Chapter 143 Time Is Complicated

I waited and waited. The fighting was intensifying, like I remembered it. A problem I had failed to notice, when I was fighting this war was the giants. Even in death, their bodies were used as weapons and shields, by the other giants. A young me would say it was cruel, but me nowadays, would say It's brilliant. Using a dead man, to save another. A honorable use of a body.

Some day went by, with me doing nothing and finally young me decided to take a break. It was at the time when I suspected the general of wanting me dead. So I called in sick. Hilarious if you ask me. But the important thing about this is one thing. On the very ship I stand on, a friendship, that I treasure till this day will take it's bloom. For it is on this ship I met Paarthadox.

While young me was unconscious, I walked towards the cabin Xelena and Bennett stayed in. When I entered they seemed to be playing games. A card game, where they placed a card on the table and a illusion would form. It looked fun. I made my hair golden black and removed the beard. As for my body, it was different enough, they wouldn't recognize me as Ragnar. My soul is better then young me, in every way.

As the root of the door moved, I entered the room. My intrusion caught the attention of the couple.

" Who are you?" Xelena asked, her tone was anything but friendly. But I just smiled at her, friendliness is the key to any friendship.

" I'm son of Bjorne, my name is unimportant. I'm here to meet a friend, but it seems he hasn't arrived yet. Care if I join your little game?"

" No, if that's all you can leave now!" Xelena said, while Bennett was being submissive as always. I smiled at that, using a tactic I knew would work.

" Oh, I didn't know you two were having a moment. I can return in ten minutes if you want to." I said, using my sheer willpower not to laugh.

" We were not!" Xelena denied vigorously. Falling right into the obvious trap I set up for her.

" Good, then I will join you two." I said, taking a chair and sitting down in between them.

The next minutes were spent in silence as we played the game. I dominated them in every way possible. It was so sad, that Xelena attacked me out of frustration. But yet again the result was not to her liking. As she got her hands bloodied with her own blood, by punching my face.

As a angry Xelena took out her anger on the furnitures in the room, a man appeared in the middle of the room.

At his appearance Xelena stopped in her tracks and starred him in the eyes for some seconds. Before running up to him and hugging him.

" Paarthadox, your here."

" Yes I am, who's the guy staring at me, like he saw the ghost of his long lost friend?" His accuracy is terrifying, but hey, who cares.

" Paarthadox bringer of the hell flame, may I have a word with you?"

" Sure, let's go somewhere private. Like my realm for example." Paarthadox said, grabbing me and forcefully bringing me into a fiery pit of hell.

" Why the hell are you here?" Paarthadox asked.

" Well, I wanted to travel back in time, for about some years. But I managed to get to the beginning my journey with my powers nowhere to be found."

" Why the hell would you mess with time?"

" Sorry, but you said to me to make a deal with time when the time is right. Then the next time I come to visit you, you're gone!"

" I said that? Wait I'm gone. I was in the halls of chaos right."

" Yes."

" Sorry Ragnar, I do not know why I would do that. I am not future me. Just know this, I am not dead!"

" Okey, but what do I do now."

" Who taught you to do this thing, going back in time and all that. Find it and make it teach you how to travel time. But before going your marry way, stop your young self from going back in time and offer yourself to him. Become a part of him, before you disappear. It will give him your memories, without the past changing. In other words, you won't be trapped in a time paradox. But I have to warn you Ragnar, the first times are painful! That will be all, good luck and don't come near your young self or friends! I'll just tell them you left, goodbye." Paarthadox told me, before leaving.

Following his footsteps I also left. I had one goal in mind for the moment and it was finding Cronus. But to do that, I would have to find the realm of greek mythology. Thankfully I have a hidden connection to it, even through time, thanks to Cronus. So I will have no problems finding.

With my goal in mind and my compass, I traveled through the verse. Until I arrived. The tricky thing about a realm is That it's everywhere, yet only at one place.

After two years, I finally arrived at the pantheon, the rest was easy. As I already knew where he was. When I entered the cave, he was surprised by seeing me. He had not predicted the visit of any being, as the realm was emptied of everything that could be defined as intelligent life forms.

" Who are you?" He asked.

" I'm Ragnar and I need your help."

" First you will have to help me, if you want my help."

" Yeah yeah, destroy the thrones release you, blah, blah blah. Listen in about six hundred thousand years I will do that, I'm a time traveler that you taught, in a way. I came here for your help to return. You will probably remember this in the future, even when I erase this from happening in the future. So you can ask for something then, if you feel like what you have isn't enough."

