Chapter 32 Fourth Wheel

~Pov apostle~ (third person)

A man could be seen caring a women, while flying. The black snow made way for the couple, as they escaped. In the darkness lurked nightwalkers and something even more ominous. In the fir forest, lurked all sorts of monsters, but the worst of a was the demon.

The man seemed to exhausted, as if he hadn't slept in days. Yet he did not stop running. The women in his arms, has long since past out. The man got closer and closer to his destination. A giant cave, covered with ice.

The ice seemed to move as he approached it. The man did not slow down and crashed into the cave. The second the man entered the cave, the ice once more covered the entrance. As for the man. He blacked out, after hitting the wall.

Pov apostle first person.

I woke up with a headache. The room seemed to spin, but it did not matter. I was hungry, the hunger was consuming me, I needed to eat. I remember that I had some nightwalker stored in the cave and started crawling towards it. After a good 4 minutes of crawling, I arrived at my destination. The bloodied three legged beast looked like a feast. So I dug in, eating it like a wild dog.

Once I was done chewing on the nightwalker, I noticed a girl hiding in the corner of the cave.

" Hi girl, I won't hurt you, I just want to be your friend." I said, as I walked towards her, my face dripping with the blood of the nightwalker. Which did not seem to calm her done .

" Please don't kill me, I don't want to die." She said in a meek, scared voice.

" Now why would I do that? When I went through all that trouble to save you." I said trying to reassure her. Seeming to calm down, she stood up and walked towards the burning tree, almost burnt up.

"I received a blessing." The girl said to me. I got confused, what does she mean blessing, did Ragnar bless her?

" Was it Ragnar that blessed you?" I asked.

" Who's Ragnar." She asked, just as confused as me.

" He's a ancient god of water and the one who granted me the strength to survive." I said to her, with a proud and confident voice.

" I see, no, I was blessed by Bennett, a god part of the Ragthor pantheon. Or that's what he told me, I don't know if it's true." She told me.

" My god is also part of Ragthor, it seems that they are working together." I said to her.

" I see, do you know if anyone is alive, in this world?"

" I don't, but to find out we need strength. What can you do?" I asked her.

" I can create and control earth and anything related to it can be controlled to, but with lesser skill, the more it differences from earth."

" Good, can you use it for offensive and do you have a system?" I asked her.

" No I don't have a system and I don't know how good i will be at attacking. But my god told me that I grow stronger the closer and more control I gain over earth." She told me.

" So you get stronger by training your powers and I get stronger by killing and eating. That's a good combo. Stay here and train, I have to get us another tree to burn." I ordered her, as I walked towards the ice, protecting us from the outside.

I left the cave, to go chop down some wood. I didn't want to chop it down close to the cave, as it might alert nightwalkers of our existence.

# Host has an unclaimed reward, would host like to claim it?# The system suddenly told me. Of course, I thought to myself, hopping the system could hear me.

# host has saved a person and has cleared first requirement of save the weak and has gained two skills. Host has gained ( water thread )and ( Ragnar's presence ).#

Show me the descriptions, I thought to myself.

# Water Threads= Create a water thread with mana that lasts forever. The thread can be used in infinite amount of ways, but one of its main purposes is to empower the user, with extra strength.#

# Ragnar's Presence = For everyday host stays at the same place, Ragnar's presence will strengthen it. It will protect host and his friend from corruption, nightwalkers and any other threats. The longer you stay at a place the better.#

Both of them seem op, with a lot of potential. Maybe I will even survive this, just maybe. Deciding to test out water thread, I impulsively created a water thread, to cut down a tree. The thread went through the tree, like a hot knife would go through butter.

The tree collapsed and created a bunch of noise. Alerting me and all the nightwalkers close. Creating more water threads, I made them tie themself to the tree and created wings to fly away. But as the kid I am, I also created threads and attached them to the trees around. What I didn't think would happen, happened. Tens of nightwalkers rushed to the noise and were cut to pieces with the threads. I was shocked, but didn't want their death to be wasted. So I collected all of them with my threads and flew back to the cave.

~Pov mc~ (First person)

Staying in this ships was getting annoying. It was the size of a bus. Meaning we didn't really have a lot of space. Thankfully we would arrive at Julias destination shortly. Xelena seemed happy about it, she was in a very good mood after all.

My apostle just received my reward, for his mission. Giving him Ragnar's presence was expensive, but it was worth it. The benefits he and I would get from it, was way beyond what I spent. My first worshiper was doing fine, not a single casualty. She was A+ rank and most of her followers C rank, so their strength was solid. So I don't have to worry about her for now. What I need to worry about, is securing earth. It's weakness was crucial for my success.

~Time skip~

" We have arrived." Bennett screamed, to me, while I rested.

" Great, where is she." I asked.

" Outside, talking to Xelena." He told me, with a goofy smile.

" So she isn't corrupted, that's great." A huge weight was just lifted from my shoulders. I left Bennett and ran outside, to greet Julia. She noticed me arriving.

" I'm guessing you are here for the favor I promised you." She said to me.

" You are correct. The favor I ask of you, is to join my pantheon, as your daughter already has." I said to her, flashing her a giant smile, from ear to ear.

" I did say I would do anything you asked, so I don't have much choice. Fine I will join your pantheon. Whats it's name." She asked.

" It's Ragthor." I said, as she froze. Fear crept on to her face, as she distanced herself away from me.

" Who are you." She asked in a serious tone, scaring Xelena and Bennett.

I'm Ragnar, ancient god of water. I was trapped for millions of years, degrading from my once glorious 12/12 peak Existence about to become a celestial. I was once one of the 8 supreme of the forth dimension part of the pantheon. But we lost to norse mythology." I said to her, in the same serious tone as her.

( Author here: no more chapters today! This is way earlier then it usually is, because it's my mom's birthday party tomorrow/ when i wake up, so I won't have time to write it then. So enjoy this early chapter. Also I'm thinking of increasing the amount of words per chapter to 2k instead. 1,2k is just so short. Anyways gn author out :) )