, all that changed was the regime, people on Axis lacked imagination and creativity most of all, they wouldn't create anything on their own, thus making them slaves wasn't such a bad thing, since those with a mage class had a wider imagination, thus they were the masters and nobles of Runia.
Costas' arrival at the class gathering was rather jolly, the problem was that some of his classmated had trasformed into sceming noblemen, especialy Nick, whom tried to bribe him in order to gain support for some succession war going on in Nivava, Costas did remember hearing something about it, but he didn't care about such matters.
Costas was more interested about the matter of returning home, which to his surprise non in the gathering seemed to care about, only later was he approached by their teacher, whom told him that they had found a ritual to reverse the summoning, the emperor of Runia had also investigated the ritual and found no faults in it all they have to do now is find Christopher whom was the only one able to use spatial powers.
Costas from that day forth begun to prepare for his departure, after all he couldn't just leave his children without some protection, he begun to build protections in his floor and fortifying his domain with a magic forcefield, thus not to allow monsters to spawn in his cities.
Before then he wouldn't really care since he had a practicaly inexhaustible amount of slaves.
Funny fact was that he didn't even recognise Alexxa when he was at the gathering and had even forgotten all about her, he had after all lots of beauties, looks could no longer win a place in his sight, especialy when she looked like a dried up old lady after 2 years in jail.
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Theo was another warrior hero from Runia, he however wasn't as smart as Costas and in the end he was found by Jack, the bandit king and migrated to the Munnero mountains and in the end in the first floor of Nivava's dungeon pillar, which was now Jack's domain.
There he found Alexander, whom seemed to be doing well for himself, they hit it off quite well, together since the little slimes were a lot weaker than the wolves and werewolves that plagued Runia's dungeon pillar.
Theo had two slave/wives and five children by them, Jenifer was the one whom was the brains and Scar was the one whom had the brawns.
Theo liked the two whom were like ice and fire, they were so different that they filled his boredom so well.
Jenifer turned being Jack's sister, thus she was made his official wife, sort of making him jack's brother in law, while Scar was a concubine.
Of course his 5 10years old children were all charming only Roxane out of the five was a pure human, the other being mix-blood elves, quarters or halves.
When Theo heard of the gathering he didn't go, although it was close and Alexander would be going, Theo didn't care about those stuff, all he wanted was live a happy life and die with a smile on his face after he married his children and saw his grandchildren.
The world however wouldn't let him free, not long after he got a message from Jack whom got a message from Nick whom asked him to support him on a claim to the throne of Nivava.
Thus unwillingly Theo begun to travel up towards Nivava's capital, his children and wives were happy to see the daylight once more and even more so going window shoping and doing stuff that all women and children would do.
Thus he set up his tower and begun to head towards the capital, he didn't make it to the gathering, but on his way he saw some familiar faces, they were his classmates, most of them either mounted on horses or travelled by carriage, only he travelled on foot, of course with his physique he was probably as fast as a horse.
He found Nick, Alexander and Christo drinking at the designated tavern, he knew nothing about the succession war, but since Jack asked him to help Nick, he didn't need to know anything else.
Nick wellcomed him to their table and threated him to expensive drinks that he normaly wouldn't be able to enjoy, there was lots of luxurious food as well, Theo asked if he could wrap some for his kids and Nick laughed.
On his return home Theo returned in a carriage, bringing with him luxurious food and drinks, that night they had a celebration because their father had made some good friends.
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Jonny from Runia was the most miserable of them all, he was a rogue and spent most of his time sneaking, until he learned how to use his tower's energy sources, in the end busting his tower to debris and being left with only his titz, the racoon beast-girl he had chosen as a slave and the skeleton looking slaves that were as panicked as he was.
It took them some time to get closer to another magic tower alive, another mage even wanted to turn them into his slaves, but after finding that Jonny was the emperor's personal slave, thus he sent him back to the emperor.
