Eri POV - Blue Star, Grand Line, Nanatsu Isnds(Mi) - 20 GAP

  I look at the Skeleton Warriors with a smile on my face then pointing at the scared people living in this vilge, I and, "Protect these i people and..."

  At this point, I move my arm and with my finger point at Niphtal and his men, and without aation I tinue, "... Kill them all!"

  Receiving my orders, all the Skeleton Warriors instantly stand at attention with their cold bzing blue eyes briefly fshing as they all reply in perfect sync, ""Your wish is my and!""

  Then with perfect coordination, they quickly divide into two groups, one surrounding the vilgers living on this isnd to protect them, the other heading straight for Nipthal, his men, and the two robots.

  At the same time, Nipthal, Erid his men finally regain their bearing, and seeing the current situation, Nipthal quickly ands, "Men attack those monsters! Kau Ra Kau! Zau Ra Zau! Destroy them all!! Eric! Remain stand by my side! Your job is to protect me!!"

  Soowo forces start to csh and instantly the fight tilts in my Skeleton Warriors' favor as they effitly and ruthlessly take care of all of Nipthal's men thanks to their superior skills, eae of their attacks aims at a vital point or an opening, they show no fear or hesitation.

  Seeing that, I 't help but smirk while thinking, 'That's natural, after all, different from those poor fools they don't have to fear death or destru, as all the Undeads in my Undead Realm are extremely hard to kill, as ead every one of them has a piece of their soul bound and protected by an artifact that I created with a little bit of help from both Jayr and Tio, I call it the Crypt, and its fun is to simply nurture, and protect the souls of all my Undeads, so that even if their bodies are destroyed while serving, or even their souls exorcised or damaged, they always recover from it with just a little bit of time that depends mostly on just how much damage they suffered, bodily damage is the easiest and be fixed almost instantaneously, while soul damage are more serious and take more time to recover. As long as the Crypt is safe, they will always be able to recover, they basically infinitely respawn.'

  Then I watch as one of my Skeleton Warriors uses his shield to block the shovel used by one of Nipthal's men as a on and ter-attack with a quid deadly ssh of his sword that decapitates the men in one swift swing and soon after that, I see a small wisp of energy es body, and quickly after that, his fming blue eyes fsh briefly before it tinues with its sughter, only this time it moves slightly faster and hits with slightly more power pared to a few moments ago.

  Seeing this se, the smile on my face grows bigger as I tinue my train of thought, 'And the biggest advantage of my Undeads is that they are able to grow as eaemy they kill enhaheir powers a little bit! Moreover, sihey have a fully funal soul and free will, they are also able to learhings and improve their skills just like any living being! These are truly my masterpiece a truly unliviient race dead in the body but not in the soul... I just o improve a few little things, like finding a way for them to "reproduce" as some of my Undead did fall in love with oher and some of them even started to desire offspring... Luckily sihey have all the time in the Omniverse, they are quite patient and that desire isn't stro, but I'd like to help them with it.'

  At this point, my mind once again starts to wander about possible solutions for this problem, 'Right now, most of the Undead in my Undead Realm are of the Skeleton types hostly type, and I'd like to keep it that way, as they are the cutest type of Undead. Both of these types of Undead, don't have any sexual desire so they do not need ans for it, but they do have a gender, at the least their soul does... Maybe I could e up with some kind of Soul/Magic Power Reprodu like a pair that desire to be parents take a very small piece of their soul and mix it with an equally small piece of their parthen the parents nurture the small soul with their Magic Power fusing them together until grows strong enough to form an ego and a "body" be it a ghostly body or one made of bones... It could work, but many things could g so I better think it some more.'

  While thinking that, I notice that most of Niphtal's men are now dead, all massacred by my Skeleton Warriors, and now only the two robots, Erid Nipthal remain standing.

  The blue and yellow robot, Kau Ra Kau, uses its duel-sided nd spear arms to fight off ahe distance from the Skeleton Warriors while taking advantage of its strong defeo tank most of the attacks.

  Oher hand, the yellow and red robot, Zau Ra Zau, fights very simirly, he also uses its sword and spear arms to fight off the Skeleton Warriors while tanking their attacks with its equally strong defense, but he also attacks with ahrower that es out of its chest.

  With their bined might, the two robots are able to damage my Skeleton Warriors, but with all of Niphtal's men dead, my Skeleton Warriors are to focus all their attacks on them and are able to pile up enough damage, and it is now only a question of time before they get scrapped.

  It seems that Niphtal also notices this as he excims, "Shit! This is very bad! At this rate, both Kau Ra Kau and Zau Ra Zau will get overwhelmed!! What the hell are these monsters!? Why 't my robot destroy them!? This 't tinue any longer! We have to find a way to get away from here as soon as possible!!"

