Spectacular World

The Path That Leads To The Future

Hope threw herself in front of her mom as gunfire rang out. Men screamed, and horses stomped around wildly. It was far more intense than the gang fights she had seen with Armin. There must have been hundreds of men, some in red, some in blue, some holding rifles, some wielding swords or chunks of wood, or whatever they could get their hands on. Either way, all of them had one thing in common.

They were all out for blood.

"Why didn't you say we would be in the middle of a fight? Get my mom out of here!" She screamed towards Max Lightning.

It was already too late, though. One of the men in the blue military cloak drew a knife and ran at her and her mom. Hope raised her arms to defend herself, but as the man swung, he passed through her. Literally, it was as if he didn't even notice her or her mom. He ran through them and swung his knife out at a soldier in red, who blocked it with the butt of his rifle.

"We're not actually here, are we?" Jane Lauren asked, looking around the battlefield. She was frowning and wouldn't stop shaking at the sounds of gunfire, but wasn't as bothered as Hope had expected.

"You catch on fast." Max Lightning.

"I watch a lot of movies." Her mother bragged.

"What are you two talking about?" Hope asked with wide eyes. She held her hand out towards a man and watched as it phased through his chest.

Max Lightning folded his arms and sighed. "Think of it as all one big illusion of sorts. See, most Supers can have more than one power, especially if they're the children of two Supers. Lords like us have two titles. You are the Lord of the Sun and the Cosmos. I am the Lord of the Sky and the Weather. We carry two titles because we have more than just our elemental mastery. I am able to control the weather as well as the wind that blows through time. Humans have evolved over the years to be able to make predictions of the weather. This is likely why my powers work the way they do. Because weather prediction is so common, and there are dozens of ways for it, the first Lord of the Sky was blessed with the ability to follow the paths of the world—strands of time. Of course, these paths are easily broken by powerful heroes, and some powers negate them, but for the most part, they give me a good idea of both the past and the future. I've woven these trillions of paths together to show you this scene."

"I don't really get it, but sure!" Hope shook her head and folded her arms. "What exactly is going on?" She questioned. She really missed the good old days where everything made sense and wasn't all weird. "First I find out that I was born from a pod, and now it turns out I have the power of Full Monarch within me, and my hair can randomly turn golden. I need an explanation now! What is this war?"

Max Lightning rubbed the back of his neck, seemingly trying to come up with an explanation. "The Lord of the Sea and the Depths. The Lord of the Land and the Life. The Lord of the Sky and the Weather. And lastly, the Lord of the Sun and the Cosmos. Those were the four beings I showed you a moment ago. They existed thousands of years ago. With the great Shadow dead, other things would try to take its place. Nowadays we know them as Calamity level threats. People like the Beast and the Emperor. Back then, though, Supers were rare but still strong. All it took was one Super rising up and taking over. Nearly five hundred years ago, this happened with a Super. Just when it looked like he would take everything over, they returned. The four Lords. They defeated that Super and once again vanished. They would return again nearly thirty years later. Each time they appeared, they were always different people. People who had gained the power. The cycle of the Lords had been discovered. With the discovery that the Lords could come back and that they could be raised and molded by those who found them, it didn't take long for factions to be created."

"I remember Whisper saying something similar. How there are always four, and they can appear. Poseidon is called the Lord of the Sea as well, so like me, she'd be the latest one. You said she wasn't grown from a pod, though? Were you created by a pod?"