“Before you go,” Jake said, tossing a golden bracelet to Ardonis, “Take this bracelet. It has a decent inventory space of five hundred square feet. It had quite the price tag on it, consider it your graduation gift from us to you. That thing will certainly last you a long time, possibly even until you come back and longer.”

  Ardonis’s eyes widened to saucers as he looked at the bracelet. He had always wanted one of these but could obviously never afford one. Even a small one without much space was incredibly expensive. Even Lucy only had one that was large enough for her luggage and a few other things. The magic that radiated from the thing was also far more complex and powerful than any item he had ever seen before.

  He put the bracelet on and closed his eyes, already knowing how to access these from the number of times he accessed Lucy’s in the past. It had cost her fifteen years of saving to get it too. There were two ways of using it, the first was for the person to simply think of what they were putting inside and what they were taking out. The second was to take a look inside of the space oneself.

  Ardonis was going for option two as he currently had nothing to put inside. A pocket dimension created by a very powerful Supreme God of Magic, that was the reason all of them were so damned expensive as well. Looking within, he saw a very large void-like space, though the edges could be seen in the distance in all directions. It was really like one massive box, and the space was as big as the mansion’s main room and ballroom combined.

  He gasped with giddiness as he opened his eyes and was mentally brought back to the real world. “This is seriously the greatest gift I have gotten.” He bowed, “Thank you, Father, Mothers, I will be sure to never lose this.”

  Jake smirked, “Funny you should mention that, cut your finger and drop some blood on it. It will become bound to you and only you. Not only will that activate the hidden property that it will always return to your wrist, but it means you are the only one who has access to it.”

  Ardonis eagerly did so with a magic knife made of mana that he conjured. Making a light slice in his finger and allowing the blood to drop on the bracelet. The three or four droplets seemed to just be absorbed by the thing and a couple moments later, Ardonis felt as if the bracelet truly belonged to him now. “I can’t believe this,” he said with a massive grin. “How much did it cost?”

  “Well, since it was a thing we were planning since you were born…” Mother Anny trailed off. “It cost about one million god coins. Luckily we were able to save that much up, but don’t be too concerned. I can promise you, this was technically spent with your allowance. Now you know why you never got an official one from us.”

  “It was once again something they had to lock away from me so that I couldn’t spoil my child like I should have been able too,” Milina huffed.

  Mother Theresa rolled her eyes, “We’ve been over this for that exact reason. You can’t be trusted with money when all you want to do is spoil him rotten.

  She pouted and turned her head in another huff, but didn’t retort. “Anyway, we should probably go now,” Ardonis said, readying the magic to teleport him and Lucy to his room.

  “Have a nice good and long vacation in the mortal realm,” Jake replied with mirth. Already knowing what to expect thanks to his parents, Ardonis didn’t make a comment. He knew there were some very dangerous people in the mortal realm.

  He released the magic and a moment later the two were in his room. “So this is what your room looks like,” Lucy commented as she gazed around the room with wonder. Despite how long they had been dating, she had not seen his room before. She looked over at the bed, “Too bad we don’t have time to fool around, I would like to mark your room with our scents.”

  Ardonis chuckled as he rummaged around his desk, “What are you an animal or something now?”

  She wandered around the room, looking at all kinds of things, “No, it just seems unfair is all. My bedding and blankets are permanently stained in areas and with our mixed smells. Not that I’m complaining, I love it, I just wish you had to deal with the same problem.”

  He shrugged as he turned to look at her inspecting his bed, “It isn’t my fault you get so horny, who is it that begs for more again? I’ve tried being considerate, you’re just a horny sex deviant when in the mood.”

  She pouted, “It is not nice to point out such things to a lady. You are supposed to keep those things to yourself, no matter how true they are.”

  He chuckled and rolled his eyes as he looked at the time on his clock. “I suppose there is time for a quick round or two, but after that, we really do need to go. We’ll be cutting it close enough as is.”

  Her face brightened at the news and they spent the next half hour in bliss. After cleaning themselves up with a quick shower, and clean clothes, courtesy of Ardonis magically cleaning them with the snap of a finger. He teleported them to their proper destination, and where they should have been for the last five minutes.

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  “You two are late,” their teacher said with some annoyance in his voice. They just looked at him with sheepish smiles plastered on their faces as he glared at them. Eventually, he sighed, “Just take a seat so we can get this over with.”

  “Yes sir,” the two said simultaneously, taking their seats in the first they could find, still holding hands. The only other person in there besides them scoffed. However, they ignored it and he didn’t say anything more. The last thing he wanted was the teacher’s wrath on him.

