Ikuta goes to school on monday and there are many kinds of students looking at him through the door and windows ' This is very uncomfortable ' he had a fun weekend , but his friends had more fun watching Ikuta get thrown around like a toy by the voidlings .
' I kinda wish they were smaller being big is nice but I get tired sometimes ' " Morning Ikuta " Ezio said " Morning Ezio " " what did you have for breakfast ? " " Hmm bacon , egg , pancake , honey , tea , hot choco , strawberry , apple , pear " " I'm getting hungry now "
" I know " " how do you learn that stomach fire thing ? I wanna learn it too " " there's no point in making you digest faster if you don't use the energy " Ezio thought about it " Oh you're right , how about I eat a lot and then we exercise ? " " No if you do that you would feel bloated " " Then teach me how to do stomach fire ? "
" You need to know about your body " " Oh it's okay I got A's since I have been tutoring with you " " You would need A's on every test about your body " Ezio thinks about it " I don't think I will get it " " Yeah it's very hard " " but you did it " " Because I studied it , if you want we can study about it "
Ezio thinks about it " Hmm maybe it would be good if I want to be a chimera alchemist " " you actually want to be one ? " " Yeah there are ancient studies on how the alchemist was able to change life , even the core was able to do it so I want to learn " " well being a chimera alchemist means you have to know a lot about every living being "
" I don't care I want to make LIFE " Ezio said dramatically " Okay I have a bunch of books about different lifeforms we can go through them after school " " Yes let's do it " Nisse and Amber came in " Ikuta can you let us ? " Nisse and Amber held some combs and hair accessories .
" Okay " Druk and Pyra also came in " Hey guys " Ezio said " So how are your wings ? " " It's growing a lot " " What about yours ? " " Mine is gonna take a while you usually have to be at least twelve years old to get one out of your back but even then it's still small so Druk is rushing things " Pyra said .
" You saying that in front of Ikuta is the funniest thing I heard " Ezio said and they all remembered how much Ikuta had been doing " Right , maybe I should go somewhere with fire so I can grow mine " Ikuta thinks about how Zhack and Chara were spreading seeds ' It will only be time until they go to Muspelheim '
" Maybe you can try walking on charcoal " Ezio said " That wouldn't really work " Pyra said " And I might burn my clothes " " They did give us some thunder-resistant clothing " Druk said " Do you think I can join PE ? "
They all think about Ikuta playing sports against everyone " Ikuta you would win " " Not really I still have to control my strength , but if something like tug-of-war appears I'll lose " " Why ? " " Cause the runes will appear , look "
Ikuta put his bag on the table and tugged it very hard for runes to appear , surprising those who were looking at him " How does that work you were pulling not pushing " Ezio said " Pulling is just making something come close I still have to use strength "
" Right " " You might be allowed to if you want , we can pair you up with Druk " Nisse said " Is that okay ? " " Yep we are playing pair games , so you can try " Amber said " Cool we can finally play against Ikuta "
" But he has a lot of handicap " Ezio said while class starts ' What are the three doing now ' Chara , Zhack , Stork and Lodurr looked at the voidlings staring very intently at the painting with Ikuta " So you are saying you want to shrink them down ? "
" With what they have been doing with Ikuta we can't make him get thrown around like a toy " " Why am I here ? " " Because you are going to help us " " I have been waiting for that deal where I can see my god friends "
" We'll get there when we get something powerful to take the hit , Which we'll be getting soon " Lodurr went to teach the voidlings to shrink themselves into a smaller form and Chara watched him to keep him from touching the lifeforce spring that Ikuta made .
