For the Better

( Many days ago, before the attack on the 'Sanctuary'. )

[ Olympus ]

The Allfathers (Rulers) of the Earth finally set their differences and agreed with Zeus' terms for meeting each other in his Pantheon face-to-face.

" We all know that White Demon could communicate with us telepathically, right? "* Zeus asks the other Allfathers, scanning from left to right, from Loki to the Jade Emperor.

[ Lists of Allfathers present. ]

[ Current Allfather (Ruler) of the Asgard Pantheon, Loki | Norse Gods ]

[ Allfather (Ruler) of the Orun Pantheon, Olorun | African Gods ]

[ Allfather (Ruler) of the Tuatha Dé Danann, Dagda | Celtic Gods ]

[ Allfather (Ruler) of the Slavic Mountains, Perun | Slavic Gods ]

[ Allfather (Ruler) of the Omeyocan, Ometeotl | Aztec Gods ]

[ Allfather (Ruler) of the Takamagahara Pantheon, Izanagi | Japanese Gods ]

[ Allfather (Ruler) of the Ennead Pantheon, Atum| Eigyptian Gods ]

[ Current Allfather (Ruler) of the Svarga Pantheon, Shiva| Hindu/India Gods ]

[ The High Emmissary of the Boddhisatvas, Guanyin | Worked under the Jade Palace. ]

[ Allfather (Ruler) of the Jade Palace, Jade Emperor | Chinese Gods ]

" We've all experienced it before... "

" He managed to penetrate our ways of Divine communication, so I've decided to have all of us, Allfathers..., meet each other..., face-to-face... "

" ...Like mortals we governed... " Zeus tells them as he looks at his Divine equals. 

" So now we have to do things the mortal way, aren't we? " Shiva says after Zeus mentions it, his words were immediately responded with Loki's stare.

" I'm just saying..., Zeus. " 

" I didn't say that I hate this particular idea, but hey, I'm just wondering here why it takes all of us so long to even see each other again, especially in these times of crisis. "

" Was the 'White Demon' terror over your territories that hard? Or are you too busy providing help and promises to your mortals? " Shiva asks the gods, a sharp question from where he stands.

" We were busy dealing with his 'Black Army'... " Olorun responds.

" 'Black Shadows' or whatever the mortals and the Low-Borns called it. Those things should not be ignored. "

" How about you then, Lord of destruction..., how's your 'last fight' with the White Demon...? I heard he paid you a visit after the Ambush on Atlantis. " Olorun asks Shiva, looking at his lost two arms. Shiva, the Current Allfather of the Svarga and the Lord of Destruction happened to face the White Demon in the most unpredictable of times, a clash that cost the Four-armed destructor two of his great arms.

" That bastard slashed me out of nowhere when I destroyed many of his Shadows... " Shiva recounts.

" I was having fun when doing it, but suddenly comes and destroyed these two arms of mine before disappearing with his goddamn army. "

" The thing is, somehow, I can't regenerate it anymore, both of my hands... "

" As if the blade that demon bastard uses allows him to block our regenerative capabilities. "

" Grrhh..., as things go on, it makes me want to end him even more... White Demon. " Shiva releases his frustrations, and Zeus takes a sigh for he understands what Shiva must've been through.

" The White Demon is continuing his aggression, and based on what I've discovered about him, the one I shared with you before this meeting," Zeus shares his thoughts.

" I believe our mere limbs are not enough to satisfy his aggression against us... "

" I don't know how he managed to get this far, perhaps the Abyss Tower had something to do with it, but still..., without no doubt, he is an 'Awakener'. A mortal that has all of his Previous Timeline memories, memories that will have us in it, taking away the most precious family that he had. "

" His granddaughter, 'Carla Ragna Hikari Kent', our Divine Hero. " Zeus tells them, which made the Rulers there immediately go into silence.

" Well, that's a name I never expect to hear right now... " Shiva responds to it.

" If that's the case, then the White Demon is... " Shiva stops as he looks around as the gods who heard all the things immediately thought of a certain person.

" He is Ragna Kent..., or Ragna Orion 'Miraikuru' Kent, in this Timeline. " Loki answers it.

" The third part of his name always changes, but the person is basically the same mortal with different upbringings in each Timeline. "

" Upbringings that always led him create the most powerful descendant a mortal could ever have. "

" The one he made with the help of a certain daughter from the Fubuki Family. "

" Fubuki Yukino, the Current 1st Rank Hunter. " Guanyin interrupts.

" A descendant of the 'Blue Blood Clan'. "

" I believe she is secured... Lord Loki? " Guanyin suddenly asks Loki about it which made Shiva scratch his head.

"Ah, I see, so that's how it is... "

" We had the Grandma's hostage, and now the Grandpa wants to find her so he can make things get by all over again. How very expected. "

" And yet, the only thing that you've done is simply 'secure' her!? " Shiva asks Loki, criticizing his actions.

" Lord Shiva, I- "

" This is your fault, you're too soft on that Fubuki Girl that you couldn't bring yourself to kill her when you had the chance, in every Timeline! "

" Always with some excuses, always with some reasons or plots... "

" But you know what the truth is, Loki..., you kill the Grandmother, you kill the 'Divine Hero' before even appearing again...! "

" Do that and probably that Granddaughter-obsessed White Demon Grandfather will go into depression or some sort; problem solved! " Shiva gives his suggestion, something that strikes Loki in the heart.

