Chapter 9

Three months later, on a huge plain of green grass, Harry was quietly floating, one meter above the ground. As he meditated, thoughts of the past few months went through his head.

The last three months were the most hectic in Harry's life, first were the constant demon fights that had come up all over the city, it took almost two weeks before they discovered that there was a group deliberately teasing the demon trying to use them as material for some ritual.

He, accompanied by Mark and Tigg, were tasked to track down and deal with the group while the others took care of the constant huge stream of demons appearing around the city. It was not a difficult fight, but not so easy either.

The group was called the dark demon cult, a low-level cult of about eighty individuals, the group consisting mostly of wizards and a few armored fighters along with some intelligent demons.

Mark and Tigg, taught by Harry, used the newly renamed, silver secret body, fought the cult members, easily destroying opponents who were much weaker than the two. During the fights both Mark and Tigg showed different uses in the same technique.

Tigg concentrated the aura produced by the ability at one point and attacked causing great damage or even deflecting and blocking attack and some spells with his hands. Combined with the ray element techniques he used, he now easily qualified as a A-rank in the abyss.

Mark, who preferred weapons used the aura as such, could form weapons made entirely of aura, created swords, knives and arrows had a frightening cutting and penetrating power. Mark mostly used the aura as a sharp, flexible whip.

One trick Mark used was never to extend the whip beyond 2 meters, and when the enemy lowered his guard, he would fully extend the whip that could reach up to 4.2 meters. During the fight against the dark cult, a group of more than ten had their legs cut by this simple trick.

The leader was not much stronger, but kept several dozen demons in control, and gave Harry some difficulty in killing the demons and capturing him, so as not to have any more problems, Harry used the eternal theft skill, and took away the skills of the man and the rest of the still living members of the cult.

He gave some of the mana essences to Angela and Jamie, while saving the rest for future use.

With cult gone, the number of demons started to decreased, leaving everyone with more free time, Mark, Jamie, Tigg and Angela, dragged him to different places, Jamie and Mark introduced him to their colleagues and brought him to different parties, in one of them, an older guy than they tried to tease them both by going out with a "baby".

Then he tried to push Jamie, but Harry intervened and struck two blows on the troublemaker who fell into vomiting lunch and dinner. After that, most of Jamie and Mark's acquaintances started liking Harry and the party ended at 5 am with a punk-rock show in an abandoned building that eventually fell on them.

Fortunately, no one was seriously injured or died, only some scratches and lots of dust covering them.

Tigg basically dragged him to motorcycle clubs or rock shows and bars, where Harry later had to carry the man, in one of these bars a very pretty waitress gave him several juices along with a paper telling him to call her in five years, With a flushed face Harry took the paper and put it away for later use.

Angela, usually dragged Jamie and Mark with them to the movies, Harry, Mark and Jamie, hated the romantic movies that Angela liked, she in return hated almost every movie they were interested in, theater was a thing that Harry was interested, while Mark and Jamie said they hated, he once saw the duo paying full attention to Hamlet, well perhaps it was later in the end where there were deaths and poisons, but he couldn't say for sure.

After several comings and goings to the movie theater, Zelretch appeared with several films and gave to the group to watch. Mark and Tigg loved the Saw movie series, Angela especially liked the various romantic comedies, while Harry and Jamie preferred movies like Terminator and Godzilla.

Harry liked the latter so much that he even copied his signature attack, the atomic breath, into a devastatingly powerful spell.

The time he spent with Pheles and Patrick was mostly fighting or training, Patrick had begun to teach him how to run a group and advanced politics, Pheles basically dragged him to various places in England teaching them various places of interest such as others clans headquarters, like the thousand eyes stores, a faction specializing in selling information.

In addition, Pheles also helped him to reach the 73rd floor of the Eternal Maze, from which point it became impossible to climb higher, the level and power of the monsters took an almost unrealistic proportion. Just to climb from 69 ° to 70 °, it took more than a full day, even with Pheles, fighting with all her powers.

But the difficulty didn't come without rewards, and Harry received several benefits, Pheles had almost zero interest in anything left by the defeated monsters, so Harry could take whatever came up.

Between the battles with floor guardians, Harry took advantage of Pheles' help to try to steal skills from them, since the skill only worked with the unconscious or sleeping opponent, Harry took advantage that the woman would weaken them and combine various spells into powerful sleep spells, to take down the guardians.

