31 A light at the end? (1/2)

”Those monsters killed all those civilians, just to summon a god? How did they even get the idea?” Katrine is shocked.

Angrod is still staring at the screen with a grim expression, his drone is flying a circle around the city, to get a view from all angles.

Now that I look at the circle, it looks familiar. ”Somewhere, I have seen that circle before. If I could remember where?”

Angrod leans back on his chair. ”It's the same circle, the council used to summon us, when we became gods.”

”It's a summoning circle? I thought they gave us our divinity through it?” I don't get it?

Angrod smiles. ”They never -gave- us our divinity. We became gods on our own. Everyone becomes a god, on the condition that his soul reaches the required strength. They were lying to hold their control over us.”

”How do you know that?” I ask.

Angrod snorts and starts at the beginning. ”When they summoned me and -made- me a god, I already had done quite a bit of research on souls and gods. That circle is nothing more, than a summoning formation. I admit, it is a powerful device, but except for a change in location and a beautiful light show, combined with a dizzy feeling, you get nothing from it.

The Council just does this to convince the new born gods, that they have some kind of control over them. I guess it keeps the trouble away, if such a belief exists.

But they didn't fool me with this. Most of the runes on this circle are just for show and to make it look like a really complicated thing.”

”Why didn't you tell anyone!?” I get even less now. The Council doesn't have any power over our divinity? They just let people assume that they gave it to them? To get control over them?

”Mwahaha! I was lucky to think three steps ahead, before blurting out my knowledge to the world. Don't you think this secret is quite a powerful tool of control? What would they do if someone ran around and told everyone of the biggest lie in the whole multiverse.

Wouldn't quite a few gods decide that it is not necessary to follow the Councils words like dogs? Wouldn't someone, who knew that secret, be silenced at any cost?

So I kept my mouth shut. I played the scientific idiot, who is much more interested in their city than in the circle under his feet. And then I said ”yes and amen” to everything they asked of me.”

I think about it for a few seconds. ”I guess you could be right. There are some who are very unhappy with the Council. That still doesn't explain where the Meltheim's got the knowledge of that circle?”

”Don't know.” Angrod shrugs his shoulders.

”Could you two speak our language and try to explain what the Council is?” Katrine asks.

”Nothing to worry about, just the gods of all gods, the rulers of the universe. No big deal at all.” Angrod proclaims in a happy voice.

”What about Seria? Can she help us?” Arthur asks.

”Nope, sorry to inform you, but Seria is also just one of their employees.” Angrod smiles at them.

”So the Meltheims got their hands on some really powerful spell, which is connected to the rulers of the universe? Why am I even trying to save my world, if the rulers of the fucking universe are on their side.” -Arthur

”Because if you don't keep trying from the beginning. You will never achieve anything. We don't know much yet, but we know for sure that we should interrupt that summoning!” I try to encourage my dad again.

”At least the time seems to be on our side. To power a magic like that, you need huge amounts of mana. Those maniacs would need to sacrifice a whole world to run it at full speed. At this rate it will take years until the spell is done.” Angrod explains.

”Then we have time to take over the north and deal with the City of Seria later?” -Arthur

”Maybe.” Angrod doesn't sound so sure.