Chapter 971: A Game Played by Two. 2
These words caused the God-King of the Celtic Pantheon and the Heavenly Father to widen their eyes! They had completely forgotten about this fact!
They were only thinking about the present and forgot about the future. Unfortunately, they couldn’t turn back now that they had spoken their words, or they would lose face and be seen as fools for not considering something as basic as this.
Even the gentle Heavenly Father was not exempt from pride. After all, how could he not be proud of what he was? He was a great creator.
Indra internally clicked his tongue when he watched Shiva’s silence. He looked at the man with an expression that said: what are you waiting for? Make your offer! Stop being silent!
Shiva sighed internally in the face of Indra. ‘Again, with you rushing me. It’s because of this that I mock him for being incapable of ruling. Who put this idiot in power again?’
‘… Oh, it was me.’ Shiva felt like facepalming now.
Anyway, he needed to make a decision. Thinking about what to offer, he thought of a cursed object that caused him deep discomfort, an object he wanted to get rid of as much as possible.
Shiva raised his hand, and the next moment, a black sphere that looked like a mini black sun with black beams emanating around it like tentacles appeared.
The moment this appeared, the place was filled with a very uncomfortable feeling. They didn’t know why they felt this way and only just felt it as they looked at that black sphere.
The Owner of Limbo narrowed his eyes slightly when he saw this sphere. ‘What is that doing here? It was supposed to be in the Upper Sectors.’
“That was something I stumbled upon, something that carried the Essence of Death. You are a Goddess of Death, right? I believe this will help you.”
Hela looked at the sphere with uneasy eyes. ‘Essence of Death? Who does this fool think he’s fooling? This has nothing to do with Death!’
As Hela was about to open her mouth, she heard Victor’s voice in her head. [Ask him if he has more of these spheres. Show genuine interest.]
From the corner of her eye, Hela glanced at Victor’s expression, and she saw the man gazing at the sphere with a curious look, his Dragon Eyes seeming to shimmer violet occasionally.
Following Victor’s orders, Hela changed her look of discomfort to a slow and interested one until she genuinely showed interest when apparently seeing something in that sphere.
“Do you have more of these spheres, Lord Shiva?”
Shiva raised an eyebrow at Hela, not expecting this reaction. “Do you know what this is?”
‘I don’t know! I have no idea what this is!’ She thought internally, but externally, she said:
“One could say so.”
Shiva looked at Hela with a slight shock. It was worth noting that he was a very ancient God, and for him not to know something was very rare. Unless there was an anomaly like Victor, he was generally aware of most situations. For Hela, who was much younger than him to know what this was, she was pretty good, wasn’t she?
Shiva’s opinion of Hela increased slightly.
Hela squirmed internally when she saw the positive look Shiva was sending her way as if she were a daughter who had done something good. That look disgusted her.
Shiva must have realized this because his face changed from interest to expressionlessness; an ancient God like him had gotten very good at reading the emotions of other beings.
“Responding to your question, I don’t have any more of these spheres. I just stumbled upon this one casually.”
“I see…” Hela spoke, and as she was about to say something again, she heard Victor’s voice once more.
[Ask him where he found the sphere.]
“Can you tell me where you found this sphere?”
“Why do you need to know?” Instead of answering, Shiva asked back.
‘I don’t know! Why don’t you just answer my question!? Stop complicating everything!’ Hela was getting a headache from this interaction.
“Just kindly answer my question.” She said cordially.
Shiva nodded and vaguely responded, “I was on a journey of self-discovery when I found this sphere in an abandoned temple.”
[Ask him how long ago this happened.]
“How long ago was this?”
“Hmm… a million years ago? It might have been more. My memory is a bit vague.”
These words raised Hela’s curiosity a bit, and this curiosity increased even more when she heard Victor’s voice.
[As expected… It’s an alien object.]
‘Alien object? So it’s related to other Beings that came to the planet?’ Hela thought. She was not unaware of the information about Beings that came from outside the planet. Noble Vampires and Werewolves were perfect examples of these foreigners.
[Say that while studying an alien object may be interesting, it doesn’t hold the full value of a Pantheon considering the importance of the latter.]
Hela rolled her eyes internally. She was feeling like a puppet of Victor now… But…For some reason, this feeling wasn’t bad, especially when she felt her mind connected at such a deep level to Victor’s. She could sense his superficial feelings pretty well and the overwhelming and constant obsessive love for his Wives.
A feeling that she envied a little… Just a little.
“Although studying an alien object may be interesting, the fact that you don’t know what it does, with it potentially having harmful or even devastating effects, this object alone doesn’t hold the value of a Pantheon.”
“Alien object, huh… So you know what it is.”
“More or less, I have theories, but nothing accurate. After all, it’s something from outside.” Hela was effectively talking nonsense with a serious face now.
“Fair enough.” Shiva nodded. He had tried to get rid of a useless object in exchange for a Pantheon in return, but as the other party was smarter than expected, he decided to be fair.
What? Although he was a fair God, that didn’t mean he wouldn’t take advantage of a situation if it was convenient. These Beings were not saints or willless angels who followed their Creator’s orders. They were Gods, and if there was something everyone knew when interacting with Gods, it was that their mood was capricious.
Shiva raised his hand, and a book appeared in his hand, along with two Essences. “The Essence of Indra, Indra’s personal book about his Divinity discoveries, and My Essence of Destruction with memories of my discoveries.”
“What!?” Indra was shocked, simply by the fact that this man was offering something that belonged to him!
