Welcome to Runeterra...

I look over to Brex with eyebrows raised, "What kind of problem?" I asked.

Turning towards him, Brex answers with, "This is a pure, natural Aether Crystal. If all we see here, is in fact the same, then we don't have much time… I can only dream of what this Primal can do if it was to get the Pie family to dig this all up as an offering to it. With the reunion coming up soon, he would have all the hands he would ever need to get all of this in record time..."

I then asked, “I have an idea that might help out with this. I could summon Little Snots to gather it for projects down the line and that way there will be less Aether here for him to absorb. Do you think that would work?”

Tilting his head down, Brex thinks the idea over. Within a few seconds, he looks towards me and gives a firm nod. He then says, "Sounds like a plan. Think they can get it all? It wasn't in any records over 800 years ago. Neither have I heard anything about Aether Crystals during my time back. If it’s been kept a secret, then it's best that all of this isn't left here. It would only take a pony casting the wrong spell in here to cause a chain reaction. If all of this was to say… Be brought back to Canterlot for example. The whole mountain would be wiped off the map from the explosion. If there is even half of what I think there could be.”

I then said, "Probably, I have five little snots equipped with bags of holding since each bag holds five hundred pounds and about 20 other snots free with their Teleport and Pitiful Look upgrades, nothing should stop them, I bet not even Celestia would harm them." When I finished talking, a portal opened up and twenty-five Snots, two Nagas, and three Arachnids came through. I commanded them, "Snots, dig the crystals. I want them all." then I gave them all head pats and a POOF they were all gone from sight.

With that problem now being taken care of, Brex turns towards the way they hadn't gone yet and led the march. He called out, "OK, let’s find the Primal. We don't know how powerful it is right now. So, let’s not draw his attention until we find out what is going on down here."

I nodded at Brex.

As the group made their way even deeper. The walls that were almost completely made up of Aether Crystals soon changed into that of Sedimentary rocks. Soon all they could see was a type of orange and light brown glow coming from the walls. It wasn't all that hard for Brex to make his way with how there was hardly any light thanks to his situational awareness, but he realized that he didn't check on the others. Turning his head slightly, he asks in a quiet voice, "How are you working in the dark?"

I answered, “My minions will be fine, they work in a dungeon, after all, also my gantlet gives me a basic dark vision, so yeah we’re are all good.” I responded

Letting out a small sigh, Brex nods and goes back to looking out for anything new. They continued to go even deeper. By now they had been traveling under the surface for well over half an hour until there was a dim light coming from further down the tunnel. As they got closer, Brex could hear the sounds of something hitting rock just ahead thanks to a long, drawn-out echo that was produced.

After a bit, I whispered to Brex, “What do you see down there?" I then braced himself against the wall to aid in keeping me out of sight.

Making his way closer to the end of the tunnel. The Roegadyn peeks just past the mouth and what he sees, only causes him to straighten up and turn back to me and start to talk in an emotionless tone that would make one think he was imitating that guy from the Visine eye commercial. "What's big, brown, looks angrier than the hulk after being told someone had just eaten all of his pizza bagels?" He sarcastically asked.

While not moving, he points over his shoulder to let him look. From just behind Brex, was a large cavern that was massive enough to fit the sister’s old castle. At the center, was the Primal known as Titan. The walls were lined with several large orange crystals that were easily over 30 meters high and 4 meters wide.

After a few seconds, I asked, “It looks like the arena in 14. I wonder if he will use his mechanics?" Afterward, he pulls out his kusarigama and it started to glow a violent red. I then asked, “Should we use 14 tactics, you agro, we attack the back? ”I suggested.

Brex turns back and looks back into the cave and says, “Give me a sec, I need to check something.” Brex whispers, "He's at 25 right now. That’s way weaker than back in the game when the main character first got into a fight with him. I think we can do it. We should be fine going with to the game rules. He isn't going anywhere right now. Also, I don't see where that sound from before is coming from.”
Just then, off in the distance on the other side of the cave, he saw a group of ponies working away on a wall. from how far away they were, it was easy to not see them until now. Brex could see that there were two adults and four kids. however, with how the lighting was in there, it was hard to tell them apart aside from their body size.

Brex says, "Ok, looks like they are far enough away to not be in the way. Ready to move out? I'll take the lead." That’s when he cracks his knuckles in anticipation.

After a moment, I responded, “Alright! my first shot will remove 25 percent of his armor and magic resistance for the next five seconds. We need to make that time count. Should I summon more Arachnids to pacify those ponies so he doesn't try anything with them? Then again, this place is big enough to summon cannon fodder since my Undead will just respawn in their graves back in my dungeon. I can micro their movements to dodge the moves I remember." looking at Titan I saw a Gold coin over his head.

Brex answers with, “I'm reluctant about using those Undead you mentioned. I’d rather not take the chance that Celestia somehow finds out there have been undead involved in this. But if we can use them to keep those under his control from getting in our way, then I guess we got no choice.” After a second, Brex then asked in a strained tone, “Um... they, aren't contagious, are they?"

I answered, “No, their magic is not a plague and there will be no trace since they were not originally raised here, also the corpse will disappear. This will keep them from getting in the fight and getting themselves killed we don't want Pinkie to be sad. Might change her destiny." I opened a portal and a group of creatures came out. They were comprised of eight Skeleton Archers, four Zombies, and eight Arachnids. Afterward, he said, “The Arachnids will web up the Pie family and drag them away from the fighting and we will free them when it's over it, this will be easy as pie.” I said that last part with a With their preparations in place.

