Hello everyone! I am back with the new chapter. Happy New Year!

I am glad that people continue to follow my story and also of all the followers that I am receiving.

Some comments have particularly disappointed me, seriously, do I really receive complaints about the story for stupid non-canonical details? Well, I will give a news, nothing in a fanfiction is canonical. The only thing you can do is to offend the stories and their authors simply because they don't write what you want? These are not constructive criticisms but only the complaints of rabid and paranoid Touma fans who do not accept the simple fact that he is now a secondary character. (In reference to those who insulted me.)

I wrote this story for myself and Accelerator fans, I'm proud of what I wrote and I certainly don't have to take opinion of this people. Yes, I am effectively the writer and I write what I want. If you don't like my story, you have no obligation to read it.

I am willing to accept constructive criticism but the flames will be ignored.

Going back to the story and the people who followed it with passion from the beginning, I will be happy to give you the new chapter now. We have waited a long time for this moment, therefore after numerous hells of suffering and challenges bordering on human reason Accelerator and Othinus collide in a final battle.

Happy reading everyone.

Disclaimer: the To aru majutsu no index series is owned by Kamachi Kazuma.

Chapter 8

The angel who manifests himself at the end of the world

The sun had gone down, almost all the students had retired to their dormitories and shopkeepers were also starting to close.

Only the moon and the stars illuminated the night.

In the dark streets of the city, a solitary figure walked towards where the fate of the world would be fulfilled.

Accelerator headed to an isolated place where he would call his opponent and confront her.

One might wonder what place he would have chosen to fight, but the answer for a certain esper was simple.

A road in the middle of district 7, or to be more precise in the vicinity of a certain windowless building. A place where hardly anyone went.

"Othinus!"

The white-haired young man pronounced his opponent's name aloud.

"We haven't seen each other for a long time, human." the omnipotent magic god he was about to face appeared.

Her imposing presence was matched only by her charm, the girl with a pointed hat, blond hair and a gold spear was the personification of beauty, war and destruction.

She was an existence that would have made even the most daring humans uncomfortable, but the Esper looked at her with absolute calm.

"I thought you had adapted to this world or that you were dead."

He didn't answer.

"It seems that in the end you remembered our little bet, tell me, what your answer is?" she asked with a grin on her face.

Silence. A long silence enveloped the two individuals.

Accelerator had to think carefully about his answer, he could have bluffed, he could have given a cryptic answer, he could have given a sarcastic answer or a melancholic answer.

Among the various options presented to him he chose one and only one.

"You won." the simple truth.

Accelerator released a sigh before continuing to speak.

"I will be sincere, nothing is bothering me in this world, it's a practically perfect world in which I would be happy to live with all the people who live there. You did great in the goal you set yourself, you destroyed my illusions."

If Othinus was surprised by the ease with which he spoke she didn't prove it, but her grin had disappeared into stoicism.

"I really wish all this would remain as it is, but I can't. Not only because you would later destroy it regardless of my decisions, but because this is not a world I gained by my own strength but by another Accelerator that it is not me, this world as beautiful as it is not mine. Furthermore, I can't allow this world to be constantly remodeled according to your will, playing with the lives of others and their emotions, so I want to restore the original world and do everything in my power to carry it out!"

"What a noble motivation, I would never have expected such a thing from a character like you."

"True, and I have to thank you for it." he said with a smile.

"Hm?"

"I suffered, in every way conceivable in those hells that I lived and in this last world I practically broke, for a long time I blamed you for it but in the end I realized that it was I myself who made those worlds a hell: my personality, my contradictions, my insecurities were the source of my suffering, if I had the courage to confront myself with my emotions I would have understood that those worlds were only a personification of my fears and my desires. All the while you have simply reproached me for the truth about myself and the world around me, for which I thank you. You thought of breaking me in this last world and in fact you were almost successful, but in this world, I also found hope, the hope of a happy world and above all the hope given to me by people who opened my eyes."

Othinus remained silent as he continued.

"I learned that it is not wrong to be afraid or to show love to those around you, so I want to go home, to my true family and tell them that I love them, help those in need with my power and to help people who shed tears to smile. I can't say that what I am doing is a gesture of altruism or selfishness, I'm at a point halfway that it's hard to understand, but I'll do it anyway; not for trivial reasons but for what I believe is right and I will go on until the end."

If someone had heard Accelerator make such a speech, he would have jumped off a bridge believing he was dreaming and hoping to wake up.

Othinus did not speak because she did not expect such claims, and also because she would eventually choose to destroy her opponent regardless.

"So, you want to sacrifice the girls I saved for you in exchange for a sad world?"

"Yes." his answer was not hesitant.

"Why? What drives you so much? Your ideals?"

"This is a world where they are alive but Last Order does not exist and I am not willing to accept it. Obviously, any road I take someone will eventually pay the price, so I understand that whoever I choose to save there will always be someone who will die in his place. I have to live with it, this is the reality of the world, as I have already told you I have already made my choice, I will fight for the original world and before doing so, destroy your damned illusions!"

They were silent for a long moment.

"So you want to defeat me? And how are you going to do it?" she asked with a smirk.

"Giving everything I have against you."

"Oh? All right, in that case I will make things easy for you." Othinus snapped her fingers.

There was a loud roar with a wave of mysterious energy that spread in all directions, but which apparently did not damage either him or the surrounding buildings. Accelerator's heart skipped a beat, an unknown feeling of unease began to grow inside him.

"What did you do?" he asked slowly.

"I have cleaned the world of its people. Now it's only we who unleash our full powers without you worrying about the population and the side effects of our struggle. Even if, considering that you were willing to give up this world, it shouldn't bother you too much."

