Mélusine slowed her flight to South America for Galahad to read the book.
"So any useful information on ORT?" Mélusine asked.
"It's ORT's main body is that of the disk-like object. The rest of the spider-like body is material analogous to keratin. It is covered with an outer skin that is harder, more flexible, more temperature-resistant, and sharper than any other substance that exists on Earth. To add to that according to Sheba, one of systems used by Chaldea classified it as a force of destiny. A being powerful enough to rival Beast I, Beast VII, and the Lostbelt King Kukulkan who was the Archetype of both Michtlan and ORT, she is on a similar level of existence as Type Earth."
"So they're really damn strong, huh?"
"Yes." Galahad nods. "But in this journal it also says that it was Beast I who defeated ORT of the South American Lostbelt. Hmph. If he could do it, so can I. Even if this one is far stronger than this Lostbelt variant. Mel." He looked up at her.
"Yeah?" She looks down on him as she flies.
"Stay back. When I engage in combat I do not want you to get harmed. You are… my partner. My companion that is no other. This thing could absorb servants. Even if you are alive I do not want it to take any way, shape, or form of you."
She makes a little smile and nods.
"I understand. You have become an existence that was fated to deal with them."
Galahad resumed to finish reading the book before handing it to Mélusine so she can read it as well. He acknowledge the contents of the book, the story, the people who experienced this were forced to be heroes. Having to go on a long, dangerous, and exhausting journey through different eras to save humanity.
'Now… I have erased it all. All that you fought to bring back. Gone… So it goes.'
They arrived at South America in Chile near the port city of Caldera. It was still a bit noisy as the world has been thrown into chaos. But the spot Mélusine dropped Galahad at was a quiet enough beach.
"I will be back."
"Then we can leave?"
"That is right." He nods.
"Can I ask where? The Reverse Side of the World?"
"No." He points up at the stars. "The heavens. The world outside this planet and its people."
Her smiles brightens with excitement.
"Then we will explore the sea of stars!"
"That is correct. Together."
Mélusine was ecstatic to explore the universe with him… but something lingered. She had to ask him questions to make sure if this is what he wants, truly.
"Gal… how… how are you feeling on what happened at U.A.?"
Galahad remained quiet for a while before he gave his answer.
"… It hurts. When my Quirk was disabled all of its benefits lefts me. My mind slowly began to break every memory I remembered. The strain of having such unbelievable bloods running through my veins was something my body couldn't handle. I felt like… I felt like my body was tuned to one hundred now that the cage that was containing and keeping it in check was gone I exploded with power. Power enough to have taken that next step in my evolution."
"What of Tsuyu Asui?"
"… I loved her." He made a deeply solemn face. He grasps his chest and lets out a deep sigh. "I… cannot be mad at her. I have lived a life of lies. It was bound to catch up to me eventually. She is a normal girl who stumbled upon the reality of my life."
"…Do you wish to say something to her before we leave the planet?"
"Yes. One last message to ensure she does not spend her life regretting what she did. She is a kind, sweet, and honest girl… she deserves better than me."
"Then what does that make me? What does that make you?"
He looks at her, meeting her flaming ruby eyes.
"It makes me not normal. And it makes you all the more special. To find someone I can… relate to on many levels, to be used as a tool, and to be used as someone's executioner."
He holds out his hands, Mélusine holds hers and their fingers interlock.
"Come back, Galahad."
Galahad pulls her in and hugs her tightly, she does the same. They stay there for a while before they separate.
"I promise." He replies as he leaves.
Galahad soared through the sky. It was easy. He applies his flight ability the same way Mélusine does. He swiftly arrives in the Amazon. He takes one last look at his statues.
Name: Galahad.
