Chapter 57 - 53: The Twin Gods pt.1 (1/2)

Around the time Joselin left to engage Teelin...

John emerged from the shadows in a more isolated area of the national park throwing Pan onto his back, scarring the earth beneath him as he slid 4 meters before rolling to his feet. On guard in his ebony-colored suit of armor and wings that seemingly defied any known logic of physics.

As he looked around at his new surroundings, he noticed that it was something that wasn't right as soon as his eyes laid upon an eerie tree with white luminescent leaves. The tree's bark had white luminescent lines that ran from the leaves down through the bark of the tree and down into its roots.

As Pan looked at the tree for a moment, he knew what it was as he watched as the white luminescent lines on the bark pulsed upward through the tree's bark and into the leaves making the whole area brighter.

Pan looked at John with worry as he yelled, ”JOHN, How do you know of this world tree!? This tree has been hidden from the gods since even before the goddess of creation came into existence. So how!?”

John stood there silent as he himself was confused. He had intended to bring them to a clear field south of the quickly ending battle between his forces and the remaining human survivors hold up in Alaska. Instead, he received information that he was sure was not meant for any mortal to know, especially the fact that the world tree existed before a being with a name that heavily implied that they were part of the reason everything existed.

Nothing made sense except for one easily understandable aspect he had come to hypothesize. What if there were more than just the gods meddling in his trials of ascension to godhood? After all, it makes sense in the long run.

See John had come to understand during his time living the sewer rat life along with many of the other homeless of Hornbrew city that it was better to always be thinking a few steps ahead, but that wasn't enough to survive in those sewers as one had to always think fifty if not a hundred steps ahead of the next person. From John's experience and understanding of his past years in the sewers is that treating life like chess and being ahead of the desperate and depraved meant the difference between being murdered and/or r.a.p.ed for some of the residents. After all, not even the police dared to police the underbelly of the gruesome creature that was Hornbrew City.

So with said understanding, John knew for a fact that now his major concern was not that of just rebellious gods and mortals not ready to face eternal damnation as a soldier of the undead, nor was it the gods that seemed to have an ulterior motive for choosing him. No, from seeing how he was unintentionally warped somewhere with some importance allowed John to see that there was at least another party at play and one probably unknown to others at the moment. This only meant that someone somehow hijacked his intended destination and made him exit the shadows into a place he'd previously hadn't known about. John knew this was trouble beyond Pan as even Pan seemed unaware that they would be a tree that radiated so much magic power that he couldn't by chance gauge it, yet the tree remained undetected by even the gods. This was indeed troublesome.

Knowing it would be best to go along with it, John decided to play the hand he was dealt and said, ”A pity that the mighty and wise Pan remains ignorant of the current situation of things if I may say so so leisurely.”

Pan watched John with wide eyes since realizing that he was within the presence of what many beings had only theorized existed. He began to question things as he himself didn't personally know John, but through the rumors of how he was before becoming an Undead Nephilim, he knew he had a straightforward personality, so what changed and when.