NOVPUBPov Baldr:
My wounds are better, but I’m not happy about having to use this power. I look at my shoulder and arm, marked with black veins by the power of darkness.
"Why did that idiot have to devour the power of Darkness..." (me)
Sigh
"Father, how are the wounds?" (Allen)
"Healed, but I had to resort to that power." (me)
"If the others find out..." (Allen)
"No God will care, the real reaction would come from my Believers." (me)
"I always made everyone reject the dark powers to atrophy this power, but when it exploded after being injured, I realized... this power is even stronger than when I acquired it, it’s not inferior to my power of Light." (me)
"Father, what are you going to do?" (Allen)
"..." (me)
"To win, of course..." (me)
Using my power of Darkness, I recover a Demonic God that was sealed centuries ago, black and white flames rise from my hands.
"Darkness consumes and Light purifies, the synergy of these powers is not bad, even though I don’t like it." (me)
"The Dragons are mobilizing everywhere and the movements of the other Gods..." (Allen)
"I know, Akatosh has already moved personally, he fought an external enemy, now he has turned his fangs towards me, that damned lizard!" (me)
"Should we retreat?" (Allen)
"No, let’s use their attack against them, prepare the final step, if everything goes well I can acquire twice the power planned." (me)
"Call your other brothers and my new Herald to help you, also find a candidate to be a Herald of Darkness." (me)
"As you command!" (Allen)
I watch my son fill with light before disappearing, then I turn my attention to the Demonic God whose Soul screamed between my fingers, his Divinity being refined as I ripped out his Soul.
"Your resistance is futile." (me)
Putting in a little more effort the power of Darkness rips out the Soul of the Divinity, then I begin to refine that Soul with my light, purifying that Soul while implementing it into the Weapon will be better than using Divinity alone.
"I can’t afford to deny this power anymore... huh!?" (me)
Haaahhhh...
Suddenly that power of Darkness pulses and part of my power of light resonates, I can hear a scream in the back of my mind, but that scream wasn’t mine or the Soul I’m refining, it no longer has the ability to maintain a consciousness to be able to scream.
My eyes turn to the distance, in a specific direction and I feel the power of Darkness within me pulse once more, part of it has detached itself and disappeared, just a part so tiny that it was insignificant, but just the fact that part of it disappeared alerted me to something, I still didn’t know what it was unfortunately.
"What was that? Where was that?" (me)
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Pov Haku:
I was standing there looking at the ritual being performed, the body that helped in the creation was ready on top of an altar while at the base of the altar there was a well of blood that acted calmly.
"Did he die?" (me)
"No, his soul broke, it’s in the most important part of the ritual, his Soul will be refined to make room for a new Soul." (Niryna)
"Cinthia would be of better help in this part, my specialty is more physical." (Haku)
"I don’t need help in this part, the process itself is almost automatic once it starts." (Niryna)
Soon a column of darkness appears crossing the space above and enveloping the entire Ritual.
I thought it must be part of the ritual, but Niryna’s face was strange as she looked confused at her ritual and Callidora appeared smiling.
"This... this wasn’t supposed to happen..." (Niryna)
"..." (me)
"The power of Chaos really does always surprise me, it dragged an old connection back." (Callidora)
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Pov Zenos:
The sword was lying on a pedestal, the sea of blood was calm around it, but simply looking at that sword was slowly filling me with a desire to fight and stirring my instincts.
What really shocked me to the extreme was something else, a more than familiar power that I feel in the sword.
"This sword..." (me)
"This is a Divine Weapon..." (Selene)
"No, this sword has the power of the Anomalous in it, from transformation to destruction... I also feel a trace of the Power of Chaos." (me)
The Goddess looked at me, but for some reason she didn’t seem to be looking at me, her mind was wandering for a few seconds before her eyes became clear again.
"You are right, this sword carries origins together with the crown on my head, they are Divine Weapons forged with the Power of Chaos and containing the Anomalous Power." (Selene)
"The crown on my head contains the Anomalous Power of transformation for creation." (Selene)
"..." (me)
I look at the top of her head, the black crown floating, I can’t feel anything from that crown, the power of the Goddess masks her power, but she has no reason to deceive me.
"This sword can kill yours used against Baldr, but it is incomplete in a way, I need your blood to solve this." (Selena)
"I just need to bleed on the sword? How much blood?" (me)
"All the blood." (Selene)
"..." (me)
"Alright, what should I do." (me)
Even if I extract all the blood from my body, it would be no more than a minor injury, the blood would return in a few hours at most, it was nothing too serious.
She didn’t even need to tell me the reason for it being me, since the sword contains Anomalous power and was forged by the power of Chaos, the one who can solve these problems must have the same kind of power and who better than her own son at that.
She explained to me what I needed to do, it was quite simple actually, she would hold the sword, I would use my Starfire to heat the blade with the power of chaos, then I would infuse my blood filled with Anomalous power into the sword, then she would use the crown to finish everything while throwing the sword into the ocean of blood.
It was fairly simple and didn’t need anything difficult for me at least.
Following her orders, I followed step by step, but as soon as I created the Starfire, the sword seemed to come to life, it was trembling in my mother’s hands, who was clearly making an effort to keep it under control.
I was hearing cries and war cries, suddenly it seemed like I was in the middle of a massive battlefield listening to soldiers shouting full of courage, murderous intent and relentless ferocity.
All of this was surprising, but I did not interrupt the process, in fact seeing the effort of a Great Goddess like my mother, I hurried what I was doing, the sword seemed to change a little, its solid red blade became liquid while still maintaining its shape somehow.
It was at that moment that I extinguished the Starfire and extracted all of my blood, leaving only the Anomalous Power contained in it, it was like a waterfall of blood falling on the sword that absorbed all the blood, its blade solidifying again, this time not maintaining a metallic appearance but that of a crystal that seemed to contain vein marks throughout its structure.
"< Forge >" (Selene)
The crown on her head shines, making the entire sea of blood below burn in red flames. The entire sea of blood was burning when she threw the sword inside. Then she placed a hand on my shoulder, leading me away.
Soon we were back in that throne room. The Goddess looked pale. The crown was no longer on her head, but she didn’t say anything. What she did was throw a drop of blood on my forehead.
I got lost in a sea of information, all about blood and its most basic concepts. There was nothing complex, but just the basics were already very extensive, and it took me a few minutes to understand all that information.
When I opened my eyes, I was outside of her Divine Kingdom. I was once again facing her statue. Vanessa was standing next to me as if waiting for me to open my eyes.
"Here, drink." (Vanessa)
"Thank you." (me)
She gave me a bottle with spatial expansion, inside it had the equivalent of a small lake of blood, I drank it dry.
"(That sword, she wouldn’t even let me touch it...)" (me)
The image of that sword was still in my mind, for some reason I felt that its image had been engraved in my mind since the first time I looked at it.
After saying goodbye to Vanessa, I returned to my room, having all my blood extracted was not pleasant and I needed time to contemplate the concepts of Blood to extrapolate more complex things.
My goal was still to become stronger, a new technique was just comical, there was still something else I wanted to try, but it would require Tarzor to wake up.
"..." (me)
Suddenly my eyes turned in one direction, I felt space open and a strange power enter, but it was in another star, I also felt that Haku was close to his position.
"(Haku, what happened?)" (me)
"(Me and Niryna...)" (Haku)
