Ch.99Ep.99 D-5

“Kuhack!”

“That’s not enough! You’re not utilizing your advantages at all!”

“Urgh… But if I push any harder, I feel like my eyes will burst!”

“You have to endure it! Are you going to give in to mere fear!?”

Arsia spat out the blood pooling in her mouth at Poseidon’s scolding.

That’s right. There was always someone who fought head-on for everyone else.

She couldn’t back down just because of fear.

She had been protected until now, so it was her turn to protect him.

“One more time… I’ll do it!”

Arsia’s right eye glowed red as visions of the future flowed into her mind.

She originally used both eyes for her foresight.

But from the moment she learned that one of her eyes was Odin’s lost eye, she concentrated all her magical power into her right eye.

As a result, she could see the future more clearly, and her computational abilities increased noticeably.

But that was the extent of it.

Even with the advantage of seeing the future and having faster calculations, it was nearly impossible to win against a being with divine order.

It was truly miraculous when she fought Cronos who had taken over Kraud’s body.

In reality, if she were to face Kraud now, she wouldn’t last even ten seconds.

Back then, Kraud had been resisting Cronos’s consciousness, which weakened the divine power he was using.

And she had fought with the determination to throw her life away, thinking Radios had died.

But unlike when facing Cronos, Poseidon’s power was overwhelmingly strong.

Originally, Arsia’s order was what allowed her to break through Cronos’s abilities.

While Poseidon’s divine order of water control felt like overwhelming firepower pushing against opponents,

Cronos’s divine order was closer to buffs and instant-death abilities.

So Arsia had been able to fight while reacting sufficiently.

The problem was that she had felt she could gain enough advantage against an opponent with divine order.

Even when capturing Hades, thinking back, Radios’s help had been substantial.

If he hadn’t shot him with two divine-killing bullets, it would have been a chaotic battle where someone might have died.

Anyway, back to the main point.

If one eye sees the future, how should the other eye be used?

An ordinary person would choose to close their eyes to see the future clearly.

But Arsia, trusting her mind, did the impossible—watching the present situation with her left eye while seeing the future with her right eye.

At first, she couldn’t maintain it for even five seconds before collapsing.

But by the third day of training with Poseidon, she could maintain it for over a minute.

She receives information about the future, and when the present situation changes, the future she sees changes again.

When she changes that future, another future changes, and countless continuous changes accumulate in her right eye.

That was frightening.

If she were to lose this skill by mistake, or become completely blind,

All the training through foresight would become useless.

‘But I can’t stop here…’

She didn’t know the details.

However, Arsia was somewhat aware that Radios had risked his life when fighting Cthuga.

His figure charging forward despite knowing his body was breaking down and he was drifting toward death.

Brina was the only one who could see that situation directly.

Listening to her describe Radios’s desperate struggle, Arsia had been overwhelmed with emotion.

“So… I won’t give up.”

“Good, that’s how it should be.”

Blue ghostly flames blazed in Arsia’s right eye.

Poseidon pointed Triaina at her and resumed the training.

“This time I’ll use five. Dodge or deflect them if you don’t want to die!”

“Understood!”

As soon as Arsia answered, the future unfolded before her eyes.

High-pressure water jets with intense heat pouring from east, west, north, south, and above.

Exposed to a force she couldn’t block with ghost fire, she would burn to a crisp and meet her death.

‘That won’t happen!’

Swoooosh!

Just as she had foreseen, water streams formed a surrounding net targeting her breathing space.

If she couldn’t block it, she had to dodge. Arsia immediately used teleport to move behind Poseidon.

She used her foresight again to see the future.

The pouring water streams instantly evaporated into steam, and she, approaching herself, would freeze.

“Hup!”

Although she was a bit delayed in her reaction, Arsia managed to get close to Poseidon and then pull her body back at the last moment.

Crack!

Seeing ice form right before her eyes with less than a second’s difference,

She had to concentrate her calculations on seeing the constantly changing future.

However, Poseidon always pointed out that this was her chronic weakness.

“I told you not to do it that way!”

“..!”

