《The Toys of the Fool》Vol.6 Extra Chapter - The Day Christmas Froze

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This is an event that took place 25 odd years before the start of the story...

In the northern part of the continent, at the most beautiful city in the entire continent, a place where ice and snow mixed together, the city of Morata stood. A masterpiece in that the city itself was a sculpture upon completion, it was the most popular city in the game for good reasons.

Aside from its pure white and nature mixture style of a city, there were countless sculptures about where you gained bonuses from them. More than that there were countless paintings and other types of masterpieces that made up this city.

In all, it was a place that could literally cater for anyone for anything at this stage.

And even more so, the city was in a celebrative mood as Christmas was coming soon. Countless pine trees were planted and decorated with red and green and stars at the top at each. Presents were gathered to be given out at midnight for hundreds of thousands of people.

Even for three certain people this was quite a nice way to spend the day.

“Man are people really happy right now” said Eden noticing that there was literally no arguments at all and all trouble seemed to not even exist right now. Right now he and Alexandra were sitting near each other on seats on the street.

If you looked at the current crime rate in the city, it would be a flat 0% even though the security of the city was quite low with most guards celebrating as well with their friends and family.

“Well it's Christmas! It's natural for people to be happy on this day!” Alexandra said it as if it was completely natural for such a thing as 0% crime rate to happen.

Hearing this Eden remembered that before, there had never been this large of a celebration for Christmas before. On the forums, millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of people all over the game were cooperating in making this is biggest event ever.

One reason Eden could tell that there were no crimes was that they did not want to earn the wrath of hundreds of millions of people at once.

The other was that they were also caught up in the mood after the unified Kingdom that Weed led focused on helping the masses with food and housing at the very least. The number of homeless, jobless and bandits decreased rapidly with this plan even though it was opposed at the beginning.

The Independent Guild System was the same when it was introduced before but now it was as natural part of the Kingdom as anything else. It helped a lot against revolts and plotting against the Kingdom with a free organisation that was almost completely made of elite players and NPCs.

Looking at a couple walking down the street....well there were a lot of couples on the street now, Eden decided to listen into their conversation.

“Hey hey, what do you want for Christmas?” the girl said clinging onto the boy's arm.

The boy blushed and said in a low voice that only she (and Eden) could hear, “Only you right now.”

They got closer together and walked away of range.

“Hmm....” Eden made that sound thinking of their conversation and looked at Alexandra. Viv for some reason decided to go somewhere doing this time, something about using happiness as an energy source for a spell.

“What is it?” asked Alexandra looking at Eden as well. She was unsure why Eden decided to look at her right now.

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“Well...” Eden started to speak thinking of the conversation he listened onto, “We are married right?”

“Yes...?” Alexandra was really confused on why Eden was acting like this. Usually he would never mention that they were married and would sometimes even avoid that topic.

“And we usually don't go on dates or anything like that” he continued saying.

“That's because every time we do, something happens. Sometimes it's legendary monster or other rare and uncertain quests that are forced on us as well” replied Alexandra thinking about it.

Eden nodded thinking of this as well. In the end he was redder than Alexandra had seen him in years as he asked, “So...do you want to act as a couple for...today....?”

Hearing this, Alexandra was suddenly feeling very happy. Happy enough to ignore the fact that Eden does not consider what they usually do, which was understandable, to being a couple. She moved over and wrapped her arms around him from behind.

A little startled, Eden did not resist though as Alexandra whispered in his ear, “We ARE a couple though” and then nimble it slightly which caused Eden to flinch.

“Yeah....” Eden really had no idea how to get any closer to Alexandra even though they were married (at first unwillingly) for years. He held onto her arms as they stayed like that for a few minutes.

“To think that I would see this sickening atmosphere between you two as well right now” said Viv interrupting their thing.

“Viv!” Alexandra immediately let go of Eden as if she was caught red handed in a crime. Eden also shot his head in Viv's direction in shock as well.

“Why are you here?” he asked Viv while trying to hide the fact that he was as red as a tomato right now of being seen like that. (Even though to others beside Viv, they looked liked a nice lesbian couple)

“I finished with my work with this happiness energy that someone in the mage guild decided to experiment on” Viv replied with a slightly disappointed tone.

“The results?” Eden asked. He was quite interested in this as well as a 'mage' of some sorts. There were many theories on using emotions as an energy source but it was either too hard or too dangerous in experimenting on normally.

