Chapter 88 Council Of Gods (1)

"The Trial for the Systematical Criminal: Orion has started!" Zeus announced, and I gulped a large drop of saliva.

I wasn't very nervous before, but now that I was in the presence of gods, I felt the nerves slowly rise up from within my body.

"First of all, I believe he isn't guilty, but it was the fault of his sponsor," Athena suddenly spoke up, and that pretty much confirmed my suspicions from before.

Her throne wasn't much different from Ares', but the only thing that actually told me it was Athena was probably the angelic wings coming off her throne.

The silhouette of Athena didn't have wings, but the silhouetted large throne made of thousands of large cracked weapons seemed to be blessed by the two giant wings.

"The fault of his sponsor!? YEAH, FUCKING RIGHT! Ares isn't the type of guy to fall weak before the death of one of his own. Do you even know who he is?" The silhouette of Hermes first spoke up, and the wings on the helmet flapped angrily.

His silhouetted throne was made entirely of small white wings, and a frame of intertwining gold, like DNA, supported these wings up as he sat on it arrogantly.

"I agree with Hermes. I doubt Ares had any particular say in what the boy did… and if you look back at the records, he clearly forcefully activated the system on his own," The silhouette of Artemis said, and her entire throne was made up of the heads of dead mythical creatures.

It was a bit hard to tell the difference between them as they were shadowed out, but I could see dragons, unicorns, and possibly griffins.

"Alright, that's enough! First, we shall ask the boy why he forcefully activated the system," The silhouette of Zeus announced, and his throne was made up of rumbling dark clouds, and striking lightning shook the bowl-shaped court.

I heard a few of the gods grumble to themselves angrily, and to be honest, I was having way too much fun looking at the gods arguing with each other.

Meeting gods was something I thought I'd never be able to witness… and now here they are, arguing over me.

"How lucky I am," I muttered, and the gods paused upon hearing my whisper, so I knew I was in for some trouble.

"Boy… What the fuck did you just say?" The silhouette of Aphrodite spoke up, and I noticed her throne was a bit disturbing as it was made out of the heads of beautiful and handsome men.

Also… her silhouette had massive… well… uhhhhhh… let's talk about it later.

"I said I am so lucky to witness the presence of gods," I replied with full confidence, and I could tell they were able to see through lies… but I never told them a lie.

I only told them a truth that could only be the truth and nothing but a truth… I ever told my opinion but a fact that is branded hard into the idea of a feeble human mind.

Aphrodite clicked her tongue once before glancing over at Zeus, who just let out a long sigh and proceeded to ask me a question.

"Let's start off with the most obvious question… Did you forcefully activate the system?" He asked me, and even though the question was a bit skewed and biased towards his side, I answered calmy.

"I did,"

"Good. No lie there… Then, why did you forcefully activate the system?" He asked and memories of the hellish day came flooding back.

The death of Simo and the day a demon seemed to take over my body… a demon of bloodlust that controlled me from strings.

It was like I was a puppet under the control of my own skill and despite the power of feeling good and tearing through enemies was satisfying, I'd rather be able to think calmly than destroy everything in my path.

"I never intended to activate the system. It just activated on its own," I replied, a bit disappointed as the gods seemed to not be as smart as I thought.

Or, there is probably the most legitimate answer: they didn't care to put in the time to see what the real records of that day were.

I also had a question that I was urging to get an answer to, but I didn't want to anger them more, so I just shoved it to the back of my mind.

"Boy, that's not possible," Zeus replied and gave absolutely no context.

But, it seemed another god was watching over me and looked at my confused expression, and it seemed they cared enough to explain it to me.

"It is impossible because the system heeds to no mortal. You have to forcefully activate it with your authority," The silhouette of Apollo said, and his throne was made up of bows and music scripts that intertwined with each other to create a solid seat.

"What is… an authority?" I blurted out, and it made the gods go silent.

"This kid is playing with us… Just sentence him to Tartutrous and let Hades take care of him," Hermes spoke up, clearly done with this meeting.

"He isn't lying, though," Aphrodite said.

She spoke up for me, but that doesn't mean she was on my side.

"Boy, let me ask you. How many times have you evolved?" Apollo asked, and I was a bit confused, but I replied with a simple answer.

"I don't really know what evolving is… but I've classed up about two times. Yeah, I've classed up two times," I responded, and the gods went silent.

Then, all of a sudden, my healing disappeared, and the gods began to converse while I just stood in the middle of this white bowl-shaped room and picked my nails.

After a few minutes, they finally resumed my hearing, and they asked yet another question.

"Who are your parents?"

"I have a single mother, and I have no clue who my father is. My mother was an arch magician in my world, but that's it," I replied.

"So he really did violate it…." Artemis muttered.

"Then the verdict has been settled! Orion will serve two centuries in Tarturous as punishment!" Zeus announced, and just as he began to swing a hammer down into the bowl, a graceful presence appeared beside me.

"Please wait, your highness,"