Carla is sitting on top of a stone while equipping the armories given to her by Seraphim. Closing her eyes as she feels the air around her. She slowly releases more of her powerful presence in her silence, increasing its tension as she hears huge cracks from afar.
" It's okay, Grandpa's dear Hero ... "
" Grandpa is here for you, no matter what those gods accused you of... "
" Grandpa promises you that Grandpa will free you... "
" It's okay my dear, even if it means rebelling against the divine, Grandpa will manage it for you .. grandpa promises you ... "
" Even if it means making the world itself my enemy ... "
Some Memories of the Previous Timeline. *
As Carla reflected on those words, she realized how serious her Grandpa was in doing all this, so serious in fact that the gods, the Diviners, gave him this response in return for his actions.
" Carla always feared this would happen. " Carla reflects on what her Grandfather had done.
" I told him to live a happy life, instead of... "
" But no matter what, Grandpa just couldn't listen... "
* birds chirping. *
Mmmm...
Carla opens her eyes, she takes some breath for she sees the incoming wave of enemies, so many, so huge.
After witnessing it from afar, Carla held Yukikagura's handle and looked around, seeing the battle between the angels and the other invading forces around her as she stood up, holding firmly the blade as she ran towards the incoming enemies, running fast towards the end of the land in front of her as she jumps high.
" Carla's the cause of all this. "
" So Carla shall be the one who should stop this. " Carla says as she activates one of her abilities, an ability taught by the God of Wind, Zephyr.
[ Zephyr's Divine Ability: Sky Soaring. ]
Carla rises from her fall, now floating in the skies with the wings of the skies, once taught by her by the God, Zephyr. She flies into the skies, intercepting the incoming invasion from above in her sector, approaching them gracefully, alone.
" This one is brave. " said the invading person, who is none other than Vlad 'Ragna' Arcanon.
As he came out from his Battleship or whatever weaponry aircraft he was on, he stood on top of it, looking at Carla but recognized her as another due to the body she was wearing now.
" Wait a minute, isn't this the Battle Maiden? " Vlad chuckles as the 'Battle Maiden' descends in front of him and the others who followed him.
* Carla lands and the sight widens to give us a great look at how many she's facing right now. *
" *Coughs* "
" Carla apologizes for the intrusion... " Carla opens the conversation.
" But Mrs. Diane won't join us in this havoc you've made... " Carla tells Vlad 'Ragna' as he looks back at the Battle Maiden in curiosity.
* Vlad chuckles. *
" I assume this Mrs. Diane is Battle Maiden's real name, the real name of Athena's ex-Avatar... "
" Interesting..., to think that the Avatar could have a similar name with another Olympian God, Artemis, for Artemis once was called by a similar name..., was it 'Diana'*...? " Vlad wonders, approaching Carla.
" I know Battle Maiden, I've heard stories about her while I was spoiled in Arzan... "
" She is so powerful that she even replaced a Pure Blue Blooded Clan Leader despite being a half-blood and coming from different countries. "
" It took years for even my Uncle, the Duke to get the info out of Lord Loki, hehe... " Vlad mentions Loki, which startles Carla a bit.
" So Loki's the one who sent you here? " Carla asks back, realizing it made sense this all could happened in the first place.
" No..., no..., he's not the one, Carla, or whoever you are... "
" I may not know your deal with the Maiden's body, but I, Vlad 'Ragna' Arcanon, could make sure that the one who sent me here is none other than Lord Zeus himself, and the rest is history. " Vlad tells Carla, making her think about the whole situation.
By using her previous life experiences..., Lord Zeus isn't the type who will muster armies to just destroy a certain place. Carla's always sure that Zeus would be less likely to waste his armies and deal with the things himself. Unless...
"( Lord Zeus may be influenced by someone to stay back and watch... )"
"( If Carla had to use past experiences..., Lord Zeus can often wait to charge in if the whole tactical charge was done and arranged by someone he trusts. )"
"( That's why Carla thinks it must be Lord Loki, or perhaps Lady Hera..., or... )" Carla thinks to herself but Vlad immediately starts to attack, swinging the knife he holds to attack Carla.
[ Weapon Name: Adamantine Knife ]
[ Type: Legendary Item ]
" Kehehe... " Vlad chuckles despite his attacks being easily blocked by Carla's weapon, thanks to Yukikagura, the blade emits a freezing aura that slowly freezes those in near radius.
"( This Vlad's strength... )" Carla quickly realized something, quickly analyzing Vlad's unordinary mortal strength.
