The cleansing went on and many people were disatisfied, the majority of whom were whose whom called themselves nobility and royalty, the rich and mighty, the powerful and well respected.
Of course Ecclesis and the others weren't disturbed by the disatisfaction, after all Ecclesis never liked Nobles Since he advocated equality among people.
None however dared confront the holy crusade, there were even stories going of mothers disfiguring their daughters as to not invite the inquisition, but it was a pointless behavior as they found out later in their lives, their children were either way taken to the inquisition, for charges of being cursed by an evil cult, their mother also charged with some horrible crime.
A second year passed them by and at last they had reached the 80th floor, the higher floors were all swept away, arrogant noble, tyrant kings, corrupted priests, non remained in the living.
This was mostly Chris' work, since the other were more preocupied with finding beauties than punishing evil, they were like junkies waiting for the next dose.
After reaching the 80th floor however there was the problem of how to transport the offerings with safety, after all they had thousands of people, which was solved by a gift from Christopher, the first ever transfloor teleportation device, probably the first device ever in existence, since teleporting people was something only real powerful mages could do and that if they were lucky enough to find the teleportation spell, one meant for people and not items.
A portal was opened in each and every major city, making trade between cities and travelling a thing of the past, lowering prices for goods as a result.
Only the so called caravan escorts, bandits and carriage driver were not very happy with this new addition, but this was progress, something that non could stop.
Of course that's a story for the far future since right now the portals were only used by the military to transport the offerings and some much needed supplies and reinforcements.
On the 79th floor and down begun the Ecclesian territories that were influenced by the Allied Countries, in general there were many people there whom were not believers of Ecclesis, but simply imigrants from the Allied countries.
Here it was a stenuous and difficult task to clean the cities of non believers, the reason being that there were simply whole cities of non believers.
Theodor even cleansed a whole elven settlement of 12000 people, sending 8000 offerings through the portal.
It was funny how all 8000 were taken in and Theodor was successfuly promoted to a Legendary Inquisitor, this was the class he asked for, but he also was instanly given some 5000levels just as a bonus to it.
Some others begun to try and replicate his feat, but they simply couldn't do it, they weren't as shameless as to convict a City just because they're different than them.
Let me explain how the Cleansing went, there were 14 pillars and only 8 of them, thus each one of the seven heroes took one pillar and Ecclesis was responsible for the other seven.
The truth however was that even with so many millenias of life, he was still a big softie, he wouldn't even think of wrongly convicting someone, but he would still sent beautiful virgins as offerings, it was their duty to him.
They had to make him stronger, a pity that most of the people he sent were were either true heretics or fanatic believers.
The floors they were cleansing now would in turn become their own floors, meaning that what they did would in turn influense their future domains.
Meaning that if they slaughter a whole floor, that empty floor will belong to them when they become Gods.
They spent 8 years cleansing the floors until they reached the 70th floor. Successfuly capturing 230000 heretics, of whom 120000 were sent as offerings but only 82000 were accepted.
These were some crazy numbers and Christopher didn't even know what to give them as a prize, he had already given them Immortality, Legendary classes, some weird skills they asked him for, a few fused skills and even evolved Ecclesis' resurrection skill.
Making Ecclesis successfuly shocked, in his opinion they would have needed to go defeat the Demon god to become Godly classes and have their skills evolve, but now Christopher through his research had already found a way to fuse, evolve and even mutate skills and spells.
Of course Christopher still couldn't create Godly classes and change races succesfuly, thus he still defeated the Demon god every 10years at the same date.
Now there was a new Goddess, Tris, a goddess of Modern desires, her ability was to create modern appliances that worked with magic, a television that caught chanels from earth, Internet connection and other strange modern marvels.
Ecclesis wasn't very happy with how useless the new blessings were, but he had no idea that one of Tris' skills Christopher had Taken away from her and erasing it from the face of Axis.
A skill called Portal to Earth, she was able to open portals that led to earth, although Christopher didn't believe that it was the real earth, why risk it?
