《A Journey Through the Worlds.》014: Athena.
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"What do you mean?"
"As a former owner of one I think that you know about the original special ability of a soul weapons."
"What special ability it just can…" when he said talked till here, Nero's expression changed as if he remembered something, and then he looked at Kathrine and shouted:
"Don't tell me that you want to…"
"Exactly but I don't know if it is going to work or not."
Seeming as if he didn't want to talk about that anymore, he said with a voice that everyone was able to hear:
"I think that we should wait for old Frank to wake up, we should know as much as we can about the base before entering it, we don't want to meet another abnormality like this one when we enter the base."
The other didn't oppose him, what happened with Patrick was dangerous, and if not for Randy's plasma gun no one can tell how the fight would have ended.
Seeing that no one opposed him Dan nodded his head and said:
"Ok, let's find a place for us to hide then, after all we are really way to close to their base."
After that the they moved to the building that Randy was hiding in when Nero and Dan came to him, each of them had noticed by then that the sun wasn't where it was supposed to be, it seemed as if it was moving slower.
Remembering about that Dan turned his head toward Randy and asked:
"Oh yeah, do you know if the day's duration had changed or not."
He had noticed how the sun seemed as if was moving on a slow speed through the sky a long time ago, it's just that he didn't pay it much attention and throw it to the back of his mind, but now that he knew that the world had become 25 times bigger he wandered if the duration of a day had changed.
"Well we were told that a day will be two and half longer, which means that a day will be 60 hours... So we will have daylight for 30 hours or so." Randy answered him with an embarrassed expression, he had somehow forgotten about it.
Everyone even Any that rarely shows her emotions, showed a surprised expression, but then remembering how the world had become much bigger than before, and that many other changes had happened in the outer space they somehow found it way more acceptable.
"Nero can your ability still work while you are a sleep" Dan asked.
"Yes it can, but then I'll only be able to feel anything that gets in a kilometer away from me." Nero said.
At first his ability wasn't like that, but after going through some hellish training in places full of beasts and dangers, he finally became able to use it while asleep.
"That's enough" said Dan, and then he looked at everyone and added:
"Everyone should rest for now, we all had been through a lot today and need to sleep"
They all nodded their heads and found a comfortable place to lie.
***
Area 05 "the area to the east of area 06, out earth"":
What is known in our world as Germany:
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"My Führer, it really is true the world had become 25 times bigger, and in this new gigantic world there are many places with life and many civilizations, we even think that some of them might be a threat to us, one of those areas is quite close to us, it's to our west, and its technological advancement is the same as us"
A white haired old man wearing a military suit stood in front of a throne where a short middle aged man set, while pointing at a huge screen positioned on the middle of the room that they were in.
The screen showed a huge planet and it was focused on a part of surprisingly that part represented Area 06 our Earth.
"So what do you think we should do then," the short middle aged man asked.
Even though he was the ruler of the world's greatest and biggest empire, he still listened to the white haired old man advices and appreciated them, as the white haired old man was someone who stood as the right hand man and adviser of both his grandfather and his father after him, and with him getting the throne the white haired old man had served three generation of the Hitler family.
"My Führer, we don't know anything about that world so the best course of action should be to contact them, after all they are on the same level as us in almost everything, which means that a war between our two worlds won't end in a good way for neither of us." the white haired old man said.
"Ok, we can try that, oh yeah no aircraft is able to leave the ground, right?"
"Yes my Führer, we are working on that but it seems that a solution is still far away."
"You said before that there's no problem with sailing?"
"Yes, my Führer."
"Ok send a fleet then... that's aside what about that Area which seems in the middle ages do you think that we can get it for ourselves? after all we need resources and I'm sure that world can offer them to us." the short middle
aged man said after thinking for a while.
"That can be done my Führer, after all that area is in the middle ages, and I'm sure that we won't meet a lot of resistant, also in case we got in a war against the other Area, this middle ages Area can be used as our human resorver, we can use the inhabitants of that area as our soldiers."
the old man also found the idea good as in any case that area was going to be good for them.
"So we better send our soldiers there fast, who knows the other area might have the same thoughts as us, how long will it take us to take control of that area, and how much force."
"Leave it to me, my Führer I'll send a few fleets of warship, armoured vehicles and foot soldiers armored with our best and latest guns and rifles, we will start with that, I don't think a bunch of horse raiding swords waving barbarians can obstruct us."
