Part 1: Days before the last assault to the Master Lair

Silence filled the bar and grief fed the hearts of all present. A slight murmur was enough to understand that the fate of all these men was already written:

Win or lose... all died, only a few or none... everyone knew the only thing that mattered.

The Master must fall, at any cost.

Phoenix hit the bar twice, telling one of the novice waitresses to fill her glass. Within his mind, Phoenix couldnt help being pessimistic, so many millennia watching these people fall again and again had taught him to think twice.

Many unknown people entered the bar that night to wish luck to the soldiers who at dawn would end up with a being that defies the same laws of nature... wish luck or wish them condolences, that Phoenix was incapable of having it clear.

But even so, they were too young people... people who didnt deserve death. Neither the iloas, nor the humans who had just lost 3/4 of their species in the closure of the portal.

Too many good people... too many people lost along the way... Cycle after cycle... but this time it was different.

This time they had enough soldiers to storm the temple. They were not soldiers... if not a combination of pirates, bandits and rangers Iloas and gunners, firemen, policemen and human soldiers...

They had not had much time to coordinate but didnt need it: Everyone was clear that the death of the Master was much more important than their individual lives.

The night would be long, and the road to the temple would be even longer ... so Phoenix wanted to make sure to make more than half the road drunk. For this, she needed to continue drinking until she forgot the faces of everyone who had already fallen.

A small flash filtered through the front door, and a faint smell of familiar seawater reached Phoenix's nose. As much as she hated it, Elsa knew that she couldnt stop that door from opening... so she decided to just keep drinking.

Although the truth is that looking away from the door was impossible, because nothing had prepared Phoenix to see a Dalia much larger than a constumbre struggling to enter.

"Come on! This is starting to be too ussual!" The teen giantess sighed as she kept trying to get her hips through the door frame, with so much noise that everyone turned to see her. "You have nothing better to do?!" The red face of the giantess released a small laugh that the bar so badly needed, a laugh that stopped when Dalia ended up destroying the door when she managed to enter.

"... I cant pay for that ..."

"You dont have to pay anything, I'll do it... I'd invite you to sit down, but paying also for a stool crushed under your huge tambourine does not convince me!" Phoenix smiled as he instructed a waitress to prepare Dalia's nonalcoholic glass. "Have you come to say goodbye to me? I've been thinking for some time that I'm really going to die in that temple... you've never told me what the result is"

Dalia's gaze darkened as she sat in the alcove next to Phoenix. "You know I cant reveal those things... You know that I am in your future, is not that worth you?"

"Sometimes I think that you invent more than half of the chronomancy rules that you tell me!" Phoenix turned on his stool to Dalia, taking some of her strands of hair and kissing them. "I wonder if I would have been a good mother to you... I cant help but wonder what kind of future I would have expected..."

Dalia took Phoenix's little hand in hers, squeezing it as carefully as she could. "You are the best mothers in any cycle, no matter what versions you are of yourself"

"The weight of the world on my shoulders then... I need to know... no no, I need to make your future real, it's all that matters to me" The words of Phoenix werent unknown to Dalia, because this very moment I had lived it too many times. Always trying to comfort the one who could have been his mother, always promising a future that she would never see...

"The weight of the world"

One of the most common terms for chronomants. When you travel back in history, you never do it to your past, but you create another past, another timeline where the chronoammer interacts... another line that disappears when the water of the Fountain of dreams dries up.

The authentic Phoenix never interacted with me, nor did I save my real mothers from the Scarlet Key fragment. I have never seen the real land, nor could I meet my other grandparents... All those moments are moments that I have wanted to do and live to understand that term.

To be able someday to understand the sacrifices that one must make so that everything follows its course.

I dont know what gave Phoenix the strength to fight until the end... I dont know what gave Phoenix the strength to fight to the end and never know it, but inside of me I wish this was the reality.

And why have I relived this moment? Because now that I have no aura and I can not follow my plan for myself... Phoenix, although I never really get to know her, is the only one that could help me.

"Why are you back, little one? What do you need from me? Help with some other history work?" Phoenix's smile wasnt the best, but with the battle that awaited them, it was understandable.

Dalia refused, taking out Destructron's revolver. "Right now I cant use my own aura... so I've come to see if you-"

"A magic weapon! The Iloas make very few of these! And why are you without aura, what happened to you?" A single gesture of Dalia's head was enough for Phoenix to imagine. "Ahh... are you growing? I thought you had changed your hairstyle!"

"Ha ha, very funny! You can adapt it... or force it to put a wisp in? I have a pretty talkative one and I would like to use it as a source of energy for the gun" Phoenix looked down at the gun and lifted it towards Dalia. These actions were repeated for 3 minutes.

