Summoning

Listening to Argentum's suggestion, Aurus could not help but ponder over it for a bit before looking at Kurohana. "Now that I think about it, yeah. Why haven't you done that in the first place, Kurohana? Surely, as one of the most well-renowned divine craftspeople in the universe, you'd have the ability to do that, no?"

"I would…" Kurohana lightly nodded in response before scratching her head soon after, letting out a light sigh. "If it wasn't for the fact that I just came up with the idea a while ago. With all of that said, I've only procured enough materials to raise one being to my level."

"Hmm…" Listening to Kurohana's words, Argentum could not help but go silent for a bit, thinking about something. Eventually, he looked back at her before asking, "But what if they don't need to reach the same level? Just the bare minimum necessary for them to actually make a difference in the frontlines?"

Hearing his clone's words, Aurus' interest was quickly piqued as he urged him to continue. "Could you elaborate on that, Argentum?"

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but you're a Greater God, right Kurohana?" Nodding in response to his original body's words, Argentum looked at the goddess in front of him.

"That would be correct, yes." Kurohana nodded.

"With that in mind, what kind of gods rank lower than you? Following that same thought, what kind of gods would rank higher than you?" he asked, to which Kurohana replied, "Faux Gods and Lesser Gods would be gods considered below my level. As for those above me, those would be the Immortal Verdict wielders, the Guardians, and then the Overseer, in that order."

"Yeah… I think it could work," Argentum said after taking Kurohana's words into consideration. Just as the latter was about to ask what he meant by that, Argentum then told Kurohana, "In short, what I'm asking is… would it be possible for you to procure materials capable of ascending one to the Lesser God level? And if that's too much, how about the Faux God level?"

Hearing those words, Kurohana finally understood what Argentum was trying to suggest, pondering over the suggestion for a bit before giving him an answer. "If it's the Lesser God level, I could probably get enough materials to ascend three people. For the Faux God level, probably around 10 or so."

"Great!" Hearing that it was possible, Argentum naturally jumped for joy as he told her, "I have a feeling we're aiming for quality over quantity here, so I'll just ask you to summon a couple people. We're aiming to have them reach the Lesser God level?"

"Also, would I still be able to reach the Greater God level?" he added soon after, to which Kurohana nodded. "Yeah, I'll be grabbing new items for the Lesser Gods anyway."

"Alright." Nodding in response to those words, Argentum then sent a strand of energy to Kurohana, containing information on a couple people Argentum knew that would help them out in the war very well. "Here are the people I want you to summon. Although they might not seem like much, with my guidance and the materials you give them, I'm certain they'll definitely be of great use." Deciding to trust in Argentum's words for now, Kurohana absorbed the strand of energy she had received from Argentum, her eyes slightly widening as she finally found out the identities of the two people Argentum wanted to be summoned. As a light smile briefly appeared on her face, she could not help but think to herself, 'The experiment of another Greater God…'

'…and the Child of Mana, huh.'

'I wonder if Argentum knows of their true identities?' Shaking her head as she placed those thoughts to the back of her head, she went ahead and began preparations on the same spell she used to summon Argentum into her plane. However, this time, she was going to summon two other people.

"Oh, Kurohana. Since you're already summoning two people, I have another person I want you to summon." Just as Kurohana was about to finalize the spell to complete the summoning, Aurus said all of a sudden, prompting her to stall the spell for now.

"And who would that be?" Kurohana raised her eyebrows in response.

"Remember the man who fought against me while I went on a rampage in Seraph Kingdom? That one," Aurus said in response, his mind thinking of the man that seemed to touch on a higher level of reality with the sword he wielded.

However, instead of interpreting Aurus' words the same way he did, Kurohana instead thought about another person altogether, recalling of the man's ability to string together spells while being knowledgeable as to what kind of environment the man is fighting in. Nodding in response, Kurohana told him, "Alright. I'll add him into the summoning spell. Good choice, actually."

Whoosh!

With that, Kurohana continued infusing her energy into the summoning spell she had prepared, modifying it a bit to accommodate the summoning of three people at once. Thankfully, with the help of a couple laws she had gained permission to access sometime ago, she was successful in completing the spell, prompting three silhouettes to appear at the center of the three not long after.

"Where…" Just as those silhouettes in the center of the white space, two of them, a man and a woman, could not help but look at their surroundings with great confusion. However, once their sights focused on a certain man, the two of them could not help but have smiles on their faces as they hastily ran towards him. "Aurus!"

"Herellia! Horell!" Knowing who the two were referring to, Argentum spread out his arms as he gave them a tight embrace. "I apologize for disappearing all of a sudden."

"You have a lot of explaining to do, you know?" Horell said in response. "It's been a couple of days since you disappeared, plus you didn't even answer my question."

"In any case, the two of us definitely missed you…" Herellia said soon after, only for her eyes to widen in surprise as she took a couple steps back. Then, looking at Argentum from head to toe, she could not help but tilt her head in confusion as she asked him, "Is it just me… or have you gotten stronger, Aurus?" nor does it seem like a small dimension…"

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"Hello there." Just as the man continued to look around the white space, finding it quite peculiar for Hearing her words, Horell took a few steps back before trying to sense Argentum's strength as well. Noticing what they were doing, Argentum let out a light chuckle before allowing the entirety of his aura to spread throughout the space, placing a great amount of pressure on the two as beads of cold sweat formed on their foreheads.

Feeling Argentum's aura pushing down on them, the two of them could not help but wonder what Argentum had gone through while he was gone for him to have gotten this strong.

As for the third silhouette, the man could not help but look around as he scratched his head. "I wonder where I've been sent to? From the energies I could sense, this doesn't seem like a subspace, nor does it seem like a small dimension…"

"Hello there." Just as the man continued to look around the white space, finding it quite peculiar for a space to be incredibly white, Aurus came up to him and waved at him. "I'm guessing you must be Dalton Thymesis, right?"

"That would be me, indeed." Hearing his name being mentioned, Dalton could only nod. As he looked at the being who greeted him, he could not help but notice the weapon hovering behind the man's back, feeling like the weapon was quite familiar. Eventually, everything clicked in his mind as he exclaimed, "Ah! Eversor! Then that means…"

"Yeah. I would be Verdante." Aurus nodded in response. "Speaking of which…"

"Hey, Horell! Herellia! Don't you remember me?"

Hearing their names being called, Horell and Herellia looked in the direction of the voice who called him, only to notice a body of energy that looked quite similar to Argentum beside them. After being confused for a bit, the two finally pieced two and two together as their mouths went agape. "Aurus?!"

"Seems like you two finally remember." Aurus laughed in response. After that, he looked at Argentum. "Also, why didn't you tell me you took up my name once I got taken away by Kurohana?"

"I was planning to avenge you, just so you know," Argentum replied with a shrug of his shoulders. "Plus, I wasn't expecting to be summoned here by the same goddess that took you away."

At that moment, only then did the three new people notice that there was another person in the white space they were in, a woman who, at first glance, didn't give off the feeling that she was a goddess. However, after seeing the newcomers look at her, she went ahead and spread out her divine aura in full view, making the three realize that they were in front of an existence they would never normally come across.

"Before you say anything, no. You're not dead. Instead, you three have been summoned here at the request of the two here to help us out in saving our universe," Kurohana said in a solemn tone. "Before I continue, let me first introduce myself."

"My name is Kurohana."

"And I am the Greater Goddess of Reincarnation."