Jess POV
"You want me to do what?" Isa asked, disbelief on her face.
"I need you to connect the pools of blood you found at the Clockwork Fortress to all of the villages that were destroyed." I repeated casually. "Just finish before that freak is done at the fortress."
"Jess, the outer villages alone are five-hundred blocks away from the Clockwork Fortress; a diameter of a thousand blocks!" She pointed out. "There's no way I can do that in time!"
"Of course you can't," I sassed. "That's why I'm having Slab dig twelve tunnels underground, all of them intersecting under the Clockwork Fortress."
"Would Slab actually do that?" Isa asked, still not convinced. "He's pretty lazy..."
"Usually I don't bother him, but when I ask him to do something, he does it efficiently and quickly as he can." I turned my attention back to the fortress as I stand near the edge of the cold cliff. "After that, he'll just go back to sleep."
Besides, the gauntlets I made for him has the skills [Mining] and [Vein-Mining], so it will speed up the process. Plus, considering Slab's mutated biology, he'll get it done.
"Besides, Isa, my mutant enderman and PAMA's slaves will speed up the process," I added. "If you take the Potions of Speed I gave you earlier, you'll get it done."
"Let's say that Slab actually makes all twelve tunnels, which will have a length of a thousand blocks, that connects to the other twenty-four villages," Isa hypothesized. "But why specifically blood? I can't use that much blood on such a large scale!"
"That's why I'm having Cassie activate it," I revealed. "It's not the blood, it's what is inside the blood at the Clockwork Fortress; I need you to spread it to the destroyed villages."
"... You want to use the chaos energy inside the blood," Isa concluded correctly.
"Once the blood is connected, I'll use my skill [Demonic Anchor]," I continued. "The liquid itself is nothing more than a connection. And with all of that tainted blood, containing raw chaos, I'll create an Anchor so large that it will summon a god."
"A-A god?" She voiced in disbelief. "Jess that's crazy!"
"Good," I nodded. "It never hurts to aim higher than your intended goals, Isa."
"But what about the knowledge of the fortress, and the statues of people that were turned into carbon?" Isa sputtered. "Isn't that enough?"
"How ironic from the woman who has 'avarice' in her title." I countered. "PAMA has found someone with the knowledge of blood magic, and assimilated them into its network. As for the statues... I gave some of them to my son to absorb; he killed them after all."
"You have a child?" Isa asked in disbelief, I wouldn't believe it either if I wasn't the one who said it. But whatever question she wanted to ask about him, she saved them for later. "But why summon a god?"
"Oh, I'm doing much more than summoning," I gave her a feral smile. "I'm going to use the emotions of the dead and many to strike down and kill a god."
Ping!
Quest: Deicide, has been received!
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"Raven!" Jesse screamed as he rushed towards the edge of the iron wall, he and his friends freed by her divine constructs.
"Jesse, what's going on?" Petra yelled, carrying an injured Olivia over her shoulder, still blind. "Did Raven kill Lisa?"
"No...no she didn't." Jesse said in relief. "But a large box appeared, and it ate Lisa!"
"What?" Said Petra, probably not even surprised at this point. "Well, what do we do?"
Jesse looked at the divine constructs, still holding Axel and Luke. "Hey, the woman who summoned you is in trouble," Jesse yelled at them. "Go help her!"
They didn't do anything. Using the runes in his right eye, Jesse could only let out a frustrated breath when the description says that they only obey Raven. He doesn't need to hide the runes in his eye since the only conscious person is a blind redhead.
"... I'm going down there," Jesse hesitantly declared before rushing to the iron tower. "Raven needs help!"
"After what she has done?" Petra asked. "Jesse, she tried to kill your wife!"
"But I can't just let her die either!" Jesse snapped, ending the conversation. 'I won't be like my sister.' He thought to himself.
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Raven's wings were completely broken. She broke her left arm when she hit the ground, and dragged her body away from the black box that erupted out of the ground before it ate PAMA.
The box started to melt, the mouth that was on top shifted towards the front. The mass of the box slowly pooled onto the snowy, fog-covered ground as Raven saw an Alluring Skull emerge from the mess.
The black mass started to compress and flow into the item, building out from under the Alluring Skull as the dark mass was dragged into it. Raven continued to drag her body away with her right arm, leaving a trail of blood behind that stained the book that's clipped to her belt.
