Arc 2 “The Eternal Fight For Power” Chapter 148 Foolish And Young

~Pov Ragnar~ (First person)

Time passes in the blink of an eye. I'm already at the twentieth layer. About eight million years have passed in the real world. But quadrillions have been spent in my dream scape, in Cronus chambers and Nyx realm. It has honed my powers and skills.

I have a whole army under me now and I'm about to launch a assault on a pantheon with another sixth dimensional being. The plan is to make it serve my pantheon. A tool of war for the future. This will also be a test for everyone. Be it my own perfectly trained soldiers, or the army Elin, Yggdrasil and Julia started. Or just the pantheon as a whole. I've already denied Alice from participating and I will only participate when their sixth dimensional celestial does.

So with that in mind, I sent out the first army. It's a mix of my trainees and the pantheon. They will learn to cooperate, or die trying.

~Pov ?~ [Place; somewhere in the fifth dimension] (Third person)

" Hey, aren't you exited? This is the first ever official war the pantheon has ever launched. I heard the leader will personally lead us in the end of the war!" An exited celestial said. He was a mid tier celestial officer. Nothing much in the grand scheme of things, but still impressive.

" I guess." The man that the celestial was talking to said. He didn't seem exited like the others. They were all cheering, happy to be part of a war. 'Foolish' the man thought. 'They are just children' was the conclusion he came to. They had no idea of the heavy price of war. Sadly he had. He was a celestial lord, who came from outside the pantheon to begin with. He was under Elin for a long time, but later requested a leave. Wanting to leave the life of war behind. Yet here he was, waiting to ambush an innocent pantheon. Without being told any reasons other than follow your orders. "Shouldn't be so hard, right soldier?" A titan had told him, sneering at him for questioning their purpose. It infuriated the man. How dare a weak titan question his words. If he wasn't a high rank member of the leaders city thing. The man would have most likely separated the titans eight heads and showed it up the titans bum.

" Oy, old man stop being such a kill joy. Why can't you be like the rest of us. Party, like you did in the good old times. We're about to have a great harvest after all." A drunk celestial said, while taking another sip of concentrated Orga titan pee.

" Don't say harvest, your talking about life, be it titan or celestial. You speak so lightly of taking the life of another being. Yet you don't have the eyes of a killer. Are you sure you'll be taking it so lightly, as life fades away from their soul and fear becomes their reality?" The old man said, he had grown tired of their rude barbaric behavior. Why had he been placed here, to spite him. To end the affairs with him, to end his life. Is this how the faction leaders treat their retired soldiers? The man grumbled to himself, as he lost all faith in the current generation. 'Is this the only way? Raising a generation through hardship?' He thought to himself, watching the children laugh and party all night long. Unaware of the hurriedness future that would shatter the way they saw life, be it another ones, or their own.

The time was near and the partying celestials had calmed themself. Now they were awaiting orders from the general. When he sounded the alarm they were to attack.

Like predicted, a horn announced the beginning. Celestials yelled their war cries, to give themself a rush of courage, or to simply hype themselves.

Within the first second, the barrier of stars between them and the enemy was blow apart and a swarm of celestials met at each side. Somehow the enemy reacted to them quick enough to make a defense worthy of their pantheon.

The first blood went to the enemy, as they chopped of the head of a Ragthor celestial. The blood of the celestial hit his ally, frightening the poor thing. Resulting in it being killed.

A sphere of celestials from two sides were being formed. One of the enemy and the other being Ragthor. The problem was simple really. The sphere of celestials being formed mixed the enemy and the ally. This resulted in mass confusion from the celestials in Ragthor. With it came the inevitable. The first friendly fire occurred. As a man accidentally killed his drinking partner from the day before. Shortly after he was killed by the enemy celestial he was supposed to kill.

Overwhelming numbers, overwhelming strength and an ambush. Yet Ragthor was losing. This was an undeniable fact that some of the Ragthor celestials were forced to understand.

Young, full of fear and their skill weren't honed over the years, like the enemy. They were virgins when it came to a real battle. Just like the old man had predicted.

The old man watched all of it happen. He saw the piss drinker get stabbed through the heart and die. Regrettable, but understandable. It was meant to be. He would come back to life again. His soul wasn't destroyed.

In rage the piss drinker's friend attacked the celestial and managed to kill him. But the old man saw something. The angered friend grabbed the soul of the enemy. In fear of what's to come, the old man rushed towards the friend while screaming " stop!" But it was already to late and the soul was destroyed. The first soul destroyed. Upon it, the whole battlefield stopped. All watched the friend who got his revenge, but what he started from it. It was unacceptable.

" Data rigkt adht darr!" An enemy commander screamed at his men. Just like that, the enemy attacked to kill the soul not the body. If a being died now, it was over.

