Ikuta slashes Cronus's attacks destroying his scythe and the weapon that kills his family " I have your family in me be careful about it. " Ikuta stabbed around Cronus's left eye and ripped it out " ARGH "
Cronus tried to reverse time back but his eyehole remained hollow . Cronus tried to use his foresight but saw nothing " What are you ? " " Don't know " " I do " Ikuta dashed towards Cronus who wanted to speed up his senses .
" He's the void " Ikuta punched Cronus into one of the visions " Meaning they are nothing " Cronus tried to stop Ikuta in place by freezing time " Which means your power doesn't work on him "
Cronus consumes time to regain his Hindsight but sees a gaping hole in the past when he searches for Ikuta . Ikuta punches him again " But you can still see him and hit him because he lets it happen " Harry finishes .
Ikuta finally seized his father's unactivated essence and slashed it again returning the denier " Woah , you just did it twice " Ikuta pushed the unactivated essence to his father " Sorry Dad I need to fight " Ikuta leaves pushing Cronus further back .
' So this is what parents mean when they blink and their kids are already grown up ' Denier thought " I'll just bring back the rest , it shouldn't feel like anything other than waking up from sudden sleep "
Ikuta ignores much of Cronus's power much to Cronus's surprise , he watches Denier bring back their children and quickly says " Since nothing affects you I'll just have to get the world , it doesn't matter if it's gone if I don't get to conquer it "
Cronus quickly accelerates his time and increases his gathering by converting his time into power . Aichel detects the unreasonable amount of time being used and warns the others Harkness takes back Erebus's divinity , Zhack and Locke circulate elements that oppose Cronus in their body , Aichel and Redun facilitate the change and Chara isolates herself from the effects of Cronus's power with Stork inside .
Cronus unleashed an attack and everyone resisted it . Aichel sensed the effect and told everyone , while everything else starts to age ' I'll go get rid of it " Ikuta said aware that there was no way anyone could counter the effect fast enough ' Here use this " Stork gave Ikuta a single thread .
' That's Gleipnir " ' You should run right now everyone is aging fast " Ikuta beelined towards Midgard and saw that the people were already aging at least ten years. He started to go as fast as he could , taking out the ten years from every matter , adding ten years of existence into gleipnir , which made it longer .
He gathered all the extra years that Cronus forced on everything in the world appearing by Cronus with a very long gleipnir " What ? " Ikuta stabbed Cronus letting the titan's blood spill which Mago consumed and obtained Cronus's power .
" Yooouuu " Cronus tries to use his power but Aichel freezes him in place " Stork how do you seal Cronus ? " " Well that's kinda hard Gleipnir is just a very hard chain to get rid of " " I'll take care of it , Ikuta hold him " Chara said " And I'll borrow your manas "
" You think this is the end ? " " Looks like this is what Delusion means by removing their seal " Chara could sense Cronus's power unsealed by a sacrifice that she figured should be Delusion's body .
" Thanks for beating the god of time " they sensed Delusion's soul and Mago leaped to devour Delusion " ARGH darn it " " There are more clones " Chara mentioned and Ikuta grabbed Cronus and sunk into the void .
" No Ikuta " Delusion's soul enters the void and abysslings all attack him at Ikuta's command . He managed to possess their bodies dodging Ikuta's void's erosion , Ikuta summons darts of his father's pure power to destroy his existence .
Ikuta made the void drop him even further until he reached the curve separating the universe from outside " IKUTA " his family yelled the only connection being the portal he opened through the void .
Zhack leaped into the hole and tried to move the space of Ikuta's body to pull himself close . Delusion already had a head start and Zhack dashes through the void after failing his teleportation through it and finally grabs Ikuta and Cronus .
He faced the gap the only thing that lighted the dark realm of the void and dashed through a line instantly as if he teleported . The instant that happened Delusion smiled , he revealed an artificial bestower and seized Cronus's power when Zhack passed him .
