There was actually another one who would try getting close to her in every occasion he finds, and that person was Ethan.
Because of Athena's beauty and how perfect she was, as soon as he saw her he thought that a woman like her could only be his, so he started trying to impress her, of course he never succeeded.
"Athena what you said is true but if we wait till they attack us before hitting back we will be on the receiving end and turning that around won't be easy." Ethan said.
"I said what I think is better for us, if we enter a war with those people we would waste a lot of lives, you all should understand that they weren't ready for our attack that time and they knew nothing about us, but I'm sure that if we start a fight against them we would find ourselves in a big problem, and also they aren't the only ones that we should keep an eye on." Athena said again.
Then she stood and looked at everyone there one last time as she said:
"Also, there weapons my not work against the seven of us but what about our soldiers and normal ability users, think about that… I said what I had to say, I'll follow whatever you choose I wish you would choose the right thing." Finishing her words she turned around and left the room.
The woman who was setting next to her also stood up bowed to the other six Gods before following Athena outside, leaving the people in the room looking at each other.
The woman was the same one who's always around Athena, after running for a while she finally caught up to Athena.
"A... Athena can you please tell me why you are again going to a war against those intruders so strongly, do you think that we can't deal with them." The woman, Susan asked.
She usually called Athena great God when there were people around them, but Athena told her that when they were alone she can call her by her name which she never really got used to.
"It's not that I think they are stronger than us, it is because we don't know anything about them, we didn't even know a thing about how there flying metallic objects works, there devices are things we don't know a thing about, nor do we know anything about where or why those invaders appeared, you should know that it wasn't that they appeared out of thin air just like that, there's a whole world linked with ours right now, and also... They aren't the only ones out there." Athena said.
If others saw her actually answering a question that someone asked they would have the shock of their lives, Athena was never the social type, and sometimes even some of the six Gods won't get their answers if they asked her something as she would simply ignore them, yet there she was answering someone who wasn't even a part of the seven Gods, she even explained herself and her decision.
"What do you mean they aren't the only ones out there?" Susan got so interested in the subject that she started talking normally with Athena.
"After those invaders entered our world and we fought with them, Snake and Adam sent two of their best scouting teams to take a look at the world and where those invaders came from, and what they found was that... Our world right now isn't the same as before, those people came from a world that is the same as ours in term of geographical map but there are many differences, and as I said they aren't the only ones out there, there are many areas like that, so our world right now is but a small part in this mix of worlds, and no matter who I look at it, starting a fight in a time like this, without understanding what's happening and where we stand in this new world is just idiotic." Athena answered.
"Then what would you do if they chose to start a war with those invaders, will you join their fight?" Susan asked, she wandered if her great God would simply stay out of that war and just watch from the sidelines.
"Of course I will, even though it's going to be them who start the war the consequence will come back to bit everyone in our world."
Susan didn't know what to say after she heard Athena's words, but she understood that the world that she knew was gone, it disappeared ever since that earthquake, it's just that they only started noticing the truth of what happened later.
Athena then returned to the palace which Adam gave her during her visit to rest and waited for the conclusion of the meeting between the other six Gods.
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She didn't have to wait for long, because around half an hour later a messenger came and told her that it was decided that they would attack the unknown area two days later, he also told her about some details and important information.
When she heard that Athena sighed before turning to Susan and saying:
"Go call Frederick, we are leaving, we have to get a lot of things ready in those two days."
Susan nodded her head before leaving the room, Frederick was a man with the ability to teleport, but his ability wasn't the normal type, instead he could teleport once every one hour but he could take up to five people with him and the distant that he could teleport was the longest among all the other teleportation ability users in the world.
Athena just stood in her room looking at a flower that was there, she kind of expected that they won't listen to her and that they would simply turn a blind eye to her words and just start the attack but she still had that little hope that they would at least think about it more and decide on that after sending some spies to that area, which was something she had considered and offered before, but it seem that she was wrong.
