“So its decided.” I let go of Mia

“Remember the promise you made.” Mia urges me

“Hahaha, lets see how resistance I am to lava.” I shout out and take position for another jump

I accelerate my jump and rush towards a giant volcano ahead. Pitiful I miscalculated my speed, even before I could notice, I overcome the distance of 20 kilometers and just have to react to my impact. Shortly before I crush into the volcano, I throw a small punch towards my ground zero,so my impact would not be that hard.

With an immense, thunder-like, impact sound I crash into the mountain and end up around 6 meters inside the mountain soil.

“Ahaha.... What was that supposed to be... hahaha. Seems someone here should better learn how to control his strength, hehehe” I hear Mia´s laughter from outside my impact whole

“Ouhh.. yeah of course... thats so damn funny ha-ha~” I get my self up and wipe some dust of me, oddly my clothes seem to be indestructible and even my hat keeps its cool on my head.

I step outside the whole and do some stretching.

We landed on the volcano-mountain range and are now surrounded by only lava rivers and blazing hot soil. But neither Mia nor I seem to be very affected from the heat around us.

“Wuh... look at this, its really an amazing place.” I still am a bit mystified of this live hell

“Yep it definitely is, but this pressuring power still makes me uncomfortable. Let us hurry exploring this place and then looking for some fun elsewhere.” Mia nervously keeps staying on guard

“I feel this pressure too, but it does feel like it wants me to be here... But ok if its for you, lets hurry and look around for that pressure.” I dont really understand Mia´s fear, but try to keep her well being in mind

“And do not forget the promise you made!” Mia keeps reminding me

“No, do not worry. If there is anything dangerous enough to scare me, we´ll retreat.” I manage to reassure her a bit

“Ok then let us head in that direction” Mia points towards the giant lava ocean

“Mhh, I too feel the pressure from there, but I am not sure how we shall make it through the lava. Does lava even effect our bodies?” I jump down to the coast, where the lava, slowly floating, is connected to the mountain

“I dunno... in all my time being a spirit guardian, none of my deity felt the urge to take a bath in a lava pond, but for the heat I think, it will be no problem to deal with.” Mia inspects the lava, as she jumps down after me

“Reminds me of... you were forged once, wouldn´t you melt or something? Hehe a molten Mia...” I try to joke around, not successful

“Tz tz tz... what do you think of god-weapons? My kind was forged with the might of a Galaxy. And for the temperature of my self, I think I was forged with the heat of a total four billion degree. So no lava wont probably hurt me.” Mia gets a bit sulky

“Oi, oi I was joking. I wouldn´t dare to imagine you melting in mere lava.” I say to her, trying to calm her a bit

°Four Billion degree?? Mhh thats about a quarter million times hotter than a sun... wow° also wonder about that heat

“Hmp... the better for you. Nevertheless let us get moving, if you´ve got any idea how we deal with that lava.” Mia replies still a bit silky, but it seems she cant be angry at me for very long

“I think nothing easier than that...” I go in front of the lava ocean and release a lot white sp, then I gather it around my fist and throw a punch forwards.

Again it feels like I would hit something similar to an air barrier and no second later a wide path before us opens itself within the lava. The lava gets blown away to the right and left, as my punch makes its way through it. A heavy wind accompanies my punch and the molten stone sprinkles into the form of a 3 meter width tunnel, around 2 kilometers long and petrifies.

“Seems like we have left our own architecture here, haha.” I erase my sp and pat the cooled, now turned to stone, lava wall that surrounds the tunnel

“Is this even safe? We dont know how deep the sea runs and just because the ground petrified doesn´t mean that it would not melt again, right?” Mia says while examining the structure sceptically

“Well, no guarantee for that... but if something is to happen we can just exceed the speed of the lava and escape. So lets give it a try.” I try to assure her

“Oki....sigh...” Mia still isn’t very convinced

We start going and carefully enter that tunnel of cooled lava. We walk straight forwards in the direction of the pressuring power, which becomes more powerful and intimidating, the further we go. The ground and the walls slowly start to regain heat and all here and there a small part starts glowing again, but we evade those parts and continue.

Suddenly we notice that the ground beneath us starts shivering from time to time and it feels as if we´re walking on some kind of hanging bridge.

We walk for about 15 min and nearly reached the end of the tunnel, where we could take the sight of another, much smaller, volcano.'

“Look there, this must be the origin of the pressure.” Mia says and points towards the small mountain

“Guess so... the pressure has gone insanely strong, it feels as if it wraps my whole body.

