Raijin chuckled for a while. Then he said, "Icon is cautious. Now that he has been bitten once, he will be twice as shy."
"But that is not going to save him because we already know what his goal is. His goal is to gather the rings of immortality. So if he won't come after you. He will go after the other ring bearers."
"We just need to secure the other rings. But we need to find them first. You will do that. Use the Justice League to find the other rings. As for me, I will spread the word that Icon is back."
"He has a lot of enemies. He is also a traitor. I am sure that no one will sit back and watch him become God king."
Zero listened attentively to Raijin's instructions. He doesn't have the ring of the mind, which grants perfect memory and many other boosts, but he is still capable of memorizing these simple instructions.
Raijin is laid back for a demigod. He doesn't put on airs and is not prideful. But he hates mistakes. And he hates to be disappointed.
It is an obsessive-compulsive disorder of his. He doesn't care about most things. But of the few things he cares about, they must go well, and he mustn't be disappointed, or he will get very angry.
His greatest source of disappointment was Icon's failure to sever Earth-11 from Yggdrasil.
Raijin had worked so hard for Icon. He had helped Icon in every way he could. He had even gotten others to help Icon and killed the people so that Icon could turn them into puppets. But Icon had disappointed him and disappointed the whole world.
Raijin was rightfully incensed. But he took things too far when he went after Icon.
He dared to fight a demigod as a mortal because of his anger. He gathered the help of many people to fight and even used nuclear weapons against Icon.
It helped that Icon didn't want to fight back. Back then, Icon didn't want to harm people and truly become the evil person everyone was calling him. But Raijin had no such qualms.
Icon thought that Raijin was right to be angry. He thought he should give Raijin the opportunity to rage. After all, he was a demigod and could take the beatings.
He thought that Raijin would calm down after a while. He was very wrong about that.
Raijin didn't calm down at all. He didn't calm down when Icon's son was killed in an attack. He didn't calm down when Icon's wife and their new baby were also killed.
Raijin didn't calm down then and still hasn't calmed down today.
Zero didn't experience those events when they happened. But he has met a lot of people who experienced. They all told him this to warn him not to disappoint Raijin.
It is said that as long as you don't disappoint Raijin, he will help you to become a demigod. He has helped many people become demigods. That's why he is called the King Maker.
But if you disappoint Raijin, he will fly into a mindless rage. He will kill everyone and destroy everything standing in his way of retribution. This is why he is also called the Storm of Rage.
So Zero noted every single one of Raijin's instructions. Then he began executing them as soon as the phone call ended.
The first thing he did was to make sure thay his body double was doing well. When he found out that the girl pretending to be him was alright and his trap was intact, he began moving to secure other rings.
He instructed the Justice League to search for special people. He didn't say that they were in possession of rings of immortality. Instead, he described the features that the possessors of different rings would have.
The Justice League is an organization with branches in cities all over the world. So they have a large amount of manpower and area of influence.
What's more, their members are powerful supers with various abilities. So if there is a group of people that can be used to find the rings of immortality, it is the Justice League.
After doing this, he began to make preparations to increase the power of the trap. Currently, there is no element that can harm someone with disposable puppets like Icon. That has to change now.
The current trap is not complicated. Someone pretends to be in public, but he has to be nearby so that any identification method used on the decoy will be fooled by his presence.
So already for the decoy, two abilities are being used. The decoy is using shape-shifting to look like him, while another ability is using his presence to fool any special identification methods.
This second ability is an illusion. It copies his habits, smell, and ticks to create a realistic spoofing.
Then the protector binds the decoy to themselves so that no one will be able to take her away. With him nearby, he can just nullify the ability of the attacker and take them down with the help of others.
But that's not going to work anymore with Icon. So Raijin has changed the trap so that if Icon shows up again with his puppet or approaches the other ring bearers, he will regret it immensely.
Both Raijin and Zero didn't think the attacker was someone else because the ability that was used was incredibly similar to that of Icon. It was a little different from what Icon usually uses, but the difference can be explained by Icon's acquisition of a new ability thanks to the Ring of Paragon.
Even if they thought it was someone else, they couldn't have thought that it was Kelvin. Zero doesn't even remember him.
Zero wouldn't be surprised to hear that the boy who escaped when he was in the process of changing his identity had died. Kelvin being the paragon is the least he would expect to happen to one of his goons.
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A/N: Raijin sounds like Raging. So Raijin is a rager.