Brex motions for them to make for the Primal. They had to use a narrow path along the wall of the large cavern that brought them closer to the giant. At the moment, Titan had made no signs of detecting them so far. Unlike in the game the fight not going to be on some elevated platform, but within a wide arena that was in a wide circle.
With a quick glance, one could see that it was roughly 200 meters wide. The edges had a line of brightly lit orange pillars of stone that went up and around like a fence. Said fence was up to 20 meters tall. The only different part was the only opening to which they had to enter.

I then started to whisper to Brex and said, “Good thing my Arachnids can climb walls so they can get the pies without getting noticed." I then suggested while Readying Valkyrie, "As soon as they get them to a safe location, we should move in,”

Giving a silent nod. Brex gets into place near the entrance to the arena. He then whispers, “Be ready to change how we fight, no telling how this will go down. You know the saying; no plan ever survives first contact with the enemy."

With a gesture of the gantlet. The Arachnids started to climb the wall. They made it over Titan and got over to their six unsuspecting preys.

Brex gives me the signal to begin the operation with a quick nod just as he gets himself ready to run at full speed at the Primal by getting into a runner’s stance. In this fight, the Roegadyn intended to start with the monk class. This was due to the idea that the Princess might try to use a time spell of some sort to peak to this point and he didn’t want to tip his hand just yet.

The Arachnids quickly webbed the Pies and ran off with them. I had my troops rush up. The ranged units quickly got themselves into their firing positions. As soon as they had lined up, did they launch a volley of projectiles that rained down onto Titan. At the same time, the Zombies charged Titan and with a single shot from Valkyrie, Titan's armor rating was temporally weakened after a shot had struck the Primal.

Brex had just finished mentally chanting the Low Swift spell. With the added speed, the Roegadyn was able to close the distance within a few seconds. He used the momentum that was built up from the rapid movement to deliver his first attack skill, Bootshine. The attack struck at Titan's left legs knee. Bootshine was the start of the three-skill combo that the monks used in the game which consisted of a series of three blows that alternated between both fists.
Weapon Skill: Bootshine, Delivers an attack with a potency of 210. A series of three strikes to a single target at near, lightning-fast speeds. This attack becomes a critical hit if used from the target's rear.
Quickly, it followed with him rushing to the side and delivering the second skill, True Strike. This one was aimed for the same left leg in the side of the same knee. The attack had the Roegadyn digging his feet into the ground and striking with both fists at the same time from the front and using his body’s weight to ensure maximum impact.

With yet another long side step, Brex found himself directly behind the same spot and delivered his last attack for the full combo, Snap Punch. This was able to cause the Primal to let out a roar as it fell into that leg. Its missive arms are now being used as leverage so it didn't fall completely. Its fingers were digging into the stone as it tried to get a grip for traction.

I dashed closer after seeing the leg was damaged. I cast Hextech Micro-Rockets which were all focused on the leg to try to make it unusable. It was also paired with me letting off as many shots from Valkyrie into its left arm. During this, my minions focus on the Primal as well.

Seeing as the Primal was down, Brex immediately jumped up and onto its back. Once he had made sure to have a footing, the Roegadyn aimed a flurry of bunches into the lower area of the back that he assumed was where the spine would be located, that is if this Titan's body even had one. Brex used the same combo attacks as before over and over again until he had gone at it for six rounds. Whenever the cycle was to go again, the first weapon skill was always a critical hit, doing double its original damage. The Primal’s rock body was cracking and chipping away with each hit.
Titan roared even louder than before. The ground began to shake violently. From his high vantage point, Brex could see some spots on the battlefield to look as if the ground was being pushed up. This revealed four Rock Golems. All of which were level 15 each one was less than half of the Primal's height.

I ordered the zombies to spill up and tank the Golems. I had my ranged minions continue to focus on Titan. I started shooting the Golems for the Zombies wouldn’t last long if left on their own.

The Rock Golems had the Zombies outdone in strength and size. This was evident with how one of them had just snatched up one of the Zombies and was swinging it around like some two-year-old would with a toy they had just found while being quite rough with it. The ones that got shot with By me, seemed to have diverted their attention from the annoyances to that of the displaced. They paid little mind to the Zombies and now we're slowing lumbering towards me.
As for Brex, with the number of attacks on Titan being weaker due to the additional targets that now had to be dealt with, Titan was now trying to get back onto his feet and this knocked the Roegadyn from its back and onto the ground with a heavy thud and muttering a grunt of annoyance from not expecting the large giant to be moving that fast.

I grabbed a small glass vial of water before shouting, “ALL SHALL BE MY PREY!” I then crush the vial and it turns to dust. (I cast 'Protection from evil and good.) Then I throw out my kusarigama somehow in a straight line. (I Casted death sentence, Thresh's Q ability.) hooking one of the Golems switching to chainsword form and pulled myself to them with the chainsword roaring to life as it makes contact. It seems not only to cut through the rocky flesh but was also able to rip the Aether from it.

(Protection from evil and good Until the spell ends, one willing creature you touch is protected against certain types of creatures: aberrations, celestials, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead. The protection grants several benefits. Creatures of those types have a disadvantage on attack rolls against the target. The target also can’t be charmed, frightened, or possessed by them. If the target is already charmed, frightened, or possessed by such a creature.)

The one Golem that was cut by me, falls to the ground and breaks apart into the many rocks that were used in its creation. Now there were but three Golems to contend with. It would seem that Titan was not all that happy with the destruction of one of its minions and after finally getting to its feet once again, it lifts its right arm high and slams it down onto the ground with a mighty crash. Half of its fist was buried from the force used in doing this.
This caused the ground in Infront of it to glow with a pale orange light from underneath. The light was traveling in a straight line and ran across the arena until it reached the fence of crystals. It was four meters wide and quickly it was getting brighter. What only made it worse, was that it was going right at the smaller displaced. Seeing this Brex yells out, "Ryu! MOVE NOW!"