The Esper closed his hands in fists, he was ready to put this happy world aside but the pain of knowing that the people to whom he had bound had disappeared struck him anyway, despite this he hid his feelings behind a neutral expression.

"Why should you take this trouble? What do you get?"

"Simple, I will let you fight at full power but only to show you foolish human what it means to have challenged a god. I failed to break you mentally, but now I will physically break you by killing you over and over again, and this time it will be over for you."

Accelerator began to smile madly, with the ground beneath his foot cracking.

"Good. If things are like this I won't hold back with my powers, I have waited for an eternity to confront myself with you once and for all and now I am free to give all of myself!"

Faster than the eye could see the esper ran at full speed against the magic god, and in response Othinus unleashed millions of explosions against him.

The battle had begun.

He was the strongest amongst level 5, the one who wields the power of god, and could potentially win against every opponent. But not her. She was a god in full standing and against a god a normal human being could not win.

He was lying on the ground badly injured, 10, 20 or maybe more, he had been killed many times because of those irregular and difficult to calculate explosions since they started fighting, every time he died he was automatically brought back to life by Othinus herself.

He had approached her in every possible way, from every direction and attacking her in more ways than one. Whether it was direct or indirect attacks by manipulating the air and rocks at high speed against her, everything was in vain, Othinus rejected any attack with the sheer power of her explosions.

"Aren't you tired of dying human?" the goddess asked as she looked at him with an annoyed expression.

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but this human is much more stubborn than he looks and certainly won't give up yet." answered Accelerator as he rose from the ground. Despite his injuries, he could still stand up.

"Do you still want to fight? Look at the state you are in, you'd better give up, it's clear you can't do anything against me. I was hoping that now that you've experienced the essence of death on you, you would have learned what it means to die and I would have pulled you back."

The esper jumped slightly at Othinus' last words and for some reason an old memory surfaced in his mind.

Only those who have been killed can understand the feelings of those killed.

The words of a certain Meltdowner came back to him.

It was true, he had died more than once, experiencing personally the experience of death which no human being could normally tell. Except for them.

So this is what the sisters have tried.

Death was a cold, painful and even disturbing sensation, but after a while you got used to it and it became little more than an unpleasant experience. So you couldn't get too angry with the person who killed you. Now he understood why the sisters had finally been able to forgive him.

Accelerator began to giggle.

"What are you laughing at?" she asked.

"Oh! Nothing, I just thought that I had now repaid an old debt."

"Do you think you can think of something else and take it easy while facing a god?" Othinus asked with a slight hint of irritation, the mere fact that a human took a god like her lightly was in itself an insult.

"Not at all, I didn't stop thinking about the battle for just one minute." he replied calmly.

"You didn't make any progress and you didn't even accept that you can't make it, so you can surrender and accept defeat with a bit of dignity." she replied.

"I will not do that."

Silence.

It was clear that the esper would not yield.

"I understand, then I will destroy you to convince you."

A new swarm of explosions rushed to the white-haired boy, ready to make him try again and again the cycle of death to the point where the boy would surrender.

And so it was, the destructive magic of Othinus would again kill the boy.

Or at least that was what she thought.

The magical explosions that were supposed to hit the boy were diverted in all directions as soon as they came into contact with him, and in the end the esper was completely unharmed.

Now Othinus was visibly surprised.

"How did you ...?"

"You didn't expect it, did you? Over the course of many years I thought of a way to defeat you. And I understood one thing, to defeat you I had first to accept the fact that you were far stronger than me, and then I simply had to ask me the question "how would the weakest to defeat the strongest?" At that point, an infinite number of possibilities opened up for me to access and to use them against you."

Othinus looked at him with an unreadable expression as he continued.

"So I thought of a method to overcome your magical attacks, obviously without making you believe that I was developing a strategy."

"Wait! So you weren't throwing yourself at random before getting yourself killed for no reason."

"No. They were all voluntarily failed direct attacks with the intention of analyzing your magic explosions, I watched you fight and I calculated and recalculated the vectors that hit me and I memorized and analyzed them little by little even after I was killed, it was difficult but I made it in the end. " answered Accelerator with a smile.

"You're crazy. Did you get killed just to repel my attack?"

"I know that you still need me alive, you yourself said you just wanted to break me and clearly you would have resurrected me every time, so enduring the pain and the fear of death I got here. You're right, I acted like a crazy, but if there is one thing I have learned it is that crazies sometimes have the ability to make the impossible possible!" the young esper's mind shifted to two boys of level 0. Kamijou Touma and Hamazura Shiage were individuals who in their recklessness had managed to do what no one would have expected, by challenging individuals and organizations more powerful than themselves and coming out as winners.

A new burst of explosions unleashed on the esper, but with a wave of his hand he deflected them without difficulty.

"You'll have to do better." he said derisively.

For the first time, Othinus frowned.

"It seems that now I will have to give you a new taste of my true strength, so you will understand that no matter how much you commit yourself, you can do nothing against me!"

The esper prepared for the god's next attack, carefully observing her every move.

Othinus raised her spear high and recalled her power.

"I am Othinus! I am the god of war and sorcery. I am the god at the top of the Nordic myth, I have authority over the nine worlds, over the gods and over all the creatures. Every warrior belongs to me, every weapon belongs to me and is part of my arsenal, each of them is part of my treasure and now I claim them!"

Numerous golden portals opened in the air and a weapon slowly came out of each one.

"Gate of Asgard!"

The esper looked at the spectacle with a shocked look, Othinus had called countless arms with this strange magic and every weapon was loaded with enormous power. Not that Accelerator couldn't reflect them, but every weapon had different types of magic vectors and to analyze them, it would take some time, but no time now, every weapon was pointed in his direction and he would surely have suffered damage if he had been hit.

