While flying to the location Ikuta played with his dominion over the void creating a flame without colour " Oh the dark flame can we use that to go to Sister's mansion ? " Atsuki asked " It's not really the dark flame , I made this using the void "
" How ? " " well I was experimenting with Nisse she's the one who said that Niflheim mana is just water mana infused with the cold of the space which is technically the void so I tried to do the same thing with fire "
Atsuki watched the flame flicker like normal " What does it do ? " " It does the same thing dad's power does but it does it slowly so there's no reason to make this " " But it looks so cool " Atsuki said " It's obviously not compatible " Locke said .
" I know , it's just so confusing because I have the void , we don't have a future that can be seen , it works on water because it can be frozen which means it has no heat which is kinda related to the void "
Ikuta wondered about the other things Nisse told him " I can try silence which is basically devoid of sound , heat and light . It is very easy since I had Harkness's dark affinity and Niflheim affinity but it's hard to contain it "
" That's why you use water as a container , it's one of the creations that Chaos is proud of which Poseidon doesn't have enough knowledge on its power "
Ikuta wondered what other things he could use that could act as a vessel for the void just like water " I wonder what other creations I can use to contain the power of the void "
" You had the absence of heat from ice , maybe try light " Locke suggested " But Harkness already does that " Atsuki said " There's silence which you can ask Hypnos but there isn't any battle potential you can use other than manifesting it as a construct " Locke said .
" But I don't understand how that can work " " Chaos said the strength of the construct is linked to me , so it would be more like if I could carry that much " "your power makes zero sense " Atsuki said " It is nothing "
" But you can use it as a weapon , you definitely need something strong and most things break if you swing it at full power " " yeah " Ikuta could tell that even his liquid weapon that changes form was losing some of itself .
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Stork patted Mago who was at the center being the recipient of Ichor infused with the cold of the void that was seeping into the roots ' I wonder if this is even working , emptiness is so complicated ' Stork walked to the control panel with his body checking the status of the weapons .
' I prepared these but I doubt I get to use them with them fighting ' he turned to Mago wondering how it was possible to create life with nothing .
' Unlike creation , the void is practically nothing ' Stork doesn't consider the possibility of Ikuta creating life because Chaos never taught them anything about that .
At the clock with Prometheus's foresight , a false timeline could be seen from the eyes it was so disconnected from the current timeline yet the foresight could see it and Ikuta was surprised to see them and they quickly landed " Quick seal it "
Ikuta formed void platforms and used his father's power . He stabbed the barrier and it vanished but a cross didn't appear ' It's the void's emptiness again ' there was something wrong with the power he inherited from his father it no longer dropped a cross ' it's been like this for a while '
One day Ikuta was toying around his own father's power but at one point it doesn't show any crosses when he uses it . All that was left was the visual memory of denying the target . His sibling's use of it , still dropped a cross whenever they used the pure power of the denier .
" It could be your dominion over the void " Chaos said " Despite having dominion over it your power isn't destroying you , the void has accepted your power over it , even your father's power must be changing to another form perhaps that cross that usually appears isn't considered a part of you which the void caused it to change "
Ikuta was worried he wouldn't be able to bring back his father fully intact because he was transforming a part of his power into something else " What if I can't bring dad back "
Ikuta said " you worry too much whatever that otherworlder took from your father is their soul instead of worrying about their power you should worry about the soul "
" But isn't dad's power attached to his soul ? " " Yes but the power is not needed to resurrect them , even my power is different from my soul and what you have is just a fraction of it you may change the fraction you have and still bring your father back albeit much weaker and maybe troubled with the changes you all have caused "
Ikuta sighed with relief hearing that " Now I would like you to invite me to speak with your father I am concerned about this new entity I do not understand and have somehow dodged my surveillance .
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Locke landed on the clock and suppressed it " Urgh this clock is too great , Ikuta help me " Locke asked and Ikuta quickly gave it as much of his own magic in .
The eye closed and before Ikuta could summon a sword to make it disappear . Zeus threw a thunderbolt towards him , Locke released his hand from it allowing the eye to open allowing it to bring more visions from the false timeline " What are you doing to father's eyes ? "
Ikuta looked at the vision of Zeus wondering what his intentions were and Harry quickly compiled the information of this Zeus ' The Zeus from when Cronus was a good father ? ' Ikuta quickly sent this information to everyone ' Dang doesn't that mean that we have to fight the six children of Cronus ? " Zhack asked .
' Zhack leave the hindsight clock we need to stop the visions from attacking us " Chara said sending Harkness and Aichel towards them too . Harkness appeared through the darkness and Zhack went to pick up Aichel while Redun found Stork .
" We're sending over some weapons " the echo sounded through the battlefield field and weapons started to fly around the roots . Runes also enchanted the weapons that were already good on the battlefield against the visions .
