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Chapter 25 - Boiling Blood

Beyond the coast of the country and atop the heart of the Atlantic rested a once-thriving tropical piece of landmass but now exists as an abandoned, dried jungle. It was there that a hidden bunker had been built throughout tens of mega-annum. It was this island that Logica had hidden the body of The First One, and it was on this Island that Olivia had betrayed her and obtained his corpse for herself. In Olivia's eyes, this was necessary for her to obtain The First One's power in its entirety.

She had applied Wildcard's limited power to manipulate the story's structure and combined it with her divine genes allowing her use of Wildcard's ability, to be much greater than its predecessor. All of the previously mentioned steps were taken to greatly suppress the time needed to wait to perform the body transfer ritual; it had gone from a couple of years to a couple of hours, and she was upon its completion.

Crouched in the bunker, Olivia looked over his corpse and placed her palm upon his ċhėst, chanting an ancient language continuing with the ritual she needed to complete to obtain his power. However, she had been disturbed by a sudden sound.

CLK! CLK! CLK!

Only a few meters away, Olivia could hear the sound of footsteps rapidly approaching her. She removed her hand from his ċhėst, turning to the footsteps while slowly beginning to rise from her current orientation. Of all the possible situations that Olivia could see, she saw the outcome of a boy she had never encountered entering the cave. She was not fearful, nor was she adamant, Olivia was dumbed. She did not know of the boy's identity, so she had no visible reaction, however, this didn't stop her from facing the direction of the footsteps, anticipating the child to show himself. And soon, he did.

"Daughter of Hades, Olivia," Carter said as he hit a sharp turn to her.

"You reek of h̸̻͑e̸̲̓r̶̲̎."

"My sister? She'll be here soon, we split up once we arrived to find you quicker. It seems that you can seemingly cut off people's ability to track you if they get too close of a distance, so she's probably having a harder time than I am." Olivia had finally stood up completely, starting an uncontrollable laugh of which echoed greatly through the bunker. Was this the effect of her soul absorption technique affecting her sanity? Nobody knows. Carter saw nothing humorous while Olivia continued to stand there laughing as if she had become delirious but abruptly stopped.

"You and Amelia, you came all this way for what? Humans are too emotional, too soft, too fragile. You let your emotional judgment guide you so answer me this. Do you think you have what it takes to kill a hellish fiend of my stature?" Silence filled the bunker for a few seconds.

"Maybe Amelia doesn't, but I don't forgive pieces of shit like and your father." As Carter says this, he holds his hand in front of him, open-palmed before hastily closing it, forming a fist. From nothing, a bubble of water manifested upon Olivia's head, swallowing it whole. She rapidly tried to claw through the water but failed while her hands slipped through as if she were in a swimming pool. Counting her options, Olivia's mouth snapped open, spewing from it a blue blaze. The water surrounding her head began to bubble for a few seconds before freezing completely. It had become a solidified sphere of ice harder than diamond, soon tumbling from atop Olivia's shoulder and crashing into the stone floor below creating a crater in its wake. The headless Olivia stumbled slightly before falling to her knees with the open area of her neck pointed towards Carter.

A cracking sound could be heard while a hand reached from out of her neck splitting it open while blood as hot as magma spewed from inside.

Carter began to stumble back out of ignorance and fear. Never having combatted Olivia before, Carter could not understand the magnitude of Olivia's divine hybrid abilities, even with his Omniscience.

"What...what are you?" The hand was followed by another, connected to two arms that soon completely severed the whole body open while Olivia slithered out. Her new body, covered in boiling blood was completely healed and had a new head, but looked severely younger than her previous self. She had aged backward at least 100 years and resembled the body of a teen girl as opposed to her young ȧduŀt body she previously maintained for thousands of years.

Still, she was kneeling on the ground trying to catch her breath with her newly formed lungs.

"My new body." she started, "My new body cannot be affected by the same ability twice once I have been re-birthed. Yet, I cannot use it repeatedly since it causes me to lose years of my aging process. You, however."

SNAP!

Olivia snapped her fingers, causing time to stand still as she had once done upon a time. Carter stood there, still conscious, yet unable to move nor speak as a result of her time snap. The girl soon gets up and approaches Carter before violently grabbing him by the neck with the intent to squeeze him until his neck snapped like a toothpick. At this moment, Carter immediately realized the unfathomable gap in power between him and Olivia.

"You, however, do not possess abilities such as these."

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