With that shout, I tried to get out of the way from the incoming attack, only to find my leg pinned under some of the remains that came from Golem I had only just taken out. I exclaimed, “Well shit!” I placed his lantern down and used its power, giving himself a shield. He then shouts out, “Consume!” (He casts, Absorb Elements) to which he braced himself for the attack.

( The spell captures some of the incoming energy, lessening its effect on you and storing it for your next melee attack. You have resistance to the triggering damage type]. [resistance cut damage in half).

The ground quickly erupted in a shower of light as the attack causes everything that was caught in the Primal's attack to be hit with enough force to be flung into the air a good several meters. What remained was a long, gouged-out trench. Unfortunately, the attack had destroyed one of the other zombies that just happened to be along with its bath.
Just as the large fist that was used to launch that attack was being pulled from the ground, Brex ran over and started to run up the length of the arm and jumped off when he had gotten near to the shoulder. Taking hold of Titan's long white beard, the Roegadyn uses it and swings around to its other side and lands behind Titan’s head. From there, Brex roughly pulls on the long hair to turn the Primal's gaze away from me.

After that hit, I was not good at coughing up the bloody mist, but for a strange reason, my movement was not hindered at all. But thanks to titan's attack I was now free, so I fired another volley of Hextech Micro-Rockets at Titan's wounded leg. I then continued my assault on one of the Golems, but now being mindful of where the rocks land.

When I shot Titan in the leg that was repeatedly attacked time and again, the Primal only got more enraged, it started to thrash about wildly. It then pulled its head sharply and with Brex’s grip still firm on the beard, He was thrown off. The Roegadyn had managed to land on his feet a short distance from Titan thanks to him instinctually remembering how he fell off before. The Primal was about to do the same trick again, but Brex wasn’t going to let that happen so easily.
Just as Titan raised his fist to launch the same attack as before, Brex rushed forward and right up to the front of Titan, and with one fluid motion, the Roegadyn used his patinated Leg kick that stunned all of his foes so far. But thanks to this being the largest he had ever used this skill on, the attack was heading right between the legs it was heading right for the tinny loincloth that the humanoid Primal was wearing.
When his foot was only a few inches away, time slowed down and one could have sworn they caught sight of the Primal's glowing, yellow eyes going wide just before the large foot struck. Immediately, all movement on Titan’s part came to a screeching halt. There was also a strange high pitch, yet gravelly groan that resonated within the whole cavern.

with my Chainsword eating away their aether, the Golem I was fighting fell until it was just Titan remaining, I throws out my again kusarigama right into Titan's face. I then rode up the line and when I had landed onto the Primal, I inserted my Chainsword into one of its eyes. While this is happening, I laugh a haunting laugh.

He was just about to say something when he realized that with his health at this point, Titan's attacks would only intensify. In a fit of rage from having his, Cough Rocks kicked, along with a chainsaw in one of its eyes. It grabbed me in his right hand, along with ripping out the weapon from his eye. There was a heavy flow of yellow glowing liquid gushing from the now destroyed orb.

The Primal was now summoning rock shards from all around, Titan then encased me inside of a stone coffin that was being held together by the orange energy that was similar to all the crystals around in between the small gaps. The now incased I was thrown into the ground, thereby embedding it in place.

When that happened, the Primal jumped high into the air and was going to do a full-body slam onto me, but the rock I was inside of was pushed aside just before the Primal had even landed. my rock coffin broke after hitting the ground after a few bounces, but Brex was underneath a literal living mountain with tinny legs. That proceeded after the enormous crash that the attack had produced.

Recovering fast, I couldn't feel my left arm it was now missing from just above the elbow. Even in this condition, I still didn't stop, with no signs of being hindered when I dashed towards Titan while the Nagas were healing me and Brex from a distance with long green, flowing streams of light that came from their gold staffs. I got to titan's wounded leg and I tried to see it off.

Seeing what I was doing, Titan rolls over in an attempt to get away and back onto his feet. But this was quite a challenge for it while in its weakened state. Just as he got off of Brex, the Roegadyn couldn't help but hold up his right hand while on his back. Raising a single index finger, he muttered in an odd, whippily tone, "Don't... WoRry... I'm, cUte aNd... FLUFFY~

My kusarigama was floating next to me. it started pulling Titan's leg away from the body as I kept pressing and pressing the attack while still keeping up with my laugh. The red mist was flowing everywhere from both of ours wounds.

Coming to his senses, Brex got back to his feet after shaking his rattled head from the mountain that had decided to use him as a bean bag chair. Seeing as this wasn't going to cut it with how he was getting tossed off so much. The Roegadyn switched class's and went over to his Samurai Soul Stone. He then pulled from his inventory the bracelet from Final fantasy 7 and placed it onto his left arm. This was an item he had yet to use so far due to it being overkill. Or so he thought, but this fight called for a bit more force.

Brex then yelled, "IT'S MY TURN!" He then pulls his katana from its sheath and takes a stance with the blade held in both hands above his head, while the blade itself was pointed straight up. As if out of nowhere, an explosion of power comes rushing from his body. the yellow and brown robes fluttered like that of someone in the middle of a strong wind storm.
From that pose, the Roegadyn's movements turned into a blur as he slashed the air multiple times. Each slash left a line in the air that appeared to have some energy radiating from them until it appeared to have been cut a dozen times over. He then placed the blade back into its sheath, but this was for a fraction of a second before unleashing one final slash in an upwards strike straight from the sheath. this caused an eruption of energy to come flying from the accumulated slashes from before along with the finishing move.

This wave of destructive force crashed into the Primal who had been weakened by me. The upper half of Titan was devoured by the attack. Its stone form was torn into large chunks. Those chunks were quickly turned into stones, the stones turned into small pebbles, and finally, all that was left was dust. The rest of its form that didn’t get hit, was only the legs and a part of the hip area, which quickly bursts into partials and disappears into the air. and this dropped its health bar to zero in an instant.

