Chapter 102: Upheaval I
Main Divine Hall, Takamagahara.
Delightful oriental designs, beauty beyond comprehension and eastern dragons dancing the auburn skies, that was the hidden realm of Takamagahara where the Shinto Gods resided, but this realm wasn't currently so peaceful.
In the divine hall, two individuals sat in front of a crowd of deities. Amaterasu and Yasaka were on a side of their own, the incident in Kyoto had brought into the light several matters that had been kept from the pantheon. One of them was the close relationship between the foreign god who caused mayhem in Kyoto, and the holder of the Leylines, the Kitsune that was equivalent to Takamagahara's treasure.
The God of Thunder, Raijin, a fellow who usually kept his head above water and out of people's business, had at once suggested that Osiris had to be executed for his transgressions.
All he received in response was the threat of death coming from Yasaka who had at once pronounced who her allegiance belonged to. If things had degraded to this stage, Yasaka decided to go all out.
Upon further scrutiny, it was revealed that the faith of the Japanese believers was no longer reaching the sacred pond, a blasphemy.
"Amaterasu-sama, Yasaka-donno has betrayed our pantheon, you can't show favouritism!"
"A foreign god has put his footstep on our land and assailed it, if not punishment by death what other answer there is!?"
"Tsukiyomi-sama and Susanoo-sama have already set out to... negotiate with him. More important that is-"
For all they knew the boy who caused mayhem would be dealt with by Tsukiyomi and Susanoo, two of their most powerful gods. Their fingers pointed at Yasaka who frowned in return,
"What is going to be her punishment? To divert the believers' fate out of our pantheon is the antithesis of your duty as the one who holds the leylines, punishment by death should be warranted!" The God of War, Hachiman, declared.
*BAANG!*
Amaterasu put her fist down and the temperature in the room increased, this scenario was the one she was most trying to avoid, "You all have been talking about death and executing for a while. Have you forgotten that all decisions must go through me first!?"
'If only he had become my consort...'
"But Amaterasu-sama, the faith..." Uzume, the Goddess of Arts, raised the elephant in the room, she did so with an authoritative voice, clearly not willing to take nonsense.
'I know...' Amaterasu looked towards Yasaka who in return bowed down in front of her, asking her to do what she had to do. Yasaka could no longer remain as her priestess before the eyes of the other gods.
She turned towards Yasaka with humongous regrets and prepared to remove her authority over the leylines. It was then, however, that someone entered the hall, a flying crow.
"Tengu?"
The crow transformed into an old man who landed in the middle of the hall wearing dark robes.
"The brat, Osiris, didn't surrender. He is currently fighting Tsukiyomi and Susanoo in Kyoto!"
"Foolish brat, he dares challenge Tsukiyomi-sama and Susanoo-sama?!"
Now that was an outcome that surprised the gods and goddesses, they had thought Osiris would surrender himself, be imprisoned and be judged in Takamagahara for his crimes.
They didn't expect him to fight back. Even Amaterasu and Yasaka were shocked, his surrendering himself would have been the best outcome, it would have given her time to protect him but now, she had no option but to be his enemy.
'Damn it, Ray...!'
A portal was opened in the main hall where Raijin and Hachiman walked in first quite eagerly to massacre the deserter. Yasaka and Amaterasu rushed in after.
What they saw on the other side left them rooted in place and shocked, it wasn't what any of them expected. Raijin and Hachiman witnessed this firsthand.
They wouldn't claim they were any stronger than Susanoo or Tsukiyomi and that's why when they saw Susanoo's gigantic form, lying motionless on the ground, burnt to a crisp... they didn't know what to think.
'How long have they been fighting?!' That was the first question that popped up in their minds.
*BAANGG!*
*BAANGG!*
A gigantic Tsukiyomi seemed to be struggling while fighting an annoying 'mosquito'. Ray was flying all over him at ridiculous speeds leaving a golden haze along his trail, he'd take chances to strike Tsukiyomi in different positions.
The giant in question was all bloodied and missing a gigantic chunk of his waist, swiping his sword across the world yet falling to strike Ray down.
"You being bigger only makes you an easier target!" Ray billowed and evaded, feeling every one of Tsukiyomi's strikes before the giant even thought about doing them.
Not only that, but Tsukiyomi's eyes were crisp and burning and it wasn't only his eyes, his very soul was burning. He was experiencing the huge distress that it means to look at the sun straight to the core.
