Chapter 5: Chapter 5: Winner x Secrets
Rachnee was celebrating her victory well by enjoying her fresh bloody apple. Her lips were now a crimson red with the blood of this apple. Her once beautiful white hair was partially stained by the blood spatter of the apple.
The little spider was ignorant of the fact that cursed domains aren't meant to stay active after death, it needs a constant source of cursed energy to stay active. She never saw the need to study the powers bugs commonly used, since once a bug always a bug in her mind.
James's body on the ground twitched as it rose to stand once more. James coughed up some blood before speaking his mind.
"I love my wife, and I can't stand to hurt her even if I know she's a fake. But, hurting myself is another matter." James said as the wound instantly healed before the spider's shocked eyes.
James had purposely been protecting his head and chest as a fake out with his shield the entire time. Only his head was a fatal area as everything else could be destroyed for all he cared.
James held her tightly in his arms even as she started stabbing him with her limbs. Yet, each wound she inflicted healed perfectly. She tried to destroy his head, but the golden helmet protected it.
"Let's dance my dear, " he said looking at Rachnee, who still looked like his wife.
Suddenly the golden array of golden weapons in the sky crashed into James at high speeds breaking the sound barrier with his newfound determination.
A golden helmet with purple runes had appeared on his head the moment he hugged Rachnee. The little spider didn't have any time to avoid this.
The golems were ultimately useless against Rachnee as she tried hijacking their control from him multiple times. James had other weapons similar to the golems, but he didn't summon them after realizing they would probably suffer the same fate.
For a straight minute, a ceaseless storm of golden weapons rained down upon James. No matter what happened he kept regenerating and it reached a limit as his body was fully destroyed.
After the onslaught of weapons ended not much remained intact. As the blood fog cleared, a bloody mess was created as only a golden helmet escaped unharmed.
Yet James's head within the helmet was perfectly safe as his flesh below the neck started to grow again. James's body started regenerating from his severed head to perfectly rebuild his body.
His body regenerated the bones first, then the muscles, veins, nervous system, and organs, then it started making blood before it finally created the skin and everything else.
"Damn fucking spider, Witch Of Greed, or not mess with my family, I'll kill you." James said standing in his domain completely naked as he bent down to pick up the ring his wife crafted him from the pile of flesh.
He put it on to grab some clothes out of his storage ring/ wedding ring. While picking it up he took off his helmet. The golden helmet turned completely white with golden spider web patterns on it. Before James's eyes, the helmet turned into a white mask with a giant golden spiderweb engraving on it. It had two eye holes, but besides that, it was rather plain.
"Damn these fucking Beyonders and their insane powers." James blurted out as he sighed. After signing he took out a mini statue of himself that turned into an old man the second it came out of the ring." He looked at it before putting it back inside.
The sound of the blacksmith's hammer forging his weapon with his strikes ended for the last time. At the beginning of the fight when he started attacking, the blacksmith hits could be heard every 3 seconds. Its melody of forging finally ended at its 600th strike.
The gold helmet-turned mask was put inside the ring like everything else. Soon enough the infinite energy faded as his energy reserves went back to normal. The golden floor and blue sun went back to normal as his energy faded.
James didn't really lose anything in the fight, but the constant regeneration and stress from the fight caused his body to reach superhuman levels of strength & durability in its base form. His body's magic resistance was impressive. James had officially reached grade four jujutsu sorcerer who was a city block level powerhouse, his cursed energy reserves were still grade five, at the building buster level.
Once he reinforced his body with cursed energy it would get even stronger. With the wave of his arms, the shields protecting his family unfolded and vanished into the air.
James went to see his wife and son only to find them completely asleep and unharmed.
While James was doing all this a lady with pure white hair, a pair of black eyes, and skin as white as snow with a black dress appeared.
James couldn't even sense her with his superhuman senses or her literally being in his domain that was meant to sense anything to launch weapons at them.
She laughed at the lifeless pile of flesh still on the ground. "Rachnee, what did I say about playing with your food?" The lady spoke to the pile of flesh before her. The very same pile of flesh that was once lifeless reformed instantly. A lady in a silk white dress with white hair, and eight black eyes, rose from the pile of flesh that was quickly absorbed into her.
