Let Me Teach You What "Trauma" Means (2)

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Violet finally found a way to attack the Titan without changing her power. When the water she control touch the Titan's body it loses all its magical properties and just become an ordinary water.

So how did she manage to hurt the Titan's body while only using the power to control river water?. The answer is simple, she didn't use the water itself to attack. She used it to carry a mineral from underground and then letting it stay inside the water while accelerating its speed. With that, she is able to create a grinder that can even hurt the Titan's body.

"So, did you finally find a way to beat it?."

"Of course, I'm your reliable husband after all."

"As expected of my reliable husband."

"His name is Oceanus, Ogenus, or Ogen."

He is the oldest son of Uranus and Gaia.

In the war between the Titans to overthrown their father Uranus, Oceanus didn't take part in it. He also didn't take a side in the war between gods of Olympus and the Titans. Making him an outlaw for both gods of Olympus and the Titans.

At first, he has the authority over all body of water in the world including all the oceans and river. But, after the newcomer gods come and claim a territory of their own. Now, he only has the authority over the Black Sea.

"From what I can hear, that information didn't have any hint on how to defeat Oceanus."

It just explains about his power over water which gives him invincibility against our water attack, flame, and poison. His tale with Hercules give more detail about his capability as a god, but they didn't actually kill each because Oceanus baked down.

Maybe Hercules can defeat him but we didn't know how he is going to do it except punching him. Something that is not guaranteed to kill him in the first place. After all, he is water god in oceans.

If he wanted he actually can just drown Hercules to kill him.

"Yes, this tale didn't tell much about him."

If there's no more tale then most likely Oceanus cease his activity and just resting in the depth of the Black Sea.

"But his tale didn't stop there."

"What do you mean master?."

"In the east side of the world, there's an Asura who kept a water from flowing by building 99 fortress around the world."

Or more precisely, around the land of India.

That Asura has the ability to control the water, with that power, of course, he can stop the flow of the water towards the oceans. Bringing a drought to the land where he takes a resident.

That Asura is called Vritra.

A Giant god who has a control over water and river. The one with the body of man and snake. The one who can turn into a serpent with a wing, a dragon.

His other name is Oceanus.

"I see, many gods have a different name in the different country, and because the Titan is a loser in a war with the current ruler they are being painted as Asura, in other words, an evil god."

"And because dragon is the king of the serpent, any lesser serpent is going to fear it."

This is the reason why our serpent went crazy. He also the bringer of drought, in another word the disappearance of water in a land. This turn into his power on making any water disappear from anything. Which in turn making anything to wither.

"Also, in this case, he is not just being painted as evil, he is actually an evil."

"What is that mean master?."

"In the wartime, he behaves like some goods kids, do you know why he behaves like that Violet?."

"He didn't like conflict?."

"Wrong! he like conflict, or more precisely he likes to bully the weak."

The reason why he didn't take side during the great war is that he didn't want to get killed by the newer gods or his siblings.

He enjoys playing around with Hercules by obstructing his journey, he enjoys looking at the pitiful human asking for the drought to end, and he also making fun of human by threatening them without actually trying to exterminate them.

"But. . . ."

"He is also a big coward, right? master?."

"Yes!."

He acts like a harmless individual in the area ruled by the gods from Olympus, he quickly gives up after being beaten by Hercules, and he hides his true nature when he moves to another place.

"And the last, he is even trying not to draw too much attention by using his Giant form instead of the dragon one."

"What is the ending of the 2nd tale?."

"He is killed by Indra using his thunderbolt."

"Are we going to use thunder too."

"Yes but not now."

"The. . . ."

Violet stopped talking, after that I shift my sight tower the ongoing battle between Violet and Oceanus that become more intense.

"So he finally got serious huh."

Violet able to cut one of Oceanus arm using her water grinder. After making some shocked face, Oceanus crush dozens of its own minion with his feet. And by being crushed, their body begins to merge with Oceanus main body and restore his arm.

That was one of his special power.

In the tale when he is being called Vritra, he builds 99 fortresses. The fortress is not a real building. It was a reference to a guardian who keeps the point where he stops the water from flowing. In the old scripture, his 99 fortresses is a reference to Sambara. In other words, a demon. But the truth is, that 99 Sambaras are the personification of that human-like thing from his body.

