The atmosphere on Elysian Fields was brimming with sound and emotion.

Humans had a better reception of Cleopatra than they had of Jingū; especially, were excited by the great armor she wore and beauty just as all stories said. The Egyptian woman in arena listened to all this, not avoiding drawing a proud smile and with guard down.

The deities had respect and fear for Nut's appearance; although looked like a little girl, everything around her drew danger. The Egyptians were the ones who expressed confidence, although no one wanted to talk more about her out of the same respect. Nut's golden eyes only drew great indifference, as if knew everything would end in an instant.

The little valkyrie Lifthrasir, sitting on Geir's lap, couldn't contain her emotion:

– So amazing, big sis! Two fighters who met!

– Yes. I didn't expect something like this to happen, especially when Cleopatra decided to fight even knowing who her opponent would be.

– Really? – the little Valkyrie got more excited – You let a human choose who will fight against!

The eldest stayed with those words, innocent but curious. For her part, Athena on her couch was truly happy.

– Cool! Lady Nut against a human who worshiped in life! The first fight between two acquaintances!

– A curious coincidence~

Athena sat up a little more to appreciate Cleopatra.

– They said that woman was very beautiful… And now I confirm it! At least, she's prettier than that… busty dork Aphrodite, but not as me! I wonder how she'll fight with that armor!

– Too bad you'll have to pause it!

Zeus's sarcastic exclamation caught the attention of the 2 brothers present.

– It's time for you to look for your brother, Athena.

– What? What are you talking about, daddy?

– I had already told you, you should look for your older brother; come on, go! The sooner you find it, the sooner you'll be here again!

Athena went blank for a moment, as if was considering obeying her father. After a while, got up to approach Hermes in a whisper.

– Go for Ares and I'll give you a candy~

– Athena!

– Yes, I'm coming daddy!

The goddess had no choice but to run out of the seats, making something similar to a childish tantrum.

Meanwhile, the three gods of the main Trinity Egyptian were with their fists clenched unable to hide their eagerness; that gave Khonsu time to think things over more than once.

« It's something… curious, really.

» An Egyptian human will fight against Lady Nut. If I'm not mistaken, Heimdall just said she was going to fight Sobek, but they changed her opponent… Huh?

» W-Where does that coincidence come from? An Egyptian human facing 2 Egyptian gods, and a last-minute change of fighter as if it… regretted a decision… »

Khonsu was a little annoyed at drawing that conclusion, but had to do something about it.

« I think someone should know about this. Considering what Gautama did 1000 years ago… These coincidences can only lead to one thing. »

The falcon turn to let the place, but Isis noticed his frantic movements.

– Where do you think you are going?

– … Yes! – he turned to the goddess – Lady Isis, I must speak with someone from the superiors immediately. I seem to have found a--

– I haven't given you permission to move. – Isis immediately denied, surprising Khonsu.

– B-But--!

– Khonsu… Do you dare to defy my order, just when I am in such a bad mood? – Isis clenched one of her fists, looking sideways at the falcon – Until I see my mother beat that damn blasphemer, you won't move from there.

Khonsu couldn't help but resign himself to it, nodding his head slightly. The Egyptian human woman let out a lovely sigh.

– Let's get ready, will you, dear?

She extended both arms to sides and from these a faint golden light arose which, taking material left over from the armor, fashioned a pair of battle weapons:

On the right a huge hammer and to the left a Roman-style shield; she lowered both arms to sides, not even putting up guard, while Nut…

Any. She did nothing but look at her.

The onlookers were shocked at the appearance of the weapons, especially the gods who made disgusting facial expressions.

– Really? – Shiva was one of them – In addition to full armor, is she going to use weapons?

– Undoubtedly exaggerated…

Sitting next to him was his friend Rudra, who unlike the Indian leader was seated on a throne. And behind the god of storms, Lakshmi standing with both hands behind back.

– Darling, do you think…? – Parvati fearfully approached Shiva – Will it be a problem for Lady Nut?