  Soon after saying that, Niphtal starts to furiously search his pockets for something and after a few seds, Niphtal finally pulls out something that, from here, looks like a small remote and says, "I found it! Eric! Pick me up and run!"

  Following his order, Eric doesn't hesitate and picks up Niphtal, who is holding both the gemstone and the remote, like a sack of potatoes and starts to run at full speed while Niphtal yells, "Take that, you bitch!"

  At the same time, just as Nipthal is about to press, the button on that remote, I instantly realize what his iions are, and without aation, I raise my staff to cast some Spatial Magic to create a strong barrier that envelopes the vilgers proteg them in an isoted space.

  As soon as I erect the barrier, Niphtal also presses the button on the remote, and as I expected, in response, both robots start to glow, and without giving away too much time, they release a blinding light and explode with such force that raze to the ground everything in the immediate surrounding in an area of around 500 m2, basically destroying most of the ter of this vilge leaving behind only a big fuming crater.

  Luckily, I'm still ected to Noriko, so I'm intangible and su explosion that is posed of pure physical force is uo harm me, and the same be said for my Skeleton Warriors, that while their bodies were destroyed by the robots' explosion, they are still fine as they have already reformed their bodies in my Undead Realm and are ready to be summoned once more.

  Of course, the vilgers are also fine, if one ighe fact that they are currently in shock after witnessing su explosion so close, as my Spatial Barrier was easily able to withstand the force of such a weak explosion, after all, to break such barrier, it needs at the very least a power equal to Tio's Dragoh.

  Basically, the only damage caused by the explosion is at the building of the vilge, basically a material one, and that be easily fixed by rebuilding everything, or if one is zy, has the right Magid wants to quickly return to her lover like me, it needs just a quick cast of the spell Tetragrammaton, a Restoration magic variant, which restores all destru regardless of whether it was anic or inanic matter.

  It is a spell that Meiru taught me not too long ago when she came to visit with Hajime and the others, 'Now that I think about it, Meiru was quite excited to learn about this world, she even said something about realizing the true potential of the Omniverse, and that she would force Oscar to build her an Artifact so that she visit this pce again and seize all the treasures hidden in it.'

  Unfortunately, that Eric guy was quite fast on his feet even while carrying that short, stoiphtal on his shoulders, and so he was able to escape while taking advantage of the chaos caused by the explosion.

  But at this point, I smirk and mutter, "Well, it isn't like he escape for much longer..." and without aation, I once again use my Spiral o to ey Undead Realm and summon some of my old Undead Puppet now upgraded to Undead Pet, the Skeleton Twin-tailed Wolf.

  I summon a pack of them and ask them to hunt down Erid Niphtal using their smell, of course, I'm not talking about their bodily smell as these Skeleton Twin-tailed Wolves are obviously uo sehat, but they easily pick up other "smells" which are quite uween different individual, I'm talking about the smell of their Magic Power/Energy Sourd the smell of their Souls, and among my pets the wolves are the best in this field.

  After that, while I wait for them to find him, I focus and cast the Restoration Magic, Tetragrammaton to fix the damages caused by the explosion and then I make sure that the vilgers are truly fine.

  Eric POV - Blue Star, Grand Line, Nanatsu Isnds(Mi) - 20 GAP

  I tio run from that scary woman and her immortal monsters while carrying around this useless dead weight sure of the fact that the explosion of those two pieces of scrap won't be able to harm her as I have seen how shovels, bullets, and rocks passed through her body without being able to harm her.

  At the same time, I start to think about what to do now, 'Shit! This isn't going acc to the pn at all! This should have been an easy job to gather some money and increase my reputation as a merary! But no matter how my time I tried to cut apart those mohey always got up once more to fight again they were truly relentless! And now, I'm forced to escape with this deadweight... this Niphtal will only tio get in my way like this, it is better to just quickly get rid of him and take the treasure for myself, it does look quite precious and that Warlord of the Sea does desire it, so it must be worth quite some Belly...'

  After getting quite far away from that damned vilge, I put down Niphtal a ready to get rid of him, but just as I'm about to act, I hear a male voice behihat says, "What is going on here, Niphtal?"

  I turn around and see a man floating up in the sky, he has bck eyes and hair, which is covered by a small golde, except for a btennae, which stuck out partially on the front, a bck goatee, and pears to be bck sideburns.

  He wears an eborate, pure white suit with gold edges and a cape-like design, underh the suit he wears a purple shirt, he also wears a monocle over his right eye, as well as a thick golden neck brace, and pears to be a gold disk behind his head, polished, bck shoes, and holds a gold-covered book in his hands, overall, he looks like quite the gentleman, but I know that it is only is outward appearance as he is one of the Seven Warlords of the Seas, the one behind the chaos that is enveloping the Nanatsu Isnds, he is Simon "The Divine".

