A year before Christopher's death.
At the Class gathering the Munnero heroes were all there, Kris was the most miserable of the four, but he was the one whom was hit upon the most by most of the girls, he looked like hunkiest body builders they had ever seen.
Elen even invited him as a star for some movies that needed some muscles of steel, the movies were mostly fantasy based and they wanted to make a conan series.
Stelio, Dimitri and Mike weren't too happy with him having been freed from the arena, although even in the arena he was more famous than them.
Stelio was now a famous blacksmith with lots of coins in his pocket, but he wasn't very liked in the dwarven society, mostly because he threated his weapons like merchandise instead of accomplishments.
Dimitri and Mike, the two cousins, were a travelling duo whom were rather shocked when they were forbidden from going deeper in to the dungeon due to some stupid agreement, they had become rather arrogant due to becoming much stronger than any average dwarf, although Dimitri looked like a human with strange eyes rather than a dwarf.
When they arrived at the class gathering they were of course aproached by Nick, but the favour he asked for was simply too big for the small price he offered, they simply stated that they would think about it, making him run for his gold's worth.
They were told about the reverse summoning and all four agreed to return, the country of Munnero was a shity choice to begin with, non of them had a good time there, even Mike whom had evolved into a dwarf.
The final day of the succession wars came three months later, at that time Christopher had just departed to look for a new class.
The four candidates were there, in the temple of Ecclesia, it was surprising to see that one of the candidates was their Classmate Christo sandwitched by two beauties.
The other three were...
Verillio and Vivian, whom was accompanied by Nick and the Archmage.
A group of priests whom accompanied Tudar with the Archbishop in their midst.
Last being Joseph, whom stood there with his two wives, both of whom were from noble houses.
The decision on the king would go with an open vote, those whom dared to vote were of course few, but their vote would count, since they had the power to back their votes.
Surprisingly Mr Gold was the first to vote and he supported Verillio, making everyone praise him as a wise man.
Chris supported his friend Christo.
John didn't bother to support someone.
Alexander supported Verillio and Nick.
In simple words around 60% of the votes went to Verillio and Nick, which shocked Tudar and the priests to the core, even their own templar Michael voted for Verillio.
The other 40% was almost equaly divided amongst the other three candidates with Joseph taking the losing end as predicted with only a 8% of the votes.
The moment however that Verillio was crowned he begun to act like an idiot, he wanted to sentence Nick to prison, which made even his mother look at him strangely.
But since his power was already distributed amongst the nobles Verillio quickly understood that he was nothing more than a figurehead, a decoration to sit on the throne.
When the priests understood what was going on, it was already too late to get a large piece of the pie, they didn't give up however as they established Tudar as a Priest in Nivava, just in case a king suddenly disappeared.
There were huge celebrations, but most of the people congratulated Nick instead Verillio, after all it was him who did all the scemes, he even apologised to Michael, returning him his wife and gave him a proposition to open a temple at his floor, if anyone dared to bully him or his wife there they would be dead without a chance for resurrection.
Michael was angry at first, but after hugging his wife with tears in his eyes he decided that it would be safer than staying in Ecclesia, where there were lots of wolves in sheep's skin.
Of course Nick made good of his promises and non was left disatisfied other than the disappointing fact that they hadn't asked for more.
Stelio and the others offered to help Nick in anything he needed done, for a small fee of course. Trying to rub on his good side since they hadn't supported him in the war for succesion, due to being offered a better proposition by Ecclesia.
But there was only one thing Nick needed help with, the Reverse summoning ritual, they needed some good craftmanship there if Stelio was interested.
As for Dimitri and Mike they could just be friends, there was no need to humble themselves after all they were classmates, they should slowly begin to think about their lives back at home.
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In the Orkish lands, the only two orkish heroes were arguing whether to go to the class gathering or not, the message of course had come late and Alexi was now the new Warchief and Ruler of the whole Orkish country.
The ex-chief was now on her knees with something sticking out of her ass and ropes outlining her breasts.
Georgia was probably the only person whom was allowed to talk to Alexi like being equals, since he didn't want to make his classmate call him stuff when they return to earth.
He still thought that others would defeat the demon God for them, thus all they needed do was wait.
Georgia however had made her mind, she was leaving, she was going to Nivava and gather up with some people whom would fight the demon god.
Alexi in order to not be labeled a coward by her(whom know why he even cared), followed her all the way to Nivava.
When they arrived they discovered that all their classmates had begun to gather in Nivava, when they asked they learned that their teacher had come with a plan that would transfer them back to their own world they even said that the 10years ban was the max time needed to finish the preparations needed, in other words they had less than 9years to enjoy in Axis, unless of course they wanted to stay there, which was also an option.
Alexi was reluctant to leave Axis, while Georgia was happy to do so, only problem was that she couldn't find her friends whom had joined Neassa anywhere, she even asked Nick about it, whom had some good connections in Nivava at the moment.
Before she knew it Alexi had begun to travel back to his own Country, in the end he didn't want to leave Axis.