" Hah " Zhack gasped for air and coughed " God damn it it's been a while since I had to abuse my lungs like that " Harry looks at Cronus and couldn't sense his power " Uhm Cronus lost his power "
They looked at the gap which was closing but didn't sense the presence of Delusion " That's fine " Chara said and Cronus couldn't help but feel defeated and looked at Rhea who had been kept behind a safe seal .
" I thought he would bring this with him " Redun said " Well we can always use it " Stork said " No first we will seal Cronus " Chara takes some of Harkness , Zhack and Locke's mana trapping Cronus .
" Right now he is an empty vessel for any power that comes it will be dangerous if he takes the wishes " " So can we like use that or something ? " Zhack asked imagining all the wishes he wanted to ask "
" No I'll wake Rhea up she should take care of it " they hear many footsteps and see the Aesirs and Olympians " What happened ? " Chara was busy taking care of Rhea and Zhack suddenly remembered Atsuki " I'll fetch Atsuki " Zhack disappeared and Aichel said " We got rid of the leader and imprisoned Cronus "
" Just say that the war is over , We'll tell you about it later " Redun said " Just recover our losses the visions should all be gone and I doubt anyone was trapped in another timeline " Aichel said .
" Then we will see you later at Asgard " the Olympians gave one more look to the mother Rhea and left " Are they gone " Chara asked with a hand on Rhea's head and Zhack returned with Atsuki .
Chara releases Rhea from her sleep and she opens her eyes looking around " Whatever happened " " Here you go dear friend " A branch of Yggdrasil stretches to Rhea and drops a few dews of memories .
" Ahh so that's what happened " Rhea looked at Cronus who was now trapped " I never thought something like you would appear " Rhea told Denier " Oh I've been here for a long time I remembered accidentally killing Cronus once "
Denier bragged " So these wishes have taken away all of my fertility " " Yet this guy is still not an eunuch yet " Zhack joked Stork tried to hold back his laughter and Chara and Locke hit them both .
" And these wishes don't even have life " Rhea took a deep breath struggling to carry the wishes " I don't think I can bear to carry them " Rhea said " Then we'll take it away " Chara said .
Inside the greedy minds of an adventurer and blacksmith were shining ores they could get from the wish " Ikuta can you get rid of this ? " Chara held a spear of many swirling stars " Okay ... Wait we also have to give back Dad's power "
" Oh don't worry about that you guys can have them I still have enough for myself and I don't regularly use it to make stuff " " Wait can we use it ? " Zhack asked " You can just have it if you want " Ikuta said but Chara insisted .
" No It's best if you take it " " But I don't want to do it " Ikuta said trying to avoid responsibility " Then I'll take it we can figure something out later " Redun said " Hmmm Sure " Chara said after a single hint of consideration " Now go back home " Chara told Ikuta and Atsuki .
Denier followed through the portal and they saw Claire and Louis " Ahh the house " Atsuki jumped into the bed and Ikuta felt empty seeing this " Are you okay kid ? " his father asked " Uhm I'm just tired " Ikuta lay on the floor thinking about how strange his life had been and how much he is hiding it from his friends .
