5 Chapter 5 – Relief in Completion (1/2)

Seeing his two brothers call him over Poseidon could not refuse. Warily he stepped forward. Discussing the matter with the other two, he understood the dilemma that they faced.

After giving it a try himself and gaining the same result, he spoke up ”Maybe it is a matter of a lack of magitoms. Let's try pulling in as much magitom as we can simultaneously. Pool it together and then form the body.”

”that is plausible,” Zeus said. Having no better ideas at the moment to refute him they got to it immediately.

Watching the three men huddled up and whispering to each other in secrecy, the two woman and four children, couldn't help but scratch their heads in puzzlement at their odd behaviour.

While they tried to figure out what was going on, the three men began exerting all their might into pulling in as much of the surrounding magitoms as they could. Within the black mist, a huge amount of magitoms was swirling. In the beginning, it was invisible as the wind but slowly it was gaining more substance. Within seconds the magitoms had become a swirling mist in itself.

”this is the most I can pull in for now! Shall we begin?” Hades said with gritted teeth.

”I have reached my limit too. Let's begin.” Zeus complied and Poseidon nodded his head as well.

The mist condensed with the order of the three.First, the organs formed and then the bones, following which the muscles formed and finally, the skin and hair materialized to form a small infant body around the soul.

The three gods were confident in their capability and usually, they would have not given a second thought to their combined efforts ending in failure. However, souls were a mystery even to them. Poseidon suggesting a lack of magitoms was the most basic and simplest of problems that could be plaguing this soul from fusing with a body.

It would not be a stretch to say that the three of them placed at most a 10% chance of the body and soul fusing.

Watching the body intently the three of them scanned it with bated breaths.

5 seconds passed.

10 seconds passed.

”have we succeeded?” Poseidon asked.

Shaking his head in dismay Zeus replied ” the organs have still not begun functioning. It is most likely a failure.” Just as he finished, the body began slowly disintegrating. ”this is good though!” He commented.

”What's good about this?!” Hades questioned, not understanding his brother's excitement in failure.

”The body was capable of staying intact longer with more magitoms. This means my earlier assumption, that the body required more magitoms to be compatible with the soul was true. But why does a normal mortal soul require such a high-level body? We have to be overlooking something. Is this soul really from a remote planet in the smaller realms?” The usually quiet Poseidon was shocked by the events that this soul had initiated. In his confusion, he began pondering on his thoughts aloud.

”it might be an innate disposition of the body. These things usually go unawakened in the lower realms. After all, they don't even have sufficient magicules. No point even mentioning magitoms, to make use of these unique constitutions.” Hades conferred with a sneer.

”That is true. This does give us a headache, but now that we know the cause. The solution is also an easy one. A little expensive though it may be. We have come too far to disappoint the children. Plus I do not want to admit defeat to this mere mortal soul.” Zeus couldn't help but let slip his real intentions. This soul had truly been a massive headache for them.

If they knew that it was the actions of these children that they were trying so hard to please,was the real culprit causing them this immense trouble. What would the expressions on their faces be?

The youngest Eros could no longer hold his anticipation in and asked timidly ”Esteemed uncles are you done yet?”

Looking toward Eros the three scanned the expression of the other kids as well. They realized that it was only a matter of time before the older kids got impatient too. They could not afford to be asked why they took so long. The only answer to that was that they did not have the ability to pull in enough magitoms to satisfy a mere mortal soul.

”Let's all take out 1 drop of life origin water.” Getting to the point straight away, Zeus proposed the idea that all three of them were thinking about.

Life origin water was condensed magitoms. It would form primarily in caves and other enclosed environments that were capable of attracting the nearby magitoms into them. The density of the surrounding magitoms usually determined if life origin water could form and the rate at which it would form. Olympus only had 2 such caves in the whole of their dominion and both of them would require a millennium just to accumulate a small puddle.