"I am sorry master, I failed you." Rachnee said while kneeling to her lady. Ignoring the fact her lady just brought her back to life.
"Don't worry, your dance with James was fun to watch. Yes, I was watching the entire time, and no I won't punish you so don't ask for it."
"As expected of my lady's, se–"
Rachnee tried to finish her, but she was cut off.
"Seeing something like the future and reading my mind is but child's play. You can stop the praise already Rachnee." The witch of greed spoke as she smiled, and tapped on Rachnee's forehead with her pointer finger.
Rachnee's mind was suddenly filled with new information from her lady.
"I understand my lady, I'll just watch and nothing more as ordered."
Before leaving the witch of greed tapped James, Emma, and Lucas's foreheads fixing them. She left some remnants of her servant's sloppiness, all the while refining it.
'Lucas should enjoy my gift of a stronger will and higher determination. '
Now the boy would have greater dreams and both parents would be more supportive. They didn't need to remember what happened here as she reversed everything James lost, but let him keep the white mask and strengthened body.
'Every hero in a story should at least be allowed to keep his hard-earned loot after a hard-fought battle.'
She looked upon his story and rewrote it to say he had found the mask long ago somewhere letting his mind fill in the blanks, and the strengthened body from Emma's grandpa's wedding gift he recently took.
"With that, my new game has been fixed, blocking off the sight of my game was done eight days ago." the witch of greed said as she walked into a rainbow gate showing a field of grass on the other side.
Rachnee turned back into her small white spider form and hid in some random corner of the house. James was still lying on the couch with a newspaper on his head asleep.
Lucas was still talking to his mom and Emma was still explaining Eldian history to him.
"Only nine among them have the power to rival gods, but each dies after 13 years after obtaining the power." Emma finished her lesson after talking about a few more details involving the current holder of the founding titan, and his island's history with monsters.
"You got that Lucas?" Emma asked, but she felt a little odd, but she ignored it.
"Mom the founding titan is essentially a God for the subjects of Ymir, who have Eldian blood right? Where is the secret history you promised me." Lucas asked in a questioning tone.
'I'll ask her about souls later. What she talked about was more important. She said EY was the current king of Paradis island, the current holder of the founding titan. Mom told me that, but she also said EY was born in 1928 and became king in 1945 at 17. This doesn't make any sense if he had his titan powers in his teens, yet he is still alive to this day.'
While Lucas was brainstorming to make it all make sense his mom was watching it all go down. 'I'll give my baby boy a minute to come to his conclusions before telling him the secrets I promised at the start.'
"When I told you secrets I meant it. Lucas, back in World War Two it wasn't two nukes that forced Japan out of the war. The alliance between the nations & The United States didn't defeat Nazi Germany and its allies. It was all him, the devil of Paradis, the king of the Eldians, the newest God born in the modern age."
'EY shouldn't notice this right, while public history has been altered anyone in the supernatural community has easy access to this information.' Emma thought as she avoided using his name, and only talked about his titles or initials.
"Mom, should we be talking about this? You told me that we shouldn't look upon the Beyonder Gods, and shouldn't use their names or else they will notice." Lucas asked nervously as he kept looking around.
"So you weren't lying about your improved memory. I usually would be forced to repeat myself often. Yes, it is dangerous, but our house is warded in runes, magic spells, cursed barriers, and more for safety."
'Not like any Beyonder Gods could notice, or come here anyways with how much security I added with James during the years.'
"So my baby boy has nothing to fear when you're home, just make sure to never say their true name out loud anywhere as they will always notice. No matter how isolated or safe you think you are!" Emma replied while emphasizing the last part.
'Guess our place is pretty safe after all. But, the music is getting a little annoying today.' Lucas thought while trying to focus on his mom's information.
"Mom, can you turn off the music while I'm learning here, the Hex girls are great. But do you have to play their songs right now on your record player?"
"Fine, but I'll still have my music on any other time. You can't stop this sweetie, you know for a fact they are my favorite artists, they have been around since my grandma was a child."
'Wait a minute, didn't mom tell me her grandma was an ancient witch or something? Did I miss heard her or something?'