18 17: Faith

[Chapter 17: Faith]

Harken us, O great Blizzardweaver,

Thou, The Blizzard-Shrouded Enigma,

The Serpentine Trickster of the Waves,

Whose power spans the depths of the universe,

What is it that thou desire?

O Master of Illusion and Deception,

Is it fame, or the adoration of us mortals?

Or doth thy heart burn with a deeper longing,

A desire transcending mortals' imagination?

Answer us, O divine Mischiefmaker!

We fight in thy name and in thy honor,

For thou alone, we love, we kill!

But thou art silent,

Thou art uncaring,

Answer us if thou wilt,

Or wilt thou remain The Cryptic Watcher of the Ever-Changing Tides?

-A Skald about Loki in the 12th Century, while fighting against Christianity and settlements

(New synopsis ^^, tell me what you think about it. PS: Loki's divinities are all revealed in there, find them!)

In a grand church, Loki sat on a throne. His right hand was placed on his face, his eye between his ring and middle fingers. In his emerald, green eye, particles of a golden color shone.

He let out a chuckle as he watched the carnage made in his name. This was war, and casualties were expected from the other side. Loki never believed one of his Asgardian army would die, and none did; It was an obvious victory.

A week ago, he had made new gains on this planet. Faith. This energy fascinated him. He wondered how it could interact with his soul itself. Would it provoke changes? And how could the belief of mortals become an energy?

Those were questions that he hoped to answer. But he knew this was much above his current power.

The belief in him and Asgard had become so much that he had gained control over faith and what he could do with it. It was an interesting power that gave him the power to help his believers, even planets, away and see through their eyes.

Well, for now, he could only see through the eyes of fanatics because even though he had an entire planet worshipping him, it was still not much in the vast universe.

The more one believed in him, the more faith he got. Making it that fanatics were a good way to expand his faith. But they were hard to find or make, thus making them a rare thing.

He could only see where each one of them was. When he closes his eyes, he sees a map with golden hues. The golden hues are believers and the denser the hue is, the more faith he gets from this place.

But even with galaxies under his rule, faith wouldn't make everything possible. It had a limit, or else cosmic entities would be revered throughout the cosmos. And the more one had, the slower it would get to form more faith energy.

Ultimately, it wasn't a power one should rely on. As the more powerful one gets, the easier planets fall. Religion is also something ever-changing, and one moment of inattention could bring rise to another.

Just looking at the gods in the Percy Jackson Universe was proof of this. They were so reliant on it that as Christianity swallowed Hellenism, their power got extremely weak. Belief also decided life and death in that world, as shown with Pan and other gods who were said to have disappeared as they were erased from history.

Musing about Faith in another universe, Loki wondered if this was the reason why MCU Zeus was so ridiculously weak. Or were there other reasons? Could it also become his doom?

Loki shook his head; he wouldn't fall so low!

A small smile, however, blossomed on his face as he remembered another thing he had gotten with faith. He had been able to visualize the sparkle of faith in his soul, making him able to see the other sparkles near it.

There were five sparkles, each with a different color: a multicolored one, a dark green, a blue one, a white, and finally an emerald, green one.

The kaleidoscopical one was his magic divinity. With it, Loki is able to have authority over magic, making him capable of stopping the formation of spells. He has an instinctive knowledge of magic, making him capable of creating spells with but his imagination. Of course, this has a limit, and he can't just create universes. He can also sense the magic in someone and in the air, making it so that no magic user can surprise him as long as their power is under him.

The dark green one was his Snake/Serpent divinity. It gave him the ability to transform into any snake race (except cosmical/primordial ones). He has authority over all snakes, even mythological ones like the Basilisk. He has access to all of their understandable powers. And while it may seem weak, it isn't, as if he is strong enough he can control snake gods.

The blue spark is his Ocean/Sea divinity. Through this divinity, he has absolute control over water that may even grow into control over primordial water control. He can also become water itself, making it so that beings that are unable to attack his spirit/soul may not be able to hurt him. He has knowledge about everything happening in his sea/ocean. He also has control over every non-divine/or weaker animal in the sea.

His white spark is his blizzard divinity. With it, Loki can induce a natural disaster of various powers. While Blizzard may seem like just the weaker version of a storm, it isn't. While storms are water, wind, and lightning combined together, blizzards are snow, ice, wind, and coldness.

The last spark is Mischief/Trickery divinity. It is an underestimated divinity, giving him a vast range of divine powers unreliant on magic. It is neither a dark/light divinity and is on the neutral stand, as mischief can be done in a malevolent way as well as in a funny way. Through it, Loki can distinguish lies, and make illusions. Trickery is also not playing by the rules, making Loki an anomaly.

Loki had now become on the same level of divinity as Thor pre-Ragnarök. For example, at the moment, Thor can't be called the god of lightning, strength, etc. as his divinities are unknown. He hasn't been able to find the sparks in his soul.

While still an awakened god, Loki, with the help of a focus, could be able to use his divinities. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't have a weapon of such type. But he also doesn't want one, as he believes that he should be able to awaken much easier if he isn't reliant on something. The moment when Thor awakened was when he couldn't rely on Mjolnir, it was against Hulk.

"This world is so interesting!" whispered Loki, his eyes glistening. He was truly happy to have been reincarnated in this world, even though his entire planet had died.

A.N: suggest cool titles for Loki. Not edgy ones with too much Lord and all, no things like I used in this chapter, or those titles (belonging to other Gods in gods and demons wiki): Sea of Dawn, Magnvm Chaos, One who preceded All, Well of Creation, The Unthinkable, The All-Seeing Horror, Dream of Demise, The Author.