Hey guys so here's the thing. I know I said I had a chapter for ya but it turns out.....Wound up being 2 instead. Idk how it happened but the story just continued to grow longer and longer and I even had to leave out certain scenes just cause there was so much. Now i'm honestly super tired and understand that these 2 chapters will be quite raw as myself and my editors are all quite busy over a couple days but I should clean them as well as all the chapters... This is just so yall get to read it a bit early as I'm sure with that cliffhanger you'd want to see what happens next.

Thanks for all those who donated you guys really gave me the boost to finish all of this but now I'm going into sleep mode and gonna play a little Halo 5. I will be doing edits and all sorts of stuff let me know cause I'm sure theres plenty of erros but I'm simply too wiped... Anyways I hope you all enjoy and if it is a little too raw I apologize I'll fix it soon.

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Also I think this is a great theme song for this story...

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Chapter 24: End of and Era

Ari’s POV:

‘Ugh…It’s..so…scary in this place. But I can’t give up, I have to save Elyria.’

ROOOOAARRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

The whole ground began to shake again as I continued to slowly crawl towards the direction of Vali. The last time one of them roared my knees shook so hard they buckled and I hit the ground. It took so long until I could stop shaking enough to even move. My heart won’t stop pounding. I just want to be in his arms again.

Since I could no longer run to him. I crawled.

He’s so far away but I continue to pull myself through by grass beneath me. There must have been hundreds of other demi humans here. They were all lying down on the ground like Elyria while some were standing up and not moving at all. I just continued on pass each of them and continued towards Vali.

‘He just looks so sad. ‘

Standing far away as he walked around I saw such sadness even from so far away. I know it’s him… I just need to …get…. there.

[He doesn’t care about you….]

[Who could care about a useless cripple?]

As I crawled through the grass I continued to hear these strange whispers... Somehow I felt they were all talking to me. But why would I listen to what they said anyways….

[All he is going to do is sell you anyways.]

[You’re just an ugly slave who others have to care for.]

Why would I care about what someone else thinks? I only care what Vali thinks of me.

‘Ha…Ha..ha…. My arms are starting to get really tired….’

[He doesn’t care about you.]

‘Even if he doesn’t, I care about him… Even if I die… I got to experience such amazing things from him and Elyria. I don’t want to live without him. If he’s like all of these other people and Elyria I have to help him.’

I then stopped listening to the voices and continued to pull myself through the thick grass..,

ROAARRRRRR!!!!!!!

Flying overhead was a large lizard with red wings I had never seen before. It looked even bigger than the cabin. I lied down and didn’t move until it continued to fly by.

I saw it slowly turn around and swoop down onto one of the demi humans who was standing not too far away from me with wings.

AHHHHH!!!!

It…It ‘s eating him. Screams continued to shout and fill my ears. I found myself only trembling more and more.

As the monster looked to not have noticed me I took a deep breath and continued to crawl past them.

There even seemed to be something coming alive from the ground itself. It was dark and looked to being sweeping across the ground where everyone was laying.

I however continued to crawl towards the one man who ever cared about me. The first person who ever listened… I know we shouldn’t have come here Vali. But I had to. I had to find you.

As I continued to get closer to him I then heard a loud scream.

AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I felt a gust of wind blow past me and a loud excruciating roar, which came from the one I’m loyal to the most. Looking up a dark black cloud has now appeared all over Vali and his eyes have turned black. He’s staring away from me and looks truly heartbroken.

I tried to pull myself up but my knees continued to shake almost forcing my body back down.

“Ughh!”

With my knees shaking still I started to try to run again but I could feel it became so much harder than before. It felt like my body had become more heavy and simply lifting my legs up was becoming real hard. Even if I was passing those around me slowly…to me it was faster than I have ever moved by myself. I won’t stop, I just have to make it.

I started to get closer and now was within shouting distance from him.

“VALI!”

He didn’t respond to me at all and I continued to run as fast as my legs would take me to him.

“Val…iii!”

‘Please hear me!’

As I started to get closer I could feel everything around him felt looked dangerous. The air made cracking noises and there was this black fog around him that looked like everything on the ground.

“Vali! It’s me! It’s Ari!”

I got such a strange feeling coming from that dark cloud surrounding Vali.

Thinking I would die if I got any closer I then picked up a small rock on the ground and threw it.

“Please wake up!”

The rock seemed to have disappeared as it got close to him and nothing had even touched his body.

I found the closest stick and tried to follow after him. I don’t know what’s wrong but for some reason he can’t hear me. Everyone seems to not notice the surrounding monsters eating anyone at all.

I walked out in front of him and looked right up in his eyes. They were the same color the day we met…pitch black. Only he couldn’t even see me like before. Last time I had to wake him up, so I’ll do it again.

“Wake UP! VALI!”

“Please hear me!”

I continued to yell and swing the stick towards him but with every swing the stick would only be eaten away.

“Pleaseeee.”

Just then Vali started to walk forward and I tried to back away but I tripped.

The black cloud surrounding him then started to come slowly towards me. As I backed away there was already somebody lying behind me and had trapped me from moving. Sitting beside him was a small dagger so I picked it up.

‘Valiiii…..sob…please…’

Since I couldn’t crawl away in time, instead I decided to crawl towards him. I continued to hear the same voices from before but I just ignored them all and leapt towards the man who has been so kind to me… to my best friend…

UGH!

I jumped towards him and the black cloud had almost surrounded me. Parts of my clothes started to get eaten away but my body wasn’t harmed at all. I jabbed the dagger into Vali’s leg hoping to wake him up but now I could feel my whole body start to cry out in pain. It felt like my whole body was being eaten by something.

“VA!!! …l..nnnn’”

The arm that was holding the dagger is now gone and I can feel my whole face searing with pain.

I kept kicking and hitting him but he wouldn’t listen and I hit the ground shaking. Blood continued to bleed and pour out all over all the open wounds all over my face and body.

I couldn’t even see out of my left eye and I knew in just a few moments I would be gone.

I could feel my life leaving me as fast as my body was disappearing. I couldn’t save him…

“Sob…I’m sorry…Val…i…sob…I…just …to…tell you...I…”

With everything beginning to darken around me I slowly tried to reach out my arm as I all I wanted was just to touch him one last time. I was so thankful for him…

As my fingers started to disappear my palm touched his leg I was no longer scared. All I ever wanted was to be with him until the very end…

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Vali’s POV:

“AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

[You did this!]

[You were weak…..You let them DIE!…Just as you let your family DIE…]

[It’s your fault.]

‘Stop it!’

[You did nothing.]

“Shut up!”

I kept pushing the voices back but they continued to whisper into my ear regardless if I did or not. At first all I could hear were rattling chains but the loud whispers only started to become more real.

I could feel a surge of energy awaken my power and expand my muscles. I was going to eat him! I was going to eat everything! EVERYONE!

This world…This retched place… Ever since coming here, all I have gone through is more pain… It’s as if this whole world were out to destroy me. This whole world is my enemy!!

‘So (Rattle) this never (rattle) happens again! I’ll ne(rattle)ver lose anyone ever again! NEVER (RATTLE) AGAIn! I’ll KI(rattle)LL EVER(rattLE!!)YONE! DEV (RATTLE) OUR (RATTLE)E! EVE(RATTLE!)RYONE!!’

“Starting with you… “

Rattle…Rattle. RATTLE..RA…Huh?

What is that? I felt something soft come close to me. I scanned for any traces of heartbeats underneath the dark red sky surrounding all this death and myself but…There’s nothing…. Nothing but him! Nothing but me and him!

All that surrounds me are the dead lifeless corpses of all of my friends and the horrific creations of the sicko that has taken everything from me… Everything I had… They were taken from me. Just like Kaylan and Hayden. I was just too weak to be able to put up even a fight for them and they were all taken again…..Just like that.

‘ I need to devour everything so no one can ever take from me again. I must take everything. I must….’

“VA….”

‘Huh?’

“ii”

‘That voice…. I don’t understand I….OWE!!!!!!’

A burning sensation then shot through my system from my leg all the way up until it had almost shocked my brain with an intensive heat. Everything went white and I could see everything around me change. The sky was still red but the entire atmosphere everything…Everything’s changed?

Everything was no longer dark and grey. Now I can see the bodies around me are not dead…None of them are. ‘ What? Was this an illusion?’

Looking around Fenrir? Hjokk? The pixies and the annunakes are alive they’re just under some kind of spell. Everyone and everything is just covered in in this blackness that is just sweeping across the ground and sky as if it were alive. There in the distance were monsters and Fomorians eating through my fallen comrades… How did all of this…

I then noticed a small, deformed figure at my feet.

“NO!!!”

I picked her up and her health was almost all gone as well as several parts of her body were simply missing. She was hardly even recognizable but I knew exactly who it was. I don’t know how but that was absolutely her voice….

“What happened to her?”

I have to… THIS! ‘Did.. did I do this?’

I yanked the small dagger sticking out of my shin and immediately activated Freya Soul Recovery on the tiny half mutilated girl. Her face looked even worse than when I first met her as parts of her bones are showing. Her whole body is covered in blood and missing several pieces making her already resemble a corpse. She must have been in so much pain.

‘Please. Please. Please.Please. Don’t die. Don’t die!’

My lips were shaking and tears began to from in the corners of my eyes as I scanned over the small corpse in my arms….I couldn’t even breath knowing where these wounds had come from… I had done this to her… It looked like she had been sprayed by Abysmal Mist as there are simply so many holes all over her body.

A white light flashed and her body had returned to normal. Her face and the rest of her little body looked clean and without wounds of any kind. Her clothes were eroded and she was partially naked but she looked completely clean of any injury.

Her face has regained all of its skin and lost hair. Her fingers have even been regrown back as well as the rest of her body has recovered fully. Although….

‘Why isn’t there a pulse?....Why aren’t you breathing!?’

“ARI!...Please Ari Don’t…Don’t please, please stay with me.”

I couldn’t lose her. I couldn’t possibly let her go.

The little girl who made all my past pains seem not so bad, the one who has helped me in such a world to miss my loved ones just a tiny bit less. I don’t know when I became so attached to her but now I can’t simply imagine losing her.

‘If she dies I…. I saw what I was about to become. I know what will happen…I can’t let her die. I can’t . I can’t…I can’t lose her. Please Ari…PLEASE!’

I then turned on lightning step as all I wanted was a few extra moments with this small girl who has somehow changed my life… She some how...kept me from truly falling.

I continued to heal her but I couldn’t feel any change at all to anything. I could feel the effects of Soul Recovery just isn’t working even as I use it now. Everything in the world including the monsters around us had slowed. I could see some were eating our fallen troops and time was of the essence…but I just couldn’t let her go.

I continued to use Soul Recovery but the weakened Soul I could feel was close to slipping away. ‘Wait…Pl…please hold on....’

I tried to remember what the pixies had said about magic. Whenever your affinity rises in an element, not only the attack power will change or your resistance to it but your ability to manipulate that element entirely is possible. To develop your own understandings and skill your understandings of that element will only increase over time.

They spoke as if it had no boundaries just like Loki. I stuck my hand against her chest and tried to activate Lightning from against my hands. I had 8% Lightning affinity which should be something…

I have to try something or……

I tried to get her heart to start beating again. I activated Lightning Armor by mistake but continued to think about the current and flow of electricity.

I used Demonic Awakening to raise my stats by 25% and continued to try to force electricity out from my body….’I need to try and jumpstart her heart. The tear must have healed everything but her heart must have already stopped beating.’

Zap!

ZAP!!

ZAP!

Small streaks of lightning began to glow and pulse from the Armor skill and I would then manipulate the spark.

As each spark would fly out I ignored everything else around me and attempted to shoot small streams of lightning to the small body.

Zap…

Zap…Zap

Zap!

Success!

I continued to push the small current into her time and time again causing tiny self to jolt with each shock.

“You have to wake up! Come on!”

‘Please!....Please!’

Biting my lip it was as if this was the only thing that mattered to me at all right now. I don’t know how but this small slave girl had somehow become such a big part of me since coming to this world. Always looking at me like I was the best thing in the world, even after all I’ve done. Whenever I couldn’t sleep, whenever the nightmares got real bad…. She was there, and for some reason that had its own way of healing me. She wasn’t a replacement to Kaylan neither…. In fact I didn’t have a lot of friends growing up, we were too poor and I just didn’t have time. As odd as it is to say… Ari is probably the closest friend I’ve ever had.

I just can’t…..I wasn’t ready to let her go.

