" It would be a shame to interrupt maybe we can continue this conversation after your battle " " I mean I might not win " " oh I'm sure you will but it would prove surprising if Typhon were to prove me wrong "
Typhon feared he would anger Chaos and was noticed " Do not worry I won't interfere , whether you win or not is something you will have to achieve with thorough honesty , so battle like I wasn't here "
Chaos's assurance allowed Typhon to fight without worry about angering them . Ikuta dashed with his sword and attacked Typhon , Typhon used his ability to create life obtained through Gaia and his ability to make weapons from Tartarus .
Ikuta tries to prevent it but Typhon's tendrils got in his way , Typhon completes a weapon and quickly parried Ikuta's incoming attack " Now this is a fight " Chaos said . Ikuta let his weapon return to liquid state and controlled it like he had water affinity with the shards being caught in the flow .
' He left something ' Ikuta commanded his console to create a construct in the real world which formed in the mirror world " An interesting idea " Typhon tried to swing his weapon but kept being blocked by the constructs which couldn't be destroyed due to the mirror world's inability to interfere with the real world .
Ikuta removed the construct to strike him ' For someone born mortal , he has a lot of fighting sense ' Ikuta parried the small daggers Typhon threw at him while grabbing one and made the shards fly to it .
Ikuta forced the shards to combine and flung the dagger back at Typhon ' This is Ares's power ' Typhon threw more daggers at Ikuta " You won't win with that inferior power " Typhon said starting to show doubt about Chaos's prediction .
Typhon threw bigger blades at Ikuta and he parried them not bothering to take them ' What is he going to do ' Ikuta turned the shards into individual blades and continued to fight Typhon .
Atsuki swung the scythe while Stork was instructing her " Resize " She swung the large blade , allowing it to cut even deeper into Atlas's attacks and shrunk back ' You don't have to say it " ' I know but it's fun "
Stork sighed seeing how much joy Atsuki was getting from fighting Atlas reached to her strengthened with a different power again but was still cut . Stork turned his attention to Zhack ' What are you doing ? "
' Oh Stork I was wondering what you were doing " ' Like I said I was building honestly you have no idea how hard it is to rebuilt a structure that sat on Urdarbrunnr " ' Yeah yeah , do you think we can use that temple of plenty ? "
' For what ? " Harry explained Hera's condition ' Sure do you still have the recipe of making Ichor ? " ' Yeah I'll meet you there " Zhack teleported with Harry and Stork activated the sword's recall function and flew to Niflheim where the temple of plenty was left in .
" Here you go " Zhack puts Harry beside Stork's body and Harry shares the knowledge of the recipe " I got it " Stork prepared to inject Hera with Ichor " Finally the recipe for the blood of gods "
Hera was placed on a hard bed and a giant contraption was placed above her . Stork changes the structure of the contraption " It looks like the goddess's soul is within her body trapped even " the contraption stretches out tubes to different parts of the room .
" Would all these be enough ? " " Well Ikuta has been giving me a lot of lifeforce over the days so I'm sure it will be " the tubes started to fill with lifeforce , pouring into the contraption that Stork built to create the blood of gods .
The body of Hera was injected with Ichor " How long will this take " Zhack looked at the contraption automating the manual production of Ichor " It will take a while " " What if she leaves ? " " She won't , I made that bed the same thing her child gave her " Stork smirked thinking about the stories .
" Won't she have too much Ichor if we don't watch her ? " " Don't worry I got that covered , the Ichor will stop producing as soon as her veins is running full with Ichor . " " Can you at least take care of the seed of madness ? " Harry asked " There was something like that ? "
Meanwhile Chara , Estrea and Hel bounded the Furies in chains , magic seals and ice " How do we calm down a crazed god like this " Hel asked Chara " It won't be too difficult " Chara said " You know how ? "
" Normally how I calm gods down is talking about their problems " " So therapy ? " Estrea asked " Sort of like that but I have been exposed to many of the god's anger because of that but this kind of thing is different it's more like they imbued an artificial emotion or something that didn't belong tot he god "
" So you can't fix it ? " " I can but I'm not experienced in removing these types of things but I am familiar with its nature so Estrea you should help me " " Meee ? " " You too Hel " " Alright what should we do first "
Chara sensed the madness and insanity that was imbued into Tartarus " First I need you both to prepare to extract the black mana that's being emitted by their soul , anger and stress from another can still cause one to generate black mana , trace the strings and take it from the roots "
Hel kneeled to touched the ground and Chara touched her back to sense what she was looking and Estrea quickly did the same . After she started to probe Tartarus she found her sight to face a giant soul with threads stretching afar .
