NOVPUBWhen I appeared in the air, very close to the battle between the two Gods, and was pulled by Samara, everything happened very quickly. He was physically just a little tired and would be fine in a short time. A God shouldn’t even get tired in normal situations, and this just shows how exhausting so many battles in a row are for me.
But this quick recovery is only for my body. My energy is still more than exhausted. It’s been at rock bottom for some time now, with so many battles that I can’t fully recover.
The worst part is my mind. Mental exhaustion doesn’t recover easily. I’ve been through several difficult battles and gone through several events since I woke up. I’m mentally exhausted for the tenth time in a matter of days. 𝒏𝙤𝙫𝒑𝙪𝙗.𝙘𝒐𝙢
"What should we do? The battle up there is getting intense. The barriers won’t last." (Vanessa)
I look at the crowds, they are all strong, but not strong enough for the level of this battle. I brought them here to annihilate this base of the Church of Light and I don’t know how to get them out of here.
"I know what to do." (Ynes)
Suddenly Ynes appears behind me, a big smile on his face that gave me confidence.
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Pov Phatos (God of Law):
After so much effort, so much preparation and so much time waiting, we still haven’t achieved anything.
Baldr, with his arrogance, advanced the plans thousands of years ahead of time and the Gods, in the vast majority, turned against us.
Even so, I remained firm since there had been a great preparation underway for a long time and I couldn’t waste it.
After weeks of constant battles and having just prepared Heralds for myself, I realized that my Saint had disappeared. I could see his last moments and recognized a presence that every God must now know.
Even after much effort to get there in time and being surprised that Baldr’s attacks had not yet dealt with this son of Selene, I finally reached my destination while blocking any chance of escape.
It was at this moment that my ordeal revealed itself, every possible thing that could happen came up non-stop from Hernoth’s appearance to the defeat of my Heralds.
Just Hernoth appearing was not a big obstacle, I know his strength and tricks just as he knows mine, the most he could do was hold me back.
That’s why when I put my Heralds to fight and inside a Divine Weapon that I had just created, it should have been easy to deal with a new God, it was supposed to be like that!
I could accept the defeat of my Heralds, at least I managed to recover one when he was close to being captured, they didn’t want to kill them and waste time until I revived them, they clearly wanted to take them, which became a risk that was not worth taking.
But even choosing to receive Hernoth’s attacks and endure some suffering to extend my hand in rescue of my Heralds, I was only able to save one of them, Molog who was fighting before me against the one who took my Saint.
Sarin disappeared, she is not dead, but my connection with her is being blocked, I do not know where she is other than knowing that she is still alive, which should not be possible, even other Gods should not be able to block the connection that a Herald has with their God, that in itself is inconceivable.
Razor on the other hand, I could feel his weakening and the forced activation of the Divine Weapon, this was a newly created Divine Weapon where I used many different types of Essence of Law as well as many Divine-level materials, even so it was half incomplete, because I had tried to fuse it with a Separate Space in its creation, it ended up being limited exactly by that space making it difficult for me to complete its power, so I had to create the gate as a means of sealing the Divine Weapon, stabilizing it so that it would not collapse and still be usable.
In the past 170 years, it had only been used a few times, only once a year, but its effects were acceptable and it could be used more easily in the mortal world.
But I didn’t expect that even with this Divine Weapon and my 3 Heralds, I still wouldn’t be able to subdue that brat from Selene.
But when I felt not only Razor being Sealed but also the connection to my Divine Weapon being torn and corrupted, I was no longer able to contain my fury.
Even though I lost control over one of my arms, I wanted to take back what was taken from me, but even so, Hernoth still delayed me, causing me to lose both my Herald and my Divine Weapon.
"< Divine Summon: Universal Divine Prison >" (me)
"Are you crazy!?" (Hernoth)
"< Divine Summon: Call of the 7 Sins >" (Hernoth)
Using my power to call my main Divine Weapon directly from my Divine Realm.
The space around me trembles and collapses as golden chains, gray bricks, and silver metal plates appear, effortlessly shattering the space, their size large enough to contain entire worlds within them.