"DIE!"
In a streak of luck more than calculation, the gigantic moonlight sword bisected Ray in half as he flew, the sword drew a line and marginal amounts of blood gushed out, threatening to stop Yasaka and Amaterasu's heart, but they didn't even have the time to worry.
The next second Ray got engulfed in golden flames, and the second after that... there wasn't a single wound.
"What?!" All the gods in Takamagahara gawked but Tsukiyomi only released an annoyed groan of despair fused with pain, he had already killed Ray at least three times, but the boy just wouldn't die!
'How many times can he do that!?'
Ray merely levitated mid-air watching as the despaired Tsukiyomi held his bleeding waist, he couldn't regenerate like that.
The world around them was chaotic and with a wisp of energy alone he could feel there were many onlookers, several other deities watching. With one swift gaze, he looked towards Yasaka and Amaterasu who were watching, awed.
'Let's end this'.
[Fly!]
With one kick in the air, he blurred and appeared next to Tsukiyomi, the giant answered sword in hand, coating it in moonlight and shattering the world with a single swipe, but he couldn't shatter Ray. opting to attack the same spot he had already attacked before, the waist.
[Sun Explosion!]
Just watching the resembling sun-like energy bulging up in Ray's arm, gave Tsukiyomi the fright of his life. It was the fist that knocked up Susanoo in one punch and nearly killed him.
Amaterasu extended her arms and created a barrier around the area in a hurry.
*BOOOOOMMMM!!*
"AHHHHHHH!!!"
It was equivalent to a nuke.
The barrier she just set cracked, the gods covered themselves from the shockwave and their eyes from the brilliance of the explosion. The next thing they heard was the fall of a giant.
Tsukiyomi fell next to his brother, he struggled to stand up until Ray grasped his head in a rather comical fashion due to the size disparity, but that didn't stop him from planting the giant's head into the ground with a shattering roar, causing the already long gone district to be even more unrecognisable.
The onlookers from Takamagahara and those that weren't couldn't believe what they were seeing, the moment Ray put his eyes on them, they started running back.
Since when were gods so feeble?
Ray just remained there standing on top of the giant and recalling Elysir's words.
'In front of a multiversal god, common deities are akin to mortals. You as a demigod are no different from a God in their standards'.
He believed it now. Not doing anything much different from his fight with Heracles, but the powerup given by the new abilities was evident.
"I'm strong enough, I just need to get those chaos points".
The Sun God didn't pay attention to them ants and instead prepared to predate both gods, hoping they'd give at least three thousand each or more.
[Predator-
"Ray, stop!"
Amaterasu rushed in with a body blurred in flames, she prepared to strike Ray and stop him from slaughtering her siblings. The goddess too didn't hold back, after watching Ray's display she realised she had to take the young man more seriously than previously anticipated.
She thought Ray wouldn't die, she thought he would be able to survive against her siblings, she even thought at most he would be able to stand in the same ground.
But never in her wildest dreams -after watching his fight with Heracles- she thought she'd see both her siblings suffering such a crushing defeat.
He didn't even shy from going for the kill right after; the death of gods wasn't anything common, deities lived for hundreds of thousands of years ruling over the mortals. Neither Tsukiyomi nor Susanoo left their slumber this morning thinking they wouldn't be alive the next day.
Ray saw it coming but he couldn't bring himself to strike Amaterasu. Instead, he blocked and felt the difference in power between the matriarch and her siblings. The shock travelled across his body, making him spit blood and crash down the ground. Amaterasu chased after him quite conveniently away from prying eyes.
She didn't even need to say a word, a few movements of her fingers and the gods of shinto went into action, carrying both Susanoo and Tsukiyomi away.
"Amaterasu-sama, wait!" Yasaka who hadn't seen through Amaterasu's foul, thought she was truly intending on killing Ray.
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This woman is damn strong!
A single palm had shattered most of his organs, it was way more painful than being bisected by a sword in half, but still...
[-1 Chaos Points].
I came to a stop in a pile of debris after phasing through what looked like a barrier and into a complex of buildings, the police were all around and there was a closed perimeter, everyone shook in fear when I appeared. Amaterasu flickered and landed right next to me, creating another concealing barrier.
I felt it envelop us as the distressed Goddess took me by the neck with tears in her eyes.
"If you kill them... if you kill them you and I will truly be enemies, is that what you want?!"
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