' be careful with those soul threads they are tartarus's soul , you must get those dark threads instead . " Estrea moved her sight deeper gazing at the memories of Tartarus like it was Mimisbrunnr , Hel continued to delve her probing deeper and Estrea quickly caught up .
' They simply stab the soul with madness , both of you will take it away and I'll take care of the wound it leaves " Hel and Estrea reached the source of madness to take it out and Chara went to the gap and pushed them apart .
The thorn of madness floated out with a light force and Chara starts to heal Tartarus's soul ' Estrea get that thing away from here " Estrea pulled the thorn away and Hel stayed to keep the roots from touching the rest of the god's soul .
Harkness defended their body after the otherworlder with most of Erebus's divinity " I really don't understand you Harkness , I receive a big portion of Erebus's divinity and yet you expect to win when you merely get a fraction of its power "
Her opponent sent strips of darkness at Harkness and she reached out to absorb it but was prevented " Tsk I guess you really are stupid " Harkness wasn't bothered by his taunts and continued attacking " You know the people that died were stronger against Erebus and I alone was able to beat them all solo "
" Yeah here's the thing " Harkness swings her hand to deflect an attack contradicting her past attempts , She reaches for her umbrella that revealed itself from the darkness and puts it on her shoulder " I just needed to use you as a sacrifice "
Estrea pulled the thorn of darkness out and was surprised to see it move much easier . She returned back into her body and saw Harkness holding the giant thorn " You wouldn't " " Why because you have most of Erebus's power ? "
He smirked with confidence that Harkness wouldn't use the thorn of madness against him " See they didn't kill Erebus , I did " the thorn entered entered his body and countless thoughts drove him mad . Harkness takes Erebus's remaining power and stores it back in her while Estrea can't believe what she just heard .
" You killed a god ? " " It was a tough fight " Harkness said " Unbelievable to think deicide wasn't punished in the later times " Chara said " You certainly would be in big trouble just like my brothers " Hel said and they looked at the ground feeling Tartarus now sane and asleep .
" Zhack you better think of a solution ? " Stork said " Why am I being involved stork I gave you that recipe for free " " which means you made it easier for me to bring her back "
" why not just stop it then ? " Zhack asked " Oh good question if I do I will have my hands on a mad goddess , right now she is staying still because she is receiving Ichor if I stop it she will try to break free !!! "
Stork yelled " But Hera couldn't leave the chair according to the story and if that is made of the same thing " " It worked cause she was sane with her state right now she could just let her skin tear out !!! " Stork yelled " okay okay I'll find a way " Zhack thought of how Ikuta dealt with the seed of madness .
" Harry can you help with that ? " " What no I can't , the seed of madness is even bigger than the ones Ikuta has been getting out and I've been with him since he took the first seed of madness " " " Uhh okay okay maybe I can take it out " Zhack suggested .
" How ? " Stork asked " Where did you put the pouch that's Hermes's power of thieves " " It's still at the house " Harry said " I'll be right back " Zhack zap out and back with the pouch " Oh man how do I use this " " Here I have memories of how Ikuta used it "
Harry quickly gives the memories and Zhack reaches into Hera's body to take out the seed of madness " What do I do with this ? " " Hold on I have a storage for this " Stork made the ruins bring in a pot .
" Really ? " " What you prefer a skull " " I mean we did kill the Lich for that didn't we , so I thought you would have a skeleton for the seed of madness ? " " If it makes you happy I made this with abyss ore " " Oh cool , you should paint a skull just to make it look better "
" Okay , first off it is much harder than you think to do that and put that thing in already "
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Ikuta finished his weapon , it was the fusion of a sword and a whip , the shards formed identical blades and his liquid weapon formed the whip holding them all together " Why would he do that ? " Chaos said to themselves .
