94) Record of Ragnarok, 8th Round

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Poseidon Pov

I looked at Hades sitting in front of me, he had a very serious look on his face. He looked at me and with small sigh he said," Poseidon sorry to trouble you, but it would seem outer gods are getting out of my hands, while a few are no problem anymore like Sun Wukong, but others are still a nuance, and I would need you to show them their place".

I looked him with even a more serious face making him slightly nervous and calmly asked," Who are Outer Gods?", for a moment there was a silence, and his eyes widened in shock, " Hahahaha!", the silence was broken by the laughter of the third among us, who is none other than Zeus. He was laughing his ass off on the floor.

" W-Who are outer G-Gods! Haha! Never had I heard a funnier question!", he said while continuing laughing. I had an idea to drop a few teleportation spells at him, just to see where his sorry ass would end up but sighing, I looked back at Hades who was barely holding back his laughter. " Not you as well", I sighed in defeat and he started laughing as well, meanwhile I looked in my memories for the Outer Gods.

' Hmm I am sure there wasn't any Chuthulu mythos here... So... Oh, I remember! ', I thought and then realized the reason behind their laughter much to my embarrassment. Being the perfect being I used to think, I never bothered to remember more than anything deemed to be of any importance so that's why I didn't felt any reason to remember them. Outer Gods are basically outcasts who don't follow the rules of Valhalla, the ones that apply to every God.

However, they have significant strength, some even rival the likes of Zeus like Ra, so gods not wanting another war decided to let them be as they are and not trying to make them prisoners for breaking the laws. " Oh, do you remember it now?", Hades asked with a smile, and I nodded, then using a spell I teleported the laughing Zeus into the core of a star, he must have the time of his life now.

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3rd Pov

" The helll!!!!", Zeus shouted while feeling his blood boiling, he could feel his bones breaking under the pressure of the huge star, he gritted his teeth and using his divinity made a run for, he somehow broke through the space and teleported on a barren plant, ' Damnit Poseidon ', he cried as he laid on the cold surface, his muscles feeling like a bitch.

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Poseidon Pov

After hearing the Hades' world, we came to the stadium where the Outer Gods were waiting, " Ha! So, this is the God that defied the End? Have been years since I saw you- so called tyrannical king of the Ocean", I narrowed my eyes and looked at Ra, who walked towards me, a scorching heat accompanied him, as he stood in front of me our auras collided.

I simply used an instant death spell, and he fell dead in front of me, the Gods became silent as I could see some outer gods whose name I don't bother to remember becoming horrified as the body of Ra turned into particles as he vanished into Nilfhel. " So, anyone else wants to list his complaints?", I asked in a cold voice, and they shook their heads.

" Good, I declare it to be the end of the Apocalypse, the thirteenth God for the Ragnarök will be chosen by me, if anyone of you has problems with my decision, you can come and list your complaints to me", I said and they looked nervous," Well I have no problems", a demi-god said, others too voiced their opinions in my favour before running way.

" Haha, you must have traumatized them", Hades said as he looked at the running gods, " If you had killed Ra with some effort then they would have challenged you, but you just killed him in an instant, so for them challenging you means getting a free ticket to Nilfhel", he chuckled. " With this now over, we must focus on Ragnarök", I said.

" It has been seven rounds, and we are on the lead with four wins", Hades said, and then pausing for a moment he continued," Previously this tournament would have decided the fate of humanity, but now with you here being the strongest God, you can decide their fate on a whim, no god would go against your decision".

" The tournament will continue, with the only change being the participants we have on God's side or on humanity's side, if humanity wins, they survive, if they don't, they die, it is as simple as that", I declared, and he nodded. Soon we parted our ways with me returning to my wives.

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3rd Pov

Brunhilde gritted her teeth remembering the events that had transpired not long ago, the revival of a God was no small matter, and it was extremely serious considering that said God just usurped the Constitution of Valhalla not long ago. " Fuck it!", her face distorted in anger as she threw the furniture away, she started breaking things in the room out of spite.

