Freinds we made along the way - chapter 40
The sky of Heaven burned white.
Not with fire — but with power.
Arthur, heir of Heaven, stood shoulder to shoulder with Marmon — the Boogyman, second Harbinger, terror incarnate. Their domains resonated: light and darkness folding into one impossible equilibrium.
Without a word, they lunged.
Arthur's Light of Creation flared — raw, infinite illumination forming an expanding ring that tore through layers of celestial air.
Marmon's Darkness of Terror followed, not as absence, but as a devouring presence — the universe's fear given shape.
Their combined strike — an eclipse blast — hit Zeus and Kytrhone with the weight of twin realities.
Zeus's golden ichor spilled across the marble as he gritted his teeth.
> "Kytrhone—! The pillars of the sky—now!"
Kytrhone laughed
> " is that what you named the attack?"
"now!!"
Kytrhone's eyes glowed white. The very foundation of Heaven trembled as he summoned four colossal iron pillars from the bedrock of the realm.
Zeus thrust his hand upward, lightning surging from his veins. The bolts ricocheted across the pillars again and again — amplifying, echoing — until they detonated into an impossible lightning supernova.
The storm swallowed the sky. Every atom of light screamed.
Arthur and Marmon looked at each other once — and didn't hesitate.
Arthur's light lost form, turning pure — conceptual radiance bursting outward.
Marmon mirrored him, dissolving into the shapeless abyss.
When both domains collided, the eclipse was born again — this time in reverse, a paradox of light and shadow spiraling into a cosmic supernova that devoured the heavens themselves.
For a single moment, Heaven ceased to exist.
The good thing that Zeus from start of the battle used his divine principal to sepreat the battlefield from normal heaven plane that's why nobody can't interfere unless their a harbinger
When the brilliance faded, the world was unrecognizable.
The air was gone. The sound was gone. Even divinity seemed to retreat.
Zeus lay unconscious, his divine crown cracked and leaking sparks.
Kytrhone, barely standing, slapped his friend's face until thunder responded.
Arthur knelt, body fractured with radiant cracks glowing like a dying star.
Marmon turned, his void-blood dripping, grinning faintly beneath the darkness.
> "Still standing, foundation?"
"Long enough to bury you," Kytrhone growled.
They clashed again — terror against structure, unrelenting and pure.
The shockwaves folded Heaven's geometry, distorting its horizon.
Zeus rose at last, laughing through the blood. He extended his arm to the sky and invoked his dominion.
> "I enforce Divine Principal! Heaven cannot be claimed by anyone but ME!"
But nothing happened.
No thunder answered. No law obeyed.
He froze — realization dawning.
Then, bitter laughter.
> "I forget… Aether still owns Heaven."
The storm faded into silence. Even the light seemed hesitant.
Arthur stood again. His cracked form ignited — a halo of aether burning from within.
Zeus met his gaze, divine pride unbroken.
And then both raised their hands — tearing open their respective Dimensions.
The air split into mirrors of existence.
Reality branched into four, each one hosting a Harbinger's domain — Light, Thunder, Foundation, and Terror. Or we can say atherom sky kingdom foundation and terror dimension collided
Heaven shattered once more, struggling to contain them all.
POV Shift to Aphrodite palace ŪwŪ
In the quiet fields between realms, space itself shimmered like glass.
Aphrodite waited — impatiently, nervously — her golden dress catching fragments of broken starlight.
She tapped her foot, folding her arms.
> "Ugh… that little rascal," she muttered.
Anyone overhearing would think she was scolding one of her lovestruck children — perhaps Eros, or one of her mortal sons.
But this time, its worse than any of those
The space beside her began to fold inward, as though reality itself was being swallowed.
A void pulsed, devouring its own light — and from it, Abyss Isad stepped out, the wind warping in pain around him.
His expression was sharp — restrained rage beneath hollow calm.
> Abyss: "We talked about this, mother. You and I have no connection."
Aphrodite exhaled softly, half a sigh, half a plea.
> Aphrodite: "Sweetheart… I know you feel betrayed, but I—"
> Abyss (cutting her off): "You could've done a lot, Aphrodite. By not making me at all.