ZAP!.....

Zap!

Zap!

…. No heart beat.

‘…No…No why isn’t there a heartbeat….NO! Why is she even here!!’

“………”

Still in Lightning Step I didn’t care how much of my mana was being chipped away with each passing nano second… I only wanted just a little more time with the girl in my arms. I however had no way of saving her…All I could do is just sit there gripping her tightly into my chest while shaking….

“Hahahahaha!!! So this is what all those thousand years of training came to…. Pitiful…Well my children fill you’re bellies as you will soon be able to leave these grounds for the first time. As we will all finally leave this pitiful world the gods have trapped us in….So we SHALL PLUMMET THIS WORLD into an ENDLESS DARKNESS that will sever this false realm and their LIES and DECEIT this world has long forgotten. “ - Balor

I could hear loud roars and cheers coming from the distance followed by the sneers and movement of monsters.

“Gheonsil lead my minions out into this world and set it on fire! Let us see how those gods respond to when they see their little sandbox on the brink of destruction. I don’t need to bring all my forces out just yet which is why the majority of my forces are still on the higher floors and guarding the Black Palace…. Now off with you, taste that revenge your kind has so craved….“ – Balor

“All hail to the new world order and the Dark Lord’s reign! “

“Finally we shall taste for revenge for the eternity we’ve suffered!”

Looking away from the small cold girl in my arms I looked up towards Balor who was delivering orders of some kind. I could see hundreds of the normal Fomorians and Manticores began to move towards the exit of this dungeon while being lead by a large armed force of Dark Elves. Each were flying on Manticores and lead an intermediate force of beasts towards the Dungeon entrance….’I get why the door was so big now…’

‘…I swear….I am going to going to kill …huh?’

I then began to feel a light brush against my bicep. It was soft and had brushed past my arm yet again…. Looking down the small girl in my arms was now staring right back up towards me with her big brown eyes was the small girl in my arms and not saying a word.

“….Ari?”

Without even giving her at a chance to respond, I pulled her in close to my chest and hugged her as hard as I could. I was already close to tears and this was enough to make me smile in such a horrific situation. As I brought her close to my chest and her head over my shoulder I used a new trick I learned from Abgrund to recall him back into my grasp.

“Oh my sweet Ari….I was so scared I lost you….”

With her face next to mine I continued to rub her back and hold her as tightly as I could. It was as if at that moment my heart, my very soul felt so much….relief.

“Ah…um…Mm..me too.” – Ari

“HOW!!!!” – Balor

Looking up I then saw Balor gazing towards us in a violent fury. He then stopped shaking and started talking casually back towards us. All of the monsters in the area then stopped what they were doing or who they were eating and began to stare daggers towards our direction as if waiting to have us for meal too.

“Heh…I must say ‘Champion’ after I’m done feeding the rest of your allies to my pets I must find how it was you came to surpass that ability just now. … Still bugs are easily squashed with little resistance..” -Balor

Just then the darkness seeping out from the ground shot up and towards Ari and I. I tried to move out of the way but its speed was far quicker than I could swing Abgrund down. His speed was just astoundingly quicker than my own.

As the darkness was about to hit however a blinding golden light flashed out from Ari’s body and stopped the darkness from striking her and myself. The darkness however reseeded and then wrapped around my legs locking me down in place.

‘Huh? What was that?’

Then the darkness disappeared causing Balor to become stupefied and lower his gaze.

“A child of Lugh is here? How is this possible…..You! Tell me now how my grandson let you tame my darkness you little vermin before I rip his skull out right in front of you!”

‘What the hell is he taking about? Who the fuck is Lull?…Is he? He’s talking to Ari? Wait could he mean Lugh? …. The Sun God? So then that golden light just now?..... ‘

I then looked back down at Ari in who was lying in my arms and had just realized she herself might in fact be unique. Is that how she was able to wake me up just now?

Somehow she was able to wake me out of that illusion Balor had over me, something even Hjokk lying over to the side couldn’t do….’Ok…if we can just wake wake her up.’

“I just didn’t listen to all those voices… and why would I care what you think anyways, I don’t even know you.” – Ari

Ari who was firmly holding on to my arm softly spoke back up to the titan standing on the opposite side of the floor as us. Because everything else was silent her voice carried all the way to the ancient beings ears.

He had an army scattered around him numbering in the thousands that all seemed to react by the abrupt changes in their masters voice that would shake the entirety of this dungeon with the might of his voice alone.

The darkness on the ground and sky are only circling around us and there must be thousands of monsters simply created from it. Covering all over this floor I can see why he didn’t even need to bring the majority of his forces out of this dungeon as each of them look dangerous.

“You THINK!.....You think it’s as simple as not listening!.... Any deceit, hate, fear…The darkness merely embraces IT!...Latches onto it. It conquers EVERYTHING, no being in this world is immune to its touch but ME!....It’s as if your soul itself were spotless! Pure! There is no such existence in this so called world.”

‘I have no idea how or what’s going on in front of me but I’m just going to go with it for now and come back to it later. I need to get out of this.’

As his voice reverberated the whole ground started to shake. I had pulled Ari close as I needed to find a way to get her to safety and wake everyone else up. She then whispered in my ear that Elyria is also here and isn’t moving.

I activated Dark Aura and put it around Ari and myself and looked back up towards Balor. Hjokk is still asleep and I feel first things first I need to wake her up but the moment I move the monsters in the area are going to go berserk and I can’t imagine Balor would make this easy…

[Hmph The Ladies of Fate must favor you boy….I do not know why but the moment that little girl touched you I felt a surge of power. Possibly a present from your god but this is a one time thing as it will still probably use up a vast amount of my stored power and will come from primarily me.…. You’ll have one shot boy! And don’t leave the skill active for longer than necessary or you will absolutely perish!]

I could feel Abgrund speak loud and clear through my conscience and I could perceive it much quicker than all the outside noise. When his conscience and mine are connected time is irrelevant as whatever his conscience speaks and I perceive it all within a moment.

“Hmm! Tell me champion do you think using the abilities I allowed you to possess could protect you from me?” – Balor

‘What are you talking about Abgrund 1 time use? What is this skill anyways this looks dangerous?’

[Just get close to him and don’t miss….He will not block this. Think of it as my pay back for what he did to my last master, though after I won’t be able to help or even speak to you for some time … So this is it, it’s probably impossible for you but….. Good luck boy.]

As Abgrund spoke he almost sounded like this would be the last time we would possibly speak, as the likelihood we will win is still unlikely.

As his voice began to grow softer until it was gone I quickly went over what he just said and he decided it was the only chance I had. The current me facing off in a 1 on 1 against Balor I wouldn’t last but a few moments. I tucked Ari tight into my chest and I looked back up towards the mad god peering back down towards me from leagues away.

I swung down Abgurnd and cut the darkness around my feet slicing right through it with ease.

My vision then distorted and my body was now only several feet above Balor. Simple a few paces away from the giant beast I can now see his entire body looks to share in the same Dark Aura as myself. It was much darker and thicker than the one Malthiel and I use and it almost looked alive and was capable of grabbing me.

I was now however falling right in front of his face.

Before I even stepped into this space I had already swung down Abgrund in one swift motion and activated the Third skill, unlocked from my Celestial Class weapon giving the god no time to react.

“Realm Sever!”

OOOOoooooooohhhhhhh

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh……

It felt like a seal was opened up on Abgrund and a tsunami of magical energy began to sweep through the staff and towards the tip of the blade. Each glyph lit up all over the large weapon and began to change and move. Overwhelming power I had never before witnessed began to beam off the scythe that even felt to surpass Hjökk.

A blinding white light with the brightness more powerful than the sun centralized on one solid point on Abgrund’s tip. As I was falling right in front of Balor his eyes began to grow as he must have felt the sudden rush of power beaming from my weapon As he began to make a motion towards us I had already used the skill in a slanting motion across his face.

RIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!

As the light stopped right on the scythe’s tip it felt like the scythe began to tear across time and space itself. I could clearly hear a deafening tear as the air surrounding me began tremble. It almost felt like at this very moment, the planet itself was quivering in fear.

The space surrounding Abgrund began to split open as if the blade was literally severing this realm in half including Balor and the endless darkness surrounded him.

I could hear a loud tearing noise and the motion from my swing went across the side of Balor’s head and down for several meters as I continued to fall. ‘Oh yeah I have to deactivate the skill before I die.’

As I shut off the skill deafening roars continued to erupt across the floor as I continued to descend down to the dungeon floor. ‘…2% mana left? Oh wow.’

I jumped back to my original location and noticed my mana had dropped tremendously even though Abgrund said he would be using a majority of his of his own power on this…If I ran out of mana it would have been my life force taken after that…. I was really close.

‘Just what did Loki give Ari anyways?’

Looking down in my arms Ari is still ok and was staring back up at me while firmly holding onto my chest armor and not saying a word. I then turned back up and saw Balor standing in the same place as before with his Dark Aura looking to have disappeared.

Staring back towards me was the same figure as before only now….

The space surrounding Balor looks to have been aggressively ripped open and looks as if another world entirely is resting on the other side. It is a bright purple and black light coming from the other side. However even from all the way over here I can feel such a powerful burst of cosmic energy almost breaming back from wherever that world is from. My skin itself feels to be prickling, as the endless stream of power coming from the tear in space is beyond the term of monstrous as it is more than I can even begin to perceive….

Standing in the same location of the tear however is Balor with half of his face now been torn off along with a large portion of his shoulder and right arm missing as well. His right horn and side of his face has disappeared entirely as the space he happened to be standing is currently where the tear occurred. With a part of his face missing the top bits of his horn began to fall and crash towards the earth.

His health, which was in the green now jumped down to 90% in that one swing… Balor twitched and then began to make a move…

All of the surrounding monsters continued to stare back frozen looking towards their Dark Lord waiting for him to react.

His left yellow eye twitched and I could see a large mouth form on his face that almost looked to go from ear to ear if he were human…..

He was looking back at me as if he if was so furious he couldn’t think straight. He then slowly began to fall forward just before crashing into the floor below.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!

The whole floor began to shake as I could feel a large gust of wind blow past my face when the colossal tyrant fell lifeless onto the dungeon floor. The tear in space was still widely visible above his head several leagues away but now no movement came from the master to the army of monsters that were gathered on this floor.

Each of the surrounding monsters then made looks of astonishment as their Dark Lord had a large portion of his head cleaved off and isn’t moving….

‘Fuck he wasn’t kidding… The power from that skill felt horrific at how overpowered it was. It completely obliterates and cancels out all defense, barriers and magic as the space itself is being torn open, whether someone is standing in it or not. If this was the game it almost feels like an Admin skill it felt like such a cheat as it practically destroyed the space itself instead of the monster…. Not even a god could defend against it.’

[His mind should be in tatters….You will have but….a few minutes … good… lu…ck… bo…y…]

‘……’

Listening to Abgrund’s words beginning to fade everything then became very real…. As my eyes widened I understood the situation… Balor’s down.

“WAKE UP!!!!

“EVERYONE GET UP NOWWWWW!!!”

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Cassandra’s POV:

‘No!...NO!!!’

The masked man then ripped open Master Shen’s chest and pulled his heart out. Shakko had then leaped to attack him but with the simple swipe of the masked man’s arm Shakkos head then flew swiftly to the ground.

“No… Why would ugh!..Ghghg..”

His form had then appeared right in front of me and was holding my body above the ground and choking the life out of me.

‘I can..t….bre.a.t.’

With his free arm he took off his mask and there I saw the face looking back at me. Hair as white as snow, eyes blue as crystals that showed sincerity at first, but then showed such violence. A deep but soft voice then came from his bloody red lips and echoed across my mind.

“Give me your heart….”

Guahhhhh!

I felt a piercing stabbing pain in my abdomen and I began to choke up blood onto the face of of Vali… We ….Trusted yo….

SHHHHYYYYYEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!HHH!H!!H!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

‘What!’

Such a loud piercing scream shook through to my core and I was no longer in the air but lying on the ground. It was a very familiar scream that still causes my heart to feel uneasy.

“I SAID WAKE UP!!!!”

‘”…What’s happening?”

My eyes open and everything is different… Could I have been dreaming…’OWE!’

Looking down I had a small puncture wound in my chest and I could feel I was losing quite a bit of blood. I..I couldn’t…mov…

ROOOARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!