He then slowly sheathed the blade once more before speaking in a low tone, "Till next time..."

With Titan dealt with, I fell unconscious

Third person

A dark elf rush over to Ryu that was still spasming. She exclaimed in a very upset tone, "Master!” She looked him over and found out what was going on and commanded the minions, “Take him to his bed chambers.” Then she takes a look at Brex and starts scowling. She asked with fire in her tone. “What did you do to him?”

Raising his hands in a clear sign of no hostility, Brex could see that this was about to turn into something if he didn't start explaining... and fast. Clearing his throat, he starts to talk very quickly and says, “I called for some help and we ended up fighting what you might call a piece of a crazed god. Fortunately, he was weaker than we thought. But in the fight, Ryu might have gotten a little chainsaw happy and got roughed up... a lot in the process. At least he didn't turn out as a crushed egg."

Her scowl turned into anger and she processed to kick Brex below the belt with her high heels, then she rushed over to where the minions took Ryu.

A lone tear ran down the side of the Roegadyn’s face from under his mask as his legs locked together while he was hunched over. His hands clutched his neither's. He then spoke in a low whisper that somehow was in a high pitch, “S-Shouldn't have used the word EGG... I'm… so glad that Daddy made me a lot sturdier.” Looking off in some random direction he then muttered, “This is what happens when you don't work on social skills...”
After taking the time to use his White Mage class to use a cure spell or… three on his now aching manhood. The Roegadyn sees that he was not gaining the attention of the many creatures from the underground dungeon.

Ryu pov 4 hours later

Absorption error retrying... error... free point given.

Titan's Body Acquired: doubled bone and muscle density.

I woke up sore and stiff in my shouty bed in the dungeon. Thalya was Cuddled up against my arm wearing her nightgown. she was fast asleep. being trapped by her flesh I slowly nudged her awake.

Thalya's eyes fluttered open slowly then she let out a yawn and stretched "Oh master you are awake." she groggy said to me.

I looked at her "it's time to get up we have no time to waste let's go meet up with brex I need that training and you need to work on a project. I've been thinking over I want you to make the dungeon into a castle and carve a city around it this will be my first step in my conquest of Runeterra," I announced. "Now let's get started," I told her.

I walked to the training room escorted by my Dark elf.

After just finishing with a mock fight with an Orc, Brex turned to see me and waved from near the training dummy in the middle of the room. He called out, "Good to see you recovered. Is it just me or do you look taller now?"

I replied sheepishly, “Well yeah, any time I do a task for a champion or defeat a champion, I can get one off their powers. Had no idea it would work with Titan though.” I then continued with, “Why did you think I could use Donger's rockets and Jayce's transform?” I then said proudly, “What I got from Titan, was double the density of my bones and muscles.”

Making a small motion towards his lower area. The Roegadyn says, "Yea, I got something along those lines also. Good thing too, otherwise, I would be a pancake from taking that belly flop. A gift from someone I met on the other side."

I started to pace back and forth and said, “Yeah, I heard how you closed my portal. So I checked and found that my friend's time distortion is in effect, so our worlds are in a lack of a better term, frozen in time," I said.

Going rigid, Brex then asks in an unsure tone, "But I was sure that one of your subordinates wanted me to close the thing." Letting out a long, drawn-out sigh. He then says, “It’s like with those three all over again. OK so, what do we need to do now?"

After a bit, I started to say, “Well it should not be a big deal for you. I believe you can exit through the main door or I hope you have an aether crystal that you're attuned to.” I continued with, “But time will resume in your world when you get back, so it will be like you never left at all,” I told him.

Letting out a relieved sigh, Brex says, “Well that's a load off my shoulders. I do have one crystal that I'm attuned to. so, I guess I could go at any time. Seeing as time is stopped on my end, I'm no longer in a rush to get back at the moment. Hmm, with things being paused on my Equestria, I guess we can do the standard displaced tradition of the trade. So, what would you like? Items, a spell or two, maybe some training in fighting? Got the experience of over 15 classes of adventuring here. It may have been a game back then, but it’s all been converted into actual knowledge of fighting when it comes to all my jobs." That’s when he pointed at his head.

I responded with, “Well I need formal training, my blue magic book is empty, spells would be nice and it would be nice if we could upgrade my Valkyrie here.” He then asked, “Now is there anything you want? I have steel from all over Runeterra, books from the dungeon, I found blueprints for a dungeon key, and I can make a few D&D items?" I asked.

Brex uses the pantomime emote he had bought from the game store for his character in the past and made to sit on a chair that wasn't there. Now crossing his legs, The Roegadyn places an elbow onto a knee and adopts a thinking pose. after a few seconds, he says, “Well, I got the book filled out for the Blue mage class, I suppose I could teach some of the worthwhile ones, we could see if you could learn them if I was to write them down. A lot of them aren't all that great to have. I could train you in how to use that Gunblade of yours in combat, hmm… could also toss in some upgrades by using my crafting skills. I did notice you had a hard time when those ads had gotten closer and you had to stop using that gun.”
After a few seconds of thinking, the Roegadyn continued with, “As for the other spells. How about I teach you a few of the ones from that anime, Raise of The Shield Hero? Unfortunately, I could only teach you what I have unlocked for myself so the list is limited, but once you learn a spell, it could upgrade in your head after a while. I could use that dungeon key you were talking about though. It would be useful to have something that's along the lines of a hyperbolic time chamber just like that in the anime, Dragon Ball Z. If you got any metal that's resistant to magic, that would be useful, I could come up with some uses for that. Got anything you could make that would help with a temporary disguise? I think there is something from D & D.

