Lighting covered every single part of his body; actually, it would be more accurate to say that he had become lighting himself. The "sky" darkened, because apparently this separate dimension had stars all around us, but still had a sky, booming sounds surrounded me, trying to distort my senses and make me unable to predict his movements.
I had to say, he is powerful, beyond anything I had ever fought. He is a one-trick pony, but damn is that trick trained to perfection.
His movements were unpredictable, his attacks unstoppable, his presence unreachable... ok enough sugarcoating, let's go for real.
My mind moved back to the correct timeflow, previously perceveing time at 1/100th to give me enough time to study the type of mana he was using, and even if simialr to a natural mana type, it also was vastly different, infused with something that wasn't as natural and actually had a more divine energy to it, something that would make any normal mortal kneel just by feeling its presence, but when it perceived me? It kneeled, for it knew that if I died, it wouldn't exist anymore.
And so what happened? What happens when the things that make a God divine kneel right in front of someone?
Zeus' lightning heads straight for my chest, nanometers away from burning me alive, and then it curves and his the ground.
Thinking nothing of it, Zeus continued attacking from all angles, creating more and more clouds, lightning, and thunder, but nothing hit. My body remained intact; the same couldn't be said of my surroundings, which had been destroyed by the number of attacks that had avoided me.
" How is that possible?" If only I had a camera to take a picture of his face right now.
And I finally moved, I single step, hovering over the crater that was created from his attacks, and everything clicked into place, my mind understanding what made a God divine, my natural talent for magic making me able to comprehend something beyond mortal in seconds.
Divine mana isn't something natural; it is the representation of something beyond mortals. It gave off a feeling of pride and power; where it was present, all types of mana were influenced by it, normal mana became divine mana, fire mana became divine fire, divine water, nature, blood, everything changed because it was there, everything became more powerful, proud, divine.
So, what would happen if someone able to produce several types of mana types, suddenly became able to also produce and fully control divine mana?
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Demigod of Mana => God of Mana
Effect: You are now able to fully control divine mana, your blood now has the power to heal all injuries, and gives immortality to those who drink it
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My hair changed, gone was the blue hint they had; instead, half became white and the other half black, all my elements surrounded me as I continued walking, my clothes changed by themself, shifting to the same ones I had when I had recreated my body, a simple cloth made purely of mana.
I had become the representation of the divine itself.
On the back of my neck, I felt a new tattoo, and for each line, a new connection was beginning to be created. I could perceive new things, I could control things I didn't know existed, and I could fight back against the divine.
The tattoo got completed, a mix of Greek signs, the irony could be cut with a knife, which meant beginning and end, mana was the building block of everything in the universe, and mana was that everything turned into once they meet their end, I am the beggining and end of everything and everyone, I can bring life just as much as I can take it, nothing will not see me, everything will have me as their last view.
I raised my hand, snapped my fingers, activating Dominion of Mana, and the once flying and attacking Zeus just fell to the ground, the clouds disappeared, the lightning dispersed, and the booming thunder stopped.
" What have y-"
Not letting him finish, I had already planted my foot on his head, smashing it against the ground.
" If you wish to be a god once more, then you'd better raise that hand and beg for forgiveness."
Everything around me is under my control, though some of the gods were able to fight the control; an example is Odin, whose powers come from something called Odin's force, or Buddha, whose powers came from understanding the universe and becoming part of it, not by controlling something.
Regardless, these were exceptions. Zeus, whose powers came from birth, who never used them for good, for training, to learn, he isn't an exception; he is the example of what happens when someone doesn't grow.
" I will kill you." I could feel his body trembling with anger as he tried getting up, the keyword is trying.
One second he was there, the other second he wasn't, cut out from this dimension to forever remain inside a limbo of absolute void, something that makes even the strongest mind go crazy. Let's see how long a god can last.
" Would you please make Zeus return?" A sweet voice asked me, for a second, I thought she was Aphrodite, but when I saw a resemblance to both Mary and Laura, I understood who she was.
" Hestia, if you actually think making me see my daughters will help with this, you think too little of me."
" You have to forgive me, this is something I do not control. If someone loves someone dearly as family, then they will see them in me, as I am home, I am the hearth that keeps a house warm, I am the smile in your daughter's face."
" Then hurry with your request, as I am starting to get angered merely by your presence." Thinking that she could control my family angered me, as much as I know that she might be the only goddess that had never done anything bad in all of mythology, but it still hirks me.
"Without him being here, the sky will fall. We Gods aren't only controlling our divinities, we are our divinities. This is why we are immortals; it would require every single family to disappear for me to die, but if someone finds a way to permanently kill us without removing our divinity, then the divinity itself will suffer. What is more important? The survival of humanity, or punish the stupid younger brother of mine?"
I remained silent for a second, my connection to my universe warning me of how something was very wrong with it, though not immediately; something was about to happen, and I would prefer not to be the cause of it.
" Keep him in check," I said while returning Zeus to her. He was unconscious, but his mind still felt strong.
" I would love you have a cup of tea with you someday, I'd love to meet Mary and Laura, they love you more than anything else, Yao does too."
For a fraction of a second, I remained still before disappearing and leaving the area where all the gods were.
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