Metamorphosis Part 4

( Hours earlier. )

" I'm tired, the monsters are dead in here... " Arnold says as he killed many strong monsters, and when he was resting he sees a thing in the skies.

" What is that? " Arnold asks as he realized a white demonic thing flying in the skies.

As he looks at it, Arnold licks his ice cream for he licks the very chocolate inside it.

"( Hmmm... it's nice, very nice, the chocolate relieved my brain's stress so much. )" Arnold says to himself while resting, he also sees Artemis fighting the white thing too.

" Yeah, we all know where this goes...? " Arnold says as he closes his eyes.

"( ARNOLD!!! )" a voice calls him in his mind.

" Huh! who is that!? " Arnold asks while Artemis is currently fighting in the background.

"( It's me boy, it's me! )" the voice says it again.

" Lord Loki!? " Arnold shouts as he hears it.

" Hello there, where are you!? "

"( Boy, I'm talking in your mind through your Core! )"

"( I just want to ask you the condition of your Raid. )" Loki asks.

" Oh it's nothing, look Lord Artemis is dealing with some flying white monster... "

"( Flying White Monster...? )" Allfather Loki asks as he sees it through Arnold's eyes.

" Yes, with Golden Hair, do you know what that is...? " Arnold asks Loki as the god examines it through Arnold's eyes.

Seeing Adrian from afar, Loki notices who that is for he once met Adrian before when he was most active in increasing his guild's popularity. Because of it, Adrian began to be suspected by the Inquisitors and the gods for his skyrocketed earnings and attention.

Allfather Loki is the one who noticed it first, he realized that some of Adrian's things are linked to the Deviant Cults and Sects that remain on this very earth.

" So it is them... " Loki says as he tries to sense Adrian's aura that Arnold feels from his current location.

" Those bastards, this is out of the deal... " Loki says as he curses the Deviant Monarchs.

" What is it, Lord Loki? " Arnold asks him while looking at Artemis vs Adrian's fight.

"( Arnold... )" Loki says to him.

"( I need you to do something for me... )"

"( Don't worry if it's kinda difficult, for I will support you... )" Loki tells him.

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[ Return to the present. ]

" Oh great, so you have more toys for me! " Adrian says seeing Arnold unleashing more Legendary Sword Skills while still shooting some basic Divine Swords.

[ Balmung Burst ]

[ Blutgang Burst ]

[ Balmung Slayer ]

[ Blutgang Strike ]

Arnold attacks with the full power of the legendary sword he uses, he strikes at Adrian which made him get damaged because of its effects.

"( How could this be...? )" Adrian realized that he was being damaged.

"( How is this possible that toys like this...? )" Adrian grunts as he gets pissed even more to see Arnold's swords hurting him.

[ Deviant Thunderstorm ]

" I'm using this, Raiden... " Adrian says as he uses the Deviant Thunder Raiden had before he abandoned it, asking the Deviant who gifted Raiden his powers to give this power to him also.

"( Hope you know how to use this...? )"

"( I know, I've already analyzed it, and learned it. )" Adrian says as he sees Raiden's memories, the memories he absorbed and received.

"( I can feel it, I can see his memories... )"

"( It's still few, but it already helped me master the Deviant Thunder. )" Adrian says as he sighs after remembering Raiden.

" What a waste you are, Raiden... " Adrian says as he shoots it at Arnold which he defends with both Blutgang and Balmung.

" Wow, so powerful... "

" There's more to that, Arnold! " Adrian tells him.

[ Deviant Thunder Blast ]

" Dammit! " Arnold says as he sees the huge thunder blast coming at him.

When it happened, Arnold immediately unleashes another summoned sword, a large sword to defend him from the thunder.

[ Legendary Sword Summon ]

[ Swords of Large Protection, Lævateinn ]

Using Lævateinn, Arnold shields himself from the thunder blast, blocking it from hurting him more.

" You're open! " Adrian comes at him from his back, attacking him.

[ Deviant Enhanced Hand Scythe ]

As Adrian attacks, Arnold immediately blocks it using Blutgang, instinctively blocking it despite him didn't see it coming too.

" You're too loud! calm down, would you!? " Arnold asks.

" Calm down...? " Adrian asks and kicks Arnold hard, sending him flying to the nearby blocks of large rocks.

" Kuok! " Arnold spits blood.

" DIE ARNOLD! " Adrian says as he tries to attack Arnold for he fails to slay him using the Legendary Swords that Loki gave him.

As Adrian tries to attack Arnold, he was attacked suddenly, by...

" Hold it right there, demon... " Yukino says using his [White Blizzard] Gift to freeze Waterson up.