Or more precisely, pieces of his body.

He is able to split his body into 99 individual creature that can act as a weapon and defence tools.

If his main body suffers a very heavy damage, he can split his body and let one of them live. If he waited enough, that individual would grow back his full body. They also can act a flexible back up tool.

Just now, he crushes the body of his minion to restore one of its body parts. After those parts are restored he can split his body again to create another minion.

This ability is the one which going to give us a big trouble. If we can't destroy all of his 100 bodies we can't defeat him.

In the 2nd tale, Indra can kill him after all of his 99 other bodies were killed and sealed. In other words, even the king of gods Indra or we call him Zeus in this region, can't kill him alone.

"Guild master, when is the army going to arrive here?."

"One of my people said they are already on the other side of the forest."

"Can't you ask them to come faster?."

"Impossible, they are not under me! not to mention marching inside a forest is difficult."

"How long it gonna take until they are here and ready to fight?."

"Around 10 minutes."

"I see, so let's reorganize the adventurer into a small team like before."

"What is your plan?."

"My plan is. . . . Violet! don't bother answering me and just listen.."

I can't bother her too much.

After all, she is on a high-speed battle where a Giant fist coming like a meteor, a big sword made from water continuously swinging, ultra high-pressure water flying around like crazy, and many human-like creatures who can end her life with a single touch roaming in the grounds.

A single mistake can instantly kill her. Because even the adventurer tasked to protect her no longer able to keep up with Oceanus and Violet's fight.

"In order to defeat it, we need to lure it into using all of his 100 individual bodies, hence don't corner him too much and save your stamina to be used for our trump card."

We can't kill all of them alone so we need to wait for the army to come. The army is going to be split into a tiny team to handle all 99 other bodies.

"It seems, he wants to play around with us, so let's give him a warm welcome and play happily before kicking his ass."

In order to entertain it, we need to create a situation where he can feel that we are in a bad position but still strong enough to retaliate from a safe place.

In simple term, he is just looking for some extreme rides in a theme park where everything looks dangerous but all of them are actually very safe.

We lure it to expose all of his 99 bodies by made him think that the adventurers are being pushed while Violet can't use any more big move.

This situation would trigger his bullying tendency and made him want to see our suffering face for much longer. Hence, he would push us just with the right amount of strength to corner us into the edge but not just not strong enough to make us fall.

"What is the number of his bodies?."

"99, all of his body are now separated!!!."

"Good, we just need to ride this mome. . ."

While I try to convince myself and the adventurers in my team that we are doing ok, suddenly someone shout will all his might.

"The army is here!!!!!."

"Finally!!!."

That 10 minutes felt so long yet so short.

"Guild master, how long until the army can be incorporated into our plan."

I already can see the army silhouette, and their number is absolutely massive.

"Give me 5 minutes."

"That's fast."

"We already talking about so many scenarios with their side before the operations."

That's a good surprise. If we can speed up the merging process, we can quickly end this shitty battle with Oceanus.

"And here the bad surprise master."

After seeing the army, Oceanus decided to call back all of his separated bodies. He still able to push us, but he decided that he is unable to play around anymore. That's why he wants to merge all of his bodies and destroy the army in one fell swoop.

"Don't let them merge back!!! stop all of them with your all!!!."

If he able to merge all of his bodies, we are going to be screwed. After all, if he is serious he can blow the army with his raw power alone.

"Violet!! wrap your water around everyone's weapon."

"Yes."

"Guild master! don't let anyone kill any of that thing until I give the sign."

If they are killed, their body would crumble and their corpse would automatically disintegrate and move towards the Oceanus main body. When that happened, stopping it would become much-much more difficult.

The army begins to move, spreading, and one by one entering the adventurer's formation. And realizing we are up to something, Oceanus begin to get panic and start to move on his own after his minion got blocked by us.

"Violet!!!."

We need to divert its attention again.

"I can't do it! I have my hands full of controlling the water for the adventurers."

Controlling dozens of an individual body of water is difficult even for her. No wonder she can't have her mind doing something else at the same time. If she undoes that protection, a victim may fall.

"Attack is coming!!."