Title: Beast VIII, Type Humanity
Race: Liner (70%) Dragon/Beast (30%) → Type-Liner (Beast)
Age: 15 (December 31st) → ■■■
Type-Liner Body: ■■■
Albion's Skeleton: S+ → VIII Skeleton: ■■■Liner-Dragon Heart: I → Perfected Liner-Dragon Reactor Core: ■■■Monstrous Strength: H → Ultimate Strength: ■■■Self-Modification: G- → Freedom of Choice: ■■■
Mind: SSS- → ■■■
Soul: I+ → ■■■
Mystic Eyes Resistance: I+ → ■■■
Skills:
Perfection: ■■■Mana Burst (Beast/Grain): H- → ■■■Nega-Perfection: ■■■
Looking at it he figured his strength was so immense now his Quirk couldn't accurately portray.
"Hm."
He dismissed it as he stepped into the Amazon. He moves with great speed as he goes deep into the Amazon. As he does he noticed a non-figurative amount of what could only be described as a metric fuck ton of protectives wards.
Galahad brute forced his way through as he goes to the lungs of the Earth. As he approached closer and closer he began to see more and more crystals appearing. They were… otherworldly to say the least.
He stopped to poke one of the otherworldly crystals. When he did his finger turned to crystal. He watched as it spread up his arm quickly.
His Quirk activated and he received a new resistance.
[Ding! Otherworldly Crystallization skill added!]
[Skill has been added into Type-Liner Body!]
[Incorporating Otherworldly Crystal into Type-Liner Body!]
The crystallization stopped. Flesh quickly replaced the crystals and Galahad returned to normal. His horns, however, gained a crystal-like look to them. He could feel several more changes happening in his body.
He felt something begin to have influence over his body.
"I see…" His eyes narrow in on his own cells. "ORT. You are like a hivemind comprised of cellular-like versions of you." His face scowls. "How fucking dare you try and take over what I won."
Those ORT cells began to react to Galahad's will. Galahad's cell then began to devoured ORT with an insatiable hunger. Seemingly the main body of ORT woke up from this attack.
By the time Galahad took a step forward all of ORT's cells inside of him were fully devoured. At the same time Galahad reacted to what the main body of ORT was doing and immediately from instinct deployed the same kind of magecraft as Type Earth did when they met. How he knew he could do this was something he quickly understood. Himself.
Abilities such as these came to him as naturally as breathing. This along with his own intellect he understood the concept of what Type Earth did… and then some.
"Deploy." He raises his hand out and shouts out the fantasy he knows in his bones "<
His will exploded to collide with ORT's will of turning the planet into an alien crystalline substance that was as beautiful as it was horrendous and disturbing at the same time.
Galahad began to grasp the fundamental core of what ORT was doing, it was a Reality Marble but is fugitively on the edge of becoming a Marble Phantasm.
"A Reality Marble on the sophistication of a Marble Phantasm. I'll take that!"
Galahad did the opposite of what ORT did. If their Reality Marble encroached upon the level of a Marble Phantasm, then why can't a Marble Phantasm encroached upon the level of a Reality Marble?
"I THINK I'LL CALL THIS! <
The two opposing wills clash and mix together to create a large, wide spread dome that covered 90% of the Amazon before the same was sealed.
In this space the world was fully changed to be that of what Galahad could only assume to be ORT's homeland. But ORT sensed it. There was a fundamental change to this world, but it could not spare the thoughts as it got up from its long slumber, and it peered up at a crystalline ridge to see a humanoid figure with a spear in hand.
Their blowing in the wind as they cast down their piercing gaze… was the ultimate, zenith form of the creature that ruled the planet it long slumbered on.
"So." Galahad said as he grips the spear he made from his own horns. "You kinda look like a mixture of a hermit crab and a spider. Pretty fucking cool."
Upon seeing one another with their own eyes? Galahad was sure ORT didn't have "eyes" but eye-like functions. After all every cell in its body is ORT. ORT saw him from the very first moment one of the crystals reflected his appearance, or maybe even before that.
After a moment of staring the two acted and two Ultimate's began to fight for supremacy.