Will of chaos

Pov Alan (Hero of Justice):

I was keeping an eye on their ritual while other people were watching the surface of the Moon in case I warned anyone coming our way.

It was after a few hours that it happened, I felt a different presence in the ritual, it was a presence that emanated the power of light.

“Damn it, did they come by magic?” (I)

I studied magic for a long time, even though it wasn’t my main focus in my years of training it was still something I could use to supplement my sword attacks or in situations where the sword couldn’t help me.

Because of this, I knew that mind-affecting spells like this are very complex and significantly more risky, I may not know how this spell works completely, but the main thing is to connect them with our targets still on the surface of the world.

“Somehow they must have realized what we’re doing, they must have interfered with the magic from the other side.” (Bianca)

“How do we stop the ritual?” (I)

“We can’t do anything, Caitlyn is the one controlling the magical ritual, she doesn’t seem to have any intention of stopping either.” (Bianca)

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After a few more hours, less than 2 hours before dawn, I think, that’s a little difficult to understand from where we are now.

That’s when I noticed the change, Caitlyn still with her eyes closed, walked a few steps towards her brother and bit Zenos’s neck, who had already been pale for hours.

“Should I stop?” (I)

“No, we don’t know enough to understand what she’s doing and we can’t stop the magic.” (Bianca)

“She might be being controlled…” (I)

“One of the Living Calamities cannot be controlled, especially the Living Nightmare, our Temple has tried to do this in the past and failed.” (Bianca)

“So all we can do is stand by and do nothing!?” (I)

“No matter how much frustration you have, you should know the best path to take.” (Bianca)

“…” (I)

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Pov Zenos:

After all the stars have disappeared, a transparent sphere forms around me and my companions.

“You know, there’s something our sisters haven’t told you, as children of the Blood Goddess, that is, children of the same God, we can absorb each other’s Holy Power.” (Caitlyn)

As Caitlyn spoke I felt a pain in my neck, it wasn’t in the body in this mental realm, this pain was coming from my real body.

“Don’t worry, I’m kind of low on energy so I’m taking yours, so don’t be a jerk about it.” (Caitlyn)

“I could have asked… hugh!!!” (I)

“Leave the rest to me, I was really looking for someone suitable and he might suit…” (Caitlyn)

“Take care of my little brother.” (Caitlyn)

“Master, are you alright?” (Nix)

My body loses strength as I revert to my Human form, all the owes I possessed were still there, but this time I could feel a spark of my sister’s power within me making the wounds that hadn’t been healing until now begin to heal slowly.

Nix and Hades tried to support me not to fall, I know that none of them can use their healing powers in this place, but we also have no way out, I can feel that my sister removed the well of control that I had in this magical ritual.

“(What’s she gonna do?)” (I)

“(I already said, I will show you the true power of a Deity.)” (Caitlyn)

“(Why are you on my mind?)” (I)

“(I’m not, the Holy Power I absorbed from you is resonating between us, so our minds that are already connected by this magical ritual can interact more if you manage to share any of my senses, feel severe headache or very sleepy, just know that it’s perfectly normal, don’t worry if you start to hallucinate.)” (Caitlyn)

“(Wait what…)” (I)

Suddenly my vision was returning in the eye it had lost when it healed, but the vision in that eye was different, it wasn’t my POV, it was Caitlyn’s POV getting closer and closer to the chained Sun, in one eye it was my point of view and the other my sister’s point of view, it was making my head hurt.

It was at this moment that I felt my ears stop listening to my companions around me, I could only hear the noise of chains. 𝚍ｏ𝚟𝚕.ｏｒｇ

I waved to my companions that I wasn’t able to hear them, so I waved my hand again for them to turn my body to where the chained Sun was, I wanted to see what my sister was doing.

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I see my sister stop very slow from the Sun then her body is covered in purple and violet energy, she then spreads her bat wings at the same time her heads grow gathering some black mist around her like black clouds.

“I know you couldn’t sense what we were doing, how did you find us?” (Caitlyn)

“Look who we have here, a monstrosity that masquerades as a child, and is content to desecrate more minds that were in search of light!?”