However right now it was Christmas which meant there were two particular emotions that were unusually high.

“The other emotion other than happiness is too high for us to test” Viv said, “So instead we decided to experiment on the 'hate' that comes from people who are spending Christmas alone.”

“So I go watch then?” asked Eden, this topic would be particularly interesting to him.

Alexandra sighed hearing this and said, “Great, this is definitely how I imagined spending my Christmas eve with you” in a sarcastic tone. Feeling a bit guilty since he knew that Alexandra was not interested in the magic stuff, he said to her, “Don't worry. I'll make it up to you later.”

Raising an eyebrow she asked, “How?”

Lying through his teeth which made him feel even more guilty than before, Eden replied, “That's a secret” with a fake grin on his face.

At the very least he had to go with sparing with her else letting her do anything to her for an entire night...both of which will tire him out....greatly....

Talking with Viv on the matter of using the emotion of 'hate' which Alexandra walked closely behind them not paying attention to their conversation, they reached the mage guild in Morata which was a bit smaller than other guild buildings in the city due to the costs.

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Entering it the moved up the tower and got into a room where there was a large and complicated magic circle the size of the room itself engraved onto the floor.

“This is?” Eden was wondering what it would do.

“A simple spell to summon a bit more snow into the continent. It's overly large and complicated because it needs to draw the power source from emotions” Viv explained. Soon after a few mages that Eden did not know greeted them and took Viv to do something.

Thus Eden was left with Alexandra again.

Looking at the magic circle Alexandra asked, “You...like these kinds of things?” though he figured she was less trying to insult him and more trying to find out what he liked.

“Hmm....less interested in magic circles itself, I find them a pain and am more interested in the idea you can use emotions to fuel a spell” he explained to Alexandra. He took this chance to hold her hand for a bit which she did not reject.

“....”

“....”

The two stayed liked that for a few minutes until the mages activated the magic circle on the ground. It glowed with a threatening red and black colour.

“Is it supposed to do that?” Alexandra asked frowning.

“....” Eden did not answer but continued to observe the magic circle in question. He felt there was a great power coming from it and spilling in and out constantly to the point that it was flooding out.

“Shit, it's going berserk!” a mage shouted as the magic circle sent out waves of power in all directions. Several people were blown away by it and before Eden could do anything, he was hit with a wave of 'hate'.

“Why am I alone!? Where is everyone?! They should all die! I WII NOT BE ALONE TONIGHT!”

BANG!

Startled, the effects of whatever happened quickly disappeared and the magic circle laid there broken and on it was Alexandra with her sword drawn piercing through the floor. With a sigh she muttered, “This is why I don't like magic that much. It ends up like this all strange and creepy with the voices, especially when you try to experiment with it.”

With that the incident ended....not.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!

An earth shattering sound was heard by everyone in the Kingdom at that time. The celebrative mood of Christmas ended with that as this was a warning sigh of something disastrous to the highest level.

The God of Winter, Heretic God Hoor has descended

With that message, for the first time to many players, they bore witness to the descent of a God that will only use chaos and destruction to the lands.

“Did...the spell summon a God?” someone wondered.

xXx

Looking up in the sky, a man in pure white clothing appeared. There wasn't that much to say about him but that he was blind was there were bandages around his eyes and that the power of ice literally was coming from him.

“Well this is bad” said Eden looking up at the God. It had been a while since he killed one...and to think it would be one of the ice element!

Looking around he saw that everyone aside from him and the other two were shaking in fear from seeing Hoor. If Eden remembered correctly, Hoor was the God of Winter that was not only blind but was misled by Loki...that bastard, in killing his brother Baldr which was considered one of the strongest if not the strongest God out there.

In one of his hands was a shaft of mistletoe as well....

Saying those words Hoor created a blizzard in Morata and then disappeared. Following this, all over the continent, Hoor appeared at each location and caused a powerful blizzard to appear. Eventually the entire continent was in a frozen state due to the power of the Heretic God Hoor.

“What...was that about?” Alexandra wondered, “Killing his brother?” she then asked.

Viv was the one who answered that question, “Long story short, Loki tricked Hoor in killing his brother Baldr using a shaft of mistletoe which would have normally be impossible as Baldr could not be harmed with any attacks.”

“So....how did Baldr die then? Can't Gods revive?” asked Alexandra again. Both Eden and Viv sighed at the same time hearing this question.

