Chapter 187 Training

"To be precise you access the pure flow of time itself, like all other creatures who can manipulate time!" it told Ragnar.

"Then, am I supposed to train there until I've reached the seventh dimension?" Ragnar asked.

"Yes, but I recommend saying something to your friends! In pure time, time wont be stopped and the original timeline, that being you will still let time move. In other words, time will pass for your friends and yourself. Though you can control how fast you want it to move." it told Ragnar.

"Then I will tell them immediately!" Ragnar said.

He was dismissed and left quickly. In the small time he was away from his time he could breathe. But he would return once more and say his final goodbyes.

Ragnar's blue hair had turned black, a more natural color, while he had grown a beard again. The beard was black and so was his eyes. His skin wasn't black, but a pale white instead. Other then that, nothing had really changed. He was still morphing his body whenever he felt like it, as he wasn't truly restricted to his appearance. But he still chose to stay in his pure form, as it was him.

Cronus neutral realm started shaking ever so slightly. Small cracks appeared in the middle of the grass field, where two people were sitting in silence. Comforting one another with their presence.

A ripped man, with one eye and wings was combing the hair of a women. She had blue hair blue eyes and almost looked like an old women version of Ragnar.

Both started frowning when they felt the crack, due to the familiarity of the cracks. Those were the same cracks that had cursed their dimensions long ago. The man stopped combing the women's hair and stood up. He wore a smile on his face and walked towards the crack.

"You weren't even gone for an hour my friend!" the buff man said, reaching for a hug. His request wasn't denied and he was embraced by whoever arrived.

"How're you holding up?" his friend asked.

"Not to bad, of course we're mourning, but it could be worse. You know the drill Ragnar, us higher beings don't view death as something entirely bad. The sweet release of death is better then eternal suffering. Which, no offense, your ex would a hundred percent do. I mean, she even enjoyed torturing you!" the man said.

"Yeah, I'm just happy the two of you survived and Julia of course. The three of you, especially you Bennett are my oldest friends. I wouldn't trade the three of you for anything!" The man known as Bennet's friend said.

"Stop it Ragnar, you're making me blush and Xelena annoyed." Bennet said.

The two walked towards Xelena and they greeted each other. Ragnar was stiff under the whole ordeal, until he could leave. He had talked to everyone, including the titans who survived instead of Mirella. While he failed to find Leif. He was nowhere! Not in the first, second, third, fourth, or fifth dimension. Even the sixth dimension had no Leif. It worried Ragnar to no end. But he still had hope, some realm could be hiding him.

Ragnar left for his training for the last time, leaving his friends behind. Now he was ready to cast aside his weakness and embrace his strength.

~Pov Kay~ (Third person)

A dark haired maniac walk along the streets. It was raining outside and small lamps lit up the dark streets. Few vehicles passed him from time to time. No other being walked along the side walk other then him. But if there was, they would have an umbrella. As the rain was pouring furiously.

"Eat, eat, eat!" it hissed. Unbeknownst to the mortals of this relatively normal world the creature walking along their streets was a monstrous entity. Thousands of realms, full with innocent had fallen at its whims and more would fall. It was purely acting on instinct. But somehow it had stepped into some weird portal and now it was stuck here. No power, no staff. It was at its lowest. Yet it still wanted food.

So the creature once known as Kay walked and walked. Hoping it would find something to consume.

But even after walking for hours, it found nothing. As a matter fact, it was walking away from its food and was slowly being starved. It eyes were red and it was going crazy, more crazy then it already was. It was having hunger strikes and ate trees, grass and stone. Anything it could bite into became a source of nutrition. But it wasn't enough, it needed to eat people! Living beings, it wanted their suffering and guilt. It preyed on their emotions. The only way it could feel anything other then hunger was when it was eating a living being alive.

Days passed and Kay was in the middle of the forest, eating dirt. He had dug a whole, using his mouth. It was over twelve meters deep and all that dirt was inside his mouth. The problem was, his powers were sealed and his hole was wide. Meaning there was no way out. It would take a time to eat himself out.

While he was mindlessly eating deeper and deeper a young boy was playing with his friend in the forest. Two sticks connected with one another, as the two played with their sticks. A sword duel was taking place and unluckily for them, Kay heard them. He roared with all his might. His roar wasn't human. It was like a starved beast craving for food.