As for the people being sent he had no time to interview them all thus he kept them to interview later, he even thought of creating clones of himself or something, but it didn't click him right, thus he took his time in selecting.
He simply said he accepted everyone and ended the bothersome part and then send back the people he had interviewed with the next bunch.
Ecclesis however was no fool he had already predicted this and the ones returning were checked by oracles to see whether they were still his followers or heretics that would be killed, although in secret he sent some of them to other pillars, belonging to the seven heroes, humans to Theodor, other races to other people.
"Let them suffer a little"
Ecclesis said to himself as he continued with his cleansing of his own floors.
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At the surface level a new storm was brewing, Anothe Failed Demon God had spawned, this time however he looked even more grotesque than before, entrails hunging from it's sludge like body, It looked like a pile of rotten flesh from a distance and no longer looked humanoid or even like a demon.
What it did however was force the four dragons to confront him, ending in the death of two of them, the dwarf and gnome had died, although the dwarf died under somewhat questionable sicumstances, backstabed by the gnome half-dragon.
The problem however was that they had no way of defeating the huge monster that trampled cities under its mass, it didn't even try to attack or eat it simply headed to random directions, as if a natural disaster.
Now however there were only two rulers of the Surface level and Kurlidandr seemed to have disappeared.
Thus they couldn't restore their ranks, meaning that they once more begun to divide the surface level amongst themselves, forgetting everything about invading the upper floors, leaving that to the monster waves.
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The Holy Crusade had now officialy begun, he first few allied countries were taken by surprise as they found an army of angels marching through their doorsteps, identifying people as heretics and then capturing them without a quetion.
Before news could spread about the invasion, the armies of Ecclesia had already finished cleansing the 69th floor, Leaving 9/14 floors empty and desolate, devoid of all life.
Those were the people whom had allied with Ecclesia only to gain some advantages, thus it wasn't strange that they were purged from the world.
Christophe however had a headache as millions of people were now being transfered to his living place, the 100th floor.
He no longer had the willpower to go on with the interviews, thus he just kept amassing them as if they were specks of dust.
He even went to talk with Ecclesis, explaining him that he couldn't yet turn people into Godly Classes, but in 10years from now he would return the 100th floor to him, just stop sending me people.
Ecclesis however answered with a smile and went on with the crusade, it was no longer about him, this crusade was the division and cleansing of the dungeon pillars, the people would either way be sent as offerings even if he liked it or not, it was because the people were just used to doing it and it would be hard to stop them, they weren begun to transport all men and women as offerings, no longer discerning one and the other.
Christopher wouldn't care either way, it truth he wanted to simply send them away, but he found himself in a rather tight situation, not knowing where to teleport them, whether to simply kill them all or keep amassing figurines.
Well as a collection they were priceless, in the end he created his own pocket dimension and put the shrunken people there.
Unlike the 69th floor the 68th suffered an even greater disaster, as 11 out of 14 floors were now emty, sending 21millions people as offerings.
The further down they went the less floors were spared, every person was sent as offering, on average they now send 40-50millions to the 100th floor annualy.
By the time they had reached the 60th floor they had sent around 280 million people to the 100th floor making Christopher laugh at their efforts, he had already begun to once more interviewing women, starting from the early people they had sent and some new people they had just sent whom had nothing to do with their holy crusade, whom were those pitiful girls whose beauty earned them the reputation of a witch.
That day however had another great event, it was the Day that Ecclesis ascended to Godhood once more.
He returned to his shiny form, but he now changed his skills to something more powerful, he decided to try and content with Christopher, becoming a God of space and time, but he quickly found out that his godly skills were useless against Christopher whom had leveled up by leaps and bounds.
For example when Ecclesis froze time, Christopher could still move like he normaly would, when ecclesis tried to attack him with his reality warping ability, he discovered that he couldn't affect anything on the 100th floor, as if it was owned by someone else.
It was late when he heard Christopher thanking him for something he didn't understand, but because of him Christopher had gained the final ingedient to fuse the ultimate 10 fused skill and then Evolve it into something beyond even his own understanding.
A passive skill that made him fall into a long commatosed state, the reason was because there was too much information even for his evolved brain to comprehend.