The friend was the first victim. He was pierced from several places and his soul was ripped to shreds. After that, the enemy ruthlessly slaughtered the opposition, leaving no room for retaliation.

The old man watched it all. He was trembling, but he didn't wish t watch his people die. So he finally took action.

The old mans powers were enough to change the tide of the war. But he fought at two fronts. He fought his ally's and enemy alike, until he made them all stop. They were to tired to go on. Sadly more than half of the enemy forces were dead and Ragthor wasn't looking that hot either.

" Surender yourselves to Ragthor peacefully and we won't hurt any of you." The old man said, trying to end this at a happy note.

" You don't get to make that call!" Someone said, gaining the old mans attention. When he saw who dared to order him, he smashed the celestial to pieces and trapped his soul.

" Anyone else wish to defy me?" The old man asked, watching both sides like a hawk. Neither saying a word.

" Good, Ragthor handcuff them and if any weird business is attempted I will not hesitate to take the life of the guilty." He said, finally calming down.

So many innocent lost, because of the failure of a general and a group of foolish young celestials. The old man couldn't stand it, he didn't care if he was punished. If he was, the pantheon simply isn't worthy of him.

The prisoners were brought back to the pantheon and the survivors were to report what happened.

" The old man didn't help until almost all of us were dead and he killed the general and fought us just as he fought the enemy!" A celestial screamed to the titan king in front of him. He had no manners and a lot of guts. Sadly it would be the end for him. As he died the way he lived. Uselessly.

" I am aware of his actions and I agree with them, that is why I sent him after all. I trust him to make the right choice. Isn't that right old friend?" The titan jelly fish said.

" So you sent me back there, why?" The old man said, not denying the titans words.

" You are needed, you are one of the best commanders in history and high members of the city of Ragnar aren't trustworthy. Well that's my opinion, but is hasn't been proven wrong yet!"

" Why all of this, why don't we trust each other? Why are we fighting against people that has done us nothing wrong?"

" Sorry friend, I don not know. Never ones in my my life have I met the leader. He is a busy man! But I heard he used this first battle as an excuse for something and we all will sone be summoned. Good luck, I heard he got quite the mischievous personality!"

" What do you mean by th...."

[Army under high member 2315678 please come to the main pantheon realm. I repeat please come to the main pantheon realm!]

" That's your sign. Go get em tiger!" The jelly fish titan said, as it began swimming away. Leaving the terrified celestials behind. Everyone in the pantheon had heard the call. There was no way to evade it.

So the old man took the lead and created a portal to the main pantheon realm. Appearing in the first city. Where Yggdrasil once stood. But now only his roots were left.

" Thank you all for coming everyone but Sxarty stay here. Sxarty, come with me. The leader awaits you.

The old man followed the suspicious man who ordered him and he was led to a room. It was lightly lit, with two chairs. It felt infinite dark going in every direction, other than the table.

" Sxarty sit down!" A man said, carrying a bot of tea. The old man did as told and sat down. He didn't dare deny the orders of the man in front of him.

" Sorry Sxarty, I'm planning to use your successful, yet failed attempt to conquer a part of the enemy pantheon to start a movement of sort. I wish for these people to be our allies. But I don't trust them to be loyal allies. So instead I'm conquering their pantheon, making them part of mine. But for them to want to be loyal, hatred is a big no no! So I used this army that you were part of, as an example of sorts. I knew jt would fail like this you see. It is necessary for the greater good. Now I can enforce the role of no destroying souls and I will make it illegal to do so. This way we can stop the enemy and our future ally from hating us so much. But for that, I need to use you all as examples. Now I'm not planing to kill you all or anything. No, I will make you a role model for the younger generation. This will come with glory and power, so you aren't losing out on it. But it will be a lot of pressure on your shoulders!"

" Why me?" The old man asked, he was no one significant. Why would he be offered such opportunity

" See it as luck. Your friend talked to Elin at just the right moment and I sent you to the war. So you better thank that cute little Jelly fish!"

" Little?" The old man asked, not willing to call that thing little.

" Well it's not even a fraction of Cronus size, or the other titans of all. Who are the current, kinda power houses of the pantheon. Anyways, Sxarty, what do you say. Yes or no?"

" Yes, yes I'll do it. Even if I don't understand the reason why it's needed to be done."

" Good p, than I will be counting on you!"

(Author here: as promised a war is starting. It will be better written than my first war and wont be as long! It will most likely be longer. As the chapters than were a thousand words and the ones now are 2k and I will at least have fifteen chapters around this war. So hey, look forward to that :) anyways write a review if you feel like it, or maybe give me your daily limited power stones. Anyways have a great day, author out :) )