( Back in the 100th Timeline. )
Fire and blood everywhere, thunder rages and the storm rains its tears, as in that moment, many deaths happened, caused by a person who loses hold over his body.
" Grandfather, Grandpa! " In the 100th Timeline, that timeline's Carla Kent is crying, holding the Ragna Kent from that Timeline as he rampageously kills all demonic monsters around him.
When he is killing demons, his body is surrounded by black bolts of lightning, the sign he is using an ability he should've never used in the first place. For the cost is not only losing himself but also the loss of comrades who may want to stop him from doing more damage, who happened to have fallen in this very moment, aside from some survivors, aside...
" Grandpa, it's me, Carla! "
" Please return to me! Please! "
" [ Divine Heavenly Strength ] " Carla tries to hold him, using her power as the Divine Hero.
But, at that moment, Ragna is simply, not there. His eyes are empty, and his pupils are gone as if he moves without consciousness but managed to destroy almost everything.
His mind didn't process everything that just happened, only his body reacted by using its strength to free itself from Carla's tightening grip, throwing her away and 'Striding' at her using the very punch with the power of, the 'Zone'.
" Grandpa..., ukh! " Carla spits blood while Ragna just stands there like a statue, staring at her with his empty pale glowing white eyes, looking at her with a look that couldn't be defined as a stare or not, but for those who witnessed it, it looked so fearful.
" Grandpa... "
...
( Present time. )
[ Poseidon's Throne Room ]
" Hundred? " Ragna Twelve approached Ragna Hundred, he's still in the 'Zone', after using
"( It's the cost of
"( Look at him, without an enemy, he is no more than a living statue. )" Twelve says, he knows that in the 'Zone', Ragna Hundred will never react to his voice, for his body can only react if there's an attack, or perhaps a slight movement that could mean harm to him.
" Welp, guess talking to him will never work when he's in this mode. "
" Dammit, this 'Special Skill', I can't tell if this an Asset or a Liability. " Twelve comments and sighs, he decided to lay down for a while to rest.
For a while, he sees Ragna Hundred in the 'Zone' and looks at the hole on the ground he made where Poseidon was hit off too.
" You better move..., 'Grand Commander'. " Twelve hopes, for now, he only hoped Poseidon quickly recovers for battle.
...
( Meanwhile. )
" I... lost? " Poseidon asks himself, after being slammed into many Floors below, slammed into the lowest place of his castle.
When muttering those words and seeing the holes in the floors he fell before, his eyes were shaken by this very sudden defeat.
" A... a... " Poseidon tries to wake up, but before he can move again.
" Agh!... " his body falls, his sight is distorted, and he has no energy left as if the energy was also drained from him during his battle.
" A..a... " Poseidon closes his eyes, as he closes his eyes, suddenly.
" Poseidon! "
" Poseidon!! "
" Poseidon!!! " a voice calls him, a familiar voice that Poseidon knows.
" Who is that, why...? " Poseidon begins to feel light coming into his covered eyes, he slowly opens them as the light flashes him, showing himself in a castle, a castle he seemed to know before, as if...
" Where am... "
" Hey, brother! " Poseidon's head was slapped by someone.
" Ouch! " Poseidon feels hurt, but he realizes he sounds like a child.
"( My voice, what? )"
" Hey, do you hear me, little Brother!? " the voice calls Poseidon once more, Poseidon looks at him, a child older than the form he was in.
" It can't be... " Poseidon sees the child.
" Huh, Big Brother Hades! " Poseidon gasps, calling the person's name.
[ Name: Hades ]
[ Race: Diviner ]
[ Pantheon: Olympus ]
" What's with the shout, this isn't you? " Hades asks, as Poseidon sees him in his child form. During his confusion, he then sees a nearby water which he runs to and sees his reflection there.
" This is... " Poseidon sees it, seeing himself in his childhood's face.
" Ah, huh? " Poseidon's hands rubbed it, trying to pinch it to make sure it was real or not, but then...
" Hey, what are you stalling out for? " Hades asks Poseidon as he uses his fingers to point at the incoming storm.
" Is that? " Poseidon asks, he sees the storm, he knows it, but can't identify it immediately.
" Father's back. " Hades tells Poseidon which made him startled.
" Father... " Poseidon says this as he shivers.
" It can't be... " Poseidon says this while seeing Hades start to walk.
" Brother Hades, wait! " Poseidon calls him, stopping Hades from his walk.
" What's going on there, little brother? "
" C'mon, our Father, Chrono-Axis..., I mean, the Great Titan Chronos had returned from his journey in bringing forth the creation over the realms. "
" Remember what he said back then, he would make us show our progress of all our training in the ways of the Divine. "
" And the time is now. " Hades said as he summons his three-headed Hound, Cerberus.
* Cerberus was summoned from the Ground. *
" C'mere boy! " Hades greets the dog as it comes to him while Poseidon can only sweat, as he sees this very moment.
"( I remember now, this... )"
"( This is the moment where our father, 'The Great Chronos' wants to test us, see our progress on honing our Divine Power. )"
"( And not just him... )" Poseidon gulps as he witnesses that aside from the darkened sky, the sign of an opened Gate Portal, the ocean also rises and the exploding mountains happen as volcanoes erupt.
" The trio are all here... " Hades states as he sighs.
" Come, brother! " Hades calls Poseidon.
" Let us greet them and show them what we have done, after all these times. " Hades says to Poseidon, telling him to follow.
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Extra:
ChronoAxis/Chronos.
He was already mentioned in the beginning Chapters. That's all for you all to know for now.