Actually in the end the one who decided what was going to happen was Adam, as he was the one with the strongest voice and final say in things.
Snake and Lana were on Athena's side as they thought that at least they should collect more information, while Carlos Lucas and Ethan wanted to attack the new unknown area, it was then that Snake asked Adam about what he thought as his ability told him many things about the future.
When asked that Adam stayed silent for a while before finally saying that there was many changes that was going it happen for many people because of that decision, and that if they choose to fight many would die but also many would get stronger and rise to fame power and honor amidst the chaos and war.
And when asked about what he thought he said that he was with the idea of attacking first, as even without that, they would have gotten attacked by those strangers, the only diffrent would have been that it would have happened later that's what his ability told him.
"Great God we are ready." as Athena was thinking about what might happen in the future she heard Susan respectful voice from the outside.
"You can come in." She said.
After that the door opened and three people including Susan entered, that was the number of people which Athena took with her every time she left for a meeting or went out, which was a small number considering how the smallest number of people the other six Gods brought with them was six people, from Snake, while the others brought up to fifty people around them, which was done by Adam.
Anyway the one to the left of Susan was an old man who seemed to be in his sixties or seventies with white hair but a good healthy body, he was Frederick the owner of one of the strongest teleportation based abilities.
The other one was a man who seemed to be in his early forties had a healthy bronze skin because he spent most of his time outside under the hot sun, which was quite a weird sight to see from the frozen north's native, he also had a strong body, he was Morgan the second strongest person in the Frozen North, and the leader of the Northern Legion, Athena's strongest army, an army which was just like Ethan's royal guards.
"We are leaving." Athena said that when Frederick and the others stood in front of her.
Then she put her hand on Frederick's shoulder, the others also did the same after they saw her do that, each of them touched a part of Frederick's body, and then a second later they disappeared from the middle of the room.
When they appeared again they were in Athena's throne room, she moved to her throne set on it and said while looking at Morgan:
"The six Gods want to take control of the area which is to our west, they are going to attack as fast and cleanly as possible, which means that each of them will send their strongest cards, the Divine Armies, so go and get all the Legion ready.
"I want teams from one to six to get ready to leave for war while the other teams, from seven to twelve to stay here and protect the kingdom while we are away, I think that you know what to do?" What she meant with the Divine Armies was the hidden cards of the seven Gods, just like her Northern Legion and Ethan's Royal Guards.
"Ok, I'll deal with it." Morgan said before turning around and leaving.
The Northern Legion had twelve teams each team consisting of close to five hundred individuals, the best in the whole Fronzen North which was under the control of Athena.
They were trained since young to fight in many different situation and places, mountains, deserts, forests, all types of fields, they spend most of their lives training and hunting beasts.
The team were just named by numbers, the lowest the number the strongest the team, but still, even the weakest member of the twelfth team can beat a normal ability users without using much power.
"Frederick, thank you for your service you can go and rest for now." Athena said to Frederick who was standing there waiting for other orders.
Nodding his head and excusing himself Frederick left the room leaving only Susan and Athena.
"You Susan will also go with us in this journey." After a while of silence Athena finally talked.
What she said surprised Susan she didn't expect that she would be a part of such a big mission.
Even though she's always next to Athena and she was her right hand and the person who Athena trusted the most, she thought that she would be excluded from an important big task like that one, as first her ability wasn't strong enough, at least not yet as it still needed to grow, and second Athena never sent her on a dangerous situation before, no matter how hard she tried and asked for a chance to go on a mission, Athena would always deny her and tell her that she didn't need to do that.
Yet that time in one of the most dangerous missions she ever heard about, Athena told her that she was going to make her join it.
She didn't understand the reason but she still felt happy as she really wanted to be a part of a mission like that since ages ago.
Actually when it comes to Susan many people were puzzled why Athena made her, her right hand man such a useless and worthless person, she didn't have a strong or a good background, her ability's growing speed was way to slow and she was young, way too young actually.