"Ummm" Phoenix did a bit of force loading his hands with aura, breaking the loader cylinder and pulling it out. "It seems complicated, this is manufactured Iloa, right?" Dalia nodded, not helping the conversation. "Pffff, I can try to open a hole for the loader gem, but it may not go too well... you would do well to see a blacksmith"

"Ummm... an orc would be worth?... Forget that, I know who can serve me" Dalia drank her drink... without alcohol unfortunately... damn! I measure many feet! At least 19 feet! A little glass the size of my big toe will not do anything to me!

"I have no idea you're talking to me... but be careful, do you? There are very bad people out there... and I feel like I will not have another chance to tell you" Phoenix stood up, gritting his teeth. "What I wanted to say... is that you be careful... I dont want anything to happen to you"

Dalia squeezed her eyes, tried to hold the moment again. Once again, once again... The phrase was completely rehearsed, so it's just a matter of letting it go.

"Phoenix... Mom... I'll be careful, okay?" Dalia hugged Phoenix for a few seconds before crawling out (very ungratefully).

Interlude 1: IFA truck

Dalia reappeared minutes after leaving, making the truck shake. Hades had some faith that the chronomancy went wrong and the teen giantess fainted... Unfortunately, not all dreams come true "What are you're doing...?" And I'm not going to cheat you, I doubt that he really does this as if he cared.

"I have a route of action, but there's still a short time to be able to take advantage... how do you think the orcs will react if I show up there before they meet humans?"

"Probably you unleashed a warcraft in reverse... I know, when your mother played those games with you she disconnected, I only remember that there were gnomes and people wanted punt them" The teen giantess pretended not to have heard that, still looking at her revolver. "Oh come on! That was a good joke! If you dont accept me or the jokes, what's going to happen to me?"

"Become a battery charger for the revolver, that's your destiny, baby" And just as the bomb dropped, Hades remained in complete silence. (Strange thing in the but at the same time grateful)

".................you're kidding, right?" And God! How Im goint to enjoy this! Ready? There it goes!

-Nodding-

 "NO NO NO, YOU CANT DO THAT TO ME! NO TO ME! I AM A FUCKING ALITIAN GOD! I CANT END LIKE A BULLET IN A REVOLVER!" Hades started running around the capsule. "I DONT WANT TO BECOME YOUR WEAPON! YOU, YOU ARE MY WEAPON! You cant... you cant alter the natural order of things!"

"Oh god, come on, it's not that bad, you're just going to become a little thing that will give energy to a super handsome revolver!" God, how much I'm enjoying myself right now!

"NEITHER IN YOUR WILDEST DREAMS!"

"HADES, SHUT UP!" See if I shouted enough that even the battle outside the truck would stop for a moment. "Listen to me well, little shit! I just believe you the biggest! I just pretend that you are the one who controls the situation!

I AM THE ONE WHO WON THE BATTLE! YOU ARE ONLY A WISP NOW! IF NOW I WANTED TO CONVERT YOU INTO A WEAPON, ONLY THE FUCKING SCARLET KEY COULD COME TO STOP ME!"

"I-"

"I NOTHING! LOOK AT MY FUCKING EYES, HADES! IT'S FINISHED!" Hitting the wall of the trailer with enough force to dent it, Hades ended up calming and dropping into the bottom of the capsule.

What tranquility! God! You cant imagine how happy I am now! Starting to pour the chronomantic water back onto the floor of the trailer, I noticed that Hades had leaned on the edge of the capsule. It may have happened to me... but I do not really care either. "Are you going to say something or are you going to stay like an abandoned dog?"

"...think about it, please... I dont want to be a revolver..."

Pfffff, cuddly after everything he has done to me, he can go to ---censored---
Hey! The new censubot works! I think I regret having installed it...

Part 2: Alus, the great continent

Underground village Iron-scale

When a human appeared in the middle of the central square of the village, all the orcs came running to tell their leader. That Sildud was in negotiations with the ardent alliance was an open secret... but that a human appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the village, that wasnt common.

"Move away, get away!" Sildud pushed every orc on his way, still dressed in his hunting clothes. "Listen to me! I take care of the situation! Go back to your lives quietly, I'll take care of the human!"

And when Sildud managed to reach the square, a human the size of a mammoth (or something smaller ...) did not fit into his plans. "The mother of..." Shaking his head for a moment, Sildud approached the human with one hand behind him, grabbing his rifle in case it was necessary.

"Welcome, human, are you coming in the name of the fiery alliance, or why is your visit due?"

The human remained silent for a few seconds, staring at Sildud. The orc pretended not to feel bothered but after a long 3 minutes... the tension was enormous.

Dalia quickly knelt, trying to calm the situation. "Excuse me Mr. Sildud! I did not mean to disturb you! My name is Dalia, daughter of Elsa and Hannah..."

The orc blinked a little, trying to remember his conversations with Elsa. "I do not remember Elsa having a daughter... but you dont seem to be lying... How much of a daughter of Elsa and Hannah, who brings you to the Iron-scale Village?"

