prologue chapter 1.3
It's already been five days since we left for the gate of Olympus but Elridge doesn't know anything that's about to come.
I hope nothing bad will happen when we reach Olympus. I'm sure that Lucius and the Gods are planning something.
Elgero, who's been worrying for Elridge since they left for the gates of Olympus, left a sigh and stopped overthinking.
Some time later during their travels in the seas a strong storm can be seen far ahead of them and decide to take shelter on a nearby island hoping that the storm will calm down.
"We need to take shelter we can't proceed our ship might get destroyed if we continued our boat isn't made out of arcanium" *Lucius*
*Arcanium a rare material such as Wood metal etc that has a property of magic in them with a pour of mana it will restore to its original form*
"..."
When Lucius thought that Elridge was listening he was annoyed to see that Elridge was sleeping near a tree.
Lucius was agitated of Elridge who slept "I thought I would have someone to talk to"
Elgero, who's been silent the entire time, confronts Lucius.
"Lucius, what are you and the other gods scheming"
"What are you talking about?"
Lucius noticed that Elgero was being suspicious about him and tried to act like he didn't know anything.
"Don't play dumb I know that you and Zeus were scheming something"
"..."
Lucius who was discovered by Elgero scheming something with the god apprehended Elgero.
"Wind wall"
"What are you doing"
Lucius made a sphere that is made of wind to prevent Elgero from leaving and not let their voice leak.
"I see so you've been suspicious the entire time I guess it's no use in hiding it"
"Damn it let me out"
"As expected of the traitor you know too much"
"I cut ties with Olympus because Zeus is being an ass hole for sending otherworlders in our world to interfere with human affairs, I thought that the gods council accepted that gods will not interfere with the mortal world"
"It's way too boring to watch these mortals do nothing. That's why we added some sort of twist to make it fun by trying other things But we were stopped because of Poseidon and Hades and you being hades messenger made it pretty much troublesome for us"
"..."
"Hades giving his ego to you made it impossible for us to dispose of hades but you getting killed by a human made our work easy."
"Heh… Haha… Hahahaha! Your plan with Zeus had succeeded but the purpose of me guiding Elridge was to make him fight with Zeus"
"What can a mere mortal do against a god"
"Don't forget that this mortal was able to defeat me with hades ego"
"Your still as annoying as ever, it was tiring to act Infront of you lots"
"Heh"
"?!"
Elridge aimed at Lucius' neck with a slash but the attack missed and almost hit Lucius' neck leading him to lose his balance.
"Get your hands of Elgero"
"What are you doing this traitor is trying to make you fight with a god"
Elridge shoves his sword at Lucius' neck who's in the ground.
"If it wasn't for you and the gods Delia is still because of your stupid crap the other worlders kidnapped Delia"
Elridge who's furious is emitting a never seen before blood lust making every living being around him tremble in fear.
Even Elgero who's only a core is shivering nonstop.
"Stop it your blood lust will make my core crack even more"
Eventually Elridge released his bloodlust but Lucius who's on the ground sweats non stop due to elridge bloodlust.
"You.. you monster!"
Elridge couldn't hold back his anger and eventually smashed Lucius head making blood splash everywhere eventually Lucius body became a speck of dust.
"That's brutal"
"Shut up lets just head to the gate as fast as we can my hands won't calm down until I cut those gods head"
I haven't seen this side of him since the first time I saw him. Despite him getting older he is also getting stronger by time.
If it's him it might be possible to stop the gods. I hope Hades and Poseidon are alright.
"But there's still a sto-"
"..." Elridge gave of a piercing gaze of anger on Elgero.
"I'm just joking let's go"
He couldn't stop at this point. I guess it's meaningless to try and stop him.
Despite the storm coming at them the two continued to sail for the gate to Olympus.
Elridge who's furious is being bothered by the storm and decides to split the skies with a single slash eventually calming the seas down.
"..."
He's literally become a monster he just split the sky in half with ease.