You have heard the Roar of the Fomorian

You are unable to succumb to your fear and have become paralyzed

All movement will become impossible until paralysis has withered

Agility has been reduced by 65%

Strength has been reduced by 55%

* Ability to perform magic has diminished due to the effects of fear. Magic has become 30% less effective

* Ability to hold a weapon has diminished due to the effects of fear. Overall Attack Damage has been reduced by 25%

“no..no..not…ag.ain…”

Looking up I could see the hordes of monsters… and…. What?

It looked as if the sky had been ripped open and looking back through was another world entirely.

The dark giants that were once blotting out the sun and whose mere voice cause my whole body to tremble were running towards our direction…. Their large mouths each looked to extend almost up past their eyes and constantly wore a horrid grin. Their laughs and the sounds they made only made me wish to run in the opposite direction.

“AhhhhhHH!!”

The giant beast picked up a blue haired man and threw him into its large mouth. I could hear his scream fade as the beast crunched down and sealed the demi human to a dark fate.

We were at such a difference in level the fight already seems hopeless even with him… That was his voice I heard earlier. I can see shaking next to me where Shakko and Master Shen while Sting too seemed to have been waking up from that odd attack from the one known as Balor. I had never seen a god before but simply his visage descending onto the floor caused my whole body to uncontrollably shake. He looked to be something that crawled out from a someone’s nightmare and even had a cape of darkness that flowed behind him.

Such power it had blown us all to the ground from the other side of the dungeon floor. How could we hope to kill him… Where..where is Vali anyways? I don’t see him...

My whole body started to tremble and I could see all those around me were now running away…’What?’

But they were not running away from the giant beasts that are hurling towards us….‘They’re running towards the giants?....’

I couldn’t stop shaking but I was in awe at watching all of these demi humans we were just standing alongside were not phased in the slightest by the approaching giants each towering towards the skies. Instead of fleeing they were each weapons raised and marching forth to the oncoming dark beasts without any fear at all.

Shen and Shakko both seemed in awe of this as well.

“HOOOOWwwWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!”

“AHHHHH!!!!!!”

“Kill them ALL!!!!! “

“TO THE DAWWWN!!!!”

‘How..how can you simply run to your deaths…’

I then heard a loud scream but it wasn’t of fear, they were battle cries to the heavens. To the monsters that were between us and our freedom and they were willing to fight even giants with just their swords and spears to do so….

‘Am…a..zing.. “

How could they…

ROOOOOOOAAARRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!

BOOooooooOOO!OOO!OOM

Suddenly a loud roar erupted that was so loud the air itself trembled. The force from whatever it was landing so close by sent all of us dozens of feet back forcing me to roll in the dirt. Looking back up it was….

“WHa..Wha…t is…. that?”

It had three rows of teeth and four horns coming out of the top and sides of its enormous head. It had a long black mane flowing out the sides of its head and long legs that looked to be made of armor.

Coming out of its large armored back were the wings of a dragon but the body and face of a black furred lion…

The tail also looks to be venomous in some way and almost looks like that of an insect’s.

The large lion however had something in its mouth. It was a large bird like demi human and the beast had crushed its neck with his jaws. As it threw the dead birdman to the side the demi humans body disappeared in a series of flickering lights. Now all that remained was the beast before us.

GRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrr

The growl caused my ears to pop and forcefully take a step back.

Several demi humans then began to surround it as if they were planning on taking on the much higher leveled beast. It looked to be even larger than a fully grown wyverian. Only this monster looked to be violently more dangerous.

Manticore Level 644

The Poison of the Sky

I slowly gained the ability to stand up as I put all of my strength into my legs. If I didn’t move now I would surely die.

Just then its dark fur began to stand on end all up and down its body and tail. It’s body which practically looked to be made of armor was also now standing on end. They looked to be barbed and very sharp but that didn’t stop the several demi humans who then lunged forward towards the large winged lion.

SHIINKK

SHink

SHIIINK

SHiiIiiiin

Ssrsrrrr

AHHHHH!!!!!

Gonk!

Its tail then shot forward and shot out several pronged spikes out of its whole body. The small spikes pierced through everyone who had gotten anywhere close to it and was large enough to blow a human in half.

Several had died instantly while everything in the surrounding area had been devastated by this beasts attack.

Seeing the flying prongs come in our direction I tried to react but my speed had diminished heavily. As I could not dodge the spray of shards, I could feel encroaching death.

Kink! Kink! Kink!

Ahhh!!!

Just then the image of Master Shen had leapt towards me and shielded the two of us with his metallic arm but the barbs pierced straight through them. He attempted to swing his sword but only managed to block two before several pierced right into his false arm.

“Master Shen!”

Looking up I saw Master Shen’s health drop dramatically in one second and was instantly in the red.

He had large puncture wounds on his ribs and stomach that two large spikes looked to have been lodged deep within.

His weight then fell down towards me and I attempted to prop his much larger body up. ‘Oh gosh your heavy!’

The beast had then swung his large paws at one of the oncoming demi humans and then looked straight towards us.

The Manticores tail then pointed towards us and several small spikes began to spray towards us for a second time. I tried to move Master Shen but his weight was too much for me and we both then fell to the ground.

Closing my eyes I prayed the attack would miss us.

GONK!

Gonk! GonK GonK!

A loud noise erupted out as it sounded like metal colliding with metal. Or more like metal colliding with a stonewall.

Opening my eyes I saw standing in front of me was a large purple figure. Its body was transparent and wasn’t even connected in anyway. But I could see this ghost like figure was armored.

The transparent knight in front of me had several small green tipped spikes sitting at its levitating feet. It held a large shield and wielded a claymore. It only stared silently back towards the beast while standing in between us.

“Ugh…Did purple guy here save us?” – Master Shen

BOOOOOM!!!!

A loud cloud of dust erupted around the winged beast as it appeared to be fighting something in the confusion. Looking in the cloud I can see one of the figures is much smaller than the winged beast but they are moving at similar speeds.

SHIIINKKKK!

ROOAaa…..

BOoooooOM!

The ground shook as another dust cloud then shot forward towards everyone surrounding the large winged beast.

As the cloud started to disperse the Level 644 monster was then lying on the ground and twitching. Its head however was now several feet away from the rest of its body.

Standing however on its large back only a few feet away from its swaying tail however was the same person I saw in that odd dream…’Or it wasn’t a dream, Looking at my health I’ve already lost 30% of it because I can’t stop this bleeding underneath my armor.’

Somehow Vali must have cut its head off and ended it quickly? I can’t even see Vali’s level but I can only assume it’s incredibly high at this point. I thought it would have taken almost all of us present to even hurt him but in less than a moment the large winged beast’s life had ended.

“Everyone who’s in the rear guard get up here NOW! WE only have a few minutes before he wakes up and we need to get into position!” – Vali

“Wa…wakes up? “ – Sting

“What’s happened?” – Shakko

I still couldn’t get up or move and Master Shen’s breathing was starting to get much worse….’Damn it! He jumped in to save me. .’

“Va…”

As I began to scream up towards Vali to come help I then saw his figure standing over me now and looking down at me.

In one swift motion he picked the two of us up with each hand and held each of us above the ground….He lifted each of us up as if we were two small children and a gentle and warm feeling began to touch my shoulder and move towards my chest.

You are now under the effects of Freya Soul Recovery

Your skin is now more fair and beautiful than it was before after being touched by the hands of an Advanced Healer.

Impurities from your soul have been washed away by the eternal beauty of the Goddess Freya.

You have now recovered 7500 Health

A bright light stemmed out from Vali’s hands and onto each of our bodies. I could see this healing light was also healing Master Shen’s injuries he sustained while protecting me.

“…Fr..Freya…Is…IS she the goddess who blessed you. This healing magic…Seen before s..so..strong...” – Shen

Shen’s health continued to rise but much slower than mine. Vali seeing this began to start to pull out the shards on Master Shen’s chest….

Oooop…

‘While also dropping me so politely with his other hand…’

“Mmm, Is he ok?”

After brushing myself off I slowly felt the ability to breath but I was still shaking. With the loud roars from the distance of monsters and our forces fighting my heart wouldn’t stop pounding against my chest. I could not stop my heart from trembling.

Vali nodded while looking at the strange barbs that came out from Master Shen’s chest.

“Alpha! Rear guard secured we are ready to move!” – Boro

A large white wolf man then walked up and yelled towards Vali as he looked at the strange barbs in his hands. When Vali asked if this had any poison in it he would have to use a crystal but Master Shen simply said every barb increased his weight by roughly 10 times almost pushing him back down towards the ground.

“Vali our front forces are ready and the illusions are in place…” – Cosmia

Vali then turned to the side with his black hooded robe flowing behind him and looked back towards the large number of divided forces of demi humans. Thousands were on the right while only a small number was on the left.

My vision changed as I felt that where I was standing had completely moved. I was now standing next thousands of armed demi humans as well as Vali’s mother Elyria. She had the small girl Ari in her arms and her clothes looked almost all gone.

ROOOARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

The giants that were close to our formations began to charge towards our position and shaking the whole floor with their movements…

“Dullahans shield wall!” – Vali

Just then the same purple figure from before then joined several and formed a small barricade between us and the incoming giants.

‘What are those things? And is he controlling them?’

The floor continued to quake as lights began to erupt from the Fomorians mouth and eyes that looked to be burning them. A blinding white light short forth and then…..

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!

Loud explosions roared out as several of the incoming giant beasts running towards us erupted in fire from the inside out.

“AHHHHHH!!!! FUCK! I wanted to use this on BALOR!!!….Auahh!”

Emerging from the three monstrous Fomorians with their bodies blown apart were three small brightly glowing pixies. Gold, Blue and Orange. All that remained in the place where the titans were is a brightly shining demi human surrounding by white fire. The ground itself glowed in a white gold as the floor itself looked to be on fire.

As several of the other small pixies flew over to the completely destroyed bodies of the melted giants, I could hear several of the pixies scream violently in anger as they were carried away after looking too tired to move.

‘What in the world did those pixies do to the incoming giants? Is this what Vali was speaking about earlier?.......Tremendous… Their bodies that emerged from within the beasts were glowing in a blinding white fire like that of a Fire God.‘

The dungeon floor looks like it couldn’t even take that as what’s left just fell into a large hole possibly to the floor below.

“Tanin! We have to move! You’re in the Rear Guard now you already used it! “ Vale

“UGhhh!!! “ – Tanin, Uri

“Ah but …Vali!” – Ari

“Shh…shh…It’s ok Ari. I need you to be brave for me ok… “ – Vali

“I’m sorry I’m so …” – Ari

The sounds started to dull as I could then hear distinct words and voices that I could understand in the constant onslaught that surrounded us. In the distant were loud roars and sounds of what sounded like an elephant crying. Over the tree line I can now see why the army of monsters haven’ even gotten close to us now…they were herded away and are being held back by an enormous storm. The reason the sun was still gone was simply because the heavy storm clouds continued to cover the red skies.

There’s no way that storm is natural… That must be the Valkyrie’s doing…Maybe…maybe we do have a chance... I however do not see the god from before…

“Ari don’t be…Because of you…Balor is down.… Because of you…. we are alive right now. Now I need you to be brave for me ... Stay with Elyia and I will be back for you both …” - Vali

Hearing two familiar voices I could understand in the constant roars and shouts only a few feet away from me was Vali and his mother. He comforted the small demi human child who was crying and even kissed her on the cheek to calm her down. This action caused to small child to redden heavily and simply nod her head back.

‘Vali said Balor was …‘down’? How did this happen? Because of that little demi human?!! What could have possibly happened ?

“Vali Listen I can help you.” – Elyria

“You are not fighting those things.” – Vali

As Vali pointed back towards the giants being held back by the large storm that has now touched down. Out behind it however were still dozens of beasts and monsters still reeking havoc throughout what’s left of our formations.

“I don’t need to fight those things to help….Just watch...Earthen Law!” – Elyria

Just then the 4 tailed fox woman then began move her hands in an odd and rhythmic way while glowing a bright green. She had even grown a 5th tail as I could tell this Fusch woman who was the mother of monsters must have been an excellent mage. Everything began glow around her and a bright light shot forth towards each of us while small thin vines began to seep up from the ground and wrap up towards our knees. All before disappearing I began to feel my heart calmed and I was no longer shaking.

All Allies are now under the effects of Earthen Law II

All Allies will now become 40% more immune to any and all Status Effects

Strength + 35

Defense + 55

Stamina + 200

Earth Affinity has risen for 5% for 30 Minutes

Fusch's have a much stronger magic affinity than humans do upon birth. I'm told the number of tails is almost a symbol of power for their race and the buffs she grants those in a small area around her are enough to allow us each to breath. She herself can even do fast casting magic for so many in a small area around her.