  (Image Here - Simon "The Divine")

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  [colpse]Seeing the man floating in front of us, Nipthal quickly excims, "Simon-sama!!" then he kneels in front of him the gemstone before he starts to expin, "Simon-sama, my men and I were able to force out the location of the Mitsukado Ruins from the people living in the Bakudo Vilge, after that I sent both my trustworthy Kau Ra Kau and Zau Ra Zau to recover the treasure from the Treasure Guardian while we waited as we watched over the people of Bakudo Vilge."

  At this point, Niphtal gulps loudly remembering what happened afterward, makiernally scoff, 'It is clear that this fool is still scared shitless by what he just witnessed.' Meanwhile, Niphtal tinues with his narration, "Of course, my creations were successful, following their orders to perfe arieving the treasure from the ruins, but just as they returned, and I was about to get rid of the witness, a strange woman came down from the sky and summoned some dreadful and scary monsters from her shadow... Those monsters are basically unkilble! No matter how much my men and robots tried to destroy them they always recovered after a few seds and soon all my men got killed by them!"

  Niphtal shakes a little remembering those immortal mohen he says, "Left with no other choice, I made Kau Ra Kau and Zau Ra Zau self-destrud used the explosion as a cover to escape together with Eric, the Devil Fruit user merary that I entered and hired on this isnd, from that dreadful woman who I'm sure is now chasing after us! I beg you Simon-sama save us from those monsters!!"

  After that, a strange silence falls, but it sts only a couple of seds before Simon snorts loudly and ents, "How pathetie of my men was forced to such a pathetic state by one simple imperfect being that ate one of those Devil Fruits! How dare you cim yourself to be my subordinate if you 't even handle something as simple as a Devil Fruit user!"

  The more he speaks the more enraged Simoo bee, at the same time, Niphtal's body starts to shake more and more as he tio say "I, who is someone who far exceeded humanity. I, who was born with my invincible special ability, am way different from any of you inferior being who has to rely upon all kinds of outside tools to eve close to my greatness! I won't allow such a pathetic being to serve me any longer!"

  At this point, Simon raised his right hand and from it, he unched a sheet of paper as a projectile which quickly flew toward the helpless Niphtal and easily cut his throat making it bleed profusely, soon Niphtal let the gemstone fall on the ground as he holds his throat with both his hands iile attempt of blog the blood flows as he looks at his leader and killer in shod disbelief, thes out some painful groans and fall on the ground as the puy drows in his own blood.

  After killing his subordinate in cold blood, Simon looks at me and calmly says, "Now... what to do with you? If I remember well, Niphtal said that you are one of those Devil Fruit users, right? Good... Your sacrifice will help me in being the King of this World!"

  Sensing the ining crisis, I don't hesitate at all and use my Devil Fruit's power to attack the man in front of me, I quickly swing my right hand and yell, "Kama Kama no Kamaitachi!" and release a single small air bde that heless is still powerful enough to easily slice through rock, which I'm pretty sure is fast and strong enough to kill this bastard.

  This is the power of the Devil Fruit I ate, the Kama Kama no Mi (Sickle Sickle Fruit) a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that lengthens and sharpens the user's nails, which are capable of creating razor-sharp gusts capable of cleaving through even hard materials like rock even the nails themselves also be used to slice oppos in close-quarters bat, which I think is a quite good power.

  Indeed, as I expected, Simo react at all to my air bde and stands still in pce, but just as the air bde touches his body, I'm shocked to find out that his whole body transforms into sheets of paper making my air bde pass right through it and the instant the sheets of paper regroup together f once again the figure of an unscratched Simon, who simply smiles and says, "It is useless. I already told you, I far exceeded humanity you imperfect beings that rely on the power of the Devil Fruits 't hope to harm me."

  Seeing that, I immediately notice how simir Simon's and that woman's abilities are, both 't be harmed by normal means, I realize that but I still don't give up yet, and without aation, I release my ultimate teique, "Those thin piece of paper won't be able to protect you against this! Kama Kama no Kamaitachi Midareuchi!"

  I ssh many times with both hands, releasing multiple air bdes toward the enemy before unleashing a powerful whirlwind of razor air that effortlessly slice through solid rock.

  This is a stronger version of the Kama Kama no Kamaitachi, and even if this teique still isn't able to harm him, it should be at the very least able to buy me enough time to allow me to escape or at the very least, lead him toward that woman hoping that those two monster destroy each other.

