Eternal Saṃsāra: The Wanderer of Worlds, Book 2

[217] To the Other Side of the World

Chapter 217: To the Other Side of the World

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[First Person Point in View]

I've admitted this before, and I'll admit it again. The [Dragon Icon] was such a bullshit Icon out of this world. It's just way too broken.

Even as the White Tiger, I had to admit that Icon was something else. After all, I had experienced the back end of that Icon the most out of anyone else, having fought the Azure Dragon of the Eastern Cosmos for millennia.

Someone said, I fail to recall who, that Quetzalcoatl was the third strongest among the dragon gods in DxD, right after Great Red and Ouroboros. Yet perhaps the gap between her and those two wasn't as wide as I imagined if she could survive and claim victory against a clearly superior opponent.

She must have used some kind of trump card, I assumed. Overwhelming strength, that was how she won. I worried for a second if this was a trick by the jester like some form of body possession, but my senses didn't detect anything. Rather, I noticed very little threads of black hair on her, that vanished before I could even properly confirm.

Had she been hiding some kind of transformation all along? I doubted she'd share any information about them now if that's the case, so I decided to ask something more important.

"Can you continue fighting?" I canceled the hug and asked her, and she chose to push back and hug me tighter. "Uh," I've heard from her before that she took care of her Kukulan alter ego in isolation, but it seems somehow it came out again. In this form, accompanied by her tattered clothes, barely holding her breasts, she was quite something to the eyes.

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"Why? Do we need to fight more? The enemies are gone, though," she said, tilting her head curiously. "I can keep going on, although not at the same level as I've been going on so far," she said, smiling up at me, hand going through my hair.

The other girls had already reached us by then, and they could hear our conversation since we had lowered from the sky and now stood on the ground. I didn't miss the sharp gaze of Elara on us, but she didn't say anything for now.

"That's sad, but it's fine, I have another job for you anyway," I was planning to leave her back here anyway. Now that she was tired and couldn't exert her full powers, it was even better for her to stay here. I looked at the girls at the back, finding myself with a sight. Seraphina was healing Yuzuru with her divinity. "Girls, get ready. We'll be heading toward the Blood Tower, and through that, to the other side of the world."

Seraphina raised her head in surprise, and the others also looked at me. Elara crossed her arms and refused to speak, while Sieran asked, "Huh? How?"

"The Blood Towers are connected, teleportation from one tower to another should be possible," I said. Since I was familiar with these types of towers, I knew. "As proof, notice how the Phoenix and the Clown changed spots?"

"Ah."

"So we're going to aid the battle on the other side of the world," I said.

"No doubt they're fine since they have more numbers than us, so they should be having it easier there. But yes, going there to support them is smart," Seraphina said, meeting eyes with me for a bit. She revealed a smile for me, nodding at me.

Perhaps it was her way to thank me for saving this world, even if she had a hard time accepting I was the same man she had come to love back in the day. But she wasn't right, even if we saved half of the world in just a few hours, it's wrong to assume everything was alright before we deal with the other side of the world.