Mara was stunned to hear that her father bought who she currently thought of as her father.
"Is my mother my real mother?"
"Yes."
"Why did my true father buy him?"
"More like a favor got repaid. Your mother was upset with the decision. Your true dad always kept up with you."
"Is it for my protection or something more?"
Hades wanted to speak more but knew that doing so would make her father angry.
"Just become strong enough to face him head on. When the time is right, he will tell you."
"Is it someone here or elsewhere?"
"I already spoke too much."
Mara was genuinely upset but that did not keep her from asking Lilith when she got a chance.
Mara rested and continued to watch the training of the troops. She watched as they not only used techniques at brazen moments but mostly hand to hand combat.
"That does not make any sense."
She followed a duo mostly and began to copy their movements. What seemed brazen to her was actually good timing with wild movements.
She began to train with Zeus again. She attempted to use this against him. The movements caused her to slap his face, elbow his shoulder, and even chop his neck.
She had exhausted her strength facing against him. He like an unmovable wall look cold and menacing.
She tried a movement from her mother.
"This movement caused your dad to marry me.
Face forward.
Happy eyes.
Frown on your face.
Focus everything into your left hand.
Punch with your right hand."
She tried that against Zeus. Immediately he figured out what she planned but decided to see what she wanted to do.
"When your opponent likes they know what you want to do. Change your style like water. Focus your Qi into the depths of your feet. Keep your focus on your left."
The ground began to vibrate with anticipation of what was about to happen.
Lilith watched from her office. She knew who was her father. Zeus knew, Hades knew, Diablo knew, and the Demon God knew.
As the ground anticipated everything, Zeus began to focus on his Lightning Qi. He had figured out the next three steps without knowing what she had in store.
"When everything seems not good. Call upon your inheritance."
Lightning began to circulate on ground around both parties. Water began to change the battlefield of these two.
All troops looked at the duo. Lilith hoped that this fight continued for a while in enjoying a snack.
Several kicks and punches left Mara. Everything seemingly wrong with what her mother told her. In the midst of the fight, she changed one pivot unconsciously.
Zeus punched her kick. Loud explosions vibrated across the territory. Mara finally understood what her mother told her years ago.
"Uncontrollable like a raging river, more fierce than Lightning, calming like a scene cut out from a book, called upon the secrets in your inheritance."
Using her training from weapons she began to dodge and attack with ease. Zeus smiled as he only watched her pivots.
While keeping one foot still, he to use the other leg to control her pivots. He was going forward and not backwards.
Noticing her attacks had become useless. She had one last final attack she could try before losing again.
"When your opponent watches your footwork, use that chance to use your body to lunge forward."
As the ground cracked as she tried to lunge herself.
"She should have waited." Lilith said.
"Good job, Mara." Hades cheered.
"To think that some people are monsters like this." Apollo said.
Mara did not know what happened next. She found herself on the ground puking blood.
"You made a critical error." Zeus stated.
As Mara looked at Zeus, she could not help but find this moment more pleasing than anything else before.
"When you lunge, make sure that you use your Water Qi in the Demonic form to protect your vitals. The Lightning Qi in the Mortal form to attack.
What happened is that I caught you and slammed you harder than what a normal person can handle. Because if I had not, you might have landed on the mountain range."
Mara took serious mental note of that before passing out.
"Dumb girl."
Zeus picked her up and carried her to the room.
Lilith came from her office to make sure that Mara was not seriously injured.
"She will be fine." Zeus said.
"Good. She belongs to Rex as a Battle Maid. Keep up her training." Lilith told him.
He looked at her room with a smile.
"How did that happen?" Zeus asked.
"Hades and Apollo went to watch her. Knowing who her father is, Hades wanted to bring her here to train for the duo to meet up.
When she got seriously injured, he and Apollo went and utterly destroyed the kingdom in which injured the girl."
"Her mother was something else. I faced her many a time. I am surprised that she did not train her in the pivots at first." Zeus replied.
"Well, you were unlucky to be not chosen as the girl's mother. Being her trainee is indeed something special to be known for."
"Yeah, her mother used a mixed of Wind and Lightning. She found pivots such a good tactic that most people do not understand how to completely control the pivots."
Lilith was shocked to hear that. Basically, Zeus had trained in the pivots from that woman or trained himself watching her for many a time.
"You are such a monster, Zeus."
"Well, I have to become stronger each day. So I always train in a method. Whatever my opponents like, I at least have to be able to see how they do it."
Mara listening to the conversation between Zeus and Lilith found it difficult to bear the guilt of wanting to know who her father was.
Since she did use Water Qi, she wondered if that was a give away for her father or if her mother could not use it enough.