" Fine, I know your not lying, you reek of time travel. So what do you need help with?"

With that I explained to Cronus what I needed his help with and he taught me new things. How to use my powers more efficiently and all that good stuff. It took some years, but I got the hang of thing's eventually.

" I will see you in the future then!"

" Yes, good luck Ragnar." Cronus said, as he sat down. Ready to wait another six hundred thousand years, before getting freed.

I left the place and traveled back while traveling forward at the same time. I traveled to the point when I was about to travel and appeared in front of my younger self.

" Who are you?"

" I'm you, who traveled in time. Don't do it, trust me. Instead fuse with me!" I said, making me think about it for a second, before I said.

" Sure." Then the two of us fused.

(Third person)

Ragnar kneeled down in pain. A headache worse then anything he had ever felt in his life. He relived every moment of his life, good or bad. Even the trial of time was relived. But then he started experiencing memories he didn't have. How he had been trapped in the past, his powers gone. With no way home. How he had sought out Paarthadox and then Cronus. How Cronus had taught him to use his powers, actually control them.

It was then Ragnar understood the extent of his powers. He a sun dinosaur in the making, had a power similar to a time raptor. It sent shivers down his spine, from the potential of this powers. Maybe in the future, he could even travel the times, when nightwater wasn't a thing. Through the eternal normal flow of the night. Borrowing from Nyx domain. Ragnar was getting antsy from the excitement he was feeling.

But he was brought back to reality when he realized one thing. He still didn't have the one answer he was searching for. Why did Paarthadox leave and where is he?

~Pov Cronus~ (Third person)

'It is time to start working.' Cronus thought to himself, as he stood up. He is a being of time, sealing someone like him was pretty much impossible. Yet zeus did it somehow. He sealed a creature connected to existence through infinite timelines. It would be enough for just one Cronus to not get sealed and the rest would have been freed. Never been chained to begin with. Cronus was going to chain start this event now. Sending his younger self out to free everyone that was captured and make a force ready to help Ragnar fight norse mythology.

The more people think about Cronus powers, the more fearful they would become. A being with infinite versions of itself scattered through time. A being that would never fight with itself, working for a grand purpose. Ready to die for another of it's time versions to succeed.

Fun fact, it was thanks to Cronus beings of time were banned from the sixth dimensional beings. There used to be a own version of time. Just like the hundred Celestials, hundred titans and the hundred? But they were removed once they realized what they were capable of.

What no being knew was that Cronus could become seventh dimensional at anytime. But he didn't want the limitations of the position. After all, he was the strongest being in the dimensions and nothing could stop him. Not even the all knowing.

Cronus traveled back in time, to the first day he was sealed and looked at his younger version. It looked back at him and smiled, before saying.

" Ragnar released you?"

" Yes, yes he did!"

" I will begin the chain release then. Go back to helping him. We can't have him know of the infinite versions of us yet."

" Good luck, zeus is still alive, but you can kill him. For norse mythology to se what is coming they'd have to ascend. So we don't need norse mythology, or greek mythology to be alive in a separate timeline." Cronus said, before returning to his current time and the only one Ragnar was in."

Hundreds of Cronus'e's stormed the pantheon in different timelines making their mission easy. They became like a swarm of insects. But with the power to destroy reality as we knew it.

" How, who, who is the fool who released you." A white haired man said, coughing up golden blood, in his final breath.

" Son, if you think I would let you catch me, without having a plan to escape. How foolish you have become. You truly are as weak as I remember you!" One of the many Cronus'e's in the room said, while laughing at his timeline Zeus, who thought he had the upper hand. But just a day after capturing his father, he returned with a army of himself.

This insident was repeating itself all over the infinite timelines and the all knowing were going Crazy.

" Ragnar, that bastard. He released Cronus, the time monster."

" What are we going to do? We can't stop the bastard and he won't stop. Are we just supposed to watch him destroy everything?"

" Shut up, you must be new here kid. Cronus wont destroy everything. He's gathering his power's. His making a infinite army, he will use to protect Ragnar if needed. But that's the real problem!"

" Things are becoming very complicated!"

" Yes and can somebody tell me why he doesn't just ascend to the seventh dimension?"

" Because, we don't know. We only know he has a reason to stay, other than feeling invincible."

Meanwhile Cronus was laughing at them in every timeline.

" Hahahahahaha, those damn bastards are going crazy."

(Author thoughts: hope you like the chapter. Things will now return to normal for a bit, I won't overcomplicate everything yet. Hope you liked the chapter and consider giving power stones or write a review. Have a great day everyone author out :) )