Shiva looked for a moment at that little dark-colored girl; he had a feeling very similar to the first fight of a thousand years ago, which made him give a single statement about it.

– If what they say is true… Those weapons won't even be able to cut a single hair.

– Very well… Let's not drag this out any longer! – Heimdall lowered one of his hands – Let the third fight of second Ragnarok begin--!

Heimdall had hardly finished when Cleopatra immediately changed her position; both wings spread, giving momentum to rush forward, the shield in front, hammer poised to strike. Despite her rugged appearance, the human closed the gap in a flash.

– But what--!? – Heimdall stepped back when realized she almost pass over him – Cleopatra is the first to attack as soon as the fight begins!

The human reached the deity; at the moment nailed one of the feet to the ground, her hip turned and with it the human had enough momentum to throw the face of the hammer into the face of the goddess.

Everything indicated just seconds after starting there would be the first combat wound.

But it wasn't like that.

As soon as the hammer was mere inches from her, Nut acted: gracefully took a couple of steps back, managing to escape the trajectory of her weapon cleanly, barely getting the residual air of the attack.

But Cleopatra didn't stop; with the impulse already had, returned the hammer in the same direction, although extending her arm to see if would hit. The result was the same: Nut immediately dodged it with slow steps. Finally the human used both legs to push off and fling the face of the shield in a frontal attack, but the goddess only did a couple of small jumps and turned to her side to dodge.

The human followed her path, dragging the edge of the shield and digging her feet to stop, and so noticed the goddess didn't have a scratch, and her face didn't even seem to have changed at all.

– What a start! Cleopatra attacked first, but Lady Nut in just moments dodged all attacks! Not once or twice, but three times in a row!

The human felt a bit excited by it, so quickly prepared her defense taking out the shield and feet on the ground.

– Cool! You are amazing… "Lady Nut". I didn't expect sour-faced Egyptian to be so good at dodging.

Nut said nothing but kept the same gaze; on the other hand, humanity and allies found themselves quite awed by her representative.

– So wonderful! – exclaimed the little valkyrie – It's an amazing duel! With that speed, she could easily defeat Zeus himself!

Geir laughed in amusement.

– You say a lot of crazy things!

Another of those little valkyries was a bit far from the main stage:

Sitting on  banks of a fountain in middle of a garden of flowers and flowering shrubs on Elysian Fields; there rested the fourteenth Valkyrie sister and eldest of the twins: Lif.

The girl moved her feet back and forth over and over again, showing anger in movements, especially in the facial expression she had.

– Lifthrasir does not know what's saying… – said to herself again, reviewing the discussion she had with her twin sister – She still believes Jingū is superior to Sasaki… But it's wrong!

Stopped moving to get up on the edge of fountain, pacing from side to side as spoke and trying not to fall.

– Jingū Kougou didn't have half the things Sasaki Kojiro had. In first place, she never lost in her life… She conquered an entire nation! Fought and always won; doesn't know how much can learn from defeat…! – Saying it made her realize about the argument – ​​J-Just like Poseidon!

» A-Another thing was her second chance… Sasaki Kojiro trained for 400 years after died, which gave him the advantage to beat Poseidon! And also a millennium to reach perfection; while Jingū trained alone for… – Lif made accounts in head, reaching another very terrible conclusion – O-Only one night!

» B-But the most important w-was… "T-The blessing of the Gods"! With it, Jingū was able to use the abilities to anticipate Sobek's attacks and match him! Without it, she would've had to use her strength, which leaves us at--!

For third time, Lif reached another conclusion depressed her again.

– It leaves us… with the defeat of Jingū… and the death of my big sis Hrist.

She sat back on the edge and put hands on knees to support the chin.

– Jingū was in danger all the time; sure Sasaki saw how many times she could've died. She was able to win for him; without her example as first winner in first Ragnarok, we wouldn't have been able to in this fight… Our second first victory.