He hears his phone ringing at the coffee table and grabs it " Hello ? " " Ikuta since it's almost summer break do you want to go to the arcade when we come back ? " Ezio asked " Oh well I don't want to go there " " Oh is it not exciting anymore ? " Ezio asked " Yeah "
" Why ? " Ikuta took a long time thinking while Ezio was mentioning the things " Is it because you have been fighting gods ? Or is it because of how strong you already are ? Maybe it's because you are surrounded by so many legendary people " " Actually it's more like the legends are my siblings "
Rather than surprise Ezio was confused by how " How ? " " Apparently Dad is something like a god you know " " Wait so you're like Hercules , Apollo and Dionysus ? "
" No I'm still a normal human even my siblings were just normal people before they got stronger , even Redun wasn't a very good dungeon core and neither was Aichel "
" So how old was your dad ? " " He's really old he had to die first so that he could live " " How does that work ? " " I don't know but that's why nothing feels exciting anymore " Ezio could sense Ikuta's boredom and quickly said " So are you saying we can get as strong as the legends ? "
Ikuta thought of it " If you work very hard like us why ? " " THEN TRAIN ME " Ezio yelled " Huh why ? " " Because I want to do crazy stuff too " " But there's no enemy to fight " " Well you got strong because you thought it was cool " " I did it because I thought dad was gonna kill me " " But you are alive ? "
" Yeah I misunderstood dad just killed my siblings the legends because they did something that got them in trouble " " Uhh like what ? " " Harkness killed a primordial god "
" Wow what did the rest do ? " Ezio was more curious than afraid " Chara could've died at Ragnarok , and Aichel and Redun got Atlas's knowledge on the stars I kinda forgot the rest "
" So you don't want to train anymore ? " Ezio asked " well when I was fighting the otherworlder's leader they kinda said I already reached the peak of my skill "
" So you mean like you swing a sword of nothing ? " " I can do the same for others too " " So there's no more room to grow ? " " Maybe but I don't want to go look at what is after that anymore I just want to be lazy "
Ezio thought about this " Then can you teach me ? " " Hmm sure sure Atsuki is also trying to learn to reach it too " " Then you be careful Ikuta one day I'm going to defeat you. " Ikuta chuckled hearing Ezio's enthusiasm "No I'd still win even if you reach it so good night "
After Ikuta left the call Ezio quickly called the rest " Guys hear this "The next morning Ikuta woke up and had breakfast with Zhack and Atsuki " What are you reading ? "
Atsuki asked " A book I made " Harry said from Ikuta's face " It was hard to do it but I used the crows and wolves to move out of Ikuta's body . '
" What's it about ? " Atsuki asked Zhack " Some mortal getting a god's power , it's interesting the mortal had better use of the power too " Zhack said .
Zhack took a look at Ikuta who hadn't eaten much " Are you okay ? " " A little " " Feeling like you have nothing to do ? " Ikuta nodded " I already got Dad back and now I don't know what to do " " What about school ? " " I got a lot of high scores already "
" What about your friends ? " " Ezio says he wants me to train him after I told him that we were just born normal " " But you still don't feel okay ? " Ikuta nodded looking at the very tasty food .
" It makes sense you thought for your entire life that you needed to be strong but I guess because dad didn't turn out as you had thought you feel like you have working towards the wrong goal "
Ikuta nodded " It's not like there is anything out there what about that terraforming project you wanted to do " Ikuta remembered the voidlings " Oh yeah that I can do " Ikuta quickly ate his breakfast " What are you going to do ? "
" I'm going to look for the home of the voidlings " " But that's like a lot " " Then can you help me " Zhack thought about it and sighed " Alright then how do I look for it " Ikuta thought about it " I don't know "
Zhack looked at Yggdrasil " Hey Yggdrasil are you here ? " " Mom is busy connecting the world but you can use Mimisbrunnr to look for it " Yukina said and they looked at it " Mom said we can use this to look at the different worlds "
They see an image of a world and a voidling that was at home tried to jump into it but Ikuta grabbed them " Hold on first I need to check " " Then I'll try to open with this as a connection " Zhack reached down to use his space attribute .
The branches that drop out of the water for Mimixbrunnr start to glow and create a portal that takes away Ikuta and Zhack " AHH " Zhack held onto Ikuta and they fell out through a root's portal .
" What was that ? " Ikuta asked " I had to improvise I don't know where this place is so I just thought of using Yggdrasil as a conduit I didn't think it meant going through her roots "
They looked at the branch which lost its glow and Zhack summons a sword to light up the darkness " So what do you think you need first " Ikuta looked around with the voidling with him " There's no air , gravity even sun "
" I didn't think it was like that " " We can figure something out I'm sure Redun would help if you ask " Zhack grabbed Ikuta and returned home with the voidling hopping out of him to tell the others the good news .