The look Shiva gave to Indra made the man fall silent. His gaze was quite expressive, saying: If I’m going to lose something, you’re going to lose something too.
“With enough time, you can use these two Essences to train, and if you’re talented, you may acquire the Divinity of Storms and Destruction.”
Destruction was a Divinity of the Negative scope, and Hela, as a Goddess related to the Negative side, could learn Destruction with enough time, but the Storm was a mystery to Shiva.
Considering that the Storm came from Indra, who was a God of the Positive side, he didn’t know if she would be able to learn the Storm and make it her own, making her become the Storm of the Negative side.
Elemental Concepts were in the gray area of Creation. After all, they could be supported by both the Positive and Negative sides. It all depended on the inclination of the host.
Evidence of this fact would be Amaterasu’s Fire, which was a Divine Fire derived from her Sun Divinity, and the Hellfire that War once used in the past. Although both were the Element of Fire, their characteristics varied from individual to individual.
[Decline. Say the following: You are once again offering something that I cannot use in the short term, and to be honest, your Essence is worthless to me. At that moment, summon your brother, Jormungandr.]
“I decline.”
“…What?” Shiva didn’t expect this refusal.
“I apologize if I offended you, Lord Shiva, but you are only offering things that may or may not eventually be useful to me. I want things that are useful in the short term… And to be honest, your Essence is worthless to me.” She huffed.
Snake sounds were heard, and a small snake coiled around Hela’s neck and looked at Shiva.
Indra and the Gods near him flinched for a few seconds when they met the End God’s gaze.
They could instinctively feel their END when they looked at that creature. Everyone here was old enough to know that Jormungandr’s venom was extremely deadly. If you were bathed in that venom, your entire existence would be deleted without the possibility of Reincarnation.
Just like a human pressed the DELETE key on the computer, they would simply cease to exist.
Indra looked at The Owner of Limbo: “Why is this creature here? This shouldn’t be allowed!”
“He is her companion. Just as I allow you to bring companions, the same privilege is provided to Hela as a guest. She’s not breaking the rules.” He replied with a neutral expression.
Indra just grumbled and said nothing more. He knew that nothing could enter this place if the Primordial himself didn’t allow it, but that did nothing to make himself less nervous. The only relief he had was that he knew that the Primordial would not allow The End Beast to take any hostile action.
[My brothers are Beings of the End, much higher than your mere Destruction. Why would I want that Divinity?]
“My brothers are Beings of The End, the Concept that can erase someone from existence, a Divinity much higher than your mere Destruction. Why would I want something as useless as that? Offer something else.” Hela smiled coldly at him. She was having much more fun than expected following Victor’s instructions.
[Why don’t you offer me the Primordial Essence of Madness and Dream that you stole thousands of years ago when you visited the lands of a certain extinct Pantheon.]
Momentarily surprised to hear Victor’s request, she continued: “Since you cannot offer anything useful, I will make my offer… I know! Why don’t you offer me the Primordial Essence of Dream and Madness that you stole from that ancient extinct Pantheon?”
Shiva’s eyes narrowed slightly at Hela’s insult and even more so at her words. The Power of Destruction covered his body with a weight worthy of the strongest God.
“How do you know about that?”
“Does it matter?” She spoke disdainfully as the Power of Death covered her body to resist Shiva’s pressure.
“You-.”
“Lords and ladies. Are we going to get physical? If so, let me join the fun too.” Victor’s twisted smile covered his face, and, in the blink of an eye, reality seemed to flicker and tremble like an old TV. At that moment, everyone saw the appearance of something terrible, far beyond their imagination.
But just as quickly as it appeared, it vanished the next moment, making everyone think it was just their imagination. Few knew that it definitely wasn’t imagination. The degree of danger Victor posed in the minds of these people had just increased even more, Shiva being one of those included.
These words made Shiva immediately retract his Power, and Hela followed shortly after.
“A fight will not happen here.” The Owner of Limbo spoke in a heavy tone.
“Eh? No fight? Boring.” Victor pouted as if someone had committed an offense against him. An expression that was terribly beautiful, making everyone present try their best not to look at him.
An action that was not followed by his Wives and Hela, who looked at him with warm and obsessive gazes, a gaze that Hela was completely unaware she was giving.
They honestly found it attractive how he went from terrifying to cute in the next second.
[Focus.]
‘Right…’ Hela snapped out of her state and blushed slightly because of the thoughts she was having at that moment. ‘I need to finish this deal as quickly as possible and stay as far away from him as possible.’
“So, do you accept or not?”
Instead of accepting or denying, he said, “…From the beginning, you were after this, huh? That is why you didn’t accept the offers of the others.”
“Who knows~?” Hela just smiled.
“Regardless of whether I’m after these Essences or not. It still doesn’t change the fact that I have a whole Pantheon in my hands, and I am completely willing to abandon this Pantheon for that Essence.”
“And since you’re not making good use of these Essences, why not give them to me, who can use them to their full Power? Put the Essence of Dreams and Madness on the table as well as this unknown Essence, and I will accept.”
Victor smiled inwardly when he saw Hela taking control without him saying anything more. ‘She completely understood my intentions.’
Honestly, the unknown Essence was a bonus that Victor didn’t foresee. He was after Dream and Madness, two Divinities that would be quite useful to him. Victor had known for a long time that Shiva wasn’t as saintly as everyone made him out to be. After all, he was also a God.
The strongest God until recently, and you didn’t earn that Title without doing anything against others.
Thanks to Diablo’s memories, who had read records of the ‘kind’ visit to the extinct Pantheon, the Demon had some dirt on the God of Destruction.
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