The clear night blue sky shines with bright stars, the blue moon brightens the land it's light. Alice floating in front of the water giant, gazing her eyes onto Poseidon's Stone. The giant claps his arms, directing the impact on to Alice. She spreads her arms, stopping the hands before collapsing onto her.

"Do you defy me?" Alice spoke with a grin on her face.

The soundless sea giant roars without a voice. The ocean tides rose once again, forming black clouds of raindrops. Alice smashes her fist on to the giant's head, the giant steps backward due to the impact. Again, she controls the wind of the sea, gliding herself around the body, decimating the giant. The giant scattered into liquid, reforming himself with every impact.

The giant smashes this hands into Alice, reaching upon her, Alice guards with her hands forming a cross with along her body. Instead of going through her like last time, the fist made of liquid impacted her, blasting her away along with the winds.

"It doesn't have eyes or ears, how can it sense me?" She questions herself as if she would know the answer.

The giant charges forward on its' two legs, pulling his right arm back as if he was preparing to strike. Alice tempers with the wind, gliding herself, dodging the fist as he moves to it's left.

- Angel Feathers: Command: Kill - She chanted.

A dozen of white feathers appears to her side, scattering across and surrounding the water giant, piercing through its liquid body. Disrupting its movements along with all the other spells from Stephanie's team.

Being physical and magical invulnerable, as the only one who could touch his thing was Alice.

Stephanie standing still on the ground, witnessing every single moment. With an unbelievable expression on her face, she speaks. "What kind of monster is this..." She sighs, as she helps out on her team.

"Boss, what should we do?" One of the members speaks as Stephanie reaches them.

"Leave this to her." She turns her head towards the summit. "We will go over there, I sense an enormous amount of black magic." She directs herself towards the summit.

Alice gliding herself around the sea giant, watching him reform himself. Realizing that brutal force wouldn't be enough to stop the giant.

She has to tap into more of the divine powers, an overwhelming strength that can destroy this beast. Recalling Athena's powers were a blessing and a curse, using Mazu's would be same. Athena and Mazu's powers are different. Athena's powers are awakened, using her powers will lead to consequences. But Mazu is a memory of Athena, calling upon Mazu is only possible because the goddess herself had allowed it. By doing so, Alice has to face the consequences of using another divine's powers. And the more she uses, the more she will lose herself into the path of the queens.

Her expression agitated, as the giant approaches closer to human grounds. Knowing that if she doesn't stop this right here, it would be too late.

She closes her eyes, connecting with the goddess herself. Ignoring the water giant, the sound of the wind, and the ocean tides. She enters a dimension of freedom and calmness. Instead of white space and glass puzzle pieces like Athena's, she enters a small town.

A peaceful village, in her sight, a beautiful lady with a white Chinese dress. Dancing nearby the lake, as her dance moved the waters, charmed the fishes and played with the birds.

"Mazu?" Alice spoke in a gentle manner.

"Yes, my dear." She stops as she turns around with her graceful voice.

Enchanted by this appearance, giving her similar feelings when she first met Athena. Divine, beautiful and majestic even though she didn't dress like a queen.

"The Jewel of the Sea, you want to stop it?" She smiles gently.

"Yes," Alice replied.

"It contains the massive force of Poseidon, if used wrongly, it can cause thousands of innocent lives." She mentions as she guides Alice towards the lodge nearby.

It is a small lodge, they sit down as they stared into each other's eyes. The ocean green eyes of Mazu felt like the calmness of the sea. As Alice's bright golden eyes shined with bravery.

"The Jewel of the Sea has some of my powers as well. To stop it, you must overwhelm the balance." She continued.

Alice with a blank face, not understanding her meaning.

Mazu laughs gently, "let me explain further. The Jewel is made of two powers, Poseidon's and mine. It has the ability to control the oceans, allowing it to be either calm or destructive. Usually, it will balance itself, allowing the oceans to be revolved around these two factors."

Mazu becomes quiet as Alice takes in the information.

"So, at this moment, the Jewel is overwhelmed by Poseidon, therefore, I need to reverse the power balance?" Alice questioned.

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"Yup, such a smart girl. No wonder Athena likes you." She giggles as she lifts her right hand towards her mouth.

"Right now, someone is creating a disturbance with the world, the ocean has become overly fierce within these days." She continued

"The Spiders?" Alice tilted her head as she questioned.

"No, darling." She laughs gently. "The Spiders are just a small group, in this world, there are many more to discover. There is something, darker, stronger, and eviler." She finishes her sentence with a deep tone.

"Alice, listen to me carefully." Her expression becomes tense. "When you connected me using her powers, it gives signals out to Heaven." She continues.

Mazu sighs, "It dangerous, if the Heaven discovers that Athena has awakened, she might just be seal once again, but this time, for eternity." Her voice deepens along with her serious eyes.

"Three thousand years ago was a mistake, you must never let it happen again. Go and face the giant. It would be the last thing I can help you two." She voice disappears as Alice's scenery changes into her reality.

With too many questions in her mind, she only wonders whether she is strong enough to handle it.

Wandering questions running around her head, Athena, Mazu and the Gods. She needs to understand them. Putting those thoughts aside as she faces the giant once again.

The water giant standing here, rampaging the sea and calling upon destruction.