" You know I don't want to stay at the underworld for that long " Zhack said " You have to we don't know when they'll attack , so you'll have to guard the path and make sure there are no casualties , but that also means you shouldn't engage with them because they'll try to attack you if you do "
" As for that deal you had with Ikuta don't you think you should give some input too ? " " Fine I'm already on the weapon for him it's not exactly like the one he has but trust me it will be good since I'll be able to let him wield several weapons at once "
Chara was wondering how that was possible and Zhack asked " Why didn't you make a weapon like that for me ? " " Because unlike you he is very good at using just weapons the only problem is that he never has the chance to fully exert his strength most of his weapons are bound to break even the one that everyone had made would too "
Chara and Zhack were curious how Stork planned to solve it " Which is why I decided to make a metal that can make duplicates on its own and with the planet core that you cracked free for me I was able to start making it , I will forge the strongest metal and imbue with runes that can remember the shape and form of any weapon "
" That sounds like a big dream " " It will be a good dream but I'm stuck at forging it so can you bring the temple back to Nidavellir or Svartalfheim ? " " What do you people call that world it always has two names so i'm always confused " " It is confusing but that's to point out how it has two races that live in it the dwarves and night elves "
Zhack looks at Chara and asked " What was your life like by the way ? " " It was great , I commanded a lot of people when the withering came , I had to keep moving through the nine realms so I was allowed to use the Bifrost , What about you ? "
" It was fun I always wanted to see what kind of secrets were hidden in our world it's why I kept going around finding things , You know dungeon cores are really amazing they just pop off the ground like it suddenly appeared "
" It's not very well known but dungeons are sort of like Titans " " They are ? " Zhack asked with much excitement " At least they are but the weaker kind would be , Titans is the term given to the descendants of and the children of Gaia that aren't Cronus's lineage , Typhon was also one of them "
" Tell me more about the Titans " " They are great lifeforms their long lifespan was able to let them learn the secrets of the world , Typhon was learned the secret of life , Atlas was able to harness the power of the stars hence why Nyx has paid great attention to him "
" Amazing " " What is amazing is Epimetheus , he is a great scholar who studied the talents of every lifeform and sometimes loses himself from anything other than his subject of study , Prometheus was also studying about life "
" Did you know about these before ? " " I've recently learned at least , even the frost giants and fire giants are also great at their respective elemental affinities which cost their body . " " Funny how that happens "
" Not their fault the primordial lifeform of Muspelheim had to fight against the cold but ended up turning themselves into fossil fuels , the same applied to Niflheim's primordial lifeform , but they had the idea of preserving themselves , so it resulted in removing their blood which forms the ice and replacing their blood with a special liquid that won't break their own bodies "
" So like a kind of liquid that won't damage their cells when frozen ? " " Yes sort of like that " " Can you help me already " Chara grabs the handle of the sword and Gungnir " Alright I will "
Zhack used a portal to head to the underworld's entrance and went to the path he was supposed to be guarding ' I wonder how this would go '
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Ikuta finished school and headed to the car " You're starting to use a car now ? " Ezio asked " Yeah I slept in it this morning on the way to school " Druk and Ezio hop in " So what kind of exercise am I doing ? " " Probably more pushups there isn't any space "
Ikuta thought about Druk's exercise more " If there was , maybe we could spar " Druk turned his head surprised " What ? " He said with concern in his voice " I'm just kidding " Druk breathed a sigh of relief wiping out the sweat .
" That's really funny Ikuta " Ezio said " Not if he said that to you " " No because if Ikuta did I would make it a fair fight " " I would do that " Ikuta said " See but it still won't be fair because you know how to use weapons "
" Yeah , it still won't be " " But is it because you have been fighting a lot that you want to ? " Ezio asked " Yeah , I probably should ask either Zhack or Chara "
" Please don't scare me like that " " It's just Ikuta being battle hungry and you wanted to train to get stronger so wouldn't fighting Ikuta count as training ? "
" Hmm I guess that's right " they arrive at the voidlings' shelter and look at them in a much smaller form but still big enough to be bear-hugged by a 12-year-old child .
" Ahhh they look so cute " Ikuta ran to them and they jumped on Ikuta "Oh my gosh " he petted their faces and heads while Ezio took a picture and sent it to their group chat " They look so much cuter when they are small "
Ikuta sat and they all gathered over him " Awww " Druk wondered how Ikuta could easily change from a battle-hungry maniac to a child who bear hugs anything that looked cute " How did they turn so small "
Ezio was curious if they had a form of magic and Ikuta carried one in front of him " Can you get big ? " the voidling tilted its head and Ikuta figured out he needed to reward them " Okay how about I give you this for doing that ? " Ikuta showed the ice cube of lifeforce and the Voidling suddenly turned into its original size .
" Woah " they grabbed the lifeforce water with their mouth and ate it " Maybe I can give different flavors " Ikuta reached through the treasure apple and tried to use it to influence the lifeforce water .
Ikuta grabs the different colored droplets and freezes it taking it out of the abyss " Oh an ice popsicle " " Wanna try it ? " Ezio assuming Ikuta had a storage nodded and licks it " Oh it's so cold , it taste like chocolate " " What about you Druk ? "
" Where did you get that ? " " From the abyss and an apple " Ezio became intrigued while Druk became cautious " As in the abyss that the defender had to fight against ? " Ikuta nodded and explained .
