Pantheon of the Great Lord of Time (01.01.9981 AS)

“… After that, you concentrate your mana on the palms of your hands and voilà there you have, you have your ‘mighty palm’ one of the most basic chaos magic spells.” Bella send an invisible wave of chaos magic through the air and hit the dummies in front of them causing them to burst into thousands of pieces.

“So it’s all about channeling the right amount of mana with the right frequency…” Clair muttered to herself as she went on trying the same spell Bella had just used; without success.

“Don’t worry if you fail, you’ll eventually learn it, after all, your passive allows you to use all four types of magic mortals can use; light magic, shadows magic, death magic and destruction magic, so there is no spell in the mortal realm you can’t cast.” Bella said petting Clairs head with a smile. “So there are other types of magic besides the four I know?” Clair bewildered.

“Besides these four types of magic you mortals can use, we Gods possess the ability to use Devine Magic. Compared to the other types of magic this one is more free and powerful, because it isn’t bound to a certain mana frequency.”

“If it isn’t bound to a certain frequency how come the mortals can’t cast it?”

“In a way they used it, but they don’t. You see Devine Magic is the original magic, the one all the other types of magic descend from-.”

“Your holiness!” A beautiful brunette wearing a skimpy armor, if one could even call it armor, since in a fight it wouldn’t protect anything. “Something really bad happened.” The girl, said with a serious voice, while trotting towards Bella, to whisper some words in Bella’s ears.

“No way, he did that! That’s way too early to kick off the plan! They aren’t ready yet. I still need time for them to get a little stronger. Just a few years! I need just a few years more, before we can finally strike.” Bella muttered to herself while biting on her long red colored nails.

“Your holiness, please calm down, you’ll ruin your nails.” The woman said with a panicking voice.

“Don’t mind the nails, I need to see him before he does something stupid, did you him bring here?”

“Yes, I came after finally making sure, he was here.” The woman answered.

“Good, I’ll go see him right away, to make sure he doesn’t do anything stupid, after all he can be very emotional, even if he tries to hide it.”

Clair was watching the scene with a tilted head, not sure how to react. “… I don’t know what happened, but it sounds important… we can postpone the training if you want to…” She finally chipped in shyly.

“Ohhhh, yeah the training, it would be bad if we lose any more time… So, how about Lisa training you, for today?” Bella said while pointing at the woman.

“Is she qualified’” Clair said with a doubtful voice.

“Don’t worry, she is. She’s been my right hand woman since- ” –“Many, many years, the actual number doesn’t bother anyone!” The woman chipped in.

“Yes, yes the actual number doesn’t bother anyone.” Bella said before leaving the room in a rush.

“So, what was she teaching you?”

***

Bella walked into a large room, in the middle of it was a big red couch on it was lying potato bag shaped like a humanoid being, and a black monster not bigger than a ten year old, trying to wake up the potato bag. Bella had to look twice before realizing that the potato bag was Tristan.

“Come on Tristan don’t be a sissy and pull yourself together, it’s not the end of the world.” Bella could hear a rusty voice say at Tristan while the small shadowy monster was shacking Tristan, without getting any kind of response.

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“And how might be you?” Bella said while examining the body of the shadowy monster, with her eyes.

“… Schattenklinge, your holiness.” The monster replied and bowed towards Bella.

“And what’s your connection to him?” Bella pointed towards Tristan still glaring sceptical towards Schattenklinge.

“I’m this boy’s teacher.” Schattenklinge said his head still bowing towards Bella, while making two steps towards the side so, that Bella could come closer to Tristan.

“I don’t remember a pointing a parasite like you as his teacher.”

“I… Well… I’m his weapon… I teach him all I know… I… Wasss Dunkler Schatten’s weapon, and he appointed me to teach his successor how to fight and more importantly how to survive…” Schattenklinge sped further away from the couch, trying to dodge Bella’s glare.

“Anyways, can you tell me what happened, you’re a parasitic form after all, so you must have witnessed what happened.”