"Ok, do that, and don't send a lot of troops, after all we can't use a lot of our military power before we know what's the other area's reaction to us is going to be." the short middle aged man understood the meaning of the white haired old man action.
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"Ok my Führer I'll start with that right away." said the white haired old man and with that he left the room.
***
Area 02 "Nero, Any and Robin's world"":
Athena stood on the balcony of the highest tower in her magnificent ice palace, while some of her maids waited inside for her, she was looking at the vast expanse of ice and snow below her, with an indifferent expression.
"Great God" The woman who told her about what the seers saw, entered the room before half kneeling when she was only three meters away from her.
"Speak." Athena said with the same cold tone before turning her head to look at the woman.
The woman shivered when she heard that one word, and wandered why her master was so cold, but because her head was bowed she didn't notice the gentle look that flashed through Athena's eyes when she looked at her, before she ordered:
"Get up."
"Thank you my Great God." the woman said while, getting up.
"Now speak, what happened"
"Ye... Yes, after studying it for a while, our seven nations best scholars still weren't able to understand how those flying things work, or how they were made." the woman said with a trembling voice.
"Nothing yet, sigh... What about the prisoners?" For one second Athena showed a worried expression on her face after hearing that the scholars weren't able to get anything from those weird flying objects, but she soon returned to normal.
"We got some knowldge about their world, I'll send you a report about all of that later." The woman said.
"What about The matter with Ethan.?" Asked Athena.
"After contacting our spies on the fire nation we were able to know that the ice heart was stolen from the burning palace, and that new members of the twelfth royal squad where sent after the thief, but against all odds, the thief wasn't caught instead when they returned one of them was missing, and yes that was around the time you and the other Gods were away."
Athena still remembered how The All Seeing Adam said that Ethan had brought a disaster open himself, so she wanted to know if anything happened in the fire nation.
"The Ice Heart, huh... Wasn't that the thing that Ethan tried giving me the other time?"
"Yes Great God, it's that one."
The woman found it weird, the Ice Heart, being one of the best and rarest ice attributed materials on the world, was treated by her master as a worthless trash, when Ethan gave it to her.
She still remember how in that day Ethan, with his usual arrogant expression came and offered the Ice Heart to Athena as a way to get on her good side.
But who would have known that Athena, even though she seemed as if she was in a good mod that day, after seeing the ice Heart would flip over and leave with a cold snort leaving the dumbfound Ethan standing on his own with the Ice Heart on his hand.
"Are you wandering why I rejected the Ice Heart without even taking another look at it." As if she could read her mind Athena asked the woman, which made the later flustered as she shouted:
"No I just... Just... Sorry Great God I was just somehow interested that's all..."
After apologizing the woman lowered her head waiting for Athena to talk, but after a while passed and Athena didn't say anything she lifted her head to see that she was looking out of the balcony at the far away snow covered mountains, before turning her head and smiling at her while saying:
"He offered it way too late..."
The woman heard what Athena said and she somehow was able to feel the sadness and loneness in it, yet she didn't have the time to understand all of that as Athena's smile froze her in her place, and for the first time since she became Athena's helper, she understood why her master was given the name frozen flower Athena.
***
Robin felt that his body was weak and was was in pain all over, he also had a strong headache, not to mention a horrible smell which assaulted him, he was in quite a miserable state.
The first thing he saw after opening his eyes was a yellow broken ceiling with many cracks going through it, making him wander where he was.
As soon as that thought appeared in his mind he remembered that he was surrounded by the new members of the Twelfth's Royal Guard's squad which made his heart beat at an unimaginable speed as he started looking around him, searching for his sister.
He didn't have to search for long as he found her asleep next to him.
Maybe because of his hurried movement, his sister woke up and she looked at him, at first she was somehow lost but when she saw that he was looking at her, a smile bloomed on her face as she said:
"Brother you are finally awake!"
"Yes I'm." he said while giving her a kind smile and patting her head, and then he added in a low voice, as he saw other people sleeping in the same room as them:
"Where are we?"
"I don't really how to start answering that question?" his sister said while smiling bitterly, after that she turned her head and looked outside, seeing the position of the sun she said:
"I think that we have slept enough, wait for me I'm going to wake the others before returning to you, I'll also ask Katherine to check you up."
After saying that Any started waking the others on the room one by one, seeing that, Robin wandered who those people were, but then he saw that after waking a woman who was sleeping a few meters away from them a glasses wearing man woke up on his own.
When he saw that Robin's expression paled as he shouted at him:
"What are you doing here?"
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