" So you okay with doing all that ? " Ikuta nodded " Yep I can try to make things over there I'm going to call Redun and maybe Aichel too to help " " You do need a sun " "Oh yeah , But making it could be really dangerous "
" Alright " Zhack pats Ikuta by the head ruffling his hair " Enjoy yourself I plan to finish this book " Zhack went to the couch to finish reading while Ikuta grabbed Gungnir reducing the light presence and reached Asgard .
' First I'll ask Chaos ' Harry helped Ikuta search for Chaos and arrived at a garden with strange alien life and saw his father " Hey kid how was your morning " " It was fine Dad " Denier patted Ikuta's head .
" I want to bring back the voidlings home " " Is that gonna be what you are going to do ? " " Yeah I can have fun doing that as a hobby " " Be my guest " " So uhm Chaos is it fine to add more things in this world ? " " There's no real problem in doing that at all "
" Yeah, the world is just going to keep expanding either way and remember how you talked with your friends about conspiracy theories ? You might see some alien life sprouting here and there but that's going to take years to happen " Denier said .
Ikuta recalled how there wasn't much life out there yet the voidlings appeared from the worlds that were destroyed " So are there others too " " Let me see "
Chaos creates a drop of Urdarbrunnr " There are a bunch of souls probably because of their lack of body . But so far no other life those otherworlders have done quite a lot of damage since Ragnarok "
" So is Yggdrasil connected to everything ? " " Yes she has been able to stretch her roots not just to that edge of the world where you fought but also throughout the universe " " That must be a lot of lightyears "
" You should use bigger terms like eons " Chaos suggested " It's not like there is a reason to use that " " I'll go look for Redun and Aichel now " " Have fun " Denier said " It's so nice to see them finally together "
" I question some of your techniques in raising children yet all of them have become capable of helping each other " " Yep the world is just too small for them so I hope you can make it bigger Chaos " Chaos sighed .
" It has been a while since I let myself work on making more creations " " Well if you make a bigger playground I'm sure they can compete with your creations " Chaos thought about it " Then I shall entertain that idea of yours " Chaos walked through the mirror dimension and stepped back into Urdarbrunnr .
Meanwhile , Ikuta was with Redun and Aichel " Sure I can help you " Redun said " But you will have to take care of the temperature I'm sure I can help you with facilitating the sun " " Really ? " " Yeah now we just need to get Zhack but we should also invite Locke he might be interested in the voidlings' ability to absorb mana "
" And he would need help storing the lost legacy " " This feels fun " Ikuta said and Redun suddenly remembered that it was Ikuta who wanted to work " Hmm Maybe I shouldn't help if you want to do it "
" But I don't know how " " How about this I can make a device for you to terraform the planet yourself cause if I do it you might not like it " Ikuta thought about it "Then I'll get the device " " Sure I'll make it easy to use "
" Good then Ikuta can you help me visit Locke he should be at Mount Olympus with Harkness " " Okay " Ikuta held Aichel's hand and reached Mount Olympus to see Locke and Harkness together " Morning Ikuta " " Morning " " How's the philosopher's stone I gave you ? "
" It works " they both said " But I think we would need more " " Don't worry about needing more I can have it done but we would still need a location or at least a place we can put them "
Aichel said " Why not put them at one of the planets ? " Ikuta asked even more invested in his terraforming hobby " That can work but I'll need more than just one place it's going to be hard with the sun orbiting around Midgard " Aichel mentioned .
" But the idea is fine " Locke said " I talked with Yggdrasil and she said she can create portals with her branches " " Oh so that's why , Me and Zhack went through her roots instead of Mimisbrunnr " " Did you try to open a portal like the paintings mother kept at home ? " Harkness asked .
