Chapter Twenty three: Strive to be strong
In what seemed like a conference room for the gods, all of them were sitting down staring at each other with clear animosity in their eyes. The tension in the air seemed like a war on a stalemate with all soldiers stopping from charging because of their commanders.
In this case all these powerful gods capable of shaking the very universe all feared the three people sitting on the chairs in front of the statues. These were the leaders of the oanthenons in the room and arguably the three strongest gods there. Zeus,Odin and Amun-ra these were beings the other gods dared not defend.
After seeing Lucien and seeing him questioning the skills and how far he's one the room was split with three sides, those who were asking why they gave him so much power when he hasn't earned it and others who were arguing they did the right decision while the rest were neutral and watched in silence
"ENOUGH!!!!!" a loud booming voice echoed in the room suppressing the argumentative chatter of Everton else " We are here because we want to get out of this forsaken place and he is our only hope we are trying to make the human strong enough faster because word of our efforts to escape have seemingly been spread across the universe. Buddha is after us and might I remind you how powerful his pantheon is, last time we each flight him we barely left with our lives considering the fact he has the power of rebirth."Yes but were are working together Buddha doesn't stand a chance" One of the norse gods said " And neither do we, it is not only Buddha that is after us every other god wants us gone because of our potential and strength, even the new gods have started to band against us, only few are with us and they have to hide that in secrecy for fear of being killed by those who oppress us. We are unwanted by the universe but we are gods we have gotten enough power to stand against the universe during our imprisonment but we can not do so when we are trapped here in a place that weakens us greatly, we need the boy strong and fast or we may not make it".Zeus said gritting his teeth at the mention of relying on a mortal to save them.
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Janet POV:
Ever since arriving at this grand school Janet had been few and scarce, she had been alone reading studying ways of manipulating her mana getting stronger by absorbing the essence of the mana around her and taking dangerous missions to home her skills. On her second day of arriving she had signed up as an adventurer something that her brother and Lucien didn't do because they were ranked high so they had the resources they needed for now with them, but Janet she wasn't as high ranked as them so she opted for the best and only solution, fighting her way to the top. She had been going through quests left and right from dangerous labyrinths to escorting rich merchants to other cities on this enriched and grand world that her school resided on.
On the day the attack happened she was also attacked, her and her brother fought off masked people with nefarious thoughts to them, the masked men actually had the objective of capturing them to use as a leverage over Lucien because of their close relations to him, Jacob fought them off valiantly but Janet was to weak to even handle one will her brother handled three which showed the disparity between their strengths which made her sulk at how weak she was to her brother.Although her brother fought off three of the masked rebels he couldn't win because of the level of teamwork they had. Luckily help arrived as vines grew out of the ground and the trees came to life entrapping the perpertrators, another person came out the woods most likely the one who trapped the rebels but they were cloakedin a golden robe embroiled with green crystalline gems and a golden mask on their faces, they were obviously not part of the other masked persons as those ones who caused chaos all wore a black mask with a purple insignia of a lotus flower.
When caught Jacob thanked the masked stranger who had pointy dark ears so he figured the person was a dark elf. The dark elf gave the sullen and sad Janet a deep gaze, feeling the weird look Janet looked back at the stranger with a creeped out expression feeling like she was in the presence of a predator who wanted nothing more than to ravage her. 'She would be nice to add to my collection' the dark elf had a thought before walking over to the captives. As they reached the captives he looked at them only to find them dead with green foam escaping their mouths and blood from their eyes, they seem to have killed themselves with a type of poison that melted the brain to not allow the necro from accessing their minds and memories. Whoever they were dealing with were dangerous. Turning to leave the stranger disappeared as quickly and silently as they came leaving nothing but twisted trees and a light earthy breeze.
Janet who was to busy hating her powrlesmess to even bother wondering about who the stranger was, was woken up from her reverie by her brother who suggested they look for Lucien.
During the assembly, Janet was astonished by the power levels of those in front of her especially the two humans who were supposedly the siblings of Lucien, looking at them Janet was lost in the cold calculator gaze of Lucien brother Zakiel, his indifferent gaze yet kind brotherly temperament towards his sister when he warned her about calling out Lucien first even tho she did it anyways had a certain pull that she couldn't resist and neither could the other girls in the hall who weren't fawning over the Angel who had a kind expression on his face which was fake to the trained eye.
Looking over at the sister and her dual personality, Janet had a feeling of dread whenever looking at her and comparing herself with the younger sister of Lucien who was younger than herself. These thoughts of being younger than a kid who was almost three years younger than her had her feeling even more crest fallen.
So currently as Lucien was training Janet sought out his brother who she, although wasinfatuated with wanted him to train her after seeing his strengths th knowing how much he held back in his fight with Lucien.
Meeting him Janet was fidgeting to enter his room and when she finally knocked on the door she heard a murmur coming from the room, "He's progressing well enough and it seems he also inherited a legacy Holder" leaning in closer to the door and listening on the conversation inside " Lucien needs to be strong but his friends are average at best but the girl isn't we need to split her from Lucien so she spent drag him down master" Janet heard that sentence and her heart shattered and a tear slid down her eye. It wasn't the thought of splitting off of Lucien it was that she was considered too weak to even standby him and her own brother her potential seemed lesser than them as was stated by Zakiel.
Instead of falling into the abyss of self pity and depression a fire burned within her as her resolve to gain unimaginable strength to never be looked down on and she will prove this by working hard everyday so getting up and walking down Janet was on her way to train only to be stopped by a beautiful set of told me and black hair right below her She looked down to see Lucien sister standing there with a smile. " Do you want to become stronger" that short sentence that was said by the young girl had given her hope knowing she would gain unimaginable strength from this girl more so than her brother because she knew the young girl in front of her was currently the strongest being in the school apart from the principal and vice principal.