Trickery|||C15

[A/N: Thanks for voting in the last chap, most of you voted to not do the time skip (Even though some of may have chosen the opposite of what they said they chose, but whatever)

Anyways I hope you enjoy this chap and have a good day]

Waking up Ray felt pain, reverberating throughout his limp body, he couldn't see much thanks to his terrible eyesight, and using [Temporal Awareness] or [magic sense] aren't options either, he didn't have any magicules to spare.

Ray, even with his terrible eyesight, could make out a few things, for one he was in a dark room, secondly, he was suspended in some kind of blue green water.

Ray quickly put the pieces together and concluded that he was put into a bath full of healing water.

That was a relatively good choice because even though it's not the 99 percent healing potion Rimuru will invent that can fully restore even lost limbs, it aids in the process of recovery and Ray doesn't need to focus all of his magicules on continuously casting recovery magic on the body parts he wants to use.

In fact, due to the potions, he had just enough magicules to activate [Magic sense].

Ray scanned his body first evaluating the damage done to it, and it doesn't look good. Most of his limbs, including his head, were cut off completely, only being kept together due to being frozen in time by [Greater Temporal Magic] and then being sewed to his torso with strings from [Weaver of time].

Just as that thought crossed his mind, something deep inside of himself corrected him, the skill evolved and was now [Puppeteer of Time] the specific changes didn't concern him at the moment though, Ray simply thought about ways to keep his body together in the long run.

Ray opened his mouth but painfully realized that his vocal cords were annihilated too, add to that, his body is filled with healing potion water.

If not for him being a Spiritual lifeform and all of his wounds beings stopped from leaking blood due to [Greater Temporal Magic] Ray would've been dead two times over.

Ray uses his connection with Cynus and established [thought Communication] with him, a skill intrinsic to most wolf-type monsters, Cynus included.

'Cy-'

"MASTER!" Ignoring everything Ray wanted to say, Cynus used [Timeswitch] and like the name implied switched places to a location he previously visited, in other words, this room, he also used [Timeswitch] to alter his size to that of an average wolf.

"Master how are you, do you feel better. I'm ashamed that I wasn't there for you, can you forgive me please master!" A flurry of words gets shot out of the Wolf's mouth, without halt until Ray stopped his subordinate.

'I'm ok, but you need to answer a few questions first, let's start with how long I was unconscious.'

"Of course master, if I remember correctly you were unconscious for...

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one hour." Ray, if he could move his body to show shock would've done just that, the technique he used, let's call it <puppet dance> for now, is based around one core principle, your skills are stored in your soul and therefore you only need to keep your soul in your body to use them.

What Ray did when he used <puppet dance> was basically suicide just different, your soul remains inside of your body due to your body being frozen in time with [Greater Temporal Magic] and from then onwards Ray controlled his body only with [Weaver of Time] almost liquifying his insides due to thousands of strings continuously cutting through his flesh, but in return letting go of the chains that a mortal body had.

It's like being in a deep coma but having control over your entire body with 100% power, using only strings to move it. That's also the reason why Ray was so shocked when he heard he woke up in only an hour, he expected to spend ten to fifty years inside his Coma, but his spiritual body probably shortened that time down.

'Anyways Cynus, could you bring me my wristwatch, it should be on the highest floor in the tower, and if you find Blanc, Moss, Yuji, Ina or Thrall then bring one of them here.'

"Of course Master!"

A few minutes passed until Cynus showed up again, with Yuji and Ray's time clock, he kept at the securest location of the whole city, the top of the clocktower, a place secured by ten demons Yuji summoned and multiple demon lord seed destroying traps, Ray and Blanc created, Moss, is sometimes on patrol around there too.

He wore it most of the time, but it's still breakable, At least its frame and a short time stop doesn't matter in battle, so he kept it safe there when fighting Blanc.

Anyways, a small smile formed on Yuji's lips, he wouldn't dare to say it but he had some doubts about Ray waking up, he hated himself for it after all Ray was the person who made him who he was today, but now that Ray was awake once again those thoughts got pushed to the back of his mind.

'Yuji could you place the clock on my wrist'

"Here you go, Sir." The moment the clock was securely placed on Ray's wrist, the Duke stood up, stepping out of his bath filled with healing potion water.

Before any of his subordinates could see him naked though, he created a standard military uniform with [Puppeteer of Time], something he knew wasn't possible with [Weaver of time] but he ignored it, till his whole body healed.

Ray wasn't able to heal himself completely with his time clock, but for now, his legs and throat need to suffice, after all, full recovery magic, something he once again learned from summoned demons was really magicule intensive to cast.

"Say why was I kept in this underground room, I understand the healing bath, but why this Room?" Ray said after teleporting all of the healing potion water inside his body, into the bath behind him with a simple blink spell.

