NOVPUBI was determined to get stronger, the enemies I’m facing are too strong, but I don’t know where to start.
I’ve done a lot so far, I’ve used all my Elemental Affinities, I’ve used my Chaotic Devourer ability and I’ve even used my Anomalous Power, that’s how I created the 3 Star Sword techniques, supreme techniques that helped me win the worst battles I’ve ever faced.
I couldn’t see where else I could draw power from since to create another technique of that caliber, I needed another source of power with enough power to create a 4th sword technique.
The truth is that I’m not a genius of magic, I’m not a genius of combat either, I’m just someone with high creativity and a wide range of varied powers, this makes me very flexible in fighting.
My sword techniques are proof of my creativity. I didn’t use these powers to their limit. I used them to shape them into alternative concepts outside the curve, using the power of Chaos to go in directions that others wouldn’t be able to, using these powers more in their concepts than in their true functions. But even that still has limits that I’ve reached at the moment.
I look at the stars as my powers and their infinite variations pass through my mind, as well as their many combinations, synergies, and evolutions.
"Blood would be a possibility. I haven’t used blood yet, and it would be theoretically possible... but what tangent would be appropriate...?" (me)
Sigh
"Even though I’ve been a Vampire for years and the son of the Goddess of Blood, my knowledge about blood is low. What should I do...?" (me)
The worst part of having very diverse talents is not being able to focus on one of them, the Power of Blood has always been something I used as a support, it was never something I focused much of my time on and now that I need it I don’t know where to make up for it.
"Maybe I should..." (me)
"Dad, are you there?" (Vanessa)
"Vanessa, what’s wrong?" (me)
While I was thinking about looking for my daughter or maybe even trying to find my mother by going to her statue in the Temple, suddenly my daughter appears, she was standing at the door of my room and I go to her, on the way my vision stops for half a second on that children’s story book and I feel my Will waver slightly.
"I would like to talk to you... Dad, are you listening? Did something happen?" (Vanessa)
"Huh..." (me)
"It’s nothing, don’t worry about me... I actually wanted to talk to you, but what do you need?" (me)
"The Goddess sent her oracle expressing her desire to see you." (Vanessa)
"She wanted to see you before, but since you planned to go to Hell and on Hades’ advice, I postponed it until nightfall so you could rest a little, I only came to talk to you now." (Vanessa)
"(Hades is really very worried, am I that bad?)" (me)
"Then let’s go, this really coincides with what I wanted." (me)
I divert my attention from that book during the conversation with Vanessa and go with her in the direction of the Communal Temple, that book is something I can’t get rid of, but also something I always feel afraid to continue reading and once again I put it aside.
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I enter the Communal Temple, on the way here I hid my presence so as not to disturb the population’s preparations for war, I also spoke to Vanessa about my understanding of the Powers of Blood, she tried to talk to me about it, but it was too broad to be studied in just a few minutes, like many other types of powers, it could be studied for centuries and perhaps millennia before everything about it was known, this considering only what was discovered and not what could still be learned in future studies.
This only gave me a bigger headache, I didn’t study much about this type of power in my old world, I wasn’t really into Vampire stuff besides using this race a few times in my games and so it wasn’t a field of mythology that I delved into.
"Isn’t there anyone in the Temple?" (me)
"They’re with their families or training, even though we’re putting an emphasis on survival, this is going to be a battle where even Gods can die, everyone who’s participating knows that and wasn’t forced to participate." (Vanessa)
"..." (me)
The people of this city are all warriors, ’even love is something conquered in a battle’, that’s one of the sayings here, they’re a strong people who don’t fear death, I don’t know if I should be proud of them and regret being the cause of them putting themselves in this danger.
"Dad, are you sure you’re okay?" (Vanessa)
"I’m fine, you don’t need to worry." (me)
Saying this, we walked to the main hall where she kneeled in front of my mother’s statue. Meanwhile, I looked at the open red portal in front of the statue. Since I’ve been through something like this before, I went through the portal without hesitation.