" S-Sister", Göll looked at her sister with fear, " Why did that fucker had to be alive?! Why did he have to kill Odin! Why?! Just Why?!", spat Brunhilde, Göll could do nothing but look at her sister taking out her anger. She sighed; she could understand the reason. While Brunhilde hated Gods, even the one who created her, without Odin and Loki taking the reins it was going hard for them.

Not to mention Poseidon had become a force stronger than their imagination, his feat of killing Ra-Horakhty with ease, as if killing a bug meant he can call off Ragnarök and just drop disasters on the humanity, making them extinct. Worse? They were helpless! Indeed, Valkyries were stronger than any normal God, in the end they were Demi-Gods weaker than the major Gods, even if they unite the Zeus alone would be enough to kill them all.

Under such circumstances how can they hope to go against the likes of New Poseidon? Brunhilde finally stopped, she breathed heavily and her face ugly. Göll asked in a trembling tone," S-Sister the Ragnarök?", Brunhilde sighed and looking at the youngest with slight apology in her eyes she said," I have received the news, the Ragnarök will continue and so the fate of mankind upon it's victor."

Göll couldn't help but feel relief. It is good news, at least their plan isn't compromised. " I thought I would find ya all here", Göll heard a voice yelping in surprise and looked back to find a bandaged Buddha," What are you doing here?", Brunhilde asked with a frown and laughed the Honored One. " It is going to be hard for humanity, and even harder for Valkyries once the things end, how about leaving Norse and joining me?", Buddha said.

" Oh! I appreciate that! That's you wanted to hear. Well, you are in tough luck then because- FUCK OFF ", said Brunhilde and Göll couldn't help but feel a heart attack as her sister glared at the Enlightened one who just smirked," Is that so? Well, that's bad because I was thinking of expanding my pantheon and maybe creating a second Earth where humanity can continue thriving if things go south."

She paused and looked at him speechless," You know what that means right? You might as well get killed", she said and he erupted in laughter," The chances of that happening according to my calculations are 95.738%! ", he said and then paused," I do what I want, if the death is the result of it then let it be so, but I would rather die with my wishes fulfilled than to cower while living."

Brunhilde grinned and said," Haha! As expected of Honored One, you wanna die with your pride intact than live with crushed pride, don't make it sound so glorious you big jerk", Buddha winced and said," Ouch! And I thought I finally pulled you in the path of Buddhism", meanwhile Göll watched the conservation with confusion.

Finally, Buddha left and they selected the next warrior, when they were alone, Göll asked," Sister, I- Was Buddha telling the truth?", Brunhilde paused and said," He is a fucking jerk, just second to Loki if in my list. But he doesn't lie, he does what he wants, and although I feel repulsed, but he made me understand something- We have come too far, and I don't care anymore, whatever the end might be I will try my best."

Göll's eyes become teary as they entered their seats, just like before the seats were filled with Human souls and Gods. However, this time on the seat of Odin sat Loki who gave a creepy grin upon seeing Brunhilde, meaning a Demi-God Göll was easily able to sense it and couldn't help but cower behind Brunhilde.

" Humans and Gods! Are you ready for another bout of strength?!", asked Heimdall.

"Yay!!", cheered Gods while Humanity looked with grim faces. 

" Now that stadium is ready it is time for Ragnarök round eighth!", announced Heimdall pausing for a moment and then he continued," Gods stand at four wins and humanity at three, whether humanity will inch closer to its destruction with another loss and succumb to defeat, only time will tell!"

" For this round, in humanity's side is him!", he said, and a platform came out of the door, he looked at it confused for a moment before the launchpad started crackling,' Ugh every of this contestant want to have a spectacular entrance for no reason! ', he thought and muttered," Fine". Then he announced," He is the Child of Light! Born in a midst of a stormy and thunderous night! As his name suggests, he illuminated the entire world with light of his wisdom!"

The anticipation became bigger, while Gods noticed that Heimdall was announcing the entry of the human contestant first before the God contestant for some reason. " His intellect far beyond the limits of man! He brought forth a new Magic called science!", Heimdall announced, and the contestant launched himself on the stage.

