---Should be back to regular scheduling this week but don't hold to it, head is better but still not great.
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"Wah! You lot have no idea how much this is going to set back! It's taken decades to find the perfect paraters for this never-ending conflict and just like that, you destroy everything gluing it together!"
A man decked out in a red set of armour wielding a spear and a shield charges through one of the now open doorways absolute furious with the performance we've been acting out and honestly takes aback a little, this is supposed to be Ares? He looks grown up enough but sounds like a spoilt child or sothing.
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'That sucks, looks like this noble purge is uncomplete'
While he's getting mad at the plan I conducted, all of the nobles start to charge outside and I can only feel imnse disappointnt from my unfinished plan. I wanted to kill so racists too.
"Get back here, you motherfucking racist scum!"
Turns out, orc Zeki really hates racists all of a sudden, I'm pretty sure he was just embracing his inner psychopath tonight like , it's not really like we can chase them considering who is standing right in front of us.
"You stupid mortals really have no idea how much you've set be back, looks like so sort of punishnt is needed"
That's when the God raises his spear and points it towards us, also setting up a combat stance similar to how Spartans may fight with their shields. It's obvious that we now have to fight this bastard, was hoping he'd just kick us out of this place but guess not then.
Suddenly, just before combat is about to kick off, a terrible mory cos up of sothing that nearly got forgotten. If we have to fight this God within his own dungeon, doesn't that an we may be fucked? Can't also forget there's also no point status scanning him, divine beings seem to have a filter on unless you're Jarl Denver.
It was that ti we ca across Lyssa, the mad guy back inside the ol'mage tower and he wiped the floor with us. I know we're more powerful now but this might be a fight we cannot win if Gods are practically immortal in places like this. It's either than or that Lyssa was deceptively strong, we'll still try and put up a fight against this armoured God though.
Anyways, we ready our weapons of choice and the God charges at us causing a small shockwave to occur throwing all but the strongest of us back. Only and Petra were strong enough to stay standing throughout that attack.
'Aesa?'
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Sensing a slight opportunity despite his excellent stance, I attack first trying to slash Excalibur into his side but it only gets blocked by his shield. However, I repeat the sa attack clattering into the tal again but it proves ample distraction for Petra whose sword art flies plunging deep into one of the gaps around his shoulder plates.
"Wah! Hahaha..."
The God screams from pain but that quickly turns to maddening laughter, clearly he's just shrugging off the pain despite his shoulder looking pretty gnarly.
"...Despicable to use a giant's power against . I was only going to scare you a little, but now, you've really pissed off"
A trendous amount of power flows out of the enraged God causing the ground to shake and the walls to crack, we are nearly swept off out feet again but thankfully we're still standing.
Then, he goes on the offensive swiping and dashing his spear ahead of himself forcing both and Petra to avoid his swing, both of us make sure to coat him in fire while retreating backwards though.
While and Petra are trying to defend his imnse speed and skill with the spear, the rest of our party have finally gotten their heads out of the sand and have joined us in fighting against the God of war.
Zeki unleashes hellish red fla all over our enemy but like with ours, it seems to be pretty ineffective to the beast of a guy we're fighting.
Charlotte shoots off a laser beam from her sword only to find it completely being blocked by Ares's shield. Using the distraction of that, Nathan now tries to swipe at the guy but only finds his sword ricochets off the armour effectively doing nothing.
Heck, even Ariza is joining in firing several arrows towards him but like with Nathan's sword, all just reflect off it. Didn't know she was an archer but guess she surprises more every day.
Despite all this and now using the cover of my party, I swoop around to the side and try to land a hit of my own into the armoured juggernaut that is this God of war.
Ares manages to sense my first swing from Excalibur going to great lengths to swipe the attack with his spear but my vampiric blade finds another route sinking into a gap to the side of his stomach. That armour isn't impenetrable if you know where to avoid it.
"Wah! Both of you have that cheat skill!? I'm done humouring you now!"
