I finally managed to get this guy away from Penelope and everyone.
However, as I looked behind me.
I realized he had stopped running after me a long time ago.
Now, it seemed like he was simply taking a brisk stroll.
Not to mention, that guy...He's just been destroying the ocean water every time he takes a step.
It really pisses me off.
Doesn't he know how difficult it is to get that much ocean water back?! I only did it before because I didn't know how exhausting it was!
It also made me have a bit of a cool entrance too!
Not only that, but I finally began to pay more attention to some more detailed features.
Like the green-black outfit he had on. It looked like that weird towel or whatever the Greeks used to wear.
His skin was also completely charred black.
his eyes were green too, but with a mixture of gold in them.
This guy must really love the green and black colors.
It does make him seem less human though. (Oh wait, he's a Titan, so I guess he isn't human?)
His hair was fairly long, and his face would've probably been really beautiful if it didn't look like such a nightmare.
"I don't get it. Isn't your name Apollo? Weren't you one of the Greek gods?" I asked.
"What of it? It's not as if I'm the same as your version of the gods. Besides, I've already rejected my godhood. Now I stand with the future ruler of the multiverse!" Apollo answered.
I see. So basically, he's another greek god from a different universe.
That's kinda annoying to think about, but it doesn't matter right now.
The important part is what else he mentioned.
He said he rejected his godhood and became a Titan? What, is it like some sort of virus or something?
Like a symbiote maybe?
I don't get what the Titan's really are at this point.
I guess it doesn't matter right now. Since maybe the gods will have more information.
My current priority should be to kick this guys ass and spend what little time I have left with my family. (I'd still like to meet my kid after all!)
With that in mind, the two of us continued to have a stare off for what felt like an hour, before he finally made the first move.
Green-black flame manifested itself above his hand as he casually pushed the flames forth.
I swiped my hand in a rainbow arc before me, and as I did, the ocean water rose into the same arc blocking the powerful flame.
"Didn't you hear me? This is my territory. I'm basically in control of any and all forms of water here!" I shouted.
Apollo didn't seem to care as he constantly kept throwing powerful flames at me.
I continued to block them with arcs of water, however, I realized this stalemate couldn't last forever.
The water within the ocean may be vast, but it's not endless.
And it takes a great amount of it just to block one ball of fire from him.
At this rate, let's say, one year from now, I'd have at least drained half the ocean dealing with him.
I could always use that thing I did before, but it drains so much energy, and isn't very good for the ecosystem either.
After all, it takes the evaporated water, that's meant to go elsewhere, and recreates it as ocean water.
A neat trick I'd say, considering that previous Leviathan I talked to taught me it before I awoke.
That's all there is to it though, a trick.
I need something more powerful, more permanent to get rid of him.
Maybe I could do what I did to that squid guy? Or was he an octopus? I don't really remember.
Well, anyway. I figured with the way I am now, it might be even more powerful. So it was worth a shot.
I continued to block Apollo's fireballs while I simultaneous focused on the ocean around me.
I focused on pouring my will into the ocean, forcing it to bend to my will.
Slowly, subtley, the ocean began to stir.
If seen from the viewpoint of the planet, it would probably seem like a mystifying experience.
After all, when I said the ocean, I meant the whole thing, covering the planet.
Considering the planet was very similar to Earth (I did get a brief look at it, though the continents were different obviously) then you can imagine how much ocean there really was being controlled.
The entire ocean began swirl into one big ginormous whirlpool with me and Apollo at the very center of it.
"This is pointless." The Titan shouted, agitated.
"Maybe. But how you never know?" I replied.
To be honest, I don't think this will kill him. At most, it might wound him a bit.
But that's fine. I've still got two trump cards left.
As I continued to will the water of the ocean to swirl I began to lift my arms as I forced the whirlpool to rise, forcing the Titan Apollo to get caught within it.
I couldn't help but notice how, despite looking helpless within the whirlpool, that he seemed relatively fine for the most part.
How to say, there wasn't enough look of despair on his face, which made me know that this method wasn't enough to kill him.
As I expected though.
Still, what's at the bottom of this whirlpool will hopefully change that.
Another thing I learned from that previous leviathan voice, was that the beings within the Abyss were all sea creatures with their own "cults" or cult like worshippers, in other words, they were the closest to becoming gods in the future.
That one guy I beat the shit out of before was also like that apparently, though that didn't mean they were all strong like gods I guess, just had plenty of worshippers.