Ikuta swung the weapon stretching its reach to Typhon's body , Typhon's blood spilled out and he turned his blood into more weapons sending them to Ikuta . Ikuta's makeshift weapon falls apart by the absence of the whip which turns into a proper sword .
Typhon tried to recover but the fallen segmented blades shot out of the ground and attacked him . Ikuta grabbed the weapons Typhon threw at him and absorbed the power that Typhon had left in it .
" Tsk " Typhon roared unleashing tendrils now reinforced with an exoskeleton to keep Ikuta from sending worms to devour them . Typhon seized the segmented blades and Ikuta quickly removed Ares's power which was holding their shape and turned his sword into a fan to blow the shards .
He used the console to make platforms to alter the wind's current sending it back to Typhon's back and ran to Typhon with his fan turned back to a sword enchanting it with Typhon's inherited weapon-making power .
Typhon quickly used some of his tendrils to push Ikuta back and used the rest to attack Ikuta . His tendrils were cut immediately and Ikuta sent dark worms to eat through the insides sparing the exoskeleton .
' why do you not use all your strength ' Chaos asked and Ikuta parried more weapons from Typhon . Chaos observed Ikuta's movements ' there's a lot of power he's holding back so ' " Let's change the playing field then "
Typhon and Ikuta felt the ground below them pull them away and the mirror world was changing . Buildings rise from the ground surrounding both of them forming some kind of large arena " I've strengthened the foundation of this world so don't worry about destroying it "
Typhon wondered what Chaos meant and suddenly felt a sense of dread . He turned to Ikuta who turned his weapon back to liquid state , the shards all gathered to Ikuta and he made them form a weapon together with his formable weapon and made a sword .
' Just like the dwarves have said , an ore has the honor to be used by a great blacksmith , The warrior's valhalla also said , The shield has the honor to be wielded by a great warrior . So Typhon you have the honor to feel a fraction of a strong fighter '
Ikuta clenched the handle of the blade and saw the thin line ' I can't win at all ' Ikuta dashed to Typhon and he gazed at Ikuta's eyes full of focus in battle . Typhon felt his body cut by the sword and Chaos was in disbelief ' Perhaps I should've made the foundation even stronger '
At the news , a helicopter was reporting " As you can see the Titan Atlas has been defeated but the ancestor of monsters has yet to be found " the news reporter said while she held on tight on the helicopter with her cameraman .
" Hey something is over there " the camera moved to a platform slowly reforming after Chaos healed the cut that Ikuta made on his mirror world . Ikuta jumped out with Typhon and Echidna's souls while also taking away the weapon-making and life-creating power .
" IKUTA " Atsuki yelled standing on the corpse of Atlas and reaching her " How did you kill him " " I swung this really really hard " Ikuta looked up to see a sharp line that was slowly closing " well I'm just glad it's done "
" I thought there will be more " " I mean I'm done fighting Typhon it's really hard to fight when everything I had could break easily " Ikuta looked at the corpse and used the Medusa's petrification through Aegis turning it back into stone .
' I wonder what else we should be doing ' Ikuta imagined there could be more otherworlders and looked at the sky " Hmm I'm pretty sure it's not even nighttime yet " Atsuki also looked up ' The cracks are already closing so why is the sky still like that '
" Wait look something is happening " the camera moved to the sky showing its bulge in " What is that ? " Atsuki pointed up and Ikuta also wondered " That's the weight of the stars " Chaos said " Huh ? " ' why did Chaos tell me that ' " Consider this as thanks for surpassing my expectations "
The bulge slowly grew sharper and Ikuta jumped up " What are you doing ? " Atsuki asked and Ikuta started to lost his momentum . He throws his Console out to form a platform and enters the mirror world again .
The weight of stars fell on him and he held it up " Ack this is really heavy " Ikuta felt the great weight and wondered why it was targeted at them . Ikuta quickly created several dark eyes to look for anyone nearby .
