Chapter 167: Great Cleansing
--- An unknown place...
The place just looked like a garden usually found in a fairy tale setting. Fields of colorful flowers, butterflies flying around, and a single tree standing in the center of the place. The tree might look small when seen at a distance, but in truth, it was gigantic in size.
Just near the gigantic tree was Jay and the three dragons, and floating right above them was Izumi.
"Fraxinus, welcome our guests and try to recover Glimmer's nature essence." Izumi said in a soft voice while she touched the gigantic tree.
After that, some of the roots from the gigantic tree suddenly popped out of the ground and turned into three large stumps and a wooden chair.
"Sit down for now since our talk might take for a while." Izumi said to Jay and the three dragons and gestured them to sit down.
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While Jay was amazed to see this gigantic monstrosity of a treant, he tried to suppress his curiosity for now and just sat down on the wooden chair provided by the treant.
After Jay and the three dragons sat down on their respective seats, Izumi descended onto the ground and vines from the gigantic treant formed into some kind of swinging chair for her to sit on.
"Essence release." Izumi said softly and the light surrounding her suddenly dissipated, revealing her true form.
She looked exactly as how a fairy would look like. A small and petite body just like a little girl's, butterfly wings on her back, long braided blond hair, and a very cute face.
"First of all..." Before speaking further, a teacup suddenly appeared on her right hand and she sipped on it.
"Jay, I want to ask you. What do you think was the worst thing you did so far?" Izumi said as she stared at Jay with a disdainful look on her rounded eyes.
"I... am not sure." Jay said and thought, "Just what exactly did I do? I just went around grabbing the loot around, killed some monsters and demons, and even helped a lot of people along the way..."
But the moment Izumi heard Jay's answer, the teacup she was holding suddenly shattered into pieces as she flew into a rage.
"If that's the case, why don't I just kill you right here!" Izumi shouted as she raised her hand and a ray of green light suddenly descended onto Jay.
"Izumi! Stop right now!" Hellson's soul projection shouted the moment the green light descended onto Jay.
For some reason, Izumi stopped whatever spell she was using and another teacup appeared on her hand.
"Fine! If you are so protective of him, why don't you explain to him his crimes? And while you're at it, why don't you tell him the troubles we go through everyday?" Izumi said as she pouted and sipped some tea.
Then just as Hellson was about to tell Jay to meet him in his soul space, the red dragon, Bacchus, suddenly spoke up.
"My lady, may I know why we are here?"
"Simple. You three just involved yourself in a war that will last for millions of years. Or if we lose, this war will probably just take around a year or something." Izumi said calmly, even though she knew she was under a lot of pressure due to the planar war happening.
"What?!" Ori and Bacchus both shouted at the same time, surprised and shocked with what Izumi said. As for Lydia, since Jay told her already about it, she showed no signs of shock in her emotions and just listened quietly.
"As citizens of the Fatelord Plane, we call this as the Hundredfold Planar Invasion since we are the ones in the losing side, only defending and never attacking due to our lack in power. As for the other planes, they call this war as the 'Great Cleansing.'"
After this small part that Izumi said, the dragons gulped and for some reason, they shuddered. As for Jay, he told Hellson that he wanted to listen to this first before knowing whatever crimes he did.
"There are millions of planes in existence. But among these millions of planes, there are only 1000 of them connected by something known as the Astral Void Gate. These 1000 planes are known as the Great Millennia. As for the rest of the planes out there, we call them Drifters. And on random occurrences which can happen anytime, a new Drifter plane gets created. Do you see where I am heading with this?" Izumi asked one of the dragons.
"The Great Cleansing you spoke of. It just means that these Drifter planes gets destroyed by inhabitants from the other planes right? Then what about those planes belonging to the Great Millennia? And what about the plane we are in? Are we one of those Drifter planes?" Ori said and asked.
