*Boom*Conflict. It was something that happened everywhere. There was no one exempt from it. What differed was its nature. For some, conflict came in the form of war and famine. For others, it was merely a disagreement that would not cost them their lives, but their livelihoods. Others fought against themselves. Whatever it was, conflict was universal, and even gods were not exempt from this. Apollo looked at his opponent, his eyes burning with the fiery rage that the universe had long forgotten. He exuded light so pure and true that the one who was facing him was forced to take a few steps back. Yet he did not retreat.“Will you keep standing in my path!” Apollo asked as his sword was enveloped by the rare light element.“Forgive me. I am merely doing what I ought to do,” Horus, the man who stood opposite the Olympian God with free reign over the rare light element, spoke.“What you ought to? You speak of this like it is your obligation. It is not. You are choosing to stand in my pat
“Do you think it was fair to kill him without at the very least, giving him something to take with him?” Poseidon asked with his hands crossed.“What do you mean, god of the sea?” Heimdall enquired.“Don’t call me that. I failed to unite the seas of all the heavens. Not only did I fail, I got trapped on this remote planet and would have still been stuck here if not for you. So, I am still just the god of the 2nd Heaven’s seas. I am no universe level god. I am a failure. A trapped failure.”Listening to Poseidon’s words, Heimdall maintained his silence. Uniting the 7 great seas: that had been Poseidon’s lifelong dream. Every origin god had an obsession. Odin’s was his desire and thirst for knowledge; Zeus’ was his unquenchable lust and greed; Ra’s was his search for the ultimate justice, a search that had led him down a path of warped justice. Poseidon’s dream had been to become god of all the seas and reach a fabled realm: the realm of the Universe God. Unfortunately, he had failed.H
“Are you satisfied now?” Heimdall asked.The god whose eyes saw through untruths did not carry the grace that he usually walked with. His clothes were tattered and much of his armour had been shattered. His chest was bruised and his arms were bloodied. His great sword was several feet away from him, embedded deeply into the ground in defeat. The god of the Bifrost looked helplessly at the god who towered over him.“Why didn’t you use the Bifrost?” Poseidon wondered, asking a question of his own instead of answering what he was asked.“For one so wise, you ask a foolish question,” Heimdall replied, berating the god of the sea.“Even in this situation, you are thinking about saving time,” Poseidon muttered, his eyes radiating with praise.While Heimdall and Loki were still gods he will not hesitate to kill, he acknowledged them. They were willing to do anything to achieve their goals, even if it meant going against their own. Even now, Heimdall had not hesitated to deliver himself as a
“Are you okay kid? You seem out of sorts.”1st asked Mane who was lying in a small bed. The young Supreme was in a room that was too small to contain anything else but his bed and a study table. It had no fancy decorations, and its greatest piece of art was the lamp fixed to the wall right above his bed. Mane was currently in a battleship headed to Godking Academy. While the Academy had a direct connection to Planet Celestial and could arrive in Godking immediately, they first had to retrieve a few things from a planet close by and then return to Planet Celestial. It was a mission they had to accomplish before they return for the students. Since Mane was going to be a professor, he was qualified to tag along. Of course, his departure had only been approved because he had whined for days about it, forcing the helpless professors to yield and take him along. “I guess I still cannot believe that I am going to another academy. It seems like it was only yesterday that I was at the Wieldin
“Hahaha! What an arrogant brat!” Tunde laughed uproariously upon hearing Mane’s words.With great ease he pulled out of harm’s way, causing Mane’s attack to smash into the earth below and distort the already barren environment. Chuckles could be heard from the cloaked assassins as well. Clearly, none of them regarded Mane’s words as anything serious.“We saw the video of your fight, yet we dared do what we have done. Did you think that we will have no countermeasures for you?”“Kid. There’s something off about your movements.” 1st commented.“Indeed. You seem disoriented.” 3rd chimed in.“I see. That thing didn’t merely teleport me here. It also messed with my senses. It would have been fine if I wasn’t a Scholar, but since I am, my heightened senses ended up becoming a weakness for me.” Mane analysed calmly.It had been his misconception to believe that these assassins had come for his head so carelessly. Firstly, they had infiltrated the spacecraft he was on, something that could no
The first assassin was sent flying by the powerful attack, but he did not fall. Gently swaying and flipping mid-air, he landed quite stably and dashed forward again. His colleagues cared not for his well doing either, for they dove at Mane without a care for him.“That armour…” Mane’s eyes flashed brightly.Even without True Eyes, he could still see. When he struck the assassin, the breastplate on the latter’s chest had absorbed his attack entirely. While it had dimmed in response to this, proving that it would not be capable of taking such an attack for an unlimited number of times, it seemed sturdy enough to accept a few more. They had really come prepared.*Whoosh*Mane ducked as the dagger of one of the assassin’s flew above his head and headed into the distance; however, as though to show off their chemistry, there was another assassin within that path who caught hold of the dagger and savagely stabbed it towards the Supreme.Mane took a deep breath and pulled his arm behind him.
“That was…the Universe Will?” Tunde’s eyes were opened wide in surprise when he understood who it was that had interfered. To think that the Supreme could summon the Universe Will! It had appeared suddenly and disappeared swiftly, but the staff that was embedded in the ground was proof that it had indeed been here!Mane smiled grimly as he slowly rose to his feet. His skin was becoming more purple, and blood was flowing freely out of his wounds and his orifices. He could hear his masters and Hildegarde screaming his name, but he could hear none of them now. His mind was filled with a sentence he had kept with him since the Dreamscape.“Beware of the Universe Will for it is not your ally.”Mane understood this, and that was why he had chosen to break into the Nobility Realm in a place where the eyes of the True Universe’s Will never reached. Well, that hadn’t exactly worked out as he planned it to, for the Universe Will had found out anyway and had announced his presence to the world a
Back in the Dreamscape Universe, there was a war raging. While it wasn’t overt, citizens in every world could feel that the drums of war had been brought out. They had not been embroiled in chaos yet, but they knew that soon the drum beaters will strike down, announcing the start of another war, and this world would fall into disorder again.The one who stood at the centre of this war were preparing in their own right. Within the camp of ‘good’, Loki, Ananse, and Zica, gathered allies. So far they had attracted the likes of the Barbarian Primogenitor, Red Rose, and some of the Barbarian Ancestors. Destiny and Pathfinder were here along with a few other unknown ancestors. As if that wasn’t enough, the Barbarian Lord, Magma, and his Flames, had also escaped the confines of their home to join this war. They weren’t the only ones that had stepped up though. The Elementals had not hesitated to send their best as well. Ancestor Spector had arrived with a few other ancestors from Amalgamatio