The Earth After Rebirth

It figured this was a good thing for them, for Asgard. And wanted to believe that, if they knew how stronger they were getting they\'d get too arrogant and cut the training short.

Although Prometheus could\'ve made his monsters much stronger, he waited until they were just strong enough and continued to whip out monsters that were just strong enough to challenge them.

He wouldn\'t admit it, but he enjoyed the company. Being a god was rather lonely, them keeping on coming back made him feel again. It was strange, he never thought he\'d miss being a mortal. He gave them vague answers on purpose just to bring them back again.

Hiro was over the moon, with their every restart, they were met with different kinds of herbs and ore. It was a good thing their storages were limitless, as they could store anything and everything, which is what they did, on Hiro\'s orders of course.

"Holy hell, is that an ancient ranked ore? I could fix my axe and shield with these." He commented, his hands slightly shaking with something so invaluable on them.

"Don\'t get too hard over materials." Kiro said with with a skeptical accusatory smile.

The others couldn\'t hide their laughs, they understood his excitement but he was overly so. He just gave them a wide grin, he couldn\'t even be mad at them for that joke.

They went back and forth slowly trying to get information, not just about the harbingers but also the game. Questions about the game were met with very vague riddles, which none of them could even solve.

It was frustrating to say the least. "The flow is clogged." Prometheus said one time with the biggest grin they\'d ever seen. He\'d stopped hiding after a while of the back and forth and they always found him at the door staring at the heavens.

He wasn\'t at all as they expected him to be. They expected a burley man, who exuded manliness. With a beard and muscles, armour and everything, but he was very skinny almost no muscles. With very long blonde hair and completely white eyes.

Those milky eyes and his deep thunderous voice were the only reminder to them that he was a god and that they couldn\'t just up and attack him as they pleased. He also exuded a kind of energy that wasn\'t mana or kaos, something Kiro was sure he\'d felt before.

They didn\'t doubt that if he were a real person, he would\'ve caused havoc within their society, as even the boys were a bit taken by his very feminine appearance. But they quickly got over it when they realised how cruel and how unforgiving the being was.

With all the information Prometheus withheld, they managed to find out what harbingers were, and according to him, the god fire and illusions, they were simply bringers of death. That they were sent by ancient ones to pillage the whole of Asgard and some.

"Then, is the game system in control of them since they\'d be considered monsters within Asgard and what of ancient ones? are you one of them?"

These were their questions, which were met with nothing but riddles that seemed farfetched and didn\'t make sense no matter how hard they tried to figure them out.

So whether or not the game had control over them they didn\'t know, it was clearly something Prometheus wasn\'t willing to give out. They spent about three restarts trying to get the same answer, but gave up after the third time realising they were only making fools of themselves.

"How many times are we gonna do this?" Felix complained, which was very unlike him.

"I don\'t know." Nikolai shrugged.

Even Hiro\'s excitement had died down once new herbs and materials stopped appearing and there were just duplicates of things he already had.

"Can\'t we just stop now? I\'m tired." Saanvi complained.

"Don\'t you guys get it? The more we challenge this mountain, the easier it becomes. We\'re becoming stronge!" Isla argued.

They couldn\'t argue with that, they themselves noticed a change every single time. Though they wondered how that could be when their levels didn\'t go up. They concluded there was some kind of glitch within the system.

Even with the duplicate materials, Hiro couldn\'t stop himself from picking them. The craftsman in him didn\'t quite allow him to just walk past them without picking them.

"Say, Ursa, what\'s your subclass? Everyone has used theirs but not you."

Ursa\'s eyes widened in shock, she never, in a million years did she think Kiro would ever strike a conversation with her first. Now that she wasn\'t invisible to them, she wished she was. As all eyes darted between her and Kiro.

"Probability Manipulator." She answered in a whisper.

They all had to strain their ears to hear her. It was their turn to stretch their eyes as far as they could reach. Not believing she\'d said what she had just said.

"Excuse me, what?" They said in a chorus.

"Some stupid ability I can\'t even use yet, it\'s useless. I can\'t use it for anything!"

She was clearly not someone who was exposed to games. Most of them slapped their faces disappointed, it was Probability Manipulation after all. With that kind of power on their side, they\'d eat harbingers for breakfast.

"I don\'t think you understand the gravity of your power." Nikolai shook his head in envy.

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The boys all nodded in unison. She was definitely insane to them if she thought this was a useless ability. She seemed confused by it.

"In the simplest of terms, its like manipulating luck. You can lower or raise the probability of something happening in your favour." Hiro tried to explained as simple as he could.

She nodded in understanding. They challenged the mountain once again, their only goal was for Ursa to actually use it. But alas, with all the pressure, she crumbled.

And before they knew it, they were in front of Prometheus once more.

"What happens when guardians fail to contain harbingers?"

"A crack in the realms will widen until the ancient ones can cross over to Asgard and it\'ll be more trouble for you than you think."