With this sudden action her tails each spun and I could feel the weight that was on me subside and even strengthen me more than I ever had been. The tips of each her her long and fluffy tails would glow in a different color as her cast times were so fast.

“Druid Defense, Endless Root, Earth Shield!“ –Elyria

All Allies are now under the influence of Druid Defense

Defense has increased by 15%

You have now been granted the ability Elemental Defense that has been raised to 5%.

All Allies are now under the influence of Endless Root

While your feet are rooted firmly on the earth’s soil you will receive the endless supply of energy from your risen affinity with the Earth Spirits.

- Due to the overflowing darkness currently affecting the surrounding area, effects of Endless Route have been halved.

Maximum Stamina + 175

Stamina Regeneration + 22%

You have been granted the ability to use Earth Shield

Allow the spirits of the Earth to protect you with rock and soil that will block some incoming damage.

Decrease every incoming attack by a possible 250 for duration of Earth Shield

Those in the front lines and a few others around Elyria were given strong buffs including myself and the other Knights.

While reading through all of the effects of the power from Vali’s mother Vali then smiled and nodded. There were now several bright lights surrounding Vali and even small rocks and earth floating beside him and each of us as well.

I’ve heard of Classes that primarily focus on buffs or ways to strengthen their allies but I’ve never seen someone capable of buffing so many with multiple stacking buffs before.

The mother of monsters then smiled towards her son and wolf dog at his side who also received the same magical buffs. The small girl in her arms was still red from before. Vali didn’t say anything but comforted them both with his smile and cool demeanor before turning away.

“Good luck Vali!” – Daisy

“Good luck Cosmia, Cyanin and Vali… Good luck Bifrost!!!” – Cari

Several of the pixies surrounding Shakko, Shen, Sting and myself started to yell back towards everyone who had already turned and were moving towards the giant beasts fighting in the distance.

Snap!

With the sound of Vali snapping his finger reverberating over the whole floor, me and the thousands of Demi humans that were behind me are now in a completely different location. The demi humans didn’t seem confused at all and each ran off into different directions…

‘Wow….That’s a big wall…..’

“….Who made this? I didn’t realize it was this big…” – Shakko

“I don’t know but I don’t want to stop and admire the architecture at the present so why don’t we move to the back of this oddly built city. ” – Shen

As we each nodded we moved to the back of the city were thousands of demi humans from all races continued to gather. Beside us we even had several guards from each of the races, even several of the immortal pixies were alongside us as well. None of the demi humans here showed even a hint of fear which is what continued to fill my mind.

I admit that now I can breathe and move much better than before… But in the face of such odds they are going to fight giants behind these walls… Gods….

“…What the hell are those?” – Shakko

BoOOOM!

BOOoooOM!

Loud roars came from on top of the walls that erupted across the entire floor.

“Hmph…I guess you foreigners would probably not see something like that unless you travel more…Those are cannons…though those particular models seem much different than the ones I’ve seen back home. They’re much louder…” - Sting

“So how did they manage to have such an invention down in here?” – Shakko

Shakko questioned Sting running alongside us with his dark spear and black leather light armor.

“Do you think you have enough defense with just that?”

“Heh… This is called Hydra Armor X and is probably the most valuable thing I now own….. If I ever survive this I can’t imagine I’d ever sell it. It’s not even the basic kind you see everyone in here wearing either as this is actually a particular armor only the leaders received and is made up of a finer quality of leather from a legendary beast. Thanks to a certain special acquaintance who gave this to me this heals 5,000 health a minute. Well and my robe isn’t quite like the one Vali let me wear once….I tell you even with the equips he has alone will shake the fabric of the Central Continent…But he too is wearing this particular armor so I feel slightly safer due to that, even if he is someone who can’t be defined with simple words…. I’ll never understand blessed beings, how they can simply defy logic and surpass so many gaps in level and fight on equal grounds with something like a god….- Sting

“……Wait what?” – Shakko

“Did you say 5,000 in a minute?.......”

‘…… That is simply astonishing. I thought being able to heal 1,500 health a minute from eating enchanted meat was incredible but…. How can a simple cloth provide such ludicrous effects. It almost outshines some Legendary items I’ve seen and he says everyone with those black snake skin fleeces have such an effect….’

“I admit I don’t know how he came by such strength but even his mom is someone special…Just check out all these buffs on here, I feel like I can fight all day long…” – Shen

Behind this wall the battle had started making the entire floor continue to shake.

Vali and the demi humans beside him had fearlessly leapt into battle against such frighteningly bad odds, and all we are to do is wait until things don’t work behind this wall.

As we continued to run alongside the pixies and looking back towards the colossal wall that far surpassed any outside this dungeon it was a wall meant for giants.

Dozens of pixies started to fly upwards towards the top of the wall where several demi humans were already waiting. They surrounded the small white pixie with rainbow like hair. Even though they all looked and acted so young in the matching armors and weapons along with the ever glow from their wings, it felt like they were existences beyond human comprehension as rainbow light trailed from behind her and her guards.

There was still however a large group of pixies running alongside us as well. Many of them were flying right next to Vali’s mother and attempting to speak but I don’t think she understood them at all.

“You’re Vali’s mother!” – Blue Pixie

“She’s so pretty!” – Maroon Pixie

“Vali said this was his mother! And this little girl he was holding when we woke up… Does that mean you’re Vali’s family too?” – Pink Pixie

“…..Ugh…I don’t um understand hmphmph…You all are each quite cute though.” – Elyria

“She seems nice like Vali…” – Light Blue pixie

“Wait so if they’re Vali’s family does that make them our family too?” – Maroon Pixie

“Well of course! This is so exciting to get to meet you! I’m Vali’s sister Aurora!” – Blue Pixie

As Elyria shook the floating pixies as we all ran through the streets of the stone city that I now see has been built into the wall of the cave itself. I can see a tall clock tower in the corner of the city next to the rocky sides of the dungeon wall.

All of our wounds had been healed in that moment and I now have my sword in hand alongside what should be less than 15,000 troops. Well 6,000 of those troops would also be elderly, children or those who are essentially not fighters in this dungeon but those who chose to simply live in such a place.

‘I couldn’t imagine being able to just live here for the entirety of my days, let alone facing such a monstrous enemy to escape either…’

“Well if we manage to survive… I think it highly likely we instruct the King to keep relations with Vali on good terms regardless of who our enemies might be. Even if we have to cut tithes with Noble and even High Royal families from the central continent….No I don’t think that I absolutely believe that….– Shakko

“You think so too…He is a Blessed Being from the Goddess Freya after all.” – Shen

“Wait Freya? What? That lucky bastard!!” – Sting

Running alongside Shen ,Shakko, Sting and Elyria we continued to run further into the back of the city alongside the thousands of other demi humans. Many of them looked like warriors but a large number of them looked to be made up of civilians.

“You don’t get it…. His blessed ability gifted from the gods… Abilities that could even shake the continent and compare to the Legendary Heroes. Said to make them capable of surpassing large level gaps and wielding such frightening power …. Its possibly he also has no affiliation with the Goddess Freya at all either.” – Shakko

To this each of us then turned and peered towards the masked man running alongside us. Shakko’s voice then started to speak softer as we ran to the edge of the clock tower and he explained his statement for only us three to hear. Considering that the pixies were currently flying around Elyria and trying to speak to her she wouldn’t be paying attention anyways.

“The Priest from the Asher Church of Freya…he died in the coliseum…What happened to him, and what we saw earlier today…. I think he and his wolf have some kind of ability to take abilities from others…..well from eating hearts… I first had a hunch when I saw his wolf only start to reform and regrow its lost arm until he killed that …Ugh I don't even want to think about it…You said Vali killed a King Hydra? I’ve only seen the 6 headed ones and even those are a fucking pain to deal with… a place like this would probably be like finding the lost city of Minos to a Blessed Being with an ability like that. It’s probably why he’s here.... But I can’t imagine the Goddess of Beauty and Fertility would affiliate with such actions for power… But if that woman was in fact a Valkyrie like he said then it has to be one of the Gods of Asgard. But who?” - Shakko

‘I completely forgot about that. An ability to absorb skills from those who’ve fallen by him? Is Shakko implying by consuming hearts he can….absorb other’s skills….What kind of unfair ability is that? Blessed Beings are said to be tools to the gods themselves and can wield devastating power but what god granted an ability like that one? …. In time he could even be someone who is capable of challenging a Saint or one of the Legendary Nine who wield powers comparable to the gods.’

“Hmmm…. The only Blessed Beings from an Asgardian I know of are the Saint of Lightning Donner and the so titled Blessed Child of Light Alexander Forsetti in the Central Continent. So Vali has probably just stayed under the radar for a long time before popping up in yalls back yard…. Truly a large world we live in isn’t it. I myself am constantly reminded how small of an existence I am in here.“- Sting

But the man who is fighting outside the walls behind us is not the same monster who was in that dark illusion… Everything was so dark and grey then but now … I saw a man who comforted a small-frightened demi human child most wouldn’t give a second glance. He treated his mother with utmost care and love it was a completely different person than the monster in my fears…. Vali’s willing to even take on an army and a god with such little numbers to allow the young, old and even us who can’t help to survive…. He’s nothing like the dark image I had portrayed him as in my nightmares.

The look in his eyes was also different. They weren’t blue in like in the illusion, but black, much like the over lurking darkness that is blowing slowly across this place. I can’t imagine where he gained such fearlessness and frightening strength but I can only pray.

Pray to the gods for favor and safety of our allies and Vali as they fight against such a monstrous enemy.

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Vali’s POV:

“The illusions have each been set Vali” – Cosmia

“Good tell Daisy to send word to the Adlers that those Manticores shoot some strange shard that’ll increases your gravity dramatically if hit. It could cause them to easily fall out of the sky if they’re hit by them so yall be mindful against them as well.“

“Will do Vali…” – Cosmia

Looking forward at the fallen god he still hasn’t gotten up from that last attack. I can’t imagine he’ll be too happy when he wakes up either. I’ve set Adimar and Akino as well as the Elite Annunakes on top of him and it’s been close to a minute. While I don't absorb all the Mana that he lost, Balor's health has only gone down by 1% but his Mana has gone down by 4% which has caused my mana pool to go up by a solid 45%.

‘Just a bit more… just a bit more and I’ll have enough to use each skill one after the other….This bitch will go down.’

Abgrund said his mind should be in tatters right now so we used the time to gather our remaining forces and all get in position. We had to push back and kill all the surrounding Fomorians and monsters within our formations and surrounding the fallen Balor but many Fomorians were still running rampant with dozens Manticores flying overhead.

Behind that however……

BOOOOOM!

ZzzzzAAAaaPPP!!!!

PPpAPPAPAPPA

BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!

The force from every explosion and each lightning strike caused it hard to hear anyone properly without Daisy’s flower petal wrapped in a cloth clogging my ear.

Hjokk was doing a great job at holding back all of Balor’s army of monsters behind the now 100th tornado that has touched down.

The storm ripped the surrounding forest and weaker monsters into it’s clutches and received massive damage when being struck by flying debris at Mach speeds.

Any monster that got anywhere close to the ever increasing storm would receive massive damage until the cloud of mist disappeared entirely.

Golden lightning continued to rain down from the tip of Hjokk’s spear to the new dark clouds that have been created overhead and are slowly covering the whole floor. All of Balor’s dark creations have vanished and even though his monster horde is violently stronger than anything outside these walls…. They aren’t even in the same league as Hjökk…

Her image continued to appear and reappear in and out of the storm and would blow off the monsters skulls with the simply swing of her spear.

SSSssSAAAAAAHhhhh!!!!!

Looking in the sky a long black serpent with bright red wings coming out its long body began to shoot towards Hjokk after seeing the numbers around Balor thinning.

Amphithere Level: 598

As it took a deep breath it looked to have been shooting some sort of dark purple energy beam forming around its mouth.

I only saw it for a moment before Hjökk then flew past it, ripping the Amphithere’s wings off in the process.

Nothing could even get close to Hjökk and seeing this it was possibly a good idea. I owe it all to Ari…

I have no idea why she and Elyria are here….What Abgrund said, I blame Loki. If anything happens I swear I’ll gut him for it.

‘….I however can’t argue I’d probably be dead now if Ari hadn’t woken us all up. Once Balor’s head was cleaved in two whatever that darkness ability that brought our entire army of thousands to our knees was also broken.’

