Jayr POV - Challenge Space - ???

  [The winner of the st duel and of this Champions Challeh a score of 2 to 1 is Jayr Pucci, the Man of Culture! As the Winner, Jayr will grab the power of Nikita's Blessing to empower and evolve his own, meanwhile, Nikita will lose her Blessing together with the powers it granted, her Soulbouory, and the capacity to explore the Omniverse on her own.]

  As soon as the st of Culture's words fell onto this y space, I instantly felt something in me ge and almost bnk out as my mind was briefly overwhelmed by the sudden surge of new information, everything around me felt clearer, unanswered questions that were roaming in my mind for quite a while started to get unsciously resolved, the pns I had before started to instantly ge as I noticed more fws ihen I thought possible, even some mysteries that eluded me until now started to get clearer, it is almost an intoxig feeling.

  At this point, it is clear what the new level of power of my blessing brought to me, it has enhanced my overall intellige isn't a big improvement in itself not so much that it has fually ged who I am and how I think, but the well-rounded nature of the enha itself made it so that I grasp, memorize, analyze and prehend much more information a lot easier than before.

  To make a simple example it is like my puter had a few years old gen processor, and now, I finally upgraded it to a st gen one.

  Suddenly Nikita's voice brings me out of my musing as I hear her ask, "Wait! What do you mean by losing the capacity to explore the Omniverse on my own?"

  Culture's voice then calmly expins, [It's pretty simple if you have ain the capacity to move to another Universe on your own without the use of the Unigate, you still do so but you only go to Universes you or other Champions have already been before but you 't visit new Universes unless you are apanied by another Champion...]

  Then Gravity's voice is heard as it adds, [Moreover, even if you travel to other Universes on your own, I advise you to be careful from now on, since you lost the prote of the Blessing and so the travel between Universes is now a lot more perilous than before, you end up in a space storm that will rip you apart, or be intercepted by mighty being or ic horrors, you even end up in the void and be ed into nothingess, and the list of bad stuff that happen goes on infinitely. There is a reason why even though there are mahods to travel across the Omniverse, only the Champions, the desperate, and the mad genius daredevil like Rick Saruly dare to carelessly travel the Omniverse without any preparations.]

  Nikita takes a few seds to grasp everything the cepts just told her, and then she asks, "What is going to happen to me now?"

  This time is Gravity the one who replies first, [Well, you live the rest of your immortal life however you want, and in the unfortunate circumstahat you get killed and die, if you want as promised your soul will get reinated once more with a blessed fate that will guarantee a happy life, but all your memories of the Omniverse will be wiped out like it usually happens to everyone else uhe Omniversal Reination Cycle.]

  Followed by Culture who adds, [Regarding your most immediate future, you have 2 choices ahead of you. You choose to be returo your Home Universe, the Vampire Diaries Universe, where you will be reunited with your friends and family. Or you choose to be returo your st visited Universe, in this case, The Boys Universe.]

  Hearing that, Nikita lowers her head and mutters, "Aahh! What should I do? I promised Zahat we would meet once again in the Dark Souls Universe and then travel the Omniverse together... damn it! Things were getting good between us, we even had a list of worlds to visit and things to do but we didn't pn on what to do if one of us lost and was able to keep his/her life... I could go bae and wait hoping that he would e and seare, but that's way too passive for my liking, moreover, he could meet some other wend fet about me thinking that I died..."

  While we wait for her decision, she draws circles on the ground with the point of her right foot as she tinues, "... But oher hand, I don't have any other means that be used to travel across the Omniverse... Maybe I could go bae and search for some magic ritual that allows me to do it, but the usual rituals of my Universe are already dangerous and proo have ued results on their own, something as dangerous as that could easily bring hell oh on some other shit like that... damn it!"

  She then starts to walk bad forth as she tio loudly think about her situation, "And remaining in this Universe won't be useful either! Their teology isn't enough to help me, and the Supes' powers aren't useful for something like traveling to other Universes... So even if I wao ask someoo help me... Wait!!"

  All of a sudden, she turns her head and stares at me with a fiery gaze, then she rushes in front of me and yells, "You! You did this to me! Take responsibility for what you have done!!"

  Hearing that, I 't help but rebut on instinct, "Phrasing!" but then, curious I ask, "What do you mean?"

  Nikita grins and expins, "Well, si is dangerous for a young i beautiful charming woman to travel the big bad Omniverse alone, I want to e with you, at least until I meet with my friend once again. I promise that I will be a good girl, you won't even notice my presence. Pretty please?"

  She then starts looking at me with puppy eyes and I start to think about it, 'I see nothing wrong with helping her, in fact, if I meet this other Champion Zandeer she talked about, who is apparently in love with her, I even make use her presend the fact that I helped them reuo turn him into an ally... Only I have to ensure my and my family's safety... and the only way to do that is to ask the highest authority in the Omniverse.'

