Chapter 608 - 607 – One more to go.

"Turned back the time?" – asked confused Maparapara.

"You are saying this guy may have some kind of skill that allows him to turn back time?"

"I mean, it would do it." – replied Phantasia.

"If they had some kind of skill that would allow them to reverse time of the destroyed environment, turning it back into its complete previous state, then there would be no evidence at all, right?"

"And considering how many different skills are there, would really a time manipulation surprise you?"

"…Nope." – replied Maparapara.

"Still, it does sounds like something 'heavy' per say… So, it wouldn't be really surprising either if it was a doing of divinity."

"In other words, the main culprit can only possess two specific abilities."

"The ability to walk through solid matter."

"Or ability to turn back time… Either one seems like annoying fucking thing."

"Still, does walking through solid matter, like a ground, gives you x-ray vision? Like a detection skill? But how would that work with temples that can counter it?"

"We don't know… Still, it is better to know a most likely possibilities." – said Phantasia.

"Yeah… And not only that, but do you really think that the culprit may not had picked up some good-looking divinity and take it?"

"If that is the case, then that would mean that the culprit is at least duo."

"One with divinity who removed traces, while the other one went inside and asked the question."

"…The knowledge about the elder gods is lost… Or more exactly, it is scattered." – said Phantasia.

"Some were looted by the invaders, while some were buried in the war."

"There is a chance that somebody may had found that old knowledge and found out about the existence of some kind of overpowered god."

"Remember, you have the fucking mythical rarity class here."

<<A simple question that made us realize that the enemy have either of the two fallowing abilities.>>

<<Honestly speaking, we don't know WHEN the shadow mastermind was moving… HELL! We still don't know much about that motherfucker Apple!>>

<<Still, we can determine that both of them are not working with each other, since the shadow mastermind not only fucked us big time, but also Apple a the time same time.>>

<<…>>

<<That theory about him finding out about some information about elder gods beforehand… I wouldn't be surprised if that was true.>>

<<But how the hell would they obtain that kind of knowledge?>>

<<One thing would be to obviously raid one of the invaders homes and look through the stuff they had stolen from this word.>>

<<But I've never heard of anything like that from the organization special information network.>>

<<…Nope. Don't bother. No point looking into that.>>

<<We still lack too much information to make any theories like that.>>

<<For now, the current situation.>>

<<4 out of 5 members had obtained the divinities.>>

<<3 legendary and 1 mystical.>>

<<Maparapara's group returned back to the base in order to recover, since just like me, they had also their own share of trouble while defending the temple.>>

<<After recovering and getting equipment necessary to deal with this cold weather here, they will come here and help me out… Since I will need it.>>

<<There is a good chance that by now some of the temples had been conquered by the invaders… And if they had confirmed that it was REAL… Then their greed will be unbounded.>>

<<And that means they will start becoming far more aggressive.>>

<<The spirit faction already know about my existence here… And they had already used duke rank spirit here.>>

<<…Yeb. Things are about to get fucked.>>

<<Still, there is only one thing we can do here.>>

<<Wait for Orion.>>

<<But we have a problem.>>

<<Orion's impatient and anger is growing. She ain't even hiding it.>>

<<She is also dealing with a mental type challenge.>>

<<A challenge where you have to keep your mind cool or you will fail.>>

<<Each time she fails, she grows more restless.>>

<<Not only that, she also have to deal with a lot of pressure from us and from this world itself.>>

<<She has ability to grab something and become a top figure.>>

<<The oppression she had endured. The humiliation and anger she had to go through.>>

<<It did shaped her and made her into the perfect candidate.>>

<<But the fact still remains.>>

<<She was nobody.>>

<<She wants to be a SOMEBODY, but that won't be easy for her, just like Thanatos said.>>

<<Not only that… Fuck.>> ℴ

<<Honestly, I DON'T want her to find out that Sengen finished the trial, since it may affect her mentally… But with the current situation, we have no choice.>>

