NOVPUBI was facing the statue of the Blood Goddess, but my Will couldn’t even get closer, she clearly didn’t want to see me and was blocked from contact.
"Nothing yet?" (I)
"Nothing, the Goddess listens to me all the time, but I don’t receive Oracle from her." (Vanessa)
"(You know about Baldr, she’s basically assuming that she knows the answers to the questions I want to ask, but she’s also making it clear that she’s not going to answer.)" (I)
"..." (I)
I was thinking about the possibilities for her to hide something like that from me, but honestly there are so many that there’s no point in assuming, she’s always hidden things from me, but she’s never stopped me from finding out anything.
"(Maybe another God knows and I owe me a favor.)" (I)
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3 hours later.
I was lying in an open field somewhere, I honestly didn’t think much about where I was going after getting nothing from the Fairy Goddess of the God of Spirits.
"It must be something big, Goddess Aine really seemed to want to say something about it but avoided it in the end and the God of Spirits refused me from the beginning, but at least he welcomed me and apologized for not being able to answer me." (I)
"I don’t know who any of these are, but aren’t you meeting many Gods?" (Niryna)
"I’m a God, so I guess this must be normal?" (I)
"But let’s stop talking about that, let’s get back to the main topic." (I)
"..." (Niryna)
I was with Niryna, however she was flying aimlessly, I saw her here and launched a barrier with my Divine Power, trapping her here with me, so she will have to make some effort to escape again.
"Why are you running away?" (I)
"..." (Niryna)
"If you don’t want to talk, that’s fine, you don’t need to say anything." (I)
"Just know that you don’t need to avoid me, I’ll be here when you need me and so will everyone else." (I)
"..." (Niryna)
"Remember you wanted a big family, well... now you have one big enough to raise a football team." (I)
I could read her Aura like a book, she doesn’t know how to control anything, even though she has learned not to explode her Aura like she did in the beginning, she still hasn’t learned the correct way to do it.
"Stupid boy, you don’t understand that..." (Callidora)
"Please don’t tell him, please!?" (Niryna)
"(Don’t say what?)" (I)
"Then stop running all the time and go get some candy! You haven’t eaten anything since you were born, I want to taste food!!!" (Callidora)
"Then leave that idiot behind and go find things to eat or I’ll start counting every single thing you..." (Callidora)
"I’m leaving now!" (Niryna)
She simply got up and instead of running somewhere else, a Dark Dragon head rises from her shadow with open jaws which she rushes into.
"Alone again..." (I)
I undo the barrier, of course I hadn’t done anything extravagant, it was more for show than to contain her, but I didn’t expect her to run away like that again.
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At the end of the afternoon I returned to the Communal Temple, this time Zaya and Samara were with me, who together with Hinata inside me are the best using the Anomalous Power.
"That’s an interesting plan." (Samara)
"But are you sure it will work?" (Zaya)
"Yes, that damn book doesn’t have a Soul or mind, so it shouldn’t have instincts to begin with, it doesn’t even have Divine or Holy Power." (I)
"Instincts don’t create themselves, that’s when I realized they were coming from somewhere and after discarding all the options that couldn’t be, what remains will be the correct option or option closest to the truth at least." (I)
"To start...?" (Hinata)
"Yes, let’s get started, but can’t I keep something like this going forever, like 4 hours at most?" (Zaya)
"I can do this for days." (Samara)
"I don’t know..." (Hinata)
"I don’t need much time, so let’s get started." (I)
With that said, I slit my wrist and Hinata is controlling my blood to create a magic circle where the Anomalous Power is being used, my blood feels alive pulsing as if it is still within my veins.
We were in the room of the Communal Temple where the book was already in the middle while we were making a circle around it, the cube once again disappeared becoming a thin film around the book that I kept open floating on top of the magic circle.
Besides providing the blood, I did not do anything else leaving everything in her hands, just to be safe I gave several detailed instructions to Samara, leaving nothing behind that she could do, as I do not trust her I had to at least do that.
