I hold up my hands. “Hold it! You realize every time I use the Od it tears me up. The more of the Od I use the more it damages me.”
“You are getting stronger, and with the amount of Od you can channel now, you should be able to destroy Woden's projections and survive. Also, I will will arm you with weapons that will allow you to fight Woden's avatars and projections on a more even footing should you need to. I will also provide you with a tool to move the drive.
“If Woden keeps using the drive as he has, he will destroy this multiverse. The universe your Earth was ripped from has already been destroyed, and its destruction has damaged other universe in its proximity.”
I stare at Boran. I feel like I am in an alternate dimension, and I sure as fuck do not mean that in a literal sense. “I'm not a fucking hero. There have to be better choices than me to do this shit.”
“I am not asking you to be a hero. I am not an altruist. If Woden is allowed to keep the drive, he will destroy this multiverse. You and every other mortal will die. I will survive, but Taereun was restored from a dead and poisoned lump of rock by we Dvergar. It was on Taereun that I first met the Avatars of Life and Death. I do not choose to allow it to be destroyed. You are better equipped to retrieve the drive than anyone else, and I will reward you with knowledge that you are in need of. You will simply act the part of a mercenary paid by me.”
I cannot keep from laughing and frowning a the same time. “I don't need the rationalizations. I understand enlightened self-interest well enough, and don't want to fucking die, because Wooden is a fucking jackass. I'll find the drive, but I want to know why you can't leave this place. What's so special about this city?”
Boran frowns, as well. “It is not the city. Mountain View is meaningless. On my orders, we Dvergar destroyed most of our weapons and equipment made with the Dragons' technology, but not everything was destroyed. Deep below this cave, there is a gate to a pocket dimensional vault, where I stored weapons and equipment I did not destroy. Many of those weapons are far more dangerous than Yggdrasil's drive, because they were made to be used as weapons. If I leave here, some of those fools who think they are gods will try to steal from the vault. With their Power, it is not impossible for them to do so, so I do not leave the general area of Mountain View. I can only rely on agents like you.”
I sigh. “I know where the drive was, but Woden moved it, before I left Earth. I have no idea how to find it.”
“The nature of the energies in the drive make it very had to isolate its location, unless you are very close. I will give you a tool to detect it, but you will have to be within a few miles at most. I will also provide you with a tool to move the drive.”
Boran stands and moves to the workbench with my weapons. “None of these are Patterned. I will reforge and Pattern them for you. They will become weapons that can hurt even avatars of the False Names.”
End of Path of Transcendence
Book 2
Slave Pits of the Tyrannical God
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