Broken Story

"The 12 Gods, human beings who were born during the Dark Ages Era. Humans were granted powers of the Divine by a mystery figure who was identified as Aura, a gifter of Divinity and the first child of the False God. She created powers to combat heaven and hell and give humanity a chance of survival. Since then each God created the Ascents and the Beasts Ascents, under the proper God except for one Divine Entity. Each Ascent of the Gods controls a certain concept of mythology pantheon."

"The Storm God Ascent controls the sea and storms and even the beasts that live within the domain. The Death God Ascent controls the dead and the souls. The Sun God Ascent manipulates and controls light and solar energy. The Sage God Ascent possesses infinite information from past to future, and even information that has yet to exist. The Moon God Ascent the opposite of the Sun God Ascent, controls the moon and anything relating to the darkness. The Forge God Ascent focuses on creation and the works of craftsmanship."

"The Life God has plants and earth-related abilities. They even harness healing abilities. The War God Ascent possesses warrior-like traits such as enhanced physical prowess, weapon mastery, ability to use Ki, including the power of rage. The False God Ascent, the creator of the Dragons, and the Ancestor of the Trinity family also known as the Family of Devourers the rest is still unknown. The Anti-God Ascent follows destruction, chaos, and disorder."

"The Star God Ascent The Star God Ascent is a pathway associated with celestial beings, the stars, and their wisdom and power. Users on this Pathway would worship the stars and gain insight, wisdom, and knowledge from their power and energy. And the final God Ascent, Duality, which controls all of the balance. The ancient text even said that Duality was the only one who could adapt and harm the False God. Over time, the pathway to the divine slowly faded into the sands of time allowing a rare Ascender to become a candidate to truly become a God. As for the other Ascents of beasts, they remained even creating new Ascents from creatures from certain myths and legends." The Pope of the Cathedral of Sacred Wisdom explained briefly. His hand was a book that explained the Ascents and the 11 Gods."

Sean's interest peaked learning about the candidates. "How would one be chosen by the Divine?"

"A Genesis Crystal will either appear before you or fate will lend it to you. But you boy, are not chosen for this. The Characters of Fate had already seen the candidate who would succeed in becoming Deities. We need to escort these people here now." The pope smiled handing Sean a paper with the address and name of one of the candidates, Xion Trinity.

"Sir, with all due respect recruiting a Trinity will cause dread and concern. He'll disgrace the gods that we believe in and ruin the world."

"Relax Sean, he's still young. Bloodline may remind us where they come from but not who they decided to become." He placed his hand on Sean's right shoulder for comfort. "Besides, you are an Ascender of the Athena Owl."

"But what happens if he refuses the offer? We may not know what power he would possess like the one we have here. The Sage Knight, Venus. The strongest in terms of sword skills yet no one could ever hit or harm her in any way due to being an Ascender of the Sage God as a Candidate."

"Didn't she live in the Orphanage in Blackband? I heard from her that Xion was a boy who saw the world as corrupted and dark.." Sean said placing his fingers on his chin.

The Pope looked at the dangling symbol of the Sage God, the being of all knowledge and soon-to-be knowledge. "Then we will have to force him to join us, use whatever means necessary to accomplish your goal, and keep Venus in the dark."

"As you wish, Pope." Sean bowed before taking his leave.

…

Outside the Cathedral of Sacred Wisdom, next to the building hailed the building of the organization known as the Midnight Lore. It's an Ascender Organization meant to protect the continent from things humans could not truly fathom. Inside the building was a training room where most of the members were defeated by the hands of Venus. She simply felt border after easily defeating most of the Ascenders who were at the 8th and 7th Array while she was still at the 9th array. When one takes the Genesis Crystal to become the candidate, they begin the array at the lowest level called the Acolyte. All the 12 God Candidates start at that unique level, it even gives their magical power and physical prowess a boost by three times.

"Five-minute break."

"Yes ma'am."

The short blue-haired woman turned around to see Sean approaching her. "It better be important, Sean. As you know I sensed a disturbance in the flow of knowledge and in time," she stated vaguely.

"Trust me, it'll be worth it this time." He responded with a closed-eyed smile.

Venus analyzed Sean, she could tell the reason he came to see her, what's special about the Sage God, War God, and False God they had a unique ability to analyze and adapt whether in combat situations or non-life-threatening situations. "You want me to help bring Xion here to help you're struggling against the Southern kingdom."

"Exactly."

She angled her head to the right in confusion, "Why not ask Leo instead of me?" Leo was the leader of the Midnight Lore and one of the most powerful Ascenders to ever reach the 6th Array for someone in the Berserker Ascent.

Sean sat down on the wooden bench, his right leg placed over his left. "Leo has been sent on a different mission. Besides, you know Xion better than anyone else." Venus calmly looked at the priest, she couldn't tell if there was a bigger conspiracy in place.

"Fine, when do we leave?"

"We leave at dusk, so make sure you pack," Sean said with a gentle smile. He stood up and took his leave to who knows where.