Maybe it wasn´t that great of an idea to come here after all.” I start to doubt my objective to inspect the source of the pressure

“Good! Lets turn around and go somewhere else... I didn´t want to come here from the start. And this pressure really feels as if we shouldn´t come here. Huuhaaaa” Mia turns around and nearly slipped herself into the lava-pool, which has established again and blocks our way back

“Ah damn... see there is no way to turn back now. We better hurry forwards. Dont want to experience how a bath in lava feels.” I suddenly grab Mia and speed up a bit while pulling her with me.

Within half a minute we reached the mountain and Mia starts complaining.

“ I could´ve walked all by my self you know...? And...” Mia stops as she recognize that right before us, directly in the ground before the volcano a giant serpent statue is embed.

This thing surely has its 50 meters length and a width very similar to that old guardian snake I meet in the forest. Looking at the surroundings, it seems as if there was a fight not too long ago. All around the statue are signs of impacts and cracks all over the volcano. And a bit further away there is a giant whole leading into the volcano.

“Mhh...? What might happened here? Looks not too long ago, that there was a fight over here.” I conclude while poking the statue

“Doesn’t look to great for us to be here... that thing you are poking, that was once a rank S monster “Lava-Eel” and judging by its aura, its not dead for a long time. I wonder who might be able to kill such a high lvl creature.” Mia starts again with her seemingly infinitive knowledge

“Ho, An S rank monster? Would it been hard to fight such a thing for me?” I ask Mia, but knowing the answer already

“Of course not really. But S rank creatures can be a real pain in the ass and as for normal people, they symbolize fear and catastrophe. There aren´t many people who can deal with S ranker´s, though you already killed two of em.” Mia says

“Yeah thought about that too, makes me wanna find out who was able to do so even more. Ahh by the way, that guardian serpent of the Finsterfir, which I met, about which lvl is that thing?” I ask Mia thinking about, that I had my fun fighting it

“I am not really sure about that and because I was unconscious that time, I missed the chance to take my look at it. But by your telling of it I would say it was at least S rank if not even already legendary ranked.” Mia concludes

Monster and Adventurer-rankingRanks:Specification:GThe lowest rank, it resembles normal animals like bunnies, flys, horses and so on

can be killed by any one in charge of a weapon or without one.FThis is the rank where People like normal commoners start at.

normal people where ranked F. And also for some animals like

trained dogs and trained horsesEPeople who where training their bodys normally are ranked E

for example: black smiths, farmer, craftsmen

Monster ranked E are for example: orks, GoblinsDwell trained man/woman like guards and others. Normally hae they knowledge of some martial arts and

can easiy take on the lower ranked ones.Cspecifically talented people, who can exceed their limit of training

and become strong enough, to encounter

dozens of people by themselves. Also known to held of positions like the captain of the gards or lieutenantBBetter not messing around with B rank monsters or adventurers.

They´re known for their brute strength and if it comes to monsters,

they are able to think intelligent and strategically.

some soldiers can be this rank.AThe gap between all lower ranks normally isnt that great, but from rank A on everything changes.

Monster and Persons ranked A or higher can not be compared to lower ranks. Their brute force and

attacking is far outmatching for b ranks even if there were dozens of b ranks to encounter 1 A rank

they might fail hardly. The personal gurads of Kings are all ranked A or higher.SS rank monster can easily bring destruction over a whole town. Luckily they were seen seldom and

mostly live apart from the areas where humans live. But there are exceptions, there exist creatures,

which only appear in hordes and even use the system of a power ranking. As for them, they mostly have a

king who is S ranked. For example: Goblins, Orks, Spiderlings and Imps

Human generals can be ranked S or higher.SS/Legendary rankvery seldom seen and extremely dangerous. There is not really any recording about SS ranked Monsters,

because mostly they destroyed and killed everything, what encountered them. But it is known that those

monsters are named and can speak in human language. One of the only SS monsters known is the

Spiderking "Sophrateus" who guards a certain place in the demon kingdom

If a human is ranked SS, he has abandoned his happyness a long time ago. In order to gain a strength not

compareable to anything. But there are those who exceeded from their npormal limits and became SS adventurer

just by training permanently. Those where not often seen, though they do exist a few in each world.XRank X... the unknown rank. There are creatures far outmatching their own race and evolving into

something mysterious and tremendous powerful. They are very rare and can even posses the might to

grant ones wishes.

There are 4 known Monsters of the X rank:

Medusa The Serpent Queen

Arachne The Spider Queen

Archimedes The Immortal

Midas The Unrighteous

Those creatures were the true called monsters within all worlds. They can travel trhough the worlds and easily destroy

them at will.

All though there is something very mysterious about them, All of the known ones seem to have human origins.

but that is not confirmed.

