Chapter 231: The Last of the Trinity

Meanwhile, on the halls of the cellar dungeon…

Moment before Janus’ death, as soon as Scion’s finger touched Siva’s sleeve…

A bright white orb of light emerged in front of her chest along with the visualization of a woman with long watery-fluttering hair that melded on her body from behind her.

Scion’s appearance at that moment also changed into that of the woman’s and seeing this scene, all of the people in the cellar dungeon widened their eyes as they locked their gazes on to that image, seeming to notice something substantially present and yet intangible in their bodies becoming stronger and stronger.

“Siva…” that seemingly ethereal voice echoed and as soon as it did, Siva’s body trembled.

The voice sounded very gentle, gentleness that was different to the intimately affectionate kind that Scion used to call Siva’s name.

It was soft and gentle like a mother’s, full of warmth and love akin to when she caresses her newly born child.

Everyone’s bodies froze and they couldn’t get a proper control over their bodies.

They knew that it was happening very fast and yet the seconds felt so slow at the moment. Their minds were working and completely observing and even processing the scene unfolding in front of their eyes.

A beauty different yet will not lose to Scion’s, had borrowed her body and this beauty’s eyes looked at Siva full of tenderly motherly love.

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“I am……………… Siva.”

This time as well, a different toned voice of Siva trailed off the walls of the cellar dungeon.

As soon as he spoke, the black skin curse withdrew from his head to reveal his seemingly refined complexion with a scar on the left side of his face.

Rex’s face wasn’t overly handsome that it could ignite a riot in the maiden population.

In fact, Volt, in the real world had seen Rex’s face and although it attracted his friends’ attentions, it wasn’t to the point that they’d openly remove their panties in front of him just to thwart any other opposing female parties for his attention.

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But still, this particular Siva’s face had a twinge of a different air to him. Like a royalty, but more than that; like an emperor’s, but higher and more noble and charming and enigmatic than that.

In fact, visually, that scar on his face left there by a Heron wasn’t even an eyesore despite its size.

If there was even a handsomeness stat in the game’s stat window, then this [scar] is an item that boosts his charm and appearance factor with a devastating [+99999999999 x 99^99%] increase.

Such exaggeration was the only explanation to how unfair this ‘current’ face of Siva was.

He was just a cheat of a man of every man!

This charisma… was something that many men would likely want to NOT see even once in their lives or they would kill themselves.

In fact, even those legend makers and masters of seduction might want to run through a wall and commit suicide there and then as son as they met this obstacle of an unfair level of sex appeal!

This Siva… had an air of holiness in him that can ignite a catastrophe if he delivers pizza in an all-female H*** School dorm.

“Oh My God!!”

Seeing this face, Coralline’s and Niobe’s faces became flushed with admiration and perhaps even more. Thanks for reading on ManaNovel!

Niobe even squirmed and her eyes had a rare look of sparkle on them. One of her hands was being bitten by her teeth to control the urge while the other gained its own life and journeyed down below to do some checking.

Coralline however, had her whole face flushing pinkish red and her hands covered her cheeks as if she was in a dream.

“Something’s not right.”

Thorn frowned. This isn’t the first time he’d seen Siva’s real face but the ‘Siva’ from his memories was different from this Siva.

It felt like… an entirely different person.

No.

This ‘Siva’ felt like a different being…!!

Everyone else also felt the same and, unconsciously, a sprouting feeling of wariness also took root on their hearts.

Why?

Because the look in this Siva’s eyes weren’t that of someone who was bent up on an important mission…

His iris that was looking up as if in a delirium earlier now steadied but within it was a look that was completely different from a normal person’s.

In fact, if they’d notice, while the ethereally beautiful woman ignited a positive change in their beings, then this ‘Siva’ had a different effect that could evoke fear into their hearts.

If Henna of the TOS Guild could see this ‘Siva’, she’d actually collapse into a fear-induced coma and wouldn’t even have even the tiniest of speck of attraction the way these two were acting.

“I’m going to die!!”