Jonny wasn't given a second tower, non a second chance, what he was given was the silent threatment, as if he didn't even exist. The emperor was simply too busy to care about him.
Jonny however didn't give up, he begun to make preparations to descend into the dungeon pillar once more, this time as an adventurer.
He entered a party and registered as a scout for the team, the five skeleton slaves were his carriers and titz was a warrior and his bedwarmer.
Not long afterwards he ended in a great party that carried him to the second floor, he felt great, the leader was a veteran whom had reached the fourth floor and came back to tell the story, the others were adventurers in training like himself and they all hit it off fine.
Problem was that they turned to be part of some cult, he didn't know it at first, but they begun to initiate him, teach him how to summon demons sucrifice people to gain the power to summon more powerful demons and other strange stuff.
Jonny at first felt disturbed and disgusted, but after he tasted what power was he didn't care anymore.
When Jonny reached level 1000, a few days later he got the invitation to the class gathering, at that time he was told to go to the gathering and support the claim of a princess called Keia.
He was also given a secret code to enter their base of operation there, if he ever needed some help, it was of course an adventurers' guild, all he had to do was enter through the backdoor and put a pair of shoes on the rack before a person would approach to verify the password.
Jonny was rather anxious when he went to the gathering, he stayed low profile and gathered some much needed info, as it seemed the broad called Keia was one of Christo's wives, the other being her sister.
Jonny was rather jealous of him, but what could he do, he had a mission and the reward wasn't bad as well, after supporting her claim he would be given a new magic tower, one that was leaps and bounds above the one he used to have.
Once in the gathering he was also approached by Nick whom asked him for a favour, something about supporting Verillio's claim he simly nodded like an idiot, as if he understood nothing or simply wasn't interested.
When his teacher approached him to talk to him about the summoning reversal, he was sincerely lost in thought, he didn't know whether he wanted to return to earth or not, you have to understand that he was just beginning to enjoy life on Axis and the others already wanted to return.
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The last hero of Runia was George, he was an even more simpleton than the others whom went to Runia.
He was timid and lacked in many fields, of course the reason was that he had some sort of minor retardness, his thought process was slower than normal people and he had problems formulating his thoughts.
Although he too faced trouble, but he unlike Jonny didn't run, he stood tall and overcame them, right now he looked like a primitive warrior, wearing a werewolf pelt on his body and holding a long pike used by the infantry in the ancient ages.
He and his dwarven wife were now in Nivava, they had come for the gathering, George didn't want to go, but Gurda wanted to Gloat to the other females how strong George was, it a characteristic of the dwarves that could not be hidden.
When however they arrived she found out that she had nothing to gloat about, the other females were wearing fashionable clothes with a GLAM, the males mostly looked like being well off with faboulous robes and armors, while George looked like a caveman.
It was rather depressing, thus the couple was left at a corner, trying to enjoy the food and drinks, until they were approached by Nick, whom asked them for a little favour and then the bargaining begun, in which Gurda sold their favour as best as she could, ending up selling his favour rather cheaply in the process instead, after all not every dwarf is good at huggling.
Nick had a toast with them and left to go bother some other people, George and Gurda then begun loitering around Nivava's capital city with the few gold coins that they had gained from Nick's hands, well they weren't exactly few, but for the favour he asked of them it was a cheap price.
George didn't even understand what mr Gold told him before he left, thus he had no idea that the others were planning on returning home, but if he knew he would probably refuse to leave.
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While Melodie was being tortured by Christopher's harem members, Christopher himself was gathering a party for a special mission.
The people he decided upon were the treasure hunters, as they called themselves, whom were the three girls that had went to Winoria, Areti,Marilena and Mary.
They had been going by, by selling treasures they found in the dungeon pillar, Christopher wanted to hire the three to help him find a spatial mage ruin site.
with that not only would the reverse summoning be a success but he would also be able to power up his cheat power or so he understood since he had some understanding in the spatial theories of Axis.
When he encountered the three however he held back his urge to lock them in a cell and pumper them, like birds in a cage, but since he needed their help, he reluctantly held back his urges.
