Chapter 2409: Moving Back, Bringing The t.i.tans Along
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Although it took some time, while preparing the house with Hydros, I also teleported the
t.i.tans outside of my Divine Realm for a brief moment. They were patient enough to wait for everything to be solved. They knew this would have happened anyways.
"We told Hydros that she shouldn"t hide your daughter from you..." Gaia sighed. "But she was very adamant on not wanting to bother you or annoy your busy life. I"m sorry about this, Kireina."
"Yeah, we guessed something like this would have happened..." Hyperion muttered. "Hah, Hydros shouldn"t have hidden you something so important."
"You"re too nice with her, I would have certainly gotten angrier if a woman hid my child from me!" said Helios. "But well, it"s your life Kireina, so I have no saying on this."
"The Seas bless Hydros and her beautiful village and tribe," said Ocea.n.u.s with a gentle grandpa smile. "She might have committed mistakes, but she has built a wonderful place." "Indeed she has," I nodded, as I walked through the internal castle within Wall, until we reached the vast terrace on top, where Surtr, Poseidon, and the other G.o.ds were waiting. "And here I am! I"ve brought them," I said. "This is Gaia, Hyperion, Helios, and Ocea.n.u.s!" Everyone was left speechless.
Although hours pa.s.sed inside of my divine realm only like two or three minutes pa.s.sed here. "They"re here already?!" Poseidon gasped. "Wait a second... That"s Ocea.n.u.s?! Is it really you, old man?"
"Hah, to think Poseidon looking like an old man would call me an old man now, hahaha!" laughed Ocea.n.u.s. "I see you now and you"re nothing but the same old fart I am! Long gone are your younger years, hm?"
"Hahah..." Poseidon muttered, walking towards Ocea.n.u.s and then... falling to his knees, beginning to cry. "I thought that the only one left of you was that vengeful monster... Mentor."
"Hmph, we both battle to death in that war, yet you still call me mentor..." sighed Ocea.n.u.s. "The one you"re seeing is a piece of myself that meditated and accepted his defeat and moved on, slumbering and deciding to leave the world to the newer generations. The other one you fought must have been my lingering negative emotions within my corpse, a specter of myself. Did it merge with the sea of Atlantis?"
"Yes... it was very hard to defeat you," he sighed. "But Kireina managed to."
"I see..." Ocea.n.u.s smiled. "That"s good then, Poseidon. You"ve grown a lot, brat."
"Without your teachings, I would have never managed to get anywhere..." Poseidon kept crying. "I owe you more than you imagine... And when I had to defeat you after you turned into that monster. I felt so... so guilty."
"Zeus is dead now, isn"t he?" asked Ocea.n.u.s.
"Yes, he is... And I cut my ties with him long ago after he forced the entire family to battle against all of you," said Poseidon. "To this day I regret it... Although I did it anyways to claim territory in the new world... I... regret it. I lost a few of my children, and even my wife..."
Sapphirine that was right by his side glanced at Poseidon"s eyes, feeling sorry for him.
"Hmm, it could be said we all lost something in the Ragnarök," said Ocea.n.u.s. "There was never truly a winner... They were desperate times... the world had been bloated entirely and then exploded. Its pieces becoming Realms we desired. Our own greed brought us to destroy one another. I am also guilty of having killed many of your kind... I apologize too, Poseidon. I"ve already given up on even living, meditating in peace. I"ve accepted what happened, and I only want to be at ease and in peace."
"Would you forgive me?" wondered Poseidon. "No, never mind... It"s too much to even ask."
"I forgive you," said Ocea.n.u.s without even hesitating, smiling. "If that can make you feel better, I won"t even hesitate to say it, my disciple."
"Mentor..." Poseidon sighed. "I"m very sorry..."
"It is fine," Ocea.n.u.s sighed, looking into the dark sky. "It is fine, Poseidon. Move on. Your family... is long gone. But you"ve made a new one, right?"
Poseidon noticed the worried expression of Sapphirine, and then the other Sea G.o.ds, some of them were his children.
"Yeah..." the old man sighed. "You"re not wrong... But would you... be at my side? If you were there, I could..."
"No," Ocea.n.u.s said. "I told you already... I"ve made peace with my life. I was brought back by Kireina to help her, and I will help her as much as she asks me. But right now, she never asked me to be at your side. She said... well, that I should do whatever I want."
"Yeah," I nodded. "So Poseidon, it"s time to move on, leave the old man alone alright?"
"Hahaha..." Poseidon laughed a bit, nodding. "Alright... At the very least we can share some ale together?"
"Of course son," Ocea.n.u.s smiled, nodding. "Anytime... Hm, actually."
Suddenly, Ocea.n.u.s opened his chest, revealing that beneath his skin he was actually just pure water, taking out what resembled a clear blue jewel the size of a finger.
"W-What"s this?" Poseidon felt a tremendous source of power from it.
"This is a t.i.tan Soul Heart Fragment," said Ocea.n.u.s. "The last one I had... I have no use for this power anymore as my body doesn"t require it after Kireina reconstructed it and since I"ve merged with a large part of her divine realm"s oceans. So take this."
"What? For me?!" Poseidon gasped. "But this is the very essence of a t.i.tan! To do this...!"
"It"s fine," Ocea.n.u.s shrugged. "Before everything went to s.h.i.+t, I wanted you to become my successor, Poseidon. Before our factions clashed for territory and resources, and before we were forced to fight to the death."
Poseidon extended his hands, receiving the jewel.
"Absorb this, and you might have the chance to become the new Ocean t.i.tan of Genesis," Ocea.n.u.s said. "No matter what might have happened, I still consider you my disciple and
successor."
"Thanks..." Poseidon smiled. "Thank you... for being the father I never had."
To think these two had such a relations.h.i.+p this entire time...
I can"t believe it! That was quite the plot twist.
Meanwhile...
"Mother, it has been a while..." Gaia greeted Flora, her mother.
"My eldest daughter," smiled Flora. "I haven"t seen you in a while indeed! Your sisters had been asking for you nonstop!"