Dalia nodded taking out her revolver from the back pocket of her pants. "Great warlord Sildud, I need the help of his blacksmiths, an acquaintance gave me this magic revolver of Iloa manufacture, but its core of energy does not serve the interests that I have at the moment.

I would like to introduce an especially powerful wisp as a secondary core, but at this moment I do not have aura to force a crack... would your smiths be so kind to open a hole in the gem?" Dalia knelt almost begging, forcing Sildud to not be able to refuse.

"Ummm..." Sildud approached the giantess, taking the revolver. "It's a great size, although in your hands it seems normal, I'm sure I can convince some friends to help you... Even before I need to know the size of the wisp already turned into an energy gem"

And boom! Mental blue screen! Dalia's face was a perfect mix of surprise, confusion, fear and shame. At this time, the teen giantess could pass for a bunny who will shine with the lights of the car.

"..wat?" That was all Dalia managed to say... and even Sildud understood why. "...and who... could do that to me? Some kind of jeweler? A scientist? A veterinarian?..."

"What? You need the spiritist who created the wisp! Who can think that for a wisp you need... whatever what it is a veterinarian?" Sildud felt an authentic need to sit down, because the conversation wasnt going too well.

"And if the one who created that Wisp... could we say... that he was someone unconsciously?" Dalia approached slowly, lowering her voice as much as possible. "Let's assume for a second... that Wisp was born of an evil and dark being, an ancestral being... one that served something very very very bad! What... what solution would we have, oh great Sildud?"

"Great... Sildud... I'm going to ignore that... Then you should look for a way to contact the original being or a superior being in your species. So that we understand each other, if it is a Wisp born of an orcish soul, or you will have to invoke the rest of the soul of that orc or with the spirit of an Okru, our genetic ancestors"

"We are really screwed then..." Dalia sank completely into her misery, so much that even orcs who watched the scene in the surroundings began to feel sorry.

"Can I help you... in something? If you tell me what species was your Wisp before... we could ask the shaman of the village to contact their ancestors" Even Sildud was beginning to feel sorry for the giantess without even knowing her.

"No no... I have to contact my relatives and ask them for information about the Wisp... Thanks for everything, oh great Sildud" Dalia didnt stop or answer the orc, drying the chronomantic drop of water and vanishing.

Interlude 2: The dunk of the century

"WHO IS YOUR FUCKING CREATOR?!" Dalia began to shake the Hades capsule with all her strength, shaking the trailer and up to the truck cabin.

"I told you! I am a secondary god, I answer only to the god of gods!" Hades cried trying to get away from the giantess as much as the capsule allowed. "I'm just an errand boy, I'm no better than... you!"

Such words were... they were... FUCK!!!! "HOW CAN YOU BE THE SAME THAT THREATENED ME LIKE THE FUCKING BOSS! COWARD! I hate you! I hate you so much! YOU HAVE RUINED MY FUCKING LIFE AND NOW... Now you dont even want to become my weapon!"

Hades went completely blank, not knowing what to answer. "I wanted an enchanted weapon! I wanted an enchanted weapon with the being that ruined my life! I wanted it to be a nice metaphor that I am a very good person that I forgive you and I manage to use you!"

"How can you say that you want to kill me and turn me into a weapon and at the same time pretend that you're the one that fits you! You're a deep psychopath whore!" Hades was more and more afraid, and it was not for less.

"You've upset my fucking head since I was born! It's your fault!"

"No! I left you alone until you was 7 years old! You were already a freak without needing my advice! Do you remember your first steps?!"

"Yes! Of course, yes!... yes... I remember my first steps... and I remember yours..." I need... I think I have a great idea to take Hades as a pistol. It's a dangerous plan, a scary plan... but a fucking perfect plan! It is virtually impossible for it to go wrong!

"You're thinking something bad... right... I know your faces... Dalia, dont you think-"

- Nodding -

"Dalia ... please ... let's not do anything you can regret-"

- Nod again -

"DALIA, DONT-"

BOOM!!!! The doors of the trailer opened with such great strength that one of them was unhooked. All the fighters present turned to see how the teen giantess crawled out of the trailer, with the torn and half-shattered container of hades under her arm.

"Time to let the party begin!" Dalia screamed with all her strength before starting to run towards the cultist.

Elsa paled completely, only managing to turn to Sarah. "Sarah, catch your sister and dont let her do whatever is happening to her!" And with that said, Elsa started to run towards Sood looking to prevent-

PUNCH!!!!!! Destructron got between Elsa and the cultist, giving him a punch with so much strength that it would pass into the annals of history as the only blow he had managed to throw Elsa more than 20 feet away.

Elsa landed on the side fence of the parking lot, falling to the ground on her knees while holding her shattered cheek and spitting blood. "BUT YOU-?!"