“You are supposed to be the representative to the Gods as well....how is it that I, the enemy of Gods know more about them than you?” Eden sighed a second time considering his own circumstances as well.

“Well...!” Alexandra panicked a bit and then said, “I didn't really listen when they explained all the rules and such when I got the class! I mean there were thousands of them all shouting stuff at me at once! You can't blame me for not remembering most of them!”

“....”

'This woman....what the hell does she thinks Gods are?'

“Anyway the reason Baldr was killed by Hoor, his brother was that firstly, Hoor was blind and second Loki used him to throw that shaft of mistletoe as an arrow which had no intentions of hitting Baldr. Loki being the ass he is, made it so that Hoor would aim at Baldr without knowing and thus Hoor killed Baldr which was super unexpected on all sides” Eden took this chance to explain the rest of the lore to Alexandra to which she nodded her head.

Other than a Destroyer being able to permanently kill a God, a God can also permanently kill a God. It is the Dragon type is weak to Dragon type theory and the 'Destroyers' are the Fairy type in this situation...

But then had to ask, “So why did he descend to the mortal plane? I thought Gods weren't supposed to do that.”

Eden face-palmed and noticed that Viv did as well. They did not bother to tell her the reasons why a God would do that.

“Anyway, let's head to the church of Freya to see what we can do...considering I have a very good feeling I will be used to kill Hoor in the end” Eden sighed thinking of the soon to be death match between a certain destroyer and a God.

xXx

At the church...which gathered hundreds, if not thousands of people praying right now, Eden, Alexandra and Viv walked through the back and met with the pope who had come quickly along with several other important people to discuss what is to be done with this God.

Entering Eden said one thing to them, “So you want me to kill Hoor right?”

“....”

A group of some of the highest positioned people in the continent, all of them at least the level of a high priest...several popes and other important figures from the Kingdom were completely silent when Eden entered.

They stared dagger at him since they knew of his nature.

But when Alexandra appeared they were all smiles.

“The Gods have no abandoned us yet! Surely Lady Alexandra can resolve this!” one high priest that Eden recognised was from the church of Lou said. The other people in the room agreed with statement showering Alexandra with praise and cursing Eden's choice of words.

“Will you talk with the God to calm down?” one person asked.

“Talk?” Alexandra was confused by this and asked with her head tilted, “Aren't we going to kill it?”

“....”

The room was completely silent again.

“T-To kill a God...even fallen...Lady Alexandra you must reconsider! Without the aid of other Gods, they cannot be slain!” one person said.

Alexandra pointed at Eden and said, “But we have the ultimate God-Slaying tool here and he even wants to fight for free.”

When Eden heard the words that he was doing this for free, he retorted without realising it, “Who the hell will fight a God for free?!”

“What? You seemed excited to fight one though this time you have me and Viv to help out as well” she said bluntly.

To this, Eden let out a heavy sigh.

“Alexandra...you are a being that represents the Gods in the mortal plane, you of all people cannot simply slay a God when you feel like it like me.”

Several people nodded though did not like the remark that Eden had slain Gods before.

“Besides, facing a God is more than a simple death match. They are the most powerful existences to be there and furthermore this isn't a minor God but a major one! The difference between a minor God and a major one, even if it had lost all of its followers is like Heaven and Earth!”

“Then...it will be a fun battle?” she wondered aloud.

Eden face-palmed again and found that everyone else did at the same time as well. Surely now they understand some of his pain when dealing with Alexandra and the thoughts of battle.

“Al, I think you need to gain permission from the rest of the Gods if you want to fight” Viv advised.

'Good thinking Viv! The other Gods will sure not le-'

That thought was not finished as a voice came down to all of them.

[Thou who have power...subdue the Heretic God and be rewarded...you cannot deny this quest Eden..this will complete the set of powers you will need later as well]

Kill Heretic God Hoor.

The God of Winter, Hoor had broke the contract with the Gods and had descended onto the mortal plane causing countless blizzards to occur. Slay Hoor and stop the continent from being destroyed!

Rank: SS

Requirement: Enough power to slay a God

Reward: Unknown

You cannot deny this quest

You have accepted this quest

“Shit!” he had just gotten himself into another damn quest as well...at least it is a double S rank quest this time and not a triple S rank one like with Hades...