" Those should be enough right ? " Estrea said and she heard Redun's voice " No you need some cover from the Jormungandr's " a blast of light shot through the giant visions , other bigger visions like Surtr was also killed and until Ymir was hit and withstood the attack .
" The First giant " Estrea was surprised to see the giant Ymir . The adventurers feared this massive being and a blast of light struck Ymir's eyes " I'll handle it " a voice echoed through the soldiers and they had to put their faith in it and focus on their battles .
Chara and Estrea preserved the spell strengthening their forces . Ymir reached to grab the soldiers but chains were summoned from the side going to Midgard ' This is my first time making these kinds of things ' stars suppressed the first giant and Redun sent pillars to pin Ymir down .
And issued a command , as the dungeon core Redun forced the giant to submit to their will and started using them to strike the others ' What a strange power '
Chara thought ' Hey Chara you can have the mana from the vision but be careful even though it looks like the real thing it could be dependent on that giant clock "
' I'll have Estrea make one spell for that " Redun receives the spell ' I'll maintain this spell can I leave that to you ? " Before the message reached Ymir's body already had enough spell formula and dispelled into light ' Oh I got it done already "
The six children of Cronus faced their opponents guarding the giant clock that led to the false timeline " Who are you ? " Hestia questioned and they communicated ' Since they are visions we should be able to kill them without destroying much of Yggdrasil's roots right ? "
Zhack asked ' Not possible " Locke dashed towards Hestia seizing her and transforming into his dragon form tossing her to space and blasting her with his breath . Everyone else followed suit except for Aichel and Atsuki who stayed with Demeter and Hera .
Harkness envelops Hades in a shroud of darkness and Hades summoned weapons out of the darkness sending them towards her ' This is Tartarus and Erebus's divinity ' " I do not understand how you have the power of darkness within you but two is better than one "
A slip of dark absorbed the weapons thrown towards her " Don't worry I killed Erebus in his own element " " But that won't be enough " Harkness smiled causing runes to activate yet remain invisible " Believe it or not it is "
Hades feels his power weaken and wonders why " Have you understood the concept of runes ? " Hades had no comment as he tried to look for the runes around him and Harkness explains " They're basically a language for mortals or weaker beings to harness it "
Harkness smiled and Hades felt something appear " It's like having a lighter , one action and I spark a fire " Harkness snapped her fingers and Hades sensed solid slips of darkness flying towards him and rushed back warping the space around him .
' Turning reality's structure to your advantage normally this would be a problem if it was the real world but he's only moving solid darkness ' Harkness moves the runes away from Hades even though he couldn't see them ' If he messes up my rune formation I will be in a big trouble '
Harkness moved the runes on the space to avoid the spatial interference that Hades was doing smiling at what he was trying to do with a dark eye that was following him ' making a weapon just like your father ' she let him do so and meanwhile the others were fighting .
Demeter sends out vines and plants towards Atsuki to support Hera in her fight . Aichel transformed the vines into locusts causing Demeter to create other plants to repel the insects . Demeter sensed the altered genetics of the Locusts and yelled at Aichel " You have no respect for life "
" No the words you should find is that I have no regard for the natural process of evolution " Aichel reached Yggdrasil's roots changing her cells and improving the immune system against invasive species causing the plants that Demeter made to take root on the world tree to wither and die due to the defenses .
Atsuki swings her scythe at Hera who makes the scythe vanish and drop it above Atsuki . Atsuki kicks the blade to make it point horizontally and grabs the handle to swing it " You have power you didn't earn " " yeah I was born with it just like you "
Atsuki swings it again and Hera dodges it while Aichel seizes the dead plants converting it to Ichor " What ? " " See this amazing thing it's what makes you gods and I can make it with the corpse of plants that isn't divine " " That is not something in the hands of a mortal "
Aichel turned the Ichor into stone flicking it to Demeter . She was about to swat it but it exploded after it was converted to energy " AHH " " SISTER " Hera screamed and Atsuki grabbed her throwing her out and swung her scythe sending a slash flying to her .
Hera stopped the slash in its place and Atsuki jumped to attack her . Hera allowed the slash to continue and Atsuki swung her scythe behind her and used that to swing it back forward stabbing Hera " AHH " Demeter was in disbelief at how Aichel made her bleed and Hera's scream .
The two goddesses were about to receive aid until Locke and Zhack pushed the eldest and youngest away . Hera and Zeus removed the scorched garments from their bodies " I never knew Hestia as a fighter " Zhack said " I only thought of Zeus as an adulterer "
" How dare you doubt me " Hera said and Zeus was disgusted by Locke's choice of words " I am very faithful to Hera " " not in this world " Zhack slashed with Mjolnir sending a thunder slash to Zeus which he grabbed and threw it back at them . Zhack jumped away and Locke complained while in outer space .