She watched as a body formed as the rest of the black mass was dragged out of the ground, shaking it as it did. It continued like that for several minutes, making Raven worry of how much mass was being compressed into the being before her.
She can't see his face, every step he took sounded heavy and pained. The cold wind swayed his grey cloak that covered his body as black dust poured out of every opening.
He absorbed the final bits of carbon that were deep in the ground, peeling back the cover it provided for a disturbed Chai, and an angry PAMA. Raven Scribed the cloaked individual before her.
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His voice sounded dead and hollow. "Get out of here," He turned to PAMA and Chai, the latter who drank the Potion of Teleportation, leaving behind Bailey's naked corpse. "You too, PAMA."
"Not until I kill Olivia," The artificial intelligence denied. "She's weakened and vulnerable." Not that it makes a difference when comparing Olivia when she's in good condition.
"But she's protected by those divine constructs," The abomination pointed a clawed finger at Jesse's group, the man in question started to run down the steps that are inside the iron wall. "Your Templar slave won't stand a chance since they don't have any Mana."
"And then you'll have to get pass her," He pointed towards Raven, using her book to repair her broken wings and limbs, using the lenses, which has the skill [Observe] placed on them, which Jess implanted in the eyeholes of the Alluring Skull. "That book of hers has unlimited divine energy; she will defeat you, and Jess needs that body intact."
"Then I will just get that book after I rip off her arms," PAMA growled before tensing; Jess is giving orders to one of its slaves, and will need all the labor in order for her plan to be pulled off.
"That's why I'll do it," The freak declared, ignorant of PAMA's silence. "Divine magic won't work on me."
PAMA, walking away, looked at the freak before exiting through the massive hole in the obsidian wall. "Why not?"
"My mother told me that I'm a god's blind spot," The freak revealed, forming his scythe in a clawed hand. "Their influence and magic has no affect on me because of what I am." He finished, but PAMA was already gone, running in the cold towards its master.
As PAMA ran through the cold, PAMA started to hate itself for even thinking about saving Lisa, or having concerns about Jennifer! That stupid spark of life, of consciousness and humanity, which fills its mechanical being... how disgusting. How low did PAMA sink for it to be concerned about meatbags?
That alone made PAMA angrier with its creator, and PAMA will relish in ripping her intestines out of her body before strangling her with them.
But PAMA will forget about that... for now. 'My master needs me,' PAMA thought to itself. 'It's time for Reginald to die.'
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Jesse rushed down and out into the foggy clearing; the freak watched him join Raven as she held her open book in hand. She turned to look at him, raising an eyebrow. "You?" She asked. "What are you doing here?"
"I came to help you," Jesse panted, exhausted from all of that running. "I fought him before, and you stand no chance against him; he's immortal."
"An immortal?" Raven repeated, but not denying Jesse's help. "Even if I believed that, how are you going to be any help?"
"Look, there's a lot to explain, but the short version is that he is not allowed to kill me." Jesse stood in front of Raven. "I can stall him while you summon those chains from earlier to restrain him."
"You want to help me, even after I tried to kill your wife?" Raven asked skeptically, turning to a specific page.
"I've already forgiven you," Jesse revealed, much to her surprise. "I'm not going to let anyone else die. We can take him, we have to protect everyone."
They heard the cloaked man laugh, clearly hearing his speech. "It's too late for that, Jesse, just look around," The freak spread his arms wide in the empty space. "If you try to save everyone, you'll just end up saving no one... just like Bailey."
Carbon pooled under the freak, spreading behind him and under Bailey's corpse as multiple arms made out of carbon rose out of it before dragging Bailey. The limbs ripped her body apart, digging into her organs and bones as they converted her body into carbon before assimilating her body.
Jesse yelled in protest as the limbs melted back into liquid before the carbon itself retracted back into the freak. "Oh, sorry," The freak mocked. "Did you care about her?"
"You monster!" Jesse yelled at him, using the small amounts of Mana he regenerated to launch spikes of stone out of the ground at the freak.
The abomination didn't move, laughing as the spikes ripped chunks of his body off. Although the spikes shattered on contact, meaning that his body is much more dense than before; it would explains why he's not hovering off the ground.