Upon looking over the quest details that were forced onto him, he noticed that Alexandra was staring at him.

“What?” he asked.

“I don't think this is the first time you battled with a major God....I'm right am I” she said.

“....”

Upon sighing again Eden went to explain it to her, “The first was Hades who plotted to rebel against his peers...I gained the power of the strongest fire when I slayed him. After that, the Gods would sometimes...randomly give me more tasks to slay their brethren, all of them which were causing too much trouble.”

Hearing this, many people drew their breath in with surprise.

“Medeina the Goddess of forest, Artemis the Goddess of Hunt, Enki the God of intelligence among many things, Iah the God of moon, Apep the serpent God, Selene the Goddess of the moon, The rain deity Jaguar, Iris the Goddess of the rainbow, Ani the God of sky, Hemera the Goddess of day, Sulis the God of Sun, Xihu another Sun God, Zeus the High God, Perendi God of Thunder, Ullr God of many things again, Njord the God of the Sea and wind and the list goes on including other minor Gods as well.”

“So...how many Gods in total have you killed?” Alexandra asked.

“A total of 47, with Heretic God Hoor it will be 48 and my powers as a 'Destroyer' will be complete to use and perfectly balanced this time without me going berserk any time soon like when I took in Hade's powers.”

“Isn't that...a lot?” Alexandra raised that question seeing that she didn't know that Eden went off to kill so many of the Gods while she didn't notice.

“Well there are literally millions of Gods and out of the ones I killed, only 11 so far were major ones...at least in the past they were” he responded.

From the minor Gods he killed quite a lot of, he gained some useful and useless abilities from but from the 11 major Gods he slain, he gained power over a certain element. After killing Hoor and gaining his power over winter and ice he would complete the set to control the 12 elements to the extremes.

“Anyway we should go find Hoor to kill him then” he said ignoring the gaping open mouths of those high priests and popes in the room and left the room with Alexandra and Viv.

xXx

Elsewhere around the continent, there was a giant outrage at the appearance of a Heretic God. Christmas was ruined!

xXx

A few hours later, the trio were confronting the Heretic God in a giant ice lair. Hoor was sitting on a ice throne looking down on the trio as if it was natural.

[So you have come to slay me Destroyer. To think my brethren would intentionally send you to kill me after all I've done for them. However you need to slay me to have complete control of the elements in the end. It is good that my death will benefit some at least....]

Hoor spoke with a sigh as if this was inevitable.

“In...that case would it be possible to finish this without a life and death battle?” Eden asked hopeful to avoid another life and death battle against a God.

[Perhaps, for my sin was my involvement of the death of my brother...but in the end Gods who hold the power of 'Origin' and can forever revive with time and Destroyer who hold the power of 'The End' and can forever break that cycle will remains mortal enemies to the very end]

Bang! Bang!

Hoor got up from his throne. He increased his size to his natural one. Hoor and many other Gods in certain mythologies, particularly from the Norse ones were all part giant at least. It was not strange at all for Hoor to grow to a 20 metre size.

Seeing this, Eden could only sigh as Alexandra looked with excitement of battling a God.

However thankfully Hoor had more sense than to make outsiders, particularly Alexandra fight him as well.

[One who holds the pride and power of the Gods should not battle Gods. One who holds the protection and will of the land should not battle Gods as well]

With that statement both Alexandra and Viv were encased in ice, frozen.

“....”

Looking at them with shocked expressions, Eden could not decided whether to laugh at how easily they were taken out or despair in that he would have to fight alone this time again.

“Will they be fine with our battle?” he asked to make sure.

[This ice is made from my life and power itself. When I die, you can use the power you snatch from me to free them. If you lose, I will free them nonetheless]

“So I can trap them in there as long as I want eh....” Eden had some evil thoughts at that moment.

[….]

The Heretic God was quite speechless of how Eden could think of such things casually. Perhaps it was not exactly a good idea to allow him to kill him in the end...though he would put up his greatest fight yet nonetheless.

Looking up at Hoor, he held his Divine Sword at hand as his body went into battle mode against a God.

Facing a God, all stats +50%

Facing a God, will be able to deal double damage to it

Facing a God, able to negate some of its powers

Due to holding the power of fire, all ice element damage will be halved

Due to holding the power of water, all ice element damage will be doubled

[Prepare to die Destroyer!]

