Chapter 94 - Gathering The New Slayers

"Well, that makes it 256 we've found now."

Alexia said as she dropped the file on the desk in front of her. She spun around on the office chair to face the cupboard behind her.

"What would you have?"

"Vodka."

"Coming right up!"

She poured two drinks for herself and her drinking companion. Spinning around again, she dropped the drink on the desk.

"Thanks"

Her drinking companion, Kelly, thanked her and picked up the glass.

While holding the file Alexia just dropped on her other hand, she asked.

"The 256th is a Male too Huh? How many does that make it?"

"170 males and 86 females. Isn't that right lil bro?"

"Yes, lady Alexia."

Alexia's subordinate, one who could be called her second in command replied to Kelly's question.

"Why do you keep calling him 'lil bro'?"

"Cus he is the one I wish was my real brother, not that piece of crap that tried to make a move on me."

"Your family is really f*cked up you know?"

"Tell me about it."

Alexia sighed as she replied to Kelly. She looked towards the one she called 'lil bro', his real name, Ethan, as he continued looking through the documents placed in front of him.

"Good work, you should take a break soon."

"I will."

Even though he said that, he still continued looking through the documents, marking a few and keeping them in a separate pile.

"By the way Alexia, you still haven't told me why you're doing this."

"This?"

"Searching for members of that new slayer race."

"Oh…that"

For the past few years, Alexia had been searching for members of Arthur's race. A slayer race with the power to kill gods.

Naturally, all members of the race she had found so far were children, still, she gathered them up to either protect them or train them to make them stronger.

"It's quite tiring isn't it? They do not have any external characteristics that we can identify them with."

"I was considering telling Ethan to just capture a few demigods or low tier gods and use them as sensors.

The members of that race seem to have some sort of divinity negation."

"It's not gonna be easy with that though."

"You do not need to tell me twice."

She had been searching for almost 7 years and has had little is the way of success.

This was evidenced by the fact that she had barely found more than 250 of them.

"It's been almost 7 years already huh?"

"Really? It's been that long?"

Kelly stared at Alexia in silence for a few moments before sighing and speaking.

"You're the one with the power of time, why are you not aware of the time differences?"

"I'm aware most of the time, I just forget it sometimes."

"Is that so?" 

Kelly stared at her with a skeptical gaze this time before asking.

"What's the time difference between here and hell?"

"Um…a year in hell is two years over here?"

"Close enough."

Alexia chuckled lightly at Kelly's reply. The universe she was in was one with a faster time flow than that of the Hell universe.

As such, although it had been a little bit more than three years since Arthur met her, it had been more than 6 on her end.

"When are we leaving this universe? I dislike the feeling of aging faster due to time differences."

"When we get the last batch we found, how many were there again?"

Alexia asked Ethan, to which he replied without looking up from his documents.

"6, 4 Male, 2 female."

She nodded lightly at his words. Kelly then asked another question.

"Why did we spend so long here anyway?"

"I just wanted to save as many as I could, the gods here are taking drastic action against them, and the few they have found have been murdered in cold blood."

"Isn't it weird that they have found members of the new race so quickly, the guys in Olympus and Hell haven't discovered any, and they're the ones directly related to this."

Alexia frowned before replying, a tinge of annoyance could be detected in her voice.

"This universe's god of wisdom happened to get his hands on an 'Akashic Record.'"

Kelly, who was about to pour herself another drink, nearly spilled the bottle when she heard that.

The 'Akashic Record'.

It is known by many other names and titles; the tome of all knowledge, the source of all wisdom, the book that contains all truths.

Some say the one with the Akashic record would know all that exists.

However the reality is different, many do not know this but there exists an Akashic record for each universe.

The conditions to own an Akashic record differ and there are rumors that no two universes have the same conditions.

The Akashic record can take many forms but mostly takes the form of a book. It contains all knowledge of that particular universe it originated from.

From the universe's inception till date, nearly every single event that has occurred is documented there. 

However, to view this information, one needs to pay an appropriate price. The price could range from one's energies to pieces of their souls.

Although the Akashic record is said to hold knowledge of everything, that is not true.

This is evidenced by the fact that the Akashic record does not hold information about the future. Restricted information such as a being's true name can also not be seen in the record.

As for its origins, it is unknown who or what created the Akashic record, just that every universe that exists, has one, no matter how small the universe may be.

The Akashic records also have the limitations of not allowing anyone other than the owner to ask it questions or glean any information from it.

For that to happen, one needs to have the permission of the owner and also needs to be prepared to pay twice or thrice the price the owner would need to pay for their information.

Depending on the nature of the information, it could be up to five times the price.

"Just how lucky was he to find such a thing?"

"Lucky enough that I want to kill him."

Alexia clicked her tongue, due to the warning she received before, she was laying low and not taking any major actions for now.

Otherwise, a normal Alexia would have been having this conversation with the head of the god beside her and the god's soul trapped in an eternal torture hell.

Kelly, who knew the reason Alexia was letting the god go scot free, sighed and asked.

"That time I was possessed, what happened?"

"Nothing much, just received another warning."

"Nothing much?! Are you crazy?!"

Kelly suddenly raised her voice, surprising Ethan who was busy looking through the lists of potential members of the new slayer race.

"Lil bro, take a break."

In other words; leave.

Ethan understood the meaning behind Alexia's words and he nodded before walking out of the room.

As soon as the door was closed, Kelly began shouting once again.

"Are you trying to get yourself killed?! Or even worse?!"

"No, I have no intentions of dying at such a young age, I have to surpass that son of a b*tch after all."

"That's not the point here, you know what I mean don't you?"

Alexia sighed and nodded, seeing this, Kelly held her head and spoke, finally realizing something was wrong with Alexia's earlier statement.

"You said another warning right?! That means there was one before?!

When they told me you were a bit of a problem child, I didn't think it was to the extent of having received a warning before."

"Huh? You didn't know about the first?"

"They told me it was Lucifer who received the warning, and you just happened to be present."

Alexia was slightly surprised at this, she thought Kelly already knew everything about her past. She had never expected that Kelly still didn't know as much as she thought.

"For someone like you, there's no way you would not have been able to find out, why didn't you?"

"Ah, you were like a cat that was about to be tossed into water when I first met you, I felt it would have been rude to pry so I didn't.

Eventually, I forgot about it and never bothered to find out what really happened."

Kelly replied to Alexia's question in a nonchalant manner. After a few seconds of silence, she spoke again.

"Although I didn't pry too deep, it does not mean I don't know about the general situation." 

She dropped her glass on the table and continued with a serious tone.

"You were the one who messed with the law of causality right? I'm guessing Lucifer got caught up trying to stop you.

Tell me Alexia, that day, when you looked into the future.

Whose future was it, and exactly what did you see?"

Alexia flinched involuntarily at Kelly's question. She rubbed her shoulders and tried to calm herself but she couldn't stop shivering.

"I was only looking for a way to escape my father's curse."

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Hey y'all, it's your friendly neighborhood author, _michael here.

It has come to my knowledge that in the method of ranking things, the legendary tier is actually higher than the epic tier.

So i was wondering if y'all would like me to change the current ranking system and place the legendary tier above the epic tier instead of below as it currently is.

Vote in the comments and i would see what i can do about it.

Thanks for your understanding and I look forward to you continuing on our Godslayer's Legend.

This has been _michael.

Over and Out!