Chapter 31 : God of Speed

"Where is this guy... I've been searching this village for a while and STILL can't find him..." the boy thought to himself while observing the buildings and going towards a stand of food and there seeing two men sitting one beside another.

"No way it's this easy... How are these Gods even considered hidden if they're so easily discoverable..."

Recognizing Hermes was the one on the right because of his shoes with wings alongside his white attire and the one of the left being Tithonus due to the large scar on his naked and uncovered back.

He imbued his palms with lightning and touched the ground, making the lightning go around the entire area unnoticed.

Looking left and right, there were a lot of people, a lot of potential witnesses...

"Ah fuck it."

Satoru took the axe off his back and in a blink appeared behind Hermes, aiming to swing his axe and cut his head off horizontally. He went for the strike but to his surprise, Hermes ducked under the strike as he vanished and reappeared behind Satoru with Tithonus, oppositely standing from him.

"So you're the one going around and killing the 9 Gods..." They started laughing, and as they were, they didn't notice the flickers of the previously placed lightning on the area. The flickers got close to Hermes and the wings on his shoes caught on fire and got burnt off, slowing him down in the long run.

The boy heard them continue speaking : "We know who you are... We can practically smell it off you. The son of the Insect Goddess and the God of the Wilderness." Satoru upped his guard.

Tithonus added to that : "It's too bad that both of them were killed... Karoi was weak compared to Ra anyway!" they both began laughing once again.

He couldn't explain it until now, until going to purposefully sense it, but Satoru felt that there was a psychic link between him and Karoi, something that allowed him to sense his presence.

The link, however, he didn't feel.

It was something similar, but different at the same time. 

As if a new link was forged.

Despite not knowing him long, he felt as if Karoi was a much better and more caring father figure than Ishoki ever was, so that angered him.

Satoru grew to be pissed off and angry. Furious even.

His aura changed as did the presence of his in that district. His body began to be engulfed in lightning, similar to that of Storm Cloak but it wasn't. It most definitely wasn't that. His eyes followed up next.

Not only did the pupils change, but the entire eyeballs themselves started to glow a light blue color, a color which looked just like lightning itself. No doubt, it was something uncontrollable.

It was...

[+ Rage of Thunder]

[Requirements : Tremendous anger and hate alongside the affinity of lightning itself and Godliness]

[Strength and speed : Unknown]

[Obtainability : Anger, Transfer...]

[Description : The uncontrollable urge of immense anger that envelops the user in thunder and uppes their physical attributes greatly whilst also lowering the damage they receive and over time healing them too.] 

In Hermes' eyes, Satoru was about to take a step and rush at him head on but... Before he could take the step, he vanished from his sight.

Not even a moment later, the boy appeared in front of him and hit the meanest uppercut he's ever thrown. Not only blitzing Tithonus but the God of Speed, who true wasn't at full power, but also launching him up into the air with the sheer strength as well.

Hermes regained his balance to a degree and tried to fly away with his shoes. Noticing only now, their wings were burnt off, rendering them useless.

Quickly taking off his axe, he threw it up into the sky and hit Hermes mid-air, making him fall onto a random strawberry cart and destroy it.

Instantly, his head turned to Tithonus and rushed at him. By the time he even made one step, not even being close to Tithonus, the deity started throwing punches even though none of them connected.

Having to focus was difficult for Satoru, very difficult in this state of anger. He avoided most of the punches but was hit by multiple, sending him sliding back. 

Creating a sword made out of pure energy, it embodying light, Tithonus swung thy blade and a flying slash of light at the white haired boy in front of him.

Trying to avoid it, as it was going directly at him, Satoru went to go move out of the way, but the visible flying slash still caught him and made a deep wound on his shoulder.

"FUCKING HOLLOWS!"

The slash of light didn't stop there, but continued on to behind Satoru and cut through 6 buildings like butter before expanding and exploding everything behind the boy in a circular like shape.

Before the next slash could be sent, Satoru leapt up into the air and forced down onto the position of his opponent, hardly being able to use Lightning Flicker which was more out of control than ever.

Aiming for his head, Tithonus barely ducked in time and Satoru hit the ground behind him, cracking it entirely and rising the cracked parts up into the air.

Quickly, he turned around and punched the ground performing True Thunder and releasing the waves of thunder that stunned and electrocuted his opponent.

Despite upholding it, he was still standing.

Being slightly slowed down because of his deep shoulder injury, Satoru got up and rushed at Tithonus, throwing barrages of punches at him which he dodged.

If there's one thing he's good at, it's dodging.

Not only that, but he could deliver counter strikes, even hitting the boy multiple times in the face and aiming for his already deeply wounded shoulder now.

An unexpected kick to his leg dropped him to his knee. Satoru jumped on his knee and performed a front flip off it, grabbing the sword on Tithonus' back and landing, seeing him get ready to charge up another slash. Before that was possible, he was impaled through the heart by his own sword.

"Finally..." Satoru said holding his shoulder whilst the Rage of Thunder form faded away. Before it entirely could, he could sense something quite hot nearby that even came at him, hitting his ankles and burning them.

Hermes' hollow ability.

Satoru yelped and activated the zapping, stunning Hermes greatly and stopping him from delivering more damage, approaching him slowly too.

The blood dripping from his shoulder ruined his shirt but he didn't really care about that. He didn't even see the people watching from their houses through the windows about what happened. Or simply, he didn't even care about that.

"W-Why are you d-doing this?" Hermes asked the boy and looking in his eyes.

Not uttering a word, warping his expression or even flinching a muscle, Satoru only looked him in his eyes with a cold look on his face.

"Y-You're lu-lucky..." murmured Hermes and the moment after the boy entirely blew up his head and despite the injuries, got down to one knee and collected the hollow energy, same with Tithonus.

Beginning to get up, he pulled his axe to himself and went to the store at the corner of the area which was a potions shop. Over the vault, crouching down was a guy, the clerk.

"Give me the best healing potion you have." Satoru said in a cold voice, demanding but also in a way asking.

The man quickly went to shelf and grabbed the potion on the far right of it. It was extra glowy too, the most glowing potion he had on that shelf row. "H-Here you go sir!" the man said, handing him the potion.

Satoru took it, opened it and drunk it then and there, tossing the empty glass back and leaving.

The village's people began to slowly come out and watch as the boy left their village in a direct line, not caring about anything else or them observing him.

"I can't believe Karoi is dead..."

"There's no point in dwelling about it but I could've sworn that he said...."

"Son of the Insect Goddess and God of Wild... That's... Varuna and Karoi.. Is that why he stepped in before I killed her..? Did he lie to me? Am I his son..."

"Holy shit it makes much more sense... So why did he leave me with that clan.. That accursed clan... Motherfucker.. I don't know what to feel... Relief for finding out who my biological father is or hatred towards him for leaving me with that clan..."

"Fuck him.. He used me for his goals, so fuck him."

"I should move onto the next god... Poseidon."

With his eyes set on his next target, Satoru left Larkspur Village and will now travel to Murkside Village in the Haze nation.

Despite drinking one the best potions in Larkspur, the injury was still recovering very slowly as it was dealt with the hollow's ability.

After walking for a bit, he only then opened the bifrost and left to someplace before the bridge going to Murkside, wanting to scope out Poseidon.