NOVPUBPov Hernoth’s (Demonic God of Sin):
I take advantage of the moment when Phatos tried to attack Selene’s boy, so at the same time I release my attack to protect Zenos, I also advance against Phatos, while my hand manages to reach his throat, he wraps one of his chains around my neck.
"Why try so hard for this new God?" (Phatos)
"He’s my daughter’s father, so why not?" (me)
"Don’t try to fool me, if that were the whole truth you wouldn’t be here, you’ve never been so sentimental!" (Phatos)
"I don’t need to explain my reasons to you, do you think I don’t know your true colors? Who were you before you became the Law?" (me)
"..." (Phatos)
While we argued, we both tried to distract the other to dig an opening, my claws turned red while purple mist circled my body corroding the chains on my neck, but Phatos’ skin turned silver like metal defending my claws with only a few shallow marks.
In a few seconds we exchanged thousands of blows, he tried to restrain or pierce me with his chains, meanwhile, I tried to cut his body, poison his Divinity and even curse his Soul, all without success with his internal restraints defending everything other than real damage.
"< Divine Restraint: Seal of Law >" (Phatos)
"< Sinful Corruption of the Divine Fall >" (Hernoth)
In the last blow he moves his hands into an opening I left and hits my chest with both hands leaving marks of restraint, but I took advantage of his attack so close to bite his shoulder while lengthening my neck.
The purple mist around me represents my sin, my own Divinity, but now it gathers like a poison entering Phatos’ body before I am pushed back holding my chest from where silver chains were forming like growing stigmas on my skin.
"Do you really think you can infect me with that sinful energy?" (Phatos)
"< Seal of Sacrifice >" (Phatos) 𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑝𝑢𝘣.𝘤𝑜𝘮
He places his hand on his shoulder and all the silver color of his body gathers on his shoulder being extracted by that hand like a piece of metal full of veiny purple marks.
I was expecting this, it’s not the first time I’ve seen this technique, so I know he’s lost his greatest defenses, while I smile and take out a piece of skin I had saved, an incredibly evil energy emanating from this piece of skin where strange symbols and lines float in frightening patterns.
As soon as I touch this skin to my chest, Phatos’s restraint marks reverse their direction, tearing my flesh out of my body to restrain and crush that piece of skin into nothing, disappearing with it.
"Using a part of the son you yourself killed as a disposable item." (Phatos)
"At least he was useful after death." (me)
"Thanks to that, your Defenses are gone, do you really think you can last long against me without your metallic body?" (me)
"Unfortunately you’re right, but just as you prevent me from interfering with those criminals below, I can stop you too." (Phatos)
"< Gates of Divine Judgment >" (Phatos)
"Bastard!!" (me)
"< Sin... >" (me)
"< Restriction >" (Phatos)
Phatos was a scoundrel, he was always extremely hypocritical, his Laws causing as much calamity as my Sin, yet still proclaiming himself as the righteous side while blaming only those who disobey his precious laws.
Now once again he is going off on a tangent with his tricks, I look at the gate and see three symbols, they are a chain around a star, a sword with a crown around it, and a drop of blood falling onto a world.
I tried to stop the door from appearing or at least destroy it right after it was formed, but this time Phatos takes out his Divine Weapon, two Swords with a long silver chain connecting the two swords.
He used his Divine Weapon to temporarily restrain my Divinity at the same time he attacked, so I lost the chance to do something when the door appeared and began to activate.
"(There are 3 Heralds, I only had information about one of them so far.)" (me)
"(Even if I want to help, I can’t do anything right now, I only have 1 Herald who is carrying out a mission right now.)" (me)
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Pov Zenos:
I was more than anxious after being targeted by the God of Law, but rebuilding the Barrier was more important now, the shockwaves from the Divine battle were already bringing people so close to death that the blessing of the leaf I applied before this counterattack is activating in several places to keep everyone alive.
While doing this, Callidora was saying something in Niryna’s ear, Samara on the other hand was glued to me the whole time, she was open about knowing about that attack and even explained how she realized they were targeting me, it was the same as I had realized with the difference that she had noticed much earlier.
Samara was sure of my safety and so she didn’t say anything trying to teach me through experience, but after the last attack failed she said that this God would not give up, it seems that Gods have a hard time being denied something, especially when it is within their Authority to do so.
Samara stuck to me just inches from being glued to my skin the whole time it was as if for a few minutes I had created a new shadow, I was already irritated by her acting like Elizabeth trying to teach me things by hiding the truth from me, so having her like a tick stuck to me just added fuel to my anger.
Of course as always, I couldn’t have a moment of rest, there always had to be some damn... hellish... problem trying to get through my ass!!
A large silver gate appeared in the sky above the barrier we had just recreated, the gates were not fancy, they were dark silver metal gates, simple in their appearance but giving a sense of restriction and weight to everyone who looked at them.
Three symbols appear on the doors, emanating different presences from the one I feel on the gate itself.
A chain around a 5-pointed star.
A sword with an ornate crown around it.
A drop of blood falling on a Planet.
They were strange symbols and I didn’t like any of them, the presence of each one carried Divinity that mixed with the Divine presence of the gate itself, everything took less than 2 or 3 seconds until the gate opened, inside it only darkness existed when three chains appeared like horrible monsters, each chain followed a direction at high speed.
I tried to move away from one of the chains twice, but I saw Niryna not even trying to dodge when she was caught off guard by all this, then she was pulled into the gate, I noticed that Callidora had a cold glow in her eyes and was not smiling.
Samara, on the other hand, held the chain after dodging it once, letting herself be pulled in with a smile on her face.
Seeing this, I wondered if I should let myself be captured too. That’s when Hades tried to cut the chain without success. His attacks just went through the chain as if it were an illusion. Sakura tried to get in front of me to be taken in my place and was crossed by the chain as if she had no physical form, without causing any damage to her.
Noticing all this and being worried about Niryna, I also let myself be captured, especially when I didn’t feel the same level of danger from the God of Law’s attack as before, which means that regardless of what it was, it wasn’t an immediate death.
Stopping dodging, I did the same as Samara and held the chain and was pulled into the gate last. The last thing I saw was the gates closing behind me, leaving me in complete darkness for just a moment before the space around me fluctuated and slowly changed.
It didn’t take more than a few seconds for me to appear in a large hall, looking to my sides were Samara and Niryna, Callidora was still on her shoulder, she was smiling again and her gaze was even colder than before, sending a chill down my spine.
Looking around I noticed that on the walls of this large hall there were several chairs with tables numbering thousands, there were creatures similar to silver silhouettes in each of these chairs, they had no distinguishable features other than their presence being different from each other.
In front of us there were 3 large chairs without tables, taller than all the others as if they were above everyone, they looked like thrones where the symbols I saw before were marking each symbol a throne, there was an individual on each throne, their presence corresponding to what I felt emanating from those symbols.
Just looking at it and feeling its captions I already knew who they were, they are Heralds with the power of the God of Law.
I also knew what place this was or at least I had an idea of the type of place it was.
A court.
I was in a damn trial, standing in the middle of a courtroom with these 3 Heralds as judges and I was as the criminal being judged, Samara and Niryna in the same situation.
"(They dare to put me in a position to be judged!!)" (me)
The fury finally washed away my fatigue, setting my heart on fire like hell.