" Dad was supposed to be the abyss manager but then gave it to me one day it's how I was able to eat a lot and not feel full , apparently the abyss is completely empty it's a very long story on what the abyss does "
" Then what about the apple ? " " Well one day Yukina gave me a golden apple " Ezio and Druk listened closely " Then I took it to the underworld to ask Sindri to enchant it with draupnir runes " " Oh like Odin's ring so it duplicated ? " Ezio asked .
Ikuta nodded " Cool so that means you have unlimited food " " Maybe , when I was asleep Sindri enchanted it more with some other enchanters and Nymphs and a few more ingredients like Yukina's branches so the flavors would be different "
" So you mean that popsicle you gave me was made from that apple ? " " Yeah but I had to use stomach fire for that " Druk thinks of how that works " That's gross " " Not really Druk , remember those series of energy drinks last year ? "
" Oh I bought those like the series made with lightning mana " " Those were made by me eating food with different mana attributes luckily it was only for a short while "
Druk froze and Ezio laughed at him " It's not really that bad just think of it like a high-energy drink , even the voidlings preferred to have that than normal food , I've been trying to feed them something else but at least now I can do it "
Ezio's phone rang and he took it " Oh , looks like everyone else is coming " " Maybe I should give them different flavors " Ezio became curious and asked " Why do you need to do that ? " " Well Hades said that souls need to feel different emotions so they can be repaired some of these voidlings were already dead but I bought them back "
" Wow how did you bring them back " " Wait Hades " Ezio pushed Druk down to prioritize his question " There's a spell Vedrfolnir taught me which is kinda like Valhalla's resurrection which I learned later , but it's basically how I was able to control and make uhm "
Ikuta pinched his own body confusing them " Flesh " " Ohh like the one in the story where Thor killed his own goals and revived them but only their flesh ? " Ezio asked " Yeah but the one at Valhalla "
" It's also how I got into Ikuta's face " Ezio and Druk were surprised to hear that " Oh yeah , Harry is in my face did I not tell you about him ? " " No you didn't but that is so cool having an extra eye and it is alive "
" Harry wasn't alive before until that battle with Richard he took a lot of knowledge from the black book's souls " " Oh that battle but how does Harry do that " " Like this " Harry ignites themself with flames .
" Cool , I used Surtr's flames to strengthen his fire and burn the pages of the black book , because of that Harry has been learning black magic and since he has been staying with me I also learned some of it "
" That's so good if I had Harry I could probably pass any exams " Ezio said " No I wouldn't stay with you at all , you're not smart like Ikuta " Harry said " Harry likes to learn so staying with me means he could learn from me "
" So it's like trading ? " Ikuta nodded " I have knowledge of cheat codes for games " " Didn't you get banned one time ? " Ikuta asked " Uhmm can we talk about how you got Harry ? " " He's Odin's eye that I found at Mimisbrunnr " " Oh we all know that story " Ezio said .
" Then what does Harry do when you are asleep ? " Druk asked while Ezio was also curious now that Druk mentioned it " Harry was in a sword , you know that same sword that has black and white magic ? He stayed there "
" How does he do that ? " " The spell used to create flesh does that for me , I used the sword like they're the bones and grew flesh out of it , the skin was very fresh so it just looked like flesh only , Then I let Harry in igniting the sword with fire when I want to but now Harry can do it on his own "
" So you have a sword with flesh ? " Ezio asked " It's like that horror fps game you gotta try with other things too , maybe that magic console ? " " No I haven't used it a lot I think I'm gonna have to focus on other things "
" Too bad that console was really good , but why ? " " Well I got Niflheim sword with the souls inside it which are the ancient giants or primordial lifeforms that used to live there and were good in water affinity "
Ezio took a while to understand and Druk asked " There's life at Niflheim !? " " Yeah it's just that they're frozen , you know like frozen food , except when you unfreeze they're alive " " Wait really ? " Ezio asked with surprise and the door opened to show Nisse .
" Wow they really are like that " Nisse said " Hi Nisse , wanna play with them ? " " Yes " Ikuta hands one to her " How did they get so small ? " she asked and Ikuta shrugged his shoulders " I don't know , they just looked like these when they do "
" Now that they're small I kinda wished they were big and tossing you around " " I can make them big but I really don't understand how they think " Ikuta created another flavored lifeforce water and made one of them resize to their original size .
" Wow you can teach them tricks ? " " Yeah they somehow understand me but they won't listen unless I give them something " " Ikuta used something that's inside him to make these " Ezio said explaining to Nisse how he has the abyss , golden apple and Harry .