“Don’t try to act smug, to me you are a mere child among the Divine Beasts, a fool who even now doesn’t understand where you are.” (Caitlyn)

“You are weak now daughter of Selene, if I were present in body and mind here, you and your friends would already be dead with no chance of doing anything!”

“I guess trying to talk to a fool is pointless, at least it’ll be good material.” (Caitlyn)

“Just tell me one last thing, are you one of Oros’ servants?” (Caitlyn)

“Yes, I am one of those honored by the great Oros, I will gladly present your bodies before him when these chains are broken.”

Caitlyn’s eyes focused on the chains covered in cracks all over the place, it looks like he wasn’t struggling all this time for nothing, in the state the chains are in would only be able to hold him for another hour, maybe an hour little less.

“You say too much for someone who has never fought a true Deity.” (Caitlyn)

“Don’t make yourself look big, you are no longer a Deity, you and the other Living Calamities have lost your power, you are too weak to be a threat…”

“Power is just one of the hallmarks of a Deity you fool.” (Caitlyn)

“< Divine Incarnation: 20% >” (Caitlyn)

I can feel the power coursing through Caitlyn’s body, all the power in her body is being devoured by the Holy Power which in turn is coursing through her body and merging into her body, it is no longer just energy as it becomes a part of her your body and blood, the sense of power is something I’ve never felt before, something I can’t even begin to understand.

Meanwhile, I look at her body, her appearance starts to change, her youthful appearance grows to that of a young woman close to 25 years old, and her hair becomes totally black and straight behind her swaying in a breeze that doesn’t exist, her wings spread out make a single pair of colossal wings completely disproportionate to the rest of his body while becoming ethereal as if they were an illusion.

On her head a crown appears to be made of shards of glass reflecting horrible landscapes, her skin turns pale white while her eyes turn completely golden.

The space around her cracked and soon the cracks became lines moving along with their movements.

“I don’t like to talk without seeing the fear in your eyes.” (Caitlyn)

“< Nightmare Incarnation >” (Caitlyn)

“What is this, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!!!”

Soon the chains around the Sun break, but instead of breaking free countless hands with mouths full of sharp teeth in their Palms surge all over the Sun and around it tearing off pieces of it like shards of glass to eat.

It was extremely disturbing how quickly that big Sun was reduced to a three-headed, blue-eyed white hunk, its size was colossal making my sister look like a grain of sand next to it.

All of her bodies were covered by those hands, even the space around her was covered by those hands, the sound of the mouths chewing on her flesh was horrible, but the worst was the creepy whispers that her source body hands spoke all the time.

Light blue blood oozed from his body, and I could see his power being drained along with his blood, he tried to break free but each hand he destroyed became fragments that penetrated his body causing even more damage and pain, he almost couldn’t move while being restricted by so many hands, only one of its heads was still free while the hands were even entering inside the forcibly opened jaws of the other two heads.

Then my sister’s black hair grows out and becomes a big black hand that now frees the horse’s head forcing him to look at her without being able to speak.

“It was this fear that I wanted to see, look into my eyes and contemplate what the concept of a nightmare means.” (Caitlyn)

I saw his tears fall from the 3 pairs of eyes as his light blue blood darkened more and more until it became like black ink, soon after it was his tears that turned golden and were collected floating on top of one of my sister’s hands before her opening his mouth grotesquely making an absurd tongue curl around the big horse along with his quick hands pulling everything into his mouth that was tiny compared to all that, it was like seeing a black hole swallowing everything while crushing the closer it got.

When she closed her mouth her hair was back to normal and everything was gone, the big 3 headed Horse and the black hands that held him were gone, the only remnant was the golden liquid with black shine floating on top of Caitlyn’s hand.

Most disturbing of all was her Elder calmly chewing on something as the screaming sounds erupted from inside her mouth, I could feel it as if it were me chewing, the taste of the flesh and blood on my tongue, her body thrashing in my teeth while grinding her bones, but even then it was the feel of her mouth and not mine.

I was in shock as she walked over to me still chewing.