"Hahahaha! These are all weapons that come from my arsenal, every weapon of Nordic mythology here for you! Balmung, Dainsleif, Gram, Tyrfing, Hrunting, Mjollnir every weapon for you human!"

In an instant, innumerable blades were launched as missiles in his direction.

"Tch." the esper snapped his tongue, evoking as many weapons as possible, flying backwards with four funnels of wind forming on his back.

A couple of swords hit him but he managed to reflect them without problems, he looked down and saw that the attack had already destroyed the entire road now full of craters, with swords trapped in the ground that dissolve in the air like golden dust. He should have kept his guard up, it was just the beginning and he would never underestimate his opponent, aware of Othinus' strength and the fact that she certainly had many other cards to play. He did not dwell further on his thoughts that a new series of weapons were launched against him again.

The weapons were largely reflected, but some felt the magical impact, while others bypassed (albeit slightly) his vector shield causing him several injuries.

"Ghaaaaa!" the Esper screamed in pain and cursed silently.

Fortunately, the wounds were superficial and this allowed Accelerator to continue fighting. At a certain point numerous spears were thrown in his direction, put one hand forward and reflected them all, but paused to observe them and realized that they were the same as Gungnir! Could Othinus recreate that spear so easily? No, it was impossible even with his power as a magical god he took time only to create a single spear, probably those were only replicas inferior to the original to be used as disposable weapons. It was the only reason he had managed to push them away easily, if it had been the real Gungnir he would have died ... again.

Probably Othinus is creating replicas of the various weapons and therefore to compensate for the quantity the quality of most of them has been reduced, obviously even for her it is not so easy to create legendary weapons in a short time.

Suddenly a powerful hammer charged with electric energy crashed into the esper like a lightning storm, only to be easily reflected to the sender even though it disintegrated before reaching the magic god.

"Seriously Othinus? Send me against a stupid electric hammer? To reflect electricity is the first thing I learned to do." he sneered.

"Probably." she admitted "However up to now you have only kept on the defense without ever going on the offensive, do you think you can boast you instead?"

"True." Accelerator replied, observing the destroyed road from above and some buildings damaged after their initial battle (especially Othinus' attacks). It was time to go on the attack!

Numerous tornadoes were created by the esper with his power and launched against Othinus, despite the power unleashed by them the god with one eye remained motionless in its place without suffering a single scratch.

"So you think that a little breeze could really do something to me. Really disappointing, I was hoping you were a little more intelligent, human."

He didn't answer, but one thing he understood, Othinus would not have pulled back from any attack in order to prove her superiority over him.

Including this, he profited of the opportunity.

He manipulated the vectors of the air again, though this time in a different way stretching arms upwards.

He created a single mighty tornado that has risen to the sky and began to compress the air into a single point.

A violet light began to grow above him at a height of hundreds of meters illuminating the night sky. Plasma. Plasma creation through air compression, a technique he had previously invented to be used against a certain level 0 that he never had the opportunity to really use due to external interference. He didn't expect that the time would come to use such a firepower again, but that moment had arrived, now against the god of magic Othinus.

When he reached the critical mass, Accelerator lowered his arms and threw the mighty plasma sphere against the enemy. The plasma hit the target in full triggering an explosion that destroyed half of the district, reducing everything to a heap of dust and debris. The streets and buildings that were nearby were almost or completely destroyed, except for a certain windowless building which was designed to withstand even nuclear explosions (to the slight regret of the esper).

Ash and dust rose upward in a great cloud of smoke, the impact of such an attack would have killed almost anyone. Almost.

Accelerator maintained a stoic expression in the face of this without ever lowering its guard, when the cloud cleared it could see an enormous crater with a single figure standing in the middle of it.

"Not bad. I felt a bit of pain, it was definitely better than your previous attempts but, if that was your winning card then you still have a long way to go." she said nonchalantly.

The esper loaded at full speed towards her, with the god who replied with other magic weapons hurled at him with the latter which he dodged and easily diverted by approaching the objective, loading his right fist.

"Take this!"

Time seemed to slow down while the two were only inches away from each other. The Esper struck the god with a punch charged with all the force he had amplified by his ability, but Othinus easily blocked him with her free hand, intercepting the blow with inhuman speed.

Accelerator gritted his teeth as he met the gaze of the girl who had easily blocked his fist with his hand.

The gaze of both was deep and cold, able to dig deep into anyone's soul and instill fear into them.

"You are weak. Your every effort is in vain, you are only a human while I am a god. What you have before you is absolute power, something against which no mortal can do anything."

A series of explosions hit him, sending him back a hundred meters. He could reflect the attack to prevent it from being lethal but at that neighborhood it would not have been possible to reflect it completely by calculating all the vectors.

He fell to the ground spitting blood and full of further wounds, tried to get up despite he was running out of strength, but suddenly a sharp pain hit him in the abdomen.

It was a sword. A sword came in from his back and out of his belly. The Esper did not know but that was a replica of Dainslef, a sword capable of cutting off the phases of magic. Although not as powerful as the original, it still had sufficient power to cut through the space and bypass the vector shield of the esper number 1.

His vision began to blur and a familiar feeling struck him, a feeling he had experienced several times in his fight against the magic god and which he now felt again. The death. The feeling of closing your eyes and plummeting into darkness with the fear of not waking up anymore.

Finally everything became dark.

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The Esper opened his eyes, alive and without any wound, but with the memory of all that had happened. Die and rise again at the hands of a magic god.