" Back to the apple how do you make it taste different ? " " I visited Demeter when she said she would give me her blessing on my nature affinity " " You have one ? "
Nisse asked with surprise " Yes it's part of being in a contract with a world tree it took a while to learn under Demeter but I was able to change the flavor of the fruit that comes out "
" Ohh I see so draupnir is enchanted by Sindri to duplicate the golden apple and the taste and natural part of the apple is managed by the nymphs ? " " Yeah I can control with my nature affinity and if I don't let those worms turn the fallen fruit into lifeforce it can look very different "
Ikuta allows one fruit to come out " Wow it's made of so many kinds of valuable minerals " " I know Demeter told me they indicate what kind of fruit this tastes like right now it's supposed to taste like strawberry "
Ikuta bites it and shows the inside " It's a strawberry " " I know " he finishes the rest of it " Even the core ? " " Yeah it's a strawberry shaped like an apple " " So you can make ice popsicles with those lifeforce right ? " Ikuta nodded .
" But the problem is one drop has a lot of food than it looks like because it's already disgested it still has the nutrients of a normal fruit " " So it's like you squeeze the juice out of it ? "
" Yep , but the juice has a lot of energy so Ezio you should exercise a lot before you go home or you won't feel hungry for a very long time " " Why didn't you tell me about it ? " " I wasn't thinking that time anyways come on you should exercise now since there is a lot of space "
Ikuta used his console and started it " You'll do an obstacle course " " Cool I'm on " Ezio ran and Druk went to catch up while Ikuta and Nisse talked " So you also eat the seeds ? " " Yeah why ? " Nisse thinks about it " Maybe for now try to save them up it might be useful for you if you can plant them "
Ikuta thinks about the worlds that didn't have much life " Hmm that could work , hold on I need to go somewhere " " Okay see you then " Ikuta used the dark flame to head back to the forest where he got the bees .
" Taeda ? " the nymphs hear him recognizing him and revealing themselves " What are you here for Patron ? " " I'm here to see if I could ask about nature " " Is Demeter not enough for you ? " " Well I don't think it's good to ask her all the time "
" What would you like to ask us about ? " " Well at the underworld the nymphs all help enchant the treasure apple I was wondering about each of the seeds that came from it I want to ask more about whether they can survive extreme conditions because I want to plant them at those extreme conditions "
" What kind of conditions ? " " You know like at Niflheim or Muspelheim also maybe Ginnungagap " The nymphs wonder what a great ambition that was " May we inquire about this treasure apple " Ikuta tells them all about the treasure apple and its unique traits "
" Then all you have to do is find a world tree branch that has adapted to those conditions " " It's that simple ? " " No it's our best answer if you were able to create different seeds based on the tree branch from the world tree that lives on this realm then it's natural for you to be able to create seeds resilient to the environment that world tree goes to "
" But you have to watch yourself Patron there aren't so many nymphs that can help you outside realms that aren't similar to it , you may try to ask Despoina the goddess of winter she can be of help to you as well as the few nymphs under her "
Ikuta thinks about who the goddess was " Who is she ? " " A daughter of Demeter " Ikuta returned back and sat by Nisse " So are you going to use the seeds ? " " Yeah sure " Ikuta made the dark worms avoid the seeds and let them pile up .
He showed a seed to Nisse who observed it " It's a very normal high-quality seed " " I thought it would be better "
" If it did a lot of people would buy it and then it would deflate the price of a lot of things if it would show an apple with gems but it's just a better seed than a special seed " his friends left after a while and he went to visit the gods more specifically Persephone .
" Persephone can you tell me about Despoina " Persephone is surprised and thinks about the reason " Is there a reason why ? " " I want to bring some life into the different realms "
" Oh then she should be at the underworld then , Hades told me that she is there after he talked with Hel about a few things that he needed to check "
" Thanks " " Wait " Ikuta stopped and turned back " Is it possible if I go with you ? " " Well I don't know how to go there with you " " I'll ask Thanatos to do it " " Okay I'll dreamwalk there after I get a few things " Ikuta headed back home and checked on Fuyumi .
" You want a branch ? " " Yeah I was thinking if I could make the treasure apple much better , I have a lot of seeds of fruits from different kinds of plants so I was thinking if I could get some from you too "
" Hmm okay I have been learning for a while and I like my new little sister " Fuyumi snaps a branch off for Ikuta one with leaves like the ice and snow " Well there will be more hopefully the next one can grow at Muspelheim " " We'll make sure she doesn't overheat "11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPeClMuILWu
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