One team of an adventurer is being targeted. But they are in can't decide to run or stay and defend. If they run away, the human-like thing that they prevent from reaching Oceanus body would get destroyed and our plan would fail.

But if they are not moving away then, their lives is the one which going to fail.

"Move out!!!!."

Our sword main ability is stealing magic and divinity, and as its holder, I should have got some stolen divinity from Oceanus when he attacked me some time ago.

"Master! don't do something stupid!."

No, I have to do this stupid thing. Because beside us no one can resist that attack.

I rushed to the place where the other adventurers are going to get attacked. The fist that is coming to them is strong enough to create a crater, and something like that is of course more than enough to turn me the adventurer and me into a paste.

"Based on my calculation, I should have also get some resistance towards his power."

Animals poison usually doesn't work on its own body, so his power to make anything wither should also not working on his own body too. After all, if his body is affected by his poisonous power, he is going to lose his vessel in this world.

"Hence!!."

As someone who has part of his divinity, I should also have that kind of resistance.

I tackle one of that human-like thing and protect it from Oceanus attack.

"It should safe for me to touch this thing directly."

"Master! you are too reckless! being reckless should be my trademark."

My tackle is not strong enough to kill that human-like thing, but it's still strong enough to move it outside Oceanus attack range.

"Saburou! we are ready."

Good!.

"Master, we first should stop his movement before executing the plan! otherwise its going to fail!."

Yes, if he attacks our team again and got one of his minion's body crushed, we are going to be in a very bad situation. No, we are already in a bad situation because we no longer have any means of stopping his movements by force.

"Violet! do you remember what kind of Titan he is?."

I prepare our sword and say the spell to switch to another authority.

"A cowards."

Yes, he is a coward. What he feared the most is death. And in order to stop a coward from moving is not difficult, we didn't even need to use brute force.

"Having sun as the eye, Ravilochana 71."

Both of my and Violet can see all the area around us in an eagle eyes format.

"One who spread Illuminations, Tajaswani 96."

After remembering each position of both allies and foe, we mark the position of each individual and sent that image to the corresponded person.

"Did you see it guild master?."

"Yes, clearly."

"We are going after the main body, so please clear our path."

"Make a way for them!!!!."

The adventurer and the army which already made a team and surrounding all the human-like thing started their preparation to attack while also luring that thing away from mine and Violet's path.

"One who wears a necklace of skulls, Kapalin 37."

Violet quietly run towards Oceanus main body. And of course, he is trying to attack her to prevent her from reaching him. Her current authority didn't grant her additional strength, but her physical power is already high in the first place. So she didn't really have any difficulty in handling Oceanus attack.

"Violet! keep your distance from the nearby team."

"Yes."

From the other side, I also running towards his main body. But because he didn't think me as a real threat, he only focuses on Violet. Which is currently doing many acrobatic moves.

She is leaping from here and there, but she always keeping track of her surrounding and lure his attack to her desired point in order to protect the execution team.

"Let's scare the shit out of him!."

"Yes."

Violet finally able to reach Oceanus main body, and after climbing his tall figure. She stands at the top of his head while looking down on him.

"Do it!!."

Oceanus!!!! let me tell you what the word 'trauma' means!!!. Let me show you, what I feel a year ago when we fight your mother.

Violet looking directly at Oceanus eyes with a cold gaze and said. . .

"Die!."

That word is able to send any living soul to the underworld if said by a real god. But, because the one who said it is a mortal and the target is a god. It only able to attach the concept of death into Oceanus soul.

Or in simple term, it strikes the fear of death into the depth of his soul.

And because he is a big coward. His arm stopped moving, his leg stopped moving, and all his minions also stopped moving. After that, all of his body begin to convulse terribly.

"Execute them all!!!."

After I give the command, both the army and the adventurer move their weapon to behead Oceanus minions at the same time.

"One who has thunderbolts on his hands, Vajrahasta 103."

From the air in front of Violet's right hand, our trump card is beginning to emerge. The materialization of the god's weapon which able to bring victory for its wielder. The vajra.

"Never come back again!!!!!."

She hit the tip of the Vajra to Oceanus head. And when the tip made a contact, the vajra discharge a big thunderbolt that strong enough to pierce Oceanus big and tough body from head to toe.