She kept thinking about it until heard heavy footsteps approaching; snapped to her feet and immediately stood up.

– Huh!?

Her adventurous young spirit attacked her immediately, letting the imagination run wild.

– Could it be… In this fountain there will be another confrontation between the Gods to discover the impostor!? – Thanks to it, she closed her fists fiercely – Let them come! I alone can against all of you! I'll finish them all off before someone interrupts us!

She kept listening to the echoing footsteps, increasing the volume more and more, indicating the proximity was more imminent. In the end she couldn't take it, letting out a nervous cry all of a sudden.

– They'll kill me if discover me!

She jumped out of the fountain and went to take shelter under the bank, there being enough space to grab her knees and hide head. Down there could only see a man enter the fountain; from the appearance of legs and sandals, she deduced he must be a Greek… maybe a deity?

The man took a couple of turns in garden and finally sat down, very close to Lif; she stood still for a moment, waiting for the Greek to leave, but as minutes passed he simply didn't disappear.

Lif was already beginning to get bored and tired.

– I want to go out. – whispered to herself – But he doesn't leave. Though…

» He doesn't seem to have aggressive intentions but just sitting…

Poked her head to the sides of the place, confirming there were only the two of them there. So put her chest on the ground and slowly began to crawl through it, trying as much as could to be silent so as not to be noticed by the Greek.

Having advanced a couple of feet from her position, Lif got up from the ground and with small steps headed for the exit.

But being only half a foot away from it…

– Well… I should at least know who he was.

Her curiosity got the better of her: turned her head and saw a divine figure hadn't expected to find.

– It's Ares! – yelled in a whisper – The god of war and Zeus' son… If sees me, I'll be fried! I must run--!

– Silly Athena…

– Huh?

Having been about to leave, Ares's voice caught her attention though, more than the voice was the words. She turned again and saw the Greek with his hands on knees and head on the ground.

– That silly Athena. She always has to be like this…

– Oh?

Curiosity invaded Lif and stayed to listen to the Greek…

– After the sudden first attack attempt by the human… Will Lady Nut attack?!

Various humans, especially amateur historians and researchers, began to take notes about Cleopatra VII, highlighting her strength and strategy had used as if they were praising her.

But, in another section of the stadium there were a few groups of people who were close friends and family of the Egyptian.

– C'mon Cleopatra! You can!

And their screams of support were the most outstanding.

One of them was Marco Antonio, a high-ranking Roman general and lover of the pharaoh. Standing up and trying to stand out from the spectators, clapped his arms up and yelled at the top of his lungs. Next to him, a couple of young people were somewhat excited but embarrassed by his father.

– Dad! Don't do that!

– Let us young people be the ones to yell like that!

They were his twin children resulting from the relationship Marco Antonio and Cleopatra VII had: Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene II.

– You should also support your mother! Come on, raise your voices!

– But not like you!

Far from the group there was another boy, also the son of Cleopatra, although was young: Caesarion, or also called Ptolemy XV, son of her and Julius Caesar.

– Come on mother… You can win! – Although he didn't yell so much, his support was enormous – You couldn't have the whole world in your hands… Because of those bastards! It's time to finish them off!

The woman in arena waved the hammer playfully, preparing for her next attack.

– Well… Are you going to do something, or will I be the one to do it all?

Several gods were outraged by Cleopatra's relaxed and disrespectful attitude; among them the main Trinity, who already were not comfortable with her participation.

– I-It doesn't matter… – Isis answered with sanity on a thread – She can say what she wants…

– After all… – answered Osiris – Nothing will be left of her…

Nut looked at Cleopatra indifferently. After her long silence, decided to act: she faced up and raised both arms to heaven.

– After the wait, Lady Nut is finally acting! It looks like she's about to attack!

Nut stayed in that position looking at Cleopatra, until her blue dress began to shine; Cleopatra lowered her guard to see what the goddess was doing.

