"Huh? Her goddess? Why does she have to disrupt my reunion?"
Why does a goddess want me dead?
"Ronin, I am done with them, let's run! A God's possession is very dangerous and near about omnipotent although it is short." Warzheil says with the skeleton on his back.
Warzheil's intervention snaps me out of my emotional discord. He is right, we must escape. But If it's a god then can't they just catch us? I need to buy him time to get away.
"you go, I will stall her."
Warzheil understands and leaves.
"It's useless, you will die in vain," Ava says as she starts levitating.
"Divine Art: Divine Possession!" she says gently.
I can see the energies around me suddenly rushing towards Ava and launching a shockwave which does not have much effect on me but the surrounding area gets cleared away, and even the boulder on which the skeleton was supported gets blown to bits.
Ava levitates lower and gently on the ground. My left eye can see an insanely big aura around her. She raises her hand and everything around me gets consumed by a white veil as if another dimension except for the ground in two meters of my radius, I can still see the grass.
"Grave of light" possessed Ava says in a very disturbing sound that seems to be a mix of many voices as if the sound came straight out of the void.
But suddenly I am surrounded by maybe a million spikes of light, I can't dodge all these. The goddess waves her hand down I close my eyes waiting for my end. Maybe it's not too bad dying by my sister's end. She is happy in this world. I am happy for her, so what if I couldn't live a good life? This is enough, I can finally rest.
I wait for a few moments but nothing happens, I slowly open my eyes and see that there are spikes all around me except for the region where I could see the grass.
I look at the goddess who's expression doesn't seem to change but she must be as confused as I am.
The white veil disappears into the same clearing I was in before. The goddess looks at me her eyes emitting white energy with no pupil visible.
"So you have mana resistance. I will use my divine powers then." She says with the same disturbing voice.
"I thought gods don't speak to us." I need to buy more time.
The goddess raises her hand to launch an attack but I won't just wait around to be attacked.
I run towards her. She closes her hand into a fist as if crushing something, and this time she seems a little concerned. I am finally close to her. I use my staff to attack her but she blocks me with her sword.
"Interesting, I cannot detect you using world laws, the mana and divine powers don't work on you. But how about physical?" she says as she brutally swings her sword which I dodge by jump rolling on her sword while using my spear's pole to slide against the edge of the sword.
The goddess's swing is so strong that the forest gets cut down many kilometers away. If I get hit by that I will be sliced in half for sure. I tried to land a kick at her head which she blocked effortlessly with the wrist of her left hand but I think she didn't expect my second kick as I used my staff to land as the first one was a fluke.
I kick her knee back immediately and use a judo move to knock her down but when I look at my grip I find that she isn't there, but instead a few meters above in air.
"Even among gods, not many have been able to land an attack like that." The goddess thinks.
"How is this possible? He should have been dead. Is this the power of a no. 2 " Ava says to the goddess in her head.
"Calm down child, I searched the records of Earth and did not find any instance of a being called Shar. Your brother never existed and yet I can find traces of him being talked about in that world. He is a being that defies space-time only the All-mighty being that Drax called Legend God and Worshipped could do it."
"What does my brother have to do with this?"
"You are such a dull child Ava. But since he intends not to tell you, you will have to find the answer to that question yourself, I may not understand his existence but it's easy to read human emotions."
She is just floating there, I must use this to run away.
And so I make a run for it after blasting some compact smoke bombs which are small balls. Even if she is a goddess this should blind her for a moment.
And so I make a run for it in the direction Warzheil went, surprisingly she doesn't follow. After a few minutes, I can see a small outline of a humanoid being Standing and looking back and forth a few dozen meters away with something else on their back, must be Warzheil.
I run to the figure and it turns out to be Warzheil.
"Oh, you are alive! I had doubts and was going to turn back. How did she let you go though? Don't tell me you beat her?"
Warzheil showers me with a lot of questions and so I tell him everything that happened while he was busy fighting paladins and after he left.
"So you finally found your sister, eh? And survive against the goddess's brutal attacks? I can guarantee no human, no mortal can do something like that." he tries to console me.
Seeing a glint of sadness on my face he goes on to comfort me.
"Hey come on man, your sister is fine. And now you can live a fine life too. But I hope you do fulfill Drax's task too. He may be someone who only dragged you in this world but for him, you are supposed to be his god."
"A god, huh? And I couldn't defeat a goddess weaker than my worshipper at her lowest form.?"