"But he is still can come back in the future."

With a ping, the thunderbolt authority got undone and the corresponded talisman flying back into its former place.

"What do you mean, master?."

That strike is not enough to completely kill Oceanus. We can't just kill his body. He is after all, still able to come back even after receiving a strike from Indra.

The reason, is most probably because his soul is able to survive that attack. In other words, if he can found another body he can still reborn.

The chance is minuscule, but he is a god. Something that can even bend a fate and reality. Nothing is impossible for them.

That's why I'm going to erase even that small chance from this world.

"I'm going to."

"No! your body is already at its limit."

She already used so many authority, she even unleashes 2 trump card from serpent and thunderbolt authority. She is already at her limit.

That's why I'm going to finish this myself.

"Supreme Lord of the netherworld, Veerabhadra 106."

By sending his soul to the underworld.

Oceanus body begins to fall and throw out Violet's limp body.

I can feel that his divinity begin to dwindle. Before his soul completely removed from his body I should land an attack on him to give a finishing blow.

"Master."

I catch Violet's falling body using my left arm. She coils her hands around my neck and in turn, I coil my left arm around her soft body.

At a time like this, I'm really grateful that her body is small and light. If her body is bigger, I think I'm not going to be able to carry her as easily. What a great wife.

"Master, did you perhaps thinking something rude about me?."

"No! of course, not!."

"Is that true?. . . your eyes said otherwise."

Now that I remember it, she didn't like treated like a child even though that's not even my intention. So, let's rephrase my words so she didn't get mad.

"I just grateful that the size of my wife is cute."

Yes, she is not small. She only has a cute size.

"Somehow that didn't sound like a praise! also, can you stop squeezing my ass?."

"I just reconfirming your safety."

"I see, we need to have a long talk after this."

"So. .sorry."

All Oceanus body finally fell to the ground and his head is now in front of us. We stopped moving and I raise our sword.

"This is the real goodbye."

I hit Oceanus head lightly and both the sword and his body begin to shine with a dim light.

With that, our battle with one of the 2nd generation of gods, ended.

2

2 days have passed since the battle against Oceanus. And after defeating the Titan, Saburou, and Violet just going back like nothing happened to resume their daily lives as talisman smith.

Normally, after doing something great, someone would feel want to boast about their achievement or asking some kind of compensation. But what they asked is just one thing.

Please don't bother us, we want to take a long break.

Hence, after they finished taking care the Titan's giant corpse, the guild master call every new adventurer that participate in that operation. And that list includes Volker who act as army representative in the guild, who also participate in that sacrificial battle.

And when he finally able to meet his friend, Werther who work as guild master he just snapped up.

"What is those guys? what is that thing? what the heck is that battle?."

"So? which question you wanted to get the answer the most?."

"Just who are they?."

"A former S rank adventurer from this guild."

"Are you kidding me? is every S rank adventurer can do something like that."

If it's true, then his pride as an A rank adventurer is going to be shattered to pieces.

"Of course not."

The adventurer guild placed them in S rank because there's simply no higher rank than that and the organization can't simply add more special rank for them alone. If they did that, they are going to get animosity from the other members of the organization. They can't sacrifice their unity as an organization just to measure their the couple's real strength.

"So what is that thing?."

"He said that it's a Titan."

"You mean that Titan that got mentioned in the old scripture?."

"Well, yes."

"Are you saying that we just slew a god?."

"I don't feel offering too much help, in fact, I think we adventurers just become a burden instead?."

If they didn't have to think about protecting the adventurer maybe they can do a more amazing thing and slain the Titan much easier.

"So now you are saying they are capable of slaying a god with just 2 people."

"Didn't you see it with your own eyes?."

"Ridiculous."

"Indeed, but it's real."

"But. . ."

"But what? he looks timid? she looks unreliable? or you think both of them are weak?."

"All of them."

"The truly strong didn't need to flaunt their strength to scare anyone! you never see a tiger being bothered by a cat's fight right?."

"Shit, I can't accept this."

"You can host any feeling towards them, but please just don't do anything stupid! and this warning is not only applied to you Volker! but also your subordinate, and all of you too."

