Slamming my fist in the Great Calamity’s face I felt a rush of excitement.

“Take that you piece of shit!” I shouted

We were at it for a while now and I was dead tired but so was this thing. However, what irritated me was its stupid arm! It basically cancelled out anything be it magic or not! With those conditions, there was no way for me to use my spell otherwise it would be cancelled out! So I had to find some way to separate its arm so I just fucking blew off the side where his arm was!

"Argh! You damned-"

Before it could finish I punched him.

“W-wait we-Argh! Stop hitting me-AH”

I didn’t stop until I was satisfied

However, I then let out a breath and stopped hitting.

I had vented out my frustration enough and my body was hurting all over. I was already tired and if this guy died it would be a hassle.

“Ugh finally, now can-”

I smacked his face “Shut the fuck up!”

However, I then felt something change. The mana started to move toward the great calamity and a slight white hue grew from it. It took a few seconds to realize what was happening but when I did a curse escaped my mouth.

“Shit! Stop it, you suicidal bastard!”

“Fuck you!”

Gritting my teeth I tried to think of a few ways to stop it but all of them were immediately thrown out the window as he grabbed me with its remaining arm.

“Damn it!”

Channeling my remaining mana I decided to use my spell.

Teleportation magic was new here thanks to the war so there wasn’t much about it. That also meant higher dimensions weren’t exactly something I could achieve.

This spell was just one of many by some abyss creatures and the gods. At first, I wanted to capture it and see if it would work; however, it didn’t seem that I had a choice.

A bright white ring appeared around us, absorbing my mana along with the mana in the air. However, suddenly, purple flames started to erupt from where his right hand was. The next second, I was blinded by a bright light, and my vision was then black.

***

Darkness covered my vision for a while until I started to regain some sort of sensation. Feeling my soar body I slowly opened my eyes to see that I was staring at a familiar ceiling. It was a ceiling I had recognized for a while.

It was the ceiling of my dorm room.

Quickly getting up I patted my body seeing that every limb I had was in tacket. Letting out a breath I then pulled out a phone that was in my pocket. Looking around I found a charger before I plugged my phone. After a minute my phone turned on causing my heart to go into overdrive. Looking at the date I let out a breath of relief.

5 days.

That’s how long I had spent in Arcadia.

Realizing that a bitter smile crossed my face.

In reality, I had spent over 15 years in that place trying to survive but it turns out I wasn’t exactly gone for long.

But that was all thrown out the window.

I was home.

That realization filled me with so much joy that I started to dance around my dorm room. That, however, was short-lived as I tripped over something causing me to fall on the floor.

“Ah fuck,” Turning around I tried to figure out what I tripped over but when I saw what I tripped on I froze.

A body.

A giant body was lying on the floor. But it wasn’t just any regular body. White hair down to its shoulders, ash-grey skin, one black arm covered in purple lines, and a body that looked like a greek god…

Yup, there was no mistaking it…other than the grey skin this body was the body of the great calamity.

Quickly getting up I prepared a few spells and created some barriers around the body.

‘Did this bastard also come here!?’

It made sense that we were in the spell when I activated it, but I didn’t expect him to come here! After a bit of no movement, I then formed a finger using my mana and started to poke yet there still wasn’t any reaction.

I then slowly tried to approach the body but I quickly froze due to a voice.

“Ugh, the hell?”

I looked around trying to locate where it was coming from I then locked on to a small floating willo-whisp.

Looking at the small red fireball floating in the air, I was stunned. I couldn’t speak for a moment, my mouth just opened and closed like a fish as I tried to process what was happening.

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‘There’s no way this is real, right?’

Moving my hand toward the small will o-wisp I thought my hand would pass right through it but instead, I felt a little resistance.

“Get your hand off of me you bastard!”

Clenching and unclenching my hand with disgust I looked at the will o-wisp.

Pinching the bridge of my nose, I groaned. “Please tell me this is just some kind of illusion,”

“You piece of shit! This is all your fault!”

I guess I’m not hallucinating, but...

Ignoring him cursing I looked down at the giant body that was basically covering half of my dorm room before I looked back at the crimson will o-wisp

Why the hell was it here?

Not only that but why was its soul out of its body?

Before I could start asking questions I sensed something or someone coming

Panicking, I looked at the corpse of the Great Calamity in my room. Thinking quickly, my shadow started to expand before tendrils of shadows wrapped around the Great Calamity’s body. It quickly dragged the body into the shadow and returned just as the door creaked open, and a woman with glasses entered. She looked around before frowning and settling her gaze on me.

“Mr. Thornebrook, what are you doing?”

Following her gaze, I realized she was looking at my clothes, which were torn and dirty like I had been through hell, which I technically had.

But I couldn’t just say “Yeah sooo I got trapped in another world and to survive I learned magic and had to kill a giant monster to get back home”

Worst case, I’d be put in a psych ward. So I quickly came up with a lie.

“Cosplay,” I replied plainly “There was a convention downtown so I thought I’d post some pictures on Instagram,”

At this point, lying had become a habit. In Arcadia, I lied about my identity countless times to avoid being hunted down.

“Well, it doesn’t look like you’ve packed, so instead of...” she gestured toward my clothes, “playing dress-up, you should start packing.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

When she closed the door, I let out a sigh of relief, grabbed my phone again, and looked through my messages.