Among the dozens of abilities had, summon: demon-kin intermediate and Body Aura, taken from King Goblin, summon: Lesser Giant and Giant King's Strength Taken from Giant King 60th-floor Balor, and Summon: Intermediate Beast Striped from Chimera on the 65th floor.

Similar to the skill to Summon lesser Undead, that allowed you to create living dead creatures, the other abilities also allow you to create other creatures.

summon: demon-kin intermediate, created beings such as goblins, hobgoblins, ogres, orcs, minotaurs and orco also called eastern orc or pig faced orc, and their black variations such as black goblin, black ogre and etc.

Summon: Lesser Giant, created giant race beings like Trolls, Ogres, Cyclops and Formors, as well as their black variants.

Summon: Intermediate Beast, created beings like bears, lions, griffins, chimeras and even beastmen, like werelion and werebear.

It was necessary to know that the members of this 'group' were powerful existences capable of fighting with divine beings and even defying the will of Gaia. Among these 1000 individuals Zelretch was tied with another person as number 2.

On the 70th floor they met the Mad Alchemist Master, as the floor guardian, it was a long and difficult battle, with the guardian throwing dozens of vials containing poisonous clouds, acids, explosives or using potions to heal himself, finally when he was defeated he left behind a philosopher's stone and an alchemical cookbook and a skill book, Create Homunculi.

Already at last on the top floor they reached the monsters were varied from Pixies, gremlin to trolls, finally the guardian of the floor was resembled a buŧŧerfly-winged human named Fairy King. It was a difficult battle with the guardian conjured several strange spells and summoning various monsters at all times.

After a long battle, Harry was able to find a breach and used several vials of poisons he obtained on the 70th floor, which created a cloud of paralyzing, sleepy poisons that toppled the guardian. Using this chance Harry used the eternal robbery magic again and managed to summon: superior fae race and the essence of fairy luck, which added 100 points to his luck and gave him the Lucky Coin skill.

Shortly after they left the dungeon, Zelretch and Rick who were fickle visitors over the weeks and someday they came to visit, and dragged Harry into the middle of the Mediterranean Sea where they dived until they reached the underwater city, Atlantis.

Like any young man, Harry jumped with excitement when visiting the mystical city, when they arrived he saw that the city was very similar to a modern city, there were shops, large buildings and people using cell phones, the only difference was that instead of humans there were dozens of different races in the city, satyrs, merfolk, fishmen, cyclops, and even giant seahorses, paced like any other city.

After a very quick tour, the three went to a place and accepted the task of cleaning the outskirts of the city. Just as in ordinary cities there was an accumulation of emotions and bad feelings that gave rise to different beings that needed to be exterminated from time to time this and the pollution of humans that should also be removed occasionally.

After eliminating hundreds of monsters on fish shapes and collecting what looked like a ton of garbage, they returned to town where Rick traded his task points for a golden apple and disappeared into a portal, leaving Harry and the vampire behind.

While they were still in town Zelretch took him to a restaurant, where they began a long discussion on magic of different dimensions. First Zelretch spoke briefly about the magic of this dimension that Harry was well acquainted with, then he began to explain how the magic of his dimension worked and the differences.

Wizards had the most versatile magic, their own spells and methods of using magic were quite peculiar, but 98% of these individuals were pathetically weak, the few that rose among their peers were a rare exception.

Wizards of the Abyss, had different rules and spells, were varied, versatile and more powerful. Among the Wizards in the Abyss, there were two different groups, those who focused on researching and learning about magic and spells, and those who were addicted to battle.

Despite these two main groups, there were many scholars who were powerful fighters and various fighting maniacs with extensive and deep knowledge of magic.

Normally there was not much difference between an armed common man and a regular wizard, in fact many times the common man would win, especially in this age of firearms, various witches and wizards in the world were powerless without a wand, only those who mastered magic without a wand or unfocused magic, were a little higher.

Between a wizard, an ordinary man, and an abyss mage, there were great differences, abyss mage did use focus like staves, staffs, or wands, but it was more like an amplifier for his magic, every magician in the abyss worth his money was able to use your entire arsenal of magic with or without a focus.

Another big difference was in the knowledge that a wizard, whether born of ordinary parents or coming from a magical family, would have simple, calm lives with only almost exclusively knowledge of the wizarding world and magic taught in their schools, often forgetting or ignoring the mundane world, and never studying or researching more about magic. Of course, there were exceptions.

