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Karina sht now Josie is a part of your--"

"No," I cut her off "She is no longer a part of anything that has to do with ether "You fear yourself around her? That you will hurt her? Have you not realized anything? Feeding is--"

"I do not want to speak of her with you That is the only warning I will give you" My hands closed into fists "What I do fro to do with her"

"So your desire to seek vengeance against the Titans is driven by some other need?"

My eyes narrowed "Careful"

She raised a shoulder and then turned back to the ocean "You are the first," she said after a od to be risen, to be appointed with all the godly abilities Do you knohy the gods fear the God Killer so much? It is not just because you have the ability to kill them, but because you are absolute when only three others are Zeus, Hera, and Cronus They feared you, because they knew you could become them"

"And what exactly does absolute ods had created the God Killer in the first place Apollo had tried to explain it once before in the vaguest ter it was a checks and balance system Ares had never explained either Itthat could ultiods seemed to excel in bad life choices

And s that would lead to their ultimate destruction

So, hey, what did I know?

"You have the abilities of the gods, but you wield the ulti," she explained patiently "Since Ares’s destruction, there is no natural end to your beginning The only true threats to you now are Zeus, Hera, and Cronus"

My brows flew up "Wait I get that Cronus could take my ass out, but how can Zeus or Hera do it when they weren’t able to when I was the Apollyon?"

"Because you were the Apollyon It added some measure of protection for you, but trust me when I say they would’ve found a way to destroy you, because they kneas possible" She paused "They’ve always known"

Of course they’d known and failed tothey’re absolute?"

"Only absolute beings can kill absolutely They could fight you and perhaps they would win," she said "But you are the God Killer, the Appointed They would not be wise to seek to do battle with you"

Huh

Well, I was inally believed

"You’re iod"

Those words finally, finally sunk through and it hitaccepted that I had no future That once the gods had figured out how to end me, they would, and that my afterlife meant I’d be Hades’s bitch It wasn’t until Ithe deal that took away any real chance to have a long, happy life But now?

I had a future

I had an eternity

It didn’t er control er control me

I shook er deny the truth "I’ and faced me "And there is soto die