…

In the backyard of the Bakery, Xion, and Dolan were training in sword mastery. Xion was quite skilled as a dual wielder and with the power of the False God, his 9th array, Clock, made his way fighting a bit difficult to master. He got the basic parts down such as his perception was higher than the average human, he could manipulate time and enhance it with mana.

Clack!

Clack!

Whoosh!

Their wooden stickers collided together with each strike almost in a perfect state, Xion used the sword in his right hand for defense and his left with offensive skills he had never seen before. His combat movements have been accelerated to move faster than the naked eye.

"Not bad, Xion…" Praised by the panting Dolan.

Xion lips curled into a smile from excitement. "You're not bad yourself."

The two continued with their training, the swords constantly swinging with precision and power. Downward slash, arc slash, horizontal slash, the attacks continued endlessly. Though to Xion's surprise, he was more skilled than Dolan who was training for three years, he alone had been born to kill.

With a final swing, Xion forced Dolan to the ground, his swords pointing at his neck.

"I finally beat you." Xion fell on his bottom tired from the sparring. This makes the score 42-1

Dolan chuckled, it seemed the two could barely move and their muscles were sore. "You're adapting quickly when we spar, it's almost scary…"

"Maybe I just have the talent hehe!" Xion confidently puffed out his chest. "Let's go eat."

He helped Dolan up to his feet, walking him back inside the house where they could smell fresh delicious food that Marcus cooked. He saw the tired kids and approached them. "How was training you two?"

"It was fun. I finally managed to beat Dolan."

Marcus chuckled at Xion's gloating. "Is that so? Well, Dolan, I believe we now know his combat structure."

"Yeah, we do. Though I won't lose again—"

Growl!

Dolan's face heated up hearing his stomach growling with hunger. The three chuckled as they headed upstairs to wash off. Marcus watched the two head upstairs, his expression wasn't a good one. It showed something terrible was going to happen and he had to figure out what he was going to do.

In the bathing room, Xion applied shampoo to his hair. He wanted his hair to be smooth but messy again. Dolan, washing the dirt off his fair-skinned body, still felt weird to bathe with another boy in Kiryuu's perspective.

"Hey, Xion."

"Yes?"

"Have you noticed the vibe early?"

Xion looked at Dolan with an expression of concern. "I did. The question is though: What the hell is happening? Ever since the incident it is like we're being watched."

"Could it be the Cult of Apocalypse? You did kill their leader." Dolan stood up and entered the bathtub filled with hot water.

Xion stayed silent for a while. Something did feel odd like an opposing presence finally decided to awaken after Jester's death… If I remember correctly each Ascent has its unique abilities that derive from the 12 God Ascents. The only thing I know who could awaken after the ritual was… Oh no!

"Dolan, when do you leave for school? Asked Xion, his tone completely hollow. Dolan could not see the expression he was making. "I leave tomorrow. Why?"

"I want you to have Mom and Dad accompany you on your journey."

If I'm right about this, in the story of Heaven does not Claim. The creatures of corruption and madness, Satan's Nihil, emerge from the ritual that the characters thought they stopped after defeating the cult of Apocalypse. I guess the other Ascender Candidates either sensed it or are currently worrying about what should be happening soon.

"Xion, are you alright…?"

Xion looked over to see Dolan shaking a bit. "It's nothing, I just want them to take a vacation, maybe head to the capital and do some sightseeing."

"True, but what about you? You've been wanting to see what the school is like."

Xion shook his head. I have to think strategically without having to use the book's knowledge. Each time I change the future the action I take causes the memories of my past life to be deleted.

Dolan hopped out of the bathtub. He noticed a small smirk on Xion's face. It was screaming to kill someone. Dolan paid no attention to it, he thought it was probably his imagination.

Xion has been acting strange for some time now, his being found was no coincidence especially when the Cult of Apocalypse. He's a Trinity that raised suspicion to even Father. Why does it feel like planning to do something crazy?

Dolan thought vaguely leaving the boy in the bathroom.

…

After the bath the two head downstairs to the dinner table, having a delicious meal that not many could have. The four chatted about their day until a certain topic was brought up.

Lucy placed her silverware on the plate. "Say boys, how would you feel if you two had a little sister?"

Xion and Dolan looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders not knowing how to answer the question. Then it clicked into their head. "Wait are you having a child?!" the two asked in unison in utter happiness. Lucy only nodded softly. The two boys stood up dancing in excitement after hearing the news.

"So what will her name be?"

Lucy and Marcus looked at each other and smiled. "Her name will be Eris."

Xion immediately stopped after hearing that name, he looked at them in utter fear. The three looked at him confused. "Is something wrong, Xion?"

"It's nothing…" He responded. His tone shaking to the core, he sat back down and placed his head on the table so they couldn't see his expression.

That can't be right, Eris means Discord in Greek origin. And she was supposed to be born after the Xion died. Did I break the story? Is that why the clock could only be seen by me?