I have been trying to talk to some chicks for almost the whole day but they either are too busy being afraid of the shades or are too afraid of me. It seems most of the townspeople now think not only Agnis is a monster but Ted, Greg, and me too. I sigh. Maybe I should go to the mine and see how the mining chick is doing. She won''t judge me, right? At that moment I see Greg approach. Hey, have you seen Agnis? I made some stink… anti-nausea potions for him. Doesn''t he have enough already?


    He needs extra strong ones now, we both passed out from nausea after he linked my vision and opened the filter of the dimensional fabric. It is a whole new level of disgusting. Greg seemed to start feel sick after thinking about it and took one of his stinky potions. I could smell it from here the moment he opened the lid. I took a step back.


    Ugh, that stinks! Is it that bad? Yea…


    I haven''t seen him sorry. At that moment the sky started to act weird and well everything started to wobble and look goofy.


    Is this the infamous skip function? What? I think Agnis got serious.


    But is the sky supposed to do that? Oh, look a full moon. I don''t remember messing with day and night being between one of the effects nine-tailed spirit foxes cause when they release their form.


    So, this is not Agnis’ doing? I don’t know. Also, Raishin, as long as you don’t use [Solar stream] you can do whatever you want.


    Wait really? What about the town? Agnis was so kind to set up a magic circle to teleport everyone to the city down below, I got the task to execute it since I bet, he has his hands full.


    Oooh! Cool! So where is he now though? Well, I don''t know exactly how it works but since we can''t see that dimensional fabric without his aid, I guess we can’t see or detect him when he is dealing with that but the effects seem to be quite clear. Even though it is still noon it was dark outside and the sky was well-lit by the full moon.


    Hey, was the moon always that big? Don’t try to make sense out of this, there shouldn''t have been a full moon in 6 days, I think time fast-forwarded to the night that has a full moon. I don''t know why though. And I assume Agnis doesn''t know either.


    Everything is so blurry and weird, I like it! So, can I go wild now? Not yet, I will do a final check on this magic circle Agnis made and then prepare to activate the teleport. I want to activate it at midnight so that most townspeople will be inside and not notice.


    Midnight?! I have to wait that long? You''ve waited 5 timelines I’m sure you can wait several more hours, you can vent by blasting the shade trashcan some more.


    Fine! I went to the trashcan and blasted some shades. I saw a large shade getting pushed toward the trashcan. Ooh good! Since I was outside the town, I could go ham! I made a tornado and sucked everything in. It reminded me of that [Explonado] Agnis and I made.


    I can do that too! I fed the tornado a [Flame wave]. Ooh, a toasty tornado! I look around. I don''t see Ted; he would probably name it something lame like [Toastnado]. What was next? Lightning, but we didn''t manage to succeed. Since this tornado is red-orange what if I feed it red lightning for a super rednado! But before I could feed it lightning it got swallowed by a big shadow.


    Hey! I said to vent on the trashcan not create a tornado of death that might go into town. Do that after I finish the teleport.


    Meh. I had to kill time until it was midnight. Time to dig for gold! I picked up the pickaxe out of my hut and headed toward Boshi mines. I descended into the mines but nobody was here. I sighed. It was the same in the last timeline. I don''t blame them; it is just I don''t have a family like them to stay with during this invasion. I took off my coat, scarf and sweater and started digging. How nice would it be to be able to use earth magic like Greg and Ted. I stopped digging. Wait! Agnis dug a 200-meter-deep hole without earth magic! Haha, I can use lightning magic! I''m a genius! Well, Agnis is a genius but I''m a genius for ripping off his idea! I dropped my pickaxe, well actually it''s Agnis’ pickaxe, and put my index finger in my mouth and stuck it in the air. There is no reason why I did this but it made me believe that I knew what I was doing.


    Over there! My intuition told me to blast a hole at this part. I put my hand on the rock wall.


    [Lightning beam]! My voice echoed through the mine as well did the blast. It kicked up a lot of dust. I coughed as I waved the dust away. I decided to use wind magic to get rid of it. I made a small flare and walked into the tunnel I just made. I looked at the molten walls but I didn''t see anything that looked like gold. I saw something goldish at the end of the tunnel.


    Yes! I did it! I wanted to dig the gold out but I realized I left the pickaxe behind. I walked back but couldn''t find it. I retraced my steps.


