Chapter 20

"Go! Now!" Odin shouted at Loki.

'I'll try my best to stop this creature.'

Loki ran straight towards where he knew the bifrost was, not looking back once as he carried his mother with him.

Controlling the last remaining amount of his Odinforce, along with his lifeforce, Odin used everything at his disposal.

'I'll have to improvise.' Odin thought

Muttering an incantation underneath his breath caused a lifeless black and white glow to cover his eyes. Immediately he closed his eyes, knowing what would happen if he were to look at anything right now.

* sigh *

'I now have 3 hours left to live after using this, with it concentrated on my eyes I can temporarily stop his movements until my family escapes.' Odin thought as he sighed.

'Lets go to him.'

Shooting off from his previous position, Odin charged at Adrian. There was a massive decrease in his speed from when he had first fought Adrian compared to now.

'What exactly is he planning to do?' Adrian laughed in his mind.

'With the way he is moving now, I could kill him before he even realised. Oh well, this is what desperation cau-.'

Adrian's thoughts were interrupted as Odin suddenly opened his eyes, staring right at Adrian.

Adrian's body completely froze up, only his mind being able to do anything. The same deathly black and white glow that surrounded Odin's eyes now surrounded Adrian's entire body.

'Time stop!?'

'How!? With the meager amount of power he has now, and why didn't he use it earlier when I fought him!?'

"I know this won't hold you for long, and I also know that I will die here today." Odin said

"But you wont leave here unscathed either."

As soon as those words left his mouth he charged at Adrian, his eyes still wide open and staring right at Adrian. With the little Odinforce he had left powering him up, he punched at Adrian's time stopped body, the force and power being stopped by Odin's timestop.

Without stopping, Odin continued his Onslaught, sending out multiple punches aimed at all Adrian's vitals. All these hits would connect with Adrian once the time stop effect wore off, and because Odin was constantly staring at Adrian, everytime Adrian would be close to breaking free, it would just go back to how it was.

'He is using his Odinforce now...along with his lifeforce, this is gonna hurt.' Adrian thought.

' I won't let him kill himself though, I'll knock him out before he can run out of lifeforce.'

'Since me using my ability at low output isn't enough, i'll just max the output, without caring for control.' Adrian thought, his grin stretching from ear to ear.

'[Concept Eradication: Time Stop]'

Out of Adrian's body, the all familiar black orb erupted, destroying the concept of time.

* CRACK *

The concept of Odin's ability shattered, and as soon as it did, a barrage of attacks rained down on Adrian's body.

* BOOM *

* BOOM *

* BOOM *

Adrian's body twisted from side to side as the force of Odin's attacks caused Adrian's body to become bent in all kinds of angles. Both of his hands flew off from the force and power of the attack, his legs soon followed.

* BOOM *

The last blow went straight to his abdomen, putting a hole in Adrian's body, almost giving him a donut-like shape.

* THUD *

Adrian's body, that was suspended in the air from all of Odin's powerful blows, finally landed on the ground, producing a loud thud.

"W-Well fuck, you werent lying old man." Adrian said as he coughed up blood

'If he did that against me when we first fought while using his odinforce…..I would have died. '

"But now you're about to die, after using everything at your disposal." Adrian said with much better ease now, his body already regenerating from Odin's attacks, due to the meager amount of Odin force Odin had at his disposal.

Odin's aged body now looked like a dried up twig, his muscles were completely gone. His hair followed, turning him bald and he was barely breathing, a regular knife stab could probably kill Odin right now.

"It's sad isn't it." Adrian said, now fully healed.

"The power you worked for, the power you created, all gone because you decided you wanted to live as a normal man, with a family."

"The ruthlessness you had in your prime, the viciousness you had, all gone because of what...love?" Adrian said as he laughed at the dying Odin.

"What if I were to find her and rape her infront of your powerless body, I wonder how you would react." Adrian teased.

That seemed to get Odin's attention as he looked up at Adrian, defiance in his eyes. With great difficulty, Odin managed to mutter out something.

"Y-You won't last long here, outsider." Odin weakly said. "I'm old, very old, and I know certain types of energies when I see it."

"Yours is foreign." Odin said, staring him right in the eye.

"Even combining certain energies wouldn't produce the one you have, it's simply...not from this universe."