In the abyss all without exception, everyone sought to get stronger every day, and knowledge was a vital tool for this, after all no one wanted to die or be captured because they did not know about certain magic or ability, firearms, were also widely used in the abyss, so many had at least some knowledge and even some proficiency with them. Abyss mages were always almost exclusively researching spells, training and strengthening their skills, or fighting somewhere for resources or survival, which usually raised them far above a common wizard.

In Zelretch's world, however, it was very different, there were dozens of differences, the first lacking versatility, a magus, as they were called, devoted themselves almost exclusively to one type of magic, the lack of versatility however, was offset by how specialized a wizard was in that magic.

Magus had what were called magical circuits, these circuits were innate and would not shrink or increase over a lifetime, a magus who was born with 10 circuits would only have that amount all his life unless something happened. One's talent was decided by the number of circuits and their quality.

Magus, were strongly restricted to their elements and origin, elements were the direction and alignment that a magician would take in life, for example a magician with Water element, would use spells and would be based on the characteristics of that element.

Origin was a more complicated factor, origin was defined as a magician's point of definition, origins could be used to describe precise details about a magus, while Elemental Affinity would indicate one's overall alignment.

Someone's origin could be anything, such as eating, calm, numbers or weapon, in a way if Harry were a magus, his element would most likely be Game.

After a few hours of talking about magic, Zelretch took out six books and gave Harry four of the new skills Zelretch had prepared and two about theories and knowledge, the skills he gained were Projection, Gandr, Pankration, and Super Bajiquan.

Projection - also called Air Gradation This is a skill that materializes objects according to the caster's imagination through the use of magical energy. The concept behind this skill is quite simple, to shape the magical energy in the material composition and design of an object being imagined by the user. The created object disappears over time.

Gandr - A simple curse from Scandinavia that diminishes the target's physical health. A Gandr with so much magical energy concentrated in it that it becomes capable of physical interference is called Finn Shot. Finn Shot has approximately the destructive power of a pistol bullet.

Pankration - also called Pancratius is an ancient Greek boxing art that originates from Apollo. Pankration is the world's first and oldest mixed martial art, combining boxing and wrestling techniques. Called "perfect hand-to-hand combat techniques", it consists of strikes and throwing techniques.

Super Bajiquan - a supreme technique born of the miraculous fusion of Bajiquan and magic, having become an Internal Art that transcends the External Art.

It took three weeks of hard training to raise the skill level to a satisfactory level, but the most interesting book was an alchemy book from the old vampire's homeland.

One of the most interesting parts was about the creation of homunculi, with this knowledge it was possible to create whole armies of artificial human beings, easily, plus each homunculus would already be "born" with all the necessary knowledge, could be guards, soldiers or servants to the creator.

Shortly after the creation of homunculi, the synthesis skill became one of the most beloved skills of the boy. This ability allowed to combine either two abilities, creatures or items, the cost of the original abilities. Fortunately, with his player skills, he would allow him to circumvent this consequence and maintain his abilities if he wished.

When testing this skill, he had a list with several results, among them there were.

Mastery with White Weapons + Mastery with Spears + Mastery with Bows + Mastery with Blunt Weapons = Mastery with All Weapons.

Thunder + Rain + Chasing + Dark Power = Rain of pursuing Thunderstorms.

Mana Arrow + Poison = Poison Arrow

Mana Ray + Poison = Poison Ray

Poison ray + Poison arrow + magic = Poison magic.

Poison Magic + Poison Ray + Poison Arrow = Poison Synthesis

Telekinesis + Wind Blade = control Wind

Telekinesis + Stone Bullet = Earth control

Telekinesis + Waterball = Water hand

As well as different others.

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Dimension traveling with Rick, was… intense, from stealing radioactive rocks from dinosaurs to fighting bug aliens in the space, all this were experiences that harry never thought. Most adventures were basically running, stealing, fighting, meeting others Ricks, sometimes killing others Ricks and some Mortys, very easygoing.

Today however, everything was different, looking around he saw destroyed buildings, craters, and mountains of dead bodies everywhere he looked. Smoke coming from burned bodies turned the sky dark, and the blood in the ground accumulated in small ponds.

Sit in a pile of wreckage he sighed, while he remembered how things were this far.