If I never existed, I would've been blessed."
Aphrodite rolled her eyes, but her voice cracked beneath the veneer of grace.
> Aphrodite: "You're still the same nihilistic poet, aren't you?
But you never looked from my side. I didn't make you to be a perfect mirror of me, Abyss —
I made you because the world needed you."
The world around them froze for a single heartbeat.
Even the wind — his wind — paused, uncertain.
Abyss's expression didn't shift, but something flickered behind his eyes.
> Abyss: "Prey tell, mother… why would the world ever need me?"
Aphrodite's gaze drifted skyward, to where the remnants of the Heaven clash still burned faintly.
> Aphrodite: "Sixteen years ago, Nyx came to me.
She said the Titans would rise again — and Olympus would need a warrior.
Not a god… not a demigod… something in between.
Someone who could break divine balance and still walk among it.
That was you."
Abyss stayed silent. The words didn't touch him; they just passed through like echoes through void.
Then came the one question he couldn't bury:
> Abyss: "Why didn't you stop them from sending me to Tartarus?"
Aphrodite flinched. Then, suddenly, her hand struck his face — not out of hatred, but heartbreak.
She trembled — then collapsed forward, wrapping her arms around him before he could vanish.
> Aphrodite (through tears): "I tried! You think I didn't? Nyx forbade me — she said it had to happen!
I swear to you, Abyss, I wanted to help… I tried."
Her tears glistened like molten rose petals as she buried her face in his shoulder.
When she finally pulled back, her eyes were red, voice trembling with a bittersweet warmth.
> Aphrodite: "Look at you. Already a man. Should I find you a wife now?"
Abyss rolled his eyes.
> Abyss: "I'm sixteen, mother."
> Aphrodite (smiling faintly): "Perfect age, then. Let's celebrate your sixteenth birthday, hmm?"
But Abyss turned, cloak of wind curling around him. His tone turned cold again — almost mechanical.
> Abyss: "I already know what you want. Helping Zeus? Fine. I'll do it."
He stepped back into the void. The wind folded reality again, swallowing him whole.
Aphrodite stood alone, looking at the space he left behind.
> "You'll see, my son…" she whispered, voice breaking.
"Even love needs monsters you will soon get happy once you found a partner" as she start looking through the little books of the women's she knows trying to make ships yk choose a potential wife
But anyway pov shift back the fight
Reality had split.
The four Harbingers—Zeus, Arthur, Kytrhone, and Boogyman—each tore open their own dimensions, and Heaven fractured to host them all.
here the battle started to get heavy no longer a joke it was battle that could destroy
The Sky Kingdom screamed as half of its realm bled into another.
Mountains of clouds turned crystalline, reflecting the impossible light of Aetherom—Arthur's divine dimension.
From its endless horizon came radiant silhouettes: angelic forms forged from the very souls of Aetherom, their eyes glowing with unwavering devotion.
Across them stood the people of the Sky Kingdom—Zeus's soldiers, divine citizens unprepared but loyal.
Zeus raised his blade high, its edge flickering with divine thunder.
> Zeus: "Do not panic! hes an enemy from afar. Stand with your god—we fight!we rise we win!!"
His command rolled through the skies like a storm.
The people—his thunderborn legions—answered with roars of lightning.
And thus, the two skies collided.
Aetheric angels met the sky legions on their sky serpents midair.
Light and lightning—creation and sovereignty—fused into a kaleidoscope of ruin.
Arthur's calm voice echoed through the clash,
> Arthur: "You made Heaven a kingdom of fear, Zeus. I'll make it a realm of light."
Zeus snarled back,
> Zeus: "Light bends to thunder. Always has—always will!"
Their blades met, and reality cracked from the pressure.
Though boogyman and kytrhone had some punchs in them
Elsewhere, in the other branch of reality, the war was nothing like Heaven's brilliance.
Kytrhone stood in his own Architect Dimension, where every inch of the world obeyed his command.
He towered, colossal, reshaping the emptiness into vast stone bridges, iron citadels, and geometric towers—his foundation absolute.
With a gesture, he summoned his Calamity Titans—creations of pure mass and structure, each capable of crushing black holes with bare hands.