  Reag this clusion, I look back at her and say, "I'm ined to take you with me and help you reuh your boyfriend... But to do that, you'll have to sign a binding tract witnessed and enforced by the cepts that ehat you won't knowingly harm me and those dear to me both directly and ily and will make you uo reveal a you will learn, in exge, I'll also sigh the same terms."

  She doesn't think about it for even a sed when she quickly replies, "Okay, I'll do it."

  At the same time, a table with a pen and the tracts iion lying on top of it appears between us, as Culture's voice decres, [A trader our name has been requested by the Man of Culture and the former Woman of Gravity. All the cepts ience will witness and make sure that this tract's terms are held in such a way that both parties won't casually breach it, but if one of the parties breaches the terms of the tract then his or her soul will be fully and forever erased the same instant he or she does so, nothing in the Omniverse will be able to save them.]

  After Culture finishes saying that, Nikita loudly gulps before moving toward the table and without hesitation picks up the pen and signs her name on the tract, then she looks at me and the pen, she says, "Done! Your turn."

  I take the pen with a smile and also sign the tract, and as soon as I lift the pen from the paper, the tract shines with a multiclow and turns into tless motes of light that are then absorbed into our bodies, making me realize that now the tract is fully in effect.

  Soon after that, a fsh ht multicolored light blinds us causing Nikita to curse loudly "What the...!?" while I sense my surroundings quickly shift.

  Jayr POV - Earth, New York City - 2022

  The instant, I once more feel my previously sealed powers ing, my Spiral o once more freely course through my body, and I clearly feel everything happening around me.

  All this makes me realize that I'm once again ba my apartment in The Boys Universe, at exactly the same spot I left, in fact, looking at the clo the wall, I also notice that only a couple of seds passed further firming that the Challenge Space is an area outside the regur rules of time and space.

  Then I let out a huge sigh of relief realizing that I finally defeated Nikita, lifting a heavy weight from my shoulders as it was now possible for me to return bae in time, 'Luckily everythi well. In some ways that was harder than simply fighting aing an oppo making me realize that the Champions Challenge is way more dangerous than it appears especially if one aims to win this whole thing. Anyway, now I finally go bae, I truly miss everyone.'

  My thoughts are interrupted by Nikita's presence who casually moves toward the fridge and takes out a carton of fruit juice, pours it into a gss, and loudly drinks it, then she excims, "Ahh~! That hit the spot! Damn, calling all those effects and ade my mouth and throat so dry."

  She then crashes on the coud zily asks, "So what is the pn now? Are we going to some other Universe? If yes, where? Are you gonna colleore members for your harem?" and she tinues with the barrage of questions.

  I loudly sigh again, this time, an exasperated one, and say, "Please ask one question at a time. Anyway, to answer some of your questions, we will stay here for a couple of days, just to make sure that everything in this world is on the right trad deal with a couple of unresolved situations, nothing too time-ing."

  Hearing that Nikita nods, then I tinue, "After that, we will go bay home universe and stay there to take part in my sister's wedding, and after that, we'll stay there for some time as I have to be there to make sure that my girlfriends give birth safely-"

  At this point, Nikita interrupts me as she jumps up from the coud yells, "Wait! Wait! Wait! What!? Yoing to be a father!? Isn't it way too soon!? How irresponsible! Are your pregnant girlfriends old enough to even uand what are they doing?"

  I smile and reply, "Well, Tio is 564 years old, while Saori's physical body is 17 years old, but she is the reination of the Goddess Athena, so she be sidered a few billion years old..."

  Hearing that, Nikita nods and ents, "So you are into older women... MILFs... this means that I'm safe..." making me excim, "Hey you would be safe anyway, I'm not some kind of ahat lusts after every beautiful woman that appears in front of me, especially if she is already in love with someone else. And I'm not into older wo-"

  But I stop as I realize some truth behind Nikita's words and start to mutter, "Wait. Tio and Saori are ohing but Seika and Eri are also both 1 year older than me... am I into older women?"

  After that revetion, both I and Nikita started to watender's trial live while eating some pop, and I have to admit that the idea of his fanboy wyers, who are clearly trying to use his "inhumane" childhood as a "product" as a means to dismiss all the charges against their ts trying to plea him as mentally ill so that the court should not deem the offender morally responsible for his behavior isn't too bad.

  Seeing all that, I 't help but scoff while thinking, 'Sure, Homender isn't totally right in the head, but he easily reize the differeween right and wrong, it's just that he doesn't care, for he is too "powerful" and "great" to care for the rules of "inferior" beings... or at least it was, its funny watg min struggle as he tries to break the handcuff, to blow someone up with his Heat Gaze only to fail and realize that he truly lost his powers. But I admit that he seems quite crazy right now, damn it even tried to attack his wyers, and the bailiff had to tackle him.'