Like the heavens ripping apart from the seams, this entire world disappears within an instant after the God snaps his fingers and all that's left is a lifeless void, the sa type of void we always seem to end up back in. This place is unoriginal as hell now.
'Has this God chickened out on us or so-, urgh! My head...'
Suddenly, the lights switch on showing us in a tiny cellar like room just containing just us lovebirds and the God, albeit we've just been tossed to the ground by an invisible force and now remain in a begging position.
Panic imdiately sets in when I realize I have no control over my own body and Ares slowly walks towards us, this is seriously the power Gods have within these places!? I need to break hold of this shit; I don't know how though!
'Aesa, is there any way to break out of his control? Have I got an ability that could do anything!?'
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'Really!? Now you're fucking silent!? Shit...'
"You see, I feel like you little mortals have no idea on how these sorts of places work. Inside this world, I am unstoppable! The only chance you have of defeating is to destroy this entire world and even then, that's still asking for a lot even for a God. This entire realm is my lifeforce and you puny insects were always dood from the start"
The God just stands their boasting while and Petra are still grovelling on the ground, to think we made such a rookie error. No, Athena and Hephaestus sent us here, they also share so of the bla but are we seriously going to die like this on our knees? That would make for a shitty ending...
"However, let this be a lesson learnt rather than the fight finishing. I'll reluctantly let you all out shortly... even if it'll cause father to go crazy when he finds out"
(Ikarus) "Wait, you're sparing us!? Why?"
This guy is loyal to Zeus, right? Shouldn't that an he should be destroying especially considering he's currently busy handling the civil war amongst the Gods?
"If you're wondering why I'm doing such a thing, you can thank half-sister for this. Without owing her a favour, you'd have died the second you entered this place and we wouldn't be having such a pleasant conversation..."
Finally, the control this guy has over us breaks free and we're able to finally stand facing him. This doesn't really make sense to put us in such an uncomfortable position if he owes Athena a favour, right? Wouldn't he have just let us complete it easily enough?
"...Despite my undying loyalty to father and how much he'd love for to purge you all right now, Athena was always fated to beco the next ruler so I refuse to remain in her debt for when it happens soday. Even I understand prophecies are inevitable, even if they can be fun to fight against"
Athena was fated to beco the next God that rules all? Huh, I'm not sure if I rember that prophecy or legend, surprised Zeus didn't try and kill her hearing that but maybe he did? This bird doesn't know everything about Greek myth after all.
I'd kinda like to know what Ares owes Athena but right now, all I want to do is get far enough away from this place... Wait, is that why he tried to get us to kill each other? Because Ares agreed to not kill us but if we did it ourselves, it wouldn't count? This sly motherfucker, we're definitely going to kill him soday...
"Anyways, just take my token and fuck off already, so much work and not enough ti"
Ares flicks us the coin and I catch it mid-flight, another odd dungeon experience once again. At least this ti around it doesn't feel anticlimactic, or does it? Eh, let's just move on...
As we're slowly fading out of existence, slight mumbling from the God can be heard as he tries to justify sothing.
"Hmm, maybe this could work out better if you lot live. It'll definitely draw more of the rebellious Gods out to try and help... which in turn also ans more war! I'm slightly happy Athena got involved no-..."
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"Well, that was annoying, that guy basically tore us a new one"
"Heh, that fight really could've ended us Ikarus. Now that we know Gods are practically untouchable within dungeons, we should try and avoid them as much as possible"
"Normally, I'd say you're being a coward sis but the less dungeon exploring we do, the better"
"Uh huh, they may be too dangerous for even the six of us"
"At last, we have everything we need to free my Lord! Now, let's just hope the next part is easy enough"
"We'll be good Lotte; we've already gone this far together"
Finally awaking back inside that lighthouse, all of us are obviously happy with finally getting outside of that place. Things were looking tense there so the fact none of us ended up hurt is a blessing.
'Yo Aesa, you back with us as well?'
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