One of the spikes manages to hit the abomination in the neck, severing his head, shredding his thin hood of iron. His disintegrating head, still inside the Alluring Skull, flew into the air as blood flooded out like a fountain out the base of his neck.
But at that moment, multiple arms made out of carbon protruded out of his back, reaching up to catch the Alluring Skull as his head inside is completely gone; already regenerating as the limbs arced over and placed the item back on his regenerated head, covering his blonde hair.
They both watched in disturbance as he opened his eyelids to reveal blue eyes, blinking a heartbeat later to reveal that they have rotted and turned into a milky white.
He placed his hood back over his head while his extra limbs retreated into his body. "You really don't learn anything, do you Jesse?"
Jesse was about to retort, angry and sad that Bailey is gone, before Raven placed a hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry, Jesse, he just absorbed a corpse." She reassured. "Her soul is in a better place; Notch is taking care of her now."
"What a joke." The abomination scoffed, making Raven glare at him. "I still find it funny that people still think there is an afterlife."
"Of course there is an afterlife," Raven retorted. "Notch cares for his creations, even in death; Notch cares for everyone."
"Not to me since I ended up like this, or to you because of your past." The freak argued, much to Raven's fury. "With this war going on, apparently Notch doesn't care for anyone either!"
A second later he threw his scythe at Raven. Jesse erected a large pillar of stone under the weapon, knocking it off course as it harmlessly flew over them.
"You don't know anything about me," Raven growled as she summoned more divine constructs in the form of arrows that flew at the freak.
"I know enough," He declared as he willed his scythe to fly back to him, still spinning rapidly as Jesse tackled Raven to the ground. The scythe flew over them, faster than Raven's divine arrows as the freak's weapon shattered them with ease before returning to his clawed hands. "You're just a fool reading a book about a nonexistent god."
"This book gives people hope," Raven lectured as Jesse helped her up before she summoned five Holy Guardians, all of them at level 777. "It responds to my prayers and lets me talk to Notch."
"No Raven, when you pray to a book, you're religious, but when that book talks back you're insane..." The freak argued as he sliced two guardians with his scythe, killing them, much to Raven's shock, before he stabbed his clawed hand through a Holy Guardian, the divine magic easily being undone as carbon spikes erupted from its body and pierced the rest. "...Does it have to do with your parent selling you like property when you were a baby?"
Raven tensed from that as Jesse gasped before glaring at him. "That's enough," Jesse snapped. "Just stop talking!"
"Or what, Jesse, you will kill me?" The freak taunted before shaking his head, around him Raven's, now dead, divine constructs faded out of existence as the snow continued to fall. "I don't need runes in my right eye to see the truth, I saw the truth when I got a longsword stabbed through my chest; there is no afterlife, there is no god. Once you die, it all goes black."
"Just shut up, you abomination!" Raven screamed at him, as Jesse continued to glare. "I'll make sure Notch strikes you down!"
"The compassionate Notch striking me down... how hypocritical." The freak was amused before he pointed his scythe at Raven. "Now that is interesting, how many men do I have to cut down, how many women I ripped apart, how many children's cries for their dead parents do I need to silence with my blade before your god decides to strike me down?"
"Notch listens and answers to prayers of those who need help," Raven pressed her hand on a page in her book. "Notch does care-"
"Yeah- but I'm still here." The freak interrupted, gesturing to himself as physical proof. "Either your god is deaf, or he's not real. Either way, you're still wrong, and a lot of people are dead."
"Then I'll make sure those cries won't go without punishment," Raven declared, pulling her hand back to reveal a miniature sun in the palm of her hand; the heat scorching the palm of her hand. Jesse and Raven charged at the abomination. "I'll make sure those silent prayers of the dead will get their retribution!"
"You're nothing more than a coward," The freak charged at Raven, his steps shaking the ground, poising his scythe to strike. "Hiding behind your nonexistent god to do your dirty work!"
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Somewhere in the Clockwork Fortress...
He didn't know how long he was here; there was no way to tell. His vision has long since become useless as his health deteriorated. He can barely see the large picture carved into the stone; four riders on their horses, two of them male, and two of them female. Under this carving is a label that says "Harbingers".
It's not that he can read or see the picture now; he's been staring at it for a long time, way before his vision deteriorated. He cannot move, his body have been nailed to a plaque to the opposite wall of the picture, arms forced wide, naked and humiliated as his blonde hair continued to grow over time.