"Hahaha, I am sure you will get there soon enough." He says and we move on.
It's soon night and we camp near the Kobe River which is more of an ocean.
Warzheil brings a veg food for me to eat. He knows how to cook meat but not vegetables so I will need to learn to make food again in this new world.
"So this is the Kobe River, huh? But do the sunrise from the East or the North?"
"Yes, we call them Ocean rivers as they are big. We are headed east, the sun rises from the North, also Small streams or rivers are really rare. Most went extinct many Ages ago. The Kobe Forest behind us is the Western Kobe Forest while the one which we will reach after crossing the Dratnir bridge will be the Eastern Kobe Forest."
"The current in the river is so strong, how did you guys make a Bridge so big and sturdy? I say as I look at it.
"Haha, that type of technology doesn't exist. It is told in ancient relic books that those bridges existed since before the primordial gods. And to give your brain a jam I will tell you this, we are still 30 km away from it, the bridge itself connects a 50 km long way. There are 4 lanes on the bridge, one supply stop for travelers but it isn't cheap....." He tells me all I need to know.
According to what Warzheil told me, there are 4 Dratnir robots on the bridge stationed at equal distances across the bridge, 3 Dratnir Colossus support the bridge as its pillars and only wake when the 4 soldiers are destroyed.
According to him, there was a mad human king during the age of prosperity and trade who tried to monopolize the bridge for tax collection as the bridges are the sole way to cross the rivers. He ended up bringing fools who raised their weapon on traders who were unwilling to pay the taxes which violated the non-aggression zone rule of the bridge and the 4 Dratnir robots destroyed them. The king of Helmut empire which ruled the largest of human colonies of that time. Helmut the 3rd was foolish enough to bring 500 best warriors equipped in Titanite equipment which is an alloy made from Titanium and Orichalcum. Only a dozen lived and managed to destroy the 4 robots but then the colossus destroyed the empire within half a day and Drax had to stop the colossus by destroying them, that was 20000 years ago.
I feel sleepy, I can't listen to him anymore. *fell asleep*
After a while, I start hearing Warzheil's voice and it becomes clearer as I wake up.
We hear a Screeching sound coming from the northern direction in the forest from far away.
"What's that?" I ask but Warzheil seems to be in a 'talk less and leave first" mood as he quickly packs everything.
"What's that sound you ask? It's the sound of Death if that shithead got his hands on this skeleton he will become as strong as the demon lord's 3rd or the 4th stage. I will explain how the demon lord's stages work later as we may have to face him one day too."
"What's the problem? The sound came from far in the forest."
"It's my fault that I forgot to tell you. The lich can sense dead from leagues away, and our Drax is emitting so much mana that at least every being within 40 km knows our location. We are very lucky that He is no longer a god since he sacrificed it during the summoning ritual, or else every being in at least a 1000km could sense him."
"Fuuuuu*kkk" is all I can say as we run with the skeleton.
But suddenly everything seems to freeze around me, Warzheil, the wind, the Flame of the torch Warzheil has. And suddenly a pure white female figure made of energy appears in front of me, I can't see her with my right eye but my left.
"Ronin, the anomaly of space, know that I am not your enemy. I trust Drax's body to you, if you need to, please take his power for yourself, yes I know you can do so. But by any means do not let the Lich or the Demon Lord get their hands on it or else there will be cataclysmic results."
"So you are Goddess Ethis? you know who I am don't you? Did you tell Ava about me?"
"Rest assured, I won't do something to disrupt the wheels of fate more than your existence already has. But she will eventually find it out herself."
"That's fine as long as you don't meddle with her or me. And if ever she is in trouble or her family is, please go through the trouble to tell me."
"I can't."
"Well, then you can say bye to Drax's body. I will hand it to the lich."
"I know you won't do that"
There is a silence between us for a moment.
"Sigh* Fine. But do not tell her about this agreement in the future." She says.
"Sure, you have a deal goddess."
The goddess disappears and everything returns to normal.
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{🥳Thanks to All those who are Actively Reading My story, what you are reading is the Third refined version of the story, I have the entire story planned out along with a huge chunk written in Raw so it will take time to type it out but it's going to be many chapters long so make sure to stick around and watch our protagonist uncover his true potential and ultimately reach his intended goal at the end. Well, there is an end for sure but I have plans to keep the story going without killing the fun of the story even after its end. But that will be highly dependent on your opinion.🌾}
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