Record of Ragnarok: Ouroboros

Chapter 3: Counting Death

It has been a millennium since the last time a god got injured.

"Huh..? Impossible! Did Baldr get wounded? No...No!"

"This must be some kind of a joke, right...?"

Váli and Forseti are shocked and panicking at the sight of an injured Baldr, making the other gods horrified.

Oddly enough...At that moment, Baldr felt true pain for the very first time. He only has one thought in his head. Startled? Grudge? No, he only feels one thing as he stands up despite his injury.

"Haha! That hurts a lot! You surprised me there!"

The injured god feels extremely joyful after being slashed in the back by Hassan-i Sabbah, and begins to laugh a little before slowly standing back up.

"Thou...Thou are mad insane for someone that just got injured."

"I am just very hyped, y'know? Being here, fighting to my heart's content, the feeling of death is challenging me for my life. It's just so..."

Before Baldr can finish his sentence, the god touches his open wound with both of his hands before grabbing his face with the bloody hands. Baldr then slowly lowered his hands on his face, revealing a psychopathic face, widened dead eyes, and a smile with blood all over his face.

"THRILLING!!"

The light god's mask has fallen away, revealing his true nature.

"I was right all along, there is no way a god could be this nice, so it hath to be a facade to hide thy true identity."

"He...Hey..! Why does Baldr look like that...?"

The gods, and even Heimdall are frightened by Baldr's psychopathic facial expression. Meanwhile, Thor sits alone in his room, watching Baldr from a screen.

"Once he is excited like that to the point of craziness, the restraints of his true might are slowly unlocking itself."

Thor explains why Baldr is like this, some sort of power-up or mode? Maybe, just maybe, this might not be even Baldr's true self and just another facade. In the meantime, Ares is shocked and dumbfounded at the same time.

"Wha-wha-what?! How was that human able to hurt Baldr?! I thought some of the Valkyries were dead alongside their humans long ago, so their Volund wouldn't happen anymore by this time, so how exactly?! And also Baldr is freaking me out over here, man!"

"I see...I assume that they must have stolen some divine weapons beforehand, or unless..."

"What is it? I thought that was the Volund thing, right?"

"It wouldn't be possible since all of the surviving Valkyries are watching this right now."

Hermes holds his chin, thinking of what could the Valkyries do to produce divine weapons for the humans. Göll then smirks in front of confused gods, she has planned all of this from the beginning.

"I see...Well played, Göll."

Hermes said as he thought of what the Valkyrie could have done.

Before the meeting of the Valhalla Council.

A depressed Göll with messy hair, and baggy eyes, exhausted from working on something. The Valkyrie is standing in front of the mad scientist gate, Nikola Tesla before she enters the room. In the room, a bunch of scientists gather together in front of a giant metal tube with some sort of green liquid and heaven's quality steel inside of it, familiar faces such as Thomas Edison, Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Isaac Newton, Alfred Nobel and new faces such as J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Darwin, Alan Turing, and Ada Lovelace are testing the quality and effectiveness of the machine.