The three girls were rather friendly and they agreed to help him for a small fee which he gladly paid up front, making the three shocked, to their understanding the price was too much for a single person to pay, thus he must have had a great backing behind him.
Of course they recognised Christopher, but last time they had seen him he had left on a carriage to the Goblin Klan.
Wonoria is a rather closed down society, with not many sources of knews, they didn't even get a message for the class gathering, knowing nothing about the reverse summoning they had asked for an astronomical price, if they knew about it they might have even done so for free.
They were rather surprised to find that Christopher could keep up with them through teleporting around, all he did was set a tracking spell on them and every time they stopped he would appear out of thin air.
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It took them a month to stummble upon a ruin, but the class wasn't right, it was some sort of weather mage, having nothing to do with time, during their travels they had found lots of treasure but Christopher looked at them no differently than common pebbles on the side of the road.
When they finaly found the ruin he was looking for the three of them were rather unwilling to let him inherit the the class, since it took them a whole year to find the ruin and the class wasn't someting like time mage.
It was the legendary Space-time master, of course at the time they didn't understand the mistake they had just made, the moment Christopher gained the Class he thanked the three of them and next he teleported everyone back to the surface level, unknown to them however he destroyed the ruins as they left.
In a way both parties had a win-win cooperation, but in truth they had lost on an oportunity to stop the greatest villain from being born into the world of Axis.
By giving Christopher the Space-time master class, they gave him the last clue in mastering spatial magic, the last ingredient needed in unraveling the secrets of space magic, the connection between Space and Time.
When Christopher returned to his Temple and Harem he found a naked Melodie whom was acting as Bloom's dog, barking like an animal.
Christopher didn't know what to make of it, but since sh liked her new pet he let her keep it, making Melodie burst into tears.
What he discovered however was that his harem members weren't too happy with his return, which made him kind of angry, but they would be happy once night came.
Contrary to his expectations however he got stuck in his research for days to come, in truth he was no different than Kurlidandr in that aspect, he even forgot to eat as he studied the relations between space and time, he even asked for some skill erase potions so that he could put some time related spell in its place.
He put two spells of his own making into the slots, creating skills was also a byproduct of magic after all, and imputing the new spells he had just created he begun to experiment.
One of the spells he called Spatial transmodification, but in general it twisted space and time, changing reality itself, for example he could make a wall become longer or shorter, he could make something bigger or smaller, but it took too much out of him thus it was useless to the him right now.
The other spell he called Temporal Imbalance Induction, but in simple words it stopped time, a pity that it drained so much out of him that he could only hold it for a single second, but it was crazy enough to stop time in all of Axis, for one single second, it might sound useless and almost negligible, but this spell became his greatest threat to the world of Axis.
As a legendary now class he could of course easily reach level 10000, meaning he would gain another 9000 stat points, thus unwillingly he once again fared his women goodbye, whom were rather happy that he left once more, in their stay there they all agreed on one thing, they didn't really like him and could do quite fine without him.
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Elen whom was the Founder of GLAM Industried and Godess of fashion was having a rather good life, at first when she arrived in Nivava she was seen as another high elf, but once the queen(Rosa) invited her to her catle and begun with negotiations, the two of them begun to hit it off like sisters.
The Queen was rather interested in the monetary gains from establishing what Elen called fashion, while Elen did so mostly for the fame and glory.
Thus Elen was the founder and the Queen was the investor of this risky endeavor, which hit the world by surprise.
A year later Elen payed to have Giota resourected and with Viki back in the team the three of them begun to make the world more Glamourous.
They even found another multimilionaire investor called Tris, whose money they squandered to the four winds in many unprofitable stuff, like parties for celebrities, movie making and other things that didn't go so well.
Tris however was happy with her investment since she had memories from earth in her mind, making her rather happy.
When Queen Bloom took the throne, their funding decreased, but they could still stay afloat by being the ones organising ceremonies and celebrations in Nivava and other countries. That was until after the gathering, where they heard that the Queen disappeared.
