Chapter 1145: Farewell
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After the King of the Depths was sealed for so long, something finally happened, a shooting star fell from the skies, a goddess that had been rejected by the heavens and that had run away from the monster that she once called a husband. She realized his madness, something she had been blind to for too long until he started to treat her badly for it.
She was too self-centered, a woman that had barely just begun to open her eyes about reality and the world around her, perhaps too blinded by love and loyalty before to realize the horrendous acts she and her family committed.
Perhaps in her own sorrow and self-loathing, she fell from the skies without purpose or any desire other than to die, what else was there for her other than a monster of a husband and a family of psychopaths?
She too, was as insane as them before, but this awakening, this common sense that surged within her after living for so long and experiencing so much, only made her hate herself more than anybody else.
She fell, her divinity crystalizing her, aiming to protect her even as she fell from the heavens and became weaker. She was not the divine goddess of protection for nothing after all, even if she didn’t wish for, her divinity would protect her.
SPLASH!
As she fell into the seas as a crystalized sphere of golden crystals, she continued moving down with tremendous force, until she fell over the area where the King of the Depths was sealed, piercing through his chains, and hitting his body.
BOOOM!
“This is…?! A gift from the heavens?! Has lord Ymir finally blessed me?!”
The King of the Depths devoured the sleeping goddess, gaining her tremendous divine powers, and regaining his former strength, slowly, he started breaking through the seal, while using his powers to summon monsters to devour any intelligent life in the sea.
And that’s where Maria and her family appeared, how they met the Aquarose Kingdom, and ultimately battled the King of the Depths…
In that moment, as he faced them, he couldn’t help but feel somewhat… fulfilled.
Finally, gods were coming to fight him.
Finally, he was going to slay them!
Yet as they fought, they constantly fought more and more fiercely.
Despite the powers he had, the King of the Depths was unable to win.
The tremendous hidden strength within the very depths of Maria’s Origin Core were something beyond him.
Beyond anything.
The power of Nothingness consumed him, as all his ire, all his vengeful madness, it dissipated into the waters.
At long last, the souls felt relieved, that they were finally going to disappear.
Living like this, it was nothing but a torture…
“Thank you, Maria.”
Maria found herself standing above an endless azure sea, as the Divine Souls of the Ocean Titans and Sea Dragons appeared in front of her, one after another, making the sea tremble.
There he was, the mighty Oceanus.
And also the gigantic Ran.
Both the father and mother of their respective tribes.
But also, there was another Titan, a gigantic made of stone and ore, with eyes made of jewels.
Terran, the father of the Mountain Titans.
“Everyone is here, I guess…” Maria smiled, receiving them, suddenly noticing her form had reverted to her humanoid appearance. “Ah, the cool transformation is gone?”
It was mostly gone because Maria was in a space between the mindscape and the Titan Records Realm, a Realm created by the Soul of Ymir fused into the world of Yggdrasil.
“Yes, we wanted to come and thank you personally for freeing our souls, at long last,” Oceanus said.
“We committed many mistakes, and we only ended ruining the lives of innocent people for our own hatred…” Ran apologized.
“It was all my fault, when I died, I cursed my own soul,” sighed Terran. “It was probably the reason why I was unable to go to the Titan Records too.”
“Well, things are different now…” said Maria. “You guys can go back there now, right?”
They looked at one another, yet Maria noticed something was odd.
“It is impossible now,” Oceanus said.
“Our souls have been destroyed after they merged and decayed over so long…” Ran said.
“What you’re seeing right now is, but the last remaining consciousness fragments left behind,” Terran said. “We used this to give you that Skill you obtained, a trump card that allowed you to win.”
“Well, I wouldn’t say it helped me win but it was very useful, yeah,” Maria nodded. “Thank you… And damn, you can’t really go? Seriously?”
“Unfortunately… Our souls are slowly going to disappear,” Oceanus sighed, yet he smiled. “But that doesn’t really matter, is it?”
“Our families and everything, they’re long gone,” said Ran. “We are only going to disappear; the void will welcome us.”
“Maria…” Terran said, looking at Maria. “You’re someone strong and incredible, someone with the potential to defeat Odin and the Gods… We leave our beautiful world to you, our last hope.”
“W-Wait a second, all of the world?!” Maria panicked a bit.
The old gods laughed a bit at her way of talking, she was so casual about everything.
“She is indeed very unique,” laughed Oceanus.
“She reminds me of your little brother, Terran,” said Ran.
“Caspian…” Terran sighed. “That’s right, please, Maria, take it. Our last powers.”
“Wait, huh?!”
FLASH!
Maria felt several tiny fragments shine within her, the last pieces of their souls.
“But if you used this, maybe you could go to the Titan Records! Do you need to sacrifice yourself for me?!” Maria tried to change their minds.
But they were already decided.
“It’s fine, our souls should need to be much stronger to get there,” said Terran. “And our siblings have taken our places…”
“I think it’s time… I just want to pass away,” said Oceanus.
“Me too… I’m so tired of everything,” Ran sighed.
Maria for the first time meet beings so ancient they only wanted to pass away and leave everything behind.
She couldn’t argue with them, they weren’t wrong in their words either.
“Don’t worry, we shall go to the sea,” said Oceanus.
“Indeed…” Ran nodded.
“And I shall go back to the mountains…” Terran smiled. “Good luck, Maria. Please, take care of this fragile world…”
“Everyone…”
Maria wanted to talk so much with them, yet they all disappeared before she could even begin.
A sense of bittersweetness filled her heart.
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