Towers rise along with the screams of the condemned, blood drips from the Sacrifice platform where criminals are executed, the blood flowing endlessly into the pit below, the roars of prisoners throughout the prison begging for a mercy that will never come, the marks of countless attempts to escape as well as invade, its size seemed like a limitless city filled with the smell of iron and blood while above there was no sky, only a metal cage where a Sun and a Moon were chained.
In front of me, Hernoth did not stand by and do nothing. He also summoned his Divine Weapon, the Knights of Sin, each of them a criminal who had been twisted and corrupted by sin throughout their lives before being refined into a Divine Weapon while still alive.
"Phatos, are you crazy!? Bringing your Divine Weapon here will restrict all universal flow to hundreds of planets!" (Hernoth)
"This mirrored space is sealed by the universe. My Divinity can even strengthen this containment. Do you think I’m going to fail in my responsibilities!?" (Me)
As I spoke, chains appeared all over the prison, swinging towards the army below. I wouldn’t kill the Sacred Beasts that served a balancing function, but I could restrain them to discipline them while those few from Zenos’ group gave the condemned to death for their heinous crimes.
"Do you think I’m going to let you do whatever you want!?" (Hernoth)
"< 7 Corrupted Constellations >" (Hernoth)
"< Divine Jailer: Submit >" (me)
The chains continued to head towards the army below, within this prison they could not escape and so I diverted my attention to where it was most needed.
The 7 Knights of Sin moved, plucking stars directly from between the prison bars and using these stars to form large Demons that attacked, commenting on corrupting my prison, while Hernoth was refining my corrupted arm into a trident, which infuriated me even more.
Following my command, the Moon bound by chains in the sky fell revealing itself as pure metal that transformed into a metal Titan in the form of Celestine, under his blows the 7 Demons of Hernoth are temporarily restrained while I myself go towards him.
"Huh...!?" (me)
That’s when I realized something, my eyes wandered down, the army below had turned into a mass of Blood that fell apart as the chains wrapped around them, the same happened with Zenos’ group while he himself had turned into Stellar Flames waving his middle finger at me laughing as my prison chains ravaged his fiery body until it disappeared.
"Where did they go!?" (me)
"I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I remembered I have somewhere else to go..." (Hernoth)
"< Activate >" (Hernoth)
"HHHAAAAAHHHHH!!!!" (me)
In front of me, Hernoth acted innocent in a mocking way before retrieving a Dragon scale that emanated the Power of Space, before I could do anything he snapped his fingers making his 7 Knights of Sin disappear before biting the scale, a translucent claw is formed by the power of space grabbing him before disappearing.
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Pov Zenos:
When Ynes approached us, she suggested something that needed me, Alice, Vanessa, and Adella to help, that was to use the blood of those here to create clones, so they would have their individual presences while those of us with Divine Power would have to leave a trace of Divinity with part of their consciousness behind.
It was half a year of doing it and we all realized that she had a way to escape even without saying it, when the space began to collapse with large chains appearing along with bricks, I was apprehensive, fortunately One Ynes crushed a small statue a multicolored sword appeared dividing into thousands taking everyone away piercing the space, the last thing I saw was Towers appearing and the sky being covered by bars before the passage closed.
The sword that pierced me did not cause any pain, but it was uncomfortable in many ways, it took dozens of minutes for us to return and surprisingly I was inside Okan again.
Looking around, I was inside one of the lands related to the Dungeon floor for the Undead, it was just me and my companions, the Sacred Beasts that made up our Army as well as the Blood Templars were nowhere to be seen.
"It seems we’re back." (Aurora)
"Was that the power of the Fairy Goddess?" (me)
"Yes, one of the two trump cards she left with me for emergencies." (Aurora)
"Now I don’t have any anymore." (Aurora)
"At least you had some, Hernoth didn’t give me anything." (Ynes)
"What should we do now, master?" (Samara)
"I don’t know about you, but I’m going to sleep." (me)