Her strands floated a bit as the intensity of the glow turned up; after a moment there was a blinding light caused everyone to close their eyes. After the flash, the spectators looked again, seeing now the goddess was no longer alone:

Around Nut, spheres of light appeared, about 10 in all, floating around her. Cleopatra, who had also covered her face, smiled softly upon seeing her.

– So beauty…!

Nut didn't answer, but she lowered both arms: her left to  side, and her right to point fingers at Cleopatra. Immediately a sphere of light traveled at full speed across the field aimed at Cleopatra.

The human barely reacted, since put her shield in front; at the moment of shock, the light sphere detonated like a bomb; the explosion raised a lot of dirt and dust, plus the force was enough to throw Cleopatra into one of the retaining walls.

All spectators were stunned.

– Incredible! With a single hit, Nut is first to hit her opponent!

Lifthrasir squealed in surprise and excitement, while Geir couldn't help but swallow with a little fear.

« After all… We're talking about the mother of Egypt. »

As the smoke cleared, Cleopatra could be seen with back against the retaining wall; her armor was intact, but blood marks were seen on head alarmed the onlookers.

– Cool! – Osiris exclaimed, happy for the first time – A direct hit!

– Her Star Power is as strong as Mr. Ra told us… – Isis smiled sideways – And isn't all she can do…

Nut turned her head a little, seeing the human pinned to the wall; without hesitation moved her hand again and another sphere flew quickly to Cleopatra. The impact was again direct, causing another explosion sent Cleopatra flying another few feet crawling on the retaining wall.

– Another impact of the goddess! Apparently she will stay ahead of the match!

Lifthrasir was shocked, but immediately shook her head.

– No matter! That armor doesn't have a single scratch… It'll be able to withstand more impacts!

Geir didn't entirely agree with it.

« Brokk and Eitri said… that armor was more like a prototype. I hope it can withstand all that attacks. » Her face creased in concern.

– You can Cleo…

The smoke dissipated revealing Cleopatra on the wall again, with more wounds on head and some blood coming out of the slits between the armor, although was unharmed throughout. For third time Nut moved her hand and a new sphere ñ rushed towards the human at full speed.

But, being only a few inches from the impact, suddenly the sphere was redirected to side and causing an explosion far from the human.

– Ehh!? – the viewers were quite surprised.

The person responsible for the act appeared from the smoke; Cleopatra holding the hammer to attack, which from the direction it had implied she had deflected it.

– I can't believe it! With a single blow, Cleopatra got rid of Lady Nut's attack!

– Very well! – Marco Antonio didn't hesitate to applaud openly – That's my wife!

– Dad…!

Likewise, the humans recovered their confidence in fighter, more seeing her body was completely unharmed in terms of armor; likewise the gods expressed much surprise.

– Hoho! – Zeus moved his feet playfully – I didn't expect it!

– In short… – Hermes was also surprised – She's stronger than appears… To have withstood 2 direct attacks in a row…

Cleopatra lowered both arms, adjusting the shield and hammer; looked up and smiled, although on her lips there was a thin thread of blood.

– That hurt. I'll have to charge you~

The deity wasn't in the least surprised by  human's response; in fact, her face didn't change in the slightest either. All she did was seem to part her lips a little to take a deep breath.

– Hmph.

Stretched out her right hand in front, causing all spheres to come to her call and forming a straight line forward. immediately they united, emitting a great amount of light, to turn into a staff: small, according to the size of Nut, with a blue jewel on the scepter, which she took with one hand.

– It is… the Heaven Staff… – Horus commented about it – Her divine weapon and the most powerful in Egypt.

When she took it, the weapon slowed down again, now in a giant mass took shape of a 2-edged axe, much bigger than her. Blue weapon with stones on its edges, which seemed to symbolize day and night.

– N-Now Lady Nut has a giant weapon: an axe! It seems now--!

