"If you are strong enough to do so, then do as you wish, but only if Mars allows you to, and under no circumstances are you allowed to manipulate Mars into doing that."
Surtur frowned.
"Why are you setting free? The people of this world sealed here to use to fight in Holy War."
"I'll handle the Holy War. You should instead tell if you accept my offer or not."
"Can I have so ti to think?"
"Sure."
Neo used Nightmare Elent on Surtur.
Inside the Nightmare, the creator of Nightmare could control the relative ti to so degree.
Surtur was able to think through this decision for five days when in reality only five seconds had passed.
Neo closed the Nightmare, allowing Surtur to think properly again.
"I'll accept your offer."
"Got it."
Before setting Surtur free, he put his Intent inside Surtur's body along with a single bolt of Death Elent.
The Intent was filled with the 'contract details'. Now the mont Surtur tried sothing he wasn't supposed to, the Intent would know.
It would set the bolt of Neo's Death Elent free, and kill Surtur.
Neo used True Darkness to devour Surtur before he returned to reality.
Once outside, he created a body with the ability to turn invisible like a ghost. It was as strong as a peak Stage 2 and looked like a human butler.
He stuffed Surtur's Consciousness in it.
Few monts passed and Surtur blinked. He looked around, then bowed to Neo.
"Thank you."
"Don't mind it."
Neo disappeared from the terrace of the academy building. He appeared near his house.
Inside, he could see his brother, and his parents.
He stood still for a few monts until he noticed the life inside his mother's belly.
"It's a girl, huh?"
Neo decided to leave a guardian for his little sister. "Nullhour Firmant."
The invisible force of energy ca out of the Cosmos. It floated around Neo, waiting for his next words.
"You'll stay here, and guard her. If sothing dangerous happens, use World Energy to contact ."
With the help of World Energy, Neo could send reinforcents right away.
The wisps of energy moved towards his house.
Henry reacted. He stared at the location where Nullhour Firmant was supposed to be.
A frown appeared on his face.
"Did you detect soone there?"
No, I don't sense anyone, the voice inside Henry's head answered.
After eting them, Neo went to the academy's hospital.
He could see Elizabeth's corpse lying on the hospital bed. Alia was crying loudly while Charlotte – the principal – stood silently behind her.
Seeing Alia break down like that made him realize once again that Elizabeth had died.
Elizabeth should still be connected to Neo.
It ant, if she grew stronger even a bit, Neo would gain strength thanks to Crowness King connecting them.
But that didn't happen.
'The only explanation is that she hasn't reincarnated in the present.'
Cosmos itself was infinitely large, but Neo would have to scour through the past and future to search for Elizabeth.
'Since I'm already strong enough to go back into past and future by several days, it should be possible to travel past and future freely too if I reach higher ranks and gain stronger techniques.'
He created an Intent of mory. It was filled with his mory of when Elizabeth and he had spent his ti together in Tartarus.
'If I ever die, I hope Alia can use as a motivation or goal to grow stronger instead of being weighed down by .'
He gave those mories to Alia. The Intent would slowly fuse into her and show her the mories through the dream.
Soon, he left the place.
'I want to leave sothing behind for Leonora, Barbatos and others in the Underworld too, but let's not.'
'Bael is Stage-5 and all Grand Dukes and Grand Duchesses are Stage-4, so they don't really need my protection.'
Underworld was a lot more stable than normal subdinsions, and it had a powerful barrier.
Neo couldn't enter it with his Pseudo-Gap or All-Shadow (since his Spatial Senses couldn't reach there).
He could use the normal entrance but that would an showing himself directly, which wasn't what he wanted.
Yaleth clicked his tongue when he saw Neo had no intentions of eting anyone or saying goodbye to them.
But this was the descision Neo made.
This wasn't a goodbye.
He would return.
Saying goodbye right now would be no different from saying he doubted he could win against Eternals, and that he accepted they or he would be erased.
Finally, he turned to Yaleth.
"What's the shortest way to go to your ho world?"
"They."
Yaleth pointed at the sky above.
"You an the Outer Gods who are outside the planet?"
"Yes, they must have interplanetary teleporters. We can use them. Though, you have to beat them first."
Neo looked above.
Currently, 'Sky Barrier' was protecting the world from the invasion of Outer Gods.
But it would soon fall, and the end would arrive.
The prophecy of the end had said that a Holy War would happen, and that the inhabitants of the earth would lose.
They would be crushed by the invaders from beyond.
"Well, I guess the prophecy didn't include my interference since my Fate is hard to detect."
Neo confird he was prepared for the battle. He checked if all Firmants were in perfect condition, and if his energy reserves were full.
He moved towards the Sky Barrier and tried to move to the other side.
Suddenly, he felt a pull from the Sky Barrier itself.
It was trying to take him to the subdinsion that was built inside the barrier.
Neo frowned but didn't resist the pull.
He appeared in another land.
The dark sky had countless stars.
The floor was made from cracked marbles, and giant broken white pillars lay in all directions.
Far ahead, Neo could see a temple made from white marbles.
The subdinsion wanted Neo to visit the temple.
"Soone put Intent into a subdinsion? It's not hard to do, but that's a rather novel idea."
Neo entered the temple.
In the center, he saw the unmoving projection of Kronos surrounded by broken marble pillars.
The projection suddenly turned its head and looked at Neo.
"Finally, you are here."
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