YM778.TV Chapter 106: Sitri Returns!
"I can\'t believe you\'d ev say that, let\'s not get ahead of ourselves here, Dina." Usami approached her and took her shoulder with actual concern, devoid of her usual cynicism.
"You\'re strong, but I don\'t see you winning against a god, all you would do is upset them into killing you, it\'s bad ough that they don\'t pay that much atttion to what happs here isn\'t it?" She shook her Dina with a pleading expression.
\'There are quite a few that Dina could win against actually, there are some incredibly weak gods in the lesser heav ev by Arkadian standards, some that ev Arla could beat honestly.\' Sol had a serious expression after the question had be sprung on him, and Ikaris who was by his side held on to his arm and pulled him closer.
[Telepathy has be activated betwe three; Sol Vestic, True Goddess Ikaris and Dina Levina]
"Dear, I have news." Ikaris smiled.
"Did something happ while I was in Argom?" Sol asked and Dina snapped in his direction while Ikaris smiled and rested her head on his arm.
"Something interesting indeed," Ikaris smiled while looking at Usami who was still talking to Eris and Arla. "Dina has unlocked evolution."
"How am I hearing you wh your mouths ar\'t ev moving?" Dina covered her mouth and looked at the others, she hadn\'t said it out loud either but she had heard herself as well.
"We usually have tire conversations in this manner" Ikaris glanced at her. "Just focus on the others and speak to us passively, if you wish to we can always include Arla, but since you had said nothing to her I chose this route rather than sneaking a and whispering." She instructed the shocked mage, and she turned to the others again with a huff and started paying atttion.
"Your status window has unlocked evolution?" Sol seemed surprised ev more than Ikaris was wh she found out. "How did this happ?"
"My theory is that it is triggered after recieving a blessing from a god, the same as you had [Goddess\'s Love] from the start and also had [evolution] from the start," Ikaris further explained, but instead of continuing to be shocked Sol\'s eyes slowly turned to Usami who had changed the topic after Sara\'s arrival.
"Interesting." Sol continued staring at the spear hero who had arrived with short hair that was now at the middle of her back in a high ponytail. "This is very interesting." He spoke again and both Ikaris and Dina looked at him to try and figure out what his other thoughts were.
"Didn\'t Usami get a blessing from the god of hardships wh she fought at the Obelisk?" He asked and Dina perked up uttering an audible "ah!" out of nowhere and startling Usami who was right next to her.
"Are you okay?" Usami raised her brows.
"Yeah, I\'m fine." Dina nodded and lowered her tone to a calmer one as she stared back.
"Are you saying Usami has be hiding her blessing from us?" She asked.
"Exactly that, it\'s an easy matter to just take a peek and find out, but since she hasn\'t said a word I\'ll respect that decision and leave her out of our affairs." Sol responded and th brought the topic back to Dina again.
On the matter of you asking about challging the gods, understand this, divine mana is far more pott than anything else you could ever counter, if you are looking at it as currcy th for every single count of divine mana you need about t thousand counts of regular mana to balance it, and unlike the mana you have now, divine mana does not have an actual count, it is measured in perctage, otherwise the numbers would constantly overwhelm the readers."
"Is that why the system refers to it that way?" Ikaris stared at Sol.
"Yeah, before I became a demigod my mana count was 50,734,990, to avoid constantly writing and calculating in a mathematical way, the system (author) decided that using perctage was easier to understand for it as well as as well as all the gods (readers) who have be observing our journey.(I love my readers, thanks guys!)"
"Are you saying that with such a straight face?" Dina shook after Sol recited how much mana he had before becoming a demigod. "You had over 50M in mana-"
"Back to the topic." Sol huffed. "Yes, it is possible to challge the gods, me doing it isn\'t a special privilege, it\'s an act of spite that has turned into an act of necessity, Arkadians fear their gods, they would never tertain the thought that these incredibly powerful beings would ever ev look at them let alone communicate, but the truth is the gods are always watching, always."
"Ev... Now?" Dina asked, and Sol smiled and walked over to her, and th out of nowhere he pulled her into a hug and rested his hand on her head.
"Waaaaaaa!" Ikaris squealed at his sudd action out of con and marched over to him grabbing him by his ear while Dina blushed and stiffed.
"What the fuck got into you all of a sudd?" Usami burst out laughing.
"Dina," Sol released her and turned to Ikaris with an apologetic smile squeezing her cheeks as she pouted, she knew why he did it, but at the same time she was caught by surprise and acted on instinct. "Rest your hand on my back now."
"But-"
"It is fine, do it." Ikaris looked a Sol at her with that same cute pout while Sol laughed out, and as soon as she touched him, Dina\'s mana shook as she was delivered a portion of Sol\'s perception and saw hundreds of windows floating a all of them, everyone had something on front of them unlike the blue system windows she had grown used to, she was seeing yellow windows, everywhere.
"What the hell?" She looked a and found one that followed her peripheral as well.
[The goddess of chaos vies your closess to Sol Vestic though she is pleased to have found a way to help him through you via blessing]
[The goddess of love is staring at this interaction and wondering if there might be more to the sudd closess of Dina Levina and Sol Vestic]
[True Goddess Ikaris is warning the pantheon to stay out of their business]
[The pantheon protests this warning in light of rect developmts]
[True god of this domain stares infuriated at her previous warning being ignored-]
At the mtion of \'true god\' Sol spun and grabbed Dina\'s hand, severing the connection betwe the windows and looking a at Ikaris who had grabbed his other hand in shock, the only one who ever referred to themself as \'true god of this domain\' was Sitri.
"Is there some kind of secret conversation going on here?" Usami who had grown suspicious of their wordless communication asked.
"Hold on a second." Sol glanced at her and th looked north, remembering clearly Sitri\'s words the night they met.
"You do not have the luxury of complaccy, nor do you happiness, if you fail to meet my expectations, everything you cherish will be annihilated."
Her words rung in his head, and his alarms started going off wh he suddly ssed her mana in the suring air. "Sara, take everyone and leave right now." Sol ordered the maid in an unusually dark tone stepping northward and releasing all his shackles causing his mana to erupt from his body like a gust of wind.
"What\'s going on?" Eris was about to approach Sol but Arla grabbed her hand wh she started feeling Sitri\'s mana in the air as well.
"To Argom?" Sara asked.
"No, someplace completely random." Sol raised his hand just as a bright star in the sky turned crimson and began descding.
A momt later everyone was gone including Ikaris, and Sol\'s teeth grit as the descding star shrunk until Sitri herself emerged from a ball of fire extding her feet in a gesture of greeting as they collided with Sol\'s raised hands.
"Do you truly believe that you are prepared to challge me after that miserable increase in power?!" Sitri laughed wh her heels sunk through Sol\'s palms and he was st flying from the force of her desct. "I am a true god, a demon of pure divine blood, do you take me for a joke!?"
[CLOCKWORK]
Sitri felt the air a her stiff, and in the middle of righting herself Sol appeared before her, moving at speeds she had never se before, she reacted, raising her hands to block him as she saw his hand distort and blood burst from his shoulder down to his knuckles in preparation for an unavoidable attack.
"Ev if you can react to it, you can\'t react fast ough!" Sol g his teeth as blood also burst from the leg that was bearing the weight of [clockwork] being stacked on itself several doz times to build up the punch.
"What is this?"
[Release]