Arc 2 Chapter 178 A Trick

Ragnar stood in his realm, unaware of the events going on inside his pantheon. His connection to the outside was currently not stable, just like his realm. He was doing everything in his power to remake it and even improve it.

(Meanwhile)

"Bendox, run!" Xelena screamed, panic evident in her voice. A raging tsunami was approaching Bendox where he stood. But in the end the speed at which the blood moved didn't allow him to even react at his mother's words.

Xelena watched as the blood ocean connected with her son and made him part of its current. "Noooo!" She screamed, her voice cracking. Bennet grabbed her shoulder and dragged her out of there. They had to get out of the realm before it was completely consumed.

The realm at which the ocean was created was but one of billions of realms. Thankfully this made it slightly slow down and allowed some to escape to other realms. Yggdrasil's roots, that connected to all realms took the first hit. As the blood washed over the roots they became blood too.

The realm was slowly filling up more and more and started to leak. Small drops of blood fell on the fifth dimensionals all over the pantheons realm. They screamed in pain as they became part of an ocean of blood. Like that the ocean expanded into the different realm. More and more fell victim to its power. The worst part was, their souls seemed to disappear with it.

A small lake was being formed out of blood inside the main pantheon realm, where gods, giants, titans and celestials a like lived. They quickly became fuel to the blood, as it grew and grew. Soon it started to approach Yggdrasil, the tree standing tall in the pantheon, for all to see.

Many watched in horror, as a tsunami of blood rushed towards Yggdrasil and before they knew it, it was submerged. Seconds later the wave passed by and when it left, nothing was there. All who ones the being mourned its death, for but a brief moment, before returning to duty. The celestials evacuated the gods and the titans, the giants. None would be left to fend for themself, if their fate wasn't sealed.

Slowly the tsunami calmed down and the realms turned silent. All beings that the ocean could reached had been killed and those left floated in the skies, far away from the ocean. The weird thing was, the blood itself didn't seem to follow the rules of this realm. It had gravity, otherwise why wasn't it attacking them?

Out of all the beings in the realm, only one percent had survived. Many of the first beings of the pantheon had died, consumed by the blood. Julia's children, Xelenas children and the most devastating loss, Yggdrasil.

"Where is Ragnar!?" Xelena yelled at Julia who was contemplating in the sky. They had gained a minute of rest and were using it to recuperate and get ready for what's to come.

"He's in his realm! I'll go and get him!" Ratri said, appearing next to them with 230 sixth dimensional beings with her.

"Who are you!?" Xelena demanded and Ratri glanced at her with slight amusement.

"Your personality is like Ragnar described it mam. As to who I am, I'm Ragnar's friend!" Ratri said and left the scene, leaving the sixth dimensional beings to defend the survivors.

Ratri instantly appeared next to Ragnar's realm and did something similar to knocking on the door. Some seconds later Ragnar appeared in front of of her with a smile that died quickly. From being happy about getting a visit, to depressed in a second. He could finally see what was happening outside of his realm. Without wasting a second he teleported to the survivors. There were many, but not enough. He also noted that some of his closes friends were missing. One of them being Yggdrasil.

"Where's Yggdrasil?" He asked, gaining the attention of his friends around him."

"He's dead, like many others!" Elin said, not lessening the sting in the slightest.

As they were talking the blood started to bubble and pop. Then out of nowhere weird creatures out of blood were formed. Without hesitation the sixth dimensional beings killed all of them. But more and more emerged from the ocean of blood that only seemed to grow with each death. Soon enough omni omni omni omni trillions of monster made out of blood attacked the survivors. About eight of the monsters were sixth dimensional and warned the survivors of whats to come.

With each passing minute more and more blood monsters emerged from the blood ocean and with each death the ocean grew. Before they knew it there was more sixth dimensional beings of blood then of normal origin. The blood ocean reached Ragnar's Realm and it was torn to shreds. Thankfully it was but a manifestation of it, at this point. The clusters of realms, connected to one another started to break and each realm started to be invaded by the outside dimensions. But the blood was still going strong.

More and more of the people in Ragthor died, one after another. Their numbers dwindled to a stunning amount. At some point they reached the millions. Many of the survivors were having emotional breakdowns. All the death and destruction had broken many of the weaker minds.

"What do we do? Is this it, is this how we die?" Isabella asked Ragnar, as she grabbed Ragnar's arm and tugged it slightly.

"Of course it isn't, I'll think of something, I promise!" Ragnar said and tried to pat her head. But as he reached for her, a gigantic racier sharp spider leg pierced her stomach and dragged her away, bringing her towards the blood.

Ragnar tried to fight the spider like leg, but to no avail. He lacked the strength to even scratch it. But that didn't seem to be the end. More and more spider legs came out from the blood ocean and then came the body. With it, a weird figure standing on its human like shoulder. The spider like being had billions of legs, but only one upper body. One of a female women, but with a slight grey paleness to it. 'Archness!" Ragnar thought, as he saw the creature.