Nick Informed Georgia, that her friends didn't come for the gathering and hadn't come to Nivava at all, they probably don't even know about the reverse summoning thingy, thus she decided to pay them a visit.
When she reached Neassa she learned that her friends went to stop some apocalyptic threat to the world, thus she was told to wait for them there, it wouldn't take too long. She had however misinterpretted the elven understanding of long, before she even knew it a whole year passed as she was waiting for them to return.
What she hadn't expected however was that a whole army would march out of the dungeon pillar accompanying her friends as if they were the greatest villains on the world of Axis.
When she asked what had happened she heard that her friends had killed one of their classmates because of some strange vision they had.
They killed a person just because they thought he would destroy the world or something and the one they killed was the very one needed for the reverse summoning ritual to work.
She couldn't say she understood them, but in this world of magic many strange things happen, maybe they were charmed or something, or maybe they schemed upon.
Well even she however had heard of the jailor of despair, one of the most wanted criminals of the world of Axis, she was rather surprised to find out that he was one of their classmates, but the most disturbing fact was that he would be revived for free just so that they can return with him to their own world. In a way he was being exiled from the world of Axis with them.
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Dimas and Oxen did indeed attend the class gathering, since their dungeon pillar descend was stopped they had no reason to stay in Woodaria, Dimas left right away, while Oxen whom had by then become the new Clan master and king of the Golden Lion Clan stayed for a while until the class gathering.
Of course both were all into leaving this world, although they might have had children there, but they couldn't say that they could bond well with the kids whom appeared out of thin air.
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Truth however was that they wanted to become human once more, the same was true for Jones and Nicko whom had come from Aquatica, one being a mereman and the other a large whale person.
Well they couldn't really laugh since one of them was a minotaur and the other a humanoid manticore.
They didn't bother with the succession wars, but once they heard that there was a trial for some of their classmates, they went to have a look.
They were gathered in front of the temple of Ecclesis, the trial would take place inside and would begin once the future version of Markella wakes up.
Until then however they decided to resurrect Christopher, with his body there it was only a matter of time for his revival.
The beastmen,fishmen and birdwomen whom had gathered there hadn't seen a revival ritual before and in truth it only took a minute to resurrect someone, it didn't even seem to require any illustrious and valueable materials only some gold coins.
The problem however appeared right away, the moment Christopher was resurrected A future version of Markella appeared once more and tried to kill him.
this time however she was captured and held there for questioning. There were lots of holes in her memories and she even seemed to have come from an alternate timeline where Christopher hadn't been tracked down and killed, but escaped and then saught revenger upon them.
Well it wouldn't be strange since they just attacked him out of the blue, but in that world he wasn't anything like a demon God, he was simply a legendary class mage whom had some ultra weird powers.
When Christopher heard her expaination he burst out laughing, saying "you killed me because you found my spells weird and even time travelled to kill me once more, that's rather funny"
In truth it was ridiculous, it wouldn't be strange if it was the inquisitors from Ecclesia whom had killed him, but her, what reasons could she have had, other than the evident signs that she was going crazy.
When however they asked her if the reverse summoning happened or not, she was reluctant to answer, seemingly it did and seemingly she had decided to stay behind just so she could hunt Christopher down due to an obsession that he would open a rift and invade earth and since time in Axis pases much faster than in earth, the invasion will happen the same time they return to earth.
Even Christopher didn't laugh anymore, truth was that he had no such grand plans for the future and if he knew himself any better, he wouldn't do something as stupid as that, after all he had relative back of earth, not that he believed that this world was real in the first place.
Even their afterlife sucked, there was nothing but black and waiting at his status room until he was revived, completely boring.
Without a second to think it over, a second future self of Markella, well it was ther third, but it appeared second.
What she did was stay there and wait for them to talk to her, but everyone looked at her as if she was an alien.
The whole trial didn't begin because future Markellas simply kept popping out at random, each condemning Christopher crimes he might commit in the future, even stupid stuff like stealing a loaf of bread in Ecclesia.
It was such a chaotic situation that people begun to doubt that Markella was right in the first place even her friends whom had gone with her had begun to doubt her.
That was until they saw something that gave the goosebumbs.
A crack appeared in space and a huge demonic looking finger stretched out of it, all the Markellas begun to talk to themselves.
"That's not good"
"did he follow me"
"what is happening?"
The finger was pointing at the commatosed Markella, but then it stopped and pointed at Christopher, time froze and the finger left as it had come, from the crack in the voids of space.
The moment the finger disappeared the army of markellas had already disappeared.
Christopher didn't know what had happened and non could see the subtle change that the finger had made to him.
Only later would he discover that it had fused his eight abilities into four, something he hadn't thought possible, it was sort of like freeing four new slots for him.
A pity he lacked skill points to instantly master them, Christopher was sleeping in prison, for a multitude of crimes he was confined, while in the next cell was Markella whose crimes were not lighter than his own.
She was there on charges of instigating the end of the world, she was after all the tool used by an evil force to invade their world.
