[140] Goddess Freya’s Scheme

[140] Goddess Freya’s Scheme

Chapter 140: Goddess Freya’s Scheme

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While Aqua’s fight with Thor had come to an end, the Nordic Brothers against Ai and Ichigo was far from done. They were nearly equal in power, with Ichigo standing a bit under Baldur in power, while Ai stood quite a bit above Vidar.

If not for having to help Ichigo now and then, Ai would have beaten Vidar by now.

Ichigo wasn’t weak, and in fact, was nearly unbeatable if energy attacks were used against him, so Baldur stopped most of his solar energy attacks when he realized that. He rather used the vigor of the sun to amplify his strength. He kept Ichigo busy with his fists, and that had Ichigo on the back of his foot.

In his backup, Ruby shot beams of light from inside the barrier, toward Ichigo—the energy submerging into his body which he used to amplify his next attacks.

Ai, on the other hand, did not require such assistance. She wielded two holy swords, borrowed from Irina and Xenovia, that she used to parry Vidar.

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Her twin swords clashed against Vidar’s heavy longsword, a chime traveling the air, as light shone after each of their clashes.

Their swords locked against one another, and Ai used that opportunity to kick the Nordic God in his stomach. He was sent flying backward, and she took that as a chance to cross her two swords in an ‘X’.

“[Birth of a New Star]!” she shouted, and pure solar energy concentrated where the two swords crossed. A hyper-hot beam of plasma shot toward Vidar, which he blocked by shouting a spell that created a defensive barrier in front of him.

– Dham!!

The barrier shattered like glass and the beam slammed into Vidar. The god let out a scream of excruciating pain, his tolerance against heat far weaker than his Light God of a brother.

“Vidar! Tell me if you want to switch!” Baldur sounded enraged as he yelled for his brother's opinion, but Ai didn't give the younger brother a chance to reply.

She ended the beam and rushed toward Vidar with her swords chiming as they cut through the air. Vidar tried to block but he was too slow, the swords sliced into his chest.

“Argh-!” he shouted in pain as two deep injuries gushed out blood.

Ai found it satisfying, allowing a pleased smile to cross her lips. She was about to go for an ending attack when the sky lit up in the distance.

A rainbow light shone and went away just as fast, and a moment later the world thrummed with the sound of conclusion.

Everyone turned their heads to look in that direction, knowing that something had... gone wrong. Someone was defeated.

Ai felt her heart growing heavier as she focused on her eyes to activate long vision. Just as she did, she caught the figure of a Warhammer being carried on the shoulder of a white-haired deity, the tail of a white tiger swinging behind him. Her heart skipped a bit, fear etching it, before she recognized the face as her son's.

Just when she let out a sigh of relief, her son closed the distance and appeared in the nearby sky, the hammer of his enemy swinging backward.

“WHAT?!”

“W-why does he-!!”

Baldur and Vidar shouted in shock, Aqua rushing toward the former to slam Mjölnir into his face.

That's when the Bifrost opened in the sky again. Aqua grinned, letting out a laugh, as he let out another command: “Close.”

This time, however, it was opposed by the voice of an old man coming from behind the Bifrost. “No.”

The Bifrost opened, and though Aqua was about to command again, it shone down on the two Nordic Brothers at the speed of light and vanished just as fast.

The light ceased to exist, and the figure of the injured Baldur and Vidar vanished.

The Instant Dungeon collapsed immediately, it couldn't hold on any longer. The aura of the world shimmered for one last time, passing over the ruins of Tokyo, replacing it with the unharmed reality.

Aqua clicked his tongue in annoyance, while Ichigo and Ai let out sighs of relief. While Aqua found this to be a missed opportunity, annoyed that he didn't get to fight the two Gods when the whole reason he was holding back against Thor was to conserve his resources, the two adults were pleased to finally be able to let their guards lower.

The battle had ended, as abruptly as it had begun.

And it resulted in the fate of Norse's great loss. Not only did they lose their strongest God after Odin, but they also lost their most iconic and legendary weapon, Mjölnir.

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The three of them landed back inside the barrier that was slightly cracked from the impact of attacks sent its way.