The guild master redirects his sight toward every new face in his office. They are mostly adventurer that just moved to the town, a newly ranked up greenhorn, or people from the army's side.

"Don't displease them no matter what happened, they are not fond of arguments or conflict but please never push your luck too much."

Most of them only able nod and accept what the guild master told them.

"Also don't let any stupid people offend them."

From afar, that married couple just looks like a dumb couple with a carefree attitude. As adventurer who risked their lives on their work and lives in a rough environment, seeing someone like them sometimes trigger a jealousy.

This can lead to some narrowly minded adventurer trying to tease them for fun, or picking a fight with them just to get some entertainment.

"And the last, don't talk about the detail of the battle with any unrelated people."

This is to prevent some foolish people to try to test their strength with that couple.

"Don't think of me as favoring them over all of you, It's the opposite! I told you all of this for your own sake."

What he wanted to do is not giving the couple special privilege. He didn't have any authority over Saburou or Violet because they are not an adventurer anymore. So giving them a favor is not really profitable for him or the guild. What he really wants is protecting the adventurer under him.

"Can I ask you something Wether."

"What? you still have question?."

"Just bear with me! is his strength also known to the higher ups?."

"If they didn't, how can someone like them able stay hidden in this rural town?."

"I see."

In their younger days, they act reckless most of the time. And their action for some reason always tied to one or two big incidents, hence they are garnering so much attention from many high profile people and organization.

Some tried to assassinate them because they deemed them as dangerous existence, and some tried to incorporate them into their side to take advantage of them.

But none of them able to achieve their goal. So, in the end, there's an agreement between the people who move the nations from behind the scene to just leave them alone.

While their power is indeed dangerous if used wrongly, they can still be used as a trump card when there's a big disaster. Hence they didn't antagonize them but also didn't making an excessive connection.

"Hey, did you just casually disclose a national secret?."

"Don't worry, some unidentified person would deal with it if any of you leaking something dangerous."

"That's scary!!!."

"Well, if you think can slay a god with your own hand then you can just ignore my warning."

With that, he ended his small lecture and allow all the adventurer he call to go back. Leaving the guild master with his assistance that also new.

"Can I ask something guild master?."

"What?."

"You said that Saburou-san and Violet-san is a very strong adventurer right?."

"Former."

"Normally, people with strength would also have a great confidence, but when we meet for the first I can't really see any confidence from him."

Someone with strong body usually also has a strong mind. And that strength usually shows up in the form of confidence.

As someone whose job is talking with a lot of strong people, she has confidence in judging someone's strength just by seeing their attitude, the train of thought, or manner of speech.

With that experience, she can even judge the character of the Titan they fought some days ago.

While she can feel that Saburou is experienced adventurer and smart person, she can't judge him as someone whose strength can rival even gods.

"In my eyes, he looks like nothing but wounded soldier that just going back from a war."

"In a sense, your judgment is not that far from reality."

"What do you mean guild master?."

"He is indeed wounded after going back from a war."

"What kind of war?."

If they are strong enough to even rival gods, then who can make someone at their level feel a fear to the point of having a trauma. Is there even human who can stand up toe to toe with them?.

"I didn't really know the detail myself, but what they try to defeat is pretty much the world itself."

"The world?. . ."

That still sounds ridiculous even she know that they are capable of defeating gods. In the first place, what is the meaning of trying to defeat the world?. Are they trying to blow up the world?.

That's sound scary, and it's even scarier when she knows that they are actually capable of blowing anything on earth.

"Are you familiar with this world creation tale?."

"Well, I don't think anyone would able to pass any magic test without knowing it."

The chaos gives birth to the first existence, the Primordials. The Primordial waged a war with each other and one by one died in battle. The remains of their body construct the earth, stars, water, heaven, and the underworld.

The flesh of primordial come to live after exposed to the remnants of its soul and the soul with big enough size form a new spiritual body.

That's how the creature on earth and the gods in the heavens and underworld born.

"Now, you should be able to grasp what I'm trying to say."

Defeating the world itself?.

"Don't tell me!."

"Yes, what they try to defeat, is one the Primordial, the parents of the world itself."

And they lose horribly, so horrible that they become broken.