  But all my pns bee useless as I see Simon smirk as he ents, "How pitiful... this is a ughable attempt at best..." then he raises his hand and gees tless sheets of paper that quickly form a circur wall in front of him as he calmly decres, "Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Formation)."

  I quickly notice that a strange symbol is drawn on all the sheets of paper that form that circur wall and that symbol is currently shining brightly.

  At the same time, my powerful whirlwind of razor air finally arrives but as soon as it cshes against the circur wall, I see my attack being blown away and dispersing as if it cshed against an imperable steel wall.

  I'm so shocked by such sight, that I'm too te to reaon's move.

  The circur wall of paper sheets splits up showing Simon with a calm and fident smile on his face as he points at me with his right hand and decres, "It is time to end this, I'm too busy to waste any more time with an imperfect being like you... Sefer Assiah (Book of A)!"

  From his hand another sheet of paper shoots off, this one has a different symbol drawn on it, the sheet of paper quickly sails through the air and reaches me but it doesn't cut me, not it sticks to my body and soon after that, the symbol draw on it shines and suddenly I fall on the ground as I lose trol of my own body, I'm uo move even a single muscle, I'm totally paralyzed, uo do anything, at the full mercy of Simon.

  I hear his footsteps as he moves closer to me and says, "Don't worry, your sacrifice will allow me to rise to my rightful pce as the King of this world. After all, only when a perfect being like me is the ruler of everyone will this world truly know peace, after all, the world is a pce where the strohe weak and grow even stronger, while kings and the gover would not protect the weak. The reason for this is quite simple, it is because humans always try to trol other humans, but only I am different. I don't seek trol, I don't . I'm already perfed way above everyone else, and so they all will simply be in peace, free, equal... all equally beh me!"

  As he tio ramble this nonsense, I feel tless sheets of paper stig to my body enveloping it pletely in a co of paper, now even uo see everything, I only hear Simon as he says, "With this, I have more than half the treasure o reveal the location of the true treasure... Just 2 memstones and I'll finally be able to gain enough power to fulfill my ambition. Fuhahaha!"

  Jayr POV - Blue Star, Grand Line, Nanatsu Isnds(Hi) - 20 GAP

  The Athena's God Bidoof finally reached Hi Isnd, an isnd located in the south-west, it is one of the smaller isnds in the Nanatsu Isnds archipego.

  I 't help but notice that the weather on this isnd is also very irregur, the climate is very arid with very high temperatures, it is basically parable to the climate of a desert, something pletely unnatural for this isnd, as it is a very green isnd full ht greeation which is obviously suffering uhe current harsh climate. Seeing all that, I 't help but ect the unusual climate ges that these isnds are going through with the as of this guy named Simon "The Divine" and his pirate crew, 'Whatever those guys are doing, it is clear that they are the reason behind all this... or more specifically the opening of the ruins that tain those treasure they are searg for are probably the main reason behind these ges. Just what kind of treasure is this Simon aiming for? An incredibly powerful Devil Fruit... not possible, he already has a Logia Devil Fruit and it is uhat he would follow Bckbeard's footsteps, especially si isn't clear how exactly he was able to eat two of them... Then maybe some a on like Pluton, Poseidon or Uranus. Yup, this feels more likely but just what kind of on could it be? After all, Poseidon is, in fact, just a mermaid capable of speaking with Sea Kings... I admit I'm kinda curious.'

  Ahing that I instantily notice is that this isnd is a lot more chaotic than the previous ones, as even from here the clear signs of a chaotic battle be easily seen, thing like explosions, bck smoke rising and even the sound of battle be heard.

  All of a sudden, Nikita's anxious voiaps me out of my thoughts as she says, "We are finally close enough! Jayr, Seika, I'm going now! Thank you for everything you have done for me until now!"

  Hearing that, both Seika and I smile back at her, and Seika even ence her while saying, "Go a him!" while I add, "But don't fet about stopping the rampaging pirates and helping the people on this isnd. You always make out with your boyfriend after you have taken care of that."

  After that, Nikita doesn't hesitate and cast her spell, "Viribus." which makes her body glow in a white light for a few seds, then, quickly after the glow is gone, Nikita rushes out and with a single jump she reaches the shores of Hi Isnd, then she cast another spell that turns her invisible and starts to move toward the chaos.

  At the same time, I look at Seika and say, "Head over to Fu Isnd with Athena's God Bidoof first, meanwhile, I want to make sure of something that has been b me for quite some time, then I'll e back to report and send you off."

  Hearing that, Seika instantily uand what I want to do, nods and with a smile she says, "Go and cheikita's situation. She is already part of our family as Galen and Kharna think of her as their aunt, I don't wish for some scum to py with her heart and hurt her." I smile back at her and then quickly fly after Nikita to make sure that at the very least this Champion is a good person.

  Odyin