It was not the first time he came back to life, it would be the last, but he felt a strange flame of power not easy to describe that was expanding from within himself. He couldn't tell if it was that part of Imagine Breaker within himself or his esper ability, what he was sure of was that something inside him was changing.

He rose slowly from the ground coming out of his thoughts while a graceful and at the same time maleficent voice spoke to him.

"So human, how does it feel to be crushed by the inevitable and cruel destiny? What do you feel by being easily denied your insignificant existence?" she scoffed.

These speeches did not touch him at all, with all the hells he endured these insults and provocations were useless. Othinus who was a magic god with the power and knowledge to destroy and create the world infinity times was certainly intelligent enough to understand that was useless. So why was she so insistent? What would she get insulting him and by asking him unnecessary and provocative questions? What she did made no sense. She had to be simply focused on breaking him not doing empty speeches that couldn't even make sense if told by her. Just as in the innumerable worlds created by her she often began dialogues that she could hardly understand and they were rather out of context in which they were found.

Who started talking so many times with someone you're torturing and killing?

Accelerator's eyes widened and the events of the Sisters experiment came his to mind.

Why was he thinking about it right now?

Misaka says as Misaka is wondering, if that is the case, then why did you bother talking to the Misakas during the experiments? Many times... many times, even though there weren't many conversations.

Accelerator grabbed his head as a word from Last Order crossed his mind.

Misaka says as Misaka regrets that she couldn't notice your signs. If Misaka told you: "I don't want to fight anymore", would you have stopped?"

Quite right. When he fought against his sisters, he unconsciously persuaded them to run away and to retreat from the fight by launching provocations, insults and inciting them with fear. A vain attempt. He had failed and the sisters never retreated from the battle and only Last Order whose emotions were never suppressed could understand him.

The Esper looked up to observe the god with one eye only a few meters from him with a realization.

It was the same situation, it was as if he had returned to those experiments with a single difference, he was not the executioner this time. Now he was reliving the same situation the sisters were in with a powerful adversary who had not yet found a way to defeat.

And above all with an opponent who was unconsciously trying to convey a message just as he had done a while ago. What message could it be though? What was Othinus really fighting for now? She claimed to want his submission and obedience, sweeping away his motivations, ridiculing his willingness to fight, thinking about it she could easily make him his slave in a snap of his fingers by altering his personality or inflicting an infinite amount of pain on him, but she didn't. She always gave him a chance to recover and react, but what was the reason?

Which of her words could give him a clue to the true intentions of the god?

What you have before you is absolute power.

How does it feel to be crushed by the inevitable and cruel destiny? What do you feel by being easily denied your insignificant existence?

Those words came back to him. "Absolute power." "Cruel destiny."

All too familiar words.

He had wanted absolute power believing he would change his life. And because of the cruel fate he had been forced to live most of his life in the darkness of the academy city.

"So you stopped human? I thought you wanted to defeat me and break my illusions, so you said. Did you give up?" the words of Othinus brought him back to reality.

"Tell me Othinus, what drives you so far?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean what you aim for. You are the perfect god of magic, you are omnipotent, with the power to do everything, yet I don't see you doing anything constructive so far except wasting your power to torture a single person by playing with the world. What logic is behind your actions?"

She didn't answer. For an instant she seemed to be taken aback by the question, but then she immediately hid it.

"I don't need to explain to you my intentions. After all, even if I tried it, it would be useless, because a human like you would never be able to understand the way of thinking of a god."

"Bullshits." he spat "You speak as if your reasoning was completely different from mine as if you were born as a deity but it is not."

The girl stiffened.

"Leivinia Birdway explained to me several things about magic and the last time she explained to me the details about a magic god. A magic god is not a true god, but a magician whose magic has reached the stage of a deity, just like an esper that would have reached level 6, we can all talk about ways to become gods but in the end we were nothing but human beings, including you. Reaching absolute power for some goal, to fill one's weaknesses, for greed or because you have lost something or someone important."

Silence

A long and disturbing silence was established in the air.

The memory of a crying little girl in front of her mother's grave crossed her mind. A human girl, a weak girl, alone and vulnerable to the world.

Othinus narrowed her eye and clenched her teeth.

"DAMN HUMAN! Don't you dare make fun of me!"

A powerful ray of light fell upon the esper hitting him and throwing him away, followed by innumerable super-speed weapons and as many explosions.

Accelerator would have been slaughtered by such an attack in different circumstances, but now he was no longer unprepared as at the beginning.

He had analyzed every attack of Othinus and every magic used up to now, studying each vector and implementing them in his calculations, now he was able to reject any attack launched by the god, he would not have completely reflected them but he would have done enough to protect himself.

No matter how much power he would have received against, he would have rejected it, whether it was an army, a nuclear bomb or the attacks of a magic god, he would have made it. Because he was Accelerator.

His defense had become impregnable, and it was time to go on the attack.

Accelerator set off again at full speed despite the weapons and rays of light it faced, the distance with Othinus would be eliminated in a short time.

Othinus intercepted him by creating a barrier that slowed him down at the last moment, and before he could react she closed the fingers of his left hand and gave a powerful punch to the face of the esper, pushing him back ten meters.

The punch had left its mark but the esper didn't give up and hung up with all his will, he moved faster than a normal human could see but it didn't matter which direction he attacked, how much force he used or how fast he used; although in rage, Othinus intercepted every stroke with reflexes and divine abilities without making any effort of his.

The Esper was frustrated both for not being able to communicate with the god and for not being able to inflict a single blow to his opponent. He had to find a way to get closer to her faster than she could anticipate and inflict a blow powerful enough to damage her. But how could he do that?

