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[ I might have messed up in this chapter, I can't remember if I had Nova meet with the water elemental king or not. I am going to reread the fic and check but I didn't see anything when I scanned it briefly. I might just be going crazy though, I have been cleaning my floors all day and the fumes could have got to me.]

"Ok, I might have messed up." I manage to escape the ' in love ' fairy dragon and dust myself off.

"So what? Are you going to take back the dance and pretend it didn't happen, you shameless bastard? She accepted the offering so it's done now." Krobelus crosses her arms and glares at me, Zola is cleaning herself off and looking mighty smug.

I don't even know where to begin to fix this misunderstanding so instead, it's best to push forward and throw mud back at the dragon.

"No of course not, how could I ever do that to sweet Zola? She is so wonderful and I would never break her pitifully lonely heart like that." I wrap an arm around Zola as she stiffens in place, the onlookers give nods of approval.

"Good, playing with a girl's heart is a cruel thing, it's best to step up." Delia says from an experienced point of view and everyone comforts her with kind words and pats on the back.

Now if Zola tries to back at her new friend Zola will be pissed at her, Zola's face scrunches up as she also realized this. Tried to push me into the mud and fell with me, you deserve this.

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"I need to check the mine for something that might be there, after that it should be safe to mine. I would like to bring Olympus here when it is up and flying and send my forces down to mine it if you're ok with that." I ask Catherine, she is technically the land owner.

"I don't care, just give me a percent and we will call it good. It's not like I can't just reach in my husband's wallet if I needed to." She flaunts the wife mentality of 'what's his is mine and mine is mine ' I can only smile and move more of my crystals into my inventory later for safekeeping.

"Ok then, I am off." I give a mock salute to everyone and teleport to the entrance of the mine in the crystal valley. There was an entrance to Abyss in this mine in canon and if I can find it and get a flower I can use it later to negotiate with Satan.

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Walking into the dark caves I am once again glad for night vision, looking around I see many crystals but no lava pools with weird vibes. I scan and also don't find anything but I don't give up hope. With the flower of the abyss, I can trade it to Satan for the soil the earth king needs to power up and heal his earthly kingdom.

Then I can take him to the dead sea and meet the other kings and make my way to the black dragon treasury. Lots of goodies in there and also it's a huge leap in progress toward collecting the elemental origin sources.

I need a devil to break through to kingdom so I can see what the process is like. Zola or Catherine are obviously the closest, my promotion is grayed out so I am missing something. I have tried to tinker with different things with my domain and see if I can figure it out but nothing has been productive.

Giving Zola the six origin sources and her current power she should be able to forge her kingdom and I will be able to watch. Then I can apply it to myself and make my own and we will be all good to push for false god before Abyss shows its face.

I feel something tingle in my head and equip the mask and armor to prevent soul tinkering and keep walking forward. A thick mist fills the cave and I start to feel an absurd heat ahead of me.

The cave lights up ahead of me and I pick up the pace, if I am right then they already see me and I need to be fast before they figure out they can't tamper with my soul.

I arrive in a huge room with stone pillars holding up a ceiling that is dripping molten stone. I scan but can't feel anything, like nothing at all is picking up which is concerning. I visually spot a red flower that looks to be made of a gem and close the distance as fast as I can.

I pluck the flower with some difficulty and the room shakes like an Indiana Jones movie, I can hear something let out a loud shout getting closer. I turn tail and don't see the cave I came in from, I store the flower and look around.

A hand of lava rises and swats in my direction to crush me, I pull out the leviathan shield and lucifer's sword after I peek at it with all seeing eye. It is barely past my own strength, it is likely conserving its energy and I want to try and harm its soul with the fallen angel's sword. I let the sword go and it flies out to impale the hand, I brace myself with the shield raised and conjure a defense Infront of it for good measure.

I watch the sword drive itself into the molten hand and the hand instantly starts falling apart. A wave of emotion fills the room, anger, and disbelief.

I send the sword back into the inventory after confirming it can hurt this thing and open a teleport circle.

"See you later." A pair of red eyes open in the middle of the room floating as they peer in my direction. I give the bird as the teleport starts and feel one last emotion as I disappear.

Confusion.

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- Zola POV -

I have been had, what's the saying? Going for wool and coming back shorn, I think.

