Vengeance of the Returner

Chapter 177: Rise of war (2)

On earth, every year there are almost approximately Two fifty million people are filed as missing. From the US alone there about 800,000 to 1,000,0000 missing cases get filed. And there are cases that don't get filed. If numbers are reduced by the abduction cases and elopement and other cases they'd be coming down. If Deaths are added they'll number will certainly come down.

40,000 -70,000 people go missing in Brazil. 50,500- 80,000 in Canada, 45,000 in France, 120,000 in Germany, 65,000 in Mexico, and an estimated 270,000 in the UK. These are just numbers that go on and on. It is certainly difficult to accurately estimate them.

In most cases, a sum of missing people was later found. Yet, there are still a lot of people who went missing without a trace. Where did they go? Are they still alive? At least most countries have some statistics. Countries like India don't have a clear statistic about that. But the number is certainly large considering the population and the number of crimes that happen every single day. The same goes for some countries.

So where do these missing people really go? Ironically, some conspiracy theories were true. A huge sum of people was abducted to a world called Empyrean which was alien to Earth. Reason? Unknown.

Well, but those people were forced to participate in that world's dispute and people do not have the power of choice to defy that.

Currently, over 10,000,000 Outsiders dwell in Empyrean and spread almost everywhere around that world possessing capabilities that'd shake Earth in Empyrean.

Doesn't it seem like a huge sum? Indeed, that's a huge sum but, estimating the abduction which was happening every year for centuries. This was rather a small number.

Introducing guns? Introducing drugs? Introducing fashion? Slavery? Name anything you can? Outsiders introduced several things and modernized the world. It was an Era of Modernization.  Though it did not match the culture and the traditional way of Empyrean it did influence the world in a great way.

A simple example would be a gun. Gun was rendered useless compared to the mana barrier and healing magic. A veteran swordsman would single-handedly slice bullets shot towards him. Well, it may seem like an exaggeration but, there were individuals that went beyond Earth's invention. 

What stopped them was indeed magic itself. They were lacking the skill to rival Mana. And there were things that did not work in Empyrean. Preparing bombs were hard. The reason was simple. The elements and science were extremely different and nonadaptable. 

People who can rival such hard-to-decode things should be Geniuses who are born once in an Era. In conclusion, there were not many scientific geniuses to do such a feat. If they were alive it was hard for them to just survive.

So, Empyrean is quite a hard egg to crack. And there were also people who were born with a purpose. Is it destiny? Or Fate? None knows but, Empyrean strongly believes in words such as Destiny and fate.

And those who were born for a greater cause or purpose and known as Destined ones. There were several times were outsiders went beyond expectation. One man started a revolution. While the other one restrained revolution. One of them tried to stir a war while one of them tried to stop the rise of war. 

It was a vicious loop and a cycle of chaos that happens from time to time. In the end, they were all balanced by the Primeval cosmos judgment of abducting entities into the world to subside a calamity that might arise.

If a native Empyrean has the ability or fated to bring doom towards Empyrean there was an outsider who was fated to bring peace. In that sense, there was always balance. Yet the gods were highly set on a goal to crack that balance.

"It has begun."

Al zalam said without any expression on his face looking at the army that was marching toward's Ferandel's gate.

The vision the gods were seeing showed the whole continent with a red dot in the center exactly in the middle of Chaos mainland. Which was located precisely in between both Ferandel and Dracton.

"The Pillar will soon rise. Hisss!"

The serpent god, Apep said hissing his tongue.

Without paying heed to his words Alzalam's eye drifted towards an isolated town hidden behind a mountain range exactly in the middle of nowhere opposite a tower.

"The Unpredictable one will participate in this war. Even if he doesn't wish to."

He uttered smoothening his beard.

"He is close to awakening. His presence has already hidden from our eyes after his quest to Babel."

Shayatin said standing next to him with her hand on her hip.

"I truly regret participating and paving a way for him to raise as a ladder."

Khonsu the moon god said looking at the Babel.

"Regret is for mortals. Even if you assume the cause of his growth is you. That was his fate. The fate of an Unpredictable one. Haha, I am rather appalled to challenge that mortal!"

One of the gods who was standing several distances away from the other gods said with hideous laughter. His tone was menacing and he seemed like a mad man.

He was standing behind a large flame holding a broad sword on his back.

"Hmm, Insolence... You will regret once you witness the true potential of what a human can achieve."

The old man Alzalam said in a gruff tone looking into the fire with his glimmering grey eyes. 

***

Meanwhile in Theemai,

"Ah! This quite relaxing!"

Nix said looking at the starry sky surrounding the moon.

He was inside the pool to soothe his body which was continuously exposed to danger.

"Lord of Transgressors..."

A feminine voice struck him from behind.

He did not turn towards the entrance and began speaking while floating on the water.

"Yes? Yeril"

"May I pray to you?"

"Pray to me? Why would you?"

"My soul is under your influence. So I have to offer a prayer every day."

'Let me see what I can do what the prayed means.'

"I see... You may do so."

As he uttered she kneeled before the pool Nix didn't open his eyes so he did not know what she was doing he was just floating in the water without much thought.

Her voice entered his vision and as he concentrated on it closing his eye he saw a small dot inside the vast darkness and an extremely small line connected towards him.

[You have entered the state of Divinity]

[You can see through the entity that prays to you and absorb divinity.]

He did not understand those words but he knew this was different from the soul realm and easy to open up to observe her. The soul realm is bound to one's self while Divinity is something of a mapping tool that shows the connection with his believers.

He touched the dot and it showed her whole body by the side of the dot.  It was like using a hi-tech computer to hack and see through someone's personal information.

He was baffled as he touched her body that was portrayed on a holographic that opened to her right side.

Name: Yeril

Age: 24

Race: Angel

Life - [...]

Life expectancy - 200 Years

Vitality: Level 6

|OPTIONS|

He was dazed as several videos of her life experience opened up as he touched her Life. Her training period in the Etherworld and everything since her birth showed up. He was also baffled to see that she can live up to two hundred years.

"Is this the power gods hold? Quite different from Truth eye..."

He uttered and clicked the options and order by order commands opened up like a list.

Command list:

[Kill]

[Absorb]

[Control]

[View through]

[Read mind]

[Speak]

[Open True nature] (Warning: This will lead to the enlightenment of the soul and gives them Ethreal shift)

'What in the world is this? One-click and she will die? Entities holding authority towards others... This accessibility is phenomenal but, Above all this is extremely dangerous.'

He thought and touched view through and abruptly the surrounding void of darkness spun and opened her point of view. It's like he got manifested into her as he opened his eyes and looked at the milky white hands and him who was still floating in the pool.

'This is like breaching privacy...'

[Back]

He thought to himself and touched back to return to Divinity.

[Speak]

As he clicked that there was not much change. Her body showed up before him with her kneeling posture just before him but in a much small size.

"Yeril..."

"Hmm... I was just testing."

She said and quietly waited.

"Should I open true nature?" He uttered to himself and restrained himself from doing it.

"Imma just go back"

He thought and opened his eyes.

[You have gained access to Divinity and can be opened at ease.]

"So, this means I can spectate her whenever I want."

He thought and saw out of the pool and raised her body.

"Stop praying and you don't need to pray often but, you'll have to do something for me now"

He said looking into her eyes.