Agnisotra: Origin Tails

I made some crimson pear ice cream for Azu and she loved it. We headed towards the cultist village because we would soon nuke this potato village off the face of the planet, I mean we would vaporize the potato village, I mean we would destroy the root, and possibly catch a certain potato village in the crossfire. Hey, Azu these tablets give off weird energy, do you have any idea what it is?

“Oh, that is divine energy.” Great, oh I remember reading something about how you wiped out an army of 2 million who were full of divine energy or something, what does that mean?

“Oh yeah, something like that happened. I’m not sure about the details but what I understood from it is that when mortals get infused by divine energy, they take on the traits of the god who grants them that energy and they also gain strength just below demigod level.” And you wiped 2 million of them out like it was nothing? I'm genuinely afraid, you might just turn me into dust if you sneeze.

“Don't be silly! That won't happen! Moreover, in my current state, I'm just a fraction of what I was before I got sealed. And as long as you use your brain and be a little bit strong you can take on any number!” I doubt that but that is still impressive.

“Hehe, you can fall in love with me now! Oh, can you braid my hair again? In exchange, I will play with your tails!" Why are you making this sound like a deal while you receive 2 benefits? I see you guys get along like usual. How was your date?

“Hey, Greg listen! Agnis pushed me in front of a horde of shades!” Wow Agnis, not cool! She took 0 damage! She was talking to me and those shades clawed at her and she didn't even notice! Ooh, she is a tank? Is she going to put Ted and Gregory out of business? Gregory and Ted smacked him. We brought all the tablets.

“Oooh great! Line them up!” We lined up the tablets. “Take this stupid gods!” Azu kicked all the tablets down the slope. What are you doing?

“Venting and activating them!” Yeah, they activate when you drop them. Oh, can I have a go at them too? I could use some venting too. The 5 of us started venting our frustrations and anger at the tablets and gods by kicking and throwing them down slopes. Whew, that was refreshing.

This is exactly what I need, although I could also do with some venting at that potato village there. The tablets glowed and shot an energy beam at the pink root. The ground shook and the root started to grow. Wait did we just buff the root?

“It wasn't mature yet, if you would destroy it in its immature state you would have to redo this timeline.“ Oh, I'm glad that… I didn't finish the sentence because I felt that was a bad idea.

“You’re glad that what? Come on finish that sentence!” I forgot!

“Don't be shy!” Azu hugged and smothered me. “Come on say it!” Help me! So, what now? I hear a commotion in the cultist village. Yeah, they are going crazy. Well, according to Agnis they hold their rituals at 15:00 sharp and we kind of seemed to buff the root with a matching timing, they probably think that their ritual worked.

I give up! You win Azu! Now let me go! So, what do we do now? Didn't we need to read the text on the tablets?

“Oh, those tablets are just prayers to that God, it is a waste of time if you don't believe in them.” Azu... Please… I think he is going to pass out if you keep doing that.

“Oh” Thank you, Ted! I got freed from Azu’s grasp So when do we nuke the root?

“It has a proper barrier now, but it doesn't seem so strong, how about we all nuke it?” Oh, that is an Idea I can get behind! Let’s do it! Uhh, sure I guess I have no choice. We all popped out our tails and Ted took to his bear avatar.

Let's do a countdown! Ok! 3…2… Wait do we go on 1 or go? We all charged up our attack.

1! [Tsunami], [Fire pillar] [Liberation] [Aurora bearealis] Nooo I thought we would attack on go! The root and potato village got nuked. It was satisfying.

“Oh, by the way, this was fun! I don't know if I will be able to help you with the next timeline but I will do my best!” It was a pleasure, Azu. Do you by any chance have a sister? Thank you for your help. Eh, I think you should rest next timeline! Our heads started to ring again and we were back at Raishin’s hut.

That was a rough timeline. Ted watch out! I froze the shade that was about to claw Ted with frost magic and made it poof out of existence.

Whoa, what was that shade doing here? It is not just one shade. Get out of my hut!

No rest, eh? There were 4 more shades in the hut and I spotted many more outside. Raishin zapped one and it seemed to work. It seems we can attack them now; this makes things easy. We dispatched the shades easily.

This makes things easier and harder. Boshi town is overrun. They are clawing down at the houses. How are we even going to solve this? Hmm, It is not that hard but you're not going to like this idea, Ted.

Ugh, hit me, I decided to prioritize our lives and well-being because if I don't a certain nine-tailed spirit fox will do stuff that might get him killed. Hey, It worked out! I didn't die!

Yet. We ignore the need of the citizens, as long as we beat this timeline they will get back to life. We have to make sure we do everything right at the last timeline because that one will be more permanent. It will be the hardest to get right though. So, I would recommend practicing getting things right where you can. Also, Agnis! No more risky ideas!

Yeah, and run them through us first. And Raishin! No more disappearing! Yes, dad. Yes, dad. Both of us got smacked.

Normally we would rest today but... Shall we clean up a bit? I decided to not hold back anymore, are you sure?

If that decreases the chances of any of you getting in mortal danger, I don't care. Alright! Let's go! I went outside and made my 1 km frost pillar.

Wait! Agnis you can't possibly be doing that right? That thing I did when I saved you guys? Yup.

Oh no… Oh yes! Hmm, I see, the shades can’t kill the civilians if you kill them first! I shot a frost arrow at Raishin’s feet.

Hey! Who says, I'm going to wipe out the citizens? Wait you can do that and only hit the shades?

My magic control isn't as good as yours but that should be a piece of cake! Uhm, I don't think I could do something like that!

So humble. Just sit and watch the show! Gogogo! The last time was so pretty! I took out 4 tails while sniping shades. After I got enough mana, I used [Eternal winter]. You see because it is frost magic It doesn't have to kill the civilians. It freezes them but that is it when the frost disappears it is as if nothing happened. Now the frost is important because if they are covered by frost the foxfire blasts aren't going to do anything to them. It seems that there is a certain limit to how many shades can come out per day, else the last times we wiped them out would just be a wasted effort but the numbers did seem to stay at 0 after we wiped them out unless it was early at the day. I dropped a [Foxfire: winter’s end] on the town and all the shades got wiped out. I didn't lace it with dimensional magic this time. I waited for 2 minutes. Maybe because it is day 0 but they seemed to multiply slowly. If that is the case, what am I going to do with these 7 nukes? I could drop one on potato village.

Screw it! Hey, Agnis where are you aiming? That is the direction of the Umbra mountain range! That is some intense potato hate. I vaporized the mountain next to the one I vaporized technically today and wiped-out potato village. I dropped another one in Boshi village but the shades stopped coming.

o, guys, I have 5 nukes left and no more targets, what do I do? Can't, you just cancel it?

I can’t! Why not?

Because I will get the mana refunded. Oh, that is not a good idea. Drop them on my shadow wall. Gregory created a huge shadow wall in Boshi village and I dropped the nukes on it.

What in the name of Hourai, that is a terrifying amount of energy Agnis! I know right? Oof, I’m pooped. I cancelled [Eternal Winter] and jumped off my frost pillar.

Hey Agnis back off a bit, you’re still cold. I need sleep. I will take the next round of shade extermination. I want a round too!

You can take the last one because you will wipe out everyone. I will pass on this mass shade exterminating; I don't have any attacks that could do that anyways. We were about to head home.

Wait what about the plans for the next root? Eh? I guess we’ll just wing it, there is one in the southwest, so let's take that one next and the one in the Lucidu mountain range in the next timeline.

Ok. That sounds good sleep well! We all went home and went to sleep. I had a weird dream. It was very vague. I only heard sounds. It was vague but I got a feeling of dread and rage from this dream.