A gentle voice echoes through her mind. "Alice, let me control your body."

"What? How?" Alice replies back to Mazu.

"Relax and accept my powers. Right now, you only have a part of them, you are only influenced by me. You won't be able to stop this with the current strength you have." Mazu speaks through her mind.

"Alice my dear, only you can stop this destructive beast." She continued.

Alice closes her eyes once again letting out a small sigh. Slowly and gently the winds that breezes around her soften. Instead of a strong wind that glides around her, the gentle wind was filled with warmness and it seems to have accepted Alice as its master.

The ocean started to calm once again as the clouds faded away, revealing its blue moon.

Alice opens her eyes, her gold eye shines brightly under the blue light, but her other eye shined with the colour of the sea.

She grins, as she flies freely across the air. Rasing herself, above the head of the water giant. She smashes her fist into it, the giant crushes into water blocks.

The giant regenerated itself with the rising tides of the ocean, forming his huge body once again. Alice strikes around fist but this time into its chest, where the heart of the monster lays.

Once again, the giant breaks into water blocks, regenerating back around the Jewel of the Sea. Alice notices this, she immediately rushes in, grabbing the jewel before it can fully regenerate back.

She glides herself farther into the skies while crushing the rising waters. Eventually, the water became calm and the giant falls to rest, dissolving itself into the ocean.

She gazes on the Jewel of the Sea. With Mazu's processioning her body, she could tell the jewel has been corrupted. Originally It was a small orb, containing a balance of two powers. But now, the jewel has a small component of dark magic.

The more she stares at the jewel, the more she worried. Suddenly the blue sapphire orb started to shine in black, releasing a black energy spreading on to her hand as if it was consuming her. Her arms started to feel a burn without flames, she immediately drops the stone from her hand. Half of her right arm immersed in black energy as she screams in pain. Following the stone, she drops herself into the ocean, into her own kingdom.

The pain stopped as the black energy fades away into the ocean. She reaches for the stone floating in clear sea water, but she immediately swam away from it as it spreads it darkness, corrupting the green waters.

The ocean water changing its colours to black, spreading all across, taking over as Alice stares into the Jewel of the Sea.

Her expression agitated with her eyes becoming depressed. "I'm sorry, my dear." Mazu's voice came out of Alice's mouth.

Breathing under the water was nothing to a divine goddess, not less, talking underneath it. Alice swims towards the black stone, grasping it with her both of her hands.

She chanted - Aqua Consumption - The darkness retracts, the ocean waters becoming its original colours. But instead of retreating to the stone, it spreads into Alice's body. Becoming a source of black mana entering her soul.

The Jewel of the Sea slowly turning into a crystal white transparent stone. Mana overflows into Alice's body as she Mazu exits her procession while falling asleep into the ocean waters.

Her body sinking deep and deeper as her eyes wavered. Her body felt restless, unstable, and weak.

Purple particles of matter appear in her sight, forming a human image.

"Ki...va..." Alice tries to speak, but the water overruns her tongue, making her breathless.

Kiva reaches Alice, places his mouth on to hers giving her air as they both dissolve into purple mass.

They arrived in the small den where the group rests. Placing Alice nearby the small fire, keep her warm.

"Take care of Alice." Kiva's cold voice speaks without any warmth as his expressions enrage.

Again, he becomes purple particles transferring himself to another place.

He reforms himself at the highest place of the Maze. A place where no one could reach and no one could see with the human ability. There stands a tall mysterious figure of plain darkness. A figure of a man.

Kiva stands there, approaching the man, he spreads his right arm, as his purple glass blades appear to his hand.

"You have gone too far this time." Kiva's cold voice fills with anger.

The man turns around, with a black spiritual face, he smiles.

"Kiva, I have longed for you to come." His voice was deep and cold but it comes with terror as if it was from hell itself.

Kiva slashes with his blades, the spiritual figure fades away, reappearing behind him.

"Someone is anger today." He laughs with his dark voice.

"Was it that girl?" He fades away, reappearing in front of Kiva.

"You like her, don't you?" He laughs as Kiva's blade passes through.

"Oh stop it. You know it wouldn't work. After all, you are my brother." He laughs again as he floats around Kiva.

"Brother, you had everything. You stole everything from me. Father, mother and that powers of ours. You are living my life, you stole that life from me." He shouted in rage.

"Now, I am going to take that girl from you. She will be my tool for conquest." He laughs again.

"Shut up," Kiva replies with his cold voice.

"Join me. Think about it. The powers of Athena, to our commands." He stares at Kiva with his smile.

Kiva ignores his words, walking away from him. As his body starts to dissolve into purple mass.

"You can't hide her forever. After all, you are a Guardian." He laughs.

"None of your business," Kiva replies as he transfers himself away towards the place where he left King.

He reappears at the summit, only hoping that they can finally get home. With his maze cleared and the mission complete. There was no reason to be here anymore.

King and Stephanie appear to his vision. Bleeding with blood but laughing with joy as Kiva appears.

Crimson sparks emitting on the ground, with thousands of spider corpses laying dead. Stephanie supported King as they walked towards Kiva.

"Let's just go home." They smiled as their weak voice speaks out.

"Yeah, buddy. You did well," Kiva replied with a smile and a small pad on King's shoulders.