Loki looked at the angels standing guard, gathered outside the prison block with ease using his spirit vision.
They were Sequence 2 Angels, Loki knew because he could see the amount of spirituality they held was similar to Voldemort, but Loki didn't really feel worried even though Voldemort himself was currently just a Sequence 2 and he himself was only Sequence 4.
All because he currently held the Uniqueness of the Error pathway.
However, Loki was still cautious.
'Need to be careful now. I've lost my memories too many times recently… I don't want to lose them due to some error again…'
Each of the angels held a different Mystical item related to gardening, either shears, scythes, or hammers. Some even had multiple tucked away safely on their waists or backs.
'They're all from the Mother pathway alright…'
Loki concluded since the Mother pathway had a Sequence called the Gardner which made one proficient in using the tools associated with it as weapons.
'Not that they should get a chance to use them if what I have planned goes smoothly.'
'...'
'The first task is to figure out where the damn warden is being hidden… and then take that person out so that my abilities are completely unrestricted.'
'After which I must figure out who among the angels present in the area holds the Primordial Chaos and isolate her while killing the rest so that Hermione can enter the sea of subconscious of that person along with Daphne and Merlin.'
'Then I must get rid of the other Angels all while planning for the greatest theft of all time that the universe has existed.'
'The theft of the Primordial Chaos himself.'
Loki held no delusions in being able to kill an Original Creator level being while being a measly Sequence 4 temporarily sitting at Sequence 2. After all, one had just gotten his divinity and the other was the closest to the very source of it.
And so Loki hoped to accomplish two things in his fight with the Angels, steal the Primordial Chaos so that Mother Goddess of Depravity doesn't get another chance to break the Barrier around Earth while also find out how the new life rebirth ritual worked so that he could take it back to Earth along with the Beyonder Characteristics of those Sequence 2 he killed to be able to free people of the corruption back on Earth using the same ritual.
Loki evaluated the battlefield for the last time before he looked at Merlin and nodded, "I'll give you the signal for when you have to act."
Merlin, the rat man, nodded and that was it.
Loki vanished from his spot soundlessly.
Reappearing directly in front of the five Sequence 2 Angels all gathered around the entrance of the Prison Block.
Only, things didn't go as planned almost immediately after Loki appeared.
Not because the Angels detected him appearing.
No, they couldn't even see him since Loki was perfectly hidden under the illusions cast by the Authority of Deceit used from the Error pathway Uniqueness.
No. It being the first time Loki had ever travelled outside the planet he failed to account for one thing.
The gravity of their location!
They were currently in the centre of a neutron star!
One of the densest places in the universe!
The place where Black Holes are formed!
'Hermione and Daphne got it wrong!' Loki gasped in pain as his Sequence 2 body barely withstood the sudden change in gravity and pressure in the environment.
'The place they were being held, the prison block, wasn't a region of Chaos and Disorder being held down by a mere Sequence 4 Demigod of the Arbiter pathway!'
'It was a Paramita!'
An ability of the Chaos Primogenitor pathway that allowed it to trap its enemies while also strengthening their own abilities!
Almost as soon as Loki stole the distance between them, the Paramita noticed his malice against their creators and spat him out of its mystical bounds, making it so that the conditions set for its existence no longer applied to him! Which meant suffering the infinitely high gravity of a Neutron Star.
However, this was but a minor setback.
As the Sequence 2 angels were reeling with the fact that someone had just broken from their parmita, Loki acted instantaneously even as Voldemort's body began to crumple upon itself.
Loki performed a theft!
He stole three abilities from each of the five Sequence 2 Angels!
Loki stole the first most important ability, their Authority as a Broken Pillar! This theft Loki performed using the Uniqueness of the Error pathway.
Stealing this Authority rid him of the curse that normally came from attacking a Sequence 2 Broken Pillar, instantaneous and harsh rebound from the physical world, like the one Loki was suffering from the gravity of the Neutron Star upon being excluded by the Paramita.