They rose like living mountains, guardians of the Sky Kingdom's structure.
Then came Boogyman.
A ripple of blackness consumed the space between stars, and from it poured the Dark Half of Existence.
His presence bent logic—his shape more felt than seen.
Every nightmare, every forgotten horror, every scream that ever echoed in mortal sleep—was part of him.
Kytrhone watched his Titans fall silent. Their forms began to rot, their iron limbs twisting into shadows as terror infected their cores.
> Kytrhone (grimly): "Even structure can corrode… in fear."
Boogyman's laughter was a sound without origin—like an ancient god mocking creation itself.
> Boogyman: "Structure? Foundation? I am what your order hides beneath."
The calamity Titans fell one by one, devoured by cosmic horrors older than stars.
Though at the end nothing can sustain such a fight
At last, the clash of four domains reached its peak.
Light, thunder, foundation, and terror folded against each other, and reality could no longer sustain them.
The branches of existence snapped back into one, tearing holes across Heaven.
Arthur knelt, breathing heavily, his armor cracked and glowing.
Zeus stood above him, lightning spear raised for the final strike.
Kytrhone struggled to contain the collapsing space behind him, and Boogyman watched, silent, as if waiting to see which god would fall first.
Zeus's hand trembled, divine rage and fatigue merging. He was about to deliver the killing blow—
when the world went still.
A voice broke through every realm at once.
It wasn't loud. It didn't echo.
It simply was.
> "Stop."
Every atom in Heaven froze.
Even the storms fell silent.
A vortex opened beside them, swallowing the light like a wound in existence. From it stepped Abyss Isad—the Harbinger of chaos .
The wind itself knelt around him.
Kytrhone's eyes widened in disbelief, scanning him like a scholar dissecting godhood.
> Kytrhone: "Impossible… his structure can't exist.
The foundation rejects him—how is he even stable? Who… engineered this creature?"
Abyss smirked faintly.
> Abyss: "You talk too much, architect."
He turned toward Zeus and Arthur—the battlefield trembling under his presence.
> Abyss: "Heaven? You're fighting over Heaven? You're Harbingers—Heaven should be a footnote in your existence."
His voice carried mockery, but beneath it—an undeniable truth.
Arthur exhaled a laugh, blood on his lips, looking at his old friend.
> Arthur: "Abyss. Zeus is trying to steal my Heaven. Do something."
Abyss's grin widened, dark amusement in his eyes.
> Abyss: "Zeus… you do realize, while you're busy making enemies, Kronos is out there allying with Harbingers left and right.
You're falling behind in your own war as Kronos get stronger with each harbinger you making more of those harbinger enemies."
Zeus's expression hardened. The thunder dimmed around him; even he could feel the truth of those words.
If Kronos was truly building his own Harbinger roster, Olympus was in danger.
Now they agree to make peace Soo pov to the meeting place
Within the Holy Chamber of Heaven, the four Harbingers gathered—Abyss, Arthur, Zeus, and Kytrhone.
The air vibrated with divine tension.
Zeus's voice broke the silence, pride barely restrained.
> Zeus: "Very well. I'll relinquish Heaven to its heir. But in return—when Olympus goes to war against Kronos, you four will stand as our allies."
Arthur's cracked light pulsed faintly. He nodded once.
Abyss leaned against the wall, unreadable.
Boogyman merely smiled in the shadows.
> Abyss: "Deal accepted. For now."
As their pact sealed, the skies began to heal.
But Heaven would never be the same again.
It now belonged to Arthur—the Lightborn Harbinger—
and Olympus had gained allies powerful enough to shake creation itself though it's not all fun and sunshine as Arthur met marmon after heaven returned to him marmon revealed that boogyman is allied with Kronos it would be their last time on same side before disappearing
Also If you ask? Divine spawn met with abyss yk it would be weird the divine spawn met who he was based on but they got along even though divine spawn original goal to kill abyss(he realized he never Could if he still that weak)
Adam was taken to Mary facility by Ariel so he could be redeemed
And captain Arama reputation was publicly cleared by Arthur as he now back to be part of heaven ranks