    I stood here and then dropped it like this. I looked at where I remembered I dropped the pickaxe and looked down the mine shaft which was I don''t know how many meters deep. Nooooo! I looked around to make sure I didn''t misremember. Sadly, my memory isn''t bad like Agnis so I’m sure I dropped the pickaxe down there.


    Screw it! I took out my tails and used [Thundercloak] and jumped down. Nobody has time to climb down! I crashed down to the bottom. I didn''t manage to land neatly and faceplanted. Luckily my thunder cloak reduces physical damage. I shook my head and looked around. I can''t see shit! I made a flare and in front of me was Kanna.


    Oh hey, trol... Kanna, have you seen my pickaxe? Kanna roared and ran at me with a huge club. Hey was Kanna always this big? I dodged a swing of her club but I forgot to maintain the flare and it became dark. Shit! Hey, Kanna it''s me! Raishin! Another brutish roar. I felt the ground shaking as Kanna? Wait is this her? Maybe it''s a different troll. I lit a flare and saw the club swinging down on me. I threw a 24-strength attack at Not-Kanna to cancel out the swing. I bet Agnis probably already forgot that we had this arrangement where he would give a number and I would match it to cancel out an attack. Maybe I should remind him. I have to do this on intuition though. My attack blasted the club to pieces and the troll looked upset.


    Hey, Not-Kanna, I''m just here to get my pickaxe, wait it''s not my pickaxe it''s Agnis’ pickaxe, I borrowed it from him! Another roar and I dodged a Kanna punch. How rude! Fine then don''t help me but I will blow you up! Not-Kanna seemed to not care and threw another punch at me. I dodged and sent a [Lightning bolt] at her but she was using some weird magic that made her dodge my attack without moving or using a magic circle. I threw more [Lightning bolts] but only a few seemed to hit.


    Heh, impressive, to think you would avoid the majority of my attacks! It is good that I have AOE attacks! Hahaha! I shot a red lightning bolt to the sky but it hit the ceiling of the mine. Oh, nobody told me that this attack doesn''t work indoors! I ran from Not-Kanna who was chasing me. Heyhey! Time out let me… I dodged another punch.


    “Grooaar!”


    Shit, you trapped me! How sneaky! I was looking at a dead end. But this is no problem, I will summon my spear with [Thunder call] and I will [Raishin kick] Not-Kanna. I reached my hand at the sky and used [Thundercall]. I was waiting for my spear to fall into my hands but nothing happened. Huh what?! Not-Kanna was merciless.


    Hey! Stop punching! Don’t you know it''s rude to attack someone when he''s preparing an attack? I looked at the sky to check where my spear was and looked at a rock ceiling. Oh, I guess this also doesn''t work indoors… Do I even have attacks that work indoors? Screw it. A worthy opponent indeed, you forced my hand. Eat this! [Nova blast]! A big flash, a lot of rumbling, and then darkness. That didn''t hurt as much as I thought it would! There is one problem though. I’m stuck. I might be buried in the dirt here. I don''t want to be buried alive! Something told me to feed more energy in my [Thundercloak] and use another [Nova blast] so that''s what I did.


    Aah fresh air! I’m a master of digging! I looked around and I was standing in a super big hole. Was this hole always here? I saw my spear stuck in the ground a bit further. There you are! I tried to pull my spear out of the ground but it was stuck.


    Oh, come on you’re not Excalibur! You’re already mine! I blasted the ground and made my spear unstuck. Perfect! It was getting dark but it didn''t look like midnight yet. The big full moon was gone though. I should''ve used that full moon as an excuse to think it was midnight. Wait! My gold! Nooo! I looked for the entrance of the mine but this big hole filled with rubble was in the way! Who filled up this mine with rocks while I was fighting Not-Kanna! I blasted the rubble away until I saw something that looked like gold.


    Yes! I’m rich! I tried to dig the gold out of this big boulder but realized I didn''t have a pickaxe.


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    Noooo! I can''t believe I forgot to retrieve the pickaxe! Agnis is never going to let me hear the end of this! I will just carry this boulder to Greg and ask him to dig it out for me. Ted would probably punch and smash everything. I tried to carefully blast all the rubble surrounding my gold boulder. Hey, what are you doing?


    Hey, don''t sneak up on me! I called out to you several times though…


    Oh, I’m trying to bring this gold boulder to Greg to dig it out. So, you finally struck gold, eh? But a Goulder, eh?


