Reincarnated As Poseidon

Where once mountains had stood, there was now only a basin of swirling seawater, each surge edged with blood — divine and mortal alike. The sea had been pulled inland by Poseidon's wrath, reshaping the very landmass. Rivers flowed backward. Valleys became trenches. Even the wind carried salt where no ocean had ever reached.

Above it all, Poseidon stood upon a tidal ridge, trident raised, eyes burning with the abyss.

His chest rose and fell like a storm caught in human shape. His flesh bled from golden cuts — wounds dealt by divine blades — but the blood that left him never hit the ground. It twisted into streams that joined the sea, vanishing back into the tide.

Across the expanse stood the gods who had come to stop him.

Zephyros, the Sky-Tyrant, hovered within a crown of lightning. His wings blazed brighter than dawn, feathers shedding sparks that turned to spears. Every flap of his wings carved the air into blades.

Seraphin, Goddess of Flame, hovered lower, hair like a torch fire, her hands twin suns. She was bruised, scorched, her robe ripped — yet her fury only burned hotter.

And Nymera, cloaked in shadows, was almost unseen except for the rippling silver of her eyes. She lingered at the edge, not striking yet — waiting for a weakness to appear.

Three against one.

But Poseidon smiled through the blood.

"You came thinking to drown me in numbers?" His voice was thunder rolling beneath waves. "I am the ocean. Count all you like — it will never matter."

Zephyros hurled a stormbolt, the size of a warship. Poseidon turned his trident, splitting the bolt down its middle. Sparks rained into the sea, exploding into hissing steam.

Seraphin roared and lunged, a blazing spear bursting from her palms. She struck his chest— and the water that wrapped him hardened like armor. The spear cracked, spraying embers across the sky. Poseidon answered by sweeping his trident upward. A geyser erupted beneath Seraphin, slamming her back into the air. She tumbled, her flames sputtering against the drowning force of his element.

Nymera struck then — shadows like a thousand blades cutting through the water. They hissed, sharp as hunger itself. But the tide thickened around Poseidon, a living shield that ate her strikes and spat them back as knives of hardened salt. Nymera slipped aside, vanishing into black mist before the counterstrike could cut her in half.

"Is this all?" Poseidon bellowed, water spiraling higher around him, forming the shape of a colossal leviathan behind his back. "Three gods, and yet you tremble like fishermen at a rising tide?"

Zephyros's face twisted in fury. "You were a vessel! A mortal shell! You should never have been allowed to climb this high!"

"I am no vessel," Poseidon answered, stepping forward on air that rippled with water. "I am the sea. I am the abyss. You mistake my existence for intrusion, but it is you who are trespassers. You gods built walls and chains to cage the tides. I will unmake them all."

The leviathan surged.

It was not an illusion. The tide behind Poseidon took shape, teeth forming from coral, eyes glowing like drowned stars. Its body coiled, stretching for leagues. Its roar shook the battlefield, making mountains collapse far beyond the horizon.

Seraphin rose again, fury blistering from her skin. "Then drown in your own hubris!"

Her flames turned white, burning hot enough to evaporate entire sheets of water. For the first time, Poseidon hissed — his sea hissed. He tightened his grip on the trident, and the leviathan lunged.

Water and fire clashed, hurling shockwaves that tore apart the ground. Steam blinded the battlefield, boiling rivers of fog.

Zephyros dove into the chaos, wings folded like spears, lightning trailing behind him. He rammed straight into Poseidon's chest, divine speed piercing through the shield of water. The force carried Poseidon backward — through a ridge of stone, through a collapsing mountain. The land itself shattered from the impact.

Poseidon staggered. Blood spilled down his lip.

But his laugh rolled louder than the thunder.

"You bleed me?" he asked. "Then you will taste the blood of the ocean!"

He drove his trident into the ground.

The sea answered.

Every drop of water — the flooded valleys, the rivers, the lakes miles away — convulsed at once. Then it rushed inward, spiraling into a vortex around the battlefield. The gods were forced higher into the sky as an entire inland sea was born beneath them, dragging broken ships, forests, and bones into a single swirling abyss.

At its heart, Poseidon rose with the vortex. His wounds healed as the water fed him. His body grew luminous with deep-blue light, veins glowing like constellations drowned beneath the ocean.

Nymera's voice cut through the roar: "This is no battle. This is becoming a birth!"

Seraphin's flames dimmed, horror flashing across her face. "He's… evolving."

Zephyros tightened his grip on his lightning, refusing to falter. "Then we end him before he finishes!"

The three gods struck at once — lightning from above, flame from the side, shadow from below.

Poseidon raised his trident, and the vortex obeyed. It swallowed their strikes, devoured them, then spat them back magnified tenfold.

Zephyros was hurled across the horizon. Seraphin plummeted into the vortex, clawing her way back up through steam. Nymera barely dissolved in time, reappearing yards away, panting.

And Poseidon still stood, taller, brighter, more relentless than before.

But his power was not without cost. His chest heaved, the glow within his veins flickering with strain. The ocean inside him was vast, but even vastness has depth — and Thalorin's whisper coiled in that depth.

Take more. Let go. Let me guide the current. With me, you will not bleed — you will drown them all.

Poseidon's jaw clenched. His grip on the trident tightened. For the first time, he did not laugh.

Instead, he whispered to the sea itself: "Not yet. They must know it is me who breaks them. Not the abyss."

The leviathan behind him writhed, its form threatening to unravel. But Poseidon's will forced it back into shape, forced the abyss to obey him.

The gods gathered again, scorched and battered, but not yet broken.

And so the battlefield was set: one ocean against three divinities, each strike shaking the fabric of mortal and divine alike.

And above, unseen in the clouds, the higher gods of Olympus watched. Silent. Measuring. Wondering not whether Poseidon could be stopped… but whether any of them had the will to try.