41 Chapter 41: Game of Gods (2/2)
”Is that why you interfered? To save him?” the first hag growled. ”You should just let him die! I don't care if he's your chosen, but the fate of the mortal world is at stake here! How dare you interfere and save him!? We had him! We were so close to killing him and restoring the balance to the mortal world! But you just had to…!”
Lyia sighed. ”Are you listening? I told you, your attempts to kill my chosen will destroy that balance even more than he ever will. The moment you succeed in killing him, you will unleash something far more evil, more chaotic…something far beyond the power of the gods. When that happens, never mind the mortal world…even our heavenly realms will no longer be safe. In fact, thanks to your thoughtless actions, you may have already caused a break in the equilibrium and drawn their attention toward our dimension.”
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”LIES! Why do you insist on fabricating such lies?!” the second hag shrieked. From her gray robes she drew a dagger. ”We will kill you, knowledge bitch. I never liked you, always acting high and mighty with your so-called superior intelligence. If you're dead, you'll never be able to interfere again. We'll be able to save the mortal realm and kill that accursed existence that you've been so trying desperately to protect!”
”I hate to break it to you, but you do realize that I have never once interfered in his affairs? I made him my chosen, blessed him with my powers, but other than that I had not meddled in the mortal affairs. I followed the same rules Evelyn did.” Lyia smiled. ”As unbelievable as it sounds, and even I'm surprised, he has survived this far on his own without any help from me.”
”You lie!” the third hag snapped. ”That Adaptive Mutation ability…his sudden transformation into a vampire! That's too much of a coincidence! You somehow guided him onto that path to devour that ability because you expected this confrontation!”
Lyia snorted. ”Are you joking? I'm not part of the Fates like you. As knowledgeable as I am, I cannot see the future like you. I never anticipated that you would go that far and interfere to such an extent…I only found out after the fact.”
”Don't listen to her, Sisters! Kill her!” the first hag screeched. ”Even if she knows of our intervention, she will not be able to report her suspicions to the Celestial Council if she is dead!”
The trio lunged at Lyia. The goddess of knowledge narrowed her eyes, but she calmly raised a hand to conjure a barrier.
”It's pointless! This god-slaying dagger will slice through whatever defenses you have!” the second hag shouted. Lyia gritted her teeth, knowing that to be the truth, but she didn't possess the combat abilities of the god of war, Alain, or the speed of the god of communication, Het. She wouldn't be able to win in a melee, especially against three opponents…
They never reached her.
”…!”
A powerful blast slammed into the trio and sent them sprawling on the ground. As the third hag tried to scrabble for the dropped dagger, a foot landed on it, pinning it on the ground. Looking up, the three crones of Fate scrambled back in shock when they saw the newcomer. The third hag, in particular, cried out in disbelief.
”C…Chronos!”
Lyia blinked as she stared at the handsome, dark-haired man who stood in front of her. The heavily muscled titan glared down at the three crones, his bearded face twisted into an expression of rage.
”Husband?!”
”What do you think you're doing to my wife?”
”Delivering justice for obstructing our efforts to save the mortal world!” the first hag hissed. ”You are the god of time, Chronos. Can you not see the dreadful future that awaits if we do not kill that boy? We must kill him! For the sake of the mortal realm!”
”You idiots!” Chronos thundered, causing the trio to shrink back in fear. ”I can see the future as well as you, and my wife is right! You're destroying the fabric of reality with your reckless, shortsighted actions! I have seen the future – if you kill the boy, something worse will emerge out of that crack in that balance you so proudly claim to be protecting! Why don't you do something for a change and weave the thread that tells of the future after you kill our boy?”
”N…no…!”
”Impossible!”
”You lie! You are taking the side of your wife! You refuse to admit…”
”You're the one who refuse to accept reality,” Chronos cut in crudely. ”Blinded by the future, you refuse to acknowledge the present and are too arrogant to consider the possibility that it is you who is making a terrible mistake!”
”That's not…!”
”How can this be?”
”We can't be wrong…we can't…!”
Chronos stared at them in disgust before turning to his wife. As he did so, a bunch of winged warriors in holy, pristine armor descended to take the trio into custody. The three crones of Fate shrank back, terrified, when they saw the god-slaying spears pointing at them, and anxiously clutched each other's arms.
Both Chronos and Lyia watched the shamed trio escorted away by the celestial guards, their heads lowered in fury and humiliation. Wrapping his arm around Lyia's shoulders, Chronos sighed and shook his head.
”You shouldn't have confronted those three hags alone.”
”What else was I supposed to do? I chose that boy. It is my responsibility to protect him from other gods.”
Lyia's shoulders slumped as she glared in the direction where the celestial guards and the three Crones of Fate were being led away to.
”He's not just your chosen now. Any chosen of my wife is also my chosen.”
Smiling, Chronos pulled Lyia closer for an embrace and allowed her to bury her head in his chest. But at his words, Lyia frowned and looked up.
”Husband…you mean…?”
”Ah…whoops.” Chronos chuckled. Lyia's jaw dropped when she put the pieces together.
”The Adaptive Mutation…was that you?”
”Well…the three Sisters of Fate were trying to do something funny, and whatever we did wouldn't have made it in time. So I pulled some strings. As you know, I can peer into the future as well, so I sort of tweaked our child's path slightly so as to give him a special ability that would save him in such dire circumstances.”
”But that's against the rules…”
”Indeed it is. But our opponents weren't playing by the rules either…and I foresaw a future that would have been worse if I hadn't stepped in.” Chronos turned grim. ”You were right, Wife. If our chosen died, that…thing beyond the fabric of reality would seize the break in equilibrium to invade our dimension. And when that happens…not just the mortal realm, but even the celestial realms and underworld…every realm in this dimension will be in terrible danger.”