Chapter 595: No one can hear you scream
More lightning formed around Sofia, the bolt in her hand grew larger. She was not trying to do anything, but the sight of Pareth and Alith had triggered something. She needed to attack, to fight, and with a lack of enemies in sight, she instinctively turned to the other targets. She had the imperious need to destroy and kill, to massacre and devour. The divine lightning in her veins was steadily fading, and the avatar had only one goal, to survive, even for a second longer.
The avatar raised its hand, the bolt aimed at Alith, Sofia could barely understand what she was doing.
A searing pain assaulted her mind. The scribe was straining himself to send a message. It was brief, but pain brought Sofia some clarity, and an intense sense of dread at what she had been about to do.
Sofia’s hand clutched the lightning bolt so hard that the wild plasma dug into the avatar’s lightning-immune flesh. She fought to close her eyes. Focusing on her breathing and her heartbeat, on the strange, fake divine energy that coursed around her body and mind alike. She progressively calmed her overflowing emotions, the thunderstorm surrounding her started to wane, and she regained her ability to form coherent thoughts.
Yet still she felt a pull, an attraction. It was not toward the pleasure of the flesh, as one might guess from the name, although it was part of it, but this emotion, this lust, was all encompassing. A want, a need for something greater, to indulge in all the primal instincts, survival, hunger, curiosity, control; an unending thirst for life itself.
So this is Zeus’ lust.
To become an avatar is to embody a god. It comes with one’s powers but also its flaws, its personality and ambitions.
But what of a god who does not exist?
Sofia could feel the answer very clearly.