Hoor with that shout swing his fist with the power of winter itself encased in it. Feeling immense danger even though his level a long time ago broke the 1000 point, Eden leaped away with such speed that you would think he had teleported away.

BANG!

You took 167 774 damage

The attack landed where Eden was standing causing a great fist imprint on it. Furthermore countless 'Ice Spikes' shot up spreading to Eden's direction at the same time.

“Flight Magic!” he shouted spreading his six wings of light and flying in the air. Channelling his mana into his hands he rapidly fired off fireballs at Hoor.

Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang...!

[Pitiful! This is the power of one that had slain Gods?!]

Hoor used a swipe to blow away his fireballs and send a shockwave at Eden which in turn blew him away to the end of the lair.

BANG!

“Ow!”

Eden saw that a third of his mana dropped from that attack alone. Spitting out blood from his mouth as he waited for his body to recover using 'Burst Recovery' he said, “Dragonic Release! Dragonic Overload!” releasing the power of the Dragon from his body.

Dragonic Release has been activated

- Spell Damage Increases by 100%

- Spell Range Increase by 60%

- Mana Absorption can be Activated

- Strength is Increased by 60%

- Agility in Increased by 60%

- Movement Speed Increases by 30%

- Defence Increases by 30%

- Resistance to Magic Increases by 20%

- Domination is twice as effective

- Fighting Spirit is increased by 150%

Dragonic Overload has been activated

- Mana Doubles

- Gives Rapid Natural Mana Regeneration of 150 mana/second

- All Skills rank up by 1

- All Skills in Beginner Levels rank up to Intermediate

- Spell Damage Increases by 150%

- Spell Range Increase by 80%

- Strength is Increased by 80%

- Agility is Increased by 80%

- Movement Speed Increases by 50%

- Defence Increases by 50%

- Resistance to Magic Increases by 30%

- Fighting Spirit is increased by 200%

Dropping a bit in altitude, he quickly sped up while flying at Hoor dodging another fist and firing a great blast of fire at Hoor's back.

BANG!

The impact knocked Hoor forward a bit but it looked like a gentle push on the other hand. Clicking his tongue he gathered fire and mana in his stomach and blew it out of his mouth like a flame-thrower.

“Burn!”

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuush!

The flame attack that was large enough to consume the 20 metre large giant Hoor, burnt around him being blocked by the power of ice. Following using his Divine Aura to get rid of the flames, Hoor used his power over Ice to shoot a giant ice spear at Eden at speeds at which due to fire breathing could not dodge in time.

“Battle Aura! Dragon Transformation!” he shouted, activating both skills at the same time.

Battle Aura is now active

Defence increase: 300%

Speed increase: 300%

Attack increase: 300%

Fighting Spirit increase: 500%

Humanoid Dragon Transformation is now active

- All stats +200%

- Defence +350%

Golden aura burst from his body and from the front, black scales appeared to reinforce his skin.

BOOOM!

You took 710 663 damage

The attack knocked Eden to the other side of the lair and took almost all of his mana at once. With a sigh he could see that Hoor was really not holding back on him and that he would have to do this as if he was throwing away his life...like every other battle against a major God.

Quickly regenerating his mana to full using a skill and compressing his golden aura onto his sword, Eden turned into his 'Dragon King' Mode where a black mask appeared on his face and his scales took the form of armour protecting him in all directions.

“Heaven and Earth Separation!” he shouted swinging his sword.

BANNNNNNNNG!

The dimension cut apart in the direction he swung but Hoor blocked it using his arms to guard again although he was bleeding now.

Gathering his aura into his sword again he used 'Heaven and Earth Separation' for a second time...third time...fourth time...

Four large cuts were present on Hoor's arms.

[Impressive power...but!]

The wounds suddenly sealed themselves and Hoor was back to normal though you could see the wounds that Eden dealt him.

In the air, Eden positioned himself for an attack but then Hoor stopped him asking one thing.

[Answer me this Destroyer, why are you holding back?]

“....”

Staying in his stance, Eden did not answer however he had a revelation that 'that' seal would not be undone if he used it now. Either way he could not win against a God without using it.

“Fine then” said Eden focusing to unleash the true power of a 'Destroyer'. With each word, more and more chains appeared and more power came through his body.

[I to awaken am the Tyrant whom stole the throne of God]

[I devour the wisdom and rip apart the Knowledge]

[I will become the Magic King that rules over all Creation]

[And I will show you true Despair!]