With Lucius' disappearance I won't be surprised when someone tries to stop us at the gate.
Elridge who's walking away gave off a serious aura around him making every living being around him shiver.
Eventually the two of them left and started to sail towards the storm.
Due to the ship that was made with non high quality material the ship was eventually destroyed.
"I told you we should've waited for the storm to calm down"
"We had no time to wait with Lucius disappearance I'm sure the god is already aware we shouldn't let them give some time to prepare"
As expected of a fleet admiral he knows what to do when it comes to war.
"What are you doing?"
Elridge who's standing on a floating plank of wood grabbed Elgero and eventually flew by leaping on the skies.
"Wh- Ahhhhhhhh"
Instead of taking another day to reach the gates to Olympus it only took them around an hour with Elridge leaping around the skies.
[Light step can stand on anything as long as it exist in reality]
"Eldridge that's the place"
Elgero told Elridge to land on an island that's surrounded by tornadoes, the weather around the island doesn't look good with the dark skies and nonstop thunderstorms.
"We've arrived it looks like someone is waiting for us In Front of the gates"
Two knights in white armor are standing guarding the gate to Olympus.
Elridge went on guard and Unsheathing his sword preparing to counterattack.
"Welcome Elgero and Elridge"
"?!"
"Zeus sent us here to lead you to his chamber for a talk"
The knight who stood by the gate didn't show any sign of any hostility and Instead greeted Elridge and Elgero.
Elgero whispered to elridge "this is way too suspicious"
Elridge whispered back "I know let's just play along"
The two played along and followed the knights of Zeus.
"Please put the key to open the gates"
Elridge who's keeping the key walked In Front of the gate and inserted the key to the sockets.
After some time a strong earthquake can be felt around the world causing massive destruction and causing massive storms on the sea.
"What's happening?"
"Calm down it's normal it won't last long"
As the gate was fully opened the earthquake stopped but the storm that was caused remained.
"Please follow us visitor"
Elridge looked at Elgero for confirmation, eventually Elgero nodded and followed the knights.
As the two started to enter the gate the Elridge was impressed by the architecture of the place.
"This place is beautiful"
"What can you expect from a gods domain it should be elegant to be the least"
Elridge and Elgero continued to follow the knights and eventually reached their destination.
"Why is nobody around I thought were meeting Zeus"
"We've arrived our destination visitor"
The knights' eyes, who were shining in white eventually turned red and became hostile, aiming their weapon at Elridge.
"It's an ambush!"
The place around where Elridge and Elgero was eventually got sealed by a forcefield made by Athena.
"We're trapped it's Athena's forcefield we can't break it" *Elgero*
"Damn it I should've expected this I was spacing while I was admiring the place" *Elridge*
"Focus we can't afford you getting killed" *Elgero*
A loud clapping noise can be heard outside the forcefield.
"Zeus" *Elgero*
"If it isn't the messenger of hades and his companion"
"Where's hades" *Elgero*
"Oh don't worry hades is fine he's just confined somewhere" *Zeus*
"Damn you!"
A wind arrow of wind was fired at Elgero with an intention of missing on purpose, serving as a warning shot.
"Watch your tone mere messenger"
"Who's that" *Elridge*
"She's Persephone Zeus daughter and the goddess of hunt" *Elgero*
"Ho I never thought that the two of you would be so calm at a situation like this" *Zeus*
Zeus can be seen standing alongside with his daughter Persephone who's aiming her bow at Elridge and Elgero alongside Athena who's maintaining the forcefield.
Elridge who's assessing the situation looked at Zeus who's standing far felt Zeus overwhelming power.
Elridge whispered at Elgero
"Damn it I don't think I can fight Zeus with the others" Elridge can be seen with a troubled expression.
"So you're just staying quiet huh I guess there's no point of making you stay alive the two of you serves no purpose for me anymore"
After Elridge heard what Zeus said Elridge became enraged and attacked the knights In Front of him.
"We're not your damn play thing you damned god"
"Dispose them"
Zeus eventually ordered the two of them disposed of.