…. Our numbers had thinned greatly and the Adler’s who were not apart of our alliance and were all warped from Floor 22 to were almost all wiped out. As they attempted to fly away Balor’s skill dropped the out of the sky and only became helpless why they were trapped in their own hell. Many came crying to Kyrah as her brother Griff and a large majority of their forces were already gone. She ordered them to the rear guard and took 2,000 Adlers to the skies above the clouds where she is waiting.

Hundreds were eaten or heavily injured by Balor’s last attack that almost reached the Giant wall.. Some even died under the effects of Balor’s strange illusion skill.

It somehow fed on the darkness that dwells within all of us and used that to hurt us. Whatever happened in our mind is what would start to happen to our bodies, I was fortunate enough to resist it before it was able to claim me….Truly if not for the little girl I saved in that coliseum we would all be monster food and our stories would have ended abruptly here.

‘Fuck…His damn eye, I should have remembered something in the mythologies spoke something about Balor’s eye being able to destroy armies but this… Well it’s gone now and soon he won’t be able to grow it back…. With my mother here everyone’s stats and defense has risen well too, which is good. It’s possibly now…We’re going to gain the advantage with this as he can’t stop Hjökk from massacring his defenseless children…. He’s as vulnerable as ever now.’

I told the pixies and the rest of our little suicide squad to hold back and I warped over to the fallen Balor where the Elite Annunakes are currently cleaving off health and mana bit by bit.

ROOOOOARRRRRRR!!!!!

‘Another Manticore? Damn Hjökk you’re slacking……Dark Sever!’

SHHYYYYYEEEAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

A large dark crescent moon shot forth out from Abgrund and towards the flying Manticore overhead clipping off part of its wings.

As it came crashing to the Earth it crawled back onto its stomach and got up and started sprinting towards me in blind furry. The lion-like beast covered large amounts of ground even on its thick and powerful legs.

WHOooooOSSHHH!

Slink!

Whoosh!

WhooooSH!

WHooosh!

Sink!!!

Ro…bnbn…

The image of the beast then exploded in finely sliced shreds of meat, skin, and brain matter that scattered and painted the floor at my feet.

Walking out from behind the mutilated beast and puddle of blood was Alysteir who walked slowly towards me while covering herself with her hat from all the falling blood.

“I can’t see why you didn’t just perform our plan early as a time like this would be opportune when he is unable to defend.” – Alysteir

Behind Alystier I could see a Fomorian toppled to the ground as the image of Malfius and several Reiki and Neko’s took the giant to ground and paralyzing it. Within a few breaths he was already right back at our side.

“I half wish we could have too now that he’s been down so long but we needed to move our forces into position. Beside even if we did it early he’s not in the cage which was the point and if we mess up this chance we ruin a perfect oppor…..”

“MmmmMM!!!!! Killl !!!… Haaaaaahhhhh….” –Balor

The ground started to quake and the figure of the fallen god began now began to move and try to rise.

I instructed to the Elite Annunake it was time to move and then the whole ground started to shake even more violently.

“Show you endless…TORMENT…..I will …..Feast on your FLESH you insignificant MORTALLLL!! ” – Balor

The air itself began to rumble and crack and I could feel Balor’s endless wave of pressure begin to fill throughout the entire floor with the mere sound of his thunderous voice.

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Akino’s POV:

“Rapid Paw!”

“Moonlight Claw!” - Adimar

As Adimar and I continued to dig deep into the giant bastard who is responsible for all of our pains, he was lying on the ground helpless.

‘I don’t know what Vali did but….. The Alpha must have met the god head on and put him on the ground. I can’t imagine going through this all without him here. Somehow he is the one who holds all of us together. He was willing to even forgive my brethren and myself for all we had done… And like the words we spoke ……’

Moonlight Claw!

We will share in each others fate….With the Alpha I finally get to tear this son of ….

“MmmmmM!!!”

The dark and long back of the fallen god which felt to be made of metal began to move and twitch.

Looking back towards the other Annunakes who were ordered to drain this son of bitch dry of his magic we each agreed it was time to move. Even with all of the added armor and buffs from Vali we won’t fair long if Balor were to get ahold of one of us.

As we leapt off of the giant’s back the ground itself began to crack and open up as Balor started waking up from having his head partially ripped off. He didn’t bleed but his open head just looked filled with darkness. Anything that attacked or touched it actually received damage on our barriers and armor so we didn’t bother.

Each of the Elite Annunake are adorning dark blue leather armor gifted to us as well as have several buffs and magic surrounding each of us making us stronger than ever before.

We continued to run knowing full well behind us Balor was emerging and going to be angry as ever. ‘How can he survive with half of his face gone!’

WHOOOOOOOSHHHHHHH!!!!!

A brilliant bright star flashed at the top of the city walls and was nearly blinding.

“Grr….GRrRRRRRR AHHHhghghh! “

As we continued to retreat we could hear the screams and wails of the titan at are backs but even with our speed he could cover the distance in second with his large body.

‘We have to….guah!!!’

Suddenly something grabbed my leg and tighten it fastening it to the floor.

“Try and run as you might but you simply cannot ever escape me! This place shall forever be your GRAVES!” – Balor

I couldn’t move and now could see several other of my fellow elites have been bound to the floor by the darkness erupting from the ground.

“GRrrgaah…GAHhhHH!” - Bronsil

“Ugh….This is It! GUhh….” - Alderon

The two elites tied to the ground to my left where each pulled apart from the waist and killed immediately.

I could continue to feel the same darkness grip onto me and I couldn’t escape.

Moonlight CLAWWWW!

With the sound of thunder a bright flash appeared next to me and ripped the darkness at my feet apart and pulled me in tight.

“ha…ha…Alpha….I..”

“We have to move!” - Vali

Grabbing my arm we continued to run away from Balor to hopefully lure him to the next location but the darkness that is seeping out of the dungeon floor is now making large clouds of black in the air and covering the entire floor.

Joining on the other side of Vali we continued to run towards the back of the giant forest where the trap has been laid. Half of the floor is already completely destroyed and we can only hope the trap hasn’t been destroyed either.

‘We can only…’

BOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!

A loud explosion came up from the ground just in front of where we were running and an endless sea of darkness blew threw and seeped into the sky.

It happened so close it sent each of us in separate locations.

“Trying to escape me is MEANINGLESS! You think because you killed such a small number of creations you can escape your fates! You aren’t even worthy of facing ME!!!” – Balor

Darkness then enveloped and wrapped itself fully around Vali and caused him to drop his weapon.

As I was lying on my back I too began to get wrapped up and tightly bound by this intangible darkness that makes any movement simply impossible.

I see lurking and crawling all over the floor around us now are the same monsters as before that were created by Balor’s disturbed mind.

Each looked deformed and made from what makes up his own body.

“GRrrrrRR!!!...ALP….AA! Gaah… I can’t….” - Adimar

Adimar too started to choke as the darkness around him began to tighten and claw at his open fur.

Blood began to spurt and fly off with the whips coming from the dark creations and some even began to bite onto my lower body.

Vali couldn’t help as he too was being fully enveloped by the darkness that he didn’t even see Balor had now caught up to us and was merely staring overhead…..

Looking down at me with half of his face already completely torn off he made a small smirk with the other side of his face.

As I was helpless I simply smiled back towards my incoming fate….

“Heh….I regret nothing….”

Balor then raised his large leg that towered almost as tall as the surrounding trees until plummeting down on top of where I was lying sending me into a world of darkness.

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Izzie’s POV:

“Absolutely incredible….”

Never would I imagine this day would come as a child but fate rarely goes the way we plan for it too. That’s exactly while right at the very beginning of the fight we were taken by surprise by Balor’s sudden attack, which downed everyone on this floor just from looking at him.

Truly a remarkable specimen this human. I admit the first time I heard about the odd white haired Vali I along with the rest of the public agreed he probably shouldn’t be trusted. And yet he is one of our strongest weapons in our fight against Balor. He’s even someone more dangerous than Alysteir as he can turn even an existence like the pixie into something rather remarkable….

I have no idea what sort of skill he must have used on Balor but just looking at the hole torn into the sky it must have been at least a Rank SS skill….. ugh I wish he would have let me use my Acquire Skill on him to rate his abilities before all of this! I simply drool at the amount of new information I could learn from such a peculiar boy.

If it was enough to knock through Balor’s defenses and put him out even with the phenomenal level difference, I have to know what skill he just casted…. I simply woke up from a nightmare of Balor and his giants were victorious and were devouring each of us one by one. I was surprised that when I woke up the same was occurring only that Balor himself looked to be a lifeless corpse lying down in the distance with some tear in the sky that later sealed itself. Vali assured us though he would wake up soon and we should instead use the time to get into position and push back his remaining forces.

‘As much as I wish we could initiate Plan 1B early, if he woke up and felt threatened enough to destroy everything in the surroundings we could lose our only truly good opportunity to hurt him….’

I say, I don’t care too much for them divine folk but this human who is blessed by one is someone I’m truly thankful for the hope he has brought us. Even Commander Locke doesn’t know what to think of Vali and he’s usually a good judge of character. Erwin did say however he believes Vali to be someone we can count on and has the character of someone who doesn’t die early….Hard to imagine such a low leveled human could put the gods on their knees.

He was even willing to spare Jasmine, or should I say Clara now from a fate no different from the Dark Elf I had a hand in torturing… I’m also thankful this Vali who also is someone who only takes life when absolutely necessary or I could have potentially lost my best friend in this place….

If the public even found out about her there could have even been a riot.

Looking to my right Clara the elf who was still in her Neko body was viewing the scenes out in front of us with wide eyes. My unit along with the Adlers, Pixies are to protect the wall for Commander Pek and the Jiji to operate wall cannons.

“Ok …. He’s waking up…Now Cari and Cosmia!’ – Daisy

“Ok Daisy…. Flash Flame!” – Cari

The small multicolor haired pixie waved her hands and a small white ball shot up into the sky even higher then the wall itself, which overlooked practically the whole floor and then blew up.

Coming off of the small white light was a flash that lit up the entire floor everyone on the wall or behind it would be impossible not to have see this.

‘Nya…What skill is that? NYA!’

Out far past the wall I can monsters in the distance…The large flying beasts in the sky to the Fomorians on the ground every enemy was now engulfed in a white flame. Some merely had a white flame on various parts of their bodies while all the monsters in the sky and those that were close were almost fully engulfed in fire.

ROAHHRRRRRR

GRHAAAAAAAA!!

SSSssfhgh!!!!

Each of the monsters started to plummet from the sky as they continued to try and put out the fire that was now burning them and only them.

BOooom!

Monsters continued to crash into the floor and try to rub the flames off but to no avail they were simply being eaten away by it…..’Did this little pixie do this? I know this one apparently destroyed a whole floor but something like this is also incredible….Hmmm magic is so interesting as a sword user my whole life I’ve always been amazed with it but until recently I had never really known just how truly powerful it can be.

It wasn’t killing the beasts but clearly the fire was harming the monsters surrounding the walls and making them helpless.

“Look!” – Clara

Everyone then looked towards the direction Clara was pointing and we noticed that Balor was heading into the location underneath the destroyed floating mass.

Running out in front of him were several small white dots.

“He fell for it? “ – Adler

“No… He’s simply chasing them there but Balor’s walking away from the direction of his army which is what we hoped…. Now he’s alone.” – Neko

“Ugh! He’s catching up on them they won’t make it in time.” - Adler

“Nya…I hope this works….”

I continued to bite my nails looking across the dungeon floor towards the Final Boss who was chasing after the ‘bait’ that no one here wished to fill that role. It was a role however that was taken up by the mysterious Vali and the Elite front linesman this dungeon has produced in centuries and are potentially the strongest this race has ever produced.

“Oh no…He caught them!”

‘…..’

Being a Neko naturally our vision was one of our strong suits. Even from this far away our fellow Neko and Adler units can see this all happening easily.

Just then we saw the images of several of the Annunakes who were sent as bite were killed with ease. The darkness simply chased them like a wave quickly gaining on their tail.

Eventually each of them were caught and….

BOOOM!!!

“Oh no….” – Clara

Balor raised his leg and then crushed one of the Annunakes and I believe it could have even been Akino. The other two figures were also being eaten away….

One of the other figures was then torn in half and then were fully engulfed by the darkness eating away at them.

His health too had dropped to 0 and disappeared in a series of lights floating into the sky.

