"Well, I'm off Joe," said Joseph .

"Don't worry . I'll hold down the fort with Chuck," said Joe, standing on the balcony outside their room .

"I know," Joseph said, laughing .

META finally helped him understand exactly what ENACRA had done to him when he was granted Joe . The short explanation was that his soul was bigger than normal . And with having a soul almost twice as large, a part.i.tion was able to be made . They were still connected, and shared everything, but whenever he went to his magical realm with his soul, he would have a longer connection, so the sharing was delayed .

Often, they would switch places when one of them got tired of controlling their body, but only Stella could tell the difference between them . They simply kept everything they hadn't wanted the system to know, on the other side of the part.i.tion, and thus even the system wasn't able to confirm their plans .

The proof occurred when Joe had figured out how to hack into the back end of the system and introduced a bug . They knew the G.o.ds were able to observe the system, even though, as it got more divinity, it wasn't as easy to read as before . They were both happy when they found out they could introduce a bug so small, even the system didn't notice .

Hopefully, they could swap out Chuck's divinity with Rune power . Both TECHNOLOGY and MAKING/BREAKING were considering him . To match the eyes of destruction, Joseph thought BREAKING might be a better fit, but with his living mechanical body, TECHNOLOGY might be better overall . Once they were done, he would be changed, like Selena was changed to a flame-kin instead of a Human . She's still Wizar as a supertype though .

"Joseph, Joe, you need to stop day dreaming so we can go fix the world," announced Stella, with a raised eyebrow .

Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click www . webnovel . com for visiting .

Joe was using a body double to stay in the kingdom, to protect it while Joseph and Stella headed for the world tree .

"Of course, you're right, dear," they said together .

Stella just shook her head . With a minor invocation of MOVEMENT, they were able to move fast enough to kiss her on each cheek before Joe teleported to Chuck, and Joseph flew up towards the wasteland . Stella chased him .

It's not like he could outrun his own shadow anyway .

x.x.xxX

Stella was still muttering in her head about the double team . Talking was of course impossible, once they broke the sound barrier heading toward the world tree, so they were using their mind link . Either, she wasn't very good at separating her thoughts, or she was leaking it intentionally . Joseph didn't think it was intentional, because she wasn't upset at them for it .

After cresting the second set of mountains, they both focused again . The corrupted here were thick . At least a few hundred thousand were below them, and it was only getting more congested . What bothered Joseph more, was the nasty power signal he was sensing up ahead .

"Do you know what that is yet, Joseph?" asked Stella, through the mind link .

"I think someone is opening a portal . It doesn't feel like when I was summoned to another realm, or when I summoned Trull, though . It feels worse than when NIKMESH was summoned actually . More like when we fought that G.o.d of corruption . "

"Do you think it's a demon invasion? I don't sense divinity . "

"Maybe . You can sense divinity? Since when?"

"Since I ate one . Basic hunter instincts to find prey . …Is that odd?"

Joseph shrugged . "Maybe for others, but you're special, so I can understand it with that explanation . Joe, don't go there . I know we thought it but still…"

Stella rolled her eyes at them, which was actually rather impressive at Mach speed . It was only a few more minutes before he saw the portal .

The corrupted were all heading in the direction of the world tree, but over a hundred demons were below the portal and sacrificing the corrupted to power it . It was a mix of demons with some having mostly black skin and blades for arms . They were in charge of the sacrificing . It looked like their leader, a 30-foot-tall devil, was already through the portal . Everywhere he touched actually colored the ground black, instead of dull and grey, and he was wreathed in flames . His fluffy long tail ended in a poisonous stinger . Each of his six arms ended in three fingered claw-like hands .

They flew up to the portal and the demons turned towards them .

(YOU HAVE RESISTED VARIOUS AND SUNDRY MENTAL EFFECTS . BY THE WAY, STELLA WAs. .h.i.t WITH l.u.s.t, BUT SHE KEEPS ENOUGH ANGER IN HER BACK POCKET TO OVERCOME IT DURING THE FOLLOW-UP . DO YOU WANT ME TO KEEP YOU INFORMED OF THIS? BETWEEN THE COSMIC MIND s.h.i.+ELD YOU PURCHASED FROM ME, AND THE MIND RUNE'S PROTECTION, I CAN'T IMAGINE YOU ARE GOING TO FALL FOR ANYTHING LIKE THAT AGAIN . )

'Nah, it's good, system . Just let me know if others will be affected . '

(GOT IT . )

"FOOL! Now that you have come, know that I…" cried the demon leader .

'…hmm I could take over this portal…' thought Joseph, completely ignoring the demon's tirade .

"I am the arch demon of…" went on the demon leader, oblivious to Joseph ignoring him

"…it actually wouldn't be that hard, and then I could…" he thought, tilting his head to look at the magic pulsing around the portal .

"…tremble before my awesome might, as I kill you, and then betray NURKONG and usurp him…" ranted the demon, raising his arms above his head .

'This should work,' he thought, certain of his next move . Why did all big bad guys feel the need to tell the hero everything they were going to do before doing it?

GATE-CONTROL GATE

Gaining control of the gate, he focused and began to fluctuate two spells .

NECROMANCY-SUMMON DEMON/NECROMANCY-BANISH .

Thousands of demons poured through, before being forced back, only to be sucked back through . Joseph controlled the gate, to get narrower and narrower . The arch demon, whatever his name was, got caught up after the 13th time . More and more demons were getting involved and squeezed through a constantly shrinking opening . The ones on the edges were starting to be shredded by the edges of the gate .

"It sure screams loud," muttered Stella .

SOUND-SILENCE .

"Ah, that's better," she said, giving Joseph a smile .

The big guy was clawing his way towards the middle of the shrinking gate, killing the other demons that were in his way . After about five minutes, he was curled into a little ball and even then, the edges of the gate had started ripping pieces off of him . It only took another minute before Joseph closed the gate . The invading demon army, and the arch demon, were shaved into the s.p.a.ce scattered between dimensions .

"I can't believe something that wasn't even a G.o.d, thought he could take you, Joseph," she pointed out .

"Whatever . That should be the 4th faction . Only NURKONG, or maybe his high priest, is left . "

They continued on their flight towards the world tree, ignoring the contaminated below them .