Kazuma exhaled as a hand that was made out of a tree tried to hit him.

He avoided it but before he could set his foot on the ground, and prepare himself for another attack the ground beneath him broke, and he was forced to use a wire to pull himself away.

Unfortunately, the ghosts flew in front of him from every direction, freezing, boiling, and covering the area with dirt. He didn't have time to concentrate so he teleported to one of the two places he knew were safe.

He gasped for air as he landed on the roof of his house. He looked around and for a brief moment, he appreciated how much the area had changed.

There were everywhere, there weren't a lot but between the ghosts, the living trees, and the Edenians it had only taken a couple of hours for the houses to be built.

He couldn't help but smile at the different gardens that the people had made for themselves, some were full of fruit trees that the trees had brought in.

Some houses had vegetables growing near them and others had what looked like flowers and a few even had normal-looking plants, that Kazuma would have considered to be trash if he didn't know that they could be made into medicine.

The purified creatures and ghosts had found and brought these as gifts for the new arrivals. When he asked them why, they said that they had something new to do and were happy to help anyone that Aqua approved of.

His dodge skill flared and he barely avoided having his head kicked off by Li Mei, he would have said something about her panties or commented about her legs if he had the chance, but the woman didn't stop attacking him.

He managed to put some distance between her but his escape skill forced him to jump as high as he could and it was a good thing he did because the spirit of a cowboy and a soldier used their guns to shoot at where he was standing.

"Thetas enough!" Jerrod the King of Edenia said forcing everyone to stop.

"Kazuma come with me." the Spirit of the dead king said to him before leading him to a nearby area.

The spot where they found themselves was a place that was covered in rocks and had almost no vegetation growing in it, but Kazuma could see several children listening to a ghost talk.

"Do you see it champion, the seeds of the future?' Jerrod says to him but Kazuma doesn't understand what the man is trying to say.

"They are learning from those that came before, Edenias past the stories of their people. The stories that were lost are being heard again." Li Mei ads, but Kazuma doesn't say anything, not because he doesn't care but because he can't allow himself to care.

"Kazuma the various kings, emperors, and rulers have been talking and we believe that you need to find a wife or several concubines." Jerrod says to him and Kazua can't help but look at the man with wide eyes.

"Listen." Jerrod says to him while having his hands up as he tries to calm Kazuma.

"Aqua will soon be a goddess and her Human body won't be able to contain her power."

"I know that the two of you have a bond that goes beyond master and servant but your bloodline needs to survive, you are her first champion so."

"No." he said bluntly.

"Listen I've done a lot of things that people would call me a monster for, hell I'll do them again and if I have to I'll do even worse."

"These people have just gotten here and you guys want me to."

"None of us would say no." Li Mei says but he ignores her and keeps on talking.

"Listen there's a reason why no one ever knew about Aqua and I before. I've died more times than I can count and Aqua has always brought me back, it's been the two of us."

"What I'm trying to say is that one day we will be gone and no one will be able to find us. So don't try to keep us here." he says to them before leaving the pair and walking towards the well.

"Jerod." Li Mei says to the spirit of the king.

"Leave him for now the guardian will accept his role in time." Li Mei looks at the dead king and sees the worried expression on the spirit's face.

"Look at what the dead see and you will understand why he doesn't want to pass the burden to anyone." the king says to her.

Jerrod puts a hand over her eyes, but it's transparent so she can see everything she nearly faints when she sees the body of Kazuma burned, another body that looked like it had its skull cracked open another looked as if something had eaten him alive.

The corpses grew the more that she looked and had she kept going Li Mei wouldn't have been surprised if she found a mountain of them.

"The burden of a champion is great and any go that's kind is just as cruel." Jerrod says before turning his attention to the children.

"The children will need to learn to defend themselves we will train them, in time they will have more than than one way to do so, but Kazuma is hesitant to grow the new kingdom." he says to her.

"I'll talk to him but I don't know if I can convince him," she says to the spirit who fades away.

Li Mei walked towards the well and noticed how the number of spirits grew, she would have ignored them had they not made it impossible for her to see, she finally reached the end but found that she was at the entrance again.

"What?" she said to herself before taking a page from Kazuma's playbook and throwing a rope that she tied to a rock and using it to guide her to the well.

She walked through a forest that didn't end, nearly drowned in a swap and if she hadn't reached the end she would have died from the sun of the desert that she was forced to go through.

She gasped for air and her eyes widened with shock when she realized that she hadn't gone any further than a couple of steps.

"That was your warning, if you go up these steps you will die." The ghost of one of the worries of her world says to her.

"I need to talk to Kazuma' she says to the spirit who glares at her.

"Do it after he leaves the Lady's side. Look at you you can barely breathe, just going up one of these steps will kill you." the ghost says to her.

Li Mei looked at the three steps and normally she would have laughed at what the ghost said, but after what she experienced she knew that the spirit was right.