Reincarnated to become a Demon Supreme-Chapter 18: Meeting the Team

"Fine, I’ll go to this little party of yours. Other than this opportune moment you speak of, what other surprise should I expect?"

"Well I’d advise you to find a way to be separate with other jumpers when you are teleported to this dimension or you might be a target"

Selly spoke with a firm voice. Her playful side pushed aside. Right at this moment Alex saw The leader of this settlement. The normally cheerful woman switched with a take command, no play time lady before him."Why is that?" He couldn’t help but ask.

"You are going to the Dimension of truth. A dimension that lays bare what is true is without leaving no stone unturned. I’m sure you don’t want an army full of experienced frontline fighters taking their attention on you.

And that is on top of the creatures you will be facing that side. Another thing, lying is practically impossible in that dimension. So please tread lightly once you go that side."

Upon hearing the reason Alex understood. He was a special case. Right now his strength didn’t allow him to act recklessly. He has been in two fights and both times he had already kissed the lips of death. Who knows how long he will dance tango on the tip till death decides to actually take him.

"I understand, who will I be going with? And please don’t let it be those kids."

Selly put her elbow on the table and supported her chin, seeing Alex’s heart started revving like an engine ready to leave the lot.

"You speak as if you are an adult yourself, or perhaps it is because Demonic Angels age differently from us lowly humans?"

Selly asked in a teasing voice. A bit of smile lurking on her face perfectly decorating her already captivating look.

"Ahem! Gulp! I asked you a question"

She saw the hold she had on him but didn’t dwell on it much, she returned to her professional persona.

"This time you will be going with Bruce’s Team, I’m certain you already met his teammate. She helped you defeat that monster. The holder of Mystica of Motion, Trister"

Thoughts of a fast attack that bore a whole came to mind. The one responsible was a woman, short blue hair with the old eyewear the jumpers used to check stats. But she mainly used it as a windshield against dust that came into her eyes when she ran fast.

"Now I remember her. She’s powerful. And you tell me she is part of a team not the leader? How powerful is this leader?"

"That’s for you find out, they are actually waiting for you at the long range portal bay"

A jumper’s portal has only one Job, and that is to send them to another dimension. It took a technique to be developed by jumpers to be able to use them to connect one point with another in the same dimension.

The thing is, since this technique is not supported by any dimensional energy, the jumpers had to compensate with their own. And long distance connection took a lot more energy which could leave a jumper feeling like they used a taboo skill or worse dearth.

So to counter this they used ancient technology found in one of the dimensions to create a long range portal bay. This came just in time as the world’s seal was broken and other forms of transportation were destroyed.

"Guess i should be leaving then"

With that he left the office, only the father and the daughter left.

"Are you sure about this?"

Malkov asked with concern laced in his voice.

"You heard what he said right? about the world needs fixing,"

He spoke once more. Selly looked at her father, the tough persona from a moment ago gone. Now left a child looking at her father.

"I wish to say I’m certain. There’s only so much I can see, especially from him.And I believe he just spoke to his corrupted side just now."

The General’s face showed horror when he heard that. His daughter had already told him about a demonic fallen Angel. He still couldn’t believe such beings exist and most importantly he tried to turn such a creature into a slave to milk its power.

"If his corruption is already showing, how certain are you of your plans?"

"This has nothing to do with certainty. There is far worse coming, and he is the shield we need to survive. The Jumper phenomena goes far deeper than we realise. We are merely at the entrance, yet to see what the players behind this have for us, and if I am to become a chess piece. Then I choose queen"

Malkov could hear the defiance within his daughter’s voice.

***

As Alex walked towards the Bay, he saw hunger, hopelessness and pity in the eyes of the people of the settlement.

’The world has changed so much, what couldn’t be before, can be today. I understand the need to reserve resources to keep humanity alive, but what exactly is it to be human? Who is being reserved, is it humanity or greed?"

After a while he came upon the tallest building in the settlement. Around the building, a sort of stone only found in dimensions, near the place where treasures are kept to be exact. This stone was a good conductor of Mystica energy. Humans started to call it Quartz like the stones they used to conduct spiritual cleansing.

The minerals found in the stones could also be found in treasures, Though Jumpers had already mined some of the minerals, they are yet to find a proper way to turn them into treasure. The only breakthrough they found was Alex’s chaos power and that was a cheat since Alex could basically put intent within his energy and the hard part of creating a treasure is out of the way.

Once he walked in. He saw three figures. Namely Brice, Trister and Marcelous. The three were discussing something, totally unaware of the new arrival.

"Are you sure it is him?"

"Yes I’m sure, I was there when the battle went down. He was so powerful I almost shat myself out of fear."

"Trister that is unladylike"

"Shut up Marcel as if I need any advice from you. By the way Bruce, what did the General say about that monster this big head was playing with last week?"

"That’s the thing, I never got the chance to meet him, he seemed out of space as if he was worried about something."

"Think it’s about that Angelic Demon thing?"

"It’s a Demonic Fallen Angel. An...:

Trister’s words got stuck on her throat, she now realised that there was an unannounced visitor and it happened to be the person they were just talking about. When Brice and Marcel heard her cut off they got curious and checked what could have made her shut up"

Then there he was, tall, jet black long dark hair with dark eyes to match. Standing he was unassuming, as if a handsome ordinary guy. They couldn’t feel his connection to any mystica. Marcel put a hand over his mouth and leaned in towards Trister.

"Are you sure that’s him?"

Instead of answering she walked forth and stretched out her arm. And a warm smile to accompany the friendly greeting. Alex looked at the hand and reciprocated.

"I guess now we formally meet, My name is Trister, A Level72 with a Speed type mystica"

Their hands shook. Then followed Marcel.

"I’m Marcelous, A level 74 with a an Elemental type Mystica"

Finally it was Bruce’s turn. He walked forward, his eyes shifting all around Alex’s body as if trying to catch something out of the Ordinary. Since he noticed Alex he had been on Alex, looking at all exits, sizing up Alex and thinking back at the battle that took place.

"I’m Bruce, the leader of this group, A level 75 with the Mystica of Death"

"..."

Alex, not expecting that, couldn’t even imagine a dimension of death and more importantly, how does one get acquainted with death. Alex had so many questions. Upon touching Bruce’s hands, it felt as though he was touching a block of Ice. It was almost as if he was touching a copse.

"Nice to meet you all, I’m Alex, Since you had already seen me fight I guess there is no need to hide it. And no I don’t have a mystica, My powers are purely mine.

Gasp!

The group couldn’t believe it. The thought of their bodies being the container of their power frightens them. They understand that though Jumpers, the moment their bodies took in the mistica, they would explode into atoms, not an exaggeration but their Mystica is practically a cosmic power and their current bodies could barely contain a simple Taboo spell, which the Mystica allowed them a small increase of its power.

"Are you a demon like the one that attacked a week ago?"

Marcel asked. The other two didn’t try to stop him as they were curious as well.

"Nope, I think she told you what I am"

Pointing at Trister.