  “As the three of you know, you are the prospective true Gods of Magic. Your journey will be a bit different and more difficult than the rest of your peers, the ones that also aren’t prospective gods anyway. This is just an official final formal send-off from teacher to student. Your first destination, however, has also already been set. The three of you will shadow a goddess for a period of two months as she rules over her planet. Get a sense of who she is and what she does, and before any of you get any funny ideas,” he glared at both Eradis and Lucy. “Specifically the two of you. One of you is a womanizer and the other wants to try for a harem. Ardonis, I trust you’ll keep your girlfriend in line at least.”

  Ardonis nodded, “Of course sir, on that note, did you really have to bring that up yesterday? That wasn’t exactly fair.”

  He laughed, “Hahaha, you reap what you sow kid, you lost a bet and I cashed in on it. Though I have to say, your spur-of-the-moment acting was quite something. I would have fallen for it if I didn’t know any better. Anyway,” he cleared his throat, “After this period you will be on your own to journey through the multiverse. Stay out of trouble and don’t die, this multiverse is rather unforgiving. And I don’t care how much you hate each other, don’t try anything shady. Celestial will know and send forces after you. In the paper on your desk, you’ll find that activating it will teleport you to the goddess. Now class dismissed.”

  Once the teacher left the room, it was only the three of them remaining. Eradis approached Ardonis and Lucy with the paper in hand. “I see you two are still together, Lucy, are you sure you don’t want to dump this bore of a man?”

  “I’ll take him over a womanizing louse like you any day,” Lucy retorted instantly. He barely got to finish before she threw the line at him.

  “I-I see, well it is your loss then. I could have offered you anything you wanted. All you had to do was be a good woman and stay by my side. We could have had so much fun together. A harem isn’t that different from what I have with other women you know.”

  She shook her head, a look of pure disgust on her face as she scoffed, “A harem involves real love from all parties, not having sex with the first woman you see you damn leching cockroach.”

  “Pfft,” Ardonis tried hard not to laugh at that one, the smile Lucy gave him didn’t help either.

  “Now if you don’t mind, my future husband and I will be leaving to meet the goddess first.”

  Eradis’s face flashed with indignation but the two had already activated the teleportation symbol on the paper as he shot a fireball at them. It instead hit a desk as they disappeared and exploded.

  Ardonis and Lucy looked around the chamber in awe, it was massive, as large as a throne room. Yet an incredibly large bed could be seen in the back, many dressers, desks, mirrors, and mannequins with dresses and other fancy clothing were all over the place. There were paintings on the walls and even some statues depicting the goddess strewn about. Though a couple of those were a bit more provocative than the rest.

  “Ah, I see two of the three have finally made it,” a musical voice reached them. It belonged to the woman standing in front of the massive bed. She had long beach sand-colored hair, blue eyes, a heart-shaped face, and a lithe figure. Though she was two feet, possibly a little more, taller than the two of them, “It is a pleasure to meet you.”

  “Goddess Milsa, thank you for the opportunity of shadowing you for two months,” Ardonis said with a light bow.

  She smiled, “And you have your manners in order, good. It is no trouble, this is part of my job after all. Or rather, something I agreed to do once every century with promising batches of students. This time around it was you two and the third prospect for magic that caught my eye.”

  “Speaking of him, fair warning, the two of us aren’t exactly on the best terms with him.”

  “Oh, a love rival, how exciting,” the goddess said with amusement in her eyes. “I see you two are surprised and confused. But it is fairly obvious to me, you two are holding hands and standing quite close to each other. The third is a man who I have heard from my research looking into you three that he is a womanizer.”

  Lucy cleared her throat, “If I may, your explanation was truthful, but that disgusting creep is certainly no love rival of my future husband.”

  “And when I say not on the best terms, I mean he may very well attack us,” Ardonis chimed in.

  “Well, as long as you don’t disrupt my job, disturb me, or destroy my home, there won’t be any issues. I trust you will deal with things before they escalate to that point. I am kind, but that does not mean I won’t put you in your places if you push me.”

  “Of course ma’am,” he said. “I am merely giving you a heads up of what to expect from that cretin. I will do my best to subdue or incapacitate him before things get out of hand.”

  Less than a minute later, Eradis appeared, he blinked and looked around confused for a moment. “Hello and welcome, you are the third and final of the students who will be shadowing me,” Milsa said.

  Eradis gasped when he saw her, making Ardonis and Lucy roll their eyes. “Your beauty is truly something to behold milady, it is an honor to shadow you. I will do so faithfully in the hopes of gaining your approval.”

  Lucy opened her mouth to say something, but Ardonis squeezed her hand and shook his head at her. “Save it, boy, flattery won’t get you anywhere with me. Not only am I far too old for you, but you are far from the first graduate to try and woo me. Now that all of you are here, allow me to show you to your rooms.”

  She looked over at Ardonis and Lucy, giggling, “Yes I prepared a single room for the two lovers.”