  In the end, the fanboy wyer failed in their attempt and Homender was given multiple life sentences just like Stan Edgar, but he won't stay in prison for long, because I still have to maintain my promise with Butcher.

  After the trial, I opened a portal to my Soulbouory and invited Nikita to take a look.

  As soon as I stepped into the portal and appeared oher side, I instantly realized the differenow that my Blessing is stronger, my Soulbouory also ged, its dimensions once again doubled being 10 km2, and there is basically enough space to create a small city, and I admit that now it feels kiy, maybe I should create some more flora and fauna for this pce, maybe even a fully w ecosystem.

  But my musing is interrupted by Nikita who excims in wonder, "It's so huge... Zandeer's one 't even be pared to yours..." making me once again excim, "Nikita... for the love of my Goddess girlfriend, watch your phrasing!"

  Then I once again look at Nymphs Orchard in the distand at my vil nearby and mutter, "Damn, I missed this pce, my home away from home..."

  After that, I give her a tour of the pot that there is much to look at, a farm of medial herbs that I collected from all the world I visited which is now being regurly taken care of by the Nymphs, the training area, the Nymphs Orchard, which made her screech as she was almost overwhelmed by the Nymphs' ess, and of course, my vil.

  But what caught her attentiohe 4 mechas standing beside it that made her scream, "Wait are those Gunmen!? Did you go to the Teoppa Gurren Lagann Universe!!?"

  Hearing her question, I simply smirk and reply, "Yes and it was one crazy experience! I almost died 2 times, saved Kamina, talk no jutsued Lenome, saved Nia, fought against an army of p-sized mecha, saved Kittan, and took part in a gaxy-sized mecha battle! One of the most fun moments in my life."

  In respoo my brief summary, leaves Nikita too stunned so much so that she opens and closes her mouth uo say anything.

  After that, I showed her my vil, while tellio pick up any free guest room she liked, then we passed the time pying with the PS3 aing to know each other better until it was finally time to meet with Butcher, Hughie, Annie, M.M., Frenchie, Kimiko, and Meave.

  O is time, we get out of my Soulbouory and I teleport us to the chosen location of our meeting, ay plot of nd outside New York City, away fr eyes or any living being.

  As soon as we arrive, I realize that everyone is already here waiting for us, and funnily enough, some of them are "armed" with onions, sliver crosses, wooden spikes, and the like making Nikita o me groan out loud, while I help but snicker especially of ridiculous some of them look, especially the nervous Hughie, the imposing M.M. with the silver cross raised, and most of all Butcher who has an onion neckce around his neck.

  At the same time, Butcher ents, "We heard about your meeting with some fug bloodsucker... is everything alright?"

  With a smirk, I point at Nikita and say, "Guys meet Nikita Mikaelson, another person from a different universe like me and a former oppo who I defeated, and she isn't simply a Vampire, she is a Tribrid, basically a Vampire, a Werewolf, and a Witch all at the same time, and she has none of the usual weakness of Vampires and Werewolves and is practically immortal."

  Then Nikita says, "o meet you. And for the love of god! Why the hell do you guys think that onions and crosses are some kind of deadly substance for us!? While silver is effective against Werewolves but not against Vampires, and a normal wooden spike to the heart doesn't kill us, for it to somewhat work it has to be a specifid of wood, and that only works on the weaker ones."

  After that, I add, "Moreover, she is a good person, hell, Butcher here is a worse human being than her." making Huighe remark, "Yeah, after all, she didn't hurt me... but you know when one hears Vampire the first thing that es to my mind isn't good..."

  I then quickly introduce everyoo her and move on with the reason behind this meeting, "Okay, now that everyone is here, I want to deal with some unfinished busihen I finally go bae."

  Kimiko then makes some signs with her hands and Freranstes, "Kimiko wants you to know that she is grateful for everything you have done for us and that without your help she isn't sure that we would have ever been able t down the Vought and Homender." which I simply nod with a smile.

  At this point, Butcher steps forward and says, "Speaking of the t, while it is o see him despised and spit on by everyohat admired him... You promised to send him into some kind of fug living hell."

  I focus my senses and search for Homender's signal and once I find him, I say to Butcher, "And I pn to deliver... but to do that, I he help of a powerful entity, and that be strange..."

  Curious, Nikita looks at me and asks, "Wait! What do you pn to do!?" but I don't reply to her, and teleport Homender a few meters in front of us, then without giving him any ce to uand what is going on, I raise my hands and materialize a big dark green truck above them.

  Seeing that, Nikita mutters in fusion, "A truck?" followed by Butcher, Highie, Annie, and Meave who excim, "What the...?"