"Is it that you havent heard it?!" Destructron smiled as an electric cable fell from his right arm and with great dexterity threw him against Sarah, grabbing the arm of the giantess. "It's time for the party to start! The final show is about to begin!"

Dalia wanted to stay and bust the head of the robot, but this was the only chance to pass over her sister. "SooooooOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDD!" The teen giantess accelerated even faster.

"I see that you have realized that the resistance is useless and you come to deliver me directly to the embryo! Smart Girl! You will be remembered for your actions!" Sood stretched his free arm, pretending to receive the container.
And so Dalia did it! Or rather...

When the giantess was relatively close to Sood, she threw the container like someone shooting a three-point shot. Everyone except Destructron screamed in fear, while Sood started running towards the place where the container was going to fall. "I cant lose it!" The cultist almost cried with fear, while looking for the point where the shot would fall. "Not now! Not so close!"

And when Sood found a specific point, the cultist turned to pick up the capsule... he see her. Dalia jumped with all her strength towards the container, hitting it with her hand like a volleyball shot.

"And that's how you make an Alley oop from one person!" The force of the auction plus the weight of the container were more than enough to turn it into a damn cannon ball, which hits directly on the head of Sood.

CRUSH!! Sood's inert body fell to the ground, with the shattered container where the cultist's head had previously been. Hades, still dizzy from the whole movement, started to float away from the container looking for his only chance to escape.

"I'm free! I'm free! I'm-" And before finishing his third proclamation, the wisp was caught by Dalia. "No! Let me go psychopath!" Hades tried to return intangible with all his strength, but the lack of aura was taking its toll.
Dalia, without loosening her hold on Hades, ran towards Sood's corpse snatching her sword. "And now ... Destructron! I need some DieR oil!"

"Of course! Make sure that this is the party of the century, WHAT I SAY!? OF THE FUCKING MILLENNIUM!" Destructron shouted before opening the compartment on his back that kept the DieR.

Dalia ran to the robot, leaving the sword on the ground. Putting a hand in the oil (no matter how disgusting), the teen giantess began to draw chronomantic symbols on the floor. Sood's sword began to emanate blood to revive him, so I could only hurry.

"Dalia, what the fuck are you doing?" My mother said as she approached, still affected by the punch.

"I intend to end this fight and hades in one fell swoop! And for that, I need to go where everything started!" Answer without while trying to end the runic circle. For a backlash of such caliber, I needed a lot more work than usual!

Sarah managed to pull the cable (and the arm of Destructron), freeing herself and running towards Sood's corpse. "Whatever you do, I cover your back, little sister!"

... "THE SHOW IS A BEGINNING TO START!" Sood's sword ended the resurrection of the cultist, just in time for the function. Before Sood could call the sword back, he plunged it into the ground in the middle of the chronomantic circle.

"I, Dalia Reyes Wood, summon the door to the moment and the right place! To geolocate the place and the moment, I have someone who was there that day and the blood of it spilled for the last time in that place!" Chronomancy does not require so many shouts... but you can blame me for wanting to give this little whim and try to do it in the most visual way possible.

Before any of those present could say anything, a black portal like Hades himself and from which emanated a force that this world thought forgotten was opened in the middle of the circle, using the bloody sword as a link.Without further delay ... we will see the other side.

????????????????????????

The sound of the walls receiving the impact of cannons and missiles resounded throughout the shadow-covered temple. In the middle of the predestined room, a portal appeared.

One unknown to the present... although the person who emerged from it was not so unknown. "It... worked?... Hades! I'm in the place?!" Dalia waved Wisp almost unconscious in his hand, looking for an answer that didnt come from him.

If not from something much later in the room.

"Welcome, Dalia... your meeting was something I expected with special interest"

The voice came from a "being", if we can call it that way, that was floating in the middle of a huge throne surrounded by impure weapons like the sword of Sood. Its spherical shape was unnatural, and its smooth surface and covered by colors, spots in complete continuous movement did not help to reassure the teen giantess.

"You have issues to deal with me, and your mothers will not infiltrate the temple for 30 minutes... let's chat while.

I want to get to know that idiot or brave enough to stand up to my impure presence"

His voice was such that he was able to cross the same chronomantic portal, causing Elsa, Sarah, Sood and Destructron to hear the conversation. The white of Elsa's skin was so intense that it could be camouflaged between sheets of paper. "I have ... I have to go get her..."

And as soon as Elsa took the first step, she found an obstacle in her way. "It is Dalia who has decided to take the step, Elsa, she is the one who must face the one who has already won the battle... we like it or not" Destructron opened all the compartments of his body, releasing as many weapons as his battery allowed

Inside the portal, the teen giantess was still mute... but I'm not like that. Nobody can fall me! That is my best trait!

"Master... let's do it"