Of course both of them wouldn't stay in jail for long, the reverse summon ritual was almost complete and most of the people whom evolved and wanted to go back had already been turned back to human, they didn't know why that was important, but their teacher was very strict in many matters, he even forced the old heroes to revert to how they looked when they were just summoned in order to raise the chances of the reverse summoning to work.
Time passed by and everything was complete, Markella had lots of visitors, while Christopher too had some of his old friends from school, they tried to booster him by telling him "At least you had your good times" and other stuff that could lighten his mood, but unknown to them he had other plans.
It was the day of destiny, all the heroes were brought to the platform that would sent them back to their own world.
Christopher was brought out wearing anti-magic chains, everyone thought that he was too dangerous as to be left with magic thus the circus begun.
The platform was too small for all to fit and they were from different locations thus they begun with smaller groups of people.
Individuals whom were the only ones left from their own countries in the world of Axis, some even resurrected long dead people like the infamous Troika and the long dead saintess of Ecclesia.
The summoning reversal was indeed a success, Christopher did as he was told, sending them one by one back to earth, of course they didn't know if it worked or not, but since they couldn't revive them, then they at least weren't dead.
The problem begun when large groups went on the platform, he could only send one person at a time or so he said, cause in reality he could send them all back at the same time.
When it came the turn of his classmates to go, he begun to talk arrogantly and refused to send them back, there were two reasons for that, first was because Alexxa wasn't among them and the second because he was supposed to send himself back as well after he did so with them.
The Old heroes whom were gathered there to oversee the smooth operation of the reverse summoning weren't very happy, the old hero with the spatial power offered to take his place, but Mr gold told him that he wasn't a spatial mage, meaning that their chances would be cut in half.
They then begun to negotiate terms with Christopher, if Ariel hadn't already been send back she would have probably brainwashed him or something, but that would probably make him mentaly unstable when they returned to their own world since his mind would have been flawed with magic.
In the end they agreed on three terms of his, he would be allowed to stay on Axis, but would be turned into a common farmer, meaning that he wouldn't be able to use magic without the magic arts skill(which unknown to them he already had, but it had evolved beyond recognition).
He would be exempted from all his crimes and would be guarantied his safety and lastly he wanted to be given the abandoned Country as his own land to rule.
These three points were made clear and non cared about them, in truth they already knew that the whole surface level would be ruled by the High elves, thus they didn't care about this small clause, although the Ecclesians and dwarves did have some bones to pick with him, but were overwhelmed by the existences known as Heroes of Old, all of whom were legendary existences.
Mr Gold of course was the first to be sent back, the second to leave to everyone's surprise was Christo, the old witch and her daughters were shocked to death, their old mother fainting right on the spot.
John, satisfied, bade farewell to Erica and returned to his own world, followed by Alexander and Nick.
Angelo, Mina and Anna too decided to leave after saying their goodbyes with not a few people they left the world of Axis.
Chris Pope and Stella left without leaving a word to anyone, they didn't quite enjoy their stay on Axis.
From Ruina nad Eolia for some reason everyone decided to stay, even Costas and Jonny had changed their minds for some reason.
Joanna, Markella, Effie and flora all left the world of Axis, with Markella praying that her predictions were all wrong, that they were nothing but a bad dream.
Kris, Stelio, Dimitri and Mike also decided to leave, since Munnero was a rather shity place to be a hero.
From the Orkish lands both Alexi and Georgia decided to stay for some reason, they hadn't even come to fare goodbye to their classmates.
From Winoria, Areti, Marilena and Mary happily left the world of Axis, they had their fun and it was enough adventure for a lifetime.
From Woodaria only Dimas left as Theordore Oxen decided to stay back in the clan and live a good life there, although he would miss his parents and brother, but he was a father now and a pretty wife.
From Aquatica both Jones and Nicko happily left Axis without caring at all for the fishmen and mermaids they left behind.
Thus only sixteen of the original fourty two were left on Axis, Christopher was turned into a common farmer as per their agreement and set free to settle in the abandoned country, which had no ruler or people.
Chris, ruled over the second from of Nivava like before.
Alexxa, ruled over the fifth floor after hooking up with Ludicar once more.
Michael, ruled over the fourth floor, which used to belong to Nick.
Theodor, ruled over the third floor of Nivava.
Costas, took rule over Runia as the new legendary dark mage.
Theo, took rule of the first floor with his brother in law jack the bandit king.
Jonny, left for the abandoned continent on a mission from the cult.
George, was employed by king Verillio and the country of Nivava to be their official hero.
Elen,Viki and Giota, continued doing what they were to make the world of Axis a more Glamourous place.
Dina, simply returned to Eolia with her harem of elven men.
Alexi and Georgia, were already in the Orkish lands.
Theodore(Oxen), ruled over the Golden lion Clan and educated his children in morals and values of humanity.
This however isn't the end of the story as a strange dwarf lizardman was headed towards the abandoned lands, farther behind him there were others as well, because these abandoned lands would now belong to the Cult.