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[Butterfly beastman, Motra, point of view]

Can't contact Agnes right now, she must be busy. If I couldn't contact her, I will just go to that witch directly. She is in close proximity after all, trying to corrupt the Holy Beast, Tyrant Steel Ant Drant. Should go there straight away with this special portal stone

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Teleporting to the ancient tunnel where I last spotted her, I can see the minions of Drant that were already controlled by the witch, and not to mention being reinforced with the fallen god power.

(Bad habit, for us, he isn't the fallen god but...) [Motra]

"You seem excited. I wonder what twisted plan you have in your mind right now" [Witch]

"You know me. Before that, any troubles with your job?" [Motra]

"I just finished it" [Witch]

"Perfect! Say, can you force this Drant to bless me with its power and..." [Motra]

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[At the castle in the Demon kingdom]

[Aries point of view]

The holy beast power within me, the power that I got against my will from the experimentation with Drant, suddenly fluctuating. Something happened to Drant, but what? I can't imagine someone or something that could possibly cause this much trouble to it

(It suddenly calms down...) [Aries]

What, is this feeling? I can feel my heart rate ever increasing, as well as this anxious thought, could it be...

"Taking a break?" [Demon king, Druser]

"Sorry about that your highness" [Aries]

"It's fine, really" [Druser]

The Demon king, Druser, around 2.3 meter tall, with the ashen hair and two ashen horns protuding from his temporal bone, which is the typical characteristics of the demon race. He might be young for a king entering his 30s, but he seems much older than he looks, probably due to all the stress

"Holding that pendant again. Kara and Mara sure are lucky to have you" [Druser]

"Can't wait to meg them once more" [Aries]

"Well, we will depart early for the debutante, just so you can see them" [Druser]

"But the works!" [Aries]

"Don't worry about it, work will never finish" [Druser]

"..." [Aries]

(She seems happy. And here I am finally gathering enough courage to... Well, as long as she is happy. Plus between those two and me, it's obvious who will she choose) [Druser]

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"So this is the cemetery" [Ash]

Right now, Claude, Elise and I are going to a cemetery. Apparently, one of the low ranking unnamed grim reaper told me about a strange noble soul that have some troubles. They try to calm the soul down, even try to resurrect her just so the soul would not be corrupted, but alas, they were instructed not to, by the God of Death itself.

(And they told me that God of Death task me to do it instead) [Ash]

Last time I use the blessings of God of Death is way back during the Kiserre's crisis, where I try to summon my parent souls to cleanse and purify the land and slave from the artificial blessings from the fallen god. It works and I can actually use some of their power after they "possess" me. Now, I can use a bit of their power without summoning them albeit minimally

"I can sense multiple souls in distress... which one should we help?" [Elise]

"Well... It's..." [Ash]

I'm glad I brought Elise with me. She will evolve into the mythical nine tail fox through her evolved beastly transformation in the future, and as such, she is proficient in this kind of mystic thing. Well, she does offer Claude to help crossed the after life safely, so I guess that good enough to have her as my assistant. Claude is the same I guess

"Well, here it is" [Ash]

"A lady noble with name of Lind... Wait! Isn't this!" [Elise]

"It is" [Ash]

Well, I am shocked as well when I hear it, but there must be reasons behind it all. If anything, it would be because their relationship I guess. But, from the impression that I got, there's nothing wrong with their relationship. Sure, Alice and Qis seems like they're in disagreement the first time they met after a long time, but that just it. Nothing more nothing less, if anything, its more like a sadness or frustration from their own powerlessness

"So, how are we going to tackle this?" [Ash]

"Good question, any idea?" [Claude]

"I don't" [Elise]

"Well, me neither" [Ash]

"..." [Claude]

"..." [Elise]

"..." [Ash]

"Wait a minute! Aren't you blessed with the God of Death blessing?" [Claude]

"And aren't you a ghost! Surely you must have known something" [Ash]

"Really, neither of us have any sort of plans?" [Elise]

"Alright alright, I'll try something. Geez..." [Ash]

I should just try something I guess. Let start by using this scythe of mine and touch the grave with it, hoping something would happen but alas