After giving it a moment to think it over, I responded with, “I don't see how you could teach me blue magic since I have to kill the mob to get it.” I stroked his chin before stating, “A hat of disguise would work for you, I'll give you a paper with its details. Gunblade training would be good, but I will need training in chain weapons too. Now upgrading things with Materia would be good." I nodded before going on and said “The key will take time to craft, I need a lot of gold and that will take a while to mine up. More spells will always be good for me.”

Looking towards Me, Brex nods back. Turning his attention back to the Orc he was sparing with, he calls out, "Hay, make sure you watch out for overextending yourself when doing your swings. You don't want to give the other guy a big window to counter-attack!" After that exchange, Brex went back to me and says, “That shouldn't be too much of a problem with the chain weapon and close-quarters combat training. You be surprised how often a weapon like that shows up on a bunch of anime. With the combined skills from my Soul stones and years of anime and online videos, we can work it out.”

I nodded “I won't need any gun training since I've always been good with firearms, hell the first time I shot a gun I was only a couple milometers off from a merit badge.” After telling Brex that, I pulled out a folder and a piece of paper. They were then handed over to Brex. I then said, “The paper tells how the hat works and this folder is a survey that can be updated at any time. It can classify all known things by their threat level. The average multiverse Celestia is rated as B+. Meaning she can threaten a solar system, the details are inside.”

After taking a look at what was written, Brex came to understand the ranking system. He then placed it into his item box to go over later and turned to me and spoke while pointing over his right shoulder towards to training ground they had, “Well no time like the present. let’s work on your reflexes.” He then takes out from his collection, two wooden practice, level 1 swords that the Samurai class uses, and hands one of them over to me and finishes with, “Let’s start with these. There is a gravity spell I learned that can up the weight on an object. Not had a chance to try it out yet."
Giving him a few swings, Brex says, "Yeah, this will work for the start, show me what yeah got with what you can do. I’ll use the weight spell on these. So, we won’t be moving on to the next stage until you feel that you can swing that thing like normal. The spell should last about ten minutes at a time before I need to reapply it.”

I was swinging it with ease thanks to titan's enhancement. I kept using a one-handed style with my right hand that had the gauntlet on. But over the hours, I was starting to develop a decent style of his own.

At this point, the pair had been at it with trying out various fighting attacks on one another. Also, during that time, Brex was adding to the weight on the wooden weapon and had to stop before it was too much for the item to handle. Brex called out and said, “Ha! I see that buff you got from Titan has done wonders for that body of yours. From what I saw of your gun blade, I'd say your swinging something that's nearly four times as heavy compared to that Gunblade of yours by now. That means there shouldn’t be much problem with reaction delays between attacks. You can keep that sword for yourself if yeah want. But let’s move onto your blade, need to work on how you fight an opponent with various weapons.” That was when he put away the wooden blade and switched to his Gunbreaker Soul Stone and got into a battle stance with the blade resting over his right shoulder.

Upon hearing that, I commanded the creatures around, “Hoard front and center! We can use my Orcs for this since death is very reversible for them here and they need training since all they have going for them is numbers.” Afterward, I pulled out Valkyrie revved up its engine.
The Orcs looked excited and quickly grabbed their axes. Even Goblins joined the mix as they came in mechanical suits with mounted guns in their arms. There were even some Nagas with their staff out and they all were now surrounding both Brex and me.

Turning his head towards the Orcs, Brex gives out a small laugh before calling out to them, "Well you heard the man!" He then went back to me and said, “This will also be a good session for them as well. They just might learn from the experience. With it all not being a game now, they will continuously improve their skills. Now don't hold back, they just might take you out if they're given enough time." The Roegadyn then went into a low stance while facing the Horde and called out, "I hope you all had eaten because we are going at this for no less than 12 hours! HAHAHA!"

The Horde charged in immediately. Orcs in the front making a wall of flesh, goblins fired their makeshift firearms. As for the Nagas, they stayed in the back to cast their heal on the group of monsters. I looked at the Roegadyn and spoke flatly, “We can go maybe six hours, we do need to eat and sleep.” I then charged into the Horde's the makeshift guns kept rattling so accuracy was practically nonextant.

With a playful grunt of annoyance, the Roegadyn charges afterward and says loud enough to be heard over the gunfire, “Fair enough! I forgot what it’s like to need things like sleep and eating! Fine, but they better try even harder in return!” Over the next six hours, two fought what seemed like an endless wave thanks to them coming back to replenish their numbers. When the time expired and the Horde got what was required, they were at it yet again. Brex bushed them till this cycle had gone for the next two days.
All the while, Brex would give some pointers and on occasion and would pause things to switch out weapons and have a few sparring matches with me to get me used to fighting against deferent weapon types.

Later at the bar within the dungeon, I was drinking some newly named Tryndabeer and eating a Gobbler.

Brex was sitting next to him while chatting with one of the Orcs that didn't go down by the time frame that Brex had set expired. He then spoke to me, “I think you’re getting that sword style down fairly well at this point. As for the chain weapon, however, it needs just a little more practice. Here take this.” He hands over a stack of papers to the displaced and says, “Right there are some Blue mage spells I got back when I played the game. Give them a look over later and let me know if there are problems with learning them this way.”

After that, Brex pointed to another set among the stack and said, “Now those are some of the lower rank spells from the Book of The Shield Hero. I'll warn yeah, those are a trouble to learn. I suggest putting aside a lot of free time when you read that set. Hell! I can read so fast it would make Twilight jiz herself, but that thing... each word causes your mind to feel like it’s a block of wood and someone is using a soldering iron to burn the knowledge in there. So only read one or two tops a weak. otherwise, you’re going to be stuck in bed with a splitting headache for days.”