" We can't harm the Fubuki Daughter. I need her... " Loki replied onto Shiva, with a sharp stare he brings himself with.

" There it is, reasons, reasons, reasons, tsk tsk tsk... " 

" What kind of an Allfather are you, Loki? " Shiva dissess Loki's actions towards the obvious.

" Guess I was right, that 'thunderous brother' of yours is the better person to oversee the Asgard Pantheon instead of you... " Shiva says it while each word he utters began to enrage Loki step by step.

" Fubuki Yukino..., is important... " Loki replied.

" She is my leverage for our 'controlled war' with the Deviants... " Loki decides to say something about it—something that he had to look at Zeus first before even uttering it.

" Really...? " Shiva and the other Rulers began to worry after hearing that statement.

" So what does this mean, then? Why is the 'grandmother' so important? " Shiva asks; he began to suspect something, he began to stand up, attempting to approach Loki.

" Tell us all, Loki! or I'll- "

" Let us return to the main topic! " Zeus interrupts, using his pressence to calm the tension.

" Our discussion has been strayed from the main topic, but I understand if you still have concerns for that 'other problem', but... "

" The first person that we should eradicate is not the Fubuki Daughter... but the White Demon himself, Ragna Kent. "

" For he is the one who had the 'seed'* in his 'birdie'*..., and by that undeniable fact, he should be the one we dealt with, for he's the one who carried the 'seed' of our mess. " 

" So, in order to end him..., I believe we should start by using everything in our disposal, starting with knowing where his current base on operations might be... "

" And then... we're going to decide on how we should best deal with him, and what should we do in the future, for the better... " 

" There's nothing more to discuss, Lord Zeus. " Shiva responds to him.

" You already told us what we need to do and most of us are likely to think the same thing. "

" But why are you mentioning something like the future? " Shiva asks Zeus as he sighed and turned around, looking at the window.

" Because that's the only way to prevent things like this from ever happening again... "

" For Timelines, we have been complacent, softened and weakened over our Divine Reign, making us blind to the endless possibilities of Universal Threats. "

" Not just that, with our glory and victory, we began to set ourselves low..., becoming salesman as we sells ourselves as Heroic Idols, promising those mortals that we will be there in their lives, promising them with our service, guidance and teachings to make them worship us. "

" But despite their worship, we know most of the mortals didn't mean the worship seriously. "

" Instead of obeying our Divine Law, following our teachings, or respecting us... the mortals instead worshipped us as heroic servants that would come and save the day, helping these stupid mortals get away with their transgressions and problems, slowly expecting us to use our powers on meaningless things... "

" Hell, I even get prayed to save a cat from a tree! A cat from a tree! Do you know how infuriating that is!? " Zeus adds it.

"Look at me, a Divine Ruler of the Heavens, one of the beings that govern how things go all over the Earth...! and you're telling me that I should spare my time, hearing a bimbo's prayer plea, rise my ass up from my Divine Throne, and fly to the scene, just to save a cat! "

" No..., no more... " Zeus tells the other Allfathers.

" Do you hear what I told you all earlier? This is it..., this is the result of our negligence... "

" The Mortals..., despite their current weak state as we took their original sources of power. Even in their weakness, they now think and believe themselves... that they could squeeze us, squeeze our power as Gifts for their own benefits, craving even more than we could allow... like parasytes slowly leeching the blood out of a mighty predator... " Zeus tells it.

" That's why weakness in itself is a sin. " Shiva suddenly states, interrupting Zeus.

" That's why I originally hesitated on simply ripping apart the mortals from their sources of power..., the Mana, the Ki... "

" Even I was the one vocal on defying our decision on giving them some of our power as Gifts..., the very act of us that made the Mortals nothing more than weak, draining leeches like they are today. "

" Hmph, should've just destroyed them, but now, thanks to our 'negligence' and 'rule'... "

" One of the 'weak parasytes' had begun to grow large, larger than his fellow parasytes... "

" As the weak craves power, this once weak parasyte, started to get the attitude and began to devour those he could devour, growing so large and so fast as he devours even more, that he could even keep up and fight with the predators he once weak too. "

" And yes, as you all have guessed it... "

" I was talking about the mortal that who will be known as..., the White Demon. "

" The parasyte who devour his predators, a parasytic worm that grows larger to even slowly overheight the gigantic height of a mighty dragon or dinosaurs. "

" The pest that we must destroy, we must destroy it before he grows even larger. I think this why we're having a meeting here. " Shiva understands which made the other Rulers nod while they all look over Zeus.

" Indeed..., that's why we must deal with the parasytic White Demon quickly. "

" For his death, shall be the message to all other parasytes who dared to raise their position in their defiance..., for the better. "

" For the better. " the Rulers agreed on that meeting, as soon as Zeus decide to relay what they need to do afterwards, they accepted it and decide to go on as whatever what Zeus tells them to do, despite some of them hesitated since Loki happened to be a great influence in the planning, they still don't trust him.

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Extra:

* " We all know that White Demon could communicate with us telepathically, right? ".

See Chapter 406: Good News

* Seed.

A word that describes the white substance produced by a man's genitals.

* Birdie:

A word that describes a man's genitals.

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This is the last Chapter for 2024. 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.