NOVPUBWe were all gathered together, but my eyes still turned to the only one who didn’t belong to the family, I don’t like him, no matter being called a hypocrite or anything, his situation is different.
With my Chaos power I can make those who are completely reborn, look at Ynes and Aurora who are completely different, but Oros went through the Rebirth at the hands of my mother, he may have kept part of his previous life besides the memories and even if that’s not the case, I can’t forgive what he did.
As someone who was once an orphan and saw many other orphans come and go, I can at least understand someone being abandoned, there are infinite reasons for this, from very young mothers, drug problems, fear of being unable to raise a child and many others.
I don’t like these reasons, but I can at least understand, but for someone to simply try to kill their own child because of another’s orders like Oros did, that to me was disgusting to levels I can’t describe.
"Stop with the murderous intent, this is not the time for that." (Adella)
"..." (me)
When I looked around, everyone was looking at me, my mother especially had an impatient expression looking at me while Oros himself had a strange expression.
"I don’t like him, I apologize for this scene." (me)
"He’s not the same person, his hatred is directed at an innocent." (Elizabeth)
"Stop with the nonsense, do you think he cares, he’s not a nice God, no God is like that, do you think he cares about the excuse of Divine Rebirth?" (Caitlyn)
"Shut up all of you, so many more important things to discuss and you focus on my Divine Beast..." (Selene)
Sigh
"Zenos, I won’t let you do anything to my Divine Beast, but you can let your Familiar find him, of course another time, we have more important things to do right now." (Selene)
I nod, I know I might be wrong in how I feel about Oros, at least with this new version of him, but I can’t deny that I feel repulsed by him, I’m just not sure if all of this is because of Ragnar or if I’m mirroring some things from the past in him.
"Before we leave, we’ll be going to the other Gods, follow me." (Selene)
The Goddess Selene stands up, making the crown on her head appear as if it were covered by a layer of space until she moves, a sword also appears attached to her waist, one look was enough to confirm my suspicions.
"(It’s that sword...)" (me)
The Goddess waves evil forward, it was as if she was holding an invisible blade, creating a bloody wound in space that opens, revealing a vortex of blood through which she passes, followed by all of us right behind.
When I passed through the gate, we were on a floating island in the middle of a blue sky full of clouds. The island had only one building full of marble columns and a large table. My mother brought everyone to sit at the table.
There were already people, or rather, Gods, sitting at the table. They were Gods I already knew, such as Cratos, Hernoth, Aline, Dravos, Akatosh, Justhos, Vidark, Malakai, Hatlas, Shako, as well as others I didn’t know.
In fact, I didn’t know exactly all of these Gods personally, but their statues were in my Communal Temple, such as the Goddess of Magic, the God of Games, the God of War, the Demonic God of Revenge, and the God of Justice, among others.
"Where are Ayrin and her daughters?" (Selene)
"They don’t come, they don’t know the battle and they are weak in everything related to it." (Hatlas)
"They wouldn’t be of much help and could be a weak link was what she said, there was no arguing against that." (Justhos)
"Someone is still missing, so let’s wait a little longer." (Akatosh)
The Gods were silent, but they didn’t stop talking, their Auras all interacting with each other exchanging conversations that would last months in mere seconds, I was also dragged into this type of conversation.
So I talked to multiple Gods at the same time getting to know more about them, but two of them were more focused on talking to me, these are Vindark and Justhos.
One of them was talking about my daughter becoming his Saint or even his Champion, but Lilith would not be good at serving anyone, I tactfully refused, with this daughter it is best to let her follow her own path, giving her just a few corrections so she doesn’t fall into a very deep abyss.
The God of Justice wanted to talk about his son Phatos, the God of Law who attacked me, he took responsibility as his Father and asked for forgiveness for his son, but that wasn’t all, he was asking me not to interfere in his fight against his own son when the time came, he wanted to deal with his son himself and clearly he wouldn’t kill his son, I can even see Hernoth looking at him from across the table in an irritated way, it seems like it’s not just me he’s talking about.
The conversation with most of the Gods was more like introductions since it was the first time we met, but these ’casual conversations’ between Gods were very strange, I felt that it wasn’t just the conversation that was happening and it took me a while to realize that the Auras that everyone was communicating with were also probing each other’s Divinities, they were also checking things like compatibility between the Auras and that was when I realized that they were already preparing for battle while they talked.
They are looking for possible allies during the battles, Gods that can add their powers or even multiply their powers by fighting together, as well as they are also seeing which Gods’ powers conflict with each other, of course I didn’t notice this on my own merit but rather it was my mother’s Aura that basically points the answer on my face.
"(Akatosh, where is Arash?)" (me)
"(He, as well as Fenrir and a few other Gods, will not come, they are preparing for another battle.)" (Akatosh)
"(They will fight alongside the armies if we cannot hold all the Gods by Baldr’s side.)" (Selene)
"It seems we arrived in time." (Mavis)
"Yes, then let’s finish this quickly so I can leave." (Kalistos)
Suddenly two Gods who hide their faces appear on top of the table, one dressed in white while the other dressed in black, they are the Goddesses of Life and Death.
They raise a hand each, one with the palm facing up and the other with the palm facing down, their hands facing each other as a multicolored light appears in a flash that lasts for the blink of an eye before giving way to a hexagonal marble stone with two symbols inscribed representing the colors of the two Goddesses.
Akatosh stands up and receives that stone, then the two Goddesses disappear once more, Kalistos leaves ignoring everyone while Mavis waves a hand in farewell, they really didn’t take more than 10 seconds before leaving.
At that moment my mother drew her sword and pierced the head of a God while his body dried.
The Goddess of the Fairies transforms the God next to her into a seamstress’s pillow, but instead of needles there were multicolored swords that held him in place, he was still alive, but he couldn’t move.
That’s when I noticed that the Sun’s light was flickering and when I looked up, I saw colossal Demonic claws trying to grab the Sun while cards covered in Runes covered the Sun.
Half of the Gods seemed surprised while the others were calm, Akatosh the whole time was looking at the stone he received as if preparing something, an almost imperceptible energy was floating from his body flowing to that stone that created a mark similar to a powerful vein of golden color rising from the bottom and going to the top.
"You almost let him escape." (Shako)
"Shut up, I was the one who had the hard part." (Hernoth)
"His Seal will be hard to break, thanks for the help Shako." (Malakai)
"There were 3 of you and still you almost let him escape, that’s absurd." (Aine)
"They are not as ruthless as you and Selene, that’s why I told you to let me act." (Hatlas)
"What’s going on here?" (Vidark)
"I’m waiting for an explanation." (Cratos)
"I think it’s pretty obvious, there was an idiot spying and two traitors lurking, now everything has been resolved." (Selene)
"Exactly what Selene said." (Dravos) 𝔫𝔬𝖛𝖕𝔲𝖇.𝖈𝖔𝖒
"..." (me)
Everything happened very quickly and in the meantime Akatosh seemed very focused on the stone, only when the vein pattern was ready did he direct his gaze around before focusing on the God that my mother killed.
This seemed to remind the other Gods since they all looked at that God, in fact they were all looking at the sword on his head, while I exchanged glances with my sisters and Adella sharing our confusion.
"Good sword, will it work against Baldr?" (Akatosh)
"Yes, I just don’t know if it will be enough to kill him." (Selene)
"As long as we can defeat him it will be good enough." (Akatosh)
"Now we can continue the meeting and I will explain what this is in my hands as well as how we will implement the Divine World." (Akatosh)
"(Divine World...?)" (me)