I chuckled after hearing that and said “Too bad we don't have any Belmont displaced here.” I joked and started to take another sip of his drink. Grabbing the papers I then put them away. I then sighed before saying, “Well we should head to my workshop, I need to get working on your hat and the key still needs about double my current gold.” I grumbled out.

Brex replied, “Oh that's right. Mind if I borrow it to help with those weapon modifications that I promised for your gun blade? By the way, what type of Materia did you want on it? Could toss on a full set of either the block chance up kind or did you want more offense?”

I replied, “I was thinking elemental to help in augmenting my attacks, but be careful with her. Also, my workshop is still crude with it only having a few advanced tools and no I don't mind you using it. But I should set up a new workshop for other displaced. Still don't know how long the minions will take to get the gold.”

Giving a few nods, Brex replies, "Should be fine, just needed to use a few things so I can set it up to be compatible with what you got here. That way you can make changes whenever you want. Shouldn't take long to do. Oh, before I forget..." He goes and holds out a small white orb just small enough to be held in one’s hands and shows it to me before saying, "Hmm, guess I should finally send my own out there. A Link Shell should do the trick, I'll just set this one for the Displaced Channel. Now... as for my message..."

I responded with, “Alright when you’re done follow me, I need to stop by the temple on the way there."

Holding the small pearl object up to the right side of his head and close to the ear. He starts to speak loud and clear with an emotionless tone, “WHETHER YOU BE IN NEED FOR A WARRIOR OF LIGHT OR A WARRIOR OF DARKNESS. JUST HOLD THIS CLOSE AND MAKE THE CALL. FOR THOSE THAT SEEK TO DESTROY ORDER SHALL BE MY PREY, IF NOT THEN YOU WILL HAVE MY BLADE BY YOUR SIDE. SON OF HYDAELYN. MY NAME IS, BREX VON MITH.”
After setting those words into the Link shell. He takes a few moments of silence before he looks it over and says to himself, "Well that should do it. I wonder if the small tweaks I made will work when it’s found?” He then tosses it into the air. not even a second later, a black portal appears and the item is sucked inside. It is then split hundreds of times over and two come flying out and Brex catch's them both before the portal disappears.
He then runs to catch up to me and toss's one of the Link shells to him and says, “There yeah go. One fully functional Link Shell. I also used my options menu to add some functions to it when used by a displaced. So not only is it my token and it acts as a communication device just like in the game, but it thanks to my translation function I set it up so whenever two displaced are together and want to keep their conversation a secret, this will cause all others to hear them be speaking in another language. What makes it funny is, I set it for Namekian. Found that I can understand practically anything that anyone says no matter what tongue they use, I just used that to add that effect to the Link Shell.”

I caught the Peral puts it away before saying, “Thanks." After I started to lead them into a room with alters lining the walls. Each one with different idols. One with a black mask of a wolf, the alter next to it had a white mask of a lamb. The next one had an anvil. Then there were ones such as a chime, white bird, the last one was a goat. I placed a live Gobbler on both the wolf and lamb alters. The Gobbler on the wolf alter, looked like it was ripped apart after it attempted to run out of the room. While the one on the lamb alters just fell over dead. I then places a freshly crafted sword on the anvil. After a pile of gold was then placed onto the goat alter and a strange orb on the chime one, this was followed by me also placing a gas mask on the bird alter as well.
After I placed the last item, a new alter appeared in the back of the room that was bigger than all of the others by at least four times. It had a symbol of a coin with an ornate four and I walked over and bowed in front of it praying.

Brex stood there as she watched me doing the various tasks. All the while tilting his head now and then as the odd occurrences transpired. After what seemed like a few minutes had passed, Brex spoke up, "So... mind explaining what I just saw? I played the game dungeons 3 some and I remember the alter room. However, all of this is new to me."

I got up and spoke with a voice full of reverence, “These are the gods of my world, worthy of praise, except this alter.” I then pointed out the alters and said, “The wolf and lamb are kindred, the anvil is Ornn, the goat is Soraka, the bird is Janna, and chime is the bard. As for the last one, I can't say, but they are the most worthy of my praise!” I exclaimed.

Brex gives a light shrug and says, “To each their own. I think there was someone that wrote a story where Pinky prayed to a 12-foot tall, stone statue of a rubber chicken. So, I got no problem with all of this. Are you about done or should I give yeah some time?"

I then shrugs as I said, “All of these are champions so it's not like I don't have proof they're real. I'm trying to get my hand on manuals to teach my minions the D & D levels. It’s for paladins and clerics." I said.

Brex makes for the door and looks over his left shoulder and says, "Well, now that you got that all taken care of, let’s get to that shop of yours.”

Brex follows him to his works shop he got to see chests on one side that all had names printed on them to show the different materials held within. One was named Black Steel, another named Petricite Steel, the others were Iron and Steel. Soon they both saw the most basic of forges, except for the furnace which was heavy one of the duty models. I turned and said, “I told you all I had were the basic forges. I can't make the tools I need just yet.”

After getting a good look around, Brex turned to me and says, "I can work with this. Time to pull an Iron Man and see what I can put together." he then switches out his equipment for that of his level 70 gear set meant for his crafting class’s and starts working with the forges.
Nearly two hours had gone by and Brex is putting the last piece into some water to cool it off. Then another hour pass’s as she works on the final parts and installs the Materia slots onto my weapon. When that was done, several assorted colored orbs were pulled out and arranged onto the large table that the weapon was resting on.
Brex called out to me, “I'm all done with this. Got it ready to be slotted with any of these.” He points to the various colors before going on and says, “I'll let you have these and you can switch them out another whenever it's needed. There are defense-up ones. Then there’s the block chance kind. Next, are the critical change boosting ones and all-out damage types. Now if you’re fighting someone that relies heavily on magic, then we got these magic resistance ones here. Got a lot of these laying around so you have these. Keep in mind, these were all extracted from high-level gear around the 50 range. Also, thanks to the bracelet from Final Fantasy 7, I have some of the elemental types as well. When I tried to use anything higher, the gear didn’t take kindly and fizzled out. But it can handle three in there.” He then scratches his head and adds, “I think it has to do with the incompatibility between our gear, or perhaps it has to do with the deference’s in power from the Materia and yourself.”