" Yeah " " It won't work like that or at least you would need to do more than just create a portal from that memory it has to be the current view of that world which wasn't what Mimisbrunnr is "
Locke said " Speaking of portals Redun was interested in that portal making ability of yours she wants to use it to create portals to everywhere even though we don't need it right now "
" Well you'll have to get it from Mago , most of my magic Mago got it " " Oh then we'll have to try something about that but what about the abysslings that you made ? " Aichel asked " Oh I'm not sure what to do with them "
" Then try to be careful with them at one point they may turn against you for not treating them well " Ikuta thought about how to solve it " Then I'll leave them in the world with the voidling when I finish terraforming it "
" Then you better get going but first you need to have a good atmosphere maybe go back to the Olympus or the Aesirs and have them help in creating the atmosphere " Ikuta remembered that he never got the blessing of the sky Ouranos .
Ikuta walked to the plate seeing the sky through it " What are you here for Ikuta ? " " I want to terraform a planet but Aichel said I need the sky and Mago can't help with that " Hestia looks at her grandfather which she never knew on the ground " I can help you with that "
She takes out the bestowed and extracts a blessing " Here it is " " You have the bestower now ? " " Yes the gods trust that I won't abuse its power " " Oh so you are guarding it ? " Hestia nodded " Yes now take the blessing away before some swift god comes in and takes it and you become another part of a myth "
Mago came out of Ikuta and swiftly took the blessing " I have to thank you for all this peace and the blessing is just something out of all the other gratitude you'll be receiving " Ikuta nodded " Okay thanks for the blessing "
Ikuta takes Gungnir and goes back to his home to see Chara with Zhack " So how's the book ? " " Shush I'm getting there" " Hi Chara " Ikuta said " Oh hello Ikuta how are you ? " " Very fine " Ikuta said with a smile .
' He's very happy ' " How about you ? " " There's a lot to do like promoting the increase of the world's level " " World level ? " " Just a way to ask for the world to get stronger we already have people growing from mortal to killing gods so we just have to make sure we can do that for everyone else "
" Oh just like how Ezio wants me to train him " " Did you tell him about us as a family ? " Ikuta nodded " It'll be fine we'll eventually tell the world we are a family may as well have people know that we grew strong like those rags to riches stories . " " So you'll be teaching them ? " Ikuta asked recalling how Chaos describe Ikuta as a paver of paths and allowing people to follow him .
" Of course we'll put you in charge of fighting you don't have to teach " Chara said " Just occasionally fight because it's going to take a while until someone can fight you considering how you are at the peak "
" Also finished that summer assignment of yours " Claire said and Ikuta remembered it and went to his room to start .
"First I want to say that my dad is something like a god , you'll probably know about it on the news before I finish this but I just want to say , Dad's a very good dad , he's not like Cronus he's just a very supportive dad , I learned a lot about him this year and I'll start learning more about him"
While Ikuta was writing his summer assignment Zhack finished the book " So this is what Delusion planned to use Cronus's power ? " " ... Sort of " Zhack didn't like the pause that Chara made when he asked .
" Let's just say that our main character isn't a destroyer but a creator and one thing you have to be careful about is the pursuit of perfection " " Delusion doesn't seem to want to be perfect if they were they wouldn't talk like they were crazy "
" I never said Delusion was our main Character that person in there is someone else " " Wait so why did Delusion get Cronus's power then ? " " Can't tell it's hard to guess what's in their mind "
" You couldn't even tell why they made the wish ? " " I would assume to divert our attention to what they planned and distract us enough when we are deciding what to do with the wishes " " So what did Redun do ? "
" There was still no final decision maybe we should somehow use it for the betterment of our world , but then that equates to unearned strength " " We could just use it to make more land " " But for now we plan to save it "
" And how do you keep it safe " " Already did " " Really? " " Yeah Stork is already making another Gleipnir for it with some faulty genetics that Aichel recreated " " Are gleipnirs that easy to make ? " " It is now so get yourself a job "
" Fine , Ikuta about that publishing can you call Petra about that for me " Zhack looked at the door and see Ikuta asleep with the unfinished assignment ready to continue tomorrow " Best to ask tomorrow " Zhack covered Ikuta and left " Have a good rest kid you deserve it " Denier said .
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