Heller, who was more experienced in dealing with dangerous people managed to pull himself together in that one single moment that put everyone in a dazed state.

Spider instincts were kicking in!

There was a sense of crisis and this crisis felt so big and so dangerously frightening that when he realized that this sense of danger was coming from Siva, he immediately reacted.

In his mind, only the words “I’M GONNA DIE” in big bloody letters kept on repeating itself over and over, screaming in a loud voice that boiled his virtual blood, ignited his nervous system to act, and burned his soul to do that one single task as fast as and as soon as possible.

He felt all his hairs rising from his body as he yelled and pulled the closest person from him, Coralline, away from Siva.

“Get away from him!”

Right after Heller’s cry resounded in their ears the black skin curse in Siva’s face had completely receded on his neck and continued on following a course to hide underneath his clothes to the back.

Coralline stumbled. The next person to get his wits together was Diyers, the assassin, and he pulled Otus with him who then pulled Pitou who then pulled Niobe by her hair.

Deb pulled Ren who then pulled Red Metal, and Thorn, being on an isolated corner, jumped back as he and everyone else without exception, all felt something very heavy suddenly fall on their shoulders, forcing all of them to kneel down on all fours and their visions almost blackening from the sudden impact on their minds.

BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM—!!

Everyone, without exception, fell hard on their fours that even lifting their heads were a daunting task on itself.

It was as if… they were not allowed to see him!

This was worlds in contrast to how majestically warm and wonderful the feeling that that ethereal beauty had.

“What is this?!”

“Damn it! What’s happening?!”

“Is this Gravity Magic?!”

“This is not Gravity Magic!”

“Gaaaahhh… it’s so heavy!”

BAM! BAM!

Niobe and Coralline, the two who had the weakest avatar builds and the ones, who were unprepared due to their trance earlier, fell the hardest on the floor as if prostrating themselves in the lowest of manners possible.

Deb, roared, “It’s him! The ‘Siva’ in Dragona!”

Everyone, upon hearing it, gasped and couldn’t help but hold their breaths.

Because right now, they were aware, that this is the ‘Siva’ that appeared in Dragona…

The ‘Siva’… that was connected to a Grand Quest of the game… the ‘Siva’ that killed a monstrous existence like Mefisto who also seemed to be a part of the player Siva as well.

Even that concept itself was hard to imagine.

Three contrasting entities existing in one body…

One was a mortal.

One was The Devil.

One…… was a God.

And yet, they were all part of the player Siva… or perhaps part of his personality(?)

“How is this possible?” Thorn the rest of them struggled to at least raise their heads but it was Heller who shouted a warning.

“Don’t look at him! This is how Cedric died!”

Having spoken the name, Coralline’s heart skipped a beat and she awoke from her tranced heart that she gritted her teeth to try to look at Heller.

“How did you know that?”

“Because although he was part of The Legion, he treated me as his rival and never accepted the fact that I became an Archmage before him. He emailed me what happened just before he bought another avatar account and restarted his career.”

“…”

“He said that as soon as he saw this Siva, his body was like being electrocuted from within and he died before he even knew how it happened.”

“Damn it!” Coralline punched the floor, “Now that I think about it… if I have only known better, Siva is Donar, Dilim has my greatest rival’s staff… I vowed to take revenge on that Dilim sooner or later but now… it seems I’ve always been a clown in front of him!”

Coralline had lost all her fighting spirit. She felt resignation upon realizing that her hard work and preparation to fight Dilim for the staff all this time had been a pipe dream.

Who would fight this Siva?

Somehow, it felt unfair.

While all of them struggled to stand, they heard Siva’s cool voice spoke.

“Mother.”

A wave of invisible power spread from him that then seeped through and out the walls, out the castle, beyond Akhenaton, to the city, and then finally reaching the place of the kneeling knight golem above the ancient underground spire.

When that ripple of power was just about to touch the knight golem, its hovering sword trembled and a bluish-white ripple blocked that wave, affecting the aurora-like lights in the golem’s body, prompting its eyes to open, revealing the lightning whiteness beneath the eyelids where its mysterious gaze then looked at the direction of the source of that ripple as he raised its head.

