One Month Later, Underworld, Gremory Territory, Castle Fuerig
I have spent one month familiarizing myself with the newly acquired power I have reached. At the Satan-Class, I had so much power that I needed to have some time to familiarize myself with it to use it properly.
While I spent the past month training, my territory was steadily developing as all of Hela’s army was incorporated into my own army, and people she brought from Asgard were accommodated. Now I had one of the largest armies among the devil nobility.
I intended to enlarge my army even more before the Great War started.
Meanwhile, as everything this was happening in my territory across the Draconic Deus, another thing shook the waves.
Asgard has won the war against the armies of Laufey, Surtr, and Malekith, from which Laufey was killed, Surtr severely injured and banished back to the Mushpelheim, while Malekith just escaped.
While it seemed like a victory for Asgard, in reality, they lost more than they won. Apparently, the defection of Hela and her followers took a greater toll on Asgardian Army than I had initially thought, and Asgard began losing the war on all fronts.
Just one week after that, Ice Giants and Fire Creatures, along with Dark Elves in the shadows, managed to breach all fronts that Asgard was holding, mainly due to a lack of soldiers, as more than a third of their army defected with Hela.
Soon enough, they breached into the world of Asgard, and Odin was forced to deploy all of his hidden forces to combat ferocious Ice Giants and Fire Creatures under the leadership of Laufey and Surtr.
In the end, the big battle took place several miles away from the main capital of Asgard, and Odin was forced to activate his powers as God-King of Pantheon that, pushed him into the realm of Mighty Stage God, as he killed Lauyfey and severely injured Surtr until all accommodated power dissipated.
Afterward, while Asgard won the war, they lost the majority of their army, were left with devasted infrastructure among the Nine Worlds, and Odin immediately entered sleep, as his Divinity was cracked due to overusing the power of God-King.
Soon enough, the entire Asgard went into lockdown. At least what brought a smile to my face was the fact that Malekith assassinated all Christian priests, nobles, and people of influence in the countries of Finland, Norway, and Sweden.
I feel Loki had some hands in that, as he always petitioned war against other Pantheons.
What was bugging, the response of Heaven didn’t come. Yahweh just closed his eyes… weird.
Today I had an appointment with Hela, as she recovered her Class and became Innate God through some weird ritual, which she used, to awaken Divinity upon her own. By her own words, she could advance by absorbing Dinivity of the same type from other gods.
She cannot use Faith Energy to advance her Class or to any other benefit herself, which was the price for becoming Innate God. On the other side, she wasn’t tied to any worlds and could freely leave planes and travel through the endless myriad of worlds.
Hela was spending most of her time at my personal training yard, where she spent all of her free time. Today, as usual, she was swinging her Necrosword at my training yard.
‘Architect scan her.’
I said.
[Name: Hela
Race: Innate God – Aesir/Vanir Hybrid
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Class: Intermediate Divinity Stage
Divine Energy: 471
Magical Power: 654
Strength: 603
Agility: 565
Vitality: 590]
‘Damm, she is strong. Her energy altogether is around twice of mine own, and her physical abilities… damm… strong. She has two energy types, which is understandable, as Gods usually have magical power and Divine Energy at the same time.’
“Can we start?”
I asked as I took out my scythe.
My spar with Hela was already the fourth one, as we sparred once each week for several hours straight. It was mainly her idea to help me master my scythe, as in her opinion, I was sucking using a weapon, something I cannot disagree with as I am a magic caster, not a melee fighter.
Before I could barely react, I could already see several Necroswords being shot at me with tremendous speed as I used my physical ability to dodge. During our spars, we had ruled that no one would use spells to enhance himself or herself.
As I dodged those Necroswords, Hela was already before me, swinging two of her Necroswords that she held in her hands at my neck as I used my scythe Rosenkreutz to block them, creating sparks in the air and minor shockwave through the air.
Fortunately, this entire yard was warded with the most potent wards and barriers I could produce, so we didn’t destroy the whole area.
In a split of a second, Hela flipped backward while throwing two Necroswords at me, which I blocked with my scythe, and then I shot towards Hela, slashing at her with my scythe. Unfortunately for me, she easily dodged my slash and kicked me to my ribs, kicking me several tens of meters away.
I stood up, and coughed some blood, as she didn’t hold anything back in her kick, as I barely dodged an incoming attack from her.
Hela was ruthless during our spars, something I appreciated, as she did wonders for my lack of experience. Even I could see that I was improving steadily in the close combat, and soon enough, I would reach Mastery-Rank mastery over the Scythe Mastery.
If this fight was being fought using magic, then even with her larger reserves, the situation would be reversed. Unfortunately, I could only be a punching bag for now… fortunately, I have strengthened my physique to Satan-Class, which would be much worse.
“You are getting better… this is good… you can now last longer during our spars.”
Said Hela with delight as she looked at me, and I felt bad for some reason.