Without waiting for Heimdall to finish speaking, Nut attacked: her feet floated slightly in the air and immediately launched herself at Cleopatra in a frontal attack. The goddess steadied the axe using only one hand, spinning in midair to increase her attack force; Cleopatra reacted in time, putting her shield in middle to withstand the blow she didn't seem to be able to dodge.

The sharp blade of the axe together with Nut's incredible and invisible strength struck the shield squarely, kicking up a large amount of dust as well as shaking the stadium. The edge of the weapon had managed to open a sizable crack in the shield, which alarmed Cleopatra.

But it didn't seem to be the end.

– That's all--?

Nut increased her blow force, achieving a superhuman and above all invisible effort; her axe pushed Cleoaptra, causing the human to drag her feet several feet as continued to build on her strength.

Until that moment, the Egyptian human took her rival seriously, this time putting both arms on the shield trying to withstand the attack.

– What the--!?

Before realizing the attack had managed to separate the human from the ground; Nut sent her flying through the air to the other end of the battlefield. If it hadn't been for the wings on the armor reacted and opened to stop her and make her descend to the ground, the human would've collided with the wall again.

– Nut's next direct attack, with her newly created weapon, has thrown the human into the air! And responds by also making use of her own armor!

– So a great armor! – Was all Zeus said about it.

– And very resistant by the way… – Hermes put a hand to his chin – If it hadn't been for the shield, she would probably have been split in half. I wonder what material it's made of to withstand a blow of that magnitude.

The goddess narrowed her eyes in anger which forced her to carry out her new offensive: dug her right heel into the ground and with left foot began to propel herself around a couple of times. Until her hands released the handle of the axe, causing the divine weapon to fly through the air straight at Cleopatra.

She was barely getting her footing when the divine weapon came at her with great speed; the wings had to do the dodging job again, reaching out and directing it to side to let the axe pass. So the weapon continued on its way until hit the retaining wall squarely, generating an impact resounded in stands and spectators. The spectators immediately moved away; many were angry and annoyed, but seeing the impact was enough to keep them quiet.

Cleopatra regained her balance and left feet firmly on the ground, so the goddess prepared for the next attack; Nut advanced at full speed making small jumps to the human. Reached for the axe one-handed and pulled the weapon from there, despite the debris scattered and the frightened onlookers.

With axe in hand, held the handle with both of them and decided to attack the human directly; a direct downward slash the human dodged with wings and caused an impact on the ground. Another side cut, raising her gigantic weapon and causing a horizontal movement, from which the human dodged again and the goddess hit the retaining wall again.

This time Cleopatra's wings moved to change her position and leave her several feet away from Nut, staying in center of the fighting field. Even so, Nut didn't stop: took her divine weapon from the wall and in quick jumps went to Cleopatra to give her a direct attack: the human responded with hammer, using all strength she had to interpose it at the exact moment Nut was about to attack with her weapon.

Their weapons collided leaving a metallic echo resounded in the fighters and battlefield; the impact forced them both back a few feet from each other.

– So incredible fight! – Heimdall exclaimed immediately – It seems both are… matched! Cleopatra with strategy and divine armor can stand up to the great strength and power of Lady Nut!

Humanity regained confidence in its fighter; especially Marco Antonio didn't miss the opportunity to flatter his Egyptian lover. On the other hand, the smaller Valkyrie was even more fascinated by what saw in combat.

– What a thrill! I didn't think a fight could be like this!

Geir agreed with her sister with a nod.

« It's… More violent than I expected. It reminds me a bit of what Lord Thor did in arena when was his turn… »

– She only has a few scratches but nothing could really affect her… When we win, should celebrate twice big sis!

– Huh? Why?

– For her victory, and to congratulate Brokk and Eitri! This has to be one of the best works ever done by then!

Geir laughed at her little sister's words, but inside didn't have the same feeling.

« It's too soon to celebrate. For that we must win the fight. »

For their part, the Trinity of Egypt didn't seem entirely happy with the situation.