"Nothing..." [Ash]

"That's a let down" [Elise]

"Well, can't you do something Elise? You will evolve into nine tail fox, so surely your mirage magic will..." [Ash]

"!" [Ash]

Mirage magic, while it is mostly used for illusion like how Savel loves to, it true purposes is way more than that. It is the magic that govern the mystic that doesn't belong to either light or dark, or some that are strongly influence by those two magics like resurrection and necromancy, and as such, being, Elise, having an evolved beastly transformation of a nine tail fox, should have good amount of power and knowledge about it, but

"Elise, just how is it possible for you to evolve into nine tail fox?" [Ash]

"What do you mean?" [Elise]

"Even without blessings, your proficient mana is only Light and Fire. And the condition to evolve into nine tail fox is to have great amount of mirage mana" [Ash]

""!!"" [Elise, Claude]

"Now that you mention it..." [Claude]

"How strange, but that's what happen in the future. I did use Chrono Mellontikós and then suddenly, I could evolved beastly transformation into one. But Mirage magic, I just didn't realize about it back then" [Elise]

"Could it be... Titania will bless you with her power in the future?' [Claude]

"I thought of the same thing. For now, that is the most probable one" [Ash]

"I see, another blessing from the holy beast" [Elise]

Well, that is great than if that was the case. That also mean as an Avery, Farhah must have done a good job to meet with the Fairy Queen herself. What left now is

"Well, we are back to square one I guess" [Ash]

"Is there really nothing we can do?" [Claude]

"Hmm..." [Elise]

"What is it Elise?" [Ash]

"You said that the God of Death do some weird thing when accepting your oath, am I right?" [Elise]

"Yeah, The God of Death put his hand inside my heart, literally" [Ash]

"Then... could it be that, you have some power from the God of Death other than that scythe?" [Elise]

"Well, I have tried to check it, but sadly, there's none. But..." [Ash]

""But??"" [Claude, Elise]

"Well, it's worth trying" [Ash]

Taking my scythe, I will try to do something crazy. Before that

"Elise, close your eyes, and don't open unless Claude and I said so" [Ash]

"Huh? Ok?" [Elise]

Elise close her eyes. Good, I don't want her to see this

~Stab~

"Urgghh..." [Ash]

"What are you doing Young Ash!" [Claude]

"Well, drawing out the scythe power..." [Ash]

"Brother Ash..." [Elise]

"Don't open your eyes yet!" [Ash]

"Yes!" [Elise]

A dangerous act, stabbing my own chest with the scythe, just to drawn out more power. I have this feeling, no a theory. Last time my blessing from God of Death activated, was when I experienced near death experiences. King Behemoth, and Drakon in Kiserre, I nearly die back then, but I was able to access the power even more. So this time around, I should simulate the experience and drawn the power out at the same time, but...

"Great heal!" [Ash]

It's suicidal, but

"You can open your eyes now Elise" [Ash]

"Right... what is with the blood!" [Elise]

"Ash, we are going to have a "talk" when we get back home!" [Claude]

"Right. I'm sorry, but, I can feel it even more clearly now" [Ash]

""Feel what?"" [Claude, Elise]

Well, I try to touch the grave once more and

"It's shining!" [Elise]

"So can you!?" [Claude]

"No..." [Ash]

I stop the process myself.

"Why!" [Elise]

"Well, I don't have much confidence. And if I fail to many times, I'm afraid it would be no longer possible to resurrect her" [Ash]

"Then what will you do?" [Claude]

"I have this feeling that there is multiple steps involves to resurrect her, so for now, I'll come back here every night and try to resurrect her step by step, slowly of course" [Ash]

"Then can I join? I have the power of nine tail fox in the future, so resurrection isn't impossible for me" [Elise]

"Sure, I'm sure the process and the end result will be totally different, but in the end of the day, it's resurrection, so why not" [Ash]

Well, the power of resurrection from God of Death should be way superior, but there's no harm for her to learn new things

"Sigh... let just get back home" [Claude]

""Right"" [Ash, Elise]

And Claude scold me non stop afterward