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Chapter 157: 157
Björn looked at Mahu, "Your majesty, you surely don’t plan on making an enemy of me just because of few dead mortals"
Mahu said nothing, instead staring blankly at Björn before waving the blade she was holding at Björn. Unlike before she desn’t plan on destroying the surrounding any further so the attack was controlled.
Björn noticed that so he stepped to the side dodging the energy from the sword strike, Mahu looked down at the blade frowning "Useless" she said as she threw the blade away.
Waving her hand, ice grew from Björn’s feet where he was standing. Björn reacted fast as one of his weapons struck the ice breaking it into pieces, as soon as he got free he fell back to create some distance.
The pieces of Ice hovered midair as they grew into huge spikes that went after his retreating figure, with the help of his other head and extra hands Björn could hit back and deflect the ice.
Mahu, seeing that he was getting far away still stood in her place as she snapped her finger as the sky above the battlefield darkened so from the darkened sky snow began falling all over the battlefield.
Björn soldiers touched by the snow soon began to turn into ice sculptures, Einar and Helga soldiers meanwhile just found it really cold as they began shaking in their armor.
Björn who was retreating from the fight wasn’t spared from the snow fall, he tried his best to fight back as he was surrounded by red mist but that didn’t matter as more snow fell on him slowing his figure and halting it.
Steam can be seen leaving from Björn ascended form as the cold was getting to him, Fear became evident in Björn’s eyes, He was about to die when he had just completed his goal.
Quickly thinking about how to escape death, Björn let go of the gauntlet he was holding onto. Since he was now encased in ice the gauntlets couldn’t truly get free from his hand but that was enough as he began feeling the familiar encroaching of madness.
From the ice Björn was encased in, his domain appeared once again as the ice surrounding him began cracking as he roared out loud to the sky like a beast. The gauntlet also used this opportunity to fall to the ground and roll away.
Once he was free from the Ice, Pulling the same tactic again. One of Björn’s hands tore off one of his heads and threw it away, as he turned back to Mahu with rage and madness evident in his eyes.
Stomping the ground, He appeared on Mahu’s right with his axe ready to cleave her into two but a circular Ice shield grew out halting the axe progress, still full of madness his other arms tried to strike Mahu from Other position but was met with a shield blocking them.
From the flurry of attack, Mahu stretched out her hand to get hold of Björn’s neck who immediately began struggling to free himself, his arms tried to strike Mahu but with a few slashes from a condensed ice sword the arms fell to the ground.
Unlike before when Björn began healing up, this time he could hardly heal as the wounds were all sealed up with Ice, soon from the neck Mahu was holding Björn. He once again turned into an Ice sculpture. 𝔫𝖔𝔳𝖕𝖚𝔟.𝔠𝔬𝖒
Mahu clenched her hands as the Ice broke, Looking back at where Björn threw his other head, a murmuring sound caught Mahu’s attention. She gestured as an Ice pillar grew from the ground around there, the ice pillar was pulled to the sky where another huge ice pillar condensed ready to meet together with the head at the center.
As soon as the Ice pillar was about to meet, Mahu’s eyes widened as a figure appeared in the battlefield, for the first time Mahu spoke out loud with a confused voice "Mother?"
Back when Björn threw away one of his heads, the head wasn’t spared from the erosion of divinity but Björn before losing consciousness threw the head at the direction of the gauntlet. Once the head touched the gauntlet, the familiar pain returned and with that reasoning appeared in his eyes once again. Soon from under the neck flesh tendrils grew holding onto the struggling gauntlet.
As soon as he got his reasoning back he immediately began taking action to raise his throne, Raising his throne was now the only way for him to survive, he had planned to hold off on ascending completely to make sure the sure side and silver kingdom was under his rule granting him a huge wave of worshippers but the coming of the goddess of moon no longer left an opportunity for that.
Opening his mouth, he began changing again "O planet’s soul, in earth and air, Hear my call, beyond compare, With your might, my ascent complete. To claim my throne in celestial light"
As soon as he stopped chanting, Nana who was compelled to complete her work even though she doesn’t like it, appeared, stopping the ice from hitting Björn’s head. She cupped her hand as Björn’s realm shrunk to a dot of red light in her hand.
Raising her hand to the sky, almost like the distance between her and the sky was an arm reach away, she put the dot of red sky up in the sky. With that she looked down at the demon’s head, Björn feeling the Huge consciousness looking at him and was full of fear before Nana spoke up "I welcome you Björn Deity of madness and battle fury into the Cradle of the gods" With that Nana disappeared.
Mahu watched all this with a wide open, soon with eyes filled with rage. The two Ice pillars clashed together, but Mahu didn’t feel the sensation of something breaking.
Looking up to the sky, where a red dot was. Mahu felt the similar appearance of the demon up there in the sky. Almost like a time limit was reached, Mahu felt the gate opened by Einar slowly closing in.
She took one last look at the battlefield field before dispersing the snow storm she caused. Soon Mahu was back in her realm and she felt someone knocking. Willing for it, a portal opened as Ikenga figure walked out from it.
Back down on the battlefield, Einar’s body fell to the ground. His celestial avatar form gone as he began coughing and spewing out blood, he could barely even move or breathe anymore as he laid down there looking up to the bleak sky.
At the battlefield, Ragnar can be seen facing off against Finn who is now in a were beast form with a huge feathered wings that he uses to stay in the sky while raining down an array of arrows down on ragnar who was steadily moving as he countered back with his own rain of arrow.
Finn from the sky was able to see what happened with björn, Looking around the battlefield, he found that except for him and Olaf, others have been frozen up in Ice. Knowing that it is time to retreat.
Finn drew his golden bow, as feathers from his wings came off covered with golden light as they hovered around him. Releasing his hold, the feathers all went towards Ragnar who did his best to dodge and hide but the arrow wasn’t meant to hit him or kill instead as soon as they got close, the feathers exploded throwing Ragnar off balance creating distance.
From the sky, Finn swooped down to Olaf who was in a fight with two of Ragnar generals. One of the genera was not ready for the surprise as Fin fell from the using the general as a land point causing a quick explosion of dust as the general was dug deep into the ground.
Looking at the surprised Olaf, Finn said "Björn has ascended, Our goal is complete. Time to head back" Hearing that brought Olaf’s attention back to the battlefield he looked around to see the dead bodies of his comrades, only he and Finn left and Bkörn was nowhere to be seen.
Nodding, he transformed back to his human state as Finn took hold of him quickly taking to the sky. Ragnar from his position can be seen holding an arrow at the two figures flying away, he kept aiming until the two quickly became a dot in the sky.
Ragnar fell to the ground tired, but remembering hearing his father’s scream. He immediately stood up as he stumbled his way over to where he could feel his father waning life force. Einar who was bleeding all over his body looking up to the sky soon felt his hand being grabbed.
Turning his head, he was met with the sight of his son who was tearing up, Clenching the hand holding him, Einar said "Did we win son?"
Ragnar nodded his head to answer, Einar seeing that smiled "It seems me and your mother really did our job as a ruler and a parent"
