Reincarnated at Level Two Million - Chapter 82

After a stressful day of training Zell, Obsi, and Sid returned to the house of black. They found Camille sitting in the living room next to the fire, watching it with a blank expression on her face.

“Are you okay?” Zell asked as he sat down across from her.

“I am just trying to process the fact I am stuck in their other universe.” Camille said. “I spent my whole life for the goal of clearing my mother’s name… I never thought this would be the outcome.”

“I am so sorry about that!” Zell said. “It’s my fault for forgetting my teleportation stone back on Earth. I just wasn’t thinking about it.”

“Ultimately it’s my fault.” Camille said. “I wasn’t exactly allowed to view that evidence. I had to bribe the officer over the safe to let me take a look. I just knew if I could see it, I could figure out some way to track you down and make you come clean. When mom told me you were a god, I researched a lot of old books. I studied and found many rituals that could summon gods, allegedly.”

“You ended up getting summoned instead.” Zell laughed at the irony.

“I wasn’t even doing a ritual yet!” Camille said. “I had just grabbed the stone from lockup when it started to glow. It pulled me to this world. Tell me, do you know of any way I could go home?”

“If I still had Steve’s powers it would be an easy matter.” Zell said. “However, I lost those some time ago. The only way I know would be to kill Steve again and take his powers from him, but I doubt we would ever find him. He could be anywhere in the multiverse, at any time.”

“So, I am truly stuck here then.” Camille said with a tear flowing down her cheek. “I’ll never get to see mom, or my boyfriend, or Mr. Whiskers! Oh god, who is going to feed my cat?!”

“You named your cat Mr. Whiskers?” Zell questioned.

“Yes.” Camille said. “It’s a cute name for my cute boy! Who is now going to starve to death! My poor baby!”

“Look, it sounds like people love you.” Zell said. “They will notice you are missing and take care of Mr. Whiskers for you.”

“Right.” Camille said, calming down. “My mom will figure out I’m missing, she is an amazing detective. I am sure she will take care of my cat for me. I am still going to miss that little guy, he was like a son to me, my ultimate ride or die companion.”

“Dinner is ready you two.” Lucille said. “We are having an extra special feast to celebrate the master’s return!”

“I hope you are hungry.” Zell laughed as he got up. “You haven’t seen food until you have seen a dragon’s feast!”

“Really?” Camille said as she got up to follow Zell.

The dining room table was stoked with boars, rabbits, chickens, fish, and other small beasts. Sid sat at the end of the table and Obsi sat to his right.

“Come human, sit next to my daughter.” Sid said to Zell. “Other human you may sit wherever you like.”

Since it was Sid’s house Zell did as requested and sat next to Obsi. Camille sat to Sid’s left next to Lucille.

“So, human we need to discuss what is our next step.” Sid said while grabbing a sizable portion of meat and putting it on his plate. “What is your current objective?”

“I am trying to learn magic so that I can gain immortality.” Zell said. “Then I plan to stop the human and demon war, in defiance of the gods. Then I plan to train until I am strong enough to kill all of the gods so that I can end their playing with mortal lives.”

“How much magic have you learned so far?” Sid asked.

“Just fireball.” Zell replied. “But I can’t control how powerful I make it and it always seems to be too strong.”

“I see so magic control is what you need.” Sid said. “Well have no fear, I am a master of controlling magic. I will teach you the ways.”

“I would like that, thank you.” Zell said.

“However, I will not do it for free.” Sid replied. “I will need something from you in return.”

“Let me guess it has something to do with Obsi.” Zell said with a sigh.

“Dad, stop forcing the issue.” Obsi said. “I will win Zell over on my own. I don’t want him to be forced to be with me. I want him to want to.”

“You two both jump to conclusions too easily.” Sid said laughing. “But yes, it does have something to do with my daughter, but rather something to do with you. I am old enough to know the time before the gift. Heck I am the one who took it from the divine realm, so I know its nature. That will only work on the creatures of divine origin. A human mortal will not gain immortality from the waters. A longer life maybe? Or instant death. I honestly have no idea. I asked the other elders while you were busy earlier, and they confirmed my fears. The waters have never been tested on someone who is not divine.”

“So, my plan to be immortal is a dud?” Zell asked.

“No.” Sid said. “This is why I said it is for my daughter but also for you. There is a ritual that I know as the elder of black dragons. The ritual will change you into a dragonkin. You won’t be a full dragon or drake, but you will possess the blood of the dragons. It should give you enough divinity to gain immortality, but it is not without its own side effects.”

“Like what?” Zell said.

“That will depend completely on your will.” Sid replied. “Becoming infused with the blood of the dragonkin will put a lot of stress on your body and your mind. As to what changes in you is determined by your will to resist the changes. Resist them all and you will still appear as human to all who look at you. Fail and you will look more like a dragon than a human.”

“It is a risk worth taking.” Zell said.. “I will do your ritual.”