" CAN YOU STOP DOING THAT ? " " It's effective and predictable , watch " Zhack swings Mjolnir repeatedly and Zeus reaches out to grab it only to watch the slashes erupt sending small thunderbolts to his skin " BROTHER " Hestia threw flames at him to heal and Locke blasted her with his breathe .
" That's a smart idea " " I know " Zeus clenched his hands gathering lightning and seized them throwing them at Zhack . Zhack threw Mjolnir like a boomerang giving it an attraction to lightning and sparked his body to dash around asteroids and reach Zeus .
Zeus grabbed his aegis to shield Zhack's punch and punched him back sending him away . Zeus manifest lightning and tossing it towards Zhack . Mjolnir flies back while spinning forming a makeshift defensive form to block the lightning " Have a taste of your own medicine " Zhack ejected all of the lightning from Mjolnir unto Zeus along with his own power .
Zeus tries to seize it and Zhack takes the chance and dives in for a punch strengthened with his force affinity sending the god towards Hestia . Hestia sensed her brother grabbing him and swinging him around to lose momentum . Locke blasted the siblings again with his breathe .
" Is that your only attack ? " " No I have other attacks this is just the easiest one " " what are your other attacks swing you claw ? " Zhack joked " Of course not " Locke stretched his wings and several magic runes which baffled Zhack .
Estrea who was watching also couldn't believe it , she recalled the stories of how dragons had come into being . During the ancient civilizations era , the lizardkins had many great families who sustained their position they preserved their magic legacy and passed their teachings from individual to individual .
However that practice can only work when they have all of their lifetime to teach . When Aichel and Redun went missing they lost a majority of their teachings , several lizardkins tried to teach their descendants whose lifespans were thinning .
So one sought a solution and ascended buying more time for the lizardkins who know became dragons named after the ascender's name . Dragons were able to preserve their long legacy while the rest of the population of ancient civilization lost their long lifespan .
" How about centuries of magic knowledge enough to create countless sages " Locke's wings folded covering him absorbing all of the spell formulas embedded with runes and erupted in a giant colorful explosion .
Hestia and Zeus put their palms trying to push it away but the explosion pushed them back Nd away " Dang you killed it " " I'm pretty sure they are alive "
" ... Locke you should use the internet more and why didn't you do that before " " I thought you wouldn't argue for the one who wanted me to blast all of the wolves at the same time "
Ikuta fought against Poseidon constantly freezing the ice by making it flow into the void and freezing " You have a strange power " " Yeah but I'm still training with it "
Ikuta swung his void sword to cut the water also freezing it . The god of seas threw his trident at Ikuta and he grabbed it feeling the power of water infused into it . Poseidon tried to command his trident to return but Ikuta's grip over it was stronger than his command .
Ikuta looked at the trident wondering about the power remembering his consultation with Chaos " most are unable to understand the extent of my creations' powers , yet you and you're have been known to exceed the limits of you mortally weak body "
" So does that mean there are other creations that aren't beyond their potential yet ? " " Precisely Zeus has showed the potential he holds but not the other gods like Hestia , however I will soon see to it when you bring about the cold of the void "
" I'm surprised it's possible to contain the power of void " " many such are possible water can be frozen and is a perfect vessel for the power of the void , you have yet to realize such a thing and neither did Poseidon " Ikuta held the trident and using Harry to learn about it .
Ikuta exerted his dominion over the void on the trident and blocked Poseidon's punch " What are you doing ? " Ikuta kicked Poseidon away holding the trident ' it's absorbing it ' the color of the trident was slowly fading and Ikuta wondered about the power water was able to contain .
' it was only able to contain the cold so what if I force it ' Poseidon summoned a wave towards Ikuta and cracks behind form on his trident he couldn't see the change and Ikuta threw the trident . Poseidon saw a dark hue from his raging water and watched the darkness spread freezing the water in place .
" What is that ? " Ikuta was amazed by the frozen black void that took the shape of the wave " oh this is just void infused with your dad's powers maybe you accidentally did it " Harry said upon observing the structure of the wave " Oh I really thought I learned something "
A larger wave consumed the black frozen wave and shrunk in size " What is that power " Ikuta wondered if the forbidden knowledge of his father would even affect a god and said " The gods call it Ragnarok " upon saying it Poseidon was confused " Huh no that's wrong it's an event that already ended "
Ikuta wondered if he could communicate with Poseidon and surrounded his body with the void and pulled him close . Poseidon fails to struggle with the sudden movement and faces Ikuta " What happened to your world ? " Poseidon continued to struggle and spots Harry before he could say anything else .
He was frozen in ice and Harry peeked through the god's memories " Wow this is amazing the world this vision came from is a timeline where Cronus had many loyal followers , Not sure if there isn't another Cronus there though but they have constructed these weird things want to check it out ? " Ikuta looked at the clock .
