" So this is why you hated my uncle, interesting. " Ragna feels bad, for he could simply know the next plot.
" Would you like to see my trials, Ragna, my deal with the judges and the people as they see that news? " Battle Maiden offers him but Ragna simply refuses as he asked her to skip that part.
" Can we please get to the next point, Maiden? "
" Even without the 'Twelve Eye' I could tell that you must've struggled on being accused by him, using his edited video from how he edited it. "
" I could also predict that at that moment, you begin to connect the dots as you suspected something lurking in the dark, under everyone's nose. " Ragna quickly guesses, even without him seeing the future with his 'Twelve Eye', he could easily predict the next thing that happened, it is his Passive Skill after all.
...
< Skill: [Correct Calculated Prediction (Passive)] -- LVL.4 >
< This skill is obtained before the [Twelve Eye of Time] is being healed, which makes the Player able to divine the next path well, even though the chance is 60% wrong. >
...
As Ragna tells this, the Battle Maiden is startled realizing that what Ragna said is true, the next course of action she did is indeed what Ragna just said.
"( Even without his 'eye', this boy could still divine what's next... )"
"( I began to fear and wonder how much he could actually know from all things. )"
"( Are his reason to let me show these memories only for formalities, for proof, while he himself already knew the whole story but simply humbles himself? )" Battle Maiden wonders about this, she feels uneasy about how to correct Ragna sometimes.
While the Maiden wonders about it, Ragna immediately asks that he wants to know the very moment when his Uncle became the thing, the 'Dark Avatar' thing.
The Maiden sees this, wondering why Ragna wanted to see that part so badly for he asks her to skip some details, telling her that he could watch the skipped parts by himself.
" Suit yourself..., my trial memories in the Trinia court were really just a filler by the way. " Battle Maiden tells.
" For my status as Lord Athena's 'Divine Avatar' helped me end the false accusations as fast as you might think, it is within my rights. "
" But still, even though my accusations problem ended in days. "
" It's already too late for me, for us, to realize many had happened while we had to deal with public perspectives," she tells Ragna for she quickly opens the Memory, skipping many to show what happened.
" I was horrified by this too. "
" To think one could plan this in advance, planning such massacre without having his hands dirty. " She tells Ragna while opening the next memory.
< Massacre Cutscene Opened >
< CG Cutscene Played >
< This Memory Record will be shown based on the Battle Maiden's memories plus some things she get to know from others at that time, plus again some knowledge she gets after Ragna Twelve helped her know more about what happened at that time with his 'Twelve Eye of Time', transferring past visions to her before she confronted Player Ragna Current. >
( October 2020 )
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( Days during Battle Maiden's Trial. )
Things happened, behind everyone's noses, if Ragna Twelve didn't have the 'Twelve Eye of Time' and didn't look into this very event, things might be covered in the dark forever.
But now, through this very shared vision, the darkest thing that happened is unraveled.
< Location: Indian Ocean >
Three ships, transporting Grand Holy Priestess came at one time, fulfilling Loki's plan to ship many of them at once to Trinia in order to make the 'assassin' confused.
[ In the Ship A's docks. ]
" Captain. " said the ship sergeant as he meets the Ship's captain.
" The Hunters, Inquisitor, and Soldiers are in position, they're heavily guarding the who ship as we speak. "
" And what of the Grand Holy Priestess? " the captain asks the sergeant.
" She's in her chamber, praying, guarded by more guardians, the best of them. "
" We will monitor her chambers through our camera for 24 hours, with that her safety will be monitored. "
" Good work. " the captain says while sighing.
" Dammit, this really nuts. "
" The gods ordered a battalion on us to guard the Grand Holy Priestesses to Trinia. "
" Courtesy to that 'assassin' I heard from the news, who assassinates two of the gods' Grand Holy Priestesses. "
" Darn it, I really hate this, why out of all months, bad things happened in October? "
" Was it because of the month of Halloween, sir? " the sergeant asks which the captain responds with his sight.
" Oh, sorry sir, I didn't mean to- "
" No, it's fine sergeant ... "
" Sheesh, how I really hate this month, it's the month of the demons," he said, as he recounts what those who believe in the gods believed of October, October, is the month believed to be the month of the demons, hence there is the Halloween in the end of it, where Demonic and Monster activities will be at its peak.
" Well, as I think of it, I began to think it is wise for us to bring as many men within this ship. "
" For who knows if a 'Gate' would be opened at times like this, perhaps the demons and their monsters also want to feast on the Grand Priestesses, perhaps. "
" I do not want to think of that, sir. " the sergeant tells him.
" Well, I do not want it to, but still there's a chance this kind of thing will happen. "
" Even though- "Before the Captain could finish, an explosion could be heard from afar.
* Explosion sound, coming from Ship A's west.*
" What the hell was that!? " the Captain shouts as he sees the source of the sound, an explosion from Ship B, seeing it filled with fire as its sirens rang hard.