In the past, when he was still a cripple with a damaged brain he found himself in complicated situations that he had always managed to overcome. Every opponent he had managed to face in the darkness of the academy city had his strengths but he had always found a way to fill the gaps in his handicap and take over by destroying any organization that came up against him.

He also thought of all the methods that those people had used to gain the upper hand against him, at first he considered them mediocre tricks used by weak fools who would later be defeated, but now he saw them in a different light; now he recognized the value of those who through cunning tried to gain the upper hand over those who were stronger than them even if most of the time they failed.

An example was when during the events of October 9 the underground organizations of the city clashed, Accelerator had faced many of their members, from mercenaries to espers, but that they were weapons and powers, to Esper number 1 it was sufficient to analyze the vectors of each and -

The Esper widened his eyes to the realization of something important.

He had analyzed the vectors of the various abilities.

With this thought an idea occurred to him.

Othinus observed the human not far from her and noticed that he positioned himself in what appeared to be a typical fighting pose, loading his fist backwards as if he were about to hit someone. He had a calm expression on his face with crimson eyes on her.

The girl looked at him carefully, ready to receive the next shot.

But it never came.

It all happened in a few moments.

The Esper suddenly disappeared into thin air. He had vanished, he hadn't moved at all without her having a single clue as to where he would attack. An instant later something hit her on the right side of her face, with a power that moved her a couple of meters from where she had been since the beginning of the fight.

"Eh?" it was the only thing that exit from the lips of the god.

The astonishment and confusion of what had just happened was greater than the pain he felt on his right cheek at the moment.

"Damn, I didn't expect it to really work."

Othinus turned to hear the speaker of the voice, saw Accelerator with his fist stretched forward and a smile on his lips. Had he hit her? How did he do it ?! How had he managed to move so fast that she wasn't even seen ?! Unless-

"You've teleported." she hissed.

"You guessed, congratulations. I couldn't actually hit you in any way by simply moving on a three-dimensional space, you would have anticipated my every move, so it occurred to me to push my limits to instantly transport myself by calculating eleven-dimensional vectors. I have already analyzed that type of vectors in the past, I modified the algorithm I applied them to myself and finally I replicated the teleport, certainly it is still very far from skills like Move Point but it is still more than enough to be useful in battle. " the esper explained.

"Tch! You used a nice trick." said the frowning god.

"Yeah, and with your blind spot in plain sight it was just as easy!"

Othinus's face became darker because she knew what he was talking about. Her eye patch.

The lack of the right eye had never been a problem for her since she had sacrificed it to become a magical god, or at least most of the time. The lack of an eye has always denied her a total view of her surroundings, certainly filled those gaps with her enhanced sense of divinity, but on some occasions the problem recurred and this was one of those.

Accelerator had hit her at the only point where her view was imperfect.

"Now I know that even a god is not invulnerable." said Accelerator.

Othinus touched her cheek where he had hit her the wound had regenerated almost immediately, but there was still some blood.

Hurting a magic god was not at all a trivial matter, in fact, the esper's fist had released a quantity of energy equal to a small nuclear device, which was sufficient both to wound Othinus and to create a shock wave that further devastated the area in which they found themselves further destroying the already ruined buildings. Not that two beings like them considered it, no matter how much destruction they had caused as long as one of them eventually defeated the other.

Othinus looked at him with a neutral expression on her face as she looked at a drop of blood on his hand after touching her face.

The god smiled.

"Did you make so much effort for a single drop of blood?"

Othinus mocked him and moved his spear creating a shockwave that threw the esper into the air. It was the first time she used Gungnir to hit him, evidently now she was no longer underestimating him.

He also had to analyze the vectors of that weapon.

Suddenly, Othinus raised her hand to the other as if she was grabbing something and pulled it to herself.

Accelerator looked up, only to open his eyes and mouth to what he was seeing at that precise moment.

High above the broad vault of the sky, the esper looked at the lunar surface crumbling into countless fragments and heading at full speed towards the planet (and above all in his direction).

A single unusual phrase crossed the mind of the esper.

Such misfortune.

An immense swarm of meteorites fell to the Earth particularly in the insular region of Japan and in the neighboring regions. There were meteors of all sizes from a diameter of a few meters to hundreds of meters, many crumbled once they entered the atmosphere but others maintained a sufficiently large mass to reach the ground, the impact of them hit both the land and the sea devastating everything.

If the scene had been seen by the space would have seemed as if some nuclear weapons had devastated the nation by raising a pile of ash that would have covered part of the northern hemisphere. On the surface the scenery was just as horrible, the whole Japanese prefecture had been wiped out, the landscapes were in ashes and the cities were destroyed with the dust and gases that had spread far and wide to make the environment almost inhospitable for life of flora and fauna. Entire countries and habitats were in total ruin.

The Academy City was no exception, the most technologically developed city in the world was now completely destroyed, ruined buildings and remains of numerous meteorites scattered everywhere to make the city almost unrecognizable, with only the indestructible windowless building still perfectly intact. In the center of that apocalyptic scenario stood a solitary figure untouched by the catastrophe, it was a girl with long blond hair, with a witch's hat and a gold spear.

Othinus looked at the scene around herself with satisfaction.

"That is how insects are crushed." she stated proudly.

She had not initially planned to do it this way, but to punish an arrogant human, she did not care to destroy the world or reshape the universe again.

A sadistic and proud smile covered her face, but it was short-lived.

A gigantic boulder the size of a skyscraper fell upon her but was destroyed in an instant with the power of Gungnir.

The powders created were suddenly dispersed with an explosion of air, and from this explosion emerged a familiar figure that rushed in front of her.

So he was still alive? thought Othinus with a little disappointment.