He had stumbled upon the "Codex of the Universe", it was something so powerful that it could distort the very fabric of existence.
It was the a database of knowledge, including everything from the start of the universe to the future and its destruction, in other words knowledge of the past present and future, everything in existence was there.
What his brain was doing now was trying to process the information and compress it to the best of its abilities.
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On the surface level a war between dragons was still raging and it would go on for years, it was no longer a war about whom would rule, it was a war of whom was supperior, the Gelloids were fighting with the demonics, the Vampires with the werewolves, the Insectoids wit the Volcanoids and so on.
Their armies composed of the monsters that made their way to the surface level, with infinite numbers of soldiers they war waged on.
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The two dragons had clashed multiple times in the passed ten years but they were equal in strength, non held the upper hand, until the second failed demon god appeared, right in the middle of the demonic country turning it into a death zone, wounding the dragon in the process.
The half-demons then begun to ascend the pillar in order to survive, the dragon followed suit and left the surface floor to Agamemnon the last dragon.
Thus begun another Age on the Surface level one Where the dragon acted as a mediator and judge for the racial disputes as Agamemnon begun to unify the Surface level
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Ecclesis was depressed, a year had passed and he understood that space-time was simply not his sort of element, he had no talent in it and neither had in depth knowledge of the topic.
In that one year he was stuck keeping track of the people send to the 100th floor, although the place was enormous, when you put 300millions people to stand still one next to another it becomes really hard to even breath.
Ecclesis had thought of simply killing them all, but then he thought about all the things he wanted to ask Christopher when he woke up, thus he wanted to use them as a chip for negotiations.
Although he didn't shy from using the males in the crowd for some experiments, reality twisting was a rather complex skill, it wasn't something like hitting a target, not creating a fireball, shooting it away.
Reality twisting took the existing and transmuted it into something else for example he could now create the same giant Eola stones, but he needed to have an Eola stone at hand to study its structure and attributes.
He could easily create inanimate objects and it was only a little harder to create living things, for someone whom was a godly healer creating life wasn't such a hard thing, life magic was after all his real tatent.
With him having regained his powers all his priests were having huge celebrations for the recovery of their god to his former glory, even the holy crusade stopped at that moment, but the next day angels spawned in all the floors and in a single day all floors from the 59th and under were swept clean, until they reached the 20th floor which was overrun by monsters and a dragon was the ruler there.
Ecclesis could see that it wasn't a real monster and was rather interested in this strange evolution, but his angels weren't strong enough to face the ruler of the 20th floor.
Mostly because of the swarm of monsters that followed, forcing him to set his defences at the 21st floor.
When Chris heard that the people of the 20th floor had been turned into half-monster beings and the floor was overrun by monsters, he became nervous, he wanted to go see what was happening on the surface level, to see if his son was safe.
At Mach speed he and the other six heroes begun to descend the floors, thinking that in 9years it would be their turn to become gods.
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3 years later
Christopher woke up only to hear the strange message once more.
-Your power has overstepped the capacity of Axis, 3minutes before ejection-
Christopher was sleepy, he begun to try understanding what was happening and then information simply pumped into his mind, he now understood everything.
He begun to chant some strange words that were probably impossible to pronounciate with a human's phonetic cords.
The space around him begun to become twisted and deformed and he looked like a pitch dark siluette as if a 3d shadow existed where he once stood.
Ecclesis wanted to ask him if he was okay but was retorted.