Well, I am feeling shorn as I sit with the girls and they bombard me with questions.

"When did you even start having feelings?" Delia's innocent eyes look into mine after she asks the question and I still don't have the heart to say it was a joke. Nova had to toss this back on my lap, he would have acted pitifully if I spoke up and garnered their sympathy.

"Not too long." I respond with some faked enthusiasm, I will have my vengeance for this.

"Well I actually think he pulled of the courtship ritual pretty well, minus the fact he gave you your own property as offering." Krobelus mumbles about Nova being the richest cheapskate there ever was.

Where even is he, its been hours now and he need to take the heat off me soon.

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Its time, maybe its over confidence from escaping the very weak and pathetic Abyss avatar but I feel the need to do this.

I look down at a silver case at the bottom of a fountain and crack my neck, the artifacts are on and I know she can see me. I lower myself into the fountain and sink to the bottom, as I get closer to the case I feel a touch of regret.

My feet land next to the case and I look down at it waiting for a monster to pop out like a jack in the box. A moment of carefully observing it and nothing happens so I sink to my knees and put a hand on the case.

Nothing happens as I slowly undo the lock keeping it shut and crack the case, but a prompt appears and my eyes behind the glowing yellow slots in the mask also shine.

[ Detecting abundance of Conceptualized Destruction, congratulations on meeting the requirement! ]

[ Trait unlocked - Bael - Destruction ]

I feel something inside of me awaken as the knowledge of destruction pours into my mind. I freeze in place not opening the case all the way and try to processes the abundance of information.

I grin when my mind clears a little and I shut the case with a quick movement and even send a kick into it as I blast out of the fountain and into a teleportation circle. I am never going back there again, if she can even halfway use the power I just got I am to chicken to look in her direction until I am false god.

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- Python POV -

Did that bastard just kick a page of the book of destruction?

This page could be considered my very home and body to an extent, and he just kicked it after I waited patiently for him to open it. I was only curious how the artifacts of Morningstar were activated on a single person, but he crossed a line!

When he comes back I will make sure to lock him down and thoroughly investigate his connection to those artifacts. I was hoping it was Morningstar himself reborn and he was coming here and I could meet him once more.

But why would Morningstar kick the page after feeling its power of destruction for only a few moments? He didn't even open it all the way and see me inside of it, wait did he even know I am there?

I forgot I am so concealed in here in this form and he might of just not known, maybe he isn't completely at fault. He could have been testing if he could use the power to break through and run off when he saw he couldn't.

Next time I will come out and find out the truth of the matter, whether I have to tie him down to find out or not will be seen at that time.

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- Nova POV -

"WOOHOOOO baby! that's what I am talking about!" I hold my hand out and a sphere of red and black power floats over it. I drop a spoon into it and it just gets deleted from existence, not anything traceable left. "This is the best day of my life!" A piercing gaze causes me to fumble in my chair and I lucky unsummon the destruction before whipping around.

A pissed-off fairy dragon has crossed arms and glared in my direction.

"So glad to have snagged another wife, even if it was unwillingly?" She walks toward me with slow and measured steps. "You would rather play in your workshop than help me settle the matter." Ice forms on the ground around her as she walks straight toward me.

"Wait! I picked up good things this time and it will settle any grievances you might have." She holds her chin up as she stops in place. I take that as a signal to cough up the goodies and summon the destruction once more.

"Some kind of red negating magic? Isn't that similar to what you already used 'worthless' as you called it?" She pushes her glasses up and sounds dissatisfied but still walks over in a more calm matter and looks at the orb. She reaches a hand out to touch it after her demonic energy just gets consumed by it. "It is very good at repealing anything I try to observe it with." I grab her hand before she touches it and she looks at the hand confused.

"This isn't like Worthless, this is Destruction." She raises a brow in disbelief before pulling one of the spoons on the desk and dropping it in and watching it dissipate into nothingness.

"Huh, I see." She dazes and I take the moment to hold her hand instead of gripping it. She notices but ignores it while observing the orb and dropping many different materials inside.

I see her pull out many expensive and durable items and tools and toss them into nothingness and realize they are all my tools. I am going to speak up but the hand grips mine and she gives a small smile.

Better the tools than me.