All Chapters of GOD OF WAR: THE SYSTEM OF VENGEANCE : Chapter 81
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Chapter 81- Anchor 2
"Good." Margaret's approval carried satisfaction mixed with regret. "You're experiencing the foundation technique. Emotional anchoring through memory amplification. We'll spend the next week cycling through your most significant memories, burning them so deeply into consciousness that divine influx has to work around them.""A week?" Damon's voice carried paternal concern that transcended tactical assessment. "You just reduced my daughters to sobbing wrecks over a single memory. How are they supposed to survive an entire week of that intensity?""The same way every previous inheritor survived it. By understanding that temporary pain beats permanent corruption." Margaret's voice hardened. "This is the gentlest part of Ascension training. Stage One just hurts. Later stages will break them, rebuild them, and break them again. If they can't handle amplified nostalgia, they definitely can't handle what comes next."She pulled up a schedule that made Elena's enhanced awareness blur with co
Chapter 82-Damon choice 1
"Divine transformation IS ego death. The question is whether you control the process or let it control you. Stage Five teaches deliberate dissolution—experiencing godhood while maintaining enough self-awareness to choose individualization instead of merging permanently with divine unity."She pulled up footage that made everyone present recalculate their understanding of what they'd signed up for. Previous inheritors undergoing Stage Five training, consciousness fragmenting, reforming, fragmenting again. Some succeeded, emerging as integrated beings who could shift between divine and human awareness. Others never reformed, minds scattered across multiple dimensions simultaneously."Seventy percent mortality rate for Stage Five. Most students don't survive ego dissolution. Their consciousness just... diffuses. Becomes part of the collective divine awareness instead of maintaining individual identity." Margaret's voice carried grief that suggested she'd trained and lost many students
Chapter 83- Ascension power
Day 43 of Ascension TrainingDamon stood in the cave system's observation room—a chamber Margaret had carved specifically for monitoring students without interfering with training protocols. Through transparent walls spelled to be one-way, he watched his daughters undergo Stage Three's moral reasoning exercises.The scenario playing out was brutal in its simplicity: Elena and Isabella confronted with a choice between saving a city or preserving their humanity. The divine consciousness flooding through their amplified connection whispered that cities were temporary, human concerns beneath gods, that allowing casualties served greater cosmic balance.Fighting those whispers required effort visible in their strained expressions."How long have they been at it?" Mei Lin entered quietly, carrying coffee that had gone cold hours ago. She'd been coordinating security while Damon maintained vigil over training that had already nearly killed his daughters twice."Seventeen hours." His enhance
Chapter 84-What?
Elena sat beside her sister's bed, birthmark glowing faintly as she apparently maintained their mental connection even while Isabella was unconscious. Her own injuries looked minor—bandaged forearm, bruise forming on her cheek—but her eyes carried trauma that went deeper than physical wounds."We were making it work." Elena's voice came out smaller than usual. "The scenario was brutal—choosing between saving a city or preserving our humanity—but we were holding firm. Then Isabella's power just... spiked. Like all three years of compressed divine energy tried to manifest at once."She looked at her sleeping sister with expression mixing guilt and determination. "I tried to stabilize her through our connection, but the backlash knocked me unconscious too. When I woke up, Margaret had already contained the worst of it."Damon moved to Isabella's bedside, enhanced senses cataloging vitals that read completely wrong for human physiology. Her temperature fluctuated between hypothermia an
Chapter 85-Decision
"Took three weeks to even get close—divine beings are notoriously difficult to ambush. When I finally managed it, her last words were thanking me for ending what she'd become. She knew she was a monster. Just couldn't feel it anymore." The medical bay fell silent except for monitoring equipment tracking Isabella's impossible vitals. Elena had gone very still, processing implications about what failure during training actually meant . Not just death. Something worse—survival as something that wore your face while being fundamentally other. "I want to talk to them." Damon's voice carried the kind of controlled determination that had built business empires and survived supernatural assassins. "Both girls. When Isabella wakes up. Before any more training happens. They need to understand exactly what they're agreeing to." "They're ten years old." Margaret's objectio