  Then I jump high in the sky with it, and at the same time, Nikita yells, "Don't tell me...!?" while, Homender who just regained his bearing looks up and yells, "SHIT!!"

  With a smirk, I start to fall toward Homender while yelling, "Truck-kun Da!!"

  With a huge impact, I crushed him with the truck creating a big crater on the ground, but strangely even if I created a regur trud didn't use any of my energy to reinforce it, the truck remains intact, in fact, its turn on by itself and starts to drive away while honking a couple of times before disappearing in the dista only from my sight but also from my senses, leaving behind only the crushed unreizable remains of Homender, which I quickly vaporize as it is pretty disgusting to look at.

  As I calmly walk back toward them, an angry Butcher asks, "Wait! That's it!? You crushed him with a truck? What the fug-." but before he could tinue, Nikita rushes forward and excims, "Holy shit! Was that really Truck-kun!? I 't believe that Truck-kun really exists!"

  Then curious, Hughie asks, "What is this Truck-kun you are talking about?" and Nikita quickly expins, "It is quite long to fully expin, but in general Truck-kun is the name of a special entity that appears in many stories, usually to kill and reinate the protagonist at the start of the story, it was basically a plot device used to kick start a story, but tely some started to sider it at the level of a mythical powerful being, some even think of it as an emissary of the gods od itself..."

  At this point, I firm what she just said and add, "Iruck-kun is a budding Omniversal God whose main role is sending people into the ORniversal Reination Cycle) uhe request of ods or R.O.B.s (Random Omnipotent Being), and si also disliked Homender's attitude and found funny what I had pnned for him, it granted me the ability to summon him for only oime."

  At this point, M.M. excims, "Wait! Wait! That freaking truck was a god!? Are you shitting me?" but Meave then adds, "But after crushing Home did move on its own, and even honked, hell, I'm pretty sure that it vanished into thin air after a couple of meters..."

  Then Nikita asks, "So where did it send him?" with a smirk I raise my hand and gee a proje briefly showing some images of the anime My Hero Academia/Boku no Hero Academia, making Fenchie ask, "So it sent him into a cartoon!?"

  But I shake my head and correct him while expining, "No, it sent Homender into the world that this anime depicts. In this world 85% of the popution has a Quirk, basically, they be pared with the Supes... Only the poor Homender will be one of the remaining 15% called Quirkless, in his words, he will be a mortal among the many Gods, and we all know how shitty humanity be with minorities... His new life won't be a pleasant one."

  At this point, Butcher starts to ugh out loud and yells, "Hahaha. This is fug rich! The former stro Supe will be a normal human among the many, many Supes! I truly hope that they won't use any lube when they fuck with him!"

  While Butcher is still ughing, I look at M.M. and remember what I read about him and the Russian's favorite toy Soldier Boy, and ask, "M.M. what do you want to do about Soldier Boy? If you want I bring him here and i him with the Anti-V so that you end him yourself."

  Hearing my question, everyone quickly fell into silend looked at both me and M.M. who is now looking flicted about how to reply.

  This sts for a few long moments until he lets out a sigh and says, "While I'd love to kill him with my own two hands, that won't bring back my grandfather, and my father was already avehanks to you. So now I sleep in peaowing that Soldier Boy, that fug piece of shit is still suffering in the hands of the Russians, and if by some kind of miracle he will be able to escape..."

  At this point, Butcher steps forward and with his usual evil smirk he says, "Me and the Boys will be there to kick that motherfucker into the grave."

  Hearing that, I nod and say, "Well, that's everything. I ow finally go bae. Take care of your world and be careful not all the Champions are as awesome, handsome, and well-iioned as me, but if you ever need help you just have to tell Crathy and he will tact me." while thinking, 'Or more specifically pray to me so that I or Crateris hear him.'

  After that I salute everyoelling Butcher to take care of Becca, Ryan, and Zoe and to not fuck up anymore, to Ao be the hero she always wao be and inspire others to be like her, to Meave to take care and make sure that the new geion of Supes created with the neerfectly safe pound J will be better than the previous one, and to Hughie to tio maintain his good heart as that is his major strength.

  Then I look at Nikita and say, "Let's go..." but she then asks, "So... How are we going to travel? Will we use the Unigate?"

  I shake my head and reply, "hat's way too wasteful... and my 1 year cooldown period still isn't over. So I will simply teleport us there... but I think it is safer if you stay in my Soulbouory..." as I say that, I open a portal to my Soulbouory, and without hesitation, Nikita jumps inside.

  Then I focus my seo the maximum, using my ic Awareo its full potential, and pick up Saori's familiar o and, like before, I use it as a marker to find my home universe position then I look at the friend I made in this Universe and say, "See ya!" and teleport across the Omniverse to reae.

  Odyin