This theft succeeded for four of the five Angels, granting him near immediate relief from the gravity of the Neutron Star which had chosen to focus on him because of the physical rebound but Loki didn't have to suffer the last one!
That one could simply be deceived using the Uniqueness of the Error pathway, its target shifting to the final Angel on whom the theft failed!
Next Loki stole their Paramita!
Loki had no regard for the Beyonders trapped in the Paramita, firstly they were being from the cosmos who held infinite malice towards those from Earth, and even if they didn't Loki doubted that any of them hadn't yet consumed the bodily fluids of the five Sequence 5 Angels keeping guard of this arbitrary Neutron Star so that they could become vessels for producing prime Beyonder ingredients in the form of babies.
Hermione and Daphne hadn't yet eaten anything here yet and hence they were safe.
With the stealing of their paramita Loki stole their ability to Resurrect dead individuals, i.e. resurrect their partners. They also could no longer use spells like ghost form inside it which gave them partial invincibility, leaving them infinitely more vulnerable!
This theft too was successful only on four out of the five angels but the prison block shattered!
And finally Loki stole the Angel's ability of New Life!
With the theft of New life, the angels could no longer resurrect themselves or heal themselves instantaneously from his attacks, meaning they would suffer and bleed just like normal people.
This theft too surprisingly was only successful on four out of the five Angels!
However all this was within Loki's plan.
After all, one of the angels was holding onto the Primordial Chaos and for three out of three thefts to fail on any one particular angel would mean that out of the five angels currently guarding the prison block, that specific one was special to be able to block thefts of a higher level!
With the vanishing of the Paramita and the identification of the Angel in whose body of heart and mind the Primordial Chaos was being hidden, Loki gave Merlin the signal to act and transport Hermione and Daphne to the Sea of Subconscious immediately.
Daphne and Hermione vanished into the Sea of Subconscious but with the vanishing of the Pramita, Merlin was finally free! And so he too vanished into the Sea of Subconscious but he left for grounds unknown and did not stick around with Hermione and Daphne.
Although not an ideal outcome since it would've been very helpful if the ratman stayed to help in case Mother Goddess of Depravity herself showed up, it was still better than risking him interfering with the fight and causing Loki to have to deal with another vector throughout.
And so Loki heaved a sigh of relief when Merlin did nothing other than leave silently.
'I'll remove that corruption from him if he does nothing by the end.' Loki promised the rat man mentally while giving him a thumbs up.
With the short pause in attacks from Loki, the Sequence 2 Angels regained their breaths and acted!
Without their paramita and their ability to use the spells inside it, they were simply left with their Banshee's Weakening Curse and Death Wail along with Evil Summoning.
Three things happened after that in the next immediate moment.
Two of the five Angels used a Weakening Curse on Loki to rapidly drain his life force and prepare him for the ability the other two Angels used, Death Wail!
However Loki had already countered this with another theft!
Loki stole this time the life force from the four angels whom he knew his theft would be successful on!
He added this life force onto the life span of Voldemort in an attempt to retaliate against the Death Wail that started to spell his death because of the weakening from the Weakening curse of the two Sequence 2 Angels!
However this still left Loki vulnerable! A mere Sequence 4 facing the curse of two Sequence 2's!
It was at this moment that Loki used four of the abilities he had thieved from the Angels!
Loki applied the Authority of the Broken Pillar to himself!
And since he applied four of them, the backlash from the physical world on the angels was instantaneous!
The two who used the death wail on him were all but crumpled into a ball of fleshy goo while the two who used the weakening curse were splattered on the floor as they too died almost instantaneously after being crushed by four times the effect of the gravity at the centre of a Neutron Star.
Why did the fifth Angel not attack him during this time?
Loki too wondered the same question so he turned to look at the Angel.
Only what he found was rather surprising.
The angel stood simply dumbfounded.