    Ugh, you see that is why I didn''t want to ask you for help! Stop with these bad puns! But it''s a good one! Gold and Boulder make Goulder! Eh? Ey?


    No! It sucks! So, can you dig this out for me or can you only punch this thing to pieces? Uhh, for something this delicate you might want Greg. But I thought this mine only had iron ore.


    Hah! They were wrong! This is obviously gold! Can you carry this for me, please? Well, some extra funds wouldn''t hurt I guess, it is not like one of us is filthy rich…


    Yeah, we''re all super broke but don''t worry now that I will be rich, I will give you poor scrubs some allowance hehe! I helped Ted carry the gold to Greg’s house.


    Is he even home? I don''t know, he said he needed to fix some stuff so he might be not. Ted smacked me.


    So, we carried this here for nothing? Hey! That hurts! And no look there he comes! Do I even want to know what you guys are doing? And have you seen Agnis? I can’t reach him with Teleroad and I can’t feel his energy.


    I hope he didn''t get stuck in another separate dimension. That would suck but that would be something he would get stuck in. So why are you guys carrying junk to my house?


    It''s not junk! It''s gold! I’m rich! Why didn''t you dig it out?


    Well, you see I dropped my pickaxe well not my pickaxe, Agnis’ pickaxe and I went down the shaft to get it but then Kanna attacked me! Kanna was down there? Ugh, of course not, you met a real mountain troll.


    So, it is not her brother? I don’t think so, come in, and I will dig the gold out for you. We enter Greg’s house but it smells a bit funky.


    It smells a bit funky in here! Uhh, well this and that happened, Put it down here. Ted dropped my gold and Gregory inspected it.


    Where did you find this? Hehe, jealous, eh? I found it in Boshi mine nr 2!


    Hmm, I thought only iron ore could be mined there. That''s what I said too! You guys are just jealous! I don''t know what Gregory was doing but he was slowly digging the gold out. I didn''t mind because he was careful with my gold but I did get bored.


    Phew, it took 2 hours but it’s finally dug out! Yes! My gold! So, what now do we melt it into bars?


    Hmm, you might want to appraise it first, you''ll have to bring this to Agnis. Hey, Greg is it midnight yet?


    I’m almost done with the setup. It isn''t close to midnight but more and more strong shades are appearing so we might have to move our schedule a bit. Yes! We went outside after feeling an energy wave.


    Oooh, look at how big that shade is! Right, I think I should hurry up, from the energy flux I feel it seems that it is going to shoot a laser soon. Raishin I will create a big earth pillar when I’m done. When you see it count to 10 and then you can do whatever you want besides [Solar stream]


    Oooh! I can’t wait! Hey, can I know the plan too? There is not much of a plan, we will just teleport everyone to the city below and Raishin will nuke the town.


    What is this plan? You sound just like Agnis! Well, it was his plan. I hope he is ok.


    He will be fine; I will be surprised if anything manages to kill him. Ehh, yeah, time to work! Greg made some shadow clones and they spread out. They surely moved slowly though… I guess it will take some hours before I can start blasting… I jumped on a roof and saw some townspeople running away from shades. Ha! Time to become Boshi town’s local hero! I threw some [Lightning bolts] at the shades.


    “Aaagh!” Oops, seems I zapped some townspeople. The townspeople look at me angrily and continue running away. A good thing I used some weak lightning. Hmm, that went better in my head. I jumped down and used [Raishin kick] on some shades but none of this was exciting. I saw a huge magic circle activate. Oooh, it''s almost time! The magic circle took some time to fill with mana and it was finally completed. I saw townspeople disappear and a rising earth pillar.


    Yes! Now, what am I going to use, hmm… I got a magic message prompt asking if I want to accept the teleport with a timer. No! I want to stay here! The towns people don''t get this I feel, who would accept a random teleport? Oh, right I’m supposed to count to 10! I counted to 10 and then decided to go ham. Agnis went true form earlier so now it''s my turn! I took all my 5 tails out and released my six-tailed tiger form. I got a cool tiger print jacket and it started to rain red lightning.