Accelerator had easily survived thanks to his power with almost no damage, yet his expression was no longer calm and stoic, now he seemed rather pissed.

"If you throw me another moon ... it ends badly."

"Sorry, it's my way of crushing insects. But I just remembered that you're like a cockroach, I can try to get rid of you but you will always survive somehow."

"I destroy you!" the esper loaded forward.

"Come on!"

A moment before coming into contact with her, the esper vanished again, and reappeared behind the god, striking her with a powerful kick.

Othinus gritted her teeth and with a movement of Gungnir tried to hit him but he easily avoided it by teleporting back a few meters and then resuming his assault. This time Othinus was prepared by creating a shield around her and intercepting the surprise attack and then repelling it with a golden lightning bolt.

No matter how good he was at reflecting electricity, those of a magical nature created by her still forced him to back away and to get defensive.

The new trick of imitating teleport allowed him to take his opponent off guard, but it would not last long because Othinus, though arrogant, was not naive and would gradually adapt to his tactics, so he had to invent new ones.

"That vector shield is really a nuisance." said the god with one eye.

She had a frown on her face, her lips making a grimace ... and then that grimace turned into a dark smile.

"But this, it's only as long as you can calculate every vector that is thrown at you."

He didn't know exactly why, but every part of his brain told him to be careful and prepare for the imminent danger.

Gungnir in the hands of Othinus shone and new golden portals appeared in the air and numerous luminous weapons were launched from each of them.

She has already tried this attack.

Accelerator extended his hand forward, ready to reflect his swords as he had done before, but at the last moment the unthinkable happened.

Splashes of blood ended on the ground. Accelerator was pierced by several blades.

He spit blood from his mouth and fell to the ground succumbing to his wounds.

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.

.

He opened his eyes again, died again and resurrected.

He looked up to see Othinus, only to see new swords turn against him, but rather than try to reflect them he avoided them.

"What did you do?" he asked.

He did not know what had happened, what he knew was just that he could not reflect the weapons because he could no longer properly analyze the vectors of them, as if they had become illegible.

"Simple. Your power is to control all the vectors that you can understand and calculate, but what if you can't do it anymore? If instead the numerical value of a certain vector became a completely different one? At that point you could no longer reflect it."

At that point Othinus highlighted Gungnir who was shining.

"As much as it pains me to admit it, you managed to put me in a bit of trouble, to the point of not being able to use conventional methods but a part of my true powers as a god of magic. So I used Gungnir to manipulate reality, and considering I am omnipotent, I can literally do everything, for example I could change the universal value of numbers and decree that 2 + 2 = 5 and it would not matter how much a thing goes against the common logic, it would become law. "

Accelerator this time had a shocked expression on his face, as he realized that if what Othinus said was true then he was really screwed.

His skill was entirely based on vector calculations and if he could no longer redirect Othinus' attacks due to anomalous vectors then he was wall-mounted.

If he could no longer reflect the weapons he had received, he could only dodge them.

But would he succeed?

Yes.

He would avoid every weapon and meanwhile would have thought of a new strategy.

A new set of swords, spears and axes came out of the golden portals and hurled themselves on the esper.

He intercepted each of them making the most of his senses and his AIM field, and avoided them at almost inhuman speed.

He avoided weapon after weapon without any of them able to touch him.

Unknown to Othinus, Accelerator, after endless hordes of struggle and survival, he unconsciously developed new abilities, including several physical improvements in physical strength and reflexes, and at the same time his esper ability was significantly improved both in power and versatility.

He could expand (albeit slightly) his own AIM field by controlling the vectors at moderate distances and even analyze them in advance to then divert them or dodge them, which is why he was able to anticipate the trajectory of any weapon that even if incalculable could still to predict where they would go to hit similar to a radar. It was like a sixth sense that would have warned him of any element of danger, very similar to the ability of a certain boy with pointed hair.

Precognition.

An almost supernatural instinct that the white-haired Esper could now use in battle to his advantage.

Othinus looked casually at the human in front of him while he survived the rain of swords of his arsenal, he was smart, he had survived much more than he ever expected, but he wouldn't have gone that way forever, he could stay on the defensive for long but at the end would have given way without ever going on the offensive.

Suddenly a kind of powerful spherical tornado diverted numerous weapons and raised a large quantity of soot that temporarily prevented her from seeing the boy.

She didn't pay much attention and a new set of weapons, which were once Gungnir replicas, were again launched in her direction.

However, a loud clang of crushed steel spread around the area.

Othinus raised an apparently confused and curious eyebrow at the noise and also at the blue and red lights that were in the distance.

The dust dissipated and a human shape took shape.

He was the white-haired boy with crimson eyes who stood firm and imposing in a single place.

What caught the attention of the goddess was the source of the two lights she had seen before now in the hands of the esper.

Why was that human wielding two swords?

Accelerator continued this dance for a while, dodging and escaping from a swarm of mythical weapons seemed now to become a new habit for him. He could do it well but could not continue like this forever, he had to go on the offensive or he would never have defeated Othinus.

But how would he effectively repel the swords if he couldn't reflect them?

Reflecting it with his power was the only thing he could do?

No.

Vector control was one of the cards in his hand, but not the only one, he had already learned that long ago.

The esper looked at the ground full of weapons, some were still there, while others dissolved into luminous dust to return to the magic god's arsenal, looking at such a scene, suddenly he had an idea.

He only needed to gain a few seconds to briefly interrupt the enemy attack.

He began to control the vectors of the air and concentrating them in his hands, forming two spheres of compressed air.

It was a technique that copied the skills of two girls he had met long ago and they used it for both attack and defense.

Volcanic ball.