When the enraged Poseidon thrust Triaina into the ground, tremendous water streams erupted from the surface.

Her escape route was completely blocked.

Even if she tried to see the future assuming she would teleport, for some reason she couldn’t escape from these water streams.

“My water streams carry energy that disrupts magical flow. And I rarely use it normally.”

“What does that…!”

“This is why magicians are useless! Without magic, you have no means to counter!”

“Eek!”

“Try to block this too!”

The water that had been emitting intense heat suddenly condensed to form a massive ice prison.

It advanced little by little, showing movements that would crush Arsia.

She desperately fired ghost fire trying to melt the ice as much as possible.

Crash!

Far from melting, ice spikes formed in all directions, choking her.

“Eeek!”

In her desperation, she even stopped using her foresight and blocked the ice with magic.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Without being able to offer any resistance, she met her death with ice spikes piercing her entire body.

—Having seen this future, Arsia…

“Burning Moon Ground!”

Rumble.

She compressed high-temperature magic in both legs and stomped the ground.

“I told you not to do it that way!”

Simultaneously, just as she had seen in the future, Poseidon stabbed the ground with Triaina.

However, contrary to her expectation, no water streams erupted from the ground.

“Hmm!”

His divine order that had been working fine wasn’t malfunctioning.

Since the water streams suddenly didn’t appear, it was appropriate to assume that Arsia had used some kind of technique.

‘As expected. If I push her abilities to the extreme, her growth rate becomes abnormally fast.’

When she first used foresight, it was literally just seeing the future.

Now she had reached the level where she could see the future, devise countermeasures, and implement them.

If this had been a real battle, Poseidon would have been greatly confused.

It’s natural for anyone to be flustered when their skill doesn’t manifest as intended.

But the problem was Arsia’s condition.

“Hah… Haaa…”

Blood was streaming from her right eye, undoubtedly a side effect of continuously using foresight.

‘This is her limit for now? Still, with about 7 days…’

She could sufficiently awaken her divine order.

Arsia’s growth rate was that abnormal.

“That’s enough for today–“

“No, let’s continue. More, more… please continue.”

“…Kuk.”

Even though she knew her right eye had reached its limit, she signaled to continue.

Blood was flowing from her right eye, but she wiped it away nonchalantly and refocused on battle.

‘So this is why people enjoy training disciples? It’s truly fun.’

Poseidon realized the joy of teaching while being able to focus on her.

“Very well! If that’s how you want it, I’ll continue to be your opponent!”

Starting with Poseidon throwing Triaina, motivated by her determination,

The burning ghostly flame in Arsia’s eye began to turn black.

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“Are you conscious?”

“…Conscious? Yeah… I’m so conscious I feel like I’m going to lose my mind.”

“Abandon your sense of loss. It was never your power to begin with.”

“Not my power… For someone who says that, you’re not using your own power either, are you?”

Veichel sneered, hitting Kraud’s sore spot.

But he simply looked into her eyes quietly, as if unaffected by the damage.

Veichel had only been awake for an hour.

She had stared at the ceiling without saying anything for about 30 minutes after regaining consciousness.

Kraud could guess how she felt, so he didn’t interfere.

How great must her sense of loss be, having all the power she had built up disappear in an instant?

Although she probably didn’t think that power was truly hers.

She would have been aware of the dangers of spirit possession.

If Radios had noticed something was wrong with her condition, he wouldn’t have let her leave the village.

“I must look pathetic to you, right? Building power through improper means and now throwing a fit after losing it.”

“I don’t have any particular thoughts about it.”

“That Radios doesn’t even want to get up… I guess it’s all over now.”

Creating a world for humans?

What nonsense.

What could a woman do who had lost power built on someone else’s strength and was now filled with nothing but loss?

As Veichel was despairing,

“What if you had one last chance?”

Kraud threw her a tempting question.

“What?”

“Do you have the resolve to burn everything?”

Veichel’s body trembled as she saw the look in his eyes.

Did she have the resolve to burn everything?

Well…

“Of course!”

Even if it meant sacrificing everything and perishing.

She had to make Chaos pay.