[Magic King Drive!!!!!!!!]

Magic King Drive has been Activated

- Spell Damage Increases by 500%

- Spell Range Increase by 400%

- Freely able to use the Elements at Will

- Mana Absorption is at maximum (Able to absorb life as well)

- Strength is Increased by 350%

- Agility in Increased by 470%

- Movement Speed Increases by 240%

- Able to Defy several laws of Physics

- Defence Increases by 200%

- Able to use 'Flight' Magic without any cost or restrictions

- Able to use 'Golden Weapon Trio' Freely in this state

- Resistance to Magic Increases by 80% (Maximum Magic Resistance is 99%)

- All Skills will be increased to maximum level

Ability of 'Magic King Drive' in the presence of a God has been activated. Commencing subduction of Divine Power

Due to being in the presence of a God and using 'Magic King Drive', a further +50% has been applied to your body

With immense power that Eden only felt a few times...especially in recent times, his golden aura expanded, no exploded several times over.

“Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!” That cry was let out as Eden moved at high speed in front of Hoor and kicked him.

BANG!

Hoor was blown back by the kick but Eden did not stop there at all.

“Chained Golden Strike!” he shouted. Around him hundreds of golden swords and spears appeared and shot at Hoor like a machine gun.

Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang....!

Countless wounds appeared on Hoor as the attack pierced through his defence and divine power.

“Soul Devouring Flame!” Eden shouted next covering his body in blue flames he stole from the God of the Dead. Burning along with his golden aura, he formed the shape of an eastern dragon using the flame and made it charge at Hoor.

“Rooooooooooooooar!!!” the eastern dragon made of blue flames roared burst into more when Hoor punched it catching his entire arm in flames. Seeing this, Hoor tried to put the flames out but Eden did not let him.

“Chains of Heaven!”

Countless golden chains...that once bound him ironically bound the God instead restraining him with arms and legs spread out. His arm that was on fire was still burning, furthermore it was burning more quickly this time.

The power of 'Chains of Heavens' was as such he could only use it in 'Magic King Drive' and when used against a God...it would drain them quickly of their powers no matter how strong. With this the battle would end.

Forming in his mind of a sword capable of killing a major God, as its powers were stronger than other minor Gods, a large sword that would be better used by the giant sized Hoor than himself, Eden called out its name.

“Sword of the End, Ragnarok” he said. The sword was of a golden and red colour scheme and was a good 15 metres long as well. While looking like a two handed sword, it was actually a weapon that a giant could use with one hand.

It was then, seeing this sword that Hoor started laughing.

[Hahhahaa, to think that that sword, one of the banes of my kind would fall in the hands of another bane of the Gods. Too ironic...O fate cannot be avoided in the end]

“Are those your final words?” he asked the Heretic God that was slowly burning away.

[Do not fall into despair and turn into a true Destroyer young one]

“....”

With that, Eden stabbed the sword into Hoor which in turn obliterated him into pieces. With that, Eden got a series of many messages from the game, most of which he ignored.

You have slain the Heretic God Hoor!

- You have gained 631 531 Fame

- Infamy will be reduced to zero

- However since you are an enemy to all Gods, this Fame is cancelled out and Infamy will not be decreased

- You have gained 3 levels

- All stats +464

- Fighting Spirit +1627

- You have gained the 'Power over Ice', the power to control all ice no matter what

- Able to use 'Absolute Zero Ice'

- By obtaining the final power over the elements, you have achieve a perfect balance of the elements in your body to the extreme that should not be possible, elemental damage +500%

- Due to this effect of a perfect balance of elements, the maximum elemental resistance you can gain is decreased to 80% from 99%

- Ice Resistance will increase by 50%, reached maximum of 80% ice resistance

- All elemental attack will be less effective against you

- By slaying a God you have worsen your relationship with other Gods

- Since it was a heretic God that had broken the contract of the Gods, relationships with Gods will increase

- Due to being a destroyer, the above effect will not apply

- Getting rid of a major threat to the Kingdom, +1 000 000 contribution points

- Due to this, relationship with the Kingdom and it's people will increase

- By killing the Heretic God with next to no damage to the Kingdom, relationship with Kingdom will rise exponentially

You have completed the quest: Kill Heretic God Hoor

- Fame increased by 100 000

- You have levelled up

- The Gods will give you your reward shortly after Christmas

“Ohhh...” seeing that he gained a total of 4 levels of a surprise. He was over level 1000 which meant that nearly nothing he killed would give him experience. However killing a major God in terms of power gave him 3 levels and completing a double S rank quest gave him another level.