" I...ce... " Adrian says as he sees it.

" Hold it tight, Yukino! " Tristan says as he comes with her to halt Adrian.

" Tristan... Torrent... " Adrian sees Tristan.

Seeing it, Tristan immediately recognizes Adrian for he recognizes him by how he stares.

" Waterson...? " Tristan says as he calls Adrian.

" You know him? " Yukino asks.

" He's Adrian Waterson, an A-Rank hunter! " Tristan tells her.

" I know him for he is the leader from the 'Greater Ocean' Guild, for I often met him during our Guild's alliance sometimes. "

" 'Greater Ocean' Guild? that punk Guild? "

" He's the leader...? " Yukino asks for she once remembered having one encounter with one of the guild's members back then.

" He's the leader from that rude guild... " Yukino remembers the past.

" No wonder... " Yukino says as she then decides to execute Adrian while he's inside her ice.

" Yukino... " Tristan says, seeing Yukino's ice begin to freeze the ground around them.

" I'm ending him now! I decide that it is best to spend all of my Gift Energy to destroy him in this instance. "

" I don't know what kind of a being he is now, but I can tell from his sharp eyes that he needs to be eliminated before he endangers us all! " Yukino tells for she use all of her might to unleash the Ultimate Skill she learned.

" Yukino, don't tell me you! "

" Please cover me, will you, Tristan-senpai? " Yukino asks Tristan as he helps her with his [Titanic Bubble] to cage Adrian up while Yukino tries to explode her ice to kill Waterson inside it.

" This ice will shatter every foe inside it, for every unbreakable thing will be broken due to my ice! " Yukino says while the frozen Adrian could only see while can't move his body.

" I will grant death to you, using my eternal winter! "

" [ Eternal Hellfrost, White Explosion Shatter (Shiroi Bakuhatsu no Konagona) ] " Yukino says as she explodes the ice that contains Adrian with it, thus shattering all of his body in that very instance while freezing the entire land around her.

" Did you manage to do it!? " Tristan asks Yukino.

" Yeah, I... " Yukino feels dizzy, as her temperature goes so low after performing it.

" I... "

" No, you didn't! " Adrian comes behind them, immediately attacking Yukino by stabbing her in the stomach.

" Yukino! " Tristan shouts as he tries to attack Adrian.

" You have Poseidon's power but you only become a Support? " Adrian says while kicking Tristan hard.

" How despicable? to think he will give a Tier V Gift to the likes of you...!? " Adrian says, mocking Tristan for his physical weakness despite having a Tier V Gift.

" You... " Tristan says as Adrian bullies him by stomping him hard, shattering frozen grounds using his sheer godly strength.

" You're just another waste of talent, Tristan Torrent! "

" Such a waste, Poseidon should've Gifted you a Tier V when he knows you're this weak!!! "

" You weakling loser! " Adrian says, showing Tristan that his powers as not as deep and as not as high as he is, showing him that he is unworthy of his very Gift.

Blood sprouting on his feet, Adrian sighs as he brutally damages Tristan's body.

" Still alive, huh? " Adrian says while he can hear Tristan asking his god for support.

" Stupid Tristan, you're too weak to even receive help. " Adrian approaches his head to the fully-damaged Tristan.

" Even if you're an S-Rank, you're still nothing more than an entitled mortal that needs to fall like all others. " Adrian tells him the reality of things.

" Try praying to the gods or someone, they won't help you... since I'm the one who did it? " Adrian says as he still sees Tristan praying.

" Pray Tristan, pray! " Adrian laughs.

" Pray someone will save you today! " Adrian laughingly mocks the S-Rank Support Hunter.

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" Ragna... " Dainsleif Spirit says.

" Yes...! " Ragna Twelve, 69, and 100 raise their hands.

" Not you Ragnas, the Ragna that is inside the Cocoon...! " Dainsleif Spirit tells them as the three Ragnas from Previous Timeline can sense it.

" Ah, it's here! " they said as the Cocoon was broken, and from the broken cocoon, a black-liquidated being comes out and sees them.

" Ragna... " Ragna Twelve sees Ragna Current's new look.

" Why is he like that, old Twelve? " Ragna 69 asks.

" It's the Black Substance of the Aether. "

" It's covering him for he just come out from the cocoon... " Dainsleif Spirit says as Ragna then looks at his hands, his recovered feet.

"~ It has been fixed, huh! ~" Ragna says as his voice distorted.

" Feeling better, does anything change? " Ragna 69 asks him.

" Oh, 69... " Ragna says to him, looking at him with that black liquid mask that covers his face.

" Everything's changed. " Ragna says as the center of his mask cracks.

" Everything... "