Waking up with a groggy mind like finally able to catch a wink of sleep after a 72 hours continuous shift. Ray opened his eyes and simply stared at the ceiling blankly for an unknown amount of time trying to recall what he had been up to lately to end up in his current state.
One after another, memories surfacing in his mind from his encounter with the Hunters in DxD world to the most recent memories, the battle with that bitch, The Sustainer of The Heavenly Principle.
Just thinking about it infuriates him to no end. To be immediately judged as evil simply because of his race. Not like he gets a choice when the option is only one during his reincarnation.
In fact, if he could. He would simply ask to be reincarnated as human instead.
Being all powerful is not really that great. It was over hyped by idiots that never knew about the burden of power.
With a brain more powerful than any supercomputer in existence, capable of calculate the formula of entropy reversal to reset the universe, manipulate and reconstruct reality with sheer mathematic calculation and simulate the entire future of the universe, which he rarely used other than doing random calculations to keep it occupied, means he would always be bored.
Bored to death, even if he could die from such a mundane cause.
Ray understands now why most higher dimensional creatures that share his similar plight often like to just sleep. Like the Great Ones.
It's his boredom that pushes him to the extreme for entertainment. Which also one day be the cause of his own death. Probably.
That's why, if it's possible to reverse his choice. He would rather be reincarnated as a human.
But at this point, reversing time is no longer possible when his existence as a higher dimensional being had become a Singularity removed from the axis of time.
Still staring at the ceiling with an empty mind. Ray laments about his future and situation.
Making himself an enemy of the Sustainer means making himself the enemy of the Teyvat world itself.
According to his little digging, The Sustainer of The Heavenly Principle is part of a group, the Heavenly Principle, which is the true rulers of Teyvat. They hold absolute dominion of Teyvat and all life within it.
In his current sorry state. Let's not talk about the Heavenly Principles. He could hardly win against the lesser deities that roam Teyvat, the Gods without fully recovering from the annoying curse placed on him by the Sustainer which made him feeble and eating away his energy.
With his endless wellspring of power source from his True Body severed during the battle against the Patron God of the Hunters, Ray is limited to his own internal power supply and ability to his avatar form only. Which means he could no longer brute force everything with power like he used to and have to properly play the game according to the rules.
His situation is like a max level game character suddenly got reset to Level 1.
As such, Ray is forced to hide like rats from the Heavenly Principles. Trying to steer out of their sight.
"Haah… thank goodness I ordered Freya to hide us in a cav—"
Then it suddenly clicked in his mind which he had overlooked from the moment he opened his eyes.
"Why does a cave have a wooden ceiling…" Ray mutters as his heart almost jumps out his mouth.
"Don't tell me… I had been captured?" He jumped off the thin futon bed into his four paws and surveyed his surroundings very alertly.
At the very least, it didn't look like he was being imprisoned since there are two large open windows with light pouring in which illuminate the room. The design of the room looks quite the same to medieval Japanese architecture.
Without dallying, Ray rushes towards the window and jumps through to escape and locate Freya immediately. He is defenseless without her protection since Ravel and the others who he used their abilities are still resting without a sign of waking up anytime soon.
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(Freya PoV)
Standing before the fortress wall. She gazes at the formations of armies converging towards the fortress.
Three different banners signifying three different clans of warriors. Each clan had their army dressed uniformly in their own style, differing only in colour.
Each of those warrior clans are subordinates of God of Storm. The strongest among all gods competing for the throne of Electro Archon and Inazuma.
The constant thunderstorm that enshrouded the Inazuma archipelago was a result of his ability that manifested passively. No one knows the extent of his true power as any foe that dared confront him had all been slayed without any survivor to tell the tales.
As for the purpose for targeting the twins, Makoto and Ei. The first would definitely be because he feels threatened by the twins working together. Much less now that Freya had joined the team. But his side reason would be because he covets Freya which he proclaimed was due to love at first sight when she first made her appearance fighting under Makoto's banner.
Freya's first battle was the clash between the twins against the Goddess of Lightning Flames who tried to weaken the twin's forces by burning down several villages but a scout alerted Makoto early about the attack which led to a hastily mounted ambush to thwart the Goddess of Lightning Flame's attempt.
Freya's role in this battle is to lead the vanguard to stall the enemy forces led by a powerful general under the Goddess of Lightning Flames, a powerful youkai that strength reaching the level of a God while Makoto and Ei confronted the Goddess herself to quickly end the battle due to their forces on the weaker side as a result of being hastily assembled and most not even properly equipped as opposed to the well prepared army on the enemy side.
Her Divinity of War made her an unrivalled commander and brutal executioner in battle which resulted in the enemy general having his head decapitated to sow fear into the enemies and lower their morale.
Meanwhile her Divinity of Love enables her to charm any men and bolster their morale beyond the impossible that makes the problem with morale a nonexistent problem when none would feel fear and willing to lay down their lives to pave a path forward for her.
As the battle concluded, rumours and tales about Freya, a newly emerged Goddess of War, spread wide and far which eventually arrived at the ears of the God of Storm who became curious and went to verify the rumour himself by ordering his subordinate to challenge Freya in battle.
Naturally, Freya rejected this pointless battle. However, the God of Storm isn't easy to give up.
The God of Storm ordered his subordinates to investigate Freya and eventually found out that she is desperately seeking for miraculous medicine, elixir or healer for unknown reason. With this information, the God of Storm once again proposed a duel between his subordinate and Freya with a miraculous elixir that was rumored to be a prized creation of a certain God of Healing and Alchemy hailed from the nation of Sumeru.
For the past half a decade she tried everything to awaken her Master only to fail. Despite all injuries, whether hidden or not, had been healed. Yet, Ray remains in a perpetual state of deep slumber without any sign of awakening even after using numerous herbs, elixir and help from famous healers.
Even if she knew the elixir would not work. Freya still wanted to try. Wishing for that sliver of chance he could be awakened.
Thus, she accepted the challenge.
Which leads to the present where Freya stood valiantly awaiting her opponent to arrive.
On the open grassland adjacent to the fortress is the army belonging to the God of Storm surrounding him where he personally sat down to witness the battle.
The God of Storm is very excited and filled with anticipation to witness Freya's capability with his own eyes.
Well, that was the plan until someone suddenly crashed the party.
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