"That can't be, Ragnar we have to run, now! That being is in the 100th layer, about to ascend. It's only staying here, so it can kill us!" Ratri yelled when she saw the creature. But that wasn't what scared her, not it was the thing on the shoulder. A human like figure. It was slightly taller then most humans though. Twelve meters tall, weird arms and a crooked smile on its face, showing its thousands of teeth. Ragnar seemed to have a different reaction when he saw it.

"Alice?" He asked, as the red hooded figure looked at him. It bore a terrifying resemblance to Alice, the only difference was the enhanced body parts.

"Alice, hang in there I'll save you!" Ragnar screamed and launched towards her.

The being smiled as Ragnar approached. Before he realized it, he was missing an arm and came crashing down on the Archness. On his collision against the Archness he was trapped by its spider like legs.

He didn't scream in pain, despite the fact that he felt those injuries like a human would. They actually injured him.

Ragnar stood up and fought back against the thousands of legs attacking him, crawling towards Alice.

"Hold on Alice, I'll get you out of here!" He yelled, but was interrupted by a leg going through the back of his head, all the way out of his mouth.

Alice laughed at his pitiful appearance and walked up to him. She crouched down and let one of her slim pale fingers touch his face. "Dëãr, how pathetic must you be?" She asked, her words sounding like one of a demon. While the rest of her words had her sweet usually voice that Ragnar loved so much.

Her slim finger traced his face all the way to his mouth, before she said.

"Why did you leave me?" She asked, her voice sounding hurt. Ragnar cried and tried to refute, but was interrupted. "Why did you chose her over me?" She asked, before her face turned ugly and she said. "Thât dįšgùštįñg bįtçh, śërvïñg Jûštīçe!" The demon voice said as she suddenly grabbed Ragnar's head and forced him into a kiss. The kiss turned deadly quickly, as her tongue acted like a knife carving up Ragnar's mouth and throat, going even deeper. Splitting his stomach open.

Ragnar cried and yelled. "I would never do that to you, why are you saying that. Its not funny Alice. We can play later, we have to leave now, it's dangerous here."

"No, no, no, you betrayed me, you, you wanted to hurt me and leave with her!" Alice said and pushed Ragnar away, tears streaming down her face, as she covered her eyes with her long arms.

Ragnar crawled back to her and said. "I would never hurt you! Please just come with me!" Ragnar begged and grabbed her legs, trying to stand up, using her as his support.

She hugged him tightly and said. "Sorry, I'm so sorry, I don't know what got into me, will you please forgive me?" She asked and Ragnar tightened his grip around her and said. "There is nothing to forgive, I love you!"

Alice grip tightened and she said. "I love you too, so much, so, so much!" Then she pushed Ragnar away and let the spider attack him again, destroying his body completely. "Jûšt kîddïñg!" She said with a sadistic smile plastered on her face. Ragnar's body completely regenerated seconds later and he was back in peak condition, his body that is.

"Please stop playing around, you can be naughty later!" Ragnar said, standing up. His spirit dwindling. This is the first time he lost a fight through the mind. He was a wreck. All the things up until now had been piling up and he couldn't accept the new reality.

"Don't you gét ít, you bétràÿèd mé!" Alice said and grabbed Ragnar by the throat. She lifted him effortlessly and starred him right in the eye. "Please Ragnar, we could have been forever! But it wasn't enough for you! You had to cheat on me with Justice, it even opened your fate and protected one of the time travelers you brought with you!" She said in her cute voice as tears fell down her face. "It could've been you and me against the world, I love you šœ šœ müčh, but you took it away from me, ÿœu štœle mÿ łœve àñd trēàtèd ït łîké dïrt!" She yelled and head-butted Ragnar.

"But don't worry, I'll kill everyone and trap those protected by irregularity. Then it can be you and me again, I want that, you want that right!?" She said in her sweet voice. Ragnar watched her, pain clear in his eyes.

"You're not Alice, you can't be Alice! That's right, you're Tickster! What did you do to her you monster!?" Ragnar roared, as he attacked Alice over and over again. Or was it trickster. Who knows.

A slap with enough force to send Ragnar into the ocean hit him. He stopped himself right on the surface and for the first time in some minutes looked up, what he saw froze him. Ratri, Bitqrapro, Bennett, Julia, Mirella, Xelena, Leif, Elin, Unity and two peak titans. That was what's left.

Cronus words Rang in his head and in that second he made a decision.

"Cronus take all my friends and leave one of the titans behind!" He yelled and Cronus appeared. But he seemed very annoyed.

"Ragnar, do you have any idea how much trouble you've caused me, by calling me here?"

"Oh my, is that you Cronus. Last time I saw you was in a different.."

"Shut up you wretched monster. Trickster, do you really think I haven't kept tabs on this thing you referred to as daughter for a while?"

(Author here: who's your favorite character. Mines Alice, such a nice girl :) author out :) )