Chapter 86-Did they know
He looked at Elena, seeing recognition in her eyes of exactly how significant this moment was. Not just another training decision. The inflection point where their future stopped being something Margaret orchestrated and became something they consciously selected. "You should rest." He moved to her bedside, enhanced senses picking up exhaustion that went deeper than physical tiredness. "Whatever happens tomorrow, you need to be clear-headed for it." "I can't sleep." Elena's voice carried the kind of wired energy that came from near-death experiences. "Every time I close my eyes, I feel Isabella's consciousness fragmenting. Experience pieces of what she went through during that power surge. It's like..." she struggled for words. "It's like touching infinity. Understanding that consciousness is so much bigger than individual identity, but also knowing that surrendering to that bigness means losing ever
Chapter 87-Anyway
He looked at Elena, seeing recognition in her eyes of exactly how significant this moment was. Not just another training decision. The inflection point where their future stopped being something Margaret orchestrated and became something they consciously selected. "You should rest." He moved to her bedside, enhanced senses picking up exhaustion that went deeper than physical tiredness. "Whatever happens tomorrow, you need to be clear-headed for it." "I can't sleep." Elena's voice carried the kind of wired energy that came from near-death experiences. "Every time I close my eyes, I feel Isabella's consciousness fragmenting. Experience pieces of what she went through during that power surge. It's like..." she struggled for words. "It's like touching infinity. Understanding that consciousness is so much bigger than individual identity, but also knowing that surrendering to that bigness means losing everythi
Chapter 88- Seventy Two
Damon's controlled fury meeting Margaret's patient explanation, both of them dancing around the fundamental problem that no amount of parental protection could stop cosmic timelines. "He wants to pull us from training." Isabella didn't need confirmation. The pattern was obvious—father witnessing daughter nearly die during preparation, calculating that terrible odds beat zero odds, loving them enough to prefer guaranteed failure over potential success. "Margaret's explaining why that guarantees worse outcomes." "Yeah." Elena's voice carried complexity suggesting she understood both positions. "Family meeting tonight. Full disclosure about what Ascension training actually entails, what survival odds look like, whether alternatives exist. Then we choose whether to continue." The implications settled over Isabella like weighted blankets. Choice. Agency. The opportunity to say "fuck this" and face C
Chapter 89-Kill
Margaret's precision was brutal. "I remember every one. Their faces. Their final words. Their hopes about what they might become if they succeeded. Most were children—divine inheritance manifests young. Most were terrified. All were brave enough to try anyway." She gestured to a section with noticeably fewer names. "These are the successes. One hundred and seven individuals who survived Ascension training, maintained consciousness through Convergence, and managed to preserve humanity afterward. That's a 1.4% success rate across seventeen decades of trying." The mathematics were devastating. 98.6% failure rate when dealing with mortality rates, corruption rates, and psychological breakdown combined. Odds that made Russian roulette look safe. "And Elena and Isabella's odds?" Damon's voice carried the careful control of someone standing at the edge
Chapter 90-Better than Zero
That was love measured against cosmic horror. Protection that extended even to protecting the world from what they might become."Thank you." Elena's voice carried understanding that transcended words. "For trusting us to make terrible choices. For promising to stop us if those choices lead somewhere unforgivable. For being human enough to value morality over family loyalty when the two conflict."She pressed closer against his chest, listening to heartbeat that was probably enhanced but felt comfortingly normal. "That's what we're trying to preserve during training. The ability to value abstract principles over immediate desires. To choose right action even when wrong action serves people we love. To stay human despite power suggesting humanity's just weakness that transcends itself."Margaret had been watching this exchange with expression suggesting she was cataloguing emotional data for future reference. Understanding family bonds from outside rather than inside. Immortality tha