Chapter 472: Lured away (3)

So apparently they came a across a world of gluttons, they may look healthy and have regular personalities, but there were buffets at every corner of the cities of the world, the food looked delicious and so they took the bait and ate it.

They ate a lot, but never gained any weight, the people over there ate every hour or so, but for them, the more the ate, the more hungry they felt, so they tried stopping, but it was too late from the moment they took their first bite, the food there was like drugs.

And the moment they do manage to fight the urge to eat again, the people around them attacked them and due their hesitance of killing people, Chaos used that moment to fight them in a very one sided fight.

Chaos gave them one chance, it was that Albert would sign a soul contract to be Chaos next vessel then and there, which he refused and that's where Aenon died and the rest was captured, Helena was forcefully pulled from the realm and next thing she knew, she was out cold.

"Do you at least know where they are so I can rescue them or what is left of them? I'll be honest with my intentions, Helena." I said as lower myself a bit to her eye level "I don't want to give you false hope, you can communicate with Albert through your head when he wakes, and I'm sure that by the time I get to him, I will either be barely on time or too late, so prepare yourself, Helena, I'm being lured away from here, so was Albert, so tell me everything you know and leave nothing out of it, because everyone of my encounters with Chaos, it will always be a fight to the death for me."

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I got home and prepared everything I could, Helena said that the number of people who will enter that world Chaos prepared is very limited, Chaos only brought a small number of its own ally to the fight, Atlas and Fortuna. And the world have enchantments to keep intruder out as well, only me and 2 other can go to fight them.

Heracles is definitely a must as he can occupy Atlas, and Hecate to keep Fortuna occupied as I fight Chaos, I fight with no intentions of running away, I will try to kill Chaos and Chaos will do the same, but will escape on the brink of losing since it can return stronger each time.

Hopefully I can still use my advantage over Chaos' vessel and deal a good blow. As I keep them occupied, my bonds will be fighting at Valhalla with their full power and effort, the executives of the seekers will also try to go all out for a deciding tide of the battle.

Fighting a deciding battle is going to be hard. But let's just hope I don't die and luckily I have many back up plans, like the ability of my plotinum gauntlets, the time ability is only an add on, no one knows about its ability apart from Eliza, my fail safe.

Lia saw me preparing my gears and pulled me aside for a private conversation when I was watching over Leonard.

"What do you need?"

"Your bonds found out about my pregnancy." she crossed her arm

"Yeah, Dabria caught on, sorry. She's the goddess of life, I can only hide the presence of our child for so long, I can take her in a physical fight or even hide from her completely, but the same cannot be done for our child."

"That's not all." she sighs "I'm worried, you look serious, like more serious than usual."

"I'm...just preparing things just in case, I may die and if the prophecies are right, the moment I lose to it and die, it's when...everyone dies."

"That's not I was talking about." she then flicked my forehead "You don't have your usual confidence and that really worries me, it's as if you're walking into your death instead of confronting it like your usual confident self."

"You do realize that it's mostly a façade, right? I'm very insecure and I really worry, you know, we decided to have a child together and I'm happy that we are. But I'm really questioning my own abilities, unlike my alternate selves, I'm not a great dad, I'm barely home and you have to put up with it with a smile on your face and tell me that I don't have to worry.

"I really do want to be home, but I'm really torn, if I don't fight at Valhalla, we will lose. And if I go, what if Chaos pull me into some dimension to fight me for years, and I return missing out my children's childhood. And I really don't think that it's healthy that we always to hide things that are going on all the time just to protect ourselves. And I'm pretty selfish, I have 3 lovers and you have to put up with it-"

She then shush me with her finger.

"You and your same worries." she smiled "Don't worry about me, I told you that I gave you my approval to date all of us and I stand by it. And as your concerns for being a good family man, don't worry too much, your job is to guarantee everyone a future, even if you lose, I am grateful that you are a part of my life, we all are."

"We're talking about death here, if I lose, we lose our child, I would lose you and everyone."

"Then don't lose, even if my future were to come to an end, I at least want to spend my last moments with you, I have decided that a very long time ago, so just do your job and leave no regrets." she reassured as she held my hands "Now we should announce it to everyone, it's time that everyone knows."

I then feel something change within me, my magic, it's turning, I'm having a breakthrough into the black core.