"The Fatelord Plane, the one we live on, is part of the Great Millennia. And it does not matter if a plane is part of the Great Millennia or the Drifters, because the moment the Great Cleansing starts, which was around a hundred years ago, every plane will get involved in this. And the only time the Great Cleansing ends is when there are only a thousand planes remaining in existence, which in turn will become the Great Millennia."
When Jay and the three dragons heard all this, it took a while for them to absorb all of this in their mind since it was just too much to take in. Then after a few seconds later, Izumi continued.
"The only thing we need to worry about are the planes within the Great Millennia. There is a ranking system created by an unknown person, a ranking of power of the planes in the Great Millennia. The Fatelord Plane is ranked as 999th... so its pretty obvious we are on the losing side..." Izumi said while she frowned.
"WHAT?!!" The three dragons exclaimed in shock again. Even Lydia showed a shocked expression this time since if this was the case, then what about the planes ranked as the top ten? Won't they just be able to destroy the Fatelord Plane with a snap of their fingers?
"Well, we really did not have to worry about anything since we only need to defend our plane. And besides, those high ranking planes does not even care about the Great Cleansing. The planes that are currently invading us are the ones ranked as the 998th and 990th." After a short pause, Izumi continued.
"The Shurym Plane. Ranked as 998th, most of the inhabitants of this plane are the demons that you encountered. The brown-skins are just their cannon fodder and those gray-skins are their soldiers. As for the powerhouses in that plane, they are still not making their move.
The Darkonia Plane. Ranked as 990th. The inhabitants of this plane are usually serpent-like in nature. Dragons, pythons, lizards, etc. The unique thing about this plane's inhabitants are their black-colored scales and most of them have multiple heads. One of their powerhouses has already entered the Fatelord Plane and already conquered the Southern Desolate. 3 Divine beings died trying to oppose this powerhouse."
After Izumi finished up, she then looked at Jay hatefully and disdainfully again.
"Just why did it have to be you? Our so called 'trump card' turned into a useless s**t like you! Just die!"
"Izumi! Just f**king calm down! I messed up too you know, why do you guys have to blame Jay for it!??" Hellson suddenly shouted angrily and his soul projection became a bit wobbly due to him releasing a threatening aura.
"WHY WOULDN'T WE BLAME HIM?!! HE IS A USELESS, UNGRATEFUL, PIECE OF S**T!" Izumi said as two orbs of green light appeared on both her hands.
"Useless? Ungrateful? What are you even talking about? Do you think I wanted to live in this world of yours? Who forced me anyways to go through that reincarnation crap? I just wanted to enjoy playing virtual reality games for the rest of my life and I suddenly got stuck here for some reason! So tell me, how the hell is it all my fault?!" Jay said while trying to be as calm as he can because he knew that if he shouted furiously at Izumi, she might just kill him on the spot.
"You...!!??>!! AAAHHHHH!!!" Izumi got even more angrier but stopped using the spell she was going to use. She even stuttered and started speaking in random languages just to curse Jay. After that, she just sat down quietly, with veins popping out of her hands and face, making her look really scary.
"Jay, meet me in the mind room. Let us continue all of this in there and I will explain everything to you. I will answer all of your questions in there while I explain everything." Hellson's soul projection said to Jay as he tapped Jay's shoulder and dissipated.
"The three of you, just explore my garden for now..." Izumi tried her best to speak calmly while she looked at the three dragons resting on the wooden stumps.
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--- Mind Room ---
"Jay, I was supposed to have this talk with you when you... nevermind." Hellson tried to say something but decided to just proceed with whatever he had to explain.
"Most of the things I will talk about will slowly reveal the reason why you were reincarnated into this world... and the curse you brought with you..." Hellson said while he felt a bit of sadness.
When Jay heard this, he did not know how he should feel. Should he feel expectant, worried, or both?
"Why I reincarnated into Dungeons and Towers of Fate... I will finally know why..." Jay thought to himself as he completely focused on whatever Hellson was going to tell him.
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