“What a primitive artifact,” Hearing the great calamity speak I decided to ask my question.

“How the hell are you even here?”

There was silence for a moment before it answered like I was some sort of idiot, “Because of that spell you used.”

Remembering my final spell, I frowned. “It was just a teleportation spell, so how are you here?”

“Thanks to that spell, me trying to off myself didn’t go according to plan. Rather than exploding my body or soul, it seemed to merge my soul with yours,” it explained

I froze.

“Wait...fused!?”

If that meant what I think it meant, then...

“We’re stuck together.”

“...”

I stared at the wisp in silence before sighing deeply. “Just great.”

I was now stuck with a crazy demonic entity that could probably take over my body at any time. And with my magic—

Wait...my magic!

Smiling I walked over to my desk and put my hand on it. When I did that a slight white hue surrounded the desk before it disappeared along with my computer. Turning toward my closet I rifled through my clothes until I found a black shirt and some pants. The shirt was something I got at a science convention I remember it because I had won second place.

Taking off my other clothes I then put the rest of my clothes in my dimensional storage. I then headed into my bathroom and entered the shower. Feeling the warm water run over my body felt… relieving.

After washing myself I put on my clothes and stretched.

“Time to go home,”

I then activated my teleportation spell.

Or tried to at least…

However, the next moment I felt extremely tired before I felt my legs fall asleep causing me to face-plant on the floor. Groaning I was met with laughter causing me to glare at the small fireball.

“The fuck are you laughing for?”

“haha when you faceplanted haha”

“You son of a-”

Reaching for it I then tried punching it causing it to move away “Oi what was that for!?”

“Explain now,” the words escaped through my lips raspy like I had just run a marathon for 2 days without water.

“You don’t have enough mana,”

Panicked, I realized my mana reserves were low. Worse, the mana that remained was impure. The quality was nowhere near what it should’ve been. I quickly checked my body and cursed.

“Damn it,”

Gone…

My magic cultivation...gone.

Remembering the nights I trained I couldn’t help but scrunch my face

All those nights of training were just...gone. It had all reset.

“Did you do this?” I glared at the fireball.

It stayed silent for a moment. “It seems your magic weakened due to the fusion.”

“Oh, come on!”

Cursing I then got up before I grabbed my phone. Going through my messages again I saw that there wasn’t a lot which was expected. It wasn’t like I was surprised though as I didn’t have any friends before I got transported or any guardians for that matter. These messages though were from a few tenants that were renting my house.

Reading the messages I let out a sigh of relief and put my phone in my pocket and exited my dorm. Making my way to the elevator I ignored the things that bastard was spouting. After handing my ID and other things to the campus security I then headed toward the bus stop. I was hoping to walk in peace but that seemed like a dream at this point.

“Human, what is this place?”

“Human, what is this thing?”

“Human!”

“Human”

“Shut up!” I finally snapped.

This thing was getting on my nerves.

“How dare you! Do you know who I am!?” it protested. “I am Zelsar, King of Dreams, The Eternal Flame of Chaos, burning all who dare oppose me-”

“Yet you lost to a high schooler,” I shot back, which earned me more yelling.

It floated in front of me “Hey, I’m not here by choice! You dragged me here!”

“Me? You’re the one who decided to blow yourself up!”

But at that moment I noticed people staring at me strangely. As if reading my mind, the wisp said, “No one else can see me.”

My brow twitched

Couldn’t have told me that earlier?

I pulled out my phone and pretended to be on a call “Can you like separate us?”

“Of course not,” it said, sounding annoyed “If I had my full power then I would’ve easily devoured you,” hearing that a shiver went up my spine however, he ignored it and continued “Your soul had overpowered mine and if it wasn’t for my quick thinking I would’ve died. But thanks to that my powers are weakened…unless, of course, you surrender your soul to-”

“Never gonna happen buddy,” I replied plainly as I sat on the bench waiting for the bus.

“...Can I then go-”

Seeing where this was headed I cut him off“No,”

“I didn’t even finish!”

After I denied him a second time he kept badgering me.

‘Wasn’t this guy supposed to be one of the strongest beings? Why was he whining like a child?’

Shaking my head I then thought about my future. I guess I could live with this guy, however, I needed to level up a little bit. Just as I was thinking that the bus had arrived. I boarded a bus, scanned my pass, and sat down.

“So, what does that mean for us?” I asked.

“It’s impossible to separate our souls in my current state,” it stated plainly “If I try anything, I’ll probably die,”

“Doesn’t sound that bad,” I commented.

“Damn brat!” it cursed but the next thing it said caused me to frown “If I die your magic will also disappear,”

Hearing that I couldn’t help but sigh and lean back and close my eyes. I could feel the mana in the air. I had noticed this earlier but I was a bit wrapped up in the situation from what I could sense it was much purer and thicker here than in Arcadia. Thanks to that, it seemed like I didn’t have to hunt animals for mana. But my magic was still much weaker, due to our current state. If we tried to separate our souls, it would kill him, but it was likely that my magic would disappear as well.

In other words, we were stuck together.

And we had to deal with it….

‘Just great. I get home, and I’m already stuck with a world-ending calamity’

What a homecoming.