"Don't ask, I now know everything, what a pity, a real pity that I won't tell you what I know and you don't, by the way even if you wanted to do what I had done to change someone into a human, well it's just a speace-time reversion I did, it's not so difficult but takes a load shit of magic power reverting someone to how he looked 20000 years ago, erasing skills that's even more simple it's the same thing just done with skills, of course that's the ancient way of doing it, sort of like lighting a fire, the old method is like taking a stick trying to set fire on dry wood, the new methods are more practical, like lighting up a match or casting a fire missile"
Christopher explained, making Ecclesis a little depressed, after all he had partially thought of those methods in the back of his mind, but even being a god he would still need to expand lost of his magic power if he wanted to do something like that, in general it's like making an old lady's face young and leave her body all wrinkled and old, that sort of operation, It might sound easy, but the reason why he hadn't lifted all the body was because he didn't have enough power to do so, he was able to revert Ecclesis back to human, which reverted him back to his old Class, since Godly individuals had a body made of energy, the same applied to Tanna,Tris and Rosetti, whose body had undergone a weird evolution, which however Christopher didn't dislike, but at some point he became so caught up with fusing skills that he had no time for anything else, the offering selctions were also a pain, the pilgrims were becoming irritating as of late as well.
He even used some of the girls he had selected as incubators for new fused skills, since it was impossible to fuse skills more than 8 times with the fusion skill locking one of the 8 skill slots.
At the moment he only had 5 skills in the slots, the first being "Surreal Existance" with a description of Error.
The second being the "Codex of the universe" which gave him all the knowledge of the whole universe from its start to its end, he even knew what would happen 5 minutes later in an alternate timeline to his alternate self or know that an alternate version of himself whom had become the Demon God was right now watching at him, saying "So that would have happened if I hadn't stepped onto the Altar of Deification".
Only problem with the Codex was that life became boring, but he still enjoyed seeing people do exactly what he knows they will do and then seeing himself do exactly what the codex said he would do, which wasn't very enjoyable, but at least they suffered it together with others, making it less painful.
The third skill was the Fused version of the skill fusion skill, called "Predetermined Skill Modification Skill", it was fusion of all the skill modifying skills he had, fusion,evolusion,mutation and erasion, it was only a 3rd fusion skill, but it was enough to move earth and sky.
Last was his latest experiment the Magic regeneration skill, which he had just created in an attempt to break through and create the 10th fusion skill that turned into the Codex of the Universe.
In the end it was the simple Reality twisting, it was like forgetting something so simple and fundamental that a child whom has just begun walking can point it out to you, people tend to put things in the back of their heads as they move on to new things, like forgetting principles that you no longer use, just because they are no longer useful to you.
"Isn't this just perfect"
Christopher said full of irony, but non the less he shrunk all the people there and they were sucked into a small ball flying in the air.
"So many things to do and so little time"
Christopher begun to say as he disappered teleporting away and then he begun packing everything he wanted to take with him into the small flying orb.
He then released heroes whom were inside the ball and revived the dead heroes, both his classmates and heroes long dead whom none remembered they even existed.
He then took the small ball and disappeared, leaving Ecclesis stuck looking at all the people whom were full of questions.
The Seven hereos had now reached the 20th floor, where there was said to exist a dragon and some half-monstrocities, but when they appeared there was no dragon what awaited them was a single person and when they saw him they were teleported all the way to the 100th floor, right in front of Ecclesis.
Not even a minute had passed and Christopher appeared on the surface world and all intelligent lifeforms were sucked into his small ball, half-monsters, people and even some S rank monsters that were intelligent.
All remaining Heroes of the surface level were also forcefully sent to the 100th floor.
He then quickly passed through the lower floors gathering all the intelligent monsters, even though they were all feral and wild, next he begun to ascend and gathered all the Ecclesian believers and other people still left there, even the angels that protected the 21st floor were all sucked in his little black ball.
2minutes had passed Christopher once more appeared in front of Ecclesis on the 100th floor.
Before they could ask him anything they heard a strange message in their heads.
-Threat Ejected, rebooting Axis to original parameters-
The next moment the path leading down disappeared and they were left shocked at what had just happened.
"Now I can explain the questions you might all have, first of all I will begin with explaining three main questions you might all have, What is Axis, How I'm so powerful and lastly why and what just happened"
Christopher said and the crowd of people went silent, at last they would get some explanation.