He then turned his sight to the sky and saw a rainbow coming down ' The bifrost ? ' Ikuta was confused as to why something like that appeared and quickly sent a message to Harry ' Harry I need you to come here " " Ikuta's calling me , Zhack you got to take me to him "
Zhack teleports with Harry leaving Stork and appears above the platform and sees Ikuta being pushed down by the stars " What's happening ? " Harry flew out of the sword and was placed into Ikuta's face .
" Zhack some monsters is coming , they aren't anything like I've ever seen " " Really ? " " Yeah they're coming with an artificial bifrost bridge , they each have an artificial divinity probably made by the otherworlders "
Ikuta looked at the battlefield where Aichel finished observing the bestower ' Aichel it's me Ikuta , I'm sure Chara told you about me and I really need help " Aichel turned in the direction of Ikuta and Zhack created a portal after getting the memory .
" Can't you just let the weight of heaven down ? " Ikuta thought about it " I could but I don't trust the foundation Chaos set up I just cut through it even after it was reinforced " Zhack touched the weight of the stars and the ground .
" Look it's okay this mirror dimension is more stable you are just too strong " " But " Zhack teleported Ikuta to the side and watched the darkness of space hit the platform " Oh " they looked through the tall pillar and saw the Bifrost with it .
" IKUTA WHAT'S GOING ON ? " Atsuki yelled " Oh hold on " Zhack brings Atsuki " Basically there's some monsters with artificial divinity coming over from that rainbow "
" If that's what you need to deal with , I'll take care of it " Zhack and Ikuta were confused and Aichel opened his palm . A rock slowly forms and Aichel looked at the sky .
" Can you hand me that eye you were using ? " Ikuta gave Aichel Harry and he uses it to see what he plans to deal with ' A standard amount ' " Okay this works " Aichel moved the rock through his hand and flicked it to the sky .
" Uhm what's supposed to happen " Zhack asked , Harry returned to Ikuta and he saw what was happening , the monsters were all dying , the explosions pierced their bodies and ricocheted into another one killing them .
Ikuta was surprised to see that " How did you do that ? " " I learned foresight from Prometheus " " That's impressive " Zhack said and Aichel patted his head " Hmm it does feel great " Zhack pushed Aichel's hand away with his guard up " What was that for ? "
" I've always wanted a younger brother , You're even as small as I wanted them to be " " Then do it to Ikuta not me " " I will " ' Are you guys done over there " ' Yeah they somehow made a Bifrost bridge with monsters but Aichel handled it " Zhack said
' Alright then meet us at Urdarbrunnr we may as well bring back Stork's friends too "
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Stork brings a giant floating roof that covers the well as well as Hera " Oh she's not crazy with anything that isn't Zeus's infedelity ? " Chara kicks Zhack for trying to annoy the gods " I'm not apologizing for his atitude "
" No it's okay Chara " Atropos said , while Clotho and Lachesis were both finishing up three threads of three gods' fate . Aristaeus , Plutus and Penia were brought back " Hey Aristaeus " Plutus said " What happened ? " Aristaeus was confused and turned to look around .
Penia pulled him away " Come on let's just get back Stork has some business so we'll tell you about it " " Aunt Hera can tell us everything " Aristaeus was surprised to see Hera and was about to bow but Penia stopped him from giving respect .
" Come on she did a lot of horrible things you know it , don't feed her ego more than it already has " Penia said " Sorry about inviting you guys to my temple " " Hey stop blaming yourself Stork you couldn't have seen through it plus , that temple was made of a great material " Penia said .
' will dad also come here ' Ikuta thought about how his father could easily appear in the furthest places , Stork was gone at the temple which was in another planet , the moon doesn't seem that hard to reach physically and Mount Olympus's weather conditions weren't some major obstacle .