Persephone who's preparing to fire went for the first shot eventually aiming for Elridge.
Elridge was quick to deflect the arrows of Persephone and went for a counter attack but with a flying slash but Athena's shield negated his attack.
"Tsk"
Eventually more and more knight swarms Elridge and Elgero while Persephone continues her barrage of arrows at them.
"Damn it there's way too many of them I can't continue to block her attacks"
Persephone attacks became stronger as she shot more arrow making Elridge ware down from deflecting her attacks alongside with the swarm of knights.
As Elridge continues to counter attack and deflect Persephone attacks his sword eventually broke.
"Damn it the sword broke this should do"
Elridge kicked a knight and stole their sword to use as his own to continue fighting.
"Elgero you there?"
"Elgero?"
Elgero didn't respond to elridge and can't be seen around Elridge.
"Damn it"
"Dragon's descent"
Elridge leaped in the air and descended making a large explosion around his landing spot wiping out the majority of the knights.
Elridge let his guard down, eventually getting hit with Persephone's arrow.
"Aghh"
"Give up mortal you're already pushed out in the corner"
"Heh I've never been in this situation for twenty years after I fought Elgero"
Elridge stood up eventually releasing his suppression.
As he releases his suppression he emits a strong aura sending around him flying from the strong force of his aura.
"What kind of trickery is this?"
"I'm gonna quickly end this I can't maintain in this state for too long"
Zeus who's looking at the side is astonished with Elridge's aura changing.
"Quick draw, dragons song"
Elridge quickly put his sword at his waist, eventually moved so fast looking like he teleported, eventually getting behind Athena and thousands of slashes were unleashed behind Elridge ignoring Athena's forcefield.
After Athena got taken down her forcefield dispersed.
"Ath-"
Persephone who's specialized in speed only second to Hermes couldn't react to Elridge eventually getting her stabbed.
"Rapier art, linear thrust"
After Elridge took down the two goddesses a strong lightning was unleashed at Elridge's location hitting both the dying goddesses.
Elridge managed to dodge while grabbing the defenseless goddesses out of proximity of Zeus' attack.
"You'd rather sacrifice an accomplice and your daughter just to take me down"
"They couldn't even stop you making them deemed worthless"
Elridge, who's enraged by Zeus' word, quickly charges straight up at Zeus.
"Impressive strength" Zeus blocked Elridge's attack with a bolt of thunder.
Elridge backed up as lightning was about to hit him.
"Hahaha! To think you could anticipate that attack your mo ordinary human"
Elridge who's further more enraged delivered numerous flying slash aiming for Zeus' neck.
Zeus being the strongest god didn't have any trouble deflecting Elridge attack.
Zeus, who was busy deflecting Elridge attack, didn't see what's coming next.
"Piercing light" Elridge leaped at Zeus with a blinding speed aiming for Zeus' heart.
Zeus couldn't dodge completely eventually getting hit on the shoulders.
The sword that Elridge used to stab Zeus shoulder was stuck, eventually Elridge got hit with Zeus' punch sending him flying on the side.
"Aghh" Elridge who was hit with Zeus' punch was coughing blood and could barely stand up.
"Damn you" Zeus who's enraged after getting hit by a human unleashed all of his power not holding back.
Zeus who's enraged slowly walked Infront of the injured Elridge and prepared to end him with a strong thunder strike.
As Zeus charges up his attack he was interrupted with dark magic.
"Hands off him Zeus"
"Hades you dare interrupt me"
The two got into a heated fight leading to massive destruction around them. Hades, the god of the underworld, could keep up with Zeus with no problem.
"Are you okay?"
Elridge who's lying down on the floor who could barely talk was healed.
"Elgero where did you just go?"
"I just called for help don't move too much your being healed by Gaia"
Elridge who's being healed by Gaia just layed down as Hades tries to buy them some time for Elridge to fully recover.
"Elridge smash my core"
"What why?"
"Just do it"
"Why would I?"