The two kids flinched and started running. They didn't stop until they reached their home.

The duo talked to their parents about what happened, but they were dismissed. The parents said it was their imagination and not to worry. So after some convincing they believed that it was just their imagination.

Unbeknownst to the parents it was imagination and the being they ran from was currently eating its way out of a hole.

Kay ate and ate, until his stomach bursted and healed again. Then he ate even more. He slowly reached the surface and the second he did he followed the smell of food. The children's path was pathetically traceable and it managed to find them in no time.

Kay reached a small neighborhood of several humans. Not a single bird, or other kind of animal obscured its path. Like the only creatures left in this world were the humans.

Kay wasn't exactly subtle with his arrival. The first thing he did was howl like a feral beast and rush towards the closest human. But his face caved in from a stick hitting his face. He hit a tree and looked up. In front of him were several humans holding different kinds of weapons.

"Is some monster controlling him, or is he just that ugly?" one of the humans asked. The response to his question became clear when Kay hissed at him.

"I guess a monster. Let's save him then. In front of the father, all beings are equal. We must help him!" one of the men said and the others nodded.

"Bring me a rope and holy water, let's hope it's not to late!"

"We must release this man from the devil's grasp!" another screamed. The children stayed in the back and watched with curiosity, as they dragged the screaming beast away.

A man carried a small cross and bound the beast to an even bigger cross. In his hand was a bucket of water, while a book was in the same hand as the cross.

"We gather here today...." the man began chanting. More and more people gather around, some carrying their own buckets of holy water. The process took hours of work, until they finally reached the end.

All the water was dumped on Kay who screamed like they were burning him alive. Weird chants were uttered by the humans, as he screamed in pain.

Slowly the ritual came to an end. Kay no longer had red eyes. His hair was black and his eyes blue. He was human like them. But the most astonishing thing, he was free, free from that staff.

"The sin known as gluttony controls you no longer! The father has saved you, like he has saved us all!" a man in black an white clothing said. He wore a cross on his neck, like a neckless. He was in some weird buildings with paintings on the ceiling. At the end of the weird building was a sculpture of a man on a cross. He was nailed to the cross and his head was down, almost like he had already died and accepted it.

"Where are we?" Kay managed to ask.

"We are within the sacred wall of god. His grace bless us in this very place, the church. Here we stand in front of God and accept his grace and wisdom." the man in white and black said.

"Wherever we are doesn't matter! You helped me, for that you have my eternal gratitude!" Kay said and the man smiled.

"I have helped no one, it's God's wish, not mine. I simply follow the path me has made for me!" the man said. Kay was a bit weirded out by the man but didn't say anything. In the end he was his savior.

"I will be back to this place and thank this God you speak of!" Kay said and walked out of the building. Passing a bunch of wooden sofas on his way out.

Outside of the church was a crowd of people. They greeted him with smiles.

"Have you accepted the lord and savior as your one true god?" one of the children said. The adults laugh at the young ones strong belief.

"Not yet, I'm a believer of equal exchange. If it's worship it wants from me, then its worship it I'll get!" Kay told the child and it laughed excitedly.

Kay took a step forward and the ground caved in. Creating a crater around him, five meters wide and three deep. His could feel his strength returning. But not the corruption of the staff. That was long gone.

"We defeated you? How?" one of the men asked and Kay smiled.

"My powers are sealed, but they're returning right now. Hopefully I'll be back to full strength in no time. But the most important thing, I hope I can control that power!" Kay said and walked away.

The next day he returned to the church and walked past the people in the small village. Reaching the church after a minute of walking.

He opened the door and saw a winged creature standing next to the man from last night.

"Are you Kay? My lord has requested that you serve him for the rest of time! It would be wise not to refuse. The father is forgiving, but I'm not. I'd rather go to hell as a fallen angle then allow someone use my father!" the winged creature told him. Kay wanted to smack the things face. But he could feel the power difference. Kay is stronger, when at full strength. But right now he wasn't anywhere near that level. His 73 layer wasn't worth mentioning right now. He wasn't even 1 layer.

"I will be a friend and ally of your father. Doesn't mean I'll be some sort of servant." Kay said calmly. He had no plans to become some slave of God. His loyalty somewhat belonged to Ragthor. But when he finds out 'Ragnar destroyed' Ragthor, when God tells him. He will be loyal to God.

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