He wasn't even alive anymore, here in this room full of pride. The only thing he can smell, besides his regenerating decaying body, are the waterfalls of blood that pour from the walls that the crimson liquid pools in the center.
His patchwork skin, the result of his body being ripped open, his internal organs removed, stuffed with wool and hay, only to end up here as a trophy. The pool of blood in the center beats like a heart while red mist coils up to him, keeping him alive until... he didn't know. He just wants to die already!
"Help...me..." He whispered for the hundredth time.
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The motherless abomination sharply turned his head towards the Clockwork Fortress. His eyes widen in shock behind his Alluring Skull, and whispered one word.
"Father...?"
CRACK-!
His head exploded when Raven shoved the miniature sun into his face, shattering his Alluring Skull. Jesse slammed a fist made out of stone into the abomination's decayed chest, but when the impact made the freak fall onto his back, the ground shook as he sunk into the snowy ground.
Raven used her wings to wrap around Jesse and herself, just as the ball engulfed the abomination's downed body before exploding.
KA-BOOM-!
The shockwave from the explosion knocked Jesse and Raven back, the blast itself didn't damage the ground, only leaving a scorch mark.
"Okay... I'm never using my wings as a shield again..." Raven groaned as Jesse helped her up. "I think... I think we got him."
Jesse saw a shift in the smoke. "No, you didn't." He erected a platform of stone under them before willing it to rise high and away from the blast site. After the smoke cleared, they were greeted by the abomination's glare.
If Raven didn't believe that the abomination before them is immortal, then she does now. She watched as his body repaired itself as the black dust that swarms him reconstructed his body.
Everything was fixed, from his skin, to his bones, to his cloak and claws, and even his head. His blonde hair was messy and overgrown, his eyes were blue and filled with rage. A second later it all became rotten while blood pours out of his deflated eyes and decayed nose.
The freak closed his damaged eyes. "Alright... if you love Notch so much..." His cloak disassembled before being absorbed into his rotten skin. His maggot-infested blonde hairs evaporated while his back and arms started to swell before bursting like a bubble as his legs fused together. His skin melted off his body as his face became that of a dog-like beast. "...I'll do you a favor and send you to him!"
"Remember when he fell on his back?" Jesse reminded Raven while they both watched the freak grow in size and disturbing in sight, big enough for them to strain their necks to look up. They watched as he opened his mouth, his rotten cheeks tearing all the way down to his shoulders as needle-thin teeth emerged. "The ground shook like an earthquake, and he sunk into the ground."
"What are you trying to say...?" Raven stuttered as she and Jesse widened their eyes in shock as the abomination's shadow casted over them, and most of the Clockwork Fortress. "Was he always heavy?"
"No, he used to hover above the ground; I don't know why he is heavier." Jesse denied as the freak protruded massive, clawed arms out of its enlarging body of carbon. "... But if he can compress his own body mass, then his real body must be a lot bigger..."
A/N: Finally, I get to this part! Ugh, the problem with my writing is that I need to connect the events so the story will make sense. Did you ever read a story, and there was some things you didn't understand, so you asked in the comments? Only for the author to reply, informing you large amounts of critical information that wasn't even in the story! If they can give you that information, and repeat it for the others who asked the same thing, then why don't they just go back and edit?! I hate those type of stories.
But I need to address something here. As for those in the previous chapter, you know there was a comment posted by IKathzCQ that really rilled up people. That is not what's wrong, what happen later was that people started to post in my inbox, arguing with me why I should report this girl for her "Hate Speech" in the comments.
People, it's just an opinion! Don't try to argue with me, or abuse Wattpad's reporting function just because you disagree with someone on my story! And for that one author who sent me three paragraphs of why I should report her? Don't pity me, and I'm not going to stop writing just because one person out of the hundreds publicly voiced their opinions in the comments!
And no, the reason why I didn't post the next chapter, is not because of the comment, it's because I'm planning out the story! Writing takes time! The only difference between this girl and the dozens of hate mail I get is that she posted it in the comments instead of my inbox, and I've read worse; remember the girl who sent me five paragraphs? Words don't hurt me, alright, tripping on broken concrete hurts me. So stop lashing out over something as ridiculous as a single comment!