– That armor is too convenient… – Horus commented after a few seconds – If it weren't for it, that blasphemer would already be dead.

– No matter. She's just prolonging the inevitable… – Isis answered immediately – This will end in only one way, sooner or later.

Nut didn't move from her place, but continued to hold her divine weapon; Cleopatra didn't hesitate to sigh aloud to get more of her attention.

– What do you think, "Lady Nut"? Shall we continue…?

The goddess narrowed her eyes again to launch the attack; giving a small jump and holding her weapon with both hands, rushed towards Cleopatra.

With a better grip on her axe Nut attempted the same cut in a horizontal line; but, knowing in advance what was going to do, the human was able to better hold her hammer to launch a counterattack deflected it.

Faced with the inefficiency of that attack, Nut stepped back and tried the same blow for third time; again Cleopatra was already more than ready to receive the goddess: they both gave a quarter turn to answer; with all their might they propelled their weapons to clash.

The impact was just as jarring and with its resulting metallic sheen, although this time the human's blow was accurate enough to destabilize Nut. Cleopatra made her drop the axe herself to the ground, plus took a couple of steps back to avoid losing the balance. The human seized the opportunity and with all strength she had in arm hurled the hammer straight at Nut.

– In her third clash, Cleopatra opts for a ranged attack against the goddess!

But the result was the same as a few moments ago: as soon as Nut regained the balance and noticed the hammer coming at her, with just a few steps and the movement of her head, managed to dodge it completely without being hurt in the slightest minimum.

– Well, Lady Nut… I'm not done yet!

Cleopatra took the shield with both hands, one to hold her grip and the other to the edge, and rushed at the goddess to attack with defense.

The result was the same; no matter how many times she moved her shield from side to side, whether it was to launch a direct strike from the front, a side strike or even the edge of the defense made a cut, Nut moved from side to side too calmly managing to dodge everything with impunity. In addition to this, with each movement to dodge the goddess's dress shone little by little as if she were starring in some kind of feast of lights was delightful to the eye and quite striking due to her small body.

The human who had the best point of view of the goddess was quite annoyed by that fact.

– Hey! Don't dare to steal my show!

Between their exchange of blows and frontal attacks, both fighters reached the place where Cleopatra's divine hammer had landed; the human reached out with free arm and took the weapon by handle to deliver a direct blow to goddess's face, which missed as Nut reacted to enough time to dodge it.

Then Cleopatra's armor made its first "magical" play: the metal made up the shield broke apart and adhered to the human one running down her arm, and now with both hands free was able to take the divine hammer, twist her hip to increase the momentum, and throw a straight punch. Humans, including several scientists and engineers, were quite surprised to see for a moment the technology worked with that divine armor.

– What technology! – they exclaimed in surprising comments.

– Cleopatra will throw a hammer blow with both hands!

The blow was going to go straight to what would be side of Nut's ribcage; the distance both had was little for Nut to try to dodge.

In fact, dodging was what she didn't do. Instead, Nut stayed on her feet without trying to escape.

But she did do something; stretched out her right hand to side, whereupon the divine axe reacted: it levitated in air, flew at unreal speed and positioned itself in the fingers of its owner. As soon as steadyed her hand to hold the weapon tightly, Nut stepped back, twisting her hip as well, and interposed the blade with Cleopatra's hammer; again there was a roar in coliseum due to the clash of them weapons.

But it was a new moment for both fighters: Nut and Cleopatra were able to exchange glances again, now being closer.

The human, who was previously surprised by Nut's speed and great strength didn't seem possible in her, now had a proud smile on her lips. The goddess, who before was only indifferent and with clear intentions to end in an instant, continued with that second feeling practically intact.

The only problem with her was she now had a new first feeling: she was no longer indifferent to the fight, but her eyes were narrowed in great anger.

Publication Date: 12/13/22
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Reminder: Chapter updated every 21 days.

Author note: I'm really sorry for the delay; I've been working this days in other projects. I hope retrieve the story beat.