Clotho started to reweave the thread of Core and Lachesis concluded the process " It's done we've brought back Redun " " Thank you sisters " Chara bowed " Zhack make us a portal " Aichel said " alright alright "
They leave and see a giant structure over it " I still can't believe you made us all believe you betrayed us " Zhack told Harkness " Aren't you going to acknowledge the great dungeon city ? " " I would if there were people but so far it doesn't look like it " " when is Locke going to come here ? "
Chara asked " Well he's still recovering at the forge but I told him to come over , so Zhack mind making us a portal " Zhack sighed and created a portal bringing Locke over .
" The battle is over " " yep how's the ward ? " Zhack asked " It's a forge " " Pretty sure it isn't just that if you have someone tending to your wounds using the fire over there "
" I'm wondering if there are any lost technologies that you didn't discover " Stork said " You'll get to know when we get there " " are you finally gonna tell me why we're all siblings ? " Atsuki asked and they all thought of what they knew about Atsuki's condition .
' maybe it's best if we get it from Father " Locke pointed out ' Are you kidding me you want to scare Atsuki ? " Zhack said ' Yes the least we can do is make sure she gets used to fear first before we show her " ' Do you know how ? " Harkness asked ' Maybe we can introduce her to Chaos " Ikuta suggested .
Chara thought of it thinking about her previous experience ' That certainly could work , did you encounter Chaos in the same realm at a close distance ? " Aichel was able to hear it but couldn't contribute ' Yeah he was curious why I didn't have the same reaction as Typhon so maybe we can do the same for her "
' yeah that can work she can get used to the presence of Chaos and then we can tell her about dad " Zhack said ' I have been listening to this conversation but are you suggesting that our parent is on the same level as the origin of all ? " Aichel asked .
They all nodded with some doubt while Atsuki was admiring the dungeon city . Aichel takes one more turn taking a few steps into the room before stopping .
Redun wasn't alone and everyone else entered to see both Claire and Louis inside " Aichel you're back mom and dad were just talking about how much time had passed "
They all froze wondering what that meant and Ikuta kept Atsuki from turning inside knowing that whatever she will say will likely bring that out " Hey you two look just like Claire and Louis "
Zhack said trying to control whatever Atsuki could say " cause we are them " Aichel slammed the ground causing it to act like a water body sending a wave to take Redun close to him .
" Hello kids " " YOU !!?? " " What's happening ? " Atsuki got herself in and saw the denier " AHH " she suddenly felt fear causing everyone to show acknowledgement towards the denier .
Everyone except for Redun and Atsuki recognized that they slip , knowing the consequences they quickly did what they each had to do when they reached the end that they were given .
Harkness prepared Erebus's power , Stork enchanted everyone to dreamwalk to a suitable vessel , Zhack sparked his body , Locke circulated his mana to his scales , Chara brought out her staff , Aichel stretched his hand to bring something to take a hit and Ikuta took out a sword made from abyss ore .
" Oh that's good reaction " the denier said " You've been keeping up that act for a long time " Ikuta suddenly felt like he wasn't walking on a safe ground but thin ice his entire life .
Nobody dared to speak a word watching the denier and they sighed " I really should've just told you that I was what I was but if I did you might end up like those gods "
They were confused to hear this and their parent continued to rant " But I made you all as ordinary as I can and you all turned out really well , I'm proud of you all " " What are they saying Aichel "
" that's our mother and father Redun , they've never been Titans or giants , just that " " oh Redun you turned up really nicely too and Atsuki I had to make sure you were born into the world not being Ikuta's perfect copy "
Ikuta calmed Atsuki telling her about the situation " So you're the reason we are all siblings ? " " Sorry sis we wanted to tell you but you'd be very scared "
Zhack hugged her with a hand to calm her down with the other holding Mjolnir " Then why did you kill me when I settled after the fight against Erebus ? "
" You were wishing too much , if Hera found that you killed a primordial god she may have your eyes on you and you know something on the same scale as Ragnarok " they turned to the other children " Redun and Aichel too , if they found out about you getting Atlas's knowledge they will definitely go after you "
" Even you Locke and Chara you both turned up the same rushing into danger thinking you could sacrifice your life and you two Zhack and Stork well the otherworlders just kept trying to get in wherever you were " they were surprised to sense not a single malicious intent .
" So you really were just a good parent " " with questionable methods too "
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