10 (The strongest there is.)

Chapter ten:

I was woken up by the horn trumpets signaling the start of a new day, the morning dawn being a truly beautiful sight of golden sunrise. After a breakfast of wheat porridge and loaves of bread with a side of mead.

I was directed to what seemed to be a class. It consisted of long wooden branches, under a large open meeting hall.

A large chalkboard set up front with runes dancing on it like a flat- screen display.

A dark haired Valkyrie walked into the hall and stood to the board.

Welcome warriors, I am Valkyrie Angerta of Odin's legion and I will be explaining something to you today." She greeted. The others reciprocated.

Now that you are all well rested let's begin without further ado. First, why we fight and who we fight against." the runes on the board moved to produce a diagram of nine planets held together by what looked to be a cosmic star tree.

As warriors of Asgard most of you already know our enemies. But we should clarify something's." She pointed to the first three planets. The blue Asgard was the highest on the tree and just below it were two others. This is the realm of Asgard at the very forefront. And these two realms are Olympus and the Temple. These three realms are the first line of defense against all that threaten the nine realms. Each realm has its own planet or in most cases multiple planets."

She pointed at the red fiery planet below Asgard to it's right." This is Muspllehiem, home of the fire giant's, devil's and demons. And most malicious spirits."

Midgard exists right in the center, it is the realm of humans, most of your homes, which is proof the effects of the wars have begun to reach your land's. Planets in these realms have already begun to the destroyed by the devastating effects of the war.

Right now we are carrying out Ragnarok, we are in the end of days that have fate of all the nine realms. That's why we have to fight. To protect our world, or to be honest, to live.

This is the most central information on planets you need for now. Warriors at your ranks you only need to know these, for your battle's won't reach the larger ones. You will be fighting in smaller battles."

You have to grow strong so your rank rises granting you access to better treatment and more advantages. And if we are able to go against the enemies that wish to extinguish all life in the nine realms, if we beat Ragnarok, then it is even possible to return to our homes." she encouraged. I could truly go back, but only if we defeat the end.

Now then let's move on to saga's. A saga is a story. A transmission. The more people know about it, and the more they believe in it the stronger your saga becomes. There are really rare cases but sometimes the strength of the saga becomes stronger than what it originally was. Just like how it's broken in the process of transmitting." The board showed an example of a saga that started as a man catching a giant squid turning into that of a man defeating a monster kraken.

She continued." The saga is the materialization of a legend. A recreation of a story. Because of that, the effects of a saga are plentiful. In addition, several abilities may be generated in only one saga. The sagas of the lowest ranked warriors and inferior ranked ones is simple. The majority of them make them stronger or faster. Of course, that's also an amazing strength but it lacks too much to call it the proper strength of a saga. One reason why most can't even bring out the original power properly, is due to the lack of proper understanding concerning the saga" she paused to let that sink in. The warriors deeply nodded.

Remember. The saga is a story belonging only to you. It's a record of your life and a legend that will be made from now on. The one that can bring out the strength of the saga and develop it the best is none other than you." she made some further remarks on the operation of saga's.

Can saga's be strengthened by mana?" a warrior seated in the front asked.

A saga is a unique type of magic, it can in some cases be influenced by mana runes but that doesn't make it grow in strength. Rather than mana, it is sometimes influenced often by willpower!" he nodded in understanding, prompting her to continue on another subject.

I will now teach you how to use the runes you obtained yesterday. The god's have drawn upon the archaic system of growth for the warriors of Valhalla. It's a simple method of investing runes to strengthen your abilities."

She pointed at the pentagon that appeared on the board. Single glowing runes stood on each edge of the pentagon.

The abilities are divided into five categories. Strength, Endurance, Agility, Mana, Willpower. The first three are obvious as they sound and mana is related to magic. If you get stronger so does your magic as well as your resistance to it which also works in accordance with your blessings giving you more even greater resistance. Willpower allows you to gain greater metal fortitude increasing not only your concentration but resistance towards mental attacks."

The strength of the attributes weren't qualified by numbers but rather the brilliance of the light they gave off and the resulting color. My physical attributes glowed a somewhat bright gold with the mana attribute surprisingly being as bright as my strength attribute.

Adding runes to the attributes caused them to grow just slightly brighter. I remembered that the amount of rune's you gained didn't matter when you obtained godhood, or reached a specific rank. They were akin to training wheels.

And we all know how the One Below All's strength grew in proportion to his emotional state. These things didn't really matter to me. I'm not even remotely dependent on it, magic to amplify mine or whatever. I'm a gamma beast, anger personified. An existence between magic and science, I am the One Below All. Period.

I checked my runes.