Its was a quite normal day, he was sleeping and rick appeared inside his room completely drunk and shoot a portal below his bed sending him to the middle of a jungle because he needed help to get some materials and his morty was in a ball at school.

He almost refused but when he cried and puked, he didn't had courage to leave the man alone, and decided to help. The first three materials were easy, to find and get, the problem was the last one.

The last material was protected by Germordzians, humanoids with four arms, blue skin, mosquito-like wings and tentacles on top of their heads. They were very violent, high reproductive cannibals, that attacked any other life-form and considered sacred the meteorite that Rick wanted.

The plan was sneak in take the meteorite and leave, but things were FUBAR, when other rick showed-up and make things a complete mess, their portal-gun were destroyed, and the two Ricks started a fight while millions of Germordzians came to kill them.

In the middle of the fight the other portal-gun was damaged and they had no other way out, cyber rick killed the other rick and started to repair the portal-gun, but a spear destroyed the portal-gun trapping them.

So, with no others options, Harry started to fight, first he tried the best to not kill, the Germordzians had no fault for the situation, but after seeing rick get a spear through his ċhėst, he stopped holding back.

Millions of Germordzians lied dead, the rustic buildings destroyed and blood flowed on the ground. Killer, Slaughter Man and Genocidal, he gained these three titles after it, but he was not happy with it, nor he was sad, it was kill or be killed.

Even with Harry's healing skills, rick took an entire hour to wake up again and start to repair the portal-gun again. They remained in silence during the whole time, and when they came back, harry just entered in an illusory barrier to try to forget this day.

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A portal of multicolored green light, white, red, and blue colors danced in the swirling green light of the portal.

Standing in front of the portal, Mark, Jamie, and Harry stared seriously at the portal, each dressed in battle attire, Mark wore plain square glasses, a darkened metal brėȧstplate, a plate worker with dark trousers and knee-length metal boots, he held a sword with a sheathed silver hilt around his waist.

Jamie wore a long black cloak with several magical circles and silver symbols on top of metal scale armor, in his hands was a black staff with three branches around a dark blue jewel and his face was hidden by a white mask with a hexagonal stone on his forehead.

Harry wore silver armor with carved snakes and dozens of golden circles and symbols, silver gauntlets with dozens of carved symbols, different rings on each finger, a thick belt with a buckle-silver head, black trousers and black metal boots up to the knees. His weapon was a silver trident with sharp blades and a blue jewel where the blades came together.

Beside them, Angela, Patrick, Pheles, Rick, and Zelretch, along with a few others, watched the three young men. Tigg was absent due to a problem with his daughters and had to leave town.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Angela asked worriedly.

"Yes" The three of them mȯȧnėd an answer together, this should be the fourth or fifth time she asked that question.

Angela seemed to want to say something else, but Pheles put his hand on her shoulder and Patrick stepped forward.

"Mark, Jamie and Harry, it was a pŀėȧsurė to have you with us for the last year, I tried to teach you my best, and now it's time for you to leave my protection, and go your own way.

Harry, I really wanted you to join our clan, but unfortunately it seems that you have already decided to start your own group and go your own way. I want you to remember that you can count on us anytime and I want to wish you three luck in this new world."

The clan elder said smiling kindly to the three young men, who thanked the elder's words, all three of them had a great affection for the old man who had sheltered, taught and protected them for the last year.

Angela and Tigg, to a lesser extent, had the same sense of thanks to the clan.

As soon as Patrick was done, Pheles stepped forward and pulled out three green rings. "These rings are a gift from me and the old man, with them you'll be able to control the wind with your mana."

She gave each of the young men a ring and then gave Harry a tight hug.

Zelretch stepped forward shortly after.

"Boys the world you are going to is a low-level world, so there shouldn't be much danger for you these days, but don't let that blind you, there are still some strong enemies there, or else there would be no reason for you to go there.

Time in the three worlds I preselected runs differently from this world, you can stay until one year in each world before the time of the grail war comes, but you don't have to worry, if you want you can spend as much time as you want in one world. There is an alarm set for exactly one month before the war."

The old vampire said and Rick stepped forward and gave Harry some kind of control and role.

"This control will allow you to travel to other worlds, you can travel between different worlds or parallel realities with that, the blue buŧŧon will open a portal back to this dimension. The other functions you can find out by reading the manual."

Harry put away the objects and said goodbye to the group. When the farewell round was over, the three of them jumped through the portal.