Their funding instantly hit zero and now they had to make a profit if they wanted to live the Glamorous life they lived before, they even took a loan from the dwarves to make up for their current loses.
When Nick approached them, they instantly floated under his flag, for a very small favour, just resuming their funding and they were all his.
As for returning to earth, they weren't crazy, here they were rich and famous, why would they ever want to return to earth, here they could have eternal life and beauty.
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Joanna, Markella, Effie and Flora whom lived in Neassa the past 10years too had reached level 1000, but they did so by taking their time and adopting to the life of the elves, if one saw them he wouldn't even be able to discern them from a native elf.
They too got invitations to the class gathering, but there was a more important matter, thus they could not attend.
Markella was having strange visions that the world was in great danger, she saw every person in the world being enslaved, all heroes locked in golden cages, like precious speciments.
She saw the world warped and decayed, the most however dreadful thing she forsaw was an invasion on earth, a rift to earth appearing and the conquest of earth happening as fast as lightning.
This nightmare she had seen again and again, each time there were little changed, each time she did something the nightmare would change by a little bit, sometimes she would she herself dying instead of being locked in a cage while fighting a person whom transformed into a gigantic demon like final Boss, the person however she could easily identify as Christopher.
The elders of the elves had long discussions, truth was that there were other oracles that had perceived similar visions, calling them the end of the world.
They however couldn't recognise the crucial clue, the person in their visions whom will take the mandle of the demon God.
After sending messages to the rulers and powers of the world the four of them gathered the volunteers of the elven warriors and begun to descend the dungeon pillar, disregarding the 10years pact made with the Old heroes.
Their target being the 10th floor, there they planned on ambushing Christopher and ending the treat from its roots. But the nightmares didn't stop, even as they passed the empty now 10th floor and waited there, they hadn't changed the future.
Markella begun to think of different ideas and at one night she saw a difference, she saw herself dying with Christopher before he had become the Demon god.
The place they fought was nearby, but she couldn't say where it was, but it was the 9th floor of the dungeon pillar of one of the country.
It took them months to discover the cult's hideout, then they begun to free the prisoners and set a trap for Christopher.
After they explained the future to the girls in Christopher's harem, they agreed to help them, after all with him dead they would be free once more.
A year had passed before Christopher returned to the Harem, the trap was rather simple, once he went to have his fun with them, they would assassinate him while he was too preocupied making love to them.
All the visions of the future she could see showed that the threat was averted and Christopher died, that was until however he locked himself in his study, the visions suddenly stopped altogether, she didn't know why but something was terribly wrong.
At the same time all Oracles lost the ability to foresee the future, it was as if time was in disjunction, as if they had suddenly having a sense of deja-vu, everyone in the world felt this strange phenomenon even the almighty Gods Ecclesis and the Demon God whom was slumbering in the deepest level of the pillar opened its eyes in surprise.
Markella went to consult the others about the matter, but their opinion was that since the threat disappeared, the vision was no longer needed, it made some sense, but she had seen a vision where Christopher died tons of times, why would that vision cease to appear?
Her fears turned into reality, Christopher didn't indulge himself with any of the women there and begun to walk out of the harem's entrance and towards their position.
He probably wanted to have some other subordinate to look after the harem since Melodie was broken, how could they however let such an oportunity to slip from their grasps.
The moment he entered the door, water missiles, wind cutters and curses rained on him from the three girls while Effie held her umbrella like a shield in front of them.
Christopher was taken by surprise, but magic attacks weren't exactly the thing to use, they disolved the moment they touched his skin, he had after all a Magicality of 1100, which was above all the heroes gathered there.
The arrows from the elves however still did some minor physical damage. Christopher was shocked when he discovered that he could no longer teleport the moment he stepped through the entrance and the path behind him was sealed shut.
with quick short teleportations he tried to avoid the ligtning fast attacks of the warriors, he didn't know how to escape all he knew was that if he didn't do it now he would be dead, he activated his reality warping ability and the next moment he was no longer there.