" Maybe later right now we should stop it " Ikuta returned and saw Aichel with a floating a black sword " Little bro you are back " " What happened ? " " Something " Atsuki said and Aichel corrected her " I'm trying to get rid of both the clock and the visions they should have some kind of connection "
Zhack and Locke also appeared " Hey where is Harkness ? " " She said she wanted to take her time " meanwhile Harkness had the god restrained " I was hoping too much I guess " Harkness completely destroys the divinity of two primordial with one " Why do you ally yourself with that child ? "
Harkness thought of Atsuki and Ikuta " If you are talking about that girl you should be able to tell she is very young but then again Ikuta those intend to revive mother " Hades wondered if the one he saw when taking a small peek at Ikuta's soul was the mother she was refering too.
" That is your parent ? " " Terrifying right ? A being powerful enough to make a cosmic tree vanish in a blink of an eye " " You approve of this ? " Harkness nodded .
" even though mother killed me and my siblings it was just tough love I'm sure it's hard for you to understand since you are supposed to know your father "
Hades felt something stab him and slowly disappears " Oh looks like Aichel figured out how to remove the visions " Harkness left Hades to fade in the dark realm and returned to the clock " Why were you taking so long ? " Zhack asked " I was enjoying my time maybe you could learn more about them if you did that "
" There is a battle down there " " and they can keep battling if Aichel wants " " That's true however creating one of these to remove all the past visions is harder "
" But not impossible " Aichel nodded " Then we will wait for it then , there's no need to hurry up , these visions aren't all that great just perfect replicas with a few changes "
Zhack wondered if that meant the Zeus he fought was just a fake " Can you explain " " Well think about how it's possible to create a copy of you , they can mimic you but the longer they try to mimic you the harder it becomes , the changes in the world means changes in you and the mimic can't really keep up " Harkness said
" I've made puppets out of my enemies but eventually they needed to have their memories reset because if I stop their souls from operating they wouldn't be able to learn newer things moreover those visions aren't really the same person "
While making the weapon to destroy it Aichel asked " You gotta teach me how to do that ? " " You shouldn't it's a very heretical tool but you should take note it is possible to widen the functions of a person the puppet jas like those visions " " So they don't have free will ? " Zhack asked and Harkness thought
" Yeah they're like a stiff tree they grow towards one direction but it snaps and only the portion of their initial self is left which is not what a person should be like "
Aichel looked at them holding on to the finished weapon and threw it " Suddenly I remembered that conversation I had with Prome " ' Prome ? ' Zhack thought .
" He said his foresight isn't the real thing but a fake " Harkness looked around " Shouldn't there be any of those otherworlders now ? " They all looked around noting that there are supposed to be guards " Weren't the Children of Cronus the guards ? " Zhack said .
" A great enemy is someone who is able to prepare for the most probable possibilities , I'm sure we are quite known and they should be coming soon unless this is a distraction " Locke raised his guard looking around while Ikuta did the same .
Harkness and Aichel looked at where the clock is " Harkness I sensed some runes " Harkness spilled the darkness and revealed the runes " Wait these are what you use for Gungnir's target searching " Harry said and Aichel came to a conclusion .
" How long does it usually take ? " " Let me see " Harkness poured more darkness revealing an extra layer reinforcing it " Oh wow that's supposed to make it go faster " Harry said " sorry got lost in track so this takes a while to complete and I would say this was here for a long while "
" Maybe we should've set everything much faster " Harkness said . They removed the hindsight clock and held two crosses with a clock in each and the small visions on the hindsight clock and much bigger but lesser amounts of visions on the foresight clock .
They walked back to tell everyone about it while Ikuta and Atsuki were placed to take care of the Einherjar and adventurers .
" So even though we were the first to declare a war they already had something planning " Redun asked " Don't be disappointed the vision I saw was still true except it had more numbers we have decreased their forces "
" Hey can you tell me why I somehow broke the space barrier ? " Zhack asked and Locke revealed his wings to keep him from bothering Chara " I've talked to the Fates and Hera about what happened to Cronus's eyes when the visions disappeared "
" What did they say ? " Aichel asked and Chara recalled how the conversation went " When I learned that they had grown beyond my control and imprisoned mother I quickly asked the fates to take care of Father's eyes " Hera admitted .
" So their plan to use the fake to locate the real one is all to take care of the problem you made ? " Hera nodded " Even if I have fallen from the duties of a god I would never want them to bring back father "
Chara thought about their stories noting how broken this family was " So is there anything else needed to bring back Cronus ? " " The death of olympians "
Hestia interrupted " Before only I sustained the seal , right now the seal on my part grows even stronger and with the addition of the rest it becomes stronger "
" But one way or another they'll find a way " Chara said " Remember Ragnarok ? " the reminder made the gods flinch as Chara left them .
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