The lightning crackled around him as he landed, Heimdall continued announcing and finally said at the end," He is Human history's one and the only sorcerer! Nikola Teslaaaa!", he finished announcing and humanity cheered, while many admired his automaton B. Heimdall chuckled and then thought,' They would be surprised at the contestant for the Gods ', even he was shocked, a grin couldn't help but be formed on his face as he thought of the surprised looks that he will see whether of Gods or the humans.

" It is too showy", a firm voice came from the door on the Gods side," Now on Gods' side is this human!", Heimdall announced, and a God said," Oh a Human? Wait! A human?!", Gods were baffled and so were the humans. " She carried out the will of the GOD! She once protected the weak! The helpless! She drove her country out of desperation!", he announced.

While chaos ensued among the audience.

" Why is a human fighting for Gods' side?!"

" No, the bigger question is who allowed it?!"

" Even the bigger question, it is a girl?!"

Other gods looked at the God who gave the sexist remark, meanwhile Humanity felt betrayal.

" Why?? Why would a human betray their own kind?"

To the humanity it looked as if all the heroes who fought for humanity and died were laughed on as a human was fighting for their kind's extinction.

" For protection! For Salvation! Do you know what she received?!", Heimdall's voice drew them out of stupor," Betrayed by the ones she protected! Betrayed by the God whose will she followed; she was burned at stake! And from her ashes! Nope! From the Holy Grail she was formed! She- who accepted a better God! "

"Roarrr!!", a Dragon roared as it entered the stadium baffling all, the phantasmal beast released its aura scaring the Gods and humans alike," Some say she is a witch! Some say she is a God! Dragons are her pet! Magic is her forte! I present you! The Gods' Eight contestant! The Saint of the Orlean'- Nope! Jalter!", he fininshed announcing.

Fanfir landed before the Nikola Tesla who looked at the creature with awe, it lowered it's head for it's master to come down, as everyone looked at her, they were stupefied. " I-Impossible?! She is saint of Orlean?! She is fighting against us?", a human exclaimed, while sages frowned as they could tell it wasn't Jeanne D'Arc but someone different entirely.

" I would say it once, I am not Jeanne D'Arc!", Jalter said as she hit the floor with her dark flag shattering it and creating a sonic boom that made everyone halt, Fanfir roared and vanished into Golden particles much to everyone's astonishment, and she declared," I am the Apostle of Lord Poseidon! Jalter!"

Pandemonium descended in the stadium.

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Poseidon Pov

I teleported back to my wives, and as soon as I returned, I was greeted by my daughter and the others," Daddy!", Amara was the first one to hug me followed my Jalter and others.

" I have solved all the nuances here, we can enjoy the heaven now", I said, and then explained them about my intention. " So, any of you want to join the tournament?", I asked, Amara replied," Nope! I would rather spend my time with you than vaporize idiots", her reply was cold. Scathach shook her head," While the tournament sounds interesting, the beings of this world are far much weaker, and I guess if humanity has to survive, they need to overcome Gods, I wouldn't interfere."

Artoria hugging my arm replied," If you want me to participate my Liege, then I shall do as you command- but if not then I don't have any interest", I looked at the Jeanne who shook her head," While I would like to fight for humanity, I am not content with the time I spent with you", she said and nodded, I guess humanity lost her saintness.

My eyes finally fell on Jalter who had a conflict in her eyes, she seemed to be deeply in thought and replied," My Lord I would like to fight for the gods", I grinned hearing her, to make things most interesting I thought about the betrayal Buddha gave the gods and said," Very well, however I would list you as a human." She nodded nonchalant, while I was grinning,' Haha Humanity would never anticipate this! '

To be honest this war was already beneath me, other than the rematch that I wanted with the Sasaki there was nothing much interesting, but with Jalter's involvement things would go in ways that I have never anticipated. Finally, we departed from there to my castle in this world. 

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I couldn't help but grin as I looked at the stadium, this match was bound to be interesting.

To be continued...

(A/N: Have been really ill, nausea, vomiting, everything hit at once, just when I thought I was getting better. *Sigh* Good thing nausea is no more? Bad thing? I have to deal with splitting headaches, dizziness and fear for getting a sudden blackout for standing longer, how I wish that I get better already.)