"( Carla felt this before in the previous Timeline... )"
"( After Carla's trial as the gods' Divine Avatar Hero in the 12th Timeline..., the gods began to increase more numbers in the mortals' Avatarhood while decreasing the gods that will make Carla their Avatar. )"
"( If what Carla felt right now was true..., then... )" Carla deflects Vlad's knife, immediately punching him with her strength, which pushed him far away, for a bit.
" Nice punch..., for a woman. " Vlad praises as he successfully stands despite the attack's might.
"( Her punch is different, it's strong. )"
"( This Carla, whoever she is on that body, either she's possessing it or I don't care... )" Vlad grins.
"( She got guts..., that's rare..., especially in a woman. )" Vlad licks his lips with his tongue, looking back at Carla with scary. mean, crazy lustful eyes.
"( It makes me want to cut her open... )" Vlad says in his sick mind, which makes Carla disgusted as the two continue their clash with Vlad being the aggressive one.
" C'mon, is that all, Carla! " Vlad shouts in his madness, just a bit of Carla's powerful punch quickly triggered him in some way.
" I don't care whoever you are and all of your background bullshit, but for me, I just wanna cut open those who fought me! "
" Because that's the true joy of battle, one f*king bloody glory! " Vlad lost it, he does... (Damn, in just seconds, or perhaps minutes).
" What a vile person you are!? " Carla swings her Yukikagura's blade to slice and freeze his body, attempting to do the freeze and slice strategy over Vlad here, but sadly, his movements are getting faster, as if he gets a buff amid the battle.
* bzt bzt *
" Huh? " Carla sees lightning that sparks out from Vlad's body. She focuses her eyes to see it in more detail, and immediately sharpens them even more as she sees the form of Vlad's sparking lightning which reminds her of...
" Lord Zeus... " As Carla says that, Vlad quickly disappears from there, even Carla is quite startled as she doesn't notice when it happens.
* Carla looks around the skies, searching for Vlad. *
" Those movements, that speed. "
" Carla already fought so many, yet only realized it late that only a few could move like that. "
" With speed as fast as lightning itself, the speed that is so fast that it could cause a 'time interference'. "
" Carla knows one who could do it, a God. "
" And the God must be the one who gave the power..., isn't it, Vlad? " Carla asks as she immediately stabs Yukikagura on the ground, creating an [Ice Barrier], just like her 'grandmother' would've done.
* Clang *
Vlad's surprise attack was immediately deflected, despite him having the Adamantine Knife and unleashing some of his Gifted powers in action, the slash was quickly deflected by the barriers of ice.
" Not bad... " Vlad praises Carla after failing to slice her open.
" Guess fighting you was not a letdown, after all. " Vlad tells about it, for he expected to fight the real owner of Carla's body but fought a better one instead.
"( Speed that could interfere with the flow of time... )"
"( There's no doubt here that Vlad had something to do with Lord Zeus..., yeah... )"
"( But to think Lord Zeus will also grant him the [Divine Time Interference]* too..., unless. )"
" You're Zeus' Avatar, aren't you? " Carla says it, it seems she decided to not call Vlad by his name now for some reason.
Vlad hears this, he grins and chuckles as soon as Carla finds out who he is.
" Guess possessing a Divine Avatar's body could make you recognize another Avatar, doesn't it? " Vlad chuckles as he asks it.
" Interesting..., interesting... " Vlad says while seeing his Knife slowly freeze after hitting Carla's barrier.
" It seems I'm not the only one with good weapons, am I, hehe? " Vlad grins as he just casually throws a legendary item like it's nothing.
" What the fu- " Carla was shocked to see such an attitude, to think she would see something like this after going through the Previous Timelines. She even almost used a curse word at the time.
"( Why, why is he- )" Carla spaced out, but at that very time, huge shadows came above her, it landed on top of her before she could even react or even enhance her barrier.
* Slice. *
* Ice Barrier fractures to pieces. *
" You should've been more aware, child. " said a person as he attacked Carla with his Bident.
" Didn't your grandfather tell you that? " said the person Carla saw his face and recognized it.
" Lo..., Lord Hades. " Carla says while Vlad smirks as he sees it, seeing the crown on Hades' head glow per his will.
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Extra:
* Some Memories of the Previous Timeline.
Read Chapter 2: The Fall (1).
* [Divine Time Interference].
Read Chapter 320: I Level Up to the Gods Part 5.