I had returned to the astral clocktower to attend to an urgent matter, to help someone close to me.
Shizu was sitting next to me on my desk watching me move, "What are we doing here Simon? I thought you would show me what Tempest would become of today."
"I'm sorry but this is something that I forgot about and something that I need to do this or else a friend of mine will remain saddened." I said a little downcast.
The magical-organic synthesizer had began to craft a new body, or more accurately, an old body made anew to house a previously deceased soul.
'Luminous isn't gonna be happy about what kinda body I'm about to give you.' I thought mischievously to myself as the body was slowly knitting itself together within the pod.
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'Where… am I?' The disembodied soul asked itself as it felt absolute darkness around him.
There was no sensation of anything, no idea of what had happened, 'Oh yeah, it was that clown that crushed my heart.'
The soul began to lament it's own weakness and leaving Lady Luminous on her own, 'It seems I cannot accompany you anymore Milady.'
Then suddenly it had felt something, it felt like a vibration, a vibration coursing through his body, 'Is that… my heart? Why is it beating? Wasn't it crushed?'
Then he felt something else, a breath, his own breath. The soul had regained his breath and now could confirm that somehow he had survived being beaten to a pulp and then had his heart crushed.
Then I began to feel, I could finally have some sensation of what was going on and when I felt… I began to feel pain.
I could literally feel every fiber of my body being built and pieced together. My vessels, my organs, my flesh, my blood. I felt my unfinished body submerged in some sort of liquid.
I felt my eyes begin to form but I couldn't open them, the pain was to shocking to stay conscious and yet I had to fight and report back to Lady Luminous.
Next was my ears, I began to hear after so long, I tried to get a feeling of what was around me through sound…
…But it seems that me being able to hear was noticed by something else, 'Roy Valentine, it's seems you've had quite the nice sleep.'
That voice, it was so familiar, 'Lord Simon? Wha-what happened to me? Is Lady Luminous ok?'
'Calm down, you've only just recovered from death after being clowned on.' Roy heard the joking tone of the god that was Infront of him.
' Don't worry, I'll relieve your worries. The clown had escaped after it killed you, as for Luminous, well obviously she's fine, you don't give her enough credit.'
'What… happened to me? How am I here?'
'I had predicted that you would be killed by a clown so I stationed the grayfog around Luminous's home to monitor you and the clown. After you died, I retrieved your soul and brought you here.'
'Where is here exactly Lord Simon?' Roy asked skeptically.
'This place is Eden.'
If Roy had a face, it would've showed extreme astonishment, 'You mean that I currently reside within the Chaos Dimension itself. The Blasphemous Moon itself, I never thought I'd appear here in my entire lifetime.'
'The Blasphemous Moon? Since when did that name come into fruition? Nevermind, I'll just say that you should just let your consciousness rest for now, that pain you feel isn't just the regeneration of your physical body but also your spiritual and astral body. When your body is finally repaired then ill bring you back as a surprise to Luminous.'
And with those words, Roy just let his soul rest until his body was fully repaired.
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Roy had finally woken up from his sleep, his body moving sluggishly in an attempt to take control of his new body, "This body seems quite… different from my original, did you do- what is this?"
I had been forcing Roy to walk around with me so that he can get used to his body, at some point we had left the astral clocktower. Without a doubt, Roy was awestruck by the beauty Infront of his eyes.
Roy: "This… this is… this is beautiful. Is this what the Blasphemous Moon truly looks like from the inside?"
At the center of Eden, surrounding the astral clocktower was a giant flower garden filled with crimson lily-like flowers. I walked forward and picked one out and gave one to Roy, "The official name of this place is Eden and I'd appreciate it if you use it's proper namesake."
"What are these flowers that you're growing here?" Roy looked around the garden.
"These are spider lillies, these flowers are a byproduct of my magic coursing through the realm. As such, you shouldn't be fooled by their appearance, each individual spider lillies holds an astronomical amount of magical energy. Eat it, it'll be quite rejuvenating."
Roy brought the spider to his lips and took a bite off of one petal, immediately he had felt his entire body on fire. Roy was confident that he was of demon lord level and yet, he had been completely overpowered… a flower.
Roy looked up at the man who had a knowing smile, " I suggest you ingest that slowly or else you might become to bloated from magicules."
Roy slowly knelt down, " Thank you Lord Simon for giving me another chance at life. Whatever it is you desire I shall fulfill it but if it is that you desire my undying loyalty then I have to decline on that because my loyalty will always be to Lady Luminous."
Roy expected anger but instead he looked up to find a smile, " That's good because my wish is that you remain eternally loyal to Luminous. Make sure you don't make her sad, she cares more about you then she's willing to admit."
"That was always gonna happen no matter what." Ray said with a smug expression.