"The watchers will come for you…..the higher ups will come for you, y-you won't last long." Odin continued as right before he was about to die, Adrian acted.

"[Concept Eradication: Odin's death]."

A black orb flew out of Adrian's hand, going straight for Odin, unlike the other times though, this one was not meant to kill or damage him in any way. This was meant to kill the concept of his death, this of course would not last forever and the more times he used this the higher the chance of the concept of death that Thanos was so in love with come knocking on Adrian's door.

And as Adrian was right now, there is absolutely nothing that he could do that would let him survive against a being like that. If she were to appear in front of Adrian right now, she could literally think him out of existence.

'I need to find more ways to survive being erased out of existence.'

'If possible, I need to visit tensura.'

Adrian watched as the black orb wrapped around Odin, the energy swirling around the dying god like a specter of hope wrapped in despair. The concept of death, an irrevocable force in the universe, trembled at the edge of Adrian's manipulation.

As the orb shimmered, Adrian felt a change in the atmosphere, a faint tension cutting through the haze of battle. It was a gamble, a desperate shot . Part of him didn't want odin to die because he wanted to study his Odinforce , but another part, a part buried deep within the recesses of his mind, was acutely aware of the price he might pay.

'If I feel even the slightest intervention from anyone or anything in Odin's death I'm going to instantly pull on my connection and escape.' Adrian thought seriously.

Odin's body shimmered beneath the black energy, and for a moment, Adrian felt something shift within the fabric of reality. The old god's heartbeat, slow and labored, seemed to synchronize with the pulsing orb. The intricate dance of life and death was delicate, and now Adrian was meddling with forces beyond his understanding.

"I curse you." Odin croaked, his voice barely above a whisper . "I pray to my forefathers and all the ones before me, that YOU SUFFER."

Odin started coughing, blood flying out of his mouth due to his weak and dying body.

"Is that your dying wish?" Adrian asked as he laughed

"I simply can't understand."

"I could probably break you right now by merely killing your wife in front of you. Isn't that embarrassing to you??"

"Why give yourself such an obvious weakness, a mighty and powerful ruler like you should have known that the only thing that woman could possibly give you is weakness." Adrian continued.

Odin's once formidable presence now barely flickered before Adrian. Every word Adrian spoke was laced with mockery.

"I am flawed," Odin rasped, his voice a mere shadow of its former thunderous might. "But that flaw has given rise to a love that is stronger than any power you could ever comprehend. It has forged bonds that grant me strength beyond mere brute force."

Adrian laughed, his laughter echoed through the chamber, a mocking sound that reverberated off the walls. "Love? Strength? Strength is power, and power is control. You've made yourself so weak by cherishing those bonds."

"Idiot." Adrian said, his laughter continuing.

"Well Odin, let me torment you a little."

"You might think that your family has escaped, safe and sound, but thats where youre wrong." Adrian said, a wide smile plastered across his face.

"I don't know what you did that caused Draalok to not be able to see them, and only be able to see you but it doesn't matter."

"Because your own friend, the former protector of this realm, is going to bring back a beaten half to death Freya and a dead Loki."

"W-What." Odin muttered, shocked. His mind instantly coming to the conclusion that they were controlling Heimdall.

"HAHAH YOU SHOULD SEE YOUR FACE RIGHT NOW, COMPLETELY TERRIFIED. AREN'T YOU EMBARRASSED, ASHAMED? AT THE MERE MENTION OF A COUPLE PERSONS DYING OR SUFFERING YOU LOSE HOPE." Adrian shouted, tears threatening to spill due to how much he was laughing.

"As funny and dumb as you are, there's no denying that you're very powerful."

Odin's heart raced as dread seeped into his bones like ice. The truth of Adrian's words struck him harder than any physical blow he had endured. His fragile state was a testament to that pain.What good was his power if he could not protect those he loved? The flickering light of hope in his chest dimmed further, overwhelmed by the looming shadows surrounding his family's safety.

"Y-You, you're lying!" Odin shouted at Adrian, his throat taking more damage as a result.

"You don't have any ability that controls beings!"

"Oh you're definitely right, I don't, but guess who does." Adrian said, looking at Odin, giving him a creepy smile.

"The other one!?" Odin realised in horror.

"Oh and I forgot to tell you, your other son is dead." Adrian said expectantly.