    Ahh, it feels good to not hold back! I tried the [Rednado] I came up with earlier which got interrupted by Greg. but it will be bigger! And there will be more! I made 10 [Rednados] and easily wiped out all the shades in Boshi town. The whole town was bathed in red light from the red lightning rain and [Rednados]. One [Rednado] was acting weird though. It was giving off more energy than the others and was slowly turning orange. Hmm, I didn''t feed it more energy why is it turning into an [Orangenado]? It started to eat up all the other [Rednados].


    Hey, Orangenado get along with the other nadoes! The orangenado started to give off a lot of heat. I have the feeling that it''s not orange because it upgraded to orange lightning… My intuition told me to get away from this [Orangenado] Because it started to turn yellow.


    -Raishin, what the fuck did you do? -


    -I made a [Rednado] but it turned orange but now it’s turning yellow! I don’t understand what''s going on! - -I can’t believe that you find a more destructive move after we ban your [Solar stream]. Come to my house, Ted and I are here waiting for you so I can shadow meld to the underground city. -


    - Uhh, sure, so what is this [Yellownado]? - - You remember that Agnis was trying to make the Fusion element with you right? Well congratulations you made a [Fusionado]. What is worse than calling down a blast from the sun is making something that is very well on the same tier as the sun, just in tornado form… Can’t you guys do anything normal?- - Hey Raishin, can you hurry up its getting really hot here!-


    - On it!- I looked at the [Fusionado] that ate up all the [Rednadoes] and started to get whitish It was also gigantic, I could see Boshi lake Minor from here but most of it was already evaporated because it was close to the [Fusionado]. And Ted was correct it was really hot out here and it set the whole town ablaze. I might have overdone it. I cancelled my six-tailed tiger release mode and teleported to Greg''s house. Ted smacked me after I arrived.


    Are you trying to kill us?! Hehe, sorry, I didn''t know this would happen. What about Agnis? This probably wouldn''t do much to him but he can shadowmeld and also teleport, there is no reason to be worried that this will do anything to him. He is also probably training his shadow clones.


    Shouldn''t we be immune to that ehh thing? Ted points at the [Fusionado]. I don''t know how all this works but since this heat is affecting us, I don’t want to gamble on it. Let’s go!


    Greg grabbed us and shadow melded to the underground city. It seemed quite busy and Agnis, Paul, Paula, Charlize, and Cecilia were explaining things to the townspeople. Hey look it’s Agnis! He seems to be stuck in a troublesome situation, but I thought he would be practicing shadow clones by now. Well, I guess it was his idea.


    The people seem upset don''t they know we just saved them? I’m sure they see this situation differently. Let''s get a bit closer and hear what they''re saying.


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    Yes! And what I''m saying is that if you guys stay up there you will just get wiped out. All those attacks echoing around and those shades will eventually cause lots of deaths.


    “Just like how you killed off Monkey and his group!?”


    “Yeah, why should we trust you!”


    “Murderer!” Hey, listen, to be honest, I don''t care, if you want to go back up there, be my guest. You are safe here if you want to go back up, I won’t stop you. You don’t have to trust me or believe me.


    “Good! Then we won’t! Guys let''s go back up!”


    “Yeah! So ehh how do we get back up?” Well, you guys don''t want to listen to me so there is no point telling you since you won''t believe me anyways. Agnis shrugged. It seems like he made himself the villain but still has everything under control.


    “How about you tell us and then we decide if you’re telling the truth!” I think you guys are misunderstanding something here, I have no obligation to you all. But if any of you can tell me exactly what is going on what is causing all this and how it all became like this, I will acknowledge that you know how to handle yourself in this situation and I won’t mind sending you back up there.


    “We think that you caused this to oppress us!” Ooh, I like that one, go on!


    “And you’re holding us captive to make us slaves and do whatever you want!”


    “Yeeah! I bet you want to become our mayor or something and order us around!” Hah, if you guys think that you know absolutely nothing about me! Anyways I’m done with you clowns, you can do whatever you want, I don’t care. Just consider yourselves lucky that you got caught in the crossfire of me trying to protect the people I actually care about. Agnis left and headed toward the big palace.


    “Hey come back! What about us!”


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    Ugh what a mess, I guess that as inevitable. Let''s try to avoid the townspeople and rest. I don''t need rest! No, but you need to reflect on your actions! See this is why we try to keep you on a leash! You will just casually wipe a town off the map!


    Leave it be Ted, this was kind of what we expected. I was just hoping he would go for a bit less hazardous skills but this works too. I’ll try to see if I can catch up with Agnis.