Nier Chapter 158 (Patreon)

A loud thwack! Rang out like a divine lightning bolt as Radahn groaned and held his head as Rennala from out of nowhere flew in and just beamed him over the head with her staff.

"You feel like a big man huh? Leaving your family to run to the capital to become Elden Lord. What? Did you expect to get hitched to that bitch Marika?!" Rennala yelled at Radahn making my head tilt back at the fury in her voice and it didnt end there.

"First Ranni deciding that the Outer Gods needed to leave the Lands Between, killed the only other Emperyan in Godfrey driving Marika insane, and then that damned brat Miquella had his sister go on a rampage with her cleanrot knights... And then Ranni gets the wonderful idea of playing dead by killing her divine body to take over Blaidde's damned chew toy from when he was a mere pup!"

Rennala stabbed her finger into Radahn's chest making me sink back with Melina and A2 as well taking a step back away from the giant as Rennala's motherly fury seemed to have no end. "Rykard was a deranged child and I have made peace with his loss... But you! You were always the most level-headed, why did you rush off to fight in the shattering Raddy!?"

Radahn slowly exhaled and his gauntlets fell off his hands and then he gently took his mother's smooth smaller hands into his scarred hands as he spoke in his deep drawl. "I wanted to bring Radagon back Mother. He wasn't himself and I know... That he still loved you, I didn't fight in the shattering to become Elden Lord just for the position or glory." 

I coughed at that the two looked at me and with a weirded out expression I said bluntly. "Radagon and Marika are both foreign to this world and their people are... Weird, they are actually fused together now in a weird half-broken body with the remains of the Elden Ring floating in their empty chest."

To prove my words I used my magic to create a mirror and reflected within the mirror was the memory I had of Marika/Radagon's form that was hanging from the bindings of the Elden Beast with Rennala and Radahn flinching at the sight.

But then Melina asked quietly. "Jake... You can see into the Erdtree? Can you just open a portal there?"

I shrugged and without any care I replied bluntly. "Yup, that I can. Now, so that Radahn and little Ranni are brought back together with family its time for me to get down to the bloody side of things in getting stronger."

The demi-gods in Radahn and Rennala looked ot me and I shrugged saying. "First is to kill the divine snake that ate Rykard around Mt Gelmir. Then I will go to the Leyndell Capital to deal with Morgott and his siblings underground." I spoke.

But before I could decide whether to take a break for a while Melina asked somewhat impatiently. "Then why haven't we just teleported to the Erdtree. I have a duty there I must-" 

I silenced her by putting a finger to her lips making Melina freeze in place as my mana flared out and I said bluntly. "Melina... No, you are not burning yourself to ashes to destroy the Erdtree I literally have four different ways to deal with it rather than having you kill yourself to destroy it." 

Rennala actually asked with some amuesment. "Jake I myself with the very stars tried to destroy the Erdtree during the first wars before I married Radagon. What can you do?" 

Taking a breath I held up a hand and began counting down. "First, I set off an extremely strong bomb below the capital enhancing the Frenzy Flame under the capital and it will burn down the capital including the Erdtree before the Frenzy Flame loses its power. Second, I work with Radahn to drag a supermassive meteor to flatten the capital and probably the whole Altus Platue."

Taking a breath I continued. "I myself take the Frenzy Flame upon myself and burn it down and then using a special needle Miquella made I would get rid of the outer gods frenzy flames influence through a ritual. I know where Miquella's left behind physical body is. So I can use Malenia as a weapon to have her use her Rot to kill the Erdtree."

At Rennala's odd look, I said flatly. "Miquella took a note out of Ranni's book and fled his Emperyan body leaving it behind to Mohg to be molested and fed an endless amount of the twisted outer god's blood that Mohg worships." 

I shook my head now done with the info dump as I said. "Anyway! Dealing with all of you in the course of a day is too much so I am going to go relax in one of Ranni's spare towers. Before I continued my mad dash around this damned world" I finished and then without a word I opened another portal with A2 and Melina following me as I popped into a tower that actually had a bedroom of sorts.

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After Jake left Radahn and Rennala shared a look before Radahn looked down at his horse which made Rennala's eyebrow twitch before she visibly took a deep breath and said. "Alright, Raddy... Go take care of Leonard, he obviously needs food and water even if you have kept him alive with your Great Rune. I will be speaking with your sister."

And without a word Radahn galloped off towards the stables of while Rennala gripped her staff in an iron grip as she wanted to give her son a piece of her mind for how taciturn he was being. But he wasn't a child she could scold anymore, he was a grown man and a demi-god who had conquered half the world.

Letting the man deal with his most important connection in life was the best way to help him integrate back into normal life even if such a thing wasn't possible in this day and age. 

But being left alone now with Ranni having reluctantly accepted her mother's place here and her help in her plans to rid the world of the Outer God's influence... Rennala was feeling the deep ache of loneliness so she bit her lips and then opened up a tiny portal to view into the bedroom that Jake had taken his two friends into and seeing only him laying down face down on the bed obviously exhausted while A2 and Melina were reading a couple of floors down lower in the tower.

Rennala took a breath with the portal growing in size with her stepping into it as she decided to remind Jake of the promises he made her in curing her mind and taking the Rune of Rebirth.