Not because her allies were killed so quickly but because Daphne and Hermione had done the impossible or at least it seemed so!
…
A few moments earlier when Hermione and Daphne had been teleported into the Sea of Subconscious of the one of the Angel's keeping watch over them…
"What do we do now?" Hermione asked softly as they looked around at the truly bizarre sea of subconscious that had formed around them.
The world was a blur of images truly graphic to be described in detail making Hermione nauseous enough to puke immediately, however she held it in given their mission while Daphne froze.
"Daph…?"
"Daphne?" Hermione nudged her friend only to find her shocked and looking in a random direction.
Hermione looked over there too but found nothing other than a wall of images of grotesquely birthing babies who were crawling out of their mother's wombs by tearing open their stomachs with their sharp claws and nails.
Only, all of a sudden a giant Big Ben showed up in front of her.
Its size was truly enormous.
Hermione looked up at it but before she could the scene around them changed once again.
Hermione was no longer at the Neutron star anymore.
She and Daphne were back on Earth.
In a location they recognised not, but a location they knew was on Earth nonetheless by looking at the night sky.
The constellations were the same and the air had lost all its oppressive aura.
Their Beyonder Characteristics had fused back in themselves while their abilities had fully returned to normal.
"....what just happened?" Hermione asked Daphne confused, frightened and bewildered.
…
Loki entered the Sea of Subconscious of the angel in front of him rather easily once he felt something familiar emanate off her mind.
It was almost as if the feeling invited him to it rather than the other way around.
But once Loki was there he too was left surprised and in awe.
Not because of the sights he saw, although they were 'pretty' too.
But because his memories finally returned.
"This…" Loki found himself unable to articulate his feelings and emotions in words because of the plot unfolding before him.
The Big Ben was still visible in the Sea of Subconscious of the Angel but Loki's focus wasn't on it.
Instead Loki's focus was on the figure that soon emerged in front of him.
".....soo…" Loki began awkwardly after looking at the figure of himself standing in front of him rather relaxedly despite the situation.
"So what? Surprised that you're just an avatar?"
Loki shook his head and said softly, "No, I decrypted that already."
"Then what are you surprised about?"
"That you would agree to give up your life so easily." Loki said, a hint of surprise in his voice.
"Give up my life so easily? It's not easy… but it has to be done… or humanity will have no future… I assumed that you would revive in time, but 'She' delayed it by a large amount of time, which left me deeply corrupted and now I have decided to merge with 'Him' and sleep so that you can grow."
Loki stood silent for a long while as he digested his memories and the words of the past him that was speaking right now.
Mother Goddess of Depravity had attacked him at such a random point in the past purely because she wished to kill past Loki.
It had been a long time and the Primordial Chaos hadn't recovered yet. Precisely two thousand and hundred and sixty years since he had been reverse corrupted by the past Loki. She was about to regain her ability to use the Primordial Chaos without succumbing herself to permanent madness and prematurely ending the universe, but the Primordial Chaos himself hadn't recovered yet.
And so if she wished to attack Earth by breaking the Astral Barrier to regain her sefirot once again, she had to kill the past Loki who was still around and only asleep so that the Primordial Chaos could recover.
And so she hatched a plan by working together with the only other beyonder who would benefit from Loki's death, the fool pathway King of Angels that was also the Hanged man Pathway True God, Herpo the foul or Gellert Grindelwald.
And since Grindelwald held a grudge against the past Mr. Error for forcibly making him dual wield the Hanged man Pathway it was an easy sell since the Astral Barrier would remain fully intact as 'She' would only use a descent vessel to appear before Loki and kill both him and his past self.
And so when she saw Loki in front of her she held him down so he couldn't escape. Then she created a situation where the past Loki was forced to take over the present Loki's body by threatening to kill the boy which would take away his only option for resurrection.