***

“… And so after they got Nana, something snapped inside the boy and he actually equiped the unfinished gauntlet and used it without caring if he was killed by the explosion caused by that thing. He basically left me of taking care of his safety and that’s what I did. I erected a barrier strong enough to survive the explosion and used his active to open a gate to his Lab, since he had lost his consciousness. There I performed first aid treatment to cure all of his injuries, so from a physical point of view he’s fine now…” Schattenklinge explained what had happened after Tristan had nuked Mala.

“I see, it’s good that he survived, but what we should do about…” Bella send Tristan a pitiful glance, before starting to pet his head and playing with his hair.

“Hey Tristan, do you remember me?” Bella waited a few seconds, but there was no reaction from Tristan.

“I heard, something horrible just happened to you, but you must be strong, this is not the time to be crying over spilled milk-” –“Spilled MILK?” Tristan snapped towards Bella.

“Fuck off, I don’t need a useless Goddess that only cares about her stupid master plan. Just Fuck off with that shit. Like seriously, who ever thought that sending a mortal tow kill a God is a good idea? Not ME! So please just fuck off with your stupid ‘YoU MuSt GeT sTrOnGeR fOr ThE SaKe oF mY pLaN.’ Like seriously, if your plan was a little bit smart I would understand, but fucking over the lives of a mortals for your personal revenge? Oh come on just fuck off!”

“…”

“Ohhh, the bitch goddess is speechless.” Tristan glared at Bella. “You know what’s a good idea? Let me tell ya… destroying the live of some kid, just for your personal vendetta. Oh wow, so smart, so fucking smart! Sounds like a master plan to me, yeah, let’s go with it… We don’t care about that kid anyways, let’s just use him till he’s fulfilled his use and then throw him away like a broken toy! Yeah, because after we’re done with him, he will be nothing more than a broken puppet!” Tristan screamed at Bella, with blood shot eyes.

“…”

“Just please fuck off!” Tristan accelerated his body and appeared in front of Bella, ready to punch. His fist moved like a pistol towards Bella’s face. Bella’s body was sent flying through the room and crashed on a wall.

“FUCK OFF!” Tristan screamed and once again appeared in front of Bella and kicked her right in her abdomen sending her flying once again.

Tristan appeared where Bella was lying, grabbed her by her hair and screamed into her face. “I’m not your fucking puppet! So please count me out of your stupid plan! Please just leave me alone… please I don’t have anyone anymore, so please leave me be, let me alone, let me at least decide how to die.” He said letting go of Bella and falling to his knees starting to cry once again.

“I can’t… As you said it’s my fault that you ended up like this, that’s why I have to take responsibility.” Bella said, sitting up, showing not a single trace of Tristan’s attacks earlier.

“Look at me. After you used all your power; you didn’t even manage to put a scratch on me… Don’t you want to get it back to me and to the other Gods for doing this to you? Or were these punches, nothing, but a cheap show?”

Tristan glared at Bella, tears falling down his cheeks.

“How about me letting me help you, getting stronger to take revenge on Fors and if you still want my head after killing Fors, you can have it. I promise you, if you still want to kill me after this is over, you can kill me, I won’t even resist.” Bella said with an earnest smile on her face. “Didn’t you say you don’t have anything to lose anymore anyways?”

“Don’t worry, I won’t do anything stupid yet, but please leave me alone and go whispered with a resigned look on his face.

“You promise, you won’t do anything stupid, like going to fight Yaru and the Fors’ other minions?”

“Like a said, I won’t do anything stupid, Nana wouldn’t have wanted that, but that also means that I’m out of your little game, so please send me how, I can’t bear to see your face anymore.” Tristan said turning his back towards Bella.

“Promise me. If you don’t, I won’t sent you back.

*Sigh*

“I won’t kill myself by trying to fight Yaru and other members of Fors’ army. And now let me go home, for some reason I can’t teleport out of this world…” Tristan said with a bored voice.

“Ok, ok, I’ll send you home, if you ever need something; remember I’m here for you.” Bella said and hugged Tristan from behind, before opening the gate.

“I hope that time won’t come.” Tristan said with a cold voice as he walked into the light.

“Is he still here?” Clair busted into the room just after the portal had closed once again. “I heard something horrible happened to my future husband, and I came rushing to see if I can help him!”

“I’m sorry!” Lisa rushed into the room. “Somehow she managed to outwit me…” She said with a teary voice.