“…Did they fail?” – Neko

‘…..’

As Balor continued to walk forward towards the darkness it then reseeded back towards him and disappeared.

Nothing remained after the darkness dissipated and all that was left was the Final Boss who was slowly repairing the side of his head and body with the surrounding darkness.

It’s as if he were drawing the darkness towards him and I can see Vali was correct to assume he could heal himself much like the Fomorians but at this point I think it’s time to signal time to go to Plan 3A.

“Men! On my comman…”

“Oh shit!.... We got him…..” – Tanin

“………”

‘………..’

Turning back around to where Balor stood I can see nothing had changed.

But everyone else seemed to have been frozen looking towards……’Wait…’

“He’s falling! Fire!!!!!”

I took out my golden Saber that was once used by one of Balor’s Floor Bosses and raised it into the sky.

All of the Jiji then readied the long range ‘Giant Buster’ and lit each of the sides of the back plates.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The endless stream of loud roars of Pek’s invention shook the very wall we built to keep the beasts out and sent gusts of wind passed our faces.

‘I don’t know what you did kid but if this trick of yours works and we can take off at least a third of his health we could actually win this thing….’

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Vali’s POV:

‘That’s it you big dumb bitch…. Just keep chasing the invisible bait like the big old idiot you are….. You’re going to regret separating your forces and thinking yourself safe in your own dungeon.’

“He looks rather stupid right now…” - Akino

“Unbelievable this actually worked….” – Adimar

“What? I told you if we took out his eye there should be no way he could see through the Pixies joint illusion array. He probably doesn’t even see Hjökk tearing his so called prized creations into confetti. “

“Amazing Alpha…” – Annunake

‘Yah I think so too…’

As Balor started to awaken I warped the Elite’s location away and had Cosmia and the pixies activate layered levels of joint illusions… Illusions so real they even had their own scent and body temperature coming off of them. His face is slowly healing but I can’t use it quite yet….Realm Sever just took too much of my MP to take a gamble and start this party early….However

His Dark Aura ability along with the ever increasing dark creations that seemed to come out of thin air began to emerge and cover the floor.

Balor now that he is missing his eye is also unable to see through the illusion spells of the pixies and is wondering aimlessly chasing our false images. If he realized this happened to him only after I ripped his face off I can only assume he’d go berserk…I got to hand it to him though, missed a third of his face and he’s still moving around unhindered.

Whenever Cosmia performed the skill on her ring given to them to keep them safe against anything, she casted a skill called Eternal False Reality. Believe it or not it has multiple layers applied to it and Balor is helplessly seeing only what we want him to see now. If we attack him however he’ll immediately become aware to our presence so everything has to be timed perfectly…

‘Oh no it’s about to run out!’

“Ok now…Arachnee!”

The order was transferred through the pixies to the Arachnee stationed at the foot of the pitfall we had taken the time to create just for him. Each of them had pixies surrounding them and were hidden from sight from all of Balor’s endless creations currently frolicking all over the floor and sky. The Arachnee then extended their lines they had wrapped around several trees along with an adamantine chain that is buried in the ground.

“Wish me luck.”

‘Time to put this so called Suicide Squad title to the test….. It all depends if this theory of mine works…’

I warped away from the Elite Annunakes who were all hiding with Cosmia and all the other Elite Pixies behind one of the tall thick trees and the pixies illusions.

I reappeared behind the Final Boss and waited till he got right into position…..

As I made the signal out came Malfius and Alysteir from hanging from the large trees surrounding the area.

In one moment we each took off towards the giant towering over us and each attacked a different location at both of his legs and the center of his back. I increased the weight of Abgrund and activated Lord’s Earth Shattering Smash and with our combined efforts we attacked the defenseless but shrouded back of Balor.

BOOOOOOOOOOM!

BOOOOOOOOM

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!

“Wha……How…..YOU!” – Balor

The fallen deity moved a step forward but that’s all we needed. He is just now waking up after the illusion we set on him so he mustn’t have any idea what’s happening. With the hidden webs of the Arachnee obstructing his leg and….

BOOOOOOOOOOM!

BOOOOOOOOOOM!

BOOOOOOOOOOM!

Roars from the cannons on the city wall then began to fire and I warped to another location. The Jiji were all instructed to fire towards the same location and that was not directed at Balor.

With my spatial magic I opened up the space Pek’s cannons were firing and made it reappear crashing into Balor’s back not given him a moment to react.

Even with the combined efforts of the cannon’s attacking him the Dark Aura almost disintegrated each large carved stone used to fire with almost little to no movement. But with the added power of that, the Arachnees tethers and chain and even the pixies now caving in the edges of the large 30 meter trap…..

“……….” – Malfius

“ ………” – Adimar

“………Oh shit! We got em!” - ?

Hearing the noise of someone breaking the deafening silence everyone on the Floor was staring at the same thing as Balor began to fall slowly towards the adamantine trap.

‘…It’s so close so…..close!”

Balor then began to grab the edge of the hole and catch himself causing the whole ground to shake.

Then a loud roar came hurling from the clouds overhead and blowing through was large object covered in white flames resembling a meteor…... A massive explosion occurred on back of Balor’s neck and forced him down even further.

“ROOAhhhhhH!!!!”

“Take that ya fucking Furball!” – Kyrah

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Loud roars came down from the clouds above and crashing down from the skies was an overgrown Manticore into the back of Balor.

Now floating in the sky over head is Kyrah along with her aerial squadron of 2,000 Adlers…Well it appears like a large number less now and each of them look to have taken a severe beating as each of their health’s were in the red and yellow. The Adlers should have been busy watching our backs from monsters from above but from the sounds overhead I could tell whatever was happening above the storm clouds covering this floor provided by Hjokk was a battle of life and death in itself.

Kyrahs is slightly in the yellow and her wings and body look to be covered in those shards from the Manticore Lion but she is flying overhead still with large beads of sweat trailing down her face and arms. Her golden with golden iron feathers is gone and her armor didn’t look to have taken up well against the Manticores….

The Manticore’s wings were each ripped off and by the time it landed on Balor, half of it’s bones had been crushed from the fall alone. The large legendary beast simply crashed into its master ssending him only where we wanted to go.

“Arachnee now!”

I then immediately warped over to Alysteir and took off her necklace as I already had done for Adimar and Sting to save up as much of the Gliepnir rope as I had….. ‘I don’t have time to think about this is and it’s now or never….’

With a dignified expression in my actions I took off her necklace and warped back towards Balor who already has a small amount of Gleipnir slowly wrapping around his body.

The problem is Gleipnir needs to wrap itself entirely around someone before it coils around the neck and works…. I could see it was slowly running out so I needed to add more quickly or everything we had just done would have been for not.

We put Gliepnir on him when he was knocked out and when he woke up early we only hoped he wouldn’t notice but the small gold rope with a blue glow continued to wrap itself around Balor unknown to himself at all. But after our combined attacks he has now awoken out of his illusion and came aware of our presence.

As the old god fell into the adamantine pit we designed for him he then realized what it is that happened.

As he was only moments away from declaring victory he found himself crashing into a hole and partially on fire.

I could hear several of the pixies and leaders chatter through my earpiece as we were watching the beast slowly rise.

“So close…” – Cosmia

“Almost there, almost there...….” – Kai

“Come on…come on… come on….” – Adimar

“You!....YOU DARE!....Not even DEATH WILL SAVE YOU…..this…Haha…You think simple webs are going to hold me in here? You FOOLS!” – Balor

As the Arachnee continued surround the 30 meter long and 20 meter deep hole the pixies combined efforts had hidden they continued to fire off endless streams of web as well as myself.

“Almost there just burry him in web!” – Queen Nhaili

“Our webs our unbreakable!” – Arachnee

“Bury him!” – Arachnee

The Arachnees continued to fling their webs and yell off insults loud enough for Balor to hear while his limitless Vitality began to show as he started to get up while laughing angrily.

I could feel the atmosphere darken and everything almost became quiet enough to hear a pin drop. But all that could be heard was the loud erratic voice of Balor echoing across all of Floor 52 to hear. The small white flame that had covered the tops of Balor’s head and shoulder from Cari’s skill had disappeared and a dark cloud began to invade the skies.

You have stricken with fear by an Ancient Dark Presence that was said to have crawled out from the dreaded Abyss.

You are now under effects of Dark Lord’s Terror

Due to Immunity to Fear, Courage and Secondary Buffs all Paralysis have been withered.

- All Stats reduced by 4%

- Attack Speed has reduced by 15%

- All Mana Regeneration have been reduced by 50%

- All Healing and Recovery have slowed by 25%

The air has been corroded and turned toxic by the ever-looming Darkness that even now is covering and affecting your body.

Cool Down Time for Skills and Magic have increased by 12%

‘…Damn..just a little more’

“You insignificant existences dare to think such petty tricks can hope to contain ME! You aren’t even fit to be my opponents! Heh! AHAHAHAHA!!!! The Champion still thinks he can vanquish me? I have been around for EONS you FOOLS… I AM A GO…Ughhhh!!!!….” – Balor

As the final tether of Gleipnir wrapped around Balor a loud ripple reverberated and shot out from the whole and dissipated the dark wave of pressure that began to envelop and take over the atmosphere. Our stats had all went back to normal and now what lied in front of us was a now defenseless Balor….

‘….Holy fuck it worked….’

I just needed Balor to think we were covering him in webs…. The Arachnee only needed to by me a few moments of time. Balor may even perceive time quite differently as he could perceive indefinitely while using Lightning Step. I also used this to hide Gleipnir within my thread. All we needed was a moment or two and if we had to bluff we were going to use it. By the time he was crashing into the adamantine pit, Gleipnir had just about fully wrapped around him and simply connected to the added piece that somehow allowed it to pass through his Dark Aura this way and bind him.

As I peered over the side of the cage I immediately told Balor to erase all of the dark beasts that are currently wreaking havoc in the area while also instructing him to turn his Dark Aura off.

“you!...AHHhh!!!...You DARE!....WH…What is this?!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!” – Balor

Loud roars which sounded louder than thunder began to shake the entirety of Jheroki mountain as the Dark Lord who was sitting on his stomach with his head flailing around. As he continued to have blood lust towards me anytime he had intent to kill me or my allies endless streams of pain would be unleashed on him but not cause any damage.

I remember when we were coming up with this idea….It was honestly all just a gamble anyways…..

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“Ok, ok so say all this works…. You really think that little kitty and doggy collars are going to hold him down long enough to kill the bastard?… I’m sorry Vali that’s a lot to go on.” – Kyrah

“Yah and what if Balor can simply break apart the Adamantine cage or worse move straight past it…” – Adler

“Nya…That I believe to be doubtful. When he revealed himself to us in the prison I happened to notice his darkness didn’t wash over it the same way as everything else. Its as if he had to move around it…. I don’t believe he can move his body past this particular element…Though it all depends Vali if you think this little trinket of yours will truly be enough to kill him…” - Izzie

“Honestly no… I doubt it’ll hold him down for very long at all. According to Hjökk this particular item was created to hold back my pet wolf …. I don’t know about this world but in my world Fenrir has a few legends about himself….. He’s know as the God Slaying Wolf back home…. And if this is suppose to be a chain made to hold him down should he get rowdy….. Even though Balor is something entirely different I think it should buy us a few minutes. I bet it could hold down Balor especially since he’s nowhere as strong as he use to be….”

“You keep saying that… That he’s not strong… or he’s weak now? But Vali if what your saying is true why should we pin all of our hopes on some strange accessory that isn’t even going to hold him down for very long? “ – Ollie

“Yah I think I get what they’re also saying too…. Why should we even do all of this and risk so much over a hunch… And it’s not even something you think will kill him?” – Sting

“…..” – Cosmia

“…..” - Cassandra

“…..” – Commander Locke and Izzie

“………….” – Adimar Queen Nhaili, Akino. Kyrah and Malfius

“You’re not getting me…. If this works and we have him away from his armies….For a brief window of time…. Balor’s going to be completely helpless. We can do whatever we want to him…..” –

“………” – Everyone present in the war room.

“….Heh…Alright…I like it. Let’s see how the Final Boss likes being the one in the cage.” – Commander Locke

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“AHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!” – Balor

Even though his limitless magical power was being held back the dungeon itself would tremble and crumble apart with his screams of pain.

I’ve never tried putting on Gliepnir but Adimar and Akino said the violent shock and excruciating pain that came from it wouldn’t allow you to even think against going against me.