So it was that a powerful explosion of compressed air was unleashed in an instant on the swarm of flying blades, scattering them in all directions and raising a blanket of smoke that temporarily obscured the view of Othinus on him.

It was time.

It was the perfect opportunity to go on the counterattack.

The Esper took advantage to locate a pair of weapons on the ground that he could use himself, in the midst of all the swords that would soon disappear after having rejected them with the Volcanic ball, he finally found two that were right for him.

He advanced quickly to grab them and immediately felt the power that escaped from the two, with his understanding of magic, although limited he devised a way to stabilize both swords to prevent them from dissipating using his vector control.

After a few seconds, instead of turning to dust, the swords lit up with a bright red and blue.

The Esper spat blood, stabilized and activated the two weapons making them his own, but you feel the effects of the magic recoil on his body.

In the next instant new weapons were launched on him, however rather than dodging them this time the epser reacted with an oscillation of the red sword and then of the blue one, intercepting the trajectory of each blade and destroying it with its swords.

He was not at all a master in the art of fencing, but through his improved muscle skills in numerous worlds and taking advantage of his Esper ability he was able to wield two swords without much difficulty. This went very far from the old Accelerator's fighting style, but to fight a god he never had to stop adapting and evolving, going beyond his limits and growing stronger and more unpredictable.

Othinus unleashed a new wave of bullets on him, to which he responded by swinging his two swords, the red sword known as the sword of the god Freyr and the blue sword known as Balmung (so previously called by Othinus herself), in deadly and rapid dance to destroy every weapon in its path, with a clang of steel that repeated itself second by second.

After a while the Esper got used to the use of the sword and by managing the magic recoil of the two magic weapons he quickly advanced towards his enemy; swords, spears, axes and any magical weapon type existing within the Norse myth in the arsenal of the god of war was destroyed by a pair of red and blue swords.

Accelerator began to smile, even if he no longer used his reflect as a defense method, he could not deny that this new style of combat with cold weapons started to amuse him a bit, since not only in that precise moment had he proved useful and efficient as he expected, but the use of a method he had never tried before, although he always had to be careful of the magic recoil, gave him a feeling of adrenaline that he felt very rarely.

Step by step, the Accelerator race did not stop and Othinus felt cornered, the flow of bullets increased but this barely slowed him down, arrived just twenty meters away he threw (to Othinus' surprise) the red sword in the direction of the god. The girl raised her hand creating a shield to block the sword by temporarily stopping the flurry of swords, in that precise moment the esper will zero the distance between the two of them.

Othinus realized that she had committed a mistake, Accelerator had managed to block the flow of bullets for a few seconds and then hit her by surprise.

The Esper number 1 was now only two meters away from her and with her blue sword shining in her hands she was about to release her attack.

"Well god of magic, get ready to savor your blood!"

An explosion of light enveloped them both.

The magic god Othinus was transfixed by Balmung.

Accelerator would then take advantage of her injury to attack her again and defeat her.

Or at least that was the plan.

When the light faded, the blue sword was in pieces with only the hilt in the Esper's hand.

Gungnir was leaning forward, and the tip of the spear pierced Accelerator's chest.

"Have you ever heard of the legend that Balmung the most powerful of human weapons was destroyed by Gungnir?" said Othinus with a smirk.

"Using my weapons against me was an original and at the same time useless idea."

She pulled the bloody spear from the boy's chest causing him to stagger back.

The blood began to come out of his wound, if it weren't for his willpower he would have already collapsed on the ground unconscious.

He had done his calculations badly, Othinus was always one step ahead of him and would now find a countermeasure on every plan, there was still a strong gap of knowledge and skill. Similar to when the academy city espers only confronted him to lose miserably, ironically it seemed that karma had come back to bite his ass once again for the shit that other people had gone through because of him.

He used his vector control to stop the bleeding and then resume a new attempt to fight.

To his surprise, however, two gilded portals opened but instead of weapons, golden chains emerged from them which trapped him in an instant.

He could not calculate the vectors as Othinus had modified them with his power to make them illegible and was now paralyzed.

"These are the chains of Gleipnir, the most resistant chains in the whole creation, they are impossible to break even by you."

With a snap of fingers, an electric shock went through the chains and hit the esper.

"Ghaaaaaaa!" he screamed in agony.

"I have to admit, after Ollerus I did not expect someone capable of holding up against me for so long to appear, for a human you are strong and even a real warrior, if I had not used the power of Gungnir I doubt I would have easily defeated you. But now I'm tired of playing if you allow yourself to continue further you would give yourself airs and be annoying, moreover I must now clarify the position between the two of us: man and god. "

Thousands of portals opened in all directions.

Accelerator woke up in a dark place, not too surprised.

What will have happened? Am I dead or did Othinus destroy the world again?

He retraced his last memory of Othinus who spoke to him after trapping and thundering him. The thought of electricity made him shiver, if during the experiment the Sisters managed to hit him he would have been traumatized for life or dead.

He stood for a while in silence in the dark to meditate where he was now.

"A long time since we meet Accelerator."

A luminous being appeared before him, a very familiar figure to him.

"Aiwass?"

"Yes, I am the same Holy Guardian Angel who entrusts his secrets to a young magician named Aleister Crowley whom you have known in your turn, and as an angel linked to the pure world I am not influenced by the powers of Othinus who can only control the phases of magic."

"So this is why you still exist, in the same way as the will of the Misaka network."

"I see you can understand me correctly this time, evidently the world has called the truth to some extent."

"This doesn't fully explain why you're here even if you survived you can't keep your shape without the Sisters' AIM field. Also where are we? And where's Othinus?"

"First of all, the Misaka network is not the only way to manifest myself, as far as where we are now in your mind talking telepathically out of sight of Othinus."