“Siva.” the booming deep voice rung.

Elsewhere, wherever that wave of power reach, the people couldn’t help but to kneel on all fours.

It was as if standing on their legs was a great sin… even kneeling was a sin!

Those who were in the castle base, even in the skies, in the warships of Marshal D’Catch, and even the people in the underground shelters…

Jack, who was just about to board a Cyclone, fell on all fours; Billion and the remnant members of The Legion who was still trying to get their hands on Jack Stone; the five members of the Riddler’s Guise Guild/Group who hid themselves in a parked Cyclone; and even Gabriel back in the mountain temple…

And then… there was an excited Olaf…

“This is it!”

…who held a trembling dagger draped in cloth that’s now emitting a kind of heat that was all but a clear indication of what his mission right now was all about…

The monsters, animals, insects, and all creatures around the city’s lands and areas closest to the floating islands of Akhenaton…

No one was exempted!

Everyone, every soul, to where that one ripple of power reached, they had to kneel on all fours and prostrate to the last living member of the exalted Trinity Gods…!!

Siva looked at the people around him with a cold-hearted indifference.

Then, he looked in front of him; a prompt was waiting to be answered with a press of a finger.

After that, he looked at Terra again.

“Siva…” her gentle voice said. “I’m sorry.”

There was a look of pain in his eyes as he looked at Terra and he knelt down in one knee as he raised his head at her.

“Mother. Why did you choose to become the guardian spirit of Scion? She is from the world of the mundane and will not hold much meaning in my mission? I will correct what has been wrong and I will punish the traitors that abandoned you and cast your divinity into this mortal realm.”

Tears flew down Siva’s cheeks as he seemed to recall a painful memory.

But along with those tears, were words laden by his deep and seething hatred.

He bowed his head as his fists balled.

When he raised his head again, a surging killing intent was almost physically forming around his body in a form of a black aura.

“Siva… you are the last protector of the truth of this world. This is the last time you will be seeing me and while it is so, know that I have no regret in my life and that the life I have lived with Neth, Lunette, Aunt Cara, and the others… have been a fulfilling one. Being cast into the mortal realm is my greatest happiness in life. Besides, you are a mortal of origin yourself. Do not cast your origin aside in exchange for the pleasure of vengeance; for while you seek that which you are trying to be, a greater part of you is being lost…”

“….”

“Child… you are the bridge, the connection, the pillar, the protector, the keeper, the roof, and the sole inheritor of our missions… this universe, this world… is now in your care. You now are the complete amalgamation of my and Old Janus’ purposes. You are the divinity of [Shiva] but I know and understand that you are also the [Siva] that was once a lost kid who came from the world outside this world.”

Terra smiled a warm cheerful smile at him, “In all of your gifts, the one that you truly shines the most of is your gift of mortality and ability to feel the pains of others. Because of that, you can be yourself and be free of the restrictions of the Heavenly Laws and Orders of this world.”

A gentle hand caressed Siva’s right cheek, “Of all the countless Gods, Immortals, and Divinities that had ascended since the start of time, your Mortal Divinity has the most boundless potential of even all of theirs combined. Isn’t that the reason why you are here right now?”

Terra gestured for the members of Siva’s party.

“You should be living the life that had once almost been stolen from you… so don’t go back and punish yourself again, Siva, because not only that brings you sorrow and regret, it also pains me to see you this way. Knowing your nature, once you release the hatred you harbor in your heart, it will sow and scatter the seeds of hatred to others that will also grow into karma that you need to reap in the same way as how it has been sown... This is an endless cruel cycle and in the end, you, as the one who planted these seeds, are the only one who suffers in everything it entails.”

Wiping the tears on his cheeks, Terra used her gentle touch to fix Siva’s hair.

Everyone could hear her voice and although it seemed that it was a time consuming effort, what they don’t know is that the cellar halls had long been sealed and that being the Goddess of Time herself, every minute that passed in this sealed space flowed faster than the time outside.