She said when she first wore it the moment a thought came up to harm me an endless stream of torment attacked the entirety of her body that was indescribable by words. The more strength she fought against it or if her anger and hatred continued to grow the pain would only increase by leaps and bounds incapacitating her entirely.

‘Hearing this only makes me sweat thinking I took this thing off of Alysteir but it was the only way for this to work.’

The necklace continued to shine as it continued to show it was working in surpressing the fallen gods endless amount of power. Balor would continue to jerk back and forth while lying down but it was clear he was unable to free himself after I ordered him not to escape or even move but to simply let us attack him.

On my instructions an all out attack of the race leaders and Suicide Squad began to violently attack and assault Balor who’s dark aura had been forcibly turned off. His huge body still looks to have trails of darkness trailing off of it but now was being pounced on by hundreds of elite members from the pack.

All the surrounding dark creatures and apparitions disappeared and the air and ground has now become clear from the darkness. Only now looks to have killed all the plant life off entirely leaving only dust.

“TO THE DAWN!” – Commander Locke

“HOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!”

I threw my Dark Aura around myself and the race leaders who would be in here….. I dove in with them to test out how Abgrund would fair against this ancient beast, older the world itself and began to hack away.

A thunderous howl came from Adimar and the elite pack unit as they each leaped without fear into the deep and dark cage that held the worst monster in this dungeon. They truly held warrior blood as they followed orders with immediate action and absolute loyalty for their Alpha.

As they each landed on his lower back they didn’t waste any time and began to cast an endless assault of their claws that ignored all defense and tear into him.

Commander Locke and the Eis nekos were responsible for high damage dealing throughout the legs and hopefully they would be able to sever a limb. Malfius and the small number of Reiki unit as well as Alysteir are all posted out on the edge of the trap to make sure if something goes south they are responsible for keeping Balor down and in the hole.

I activated Slice and swung Abgrund horizontally across Balor’s spine and stop halfway through. Even with all of my increased bonuses I’ve gained that have even increased my abilities with Abgrund he’s simply built with such cosmic vitality.

BOOOOOM!

Landing only a few feet away from me was a large rock that fell from above.

Large stones and pieces of dirt continued to fly down and crash onto floor below. Balor’s roars and struggles only sent this dungeon into a frenzy.

As everything began to shake violently the ceiling itself began to fall down on us and interrupt our battle. As we had to continue to avoid falling debris while also attacking this increased the level of difficulty while

Queen Nhaili against the relentless instructions of her subjects chose to lead a group of 8 g Arachnee towards his upper back and shoulders. With their increased piercing ability they increase the chances of causing the poisoned status with their legs with every swing.

They’ve also provided everyone here with a combination of three poisons. Every weapon the Neko’s, Arachnee and Pixies are carrying are laced with them. Though Sting wasn’t able to help much but he did show the Arachnee and everyone a better way at secreting more poison by applying the concoctions on not only the spear tip but bits of the shaft as well to. He even apparently invented a recipe that causes the poison to stick to the weapon so he can lace his weapon with more than one posion at a time.

Now everyone but me has weapons coated in incredibly dangerous poisons that could continuously harm him until he’s gone.

“Ahahaha! …You think your feeble attempts can hope to harm me. You think you even have hope at surviving!! I WILL TEAR OFF YOUR FLESH CHAMPIAhhhhHH!!!!!! YOUR DEEAD! When I become free of your tricks ALL OF YOU ARE DEAD!!!!” – Balor

“I don’t want to hear that coming from you!” – Commander Locke

“Don’t let up keep attacking!” – Annunake

Balor continued to jerk, twitch and roar as if warning us to flee right away., For all his power, all his time living, with all his size he is currently helpless in the face of those he has actually trapped down here.

His health had dropped by 10% from Realm Sever but he had gained a bit of it back as we were setting him into position. His health is now at 95%.

BOoooooM!

BOooooOOOOM!

BooBOOOOOM!

“LET EM HAVE IT! GOLDEN TEMPEST!” – Kyra

“Feather Piercer!” – Adler

“Gatling WING!” – Alder

“SKY VOLLEY!” – Adler

BOOOOOM

BOOM!

BOOOOOOOOOOOM!

“Us too! Everyone now’s our chance. Let’s show Balor how strong we are!” – Cosmia

“Right!” – Pixies

Flying in and out of the massively built pit the pixies are pouring out all of their magic up and down the extent of Balor’s body and the moment their attacks land they moved onto the next place.

Hovering in a circle over the adamantine pit however were all of the Adler’s now pouring down an endless light array of skills and attacks. Each were in a different color and began to all shoot down towards Balor. Many used bows and arrows while those from Kyrah’s race shot off a horrendous number of feathers made of light that shot out thousands of attacks that almost resembled gunfire. As every feather landed on Balor would then make the sound of thousands of frantic beating war drums.

As I’m continuing to run up alongside his back and cut into this beast with every second the image of a bright golden bird then shot out of Kyrah’s large fists and shot down towards Balor.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!M!M!M!M!M!M!M!M!M!M!M!M!!M!

The bright golden bird of light almost resembled a soaring phoenix that extended it’s wings and spanned over 80 feet. Looking to almost be worth a 100 of the surrounding Adler’s attacks the soaring board came crashing down into Balors back and the whole pit began to shake from the reverberated wind pressure bouncing off that attack.

“You like that! Have a little more Balor!” - Annunake

Even alongside the endless sea of magic attack of all of the flying pixies, and all of us on top tearing him apart. The bright attack lit up the dark pit and shook the giant beneath our feet.

“DIE !” – Neko

“AHAHAHA!!! How does it feel oh DARK LORD! – Commander Locke

Commander Locke and the all of the Elite units of each race we have assembled appear to be going mad with blood lust as they are swinging their weapons clad in poison and fire and light magic with everyone swing.

Balor was now receiving the endless torment and the overwhelming might of the Adler race with the combined force of 2,000 Adlers and 40 pixies were starting to dent and tear into the Dark Lord’s almost indestructible black body which felt tougher than armor.

There was already starting to ooze a black and almost metallic looking blood. It almost resembled a dark mercury but almost appeared to have life to it as each cut caused his blood to move around freely and drench his back which currently held roughly 50 of us on top of him.

Balor simply shrugged it off the combined abuse and stopped attempting to threaten us anymore as he could see it wasn’t working. He only continued to try and break from his bindings that were sealing his power and ability to take an attempt on each of our lives.

No one was here to save him, with all his vast power and armies he had no one he could trust. Just mindless creations who followed his will. Because of his overconfidence, not only did he put himself here without the support of his strongest pieces, but his over confidence is what gave us the biggest advantage in this fight.

Just like Malthiel these beings of old simply view us all as insignificant children who probably haven’t even turned 1 in terms of age for them. As the time we spend living is but a few passing moments to them.

As I continued to warp over several key positions over Balor I would keep my Dullahan’s out and covering each of the parties who can’t fly or flee away in time.

With every second that passed I would swing Abgrund into Balor’s enormous body but I could feel a tremendous amount of resistance for the first time ever using Abgrund. It felt like there was a tremendous force almost pushing the scythe back out of his body each time.

Being a god his body isn’t even close to something that can be understood by any possible understandings of my old world. His vitality must be tremendous, as his health has now dropped to 94% even after the continuous onslaught over the still incapacitated god.

‘I’m finally understanding what this ‘level gap penalty’ is. His level difference was so overwhelmingly higher than anyone present even if he couldn’t fight back this world’s laws naturally reduce the damage we can give him….’

I then warped over to the back of Balor’s head and swung my scythe into the side of his head.

With a loud ‘gonk’ I could feel my weapon get stopped as it was almost stuck.

“…Soon….Soon you will all die for using such tricks! All you will be able to do is run! RUN AND HIDE! For nothing….NOTHING in this world will save you from ME!” – Balor

With every elevation of his voice would send shockwaves out that would fly and crash into the wall.

Abgrund continued to vibrate as Balor’s thunderous voice shook my body and my whole surroundings as well.

With a heavy swing of his head my whole body plummeted down to the floor of the Adamantine Pit and crashed into the base which was made from the remaining pieces of an existence that possibly even predates Balor himself. The force from Balor’s simple movement was more than I could take and my body flew helplessly to ground.

I was now just under Balor’s head and he had then peered down at me and smirked with half of his face missing. His whole body from the ends of his wide shoulders almost reached the sides of this massive box of earth and metal.

Now only a small portion of his face was missing and had his second eye repaired but the middle of his forehead where his third eye has still not recovered.

As his face jolted in pain he swung his head swiftly down to which 1 remaining horn came down where I landed.

His movements were simply too fast and I could feel there was simply no time to…

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!

The image of Balors large head then slammed violently into the sides of the cage sending Abgrund flying off and landing on the side of the cage wall.

This shook the very foundation of the cage as the pit continued to quake long after the scythe had landed…..And still continues to shake now.

Pat..pat.pat

Landing only a few feet away from me was Alysteir. She didn’t even stop to say a word as she only then disappeared from the area entirely.

BOOOOM!

Booooom!

BOooooom!

Suddenly loud explosions continued to tear and scorch Balor’s head and body.

I saw the image of an arachnee fall off the side of Balor ‘s shoulder as he rolled onto her location.

Snap!

Her image then appeared right next to me and I grabbed her and warped her to the location of the other Arachnee. ‘ Heh..This is the chick Sting was caught hooking up with…. I can’t say they’re bad tastes entirely…’

As we both appeared on the top of Balor’s back Queen Nhaili was already sending word that they were successful in giving the ‘Poisoned’ status we were hoping for.

She seemed shocked to see me so suddenly and I simply nodded to what she said and warped her Arachnee brethren out of the pit as their job was now done.

Looking around all over the back of this giant it looks like the scenes of an epic battle. Endless assaults from magic and skills from the top geniuses this dungeon has ever produced.

‘It’s probably even safe to say each of them are the top their species has ever produced even outside of this dungeon…’

Balor is currently taking the combined attacks of thousands of us every second that passes and all that can be heard as the constant roars deafen everything in this pit.

Everyone was giving everything they had. Each of their faces showed such resolute looks as this was their moment. It was either going to be us or him and there was no in between. This was an old blood debt that they have been holding onto for thousands of years. They were using all their strength and combined might to destroy the monster who has forced them into such hell. They no longer had fear as death was something they no longer were scared o

Of all the scenes I’ve come across in this world this moment was probably the one I found the most poetic. They each attacked with all of their most powerful skills until their Mana or Stamina had practically drained.

Whenever they would get low they would drink a Stamina Elixir or I would warp them out of them pit and the next Neko would simply jump in.

As I continued to warp through throughout the trap I started to see strange sparks shooting off from Balor’s back.

Large bright streaks continued to jump and shoot outward into the sky and they were coming from Gleipnir.

‘No…It hasn’t been enough time…’

I then had the pixies instruct everyone it was time to move out and I simultaneously warped each and everyone out.

As we continued to leave the trap Balor continued to make loud moans and grunts as he appeared to have slowly been breaking through the bindings we had placed on him..

After our combined efforts his health had gone only down to 92%. His mana had however dropped to 33%, which is something we could have never imagined would happen.

‘Damn this things vitality is on a whole other level.’

Some of the Reiki here including Malfius also have skills that decrease a person’s magic supply but with the combined efforts of the entire Annunake wolf pack has almost cleaned him of a large majority of his magical power an its not over.

When I looked at my current magic it was well over 3 million and I felt I had plenty of magic now and it’s time.

Almost everyone screamed in my earpieces that we couldn’t just stop there and were agitated I had warped them away.

But as I warped myself and the last of the Elite Annunake out of the pit which held the monstrously overwhelming opponent. I can’t even imagine how high his health is but even after almost 5 minutes of continued attacks with everyone’s strongest skills, Balor’s health had yet to go beneath even 90%.

As we left the pit several had already moved on to the next location while the pixies and Adlers flying overhead had already begun dumping out buckets of the incredibly flammable oil we gathered from the Floor One Devourers.

Looking towards the storm I can see Hjökk is still busy holding off remainders of Balor’s army behind her storm wall.

‘Now’s a good time as any… Let’s see how you take this combination!...Blood Wake you sick fuck!”

“Pixies let it rain!”

“Alright everyone God Killer Formation!” – Kai

I then began to hear Kai’s signal over the ear piece and I too readied myself. The pixies began to swirl and fly over the pit in a cone shape and are being joined by over a hundred more in the sky.