I picked up Valkyrie and starts slotting fire Materia. When he was finished with adding those, I revved her up the engine and the chain quickly started a glow a burning red. I then said, “This will do fine.” I moved over to the table that I was working on and showed Brex a bandana and a black box. Brex could have sworn that he was hearing music coming from it.

Looking over what was there. Brex asks, “Ok I take it the bandana might be the hat of disguise from D & D. But just what's up with the Music box?"

I responded with, “Yes, the bandana is the hat, it makes it easier to hide.” Afterward, I then turned back to the box and continued, “As for the music box, it's a test of sorts. It will allow me to find out what your Celestia is like.” I stated with a wicked grin creeping onto my face.

Brex starts to scratch the back of his head for a moment before letting out a small sigh. In a reluctant tone, he asks, “From that look of your face... I take it you’re going to troll my worlds Celestia, aren't you?"

I responded while still holding that grin, “Yes, that is why it’s a test. This will mess with her head and her emotions will be all over the place. Makes her honest to a fault and she will what to send a letter to me from this candle that will only work once. It sends a letter on a one-way trip. She will be mad, of course, she will try to track the spell, but with it going into the void to get to me, she will lose my tracks and nothing will be traced back to you. Then I can let you in on how she is really like. All you need to do is make sure this gets to her. Just use the bandana or some other type of stealth ability and you should be fine.” I stated.

Brex shakes his head and moves his hands in a manner that one makes when pulling their face down before saying, “Oh, Fine I get it. But it better not turn out that she is a ticking timebomb and the mountain that Canterlot better not be missing because of it...SIGH Can you at least fill me in on what’s inside?"

I replied, “I don't kill for no reason, I look at why another does what they do, unlike everyone else. Also, if she is a bomb, that will not be because of me. All this will do, is play a song that will be using both the voices of both her and Luna's in a duet called Lullaby for a Princess.” I then asked, “Do you know that song Brex?"

He looks down to show he was in thought. Soon he looks up and says, “Yeah. I think I do. Wow... Now that's going to do a number on her. Especially after all this time of being apart from Luna. Don't think they had anything back then that could record voices. You know... Now that I think about it. This would make for some good material to use when we do meet. I can already come up with a few things that could break that legendary stone mask of hers. Ok, I'm all for it. just make sure to send me a copy of that letter too when you get the chance.”

I responded with, “Will do. I know how to get into most people's heads. I have a theoretical degree in psychology.” Pointing to the box I said, “This is a real Pandora's Box for her. No matter how old you are, something will always hurt. You saw my past you should know that better than anyone now." I laugh out.

Looking back at the box. Brex turns to me and says, “Ok. I'll get it to her when I'm in Canterlot. With how things are going, I'll end up there at some point.”

I then said, “Don't forget this letter that tells how to use the candle.” I then handed the letter over. It was in a traditional envelope with a wax seal of a lantern. After I gave the Bandana and began to sigh before saying, “I need to start setting up to make a key, why does it need 25,000,000,000 gold to craft.”

The Roegadyn then replied, “How about I lend a hand on that. With my mining stats, I bet I could get what you need in record time. That skill lets me see where to dig and along with another that ups the number of what I dig up."

I stated, “That sounds like a plan. I'm not sure how the nodes would react to that though.” I then went on to say, “I have a ritual room to prepare, I’ll have a minion guild you there. I need to make the spell circle.” After that, I left to set up the circle I mentioned.

I looked at the blueprints for the key got prisoners ordered had snots gather mana from the Arcanium and carve out trenches for the gold.

Brex found me in a large carved-out room that had runes etched in big letters on the floor.

Walking closer to me, Brex whispered as to not let the prisoners hear, “I know this might sound like a stupid question, but where exactly did they all come from? It's your world and all, so I don't think I have a right in saying what you can and can't do on it. This is just curiosity.” While saying this, he was motioning by slightly tilting his head towards the prisoners.

I looked at Brex and said, “These scum are bandits, murderers, rapists, and slavers of my world. They all tried to steal my treasure too. So, their punishment is a slow death in my dungeon. They will learn the meaning of despair and fear. just as their victims did.” I said all of this with a chilling finality to my voice.
I then continued with, “Look, there are people like them in every world. They don't want to change. So the best thing I can give them is the mercy of death so they can never hurt another thing again. This is my job after all. That makes me the devil but I'm not sad about this job, it is something that must be done and I am more than happy to drag scum like this away.” I spoke without keeping my voice low. The prisoners all looked at me with horror dawning on their faces.

Letting out a small sigh, Brex says, “I haven't come across too many like these yet. So far all I've punished and killed were monsters. Well... I was rather rough with one… but that got settled. I just don't know how long it will be until I kill something sentient. If I'm not careful or end up hurting one of her ponies though... that will just get me instantly branded as a danger for her kind and sent to Tartarus.”

he then turned his gaze back to the prisoners and continued, “Do you think it would be possible after we get the key finished, that I could toss those that could be changed with a good scare over here for you to persuade them to change their ways? Right now, I don't think I can trust myself not to lose control. I don't mean to say that I'm gonna send them here hoping that you'll go all Hell Raiser on them or cause any real bodily harm or something. Just to scare them a bit.”

I put a finger on my chin before replying to Brex’s request and says, “I will agree on one condition, if I determine that they can't be changed, then they stay here with me.”