How can a mortal become a demigod?

Putting that aside with the excuse of his origin, as the son of Yaggdrissil, even if it was a vessel body that conceived him, how did he defeat Thor?

And how did he override the command of Bifrost from opening?!

“We'll get an opportunity, we have all the time in the world,” Odin said in the end, his pride as a God unbroken. Rather than fear that a young man was this strong in such a short time, he felt cold and calculated rage. “Why must we rush it? We already did so and lost Thor, we can't be making the same mistake.” he ended with a huff.

“What about Yggdrasil?” it was Loki who spoke, walking into the chamber with his daughter Hel by his side.

Odin frowned, glaring at him for openly speaking of this matter in front of so many people, but he answered anyway, “We will have to hold on to that as well. We'll provide him with other sources of power than that woman and boy. Preferably out of Japan. The boy has grown strong fast, he ought to hit a ceiling soon. We'll wait, even if years pass until we're ready.”

To begin with, Odin wasn't excited to go along with Yaggdrissil’s plans. He only did what he did because it was necessary for the sake of preserving the Nine Realms.

“Fine with me,” Loki shrugged. Odin felt his fingers twitch at the nonchalance of the Evil God; he must be happy that Thor was gone. It irritated Odin beyond belief.

But he didn't say anything, which allowed Hel to speak. “Annoying. I've been waiting to have my hands on that brat for a while now. How incredibly annoying...!” She complained before taking note of Odin's cold stare. She scoffed and looked away.

“What of Aztec? Quetzalcoatl?” changing the subject, Loki asked. “Has Rossweisse returned?”

“She has yet to,” Odin said. “But earlier she contacted us, and it's safe to say things haven't delved into chaos. This was just bait, a false report anyway. They did get mad when they realized, but we pretended we didn't know either.”

Not all mythologies prophesied their own end, but both the Norse and Aztecs do. In Norse, the end of the world is dubbed as [Ragnarok], which is said to come after a series of events and actions. In Aztecs, the end of the world is predicted to be brought by earthquakes and is tied to their belief in a cycle of creation and destruction. It's dubbed as the [End of the Fifth Sun]. The current era, known as the Fifth Sun by the Aztecs, is believed to come to an end with catastrophic earthquakes after a series of events tied with one another.

Odin sent Rossweisse to give the Aztecs a scare. The Valkyrie was ordered to tell the Aztec Gods that Ragnarok and End of the Fifth Sun are related, and that the day will be coming soon—that’s why Quetzalcoatl, the God King of Aztecs, had no choice but to hear the report by herself. That was why she was forced to leave Japan for a bit.

But what did that achieve?

Nothing.

After taking all these risks, things ended in a foolish display of defeat for the Norse.

Bad days were coming, and Odi had little ideas to salvage his realm from them.

“....I've heard your explanation my king, but,” it was then that the Queen of Asgard walked into the grand hall. Most people were bowling already, but even Loki and Hel lowered their heads when she entered. She was Loki's master, after all. “Are you saying you're not going to take any active approach to get revenge for my son?”

“....”

“If you allow me to suggest something,” Freya, the Nordic Goddess of love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr, pointed a graceful finger at one of the Valkyries who were bowing.

“I'd like to send this girl, with Rossweisse once she returns, to Kuoh High School. They'll be dubbed to have fled Asgard, and we will actually cut them off our ranks for the foreseeable future to make that appear true, and they'll work as spies to trap that boy. He likes women, I hear, and I'll use that weakness of his against himself.”

For she, who's the God of Love and Sex, it was a perfect plan.

Odin, however, saw a problem. He looked at the girl whom Freya pointed at, a blonde-haired and blue-eyed goddess of a woman with a hammer in one of her hands.

Brigid Thorsdottir, Daughter of Thor.

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He was unsure if sending Thor's daughter to avenge her father by using her body was the most ethical option for revenge here.

“I accept,” However since the girl raised her head and showed no opposition, why must he judge?

Indeed, they shall wait for an opportunity in the future, even if it were to take them years. But at the same time, they will be attacking the young man where he showed weakness already.

Odin felt pleased at his wife's wisdom.

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