<<Why don't just lie and say that the temple was taken away? Hm? Yeah… Fucking no.>>

<<I get that lie would make it seem like a good thing, like she wouldn't get extra pressure as she was getting compared to Sengen.>>

<<But think about it other way.>>

<<If she finds out that the temple was stolen from US, she would go into panic, thinking that she may not obtain the divinity in time and the invaders will come here, succeeding in stealing the divinity, which would result in Orion losing her possible ability to ever obtain divinity ever again.>>

<<So yeah, truth here is way better option.>>

<<Still, I haven't told her anything until these guys come here.>>

<<Meanwhile… The penalty was gone and Orion logged in once again.>>

"…"

"Orion." – said Phantasia as he stopped Orion from entering the temple.

"I know that I've told you that we have limited amount of time, but I've also told you need to relax and-"

"I'M FINE!" – shouted Orion.

"I didn't logged off to just shot off some steam! I've was learning about the stupid ball, music and what not!"

"Trust me on this! Please!" – said Orion with her eyes shaking.

"…"

"Fine." – said Phantasia.

"However, under one condition."

"If you fail this trial this time, I will not allow you take another attempt."

"?!"

"WHAT?! BUT YOU TOLD ME I CAN-"

"Let me fucking finish." – said Phantasia as he instantly put his hand over Orion's mouth, silencing the woman who screamed in desperation.

"I will not allow you take on the next trial until you fucking rested properly."

"I've fucking dealt with the same kind of test like this and it was also mentally draining like hell."

"And even right now, through your game avatar, I can straight up just see how exhausted you are."

"In this state you will only keep falling over and over."

"You need to recover."

"Understand?"

"…"

"Fine." – replied angry Orion who then moments later enter the temple dungeon.

"…"

(She will fail.) – thought annoyed Phantasia.

(Normally the in-game avatars don't show your real body status… However, the system itself is monitoring your real health.)

(If something is wrong with it, you can either end up getting kicked out.)

(Or even temporarily banned.)

(The game system implanted this special ban in case of people neglecting their health too much over and over again in order to play the game, there were apparently some reports about those kind of situation on the internet, with some being serious cases.)

(And from what I've seen based on how Orion was acting? I wouldn't be surprised if she ain't taking care of herself properly in the real world.)– thought Phantasia as his walkie-talkie started buzzing.

"Yeah?" – said Phantasia as he answered the call.

"Master. We had eliminated the spies who tried getting to us." – said the homunculus wearing a special medieval mechanized looking armor.

[Gerelda – Leader Of The Valkarie Brynhild Army]

"However, the enemy started getting much closer, to the point they had almost reached the top. Many of our undeads also didn't noticed the enemies."

"Not only that, we didn't managed to capture possible 2 or 3 invaders."

"They managed to escape just as we found about them."

"We don't know how close they had gotten and how much information they had obtained."

"…"

*Sigh*

"Don't worry about this. We all knew about that possibility." – said Phantasia.

"The reinforcement should be soon arriving here anyway as well as supplies, so we should have easier time defending this place and surviving."

<<Still, the question remained, who were these players?>>

<<Were they all from the spirit faction? Maybe all of them were different factions?>>

<<There is also a question whenever or not they were players.>>

<<We have no fucking way to tell.>>

<<And this is the problem.>>

<<Again… We had no way of dealing with this.>>

<<As for the defense, so far there was nothing.>>

<<Spirit faction isn't rushing in with brute force anymore… They are preparing themselves.>>

<<…Forget Archduke. I wouldn't be surprised if they just bring out spirit king.>>

<<…Honestly, I wish that Sky Behemoth would be here, it would straight up help us in destroying anything that comes here… But that ship was taken by "Kid" for his own divinity hunt.>>

<<…I really don't want to contact him now and talk with him… I want to avoid the possibility of him getting in my way… So, for now, communication with him is off limit until the fifth divinity is secured.>>

<<…>>

<<And that may take a while… Since Orion left the temple.>>

<<And once again had failed the trial.>>