" It's Ship B, Captain! " a soldier and a hunter says as they came over to the Captain and the Sergeant, they witnessed the explosion, from Ship B, hearing gunshots and Gift Abilities being used as shouts and screams can be heard, from men, women, even the voice of the unusual, a horrifying sound.
* Monster Roar from Ship B's deck *
They all see it and wonder if they should help, but inside their Ship, they had a 'Grand Priestess' that needs to protect.
Seeing the situation and analyzing it, the Sergeant and many Hunters began to ask the Captain if they should send some of them to Ship B, at least to retrieve the Grand Priestess protected inside that ship.
" Very well, the Grand Priestesses' safety is our greatest priority. "
" Pick some of you best and then- " but, before the Captain could finish another explosion could be heard, this time, it was on the Ship.
" THE SHIP HAS BEEN ATTACKED, THE SHIP, ARKH! " a voice quickly fades within the ship, followed by the sounds of monsters, snarling voices as the people on the docks could hear their arrival.
" Monsters, many of them! " the Hunter in the docks says as he could hear the rumbling voices of the monster's feet.
The monsters march from inside the ship, and they all raided so ravenously as they immediately attacked the nearby men, gunshots, and blasts filled the place as the monsters that suddenly came filled it with blood.
[ Monster: Predatorus Hatchlings ]
[ Threat Level: Epic ]
Seeing that, the captain is horrified, seeing those monsters, if the monsters really came from the inside then that means.
" The priestess... " he says as he also hears an explosion, this time coming from Ship C as it gets the same fate as the two first ships.
The captain begins to be horrified, being a Tier I Gifted he is, his powers are nothing for this matter as the monsters are so many and powerful as it engulfs the whole ship.
" How could this happen...? " he asks himself while being horrified, meanwhile.
( Far from the ships. )
A man flies, using his Gift Ability as he's the one who set it all up.
" 'Predatorus Eggs'... " he says.
" Guess they hatched quickly, look at how they grow," he says, leaving the sight as the Predatorus' Swarms the three ship transports.
" Three had been dealt, now five remains. "
" Are you sure there are ten of these Priestesses in total? " he says, communicating with his accomplice.
" Hmm..., okay then if that's what you say. "
" Hope there's no more than you knew, or else things will go out of the way," he says to the person he communicates with his communication device.
" See you soon, Hollow Witch. " he ends the communication, using his 'Dark Wings' to fly as he leaves the ships to sink.
" Hope the 'Sea Serpents' clear the mess for me as they smell the blood in the water. " he says and just as he predicted the 'Sea Serpent' monsters begin to ravage the reckoned ships as they ascend from below the sea.
[ Monster: Sea Serpent ]
[ Threat Level: Disaster ]
" Eat up, you hungry snakes. " the man says as he leaves the very scene.
...
( At the same moment. )
" What!? " Loki slams his desk, hearing the news.
" They're all devoured, all of them!? " Loki asks as the Valkyrie who sends him the message tells him.
" Yes, all of them are devoured by the 'Sea Serpents' after they were all attacked by... " the Valkyrie stops.
" By what? " Loki angers her as the Valkyrie then shows a Predatorus Corpse.
" Predatorus... " Loki sees the monster's corpse.
He realized that it seems the 'assassin' had planned this hence he infiltrated the ships, for the Predatorus corpse he sees is at the hatchling stage, which means, the assassin must've smuggled the egg inside the goddamn ship.
" Goddamn, it! " Loki felt tricked as he realized this, he sees this as his personal insult to his intellect, seeing that his adversary is not some bottom fodder who wants to just make some noise.
" Whoever did this, I will destroy them... "
" For this already an insult to my intellect, to think I will be outsmarted, of all gods! " Loki takes this personally.
" Fine then, whoever you are. "
" Is this how you wanna play, fine! " Loki smirks as his mind begins to think of a counterattack.
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Extra:
Monster Threat Stages in this World.
1. Normal: This can be killed by Tier 1-3 Gift Core Wielders.
2. Hard: This can be killed by Tier 3-4 Gift Core Wielders.
3. Epic: This can be killed by Tier 4 Gift Core Wielders.
4. Anomaly: This can be killed by Tier 4-5 Gift Core Wielders.
5. Disaster: This can be killed by Tier 5 Gift Core Wielders.
6. Demonic: This can be killed by Tier 5 Gift Core Wielders, those who achieved Divine Avatar Stage, or Low-Born gods like the Valkyries or the Nymphs.
7. Monarchs: Only gods, at the Ruler/Allfather stage and those at this level could deal with this.
This is the ranks based on what the people on earth, those who were Systemless labeled the monster, this often needs many calculations first before the monster could be put in whatever stage based on the difficulty, it could be random for the calculation often be wrong.
[ Monster: Predatorus Hatchlings ]
[ Threat Level: Epic ]
[ These monsters grow rapidly each time they feast, even when they were all hatchlings. ]
[ Monster: Sea Serpent ]
[ Threat Level: Disaster ]
[ This is a monster that lives in the sea, the monster that terrors the sea after they come out from an underwater Gate Portal. ]