And so past Loki reappeared by forcibly taking over present Loki's body in that moment to battle out Mother Goddess of Depravity, Mr. Error won in that fight by putting the space around the Chaos Sea into a limbo and sealing it to banish Mother Goddess of Depravity from there, however the damage was done.
The past Loki had awoken from his slumber and been forced to use his abilities to combat something else than the progressing corruption of the Primordial Chaos that had corrupted him.
At this moment there were only two options left.
Either forcibly merge with the Primordial Chaos to make sure that when Mother Goddess of Depravity merged back with 'Him' she would be unable to use it without fully killing Mr. Error which would only get harder to do because he would merge with the Primordial Chaos and attain partial Original Creator status, if only temporarily because of the madness that would come afterwards.
Or, he would have to give up and immediately resurrect in present Loki regardless of the consequences that might hold for him as the goddess of Fortune predicted.
The answer was immediate for past Loki.
He trusted the Goddess of Fortune's divination more than his own at the current moment since he was but a mere King of King of Angels while she was a full blown Great Old One who was dealing with a near identical situation as his only for longer and because he could clearly now see his fate was obscured by something in some way.
There was a part to it that was hidden! Even from him!
And so past Loki trusted the path Goddess of fortune had laid out for him.
He would wait until his Avatar reached Original Creator level on his own before attempting to resurrect in him even if it meant giving up the race for dominance of personality.
After all, if worse came to it, he could always simply just live as an Avatar of the Avatar instead after his resurrection this way.
However this was unlikely since he would likely be killed by Mother Goddess of Depravity in some way eventually since he had merged with the Primordial Chaos.
After all, there was only so long he could hang onto his sanity in this state.
However, what past Loki hadn't anticipated was that during the throes of the Primordial Chaos when he was merging with the Primordial Chaos, Loki himself would show up to physically steal the Primordial Chaos!
This changed the game significantly!
Now past Loki could merge with the Primordial Chaos safely and have Loki steal him away from Mother Goddess of Depravity! This would mean that when the time came he could safely resurrect in present Loki without being killed by anyone!
And then he could relegate himself to being an Avatar of the Avatar but that wasn't necessarily a bad thing since it guaranteed his safety!
At this moment, Loki looked at past Loki and fully understood his plan.
"Alright, I'll help you… but I need a few things first."
"So greedy… I'm giving you up my position as the dominant will and you still want more…"
"What's to say, after all I'm an Error pathway beyonder, it would only be stranger if I didn't have a thing or two I wanted."
"Haha~ true, I wouldn't have trusted you if that wasn't the case. So tell me, what do you want?"
"You have to stay awake for a little bit once you merge with the Primordial Chaos to undo the corruption plague spreading around in everyone on Earth."
Past Loki nodded.
"Then you have to help me kill the remanent will that you gave temporary Mr. Error status."
"Haha~ I refuse. Do that yourself, you are more than capable of doing so."
Loki frowned but understood the reasoning and nodded.
So he then spoke softly, "Do you know what the Goddess of Fortune is planning?"
"Not entirely no… but I'm sure you'll figure out more on your own, and if it doesn't happen you'll regain those memories anyway once you merge with me eventually before she acts on whatever she's planning. Either way, I know one thing for sure, she's definitely not an enemy. She's just in a similar situation, like ours."
Loki nodded and that was that.
Past Loki was about to teleport Loki back to Earth but Loki stopped him.
"I'll have to go to take down the fake Mr. Error. You just merge." Loki said politely, waving his hand in refusal of the service.
Past Loki smiled mischievously before nodding and vanishing, leaving behind a few words, "I'll be watching from the front seat then."
Back in the real world, Loki reappeared in front of the Angel holding a baby.
The baby looked ugly to say the least but Loki held it with care nevertheless.
The angel had already died.
Past Loki had taken care of that.
Once that was all settled, Loki didn't delay further since Mother Goddess of Depravity would be arriving soon since she had already been traveling from Earth back to this Neutron Star since the battle back on Earth had ended.