The pursuit however didn't end there, traces of blood could be found wherever he had teleported, he might be able to heal, but they had a medium to locate him, his blood, arrows shot at his fleeing back, in the end he died a miserable death, not knowing why he had been killed in the first place.
Markella was shocked that their stenuous preparations failed in front of his magic, but at last that monster in human form was dead.
Things however didn't end there, moments later another Markella appeared in her elven form in front of them, she was wounded and bleeding heavily, all she said before passing out was "It was a huge mistake, don't do it".
Everyone was shocked, they didn't understand the meaning of this, they begun to heal the wounds of the wounded Markella, but she wouldn't wake up even through the use of cure or awaken, it was as if she had fallen into a deep comma or something.
The elders said that it was magic depletion, she would probably awaken when her magic powers filled up, the problem now was what should they do.
They couldn't make ends meet, all their months of preparations were made void because of a strange spell that was outside of the domains of their anti-magic field and they couldn't understand why.
It was then that they understood that their anti-magic field was broken, a part of it was twisted and deformed. in other words a very small crack was made in it, right at the spot where Christopher used to stand.
A few minutes later however they saw what true despair was as armies begun to surround them, they didn't know why but Heroes of Old had mustered their own armies and were now surrounding them.
"Summoned heroes of Neassa, Joanna, Markella, Effie and Flora, you have ignored the agreement and ventured deep into the dungeon pillar with troops, we demand an explaination thus we can decide on your punishment"
The Heroes of Old had spoken and amongst them was also the emperor of Runia and some other heroes as well, even their teacher was there wanting to know why his students would do such a thing.
The agreement was that no hero would venture to the 10th floor and beyond, reasons being numerous, as to why Christopher and the girls were allowed to go so deep, they had already gotten special permission to do so, since christopher was looking for a space mage class and not to defeat the Demon god, but even if he wanted to defeat the demon god, four heroic individuals were not enough to even stand a chance in front of him.
The elves gave up their weapons and begun to surrender, the elders and the heroes were taken for an extensive interogation with Mr gold having them write their stories and then deciding what was true and what was wrong.
Problem was that the prediction that Christopher would defeat the demon god and take his place was wrong, the invasion of earth two was wrong, there were dozens of predictions that were categorised by his ability as false.
Markella of course questioned his ability, but when he begun to demonstrate in front of her she couldn't do anything but shut up.
He even told her that the second Markella was part of her abilities that she would probably gain in the future.
What however surprised all the people was the blood pulp they could recognise as Christopher, he was dead, but they could remedy that after all resurrection was just a simple ritual.
As for him holding the girls against their will, although it wasn't a good thing to do, at least for Alexxa he had an agreement. For Tris,Tanna and Rosetti they didn't really care, but Bloom was sort of a problematic individual.
You have to understand that the war for succession had already ended long ago, making her presence unwelcomed, of course there was one person whom would be happy to accomodate her.
He was the emperor of the High elves and he had already prepared everything for her evolution into a high elf and the gift of immortality, ruling by his side.
Bloom by now didn't really care, she had after all suffered so long in captivity she cared not for such trivial stuff, as long as she was free.
The soul contracts and bonding rings with his death had become void and useless, thus all the captives were now free, although not all of them were happy about it.
In the treasury they of the harem they found precious materials and items that were stolen from the dwarven treasury, of course they weren't as kind as to simply return them.
The dwarf alchemist however had disappeared, they didn't know where but he had long fled the area, probably being digested in the belly of a beast right now.
Against Markella's objections the people there were discusing when to resurrect Christopher, after all they already knew that he had gotten the space mage class from the Winoria Country's dungeon pillar.
Little did the know that an invisible chameleon dwarf was spying on them, he had no hostility, he was simply sad that his experiments had come to an end before he had finished his final work, what he called the Demon God Altelixir.