>>5951815“Wait, hold up. You can travel dimensions with your Crystal Gates?” you ask him, confused. “Are you serious?”
“Of course, it even works from the beginning, back in the world of grey before light and time.” he replies, your eyes going wide. How in the hell does he even think to do things like this? You've seen the world of grey once, your mother showing it to you after he'd talked about it before. But only someone like him would think of traveling to a world without time just to test if his portal magic would return him home. As you stare in awe he starts going into some of the spell's specifics, telling you how he had to align the crystal magic to amplify the light magic to bend space and time perfectly, creating the pathway from his gate directly to the same gate on his planet, the crystals aligned the exact same way. He then steps through, eagerly turning back to you. “Come on, want to see how it deactivates?”
“Sure.” you reply, taking his invitation and stepping through as well. As you do he raises a hand to the gate, you watching as the gate is somehow pulled in <span class="mu-i">through</span> the gate, reverting back to its tiny crystal form and hovering there. Where it then is pulled to his open right hand, your half-brother tucking it back into his robe while you look around. And you find yourself on a crystal platform, with not one, not two, but THREE near-identical crystal gates. However, seemingly carved in the crystals before each of them is a different symbol. In front of the leftmost one as you look at them is a skull, in the center one is a wide-brimmed pointy hat, and on the right is what looks like a stylized slime. Which you immediately understand is the symbols of the Crimson Demon Village, the Overlord Ainz Ooal Gown, and the Demon Slime Rimuru Tempest. “Wait, they all have gates?”
“Of course. If there were only a single gate, well... We tested what happened if two different beings tried to use it simultaneously, using some undead Ainz raised for the test. And, well... I'm just glad we didn't test it with real people.” Chilli says, you sensing a whole story behind this. But you don't ask about it, having a pretty good idea what happened. Instead, after a moment he shakes his head, shaking out the thoughts as he then turns back to you. “So, are you ready?”
“Chilli! There you are!” a voice calls, you looking past him as Chilli turns, you both seeing a woman running up to you both. A rather... bouncy one. “Chilli!”
“Tsk!” you seethe through clenched teeth, totally not jealous as this overly-endowed woman jiggles up to him, looking worried. “Have you seen my Kazuma? I can't find him anywhere!”
