Leaving the holy God Realm, an opposing one can be seen. Unlike the God Realm, this one is located at the very bottom of existence itself. Just entering it gave a sense of despair that would break the minds of men. When getting a clearer view of it, a clean picture is made, it wasn't a Holy place, it was a place of raging fire and destruction. An eternal fire that expanded in every direction. Up in the skies, the blackest of darkness is seen, not even a glimer of light can be seen, but in its place was a fire at the ground, it signified despair, not hope that stars would give, it burns the sight of men's souls, leaving behind only their other senses as they are tortured and destroyed to ashes. But this death is temporary, as the soul comes back and is tortured in another method. The process breaks their minds, burns their bodies, destroys the soul and changes their Names, the person becomes a part of the place, a demon, with a new existence. Even the will of iron and the speed of light can't escape this Realm's infinite torture and despair that expands everywhere. There is no free will. God's freedom and help can't be reached here. Going lower to it, multiple creatures can be seen, just existing next to them felt more evil than the Demons. You couldn't see their faces, but it wasn't needed, you could tell how they look like with the shadows.
"When is this barrier going down already?" asked one, very uninteretingly, he looked very ample and a big curve can be seen on him, and he didn't even bother to grab a chair, all he did was lay down on the ground.
"It was calculated that it would only take a few years!" yelled another one, as he slammed his hand on the table, and his hand can be seen perfectly. It was big, probably one to cover a man's head, it tensed with veins showing, and what can be seen on his hand is blood, suggesting that he had a fight before hand. "BUT THAT ANNOYING GOD JUST KEEPS GETTING IN THE WAY OF US FINDING OUR KING!"
"Patience." said one seductively, with a feminine voice that would attract many men and make them her prey. Whilst she can't be seen, her body showed many curves that would arouse men to be submissive to her "We may have had a few set backs, but we'll be finding him." she said licking her lips.
"That might need some more time. The barrier went from a 50 to a 75." said another one, and unlike the others, his form can't be seen, it looked an incorporal form of smoke. Even the technology presented doesn't look like anything he made with his own hands. Based on the damage and cracks it presented, it looks more like he stole it "Apparently, a new God was found... and its him." an image of Markos appeared fighting the Oni, the Dragons and the Tengu, and winning in all of them "And this girl." as the monitor also showed Sofia. The bountiful Demon groaned in annoyance.
"That girl... disgusting, I can't stand looking at that." she said as an image of Markos and Sofia looking at each other was shown. She felt a feeling that she expressively despised; love.
"LET ME FIND HIM ALREADY! I AM TIRED OF THIS WAITING!" said the biggest one in annoyance.
"I don't think our king would appretiate that much." said the most human looking out of all the Demons, but coincidentally, was just as evil "Simple solution: we have a war that we want to prepare for, and we have some Gods on Earth to test our Demons. We have enough to test and we have a good variety as well. They can easily take down any army by themselves, but we can't leave it to chance. Let's give the Ifrits a try." explained the Demon as several incorporal entities, made out of the fire and smoke from the Realm appeared before them.
Leaving the evil realm, back to the calming holy realm of the Gods, and back to the School of Reincarnates, Sofia can be seen next to a river, with a calming and soothing noise in the background, that aliviates all stress and makes people happy and be at peace. Sofia was currently cross legged holding a seed in her hand, and it was glowing with a green aura like energy substance being pumpt into it. Sofia was visibly trying to control the amount, but all the sudden, the tree sprouted and it came out covered crude, no green leaves, and it didn't look like it could sustain life. Tom saw the whole thing and shook his head.
"You need to control it Sofia. Like I said, you're not giving in enough Godly Energy for the seed. Without enough of your Godly Energy, much like the other seeds, it will come out as dead. You just need to pump in more. Try again." he said as he gave Sofia another seed. Sofia sighed, dissapointed at her own performance. Markos was at the background, witnessing the whole scene and he walked up to Tom.
"So Tom, what is Sofia doing this for?" he asked to the teacher.
"She's training to control her Godly Energy." replied Tom, which made Markos look confused at the response.
"But I didn't need to do this kind of training."
"That's because you already were able to control it, not her. You saw it yourself, all of nature became more alive because of her. Everytime a God is born, an event happens, a calamity so to speak, something that can't be replicated by the God in the first few years of his life. This can be expressed in many things. Much like Sofia, this is Godly Energy at its most uncontrollable and it influences the enviroment around it. However, depending on the quality and the quantity of Godly Energy, it will come back to normal. For example, a God of Love will make love its strongest ever for a few weeks. A God of War will have the most violent days of war ever for a full day, soldiers will be more blood lusted and body counts will stack higher than ever. For you Markos, when you were born, a storm started, and not just any, this one was the strongest storm ever calculated and it lasted the longest amongst all of the storms. You could say it is a measurament of potential that you may achieve. A God does however, subcounciously, control that power, at a certain stage of its life, usually in its first week, that is why you never displayed that kind of strength again ever since. Sofia expresses it in a similar manner, since she is the Goddess of Agriculture, she interacts with nature in some way shape or form, including manipulating life." Markos thought about it and realized that it was Sofia who made him faster for a brief second in his fight against the Demon "You told me at some point that a tree sprouted, and you said it was Sofia, and she also said, that she can hear the trees and flowers as well."