They control things carefully, I wait for them to finish, then with a wave of my hand, I gather Divine Power to complement, as both Divine Power and Anomalous Power come from me the two mix very easily.
"< Eclipse Magic: Threshold of Will >" (Hinata/Zaya/Samara)
When the three positions themselves forming a triangle in the middle, the space a few meters above the magic circle becomes blurred and darkens with bright spots as stars appear around them, a large red eye opens with a bold ring-shaped iris with the inside being silver, this eye was focused on the book as it glowed faintly.
"For something improvised it’s working better than expected." (I)
This magic was created using magic and techniques that I already knew, its effects together and accumulated more than just adding up the parts, they multiply the effects as well as the power cost to use.
I stretch my Will beyond my body, touching the eye where it merges with the magic and is subsequently guided to the book.
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When I opened my eyes once again, I was in a devastated land, endless ruins as well as blood scattered in all directions, it seemed to be a prosperous city with a more futuristic architecture than the ones seen in this universe.
Looking up I see the same eye from the ritual up there as part of the sky, I looked around and felt something as I walked there.
What I saw was a creature covered in a hooded cloak and chained, but as soon as I looked at it, it immediately disappeared as if it had blinked and the illusion ceased to exist.
I kept looking around feeling something nearby and as I searched, I found a man sitting on a rock, a mask on his face and a pair of deer antlers sticking out of his head as well as messy short black hair.
He was completely still, but I could feel the same instincts as before originating from him, I didn’t feel any Aura coming out of him, but as soon as I got closer I felt his Will collide with me like an iron wall.
In one step I felt nothing and in the next step I had already collided with this Will, a Will that seems more like a pit of endless darkness, I could feel it trying to influence and corrupt me, of course without success.
I didn’t expect to collide with his Will so suddenly, but it wasn’t much of an impediment either, as I got closer I realized that the mask on that person’s face was emitting a light as well as concentrated Divine Power.
"(Is that why there was only instinct? Was Baldr restricting the Will within the book?)" (I)
As soon as I got closer I could feel more than just that Will of pure darkness, I could feel traces of a God, the power of an Essence.
This was a Divine Will, but in terms of power it was beneath me, perhaps it was because it was just a book, perhaps it was because it was too far from the God it originated from or perhaps it was because of the containment that Baldr placed.
I only hesitated to act for a few seconds while I thought about the possibilities, I don’t like doing anything without thinking about it first.
Once I got my thoughts in order I reached out my hand realizing I couldn’t rip the mask off, in fact the light was becoming stronger creating a strong pressure to push me away.
Knowing that I wouldn’t be able to just rip off the mask, I let my arm transform a little into that of a Dragon before squeezing hard, I was using my Will to break the mask whose most of the power was in restraining the person wearing the mask.
Crack!
It took less than a few seconds for my arm to shake and blink, but the mask was starting to get more and more cracks, with a final effort, I used my other hand to form a fist to collide with the mask as I squeezed, with two forces acting on it The mask was broken, revealing a bottomless hole in the place of the face from which a pair of empty white eyes opened.
"Who are you!?"
His voice was deep and I knew it wasn’t from the sliver of Will that was in front of me, if before I had my doubts, now I’m sure it was an Evil God, its Essence was different from what this Universe had.
I don’t know who the Evil God was, but he realized what I did and used his Will to reach wherever he was.
"I am Zenos and I want to know, why did Baldr want to restrict his Will so much and still dare to use this book?" (I)
"Hahahaha... do you want to know about Baldr, know the truth about that unfortunate man?"
"The truth about Baldr?" (I)
"If you want to know something about me or him, then I’ll tell you, but to do that you have to free me, only then will I tell you everything you want to know."
"Where are you and how do I know I can trust anything you say?" (I)
"Meet me in Hell and you’ll know."