When I opened my eyes on the other side, I was in Selene’s Palace once again. She was there, but not just her. My eyes focused on a specific person.
There were only 4 people in this throne room. The Goddess of Blood, who is my mother. I, who had just arrived. Adella, who seemed worried and hadn’t even noticed my arrival. She was looking at my mother, who was also looking at her. They seemed to be talking about something, even though their mouths weren’t opening. It must be a mental discussion.
But it wasn’t these two that I was focused on, but rather the man who was next to the throne. He was wearing simple clothes like an open leather vest with no shirt underneath and equally loose leather pants. He looked like a biker with moderate muscles, but his presence and face were something I recognized very well.
"Oros..." (me)
"..." (Oros)
I wanted to move and go to him, but suddenly my mother’s eyes turned to me and Adella turned around. Their faces were so similar that they looked like sisters. Being watched by them made me stop the movement I was going to make.
"(There’s no way Oros could be here without her permission.)" (me)
"You didn’t tell him?" (Selene)
"I did, but I don’t think I was very clear." (Adella)
"..." (me)
Suddenly I feel a stream of information coming into my mind, Adella told me about how she captured Oros and then Selene made him go through a Divine Rebirth by becoming her Divine Beast.
"Should that change anything?" (me)
"I know how you feel, but this isn’t the same Oros, that one is dead, do you want to blame this one for someone else’s crimes?" (Selene)
"A Divine Rebirth is different, he has all the memories and power, do you think you can trust him like that?" (me)
"Ynes, Aurora, Hela.... which of these daughters wasn’t an enemy who tried to kill you before being Reborn by your hands?" (Selene)
"..." (me)
"Your problem isn’t with him, but with your Familiar, Oros did a lot of harm to his own son, Ragnar." (Adella)
"If you’ll allow me..." (Oros)
"..." (me)
I felt like attacking her, I know my mother is right, I’m being hypocritical when I have children and Subordinates who were once my enemies, but being targeted by them is something I can let go, what I can’t accept is what Oros did when he killed his own newborn son, forcing his Soul to hide for thousands of years alongside a God just to escape from him, this is something that still marks Ragnar and that by extension affects me.
"We don’t have time for this, son." (Selene)
"..." (me)
I know I’m wrong, I’m not in my house to do what I want either, I try to put Oros aside, but I have to talk to Ragnar later.
"Adella, you can go, take Oros with you." (Selene)
"Okay, I’m going." (Adella)
"I’m right behind..." (Oros)
Adella starts walking and Oros looks at me hesitantly before following her, the two pass through a vortex of blood that opened and closed out of nowhere, now only me and my mother are here.
"I called you here for a reason, but it seems you have your own reasons, don’t you?" (Selene)
"Am I that easy to read?" (me)
"Vanessa may be your daughter, but she’s still my only Saint, I’m always aware of her condition and when she’s under my orders I tend to pay more attention." (Selene)
"I know how to help you, but before that I need you to do something for me." (Selene)
"I accept, just tell me what you need." (me)
She has been helping me since my first day, she is the one responsible for my birth, I don’t need to hesitate when she asks me for something since I know there is no danger to me.
"I need you to spill your blood on the blade of a sword." (Selene)
"..." (me)
Before I could answer, she snaps her fingers and everything changes, the space around us ripples like the surface of a lake, then everything changes revealing us to be in the middle of an ocean of blood with only an altar on its surface where a sword was lying on the altar.
"I can promise you that you will not be hurt, but not even I know what can happen." (Selene)
"I’m not feeling confident here." (me)
"What is this sword?" (me)
"(The sword seems alive, in fact its presence is so intense that my hand is shaking.)" (me)
"..." (me)
"This is an old souvenir and a useful weapon against Baldr." (Selene)
"Alright..." (me)
Sigh