Loki quickly set up an altar to pray to Mr. Error.
"Mr. Error, I would like you to bring me back to the planet. I have succeeded in helping the Tarot Club member and the future member, I have also successfully stolen the Primordial Chaos."
Once the prayer finished, Loki found his vision flooded by a crimson light before a door opened before him once again.
Concealing the Primordial Chaos in a wall of spirituality Loki entered the door and began to travel back to Earth through the Spirit World once again.
The process was the same this time and Loki took full advantage of exploiting it thoroughly.
The travel time was going to be four seconds once again.
So four things happened in those four seconds.
First Loki let the Primordial Chaos be taken from him by the fake Mr. Error.
This was a necessary step since otherwise the Primordial chaos would attract unspeakable horrors from the cosmos into the Spirit World.
So Loki let the Primordial Chaos merged with past Loki leave his hands and safely reach fake Mr. Error.
However this act had two purposes.
One was obviously to safeguard him, while the other veiled act was to distract the fake Mr. Error with the new baby.
In the third second, Loki exploited the loophole that Mr. Error hadn't protected himself during the travel and attacked him.
Loki did so not directly but indirectly by planting a Seed of Malice deep into the fake Mr. Error's spirit body.
Obviously even though he was a fake, Mr. Error noticed the sudden obvious attack and retaliated first by stealing Loki's next thoughts and then with a swift termination of the teleportation through the spirit world that was on going.
Loki was immediately expelled from the spirit world out into the cosmos!
Left stranded out in the open where he instantly died due to lack of oxygen, freezing to death while simultaneously feeling his blood boil from within as his ear drums exploded and a constant stream of blood and other fluids leaked his orifices.
Of course, such a death was planned since Loki had already stolen fake Mr. Error's thoughts to examine the seed of Malice that Loki had planted within his body.
A Seed of Malice was a Sequence 2 Bloody Archduke's ability and it held the ability to allow planter to revive using these seeds if the main body is destroyed.
And so the four seconds ended with Loki's death in the third second and his resurrection in the fourth but the difference this time was the fact that he was now inside the Sefirah Castle and not outside.
The following attack after that was swift and decisive.
The relaxed fake Mr. Error, who breathed a sigh of relief at having repelled the sudden attack, found himself wailing in pain as someone else revived within him!
The world sank into silence as Loki pushed himself out of the Seed of Malice and returned with Voldemort's body inside the Sefirah Castle, breaking out of Mr. Error's body after stepping out of his psyche.
Almost instantly, Loki used the Uniqueness of the Error pathway to perform three thefts!
First Loki stole the Monocle off the fake Mr. Error.
The Monocle stealing a monocle was an error which was not possible so Loki instead stole the runes causing its position to constantly flicker between the two, freezing it and binding it to himself permanently.
Next Loki stole fake Mr. Error's thoughts for retaliation after deceiving the fake Mr. Error's attack to never be launched in the first place!
And once that was successful, Loki finally stole Mr. Error's soul.
Even when all that was done, Loki didn't stop.
Instead, Loki reacted quickly by using the Monocle to substitute Mr. Error's soul with his own in his host Voldemort before inhabiting his original that had been abused by the fake Mr. Error till now.
Along with that Loki recovered the Monocle and placed it on his face leaving him with the exact same image he started with.
He was now holding the baby Primordial Chaos, nudging the monocle over his right eye while looking at Mr. Error in the Sefirah Castle.
Only this time, he was in his own body and not Mr. Error's.
"Good job…" the baby finally spoke vaguely before it closed its eyes and fell asleep.
Voldemort or rather fake Mr. Error now stuck as a parasite within Voldemort finally regained his consciousness as his thoughts not being stolen flowed once again, only he looked at Loki with surprise, shock and horror.
However Loki showed no mercy.
"Good bye." Loki said one final time before snuffing out the life that was fake Mr. Error by stealing his soul once again.
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