"Axis is a Soul refining device, it transfers the soul of a living being into a game like environment so that we can become more accustomed to using skills and the power of our own soul, some people's souls come up as tangible weapons, others' as spells and abilities, those are the only powers we are allowed to keep when we return to earth, of course if you can find Gulok ore on earth, well you are wellcome to smith it if you know how to do it without a skill, in general once we return earth will have changed, society will begin to decay as peeople with Great powers like Ecclesis will want to be Gods"
Christopher said, making everyone shocked, of course there were few people whom knew whom Ecclesis was in the huge crowd, but his Body which was made out of light was simply had to not notice.
"Those whom were sent back in an evolved race will turn into that race after a short period of transformations, those that had done something else to their bodies will too retain a certain degree of changes"
Christopher's words however didn't stop there and he continued.
"The People of Axis although fake, they can form bond with the people who come and become your strength in our own world, for example Michael has a very strong bond with two people, one being the woman he loves and the other a mortal enemy of his, both of them will however be turned into power for him in the real world, the more experience one has the more strong he will be in the real world"
Christopher explained, making many people angry and irritated, non wanted to believe something non-sensical as people not being real.
"Now to the second point, why I'm so powerful, because most of you don't know me, I'm Christopher, I used to be a regular high school student, of course I contrary to others didn't believe that the Axis was real, thus its system begun to torture me, trying to make me believe that it was real, but in turn it forced me to try harder to prove that it wasn't real, of course what helped me most was the existence of resurrection, after all how the hell can you have a corpse of a living person with the person right next to it, my field however was space, since my power was after all teleportation, I looked for a way to make my own magic spell, but luckily discovered a clue that led me to my current strength, it's more like the use of Air magic to make fire magic stronger or the use of fire magic to make the metal into a liquid, time and space have a critical relation with one another, one complementing the other"
Christopher continued and then stopped for a little while not knowing how to proceed any further, after all it was majorly due to his cheat power that he had selected space magic, he wanted to make his cheat power stronger.
"Lastly I will explain what and why the pillar connecting us to Axis suddenly disappeared, but this room still remained, the upper tower only exists when a God exists on Axis, it's sort of like a prison, disallowing them to grow stronger on Axis, but when they return to earth they will become the leaders of Humankind and protectors of earth, there will be 5400 Gods on earth, but only 82 will have an active Role in ruling the world, the rest will simply enjoy their new lives, since they will feel like being freed from a prison, but because I sort of glitched the system, now it needs a reboot, I accidentaly created a skill that should not exist by combining Immortality and numerous super powerful skills, a passive skill that makes me immune to the system, of course I didn't want to be ejected yet thus I made a backup plan, which is the reason why we are all here in a space that was created by me, my domain, a place outside of the system's influence and I will be sending all of you away, back to earth, I will give you a few moments to say your goodbyes with people whom are bonded to you"
Christopher said, making everyone shocked as they appeared in a small room where they could see all of the Axis people they could remember easily in their mind, Michael made love to his wife for a last time, kicked Neathan's ass and then begun to threat the others not better, there were no other people he had a good bond with, although there were two priestesses whom were there, but they were just some older relationships he had before he had met Ysova, in the sky he could See the handsome Michael, his guardian Angel, there was only one and no more, like he believed.
Ater he fared everyone goodbye he disappeared or rather opened his eyes, he was still seated in class, others were also seated at their own desks, waking up one after another.
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Christopher was now alone, he begun to take out people from his small black ball, he would be doing his bondings now. He planned on becoming as powerful as he could even if it meant that he would stay asleep for a little longer than others.
What he did however in those extra days he had was something that people would condemn as inhumane, despicable and perverted, simply evil.
(raping a woman in front of her child and husband and then rape the child as well, doing so for a few days before killing the husband and then raping them anew)
This was an example of just how much he desired power, they say that evil is the quickest way to power, the problem is that evil never wins in the end.
The reason why it will lose is because even evil people condemn evil actions, they are the worst of hipocrites, do you think that they will let the world change so that everyone loses, of course not, thus they let good people win, so that they can remain powerful and evil.
PS. Not everyone took the short end of the stick, some were pumpered and cared for, this was simply a way to establish a bond, although he did prefer the fast and perverted way in contrast to the slow romantic one, with some however you simply cannot take that path, it's like love at first sight(around a hundred times).