Chapter 585 Divine Messages

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When things with Tyr were resolved we enjoyed a nice and slow-paced talk about everything involved with his problems and… anything else, really. Although he's still overly grumpy, which kind of reminds me of the old Lucifer, he did said he wanted friends. Despite acting prideful and all, he probably has felt so lonely he had become desperate enough to leave his godly pride aside.

"So how did you used to look like when you were alive?" Wondered Partner.

"Were you a burly and bearded guy?" Asked Emeraldine.

"Yeah, like this…" Tyr said, his shadows quickly taking shape into a tall, muscular bearded man with several scars over his body. He was around three meters tall, I guess he was really a Viking God.

"Woah he's really a Viking God of War, alright." I laughed.

"Damn." Helga smiled.

"You two are a bit too thirsty, no?" Lucifer sighed while crossing his arms.

FLASH!

However Tyr quickly went back to his other form.

"Shapeshifting in this feeble Spirit Body is a pain… I cannot keep it up for too long." He sighed. "Hahhh… Well, at the very least I can move freely in the outside world without causing disasters. I had tried this many times before. I ended corrupting everything, monsters mutated, and most of the time I was either split into more pieces and sealed again by Thor, or a monster found me and I ended instinctively parasitizing the monster and making the creature go mad…"

"So you weren't able to take into this form ever before?" Lucifer wondered.

"That's right… this form is something unique I attained thanks to Maria." Said Tyr. "It is indeed very unique and interesting. I guess her powers allowed this. Although for such a thing to occur, I had to be eaten, which is not something… I am a fan of."

"I can understand." Sighed Lucifer. "Well, she's indeed very unique."

"Perhaps her Necromancy has something to do with it?" Asked Emeraldine. "God Fragment or not, it still something like a soul, right?"

"I had never thought about it deeply but yeah. Perhaps my Necromancy Powers and something else caused his Soul Fragment to become something like a ghost. Veredorr and Francesco and Silvio are also kind of like Elemental Spirits, the possibility he became one is there." I recognized.

"It was a combination of that and other factors such as your unique powers." Tyr said. "But now that I have the time to assess how all things came to be, I also can assure you it wasn't just your Necromancy… I felt some sort of divine intervention in the process. Hel helped you raise me as an Undead, something that shouldn't be possible for a mortal to turn the soul of a god into an undead to begin with. From there, I probably reacted to this effect and due to my power, I became a Spirit instead."

"Woah, now that's quite the explanation." Partner said.

"Wait, Hel?!" Emeraldine wondered.

"Hel has taken a liking on Maria and all of you. I can feel her Divine Protection in that dragon child and the walking tree." Said Tyr. "All of you are also connected with Maria, so therefore you're like also part of this divine protection… Hel seems to have the intention to help everyone grow stronger. She has plans with all of us."

"Wait, if she secretly helped Maria revive you as this Spirit form… Then doesn't that means…?" Brunhild asked in surprise.

"Yeah, I had already assumed it but yes, it probably means that Hel is a traitor of Odin and the other Gods, and desires something from me and all of us. I don't know if that girl is capable of doing good things for the sake of it though, I never got to know her well, but if she helped me in such a way, I can tell she's our ally." Tyr said. "It still feels strange. She wasn't involved in what happened to me, but she's still the daughter of Loki. That bastard used his Chaos Element Divinity to corrupt my soul after I was weakened by Thor's Mjolnir and my Father's Gungnir… The other Gods also ganged on me, I can remember every single one of them… the only ones that didn't acted were the Vanir Gods, but they didn't interfere either."

"So Loki was the one that turned you into the Evil God?" Wondered Partner.

"Yes, that effeminate bastard…" Sighed Tyr. "I thought he was someone I could trust, but he ended stabbing me in the back when I least expected it! To think he would end up cooperating with father despite hating him so much…"

"It must've been painful." I sighed. "Well, at least Hel's not as evil as her father in that regard, even while being a Goddess of Death, we can already tell she has not as bad intentions as her beloved papa." I laughed.

"Yeah, I suppose that's right." Tyr nodded. "Nonetheless, it would be good if we could talk to her, though I doubt we can right now. She had always been a secretive woman… But if she had been open with you, maybe she could communicate somehow through Divine Messages."

"Divine Messages?" I asked.

"They're special Messages that Gods are able to send to those that hold their Divine Protections. It is directly connected to their Soul Books. Sometimes, when someone holding the divine protection does something that amuses their god or makes them content, they can even receive a gift from them." Tyr said. "It is common sense to incentive our divinely protected."

"Oh… Maybe that's why I get so many benefits sometimes, like the special evolutions of Lucifer and Partner… the Titles and Skills?" I wondered.

Although the System still had a lot to do with that, but it is nice to know that Hel might be helping me more than I had originally imagined. Nonetheless, right now I wish I could speak with her for a change!

Ding!

[Master, it seems there is an interference of Divine Power.]

The System suddenly spoke to me.

"Eh?!"

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