Then Azothoth called for Gilgamesh, and he appeared…
"Well Gilgamesh, it's your job to teach Aerin now," Azothoth said as he dissolved into nothingness.
"Well Aerin, I'm going to teach you how to use another one of your abilities. Your ability is called Armory Manifest. I'm sure you can feel what this ability does, but I'm just going to explain it to you to make sure. Armory Manifest will allow you to create, materialize, and forge weapons of all types," Gilgamesh explained.
"Are you ready to learn how to use it?" Gilgamesh asked.
Yes.
"Well then visualize yourself creating any weapon in your hand," Gilgamesh explained.
Then Aerin began visualizing a sword made of pure gold, and it was created in his hand…
What!
That's awesome!
"Well done kid, now time for the difficult part of that ability, forging a weapon," Gilgamesh replied as he created a weapon forge and hammer.
"Now forge a weapon that can withstand my presence," Gilgamesh said as he unleashed his divine aura, shaking the Heavens.
I'll try.
With that, Aerin grabbed a piece of iron from the pile of iron that Gilgamesh created along with the forge, and he started to heat it…
Aerin kept hammering and heating the iron untill…
Yes, I finally got it.
A perfect sword.
"Alright then let's test it," Gilgamesh said.
Then Gilgamesh unleashed his aura once again, and the sword broke immediately…
"Not quite strong enough yet but good enough. Alright, I've done my part to teach you, and now it is Aether's turn to teach you your other two abilities," Gilgamesh said as he called for Aether.
"It's my turn isn't it?" Aether asked.
"Yes," Gilgamesh replied as he disappeared.
"Alright, Aerin, time for me to teach you your last two abilities. These last two abilities you have don't really have any names, but rather they are abilities your body naturally has that were just locked away. One of these abilities allows you to sense anything that's going on in the world. If you want to know what is happening, all you need to do is think about it. The other ability is more of a defensive ability. Essentially, you can create armor with essentially infinite space within it to block attacks," Aether explained.
"You won't be able to use your ability that allows you to sense things here, but I can teach you your armor ability. It sure is weird calling it sensing ability and armor ability. Do you wanna name the abilities yourself?" Aether asked.
Sure. Why don't we call the sensing ability Extrasense and the space armor Spatialbarrier.
"Awsome names. Anyway, I can treach you the spatial barrier. All I would need to do is take you to one of the empty realms in hell," Aether explained.
I'm good. Hell seems like a place I should avoid at all costs. I'm sure I'll figure out the last two abilities in the future.
"Alright kid, then I guess it's time for you to return home," Aether said.
"Indeed it is," Léōn said as he appeared.
Alright, thanks for teaching me how to control my powers.
"You're welcome child," Aether replied.
"Alright Aerin, it's time to go," Léōn said, creating a portal back to Aerin's world.
Once Aerin and Léōn returned to Aerin's world, Léōn gave Aerin his old body back and resumed time…
I'm back!
"Aerin!" everyone on Aerin's team yelled, hugging him.
"I must go, let me know if you need anything," Léōn said as he disappeared.
"Aerin your back, how was Heaven?" Mr. Sato asked.
It was incomprehensible. I couldn't even exist there without a special body. The beings there are also incomprehensible. The only thing you can see is a white void, and that's all Heaven is. It's devoid of anything else unless the angels create something. There is no structure, no up, no down, no left, no right, no east, no west, nothing.
It's almost unbelievable.
But enough about Heaven. Let's return home.
And then Aerin and his team returned home…
12 years of peace passed until…
Aelira, will you make me the happiest man on this planet and marry me?
"Huh?" Aelira said in shock as a tear fell down her cheek.
She stood there for a moment, dumbfounded until…
"Yes, yes, yes! Of course I will. I've been waiting 12 years for you to ask me this. Yes!"
Aelira said, jumping with joy as Aerin put the ring on her finger.
Then Aerin and Aelira told their friends about the wedding and began planning the wedding…
Then the wedding began…
Hello Léōn, thanks for coming. I know it's kinda rude to ask God to come to my wedding, but you've been a father to me and helped me more times than I can count. I wanted you to be here so I can thank you for my life. So, thank you.
"You're welcome my child. I'm here for you child so you don't need to worry about any formalities, that's more of a thing my father cares for," Léōn replied.
Well I hope you enjoy the wedding.
After the wedding…
Hey Lio and Lyra. Could you come here for a moment?
"Sure," they both replied.
Can you two come with us on our next journey?
"What do you mean?" Lyra asked.
"Ya, you just got married. I thought yall would settle down," Lio asked.
When I was training in Heaven 12 years ago, I heard about a world connected to this one by a portal at the top of our world. This world is called Earth, and supposedly the people there are stronger than the people here. I want to live in that world, but we've always done stuff as a team, so I wanted to ask yall. Will you come with us?
"I don't know man, it's a whole other world. It's an unknown place and the journey is going to be at least 2 months," Lio said.
"Hey Lio, why not? We've had nothing to do for the last 12 years. Going to another world will give us something to do," Lyra said, mildly exited about the concept of another world.
"Alright hunny, if you want," Lio replied.
Huh? Hunny, oh I see what's going on now.
"Alright spill the beans," Aelira said with a smile.
"Alright, alright. Me an Lyra are fiancé's," Lio said.
No way!
When were you going to tell us?
"We were going to tell you later but I guess the cats out of the bag," Lyra said.
"Anyway, when are we setting out for this new world?" Lio asked.
In one week. It will give me enough time to get back in shape.
"Alright, see you in one week," Lyra and Lio said, walking home.
What is next for our MC? What will this new journey have in store for him? What is this new world like? Find out soon…
To be continued…