Something to do with "Faith" I guess? I don't know.
Not really important right now, except for the fact that, as the Tyrant God, ocean is not actually my main force to control, it's instead using fear to subjugate those weaker than me.
So, what does a bunch of hideous beings at the bottom of the abyss have to do with that?
I'm sure you already know.
While controling the whirlpool, I also sent my will down towards the deepest depths of the planet, and used all the pressure I could exert on the creatures down there to make them obey my command, which was to tear this Titan to shreds. Or at least try.
Naturally, many of them managed to resist a bit, but there was still plenty of strong ones that began to unwillingly follow my words and rose from the pitch dark depths of the ocean to attempt to take a bite out of this flaming Titan.
Even for an ex-sun god, this much water, plus being besieged underneath him should prove difficult for him to use his fire right now.
However, contrary to my expectations, it seems I only pissed him off as he quickly vaporized the whirlpool, and scorched the abyss monsters forcing them to retreat back into the depths to lick their wounds.
As the Apollo floated in the air staring down at me with a murderous look on his face.
I couldn't help but think.
(Seriously, that still didn't kill him?! What is this guy, a monster?)
Apollo's look of fury was enough to let me know he was preparing something big.
And something big indeed.
As a bright orange sun began to grow slowly behind him expanding in size each and every second until it seemingly could blot out the real sun.
I wasn't sure how much science was still being applied here, but I was very concerned for the planet at this point.
Not knowing what else to do, I used every last ounce of my strength to command and manipulate the ocean to gather for me so that way I could condense the water into an equally enormous ball.
However, I quickly realized there simply wasn't enough to compete with the Titan's powerful sun.
I was stretching it a bit, I know, but I began to look for a source of water outside of the planet and could just barely sense some frozen water on the moon.
I pushed my body and mind well beyond it's limits, forced the frozen water from the moon to travel towards me as fast as possible.
Finally just barely created a sphere powerful enough to stop the now gigantic sun hurdling towards the planet.
Flung my water ball towards the sun and while began preparing for the moment of impact.
I needed every oppurtunity afforded to me.
I just had to wait.
Once the two spheres collided an immense earth shaking boom erupted causing steam and vapor to cover the entire planet.
I wanted to wonder about how this might affect the planet, but I simply didn't have the time to worry at the moment.
I noticed Apollo was caught off guard by eruption, and temporarily stunned.
I then immediately made my move.
I was already pretty exhausted, but I gather any remnants of water I could trace and used it to condense and form a mighty trident.
I quickly hid my presence the best I could and swiftly stabbed Apollo with my spear, piercing his heart.
For good measure, I also quickly formed and condensed a water dagger and punctured the Titan's skull.
I still wasn't sure I killed him properly, since I've never killed anything like this before.
So I took a page out of old mythologies and did some pretty...nasty, R rated things to make sure any piece of him could no longer do any harm.
There was also the green-black substance his body seemed to be coated in.
I was worried about it at first, but quickly destroyed it as soon as possible.
I didn't want to make any mistakes when the battle was so costly.
After finally being done defeating Apollo.
I looked towards the now vast land that used to be full of so much water and ocean.
And I saw the sea creatures, the fish, and plant life that had mesmorised me at the very start of my new life.
And those thing things, once brimming with color and vitality, now desperately gasping and dying without the very thing that breeds life.
I thought about using the new vapor mist covering the sky in a thinly veil, but thought better of it.
If I continued to tamper with ecosystem any more, I don't know what consequences it would have.
However, I still could figure out how to solve this new water shortage problem.
At least until an insane idea occured to me.
I thought back on expanding my new senses for water outside the planet, and found some more small pockets of ice, in other words, frozen water, what did you think I was referring to all this time?
There small pockets of ice still left unused on the moon, but not just that, If I searched just a bit harder, I could sense some an incredible amount of ice beneath the surface of the moon.
I concentrated with all my might and brought forth newly converted frozen water into sea water.
As for how...I don't know. I just felt like I could do it, and it worked.
I'm a god now, rules kinda flew out the window for the most part.
Oh, right. For those wondering, Penelope and the mermaid kingdom was fine, their city was designed to float inside a giant bubble after all. I can't say they didn't come out unscathed, but it was far from the worst that could've happened.
Well. After resolving so many crises in such a short time, I felt ready to a take a hundred year nap, unfortunately, I still have two very worried, confused, and likely angry wives to reunite with to explain what just happened.
Sigh, It's gonna be another long day...