“Ahh... I was awaiting the information already.... thank you mythology ability” I say as the information about the world ranks appears in my head

“So you gained the information again?” Mia asks me smiling

“Yeah, what a bunch of knowledge, say Mia those X ranks, are they strong enough to kill a god?” I ask her about that because it was not clearly explained

“Oh well, remember what I said about a witches-queen?” Mia reminds me

“Uhm, yes I think so, that she may be able to bring madness over me.” I remember slightly

“So you do, those X ranked creatures are a lot stronger than the dark magic users. I think they are on the same level as a creator was. But there are only 5 X ranks whom I know about.

Medusa, Archimedes, Arachne,Midas and this new guy I heard from. I think his name is Reaper Dex.” Mia answers rapidly

“Reaper Dex...? Who´s he? The information tells nothing about him being known.” I ask Mia while we both go towards the cave entrance

“So uhm.. I´ve heard of him also only recently, while I was unconscious. I gathered information about the worlds near this one and about their conditions. You must know, when I lose my consciousness my soul enters a rift of existence, where I can gather information. But I can not view my current body or what happens around me. And there was rumor spreading about him. A world-traveler tells a story about an amazing fighter, who fought within a magic-tournament against an archdemon and its said he has won by far without being harmed. So he´s probably X ranked.

He is called Reaper Dex and appeared in the world called Nirilu, which is very near to this one. He is a fearsome newcomer, with tremendous powers which is naturally to accept this due to his achievement of fighting an archdemon without problems.” Mia explains to me

“Thats a cool ability of yours... your soul never gets harmed that way.

But anyways, I would really appreciate to meet that Reaper Dex once, really want to know how such a fearsome guy would be looking like.” I try to imagine how such a guy would look like

“Well I´ve got a wallpaper of him, that traveler sells them everywhere in the rift. He is a slender and 186 cm tall man, always wearing this fucking creepy mask : http://www.directupload.net/file/d/4128/3zl74l73_jpg.htm . “ Mia pulls a picture of Reaper Dex out of the nowhere...

“Well thats one cool mask, I like this guys fashion style haha.” I take the picture and inspect it

“Hmp, I think its one creepy as hell mask and I would rather not meet him.” Mia shivers a bit, as if she dislikes him from deep within her chest

“Dunno, I kinda sympathize with him...

well lets check this cave out, I still am curious who have fought here and what the origin of this pressure is.” I say as we walk closer to the cave and the pressure becomes even stronger. Now it seems as if the ground is shivering and it also looks like the walls can not stand the pressure very much longer. Anyways we decide to walk into the cave.

We walk into the cave, a strong resonance between the cave walls and the pressure seems to prevail itself inside and it feels as if our movements are slowed down by that resonance.

Mia creates a fire orb and we can see, the cave is very wide, around 15 meter and about 12 meter high. The path is only leading in one direction, further inside the volcano. We both have the feeling as if we are walking slightly downwards, but we continue to follow it down.

After a good walk of 5 minutes straight forwards, we notice some noises from the deeper inside the mountain. It sounds as if someone or something is having a fight. We hear clashes and cracking sounds.

“Ähm this sounds as if someone fights over there, we should better not interrupt. I dont like this feeling here at all. Hohenheim this is dangerous, lets turn back.” Mia starts worrying

“It will be alright Mia, this pressure here, I can handle an opponent like this. And I really want to know who it is, to release such a strong aura.” I keep moving forwards

“Ah man, you promised me!” Mia complains

“Yeah I know, but I feel as if I would regret it if I would turn back now.” I cant describe what I feel at the moment

So we walk further towards the fighting sounds, while Mia complains a bit, but agrees reluctantly.

A bit further in the volcano we see a bright orange light from an exit before us, as we go closer we see that it directs into a big chamber, which runs deep with no stairs or connection to this path. And deep down there is a giant magma pond with an obsidian Island in the middle. And exactly on this Island stands a man on top of a dead Lava-eel. The man is wearing a black trench-coat with fire emblems at the bottom-side and a big pattern at his back, that shows 4 rings, one black,one orange,one green and one gray drawn on a red and black colored sword. He is wielding a big scythe, with a black handle and a deep green glowing blade, which is as tall as himself.

“OH! This is bad... Hohenheim we better retreat now, this guy... it seems he is WAR!

We cant deal with one of those old and creepy geezers... Of all the possibilities, why must it be one of those.” Mia shortly shouts as she recognize him

“WAR? You dont mean that WAR... the horsemen???” I surprised look at Mia

Exactly that instant I look at Mia gives a gap to attack me and I feel myself pulled and thrown on the island. I crush into the island with an enormous impact and as I stand up, I barely notice how a swing with that big ass scythe misses me, because I stepped fast enough backwards.

The man before me puts his scythe aside and looks closer at me, as I get my stand and we now look eye to eye, watching each other.