He did not really care much of the other information like his fame at this point, but he was interested in the power of 'Absolute Zero Ice'.

Reverting back to normal, he moved to unseal both Alexandra and Viv from the ice. Upon being freed, the two looked confused until Alexandra realised that Eden had fought and killed the Heretic God without her.

“Hey! You were supposed to let me in with the fun!” she shouted. Eden grumbled a bit on how he couldn't free her until now either way which made Alexandra smack Eden on the head.

“You are NOT allowed to put yourself in that much danger EVER again! You hear me!” she shouted in his ear.

“Right...right...” he replied almost automatically though he was a bit happy that she was worried about him at any rate.

“We should go back. Soon enough, the celebration will start soon now that the countless blizzards are gone with that Heretic God gone” said Viv with Eden and Alexandra nodding their heads.

Thus the trio went back to Morata for Christmas Eve.

xXx

The next day after a full night of Eden and Alexandra...cough...

“Umm Eden...” Alexandra came in rubbing her stomach with an unease look on her face. Last night was...extreme to both of them because they had to drink a certain thing that they both did on their honeymoon night...which led to...

Snapping out of it, Eden noticed that Alexandra was looking at him worried about something that wasn't there yesterday.

Confused, Eden asked, “What is it?” he did not like her rubbing her stomach for some reason...

“I'm pregnant.”

“.....”

Those simple words made Eden's face twitch uncontrollably. He immediately connected this to the 'reward' the Gods gave him for killing Hoor yesterday. This was not a reward at all! This was some form of cruel punishment!

“Daammmmmmmmmmmn!!!!” he screamed in anguish.

BANG BANG BANG BANG!

Eden started smashing his head into the wall thinking about it.

In his mind, he cursed the Gods with every fibre of his being. He would destroy every one of them in the end not leaving a scrap of them left!

Seeing Eden like this, Alexandra let out a laugh and said in playful manner, “I was joking. Don't worry about it and also...that look on your face was priceless puhahahaha!!!”

She was resisting the urge to roll on the floor laughing.

“....”

Looking angry at Alexandra Eden stormed away leaving her in the room alone.

BANG!

The door was slammed shut as well and Alexandra expected Eden to let out his rage at some poor unsuspecting monster somewhere.

She sighed and continued rubbing her stomach where from what she could tell, two new lives were in her.

“With that as his first reaction how will he take it that I wasn't joking....” she muttered.

She decided to think of names for the children that she will bear one day...though she hoped Eden would not disappear when they are born....

xXx

“And that kids is how you two were born!” Eden said to the two young children on his legs. They were only 5 years old and to Eden, super cute to hug! He finally could understand Alexandra's obsession with hugging cute things now.

Seeing them calms his heart down...to the point where he feels that he no longer has to fight an endless battle against the world.

“So...dad killed a God and thanks to that mum had us afterwards?” Alena asked with an unsure tone. Usually the stories that their dad told were really ridiculous...only that Eden wished they were stories.

Her sister nodded in question as well.

Eden let out a laugh and then said, “Like I said, you two were my reward” wrapping his arms around them. They were quite warm.

“Heeeey! Don't leave me out!” Alexandra shouted jumping onto the back of Eden and hugged all of them at once. Their children let out laughs as they tumbled forward thanks to that hug.

But all of a sudden Eden made a serious tone and asked his wife, “Didn't you say you were making an extremely dangerous dish that would explode if you didn't stir it or something for 3 seconds?”

“Oh....'

BANG!

The kitchen exploded into pieces with Eden hugged his children harder than ever to protect them from the explosion. Then he let the two go and got up as Alexandra tried to sneak away.

“ALEXANDRAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!” he shouted chasing after her. More chaos ensured thanks to this.

Their Christmas was always one where something humorous happened no matter how small.

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Author's Notes:

- Merry (Possibly Early) Christmas to you all!

- I wrote this for Christmas two days ago and edited a bit as well. Muhahahha Eden's reaction to Alexandra being pregnant was one that I always wanted to write about!

EDIT: I have no idea why the italic thing is glitched to italic half the chapter...man, maybe I shouldn't use use it in the future...

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