"Sir, we noticed that you were passively gathering Magicules when you were unconscious, so we thought putting you in a magicule rich environment could aid your recovery process."

Just as Yuji said that Ray activated [Temporal Awareness] coupled with [Magic Sense] to look outside the room, and as he already suspected, he was a few meters underground, beneath one of the biggest craters, caused by Milim, in the barren lands.

Cracking his neck, Ray took a step forward, his arms idly swinging by, "Now then let's return home."

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It took Ray a few days to recover, thanks to Blanc and Moss applying full recovery magic on him, it didn't work before because Ray's wounds were frozen in time.

Blanc wasn't really apologetic, that was probably connected to her pride as a demon, though she said sorry when Ray and she met for the first time after the battle.

As soon as Ray was completely healed up he got back to his, immortality is a long time so let's waste as much of that time as possible, mood, though that was quickly brought to an end when a certain ring began to glow, yes you heard right a demon lord council will be held in a few hours, no need to set a specific date.

Ray quickly packed all of his things and took Cynus with him, he also took care of his city's security and kept at least one archdemon guard, so either Blanc, Moss, or Yuji, in the city at all times.

Ray cast a space time magic that will teleport both Ray and Cynus into the parallel dimension, where the banquet will be held, as soon as all the preparations were ready, and Ray reassured himself that the city is ready.

*Swoosh*

The magic took effect, Ray and Cynus disappeared instantly.

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A lone space outside reality, encompassed by nothingness, inside this infinitely big space a building appeared, dome-shaped and decorated with exquisite black marble.

After the building manifested into the void of space, three life forms teleported there too, all of them primordial demons, but one clearly above the other two, his name was Guy Crimson, he wore a loose leather jacket revealing most of his chest, long unkempt red hair, and scarlet eyes filled with malice.

A few minutes passed and a small fairy passed through another rift, she didn't teleport here herself, one of Guy Crimson's subordinates created the rift for the fairy, this fairy was of course the glorious spirit queen Ramiris, with short golden hair and eyes, as well as a black dress.

Last but not least a young adult, with black hair filled with white stripes appeared, his eyes filled with black and white clock-like structures, he had a young wolf puppy in his hands.

"Good evening. Guy, would you know who called for this little meeting?"

"OY! Are you ignoring me?"

Ignoring Ramiris, Ray stared at Guy, looking for an answer.

"Neither I nor the fairy did, so Milim must have called for it."

"HEY!? Why are you ignoring me now too?!"

"Oh, Ramiris you are here too! Didn't see you, must have become smaller since last time we saw each other." Ray said playfully as he let himself fall onto one of the many couches in the room, placing Cynus beside him.

Taking Cynus with him was a must for Ray, after all with him here Ray can escape immediatly as long as they are in physical contact with each other. Ray of course could escape by using [Timeline Manipulation] too but Guy getting that skill would be hundreds of times more dangerous than him getting Cynus's escape skill [Timeswitch].

"The Audacity?! If you're not apologizing right now then I will personally force you to do it."

"Okay Okay, I'm sorry," Ray said as he higherd his hands, showing his defeat.

"Anyways, could you tell me what Rudra's up to now." Ray rolled his eyes, Guy asked this question every time they met, but he still recapped what Rudra did with the nobles of the empire, in the end, Ray doesn't care as long as nobody picks a fight with his city.

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After talking for a bit and drinking a few cups of tea, Milim finally showed up, with someone unexpected in tow

Milim greeted Guy, Ramiris, and Ray before sitting down on one of the couches, and stuffing cake into her mouth while petting Cynus, she almost forgot the person she brought along.

The person she invited towered two meters (8-12 feet don't take my word for it) above the others, he had sky blue hair and ocean blue eyes filled with confidence.

Milim was about to stuff another cake into her mouth as Guy readied himself for combat, the giant in front of him was filled with holiness, so as a demon he needed to be at least combat ready when a holy creature visits him on his home turf, though he still sat on the couch, just a bit tender than before.

"Stowp, hwe's a frwiend" Gulping the pieces of cake down Milim continued "I was exploring the barren lands and then discovered an enormous city there, filled with giant people, but before I could enter the city to look at what they were doing, their king, here," She stopped speaking and pointed at the giant. "Attacked me and I won of course, I'm the strongest after all, but in the end we became friends after he gifted me that giant tasty candy, so now I want to introduce you all to him."

"Nice to meet you, the name's Dagruel"

[A/N: Don't know if I made the characters convincing still I hope you enjoyed the chapter.

PS: [Puppeteer of Time] will be explained when the next battle happens or when it fits really good into the chapter.

See you tomorrow hopefully.

ha ha]