Slayer Of Babylon

Eric and Stone went deeper. The big hallway had a door at its end as usual.

They looked at the big door. It was big enough to fit Eric's Susanoo. Before they walk closer, they checked their surroundings. After they assured there was nothing, they head towards the door.

Runes appeared on the door as they walked closer. After a second later, the door opened. It was was a lab. There were a variety of species inside of the tubes. They were floating inside of a transparent green liquid.

'Michiya's lab, eh?' though Eric. 'I better explore the area. He said he looted the ruin.'

While Stone was looking at the tubes, Eric found Michiya's notes. They were on the table with a lot of scrolls. Various big stones were on the ground. 'They look some part of the tablet,' though Eric.

"He seems to gather a lot of scrolls," Eric murmured himself. Scrolls were all over the place. 'It's a mess tho.'

Eric looked for something interesting in the notes. He found essential magics and arranged them.

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Michiya's Notes:

Magics:

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[Shape Shifting]

- Different then [Transformation]. It changes the core of the host forcefully. Without proper knowledge about the subject you are about to change, you will end up dead.

Cell difference between races makes it even harder. The divine stone's language is hard to understand. I can only understand that all beings' cells work differently.

- It seems this is called the law, instead of magic. Wrong use may trigger big backlashes.

* Subjects who died while trying this magic: 1489 (Living and Dead included)

* Living beings could not change their formal forms. Smaller ones became cold and dead, bigger ones heated up and exploded. I need to research this.

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[Arc of Time]

- This Magic revolves around the manipulation of the "time" of objects of non-living things and non-sentient living things, like a tree. The user can fast forward an object's "time" into the future, making it decay rapidly or rush to attack an opponent.

//A LOT OF THINGS IN ANCIENT LANGUAGE I CANNOT UNDERSTAND\\\

* Subjects who died while trying this magic: 0

* Subjects can achieve to learn this magic: 0 (myself included)

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[Druid Magic]

- This part of Divine Stone is broken. I cannot learn anything if I do not understand [Arc of Time] magic.

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[Gravity]

- Magic that manipulates gravity.

* I do not understand this part of the Anchient Language!

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[Near Resurrection]

- Be able to revive a person who died in five seconds.

|- User must stay still.

|- It won't heal bleeding or regrows any limbs, but it makes organs active again(if they are not injured much).

* I kidnapped the entire town(200 people) for experiments and after 137 dead people later I manage to heal a woman.

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'It's indeed impossible if you can't change how your cells work. They work fast or slow according to your size, but this is not important right now,' thought Eric. 'I do not need [Shape Shifting] for the time being but I need to find the so-called divine stone it seems' he added.

'Other magics seem useful. [Arc of Time]? It seems familiar for some reason,' thought Eric and read the last part of the note.

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While some of my minions were trying to learn [Shape Shifting], they destroyed the divine stone. I need to put my priority to [Arc of Time] magic.

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Eric looked at the ground and sighed. "Really?" he said. "I transport them to my gate dimension then," he said and started to put them on his dimensional vault.

While he was putting the tablets to his dimension, he figured that the letters were familiar. Eric blew out the stone and shocked.

"Really, Mashima? Really?" he said sarcastically. "Out of all languages, you chose English?" he added and looked at the other pieces. He disappointed a little as he said, "Not all of them English? Why?"

"Well, this is good too I guess. I can at least understand one of them," said Eric happily. He turned away and saw the tubes again. His mode downed a little. "Stone, I guess we should end their life," he said with pity. "They have suffered enough," he added.

Stone was looking at the tubes as he heard Eric's order. He looked at Eric and nodded, then they started to kill them. In the tubes; children, young, old, etc. People with All of the age's suffering has been ended.

After they killed the last of them he found another door. It was a normal door with a normal height. "Stone I looked at inside. Wait here would you?" said Eric.

Stone looked at Eric with worry but nodded eventually. He sat down and looked at the door as Eric went inside.

When Eric entered inside he found another stone. It was in English again.

| This is the first part of the god's blessing. If you are reading this you managed to clear the first trial.|

'Michiya cleared for me it seems but yeah,' though Eric.

| There are four ruins in total. Everyone has different trials and challenges. But do not fret, they will reward you dearly. Now, as a champion, you shall receive my blessing. Stand in front of your enemies proudly, the Divine Runes user.|

When he read the last part, runes appeared on the tablet and sent a light on Eric's head with a swift. When the light was faded, Eric saw an owl.

Owl looked at him with his big eyes and said.

"There are four gods who accepted to intervene in the mortal realms. With me, two of us are friendly with you humans, yet the other two makes everything to kill you or maybe possess you," he said with emotionless voice. "I will not tell you to stop here, but we manage the ultimate magic to the end of the trials. Since you are the one who is worthy enough to read this tablet, you can finish the others." He added.

"Finish it and see, mortal. I hope we see each other again," he disappeared and a sheet fell over the ground.

Eric took the sheet in his hand. It shined and turned into a map. 'Other ruin's location?' he thought. There was a red mark on the map. Eric put it inside of his vault.

"Well, [Divine Runes] and the other rewards, eh?" said Eric while pondering. "This magic indeed useful, I can make pretty much everything," he added.

He walked out to the room and saw Stone. "A'ight, buddy. Let's get out of here," he said with a smile.

"Well, I gain a lot for a day. It was good and irritating at the same time," he said and they left the ruin.

'For some reason, this place is smaller then I expected,' though Eric. 'Well, it does not matter any longer,' he added and walked towards Tempest.

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Hey, sorry. I manage to mess everything on my job so well... I'm back tho (this time for real, I hope!)

- I will make it a little later but since I didn't publish any chapter for a few days, I'll unleash my surprise for you guys in the next chapter!