"How did you get here? What do you want?"

"We don't have much time available, so I'll explain what I'm doing here. You're fighting Othinus and you're losing, which I had foreseen from the beginning. I knew that she would complete Gungnir and easily defeat all her opponents for this I chose to to intervene. Do you remember how you were conscious together with Kamijou Touma when you first met Othinus?"

The memory of a mysterious electric shock that hit him while he was on the Sargasso surfaced in his mind.

"It was you. You anticipated all this and you saved me through the Misaka network. Why me?"

"You were the only one I could get in touch with, also after having absorbed a fraction of Imagine Breaker inside you, you managed to survive the world's destruction."

"At what cost? To feel desperation to see countless hells and see my every attempt to defeat a god fail? I didn't get anything in the end. You chose the wrong person." the esper mocked with a note of sadness coming out of his mouth.

"You are alive. You have overcome adversities of all kinds. Adversities that would have torn apart any human being, but you survived. Evolving, becoming stronger, wiser and reaching new heights and this leads us to the reason why I am here and why I didn't show up before. In these worlds your mentality and your soul are gradually changed and you have matured, increasing albeit slightly your compatibility with Imagine Breaker which entered into "resonance" with your Esper ability, which you have probably already perceived. The two powers together allow you to get in touch with my core and in this way, you can talk freely with me and not only." at this point the artificial angel smiled.

"You fought well against Othinus but the difference between you two is still overwhelming, whatever plan you have sooner or later will end up failing."

"Stop saying the obvious! I don't need someone else to blame him."

"I can lend you temporarily my power."

The Esper widened his eyes.

"What?"

"I can lend you my power in order to bridge the gap in power between you and her, being connected to my core allows you to do this. After all, I am a being created to stand against the magic gods."

Aiwass wasn't lying, Accelerator could understand it but it seemed too good to be true.

"Why do you do it? What do you gain from it? I don't think you do it out of kindness."

"No. I have emotions other than human ones, the reason that pushes me to do it is not altruism. I simply know that the world would become a boring place if it became the playground of an annoying magic god indefinitely, also, I find the humans very interesting especially those like you who exceed the expectations of adverse destiny and the cages that chain them. You have attracted my interest more than before Accelerator, now I am curious to see with a little push what results you will achieve in the future."

Silence

The corners of the Esper's mouth curved upward.

"Oh. So you lend me your power just for personal, hilarious fun. Can I really beat Othinus if I accept your offer?"

"I will use you as my guest to unleash my full powers by temporarily allowing you to equal a god, I will provide you with knowledge and power but I will leave the control of the fight to you. You can compete with Othinus in terms of power but the final result will depend only on you."

The Esper's smile widened into his usual grin.

He already knew the answer.

"Okay. Let's get started!"

"Do whatever you want will be the whole Law."

Countless swords were unleashed on the white-haired boy ready to tear him to pieces infinite times and break his will.

This was the one-eyed god's plan as he watched the scene.

At the last moment, when the human should have been pierced, a mighty light exploded from him, erasing all weapons in seconds.

"What the hell is going on?"

Othinus was furious, the human being had endured for a long time, but now he had no more aces up his sleeve and would have died as decreed by her. Why was he once again escaping his fate?! How had he done it this time?!

Othinus watched in disbelief as a mighty column of light charged with an unknown power rose into the sky, illuminating the ruined city like a star in the dark.

It was an exceptional sight that would have surprised anyone but the only spectator was a girl with a witch hat.

After a minute the column faded and there was only one figure at its base.

Accelerator was standing there and motionless, he seemed apparently the same guy but with some big differences compared to before. His wounds were completely healed, the cuts on his stitched clothes and his hair a purer and brighter white.

And finally.

Two big platinum wings extended from his back and a halo with various concentric circles above his head.

The Esper met his gaze with Othinus and his body lightened slightly with a silvery-white light emitting an essence of pure, deep and unfathomable power.

A power perceived by Othinus herself.

Her grip on Gungnir trembled slightly. An emotion she hadn't felt for centuries suddenly awakened in her.

Fear.

For the first time in a thousand years he felt an emotion like fear. The fear of the human being, no, of the entity in front of her.

"Othinus."

The human began, with a calm and at the same time more imposing voice than ever.

"You had a lot of fun doing what you wanted and tormenting me with your power."

The wings spread wide, brightening more and more than their silver-platinum color.

"Now it's my turn."

A/N: I tried to imagine a fight between two individuals with the power to destroy everything, the reasoning, the tactics, the powers used and I realized this battle. I'm not the best at writing fight scenes but I think I did it pretty well.

For those who ask, yes, I made citations to other Anime to make it more interesting. Lol

Accelerator is now not only clashing with a stronger opponent than he, but now he is seeing the battle through the same eyes of the Sisters, on what it means to die and on the emotions that the murderer and victim feel.

If Accelerator seems slightly OOC, I remind you that he has lived numerous experiences in the various worlds to gradually change both his personality making him more emotional. It will be better explained in the next chapters.

The final scene with Aiwass was the one prepared for a long time, with Imagine Breaker and the skill of the number 1 esper that can is possible get to contact with its core as mentioned by Aleister in the canon. I gathered the two powers in one body just for this moment, I thought it was a pity that in the original story then this topic was not taken up again. Aiwass's intervention may seem a little sudden, but he only acts in cases of extreme necessity or when he thinks something is of interest to him.

Now the vertices of science and magic will clash again. But now that Accelerator has gotten stronger, it doesn't mean Othinus doesn't have any other tricks up his sleeve, but you will see it in the next chapter.

Thanks you for following the story.