"Yes, but how can she perform something like that without prior training?"
"That's because when Gods can't control their Godly Energy, it leaks in some way, and their powers become easier to access with the loss of focus and control. The surge of lightning you fired at the Tengu in a moment of adrenaline, even there you controlled it with instinct. On the other hand, Sofia could have easily made the tree get in your way since she can't control her powers, should count yourself as lucky. The purpose of the task is simple, get her to control her Godly Energy, and that way she'll become even stronger; it will no longer have chances or risks, instead it will become stronger." Sofia heard almost the whole thing, and she visibly stopped embuing Godly Energy into the seed, as she focused on controlling something else, inside of her. Tears were visibly coming out of her eyes, she wasn't sure why she was feeling such a pain, the possibility of hurting Markos pained her. Why was she feeling like this to a man she just met? To her, it felt like she just hurt someone special in her life. But she tried her best to make sure Markos and Tom don't notice it, going back into embuing Godly Energy into the seed. However, nothing is invisible to Tom's awareness, as he saw the faintest signs of stopping from Sofia, even if that faint sign was only present for a split second.
'Hm, what's going on with her? A God does subcounciously control it yes and its all dependent on focus... but, Godly Energy has a massive influence as well with will power and emotions. There has to be something holding Sofia back, its the only thing that can explain why this is happening to her.' he thought to himself.
"Well Markos, now I wanna show you something. This time, you'll be testing the waters more with the mental energy side of Godly Energy." said Tom "Follow me." as he walked away, with Markos tailing behind with curiosity. Eventually, they arrived at a open field, just a couple of yards away from Sofia "The task is simple, you'll be focusing on the memory you want and you'll manifest its information into reality. Once you do, try to counter an attack from me." explained Tom as he created distance between himself and Markos. Once he went a couple of yards away, Tom manifested 9 orbs of lightning from his back "Now go for it." Markos closed his eyes and went back into the library of memories that he has. It was all so overwhealming, the amount of memories he could choose from and the potential. Markos walked into the library, going deeper. He saw so many different memories. There were some where Thor was performing a simple punch, but the degree that he was performing it in every aspect was beyond anything Markos has seen before, or a time when Thor redirected an attack by spinning Mjolnir around him. Markos then realized something.
'Wait, my body is left defenseless! What will I do now?!' wondered Markos as he looked behind him. He noticed Tom began to attack, but the attack seemed slow, it didn't take Markos long to find out what was happening 'That's odd, it seems as though the more I focus, the slower time seems to be.' to test that theory, Markos walked back a bit, and it seems like Tom's attack became slower 'Alright that confirms it, but I still don't have all day.' Markos then looked through the memories and saw stream, where Thor was creating barrier, at first, it blocked the light beams, but then it redirected the attacks back to the senders 'Amazing, he is using his lightning to surround himself then reflect the attacks back at the target?! Even I wouldn't think of something like that! This may do it.' Markos then touched the memory. Back in the real world, Markos' eyes began to glow with a blue aura. Tom then fired streams of lightning from the orbs, surrounding Markos from every possible angle. Moving at speeds that were impossible to measure, the lightning was headed towards the new Reincarnate.
Markos began to summon the forcefield, but something was off, it was sparatically going on and off, and not just that, Markos' eyes were returning to normal 'What?!' Markos then went back inside his memories to manifest the memories again but then it felt like a force was occuring. The force was odd to explain, but to Markos, it felt like he was experiencing the feeling of being ripped apart. Trying to bring the memory into the real world but at the same time, the focus was beyond what he is used to currently 'COME ON!!!!! STUPID MEMORY!!!!!!!! WORK ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' Markos then began to yell in pain and agony, just to make sure he doesn't get pulled away again. In the real world, it was shown that Markos' eyes were randomly glowing and not, the barrier was even being replaced by one made out of Godly Energy. Tom then looked concerned if Markos could even pull it off. Was Markos really the one to change the tides of things to come. The lightning from Tom was a thousandth of a second away from hitting Markos, until the barrier instantly came up, and it was just like the memory in every regard, as it redirected the attacks back at the directions they were sent at. As though it was in synchronization, Tom was able to stop the lightning mid air and they disappeared. Tom then began to walk towards Markos.
'Hm, as usual, failure at first, the random flickering in the eyes indicates focus beyond what you're normally used to, but there is a slight chance that you access the memory and it works, but if it does...' Tom thought to himself as he walked towards Markos, once he got close, he noticed Markos was on the ground, uncounciouss 'You are out for the count. Now let's see what happens next.'
To be continued