"Just do it you can't kill Zeus without a proper weapon"
"But how would that relate to you making me smash your core"
"Just do it"
Elridge eventually smashed Elgero's core as of his request.
Out of nowhere darkness manifested around Elridge's arm revealing a gauntlet.
"So this is what you were talking about huh I should thank you for your sacrifice"
"Stupid I'm still alive don't treat me as I am dead"
"Wait what?"
"Stop asking questions hades couldn't buy us more time"
As the two of them had their conversation Gaia's healing was already finished.
"Thanks for your help Gaia"
Gaia nods to Elgero giving her appreciation for Elgero's gratitude.
"Stand up Hades already hit his limit"
Hades, who was fighting Zeus, already reached his limit and was defeated by Zeus.
But Zeus was weakened during his fight with hades making his power weaker.
"Let's continue for round two"
"You specialized in sword just think of any sword and I'll materialize to it"
Elridge followed what Elgero said and think of a weapon.
Elgero was shocked by the weapon he chose.
"So your going with this I didn't expect you to use such weapon"
"Shut up let me focus"
As Zeus finished his fight with hades gradually charged a large amount of energy as more lightning manifested around zeus.
"Don't you think you can just defeat me because you had a new toy"
"I'm going all out at the start"
Elridge released his suppression once more after releasing his suppression he felt that something changed and eventually felt a lot lighter than before.
Elridge took a stance preparing for Zeus' engagement with his Bō staff.
"Thinde smite"
Zeus called for thunder to hit Elridge.
"Die you pest"
The staff that was manifested from Elgeros power was thrown straight out Zeus piercing Zeus abdomen.
"Piercing blitz"
Elridge engages Zeus with a strong burst of thrust hitting multiple vital spot on Zeus body and sending Zeus flying on the air with the final strike.
"Ack…. If it wasn't for hades damn it all" Zeus went in a berserk state furthermore enhancing his abilities in exchange for his intelligence.
Large cramp of thunder is storming around zeus hitting random spots.
"Elridge dodge"
Elridge flew into the air and threw another staff but it got hit with a thunderbolt vaporizing it.
"Don't get hit by it Zeus can't be stop in this state"
Elridge materialized elgero into a musket.
"Head shot" Elridge shot Zeus in the head knocking him down.
Out of nowhere Zeus started engaging grabbing Elridge and slamming him down.
"Elridge no!"
"Ackkk" Zeus slammed Elridge down with great force making a very large crack.
Elridge materialized elgero again Into a gauntlet "Shot"
Elridge punched Zeus face with a great force making a shockwave pierce through his back eventually sending him flying again.
"Rahhhhh!"
"Elridge he's coming right at us again"
"I know"
Elridge manifested Elgero once again into a saber.
"Complete focus" Elridge went into a complete focus state only visualizing himself and Zeus.
"Rahhhhh" Zeus can be seen rushing straight down at Elridge with a great speed.
Elridge snapped out from a complete focus state and readied his counter attack.
"Ultimate art, dragons fury" Elridge took a roof guard stance charging his sword with aura.
"Rahhhhhh"
As Zeus came in contact with Elridge, Elridge eventually went for a stab making contact with Zeus' lightning fist making a strong explosion and a blinding light blinding everyone around them.
After the light calm down Elridge can be seen with a broken and bleeding arm as Zeus lies on the ground with his arm getting cut.
"It's already over" Elridge prepared to end Zeus with a stab in the heart.
But a wind arrow struck Elridge on the chest, making a large hole on his chest, eventually knocking him down on the floor.
"Hands off father you mortal"
Persephone can be seen aiming her bow at Elridge and eventually passing out after firing the shot.
Elridge's vision slowly darkens as he starts to feel cold due to fast blood loss.
"Elridge noo wake up"
"Wa- up"
"El-"
Elridge couldn't process due to the blood lost caused by the large hole in his chest eventually taking his last breathe.
The necklace that was given by the Duchess glow red and eventually started raging.