The man has short orange hair and a bright skittishly smile on his face, as well a long scar running from his right eye down to his cheeks. His eyes look like those of a snake and are colored dark red.

“Ahh at least you are here. It started to bore me and there are only those stupid fish creatures to amuse me... what a pain in the ass” WAR? Starts to talk to me

“You... You were waiting for me? I dont understand. What do you mean. Why would WAR himself wait for me?” I ask totally confused

“Hahahaha! Wait you mean that?? you dont know who I am right? Haha, did this little mischievous girl over there didn´t tell you?... “ The man ask me totally surprised

“Ähh, what do you mean...? tell me what? Who are you and how comes you know Mia?” I am getting even more confused

“Ah damn! Why has it to be you! You noisy and nasty ginger!” Mia suddenly reveals herself and jumps down to us

“You...you know him? What the fuck is going on!?” The two of them look at each other and then suddenly hug and greet each other while smiling and laughing

“HEY YOU! Stop ignoring me...” I dont understand anything anymore

“Ah yes sorry sorry, let me introduce the tow of you.

This is my precious master and god Van Hohenheim the deity of balance.

And Hohenheim, this is Hephaestus the son of WAR and the current deity of the fire.” Mia introduces the both of us

“Hephaestus... the son of WAR? Deity of fire?? I think you must explain a lot more to me than only introducing me to him. For example you can start with the term of happening in the moment... What the shit is going on?” I am slightly getting angry for being left in the dark

“Calm down, we will explain you everything. But let us change the place for now. How about we go into the next town and get the chill in a tavern.” Hephaestus suggests

“Next town?? isn’t the next town hundreds of kilometers away from here?” Mia and I ask nearly at the same time

“Huh... you don´t know chibi? The Vilscard field isn´t that uninhabited as you might think. Well lesser talk, I´ll just show you. Follow me!” Hephaestus shouts as he jumps onto a ledge which leads into another path.

(Authors note: Chibi is the japanese word for gnome or small loli and is used from Hephaestus to tease Mia a bit. I use this word because I want to XD)

We look at each other and nod. We follow Hephaestus into the smaller path on the ledge and I must admit that he is quiet fast, but I am able to follow him on the step. We move in high speed through a lot of tunnels and if Hephaestus weren´t leading us we surely might just got lost by now.

Suddenly, after a 5 minute run, Hephaestus stops before a great iron forged and double winged Gate. He goes closer to it and creates a fire orb of the highest quality... It shine is so beautiful it feels as if you were looking at something that resembles life itself. Then he inputs the orb into a small gap at the gate.

The gate immediately begins to shine in a bright orange and red light as it swings open.

“Welcome to Uvrandir” Hephaestus shouts out loud while smiling at us

We walk slowly forwards and get stunned by an amazing view.

Behind that Gate a total different world shows itself. The area before us is a tremendous big hall within the volcano, if not also beneath the whole Vilscard field. All over the ground a giant magma sea flows and on top of it a marble platform was build. And separate marble platforms where hanging from the ceiling held by giant marble and iron pillars and they all are connected by fascinating and mystifying decorated marble bridges. Far in the back a giant palace build of black marble seems to be watching over the, already very stunning, city. On the marble grounds a complete city is build out of stone and iron houses.

“So you like this place? Hehe. This is the last resort of the master black smiths race, the black iron dwarfs.” Hephaestus proudly announces

“Dwarfs? I thought they were extinct in most of the worlds.” Mia asks surprised

“Yeah that is right, they were all hunted down. But this is one of the last resorts and they even covered up their secret town here with the help of one of the last ancient human kings, who sacrificed himself to cast the tier 7 spell “Armageddon” up on this area, so that the dwarfs could survive here in secret.” Hephaestus looks a bit sad while telling us

“Uhm, may be a stupid question, but why were the dwarfs extinguished?” I ask a bit surprised

“No, its ok to ask. You couldn´t possible know. The Dwarfs were known to be masters at forging weapons, armor and even godly weapons. They were so good at their job that they broke a taboo.

They created a very mighty weapon due breaking that taboo, which could destroy a complete world in a single blow. So the elders within the gods and of all races punished the dwarfs with the highest possible punishment: Extinction.

But there were a few who stood against that decision and protected the dwarfs. So was one of them a king of the humans.” Hephaestus explains but I couldn´t abandon the feeling that something is fishy with his explanation

“So we should go to the tavern on the third platform, you can go ahead, I have to do something before we can talk,but it shouldn´t take long. Just say that you are in my accompany and they´ll know how to treat you right.” Hephaestus shouts laughing at us as he runs of.

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Sorry for taking so long with this chap, but due to an surgery I was disabled to write for a short period.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter

Let me know some suggestions :)