Chapter 56 - Return

'Huh' looking at the huge whirlpool in the middle of the sky, a man who was resting lazily in a park in the new republic sighed with melancholy and tiredness, "guess the vacation is over".

The man was dressed casually in plain shirts and trousers, he had an unkempt scruffy beard on his face and coupled with his lazy tired gaze he looked like any other random middle aged man who was living in modern society and was usually swamped with work.

Although the man's presence was incompatible with the world and environment around him no one seemed to notice his presence, it seemed even the plane will was not aware of his presence.

With a reluctant sigh, the man disappeared leaving only a faint scent of sulfur in the air to tell the tale of his existence.

With the appearance of the whirlpool and the ignition of the negative information Layton who was sealed finally regained consciousness, taking advantage of the increase in power of the plane he used his connection to suggest to the plane will the quickest path of promotion.

With the plane will consent Layton regained his connection and control to the plane and made the plane a 3-layer structure, the real world stayed the same and the whirlpool went under to form an abyss or underworld whichever direction it would later evolve into and then the spirit world remained on top, the 3 layers closely connected to each other while each using its gravitational pull to remain apart not fully connected.

With this arrangement done the whole plane shook and its promotion was basically a success, with the success whether Layton wanted to or not the plane started expelling him and the return procedure to the wizard world was activated, zero who had hidden her body in the soul of the assassin leader of the red lotus started fading away also the return procedure affecting her also.

May heard a voice in her mind, "I will take this, and if you want to see a wider world take a look at the gift I left in your mind." Suddenly the red crystal that was held in her palm disappeared and some inexplicable information was stored in her mind, May had no time to take care of the information as she felt the pull of the plane and unconsciously flooded her self with spirit energy making her eyes glow and connecting deeply with the plane accepting its baptism and reward, Raiden, Zahir and the assassin zero had possessed were similar except they didn't glow but their bodies were indeed optimized by the plane will, all injuries healed and strength progressing exponentially.

May rose into the sky in full view of everyone present in the plane as she glowed brighter, the waves and moisture all around the world affected by her presence as she broke through her bottleneck becoming a level 2 creature and with the authority granted by the plane becoming a veritable god.

"kids nowadays, 'sigh' if not for the bribe those blood suckers gave me I wouldn't be bothered to care." As he said this a dark red complex magic circle that exuded a faint Sulphur smell appeared wrapping around the red gemstone, and with that, the gemstone started fading away as Layton and zero who was still hidden in the assassin's mind did the same also.

Opening his eyes Layton found he was back in the space they had appeared in before they were sent into the avatar plane, he noticed he was the only one here beside him were two beams of light he guessed his two companions were in them.

'Wait two, how is that possible,' Layton thought with unbelief and doubt although he didn't have memories he could guess with his own personality that there was no way Damon would be alive because he was sure Damon and his arrogant personality would not let the plan succeed, staring into the beam of light that had the fragrance of blood, the light soon dispersed as soon as it was dispersed Layton was caught in a plethora of memories, it turns out the clone before being sucked into the whirlpool had found out Damon's bloodline and a fragment of soul had been crushed and combined into a crystal, he had left his breath on it hoping May would give it to his body and then stimulate the breath left on it to regain the memories of what happened during this period.

Layton remembered most of the memories of what had happened after he was sealed and he was gaining sentiments about the final battle that occurred, the martial arts used, the modification his body had been through to exert more strength and the feeling the exertion of Magia erebea created.

All these were precious wealth that would save him a lot of detours on his road especially now that he had no boost from any plane Layton strength was at the peak of a level 1 wizard and his rune couldn't easily exert the effects he had been able to display on the plane.

The memories brought some changes to his rune and breath, Feeling his rune Layton discovered it hadn't changed much in shape but its functions were extended, he was able to receive and perceive more information, his control over his body was greatly strengthened even more than some martial practitioners, and it seemed his armed haki had been merged with Magia Erebea, meaning all his armed haki attacks would have the effects of burning his negative emotions to strengthens its attack power, the ability to activate the opponent's cells seemed to be lost, it was most likely that he only had the ability because he constructed his intent mirroring that horror figure.

Layton still felt some other changes had taken place in his rune he hadn't noticed yet.. Layton had no time to keep experimenting because he felt something outside come closer to him, opening his eyes he saw a red haired little girl jump into his arms hugging him calling him affectionately saying "Master".