Brex gave a reluctant sigh before replying to that and said, “I could agree to that, as long as I'm there when you make the judgment. Wouldn't be fair to you if I just throw my troubles down in your dungeon and not see it through to the end".

I only shrugged before saying, “As long as you don't have a mana vampire down here, I'm fine with it.” I pointed to a long trench in the floor and says, “The gold goes in there.” I then went back to looking over my clipboard in hand.

Brex holds out his left hand and accesses his item box. Within the time it takes to blink, there was a torrent of gold pieces just flowing from the space no less than an inch from his hand out into the trench. As if this was no different than watering one's garden, he turns to me and says, “I don't know about you, but I take that over one of those spirit spiders I remember reading in a D and D book. You know the ones that look like they're meant to be out in the snow and they liked to jump between space and just reappear anywhere around you. Those things always give me the creeps.

I laughed and replied, “Naw, the worse monster…is a Toilet Mimic.” I visibly shutters after mentioning the mimic.

The Roegadyn had to admit now that was a terrifying idea. He then replied, “Yeah that's got it beat hands down.” He also has the same reaction as me.

I looks at Brex and laughs after seeing how the Roegadyn reacted and said, “Alright, that should be enough you should get out of the circle unless you want to be one with the key.”

After hearing that, he stopped the flow of gold that was coming out of his inventory box and quickly jumped out of the circle. When he was sure that he was at a safe spot, he responded with, “If it's all the same to you, If I'm gonna put anything, inside of anything, I'd rather not be a key when doing so. I’m fine with it being metaphorical, but I don’t.”

I raised my gantlet and starts the ritual, “I call to the void hear my voice.” The gold became molten and flowed with purpose within the trenches. I continued with, “Grant me a rift key, I offer a price." The prisoners started to melt away and mix into the stream of liquid gold, their screams echoed throughout the whole room. But I wasn’t done and went on with the ritual and spoke again, “Now let it be so!" All of the fluids flowed to me. It curled around my form and started shooting up my body and encircled the gantlet and the gold started compressing the impossible amount of gold into a single small point that formed into the size and shape of a key. It had a golden demon skull as the handle and the blade was a bone-white rod. I then grasped it and tossed the key towards Brex.

Seeing it being tossed, He quickly snatched it from the air and began examining it. After a little bit, he then said out loud, “You'd better not let your Celestia find out that you’re doing something like that again. I don't know what yours is like, but If mine was to ever catch sight of something like this happening, I'm pretty sure I'd be sent straight to Tartarus no matter what the reason I had for doing such a thing.”

I then said, “There is a reason I call myself warden and my Celestia is Leona. So, she is on mount Targon.” I then stated, “There are worse people than me. Those being Mordekaiser, Viego, the real thresh, and Aatrox. So, I’m low on the list if on it at all.”

After hearing this Brex looks over to him and quickly says, “Hold the phone! The real one is here? I thought you were him. I mean, you got his weapon and everything. I thought you took his place. What does it mean if you ever run into him?”

I then said flatly, “That is not always the case, I am the game Thresh. The one from my world is lore Thresh, what that means is being so much weaker than him with how I’m mostly mortal.”

After carefully thinking it over a little more in his head, Brex nodded before saying, “OK so he’s the lore one and he’s a lot stronger. Does that mean the only reason the one from your place is stronger right now is because of all the souls of the dead opponents he already killed? I vaguely remember him having the ability to grow in strength just like how you did when you got that power up from Titan.”

I responded with, “Yes and no.” I shook my head and continued, “He gets more from souls than I would and he has one thousand years of experience under his belt. But it looks like I was sent back before the big events in a league of legends. The Burning Tide hasn’t happened yet.”

Brex just shook his head and raised his hands in a, I don't know fashion before saying, “Honestly I don't know anything about the story when it comes to League of Legends. All I remember is playing the character and killing the other champions and minions. But you seem to be the resident expert on all this, So I'll take you at your word.”

I responded to that by saying, “Yeah that is my power, what happened with Titan was one of my abilities from my patron, not one of Thresh's power.”

After hearing the explanation, the Roegadyn nodded before asking, “Well as far as I can tell, things are pretty much settled. Oh, you told me that metal from before can work a certain way. Do I need instructions on how to manipulate it the way I want? I understand that it takes in magic but how do you get it out?”

I started to explain and said, “Ah, Petricite Steel you have to be able to control the flow of mana and if you don't it will just drain you dry. It can store a lot of mana. It can even hold off a god's magical attacks for a time.” I explained, then went on to continue with, “Yea I'm only able to thanks to my mist. But this will be valuable. I do have Black steel, it is just a super-strong metal, I heard it can't even be chipped after a hundred battles.”

The Roegadyn snapped his fingers and said, “Yeah that might do it. I'll take some of those bars when I got things settled a bit more back on my world and I'll get to work on it in the future. I might have a good use for them, also when I get better control of my mana I'll see about getting some of that other steal from you.” Bringing a finger up to his masked chin, he then finished with, “I got some very interesting ideas that I can put stuff to good use with.”

Turning to Me, Brex Send, So I take it it's sort of like adamantium. If so does that mean that once it's forged into something it will no longer be able to be reinforced again?

I quickly responded with, “No it's not that strong but it is durable. It's what Darius’s axe and armor are made of after all.” I replied, "Alright I should head back to my world, no rest for the wicked.” I began to write something down on a new page on the clipboard.

Seeing that this would be a good time for him to go as well, Brex attempted to use the shadow traveling technique but found that it was not able to connect him back to his world. Immediately after, he went with the return spell. Brex’s body became wrapped and a familiar aura of light levitated him off the ground. Just as the familiar warping ability was going to kick in, he quickly turned to me and called out, “Be careful not to get that elf mad at you. That kick of hers hurts!” The second those words left his lips his form disappeared.