I slammed down Abgrund and activated Blood Wake at the same time. The glyphs on the blade began to glow a bright red until small drops of blood began to pour out and drop from the blade.

Blood from all over the floor began to crawl and fly towards me. The ground surrounding the wall, which was soaked in an endless sea of red started to clear and dry away.

Even some of the blood on Balor’s back started to seep up and join the ever increasing sphere of blood over my head.

WHOOOOOOOSH!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!

As I was just staring towards her direction I saw her figure fly back through the massive hurricane that has kept all monsters who entered it become paralyzed with divine lightning and flying debris.

Her image then crashed into the side of the dungeon wall that was connected to the walled city with incredible force.

Looking towards her I can’t begin to know what her health is even like but she looks to be breathing heavy. Even if Balor didn’t bring all of his forces and rare and legendary Floor Bosses out yet the monsters she was fighting were by no means weak.

SSSSSssssSAAHHHHH!H!!!!!!!

Somehow managing to break through the endless tornadoes I now saw the black Grootslang slither and emerge past the flying debris and lightning storm and come over to our side of the barrier.

Its body was smoking and covered in ash but it’s health was still at 84%.

Before I could even blink the image of Hjökk started to have wind magic surround her and jettison herself forward. Her face was livid and her shining figure simply disappeared in the massive tornado she disappeared into.

The Grootslang opened its mouth to attack the oncoming Hjökk but her image simply shot forward too fast. As the tornado flew horizontally across the span of the floor it flew straight towards the elephant shaped mouth.

Within an instant the tyrant of snakes entire body stretched out and appeared to have imploded from the inside out.

The whole scene happened within the span of a nano second I wasn’t even aware of what happened until after the tornado had exploded out the snakes tail.

As I finally caught track of her shining image she was looking right at me and noticed the large ball of blood currently growing over my head.

Grootslang Level: 521 Health: 2%

Hjokk’s image then appeared towards the fallen and wounded beast and within a moment Hjokk rammed her large golden spear into its head causing it to explode….

‘…Damn… Guess I was wrong she’s doing just fine.’

She then stuck her spear in the ground and stuck her hand out towards me and started chanting a spell.

I could see several symbols and numbers began to appear around and beside her head and then myself and everyone began to glow a bright yellow that made us almost look divine. Within a moment a large yellow bubble appeared around all of us.

In only a short cast time everyone now has a skill that increases our health essentially by adding 25,000 armor as well everyone now has a bright yellow bubble that surrounds each of us.

Now underneath my mana and health bar is a small Yellow bar as well as a small shield over everyone’s name and level.

Without a word she then went back through the storm, which opened and closed at her will.

For a brief moment I could see the horrendous state of the floor and prized monsters Balor had been clamoring on and on about. It simply looked like a graveyard mutilated and destroyed giants.

‘Well… I guess I don’t have to worry about Hjökk getting tired too ea…..Fuck that ‘s a lot of blood!’

Just as Hjökk disappeared behind the storm wall an ocean of dark maroon blood began rush towards me in the shape of a tsunami.

This was the result of 5 minutes of leaving Hjökk alone with the monster horde. This was the entire reason we had Hjökk fight an army of giants and legendary beasts….No one would have been able to send this much blood….

The tsunami which reached a height even larger than a Fomorian began to connect to the sphere floating above me and grow it in size exponentially.

Each and every drop touched the cursed blade and extended upward.

Looking down at Balor the necklace continued in more frequent occurrences and would blink brightly.

‘Come on…faster, faster….’

As the torrent of blood collected itself it would wrap around the blade and absorb in the curses which were invented by the God who rules over the dead, and soon would be inside of this dark deity.

I could continue to feel the rush of energy growing over my head and I can now see the ball of blood has now completely blotted out the artificial sun on this floor. Now a large shadow is looming over Balor’s defenseless back.

Splat

Splat

Splat..splat

The large ball of blood began to split and duplicate. It continued to do the same as before and continuously multiply by the endless ocean of blood that has been collected by the large giants. The sphere broke apart and split until there must have been trillions of tiny drops each glowing a deep crimson.

“I will feast on all those you cherish …Know that now you have angered a being far past your comprehension….Ugh!....I’m going to have your souls torn to shreds till the end of ti…….”

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!M!M!M!M!M!MM!M!M!!M!MM!M!M!

Just as Gleipnir started to tear and break images of glowing rope continued to appear and snap all around Balor’s body and then disappear.

Balor now feeling his immanent freedom and not even considering any of our attacks as possible threats began to speak without any hint of fear or nervousness. But of one who would bring absolute death and destruction when he does.

“What was that? Couldn’t catch that….”

The almost unlimited number of blood drops launched towards Balors bare back just as he was about to free himself.

Each and every drop caused a loud ‘bang’ sound to occur as each and every droplet not only shared in the cursed properties of Abgrund but also in it’s abilities to cut through practically anything….

I had to wait to use this skill but it was worth it. All this extra mana is going to be his downfall…..

As the blood from all of his creations began to pierce and crash into his bare body a heavenly light began to appear from above.

Now 200 of he pixies flying overhead have gathered and unleashed their trump card. Each and every one of them flying overhead began to glow an excruciatingly bright white light that it was simply impossible not to look away.

I could began to feel my skin burn and sizzle as simply standing here is already too close. I couldn’t move but the scorching heat alone was already starting to turn my skin a dark black color.

Each of their aura’s began to change color and beam a white light with Cari at their center.

As they flew in a swirling motion with their eyes shining brighter than a star the whole dungeon floor began to feel like the inside of a furnace.

The Pixies thick auras that surrounded them began to burst in a bright white fire that forced all the surrounding Adlers and ground forces to flee. Even the air began to feel painful, as even standing at the edge of this trap feels to be cooking me.

But I remained planted there with my scythe and directing the end of my skill as what appeared to be white lava began to rain down and enter into the trap.

“Is this normal!” – Kyrah

“Ah… We have to move! Everyone back!” – Commander Locke

Everyone continued to scatter as we melted this helpless bastard with a waterfall of Divine and he simply had no means of escape.

‘Oh shit!’

The entire whole began to fill and cascade over the sides forcing me to warp away…It was simply too hot even without it touching me my health was already starting to drop from heat alone.

I reappeared on the next position we said we’d meet but by the time I appeared many were already there.

As I walked out beside Adimar and Malfius our eyes were fixed on small flying pixies flying over the rather quiet hole.

“I’ve never seen anything like this! “ – Annunake

“Such power…. Even form here the heat is astonishing.” – Female Annunake

“Come on….. This has got to work. “ – Adler

“….What did we agree on…If it is under 60% we continue with Phase 3?” – Reiki

“…Yah…..even with all of our combined strengths though his health hardly went down at all….If this doesn’t work….” – Adler

“Even if!.....We continue with the plans we’ve set in place till that bastards dead or we are!” – Commnander Locke

Locke then yelled to all surrounded troops of each race and reaffirmed their spirits. Even if he was unable to sever a leg as Balors body was simply so durable it was impossible in the amount of time.

“Besides…. We arlready succeeded in what we set out to do with that box….The Arachnee are moving back to the rear guard now with a few Adlers but they sent word we achieved the ‘Poisoned’ status.” – Commande Locke

As Locke said this everyone’s faces seemed to have brightened momentarily. The endless white light then began to die down and torrent of heat began to subside gradually.

‘….What was that like 8 seconds? Well it’s longer than the first time I saw it used…..’

We each stared towards the large pit but no activity came from it. As the white lava surrounding the pit was something thought too dangerous for mortals to ever wield is now slowly melting through the floor entirely.

As each of the pixies would each activate the skill they tried to make it last long but as the floor itself was melting away the entire pit had filled with the Flames of a Titan.

The pixies then darted their worn out siblings and then carried them back to our position.

“…You think he’s….” – Neko

“No way stay alert!” – Adimar

We each continued to stair silently towards the pit the continued no activity but the flames currently destroying the dungeon.

“….What was the status effect we pinned on him?” – Malfius

“…Well that’s just it….According to Queen we achieved poisoning Balor with all 3 poisons… He’s also received a ‘Cursed’ status…” – Commander Locke

“Wait! Curses? How is that possible?” – Annunake

‘I think I know…’

This was all possible by slashing Balor’s back so many times with Abgrund….Even if his defense is strong enough to survive this blade it still can’t handle the boundless levels of curse magic that was created by Hades.

With every single swing by Abgrund not only does your health drop but your resistances will also take a large hit. I haven’t met many things who can survive being cut by Abgrund but if they were able to survive being cut they would have to deal with the curses afterwards.

Not only is there a curse known as Cursed Wounds which drastically reduced healing of injuries it also makes the target become drastically more susceptible to gaining the dreaded ‘status effect’.

Since Balor was absorbing all of Abgrunds curses undefended he was simply cursed to the point that we managed to stack multiple status effects that would continue to hurt him until he was given the antidote or he managed to suppress it. But one thing that is so dangerous about curse magic as it can make combatting status effects and other curses even more difficult.

The first is an old poison they have held in high regard for 2,000 years of this dungeon and have strengthened it over time making it at its most potent. They made it from the blood of the same monster I gained my Ice Vein ability. It was used to combat monsters like the Flame Elementals and beings who didn’t have a tangible body, which up until now Balor appeared to have. With the poison in his body he is currently receiving 900 damage a second and will make it harder to use magic.

The second was a venon given out which was the same poison we acquired from the Grootslang. The status effect caused 20,000 Health a minute if left unhindered and should cause him a tremendous amount of pain over time.

The third and final poison we are going to use against Balor is actually a gift from the Dark Elves. We managed to give him a ‘status effect’ and any moment Balor would use his magic he will receive a heavy backlash with every time he uses magic.

Balor currently also is under the effect of Cursed Wounds, and another curse from Bifrost’s new magic. If that wasn’t all his healing should be completely shut down along with this fire, which drops your defense until it is hardly existent.

‘His health has gotta be below 70% by now....With all that Light and Fire ….. No way he could defend against and no way he can heal himself now…’

Rumble!

Rumble!...Rumble

The floor shook to the point that large pieces of the floor began to break and split apart. The walls themselves cascade and fall over along with the ceiling.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!

“Aahahahahahahhaha!!!!!!!!!”

Suddenly an explosion occurred from beneath the floor and sending rocks and stone flying in all directions.

“….Ba….Balor?” – Adler

“Damn….” - Alysteir

“Why won’t you just die!” – Commander Locke

Several of those present began to mouth their frustration at the emergence of their sworn enemy who was climbing up through a large hole in the floor.

Staring towards him everyone’s eyes were frozen staring at the colossal beast that even after all this unrelenting attack remained in the living.

His status still showed in a dark red.

Balor the Endless Dark Level: 811 Current Health: 22% Current Mana: 28%

Fallen God of Darkness and Drought

The giant god was fully engulfed with fire to where he was unrecognizable. I could feel as if the air itself had left this place while the being staring down towards us now was in complete rage.

“As… I to…ld yO….U….It is all WOrth…LEss.. in front of ME! Prepare to be torn and killed everyday for the rest of ETERNITY!!!– Balor

His voice was now gargled and hardly recognizable as the same entity it however still held the same power that vibrated and shook the surroundings.

I felt an immediate warning as I could sense an unfathomable amount of power currently surrounding and breaming off of Balor.

“DARK WAVEEEE!!!!” – Balor

As his voice echoed throughout the entirety of Floor 52, unearthly amounts of power began to pulsate and release off of the giant’s body and expand throughout the floor.

What looked like an endless stream of darkness flooding out of Balor’s body with him standing in the middle a complete sphere shot out from his body at unbelievable speeds.

As an endless torrent of darkness shot forth towards our direction I knew there ws no way to block it nor would there be a way to warp anyone away in time…

I then actived all of my Dullahan Knight’s and had them stand out in front of of forming a wall while I too stepp up behind them.

“Vali!” – Cosmia

“Alpha we have to move!” - Adimar

Ignoring the cries coming from my back I raised my arms and tried to focus my mind. I casted Demonic Awakening, Lightning Step, Toughened Exterior and Ice Veins, and Adamantine King Fortification while preparing for the incoming blast.

I could feel an instant chill take wash over my body as I could feel the blood endlessly flowing throughout my body to become hard as ice while also seeming to almost seal me to the floor itself.

My body became rigid and solid as even my internals have become strengthened heavily.

With everything slowed down around my I took a deep breath and attempted to redirect the incoming magic.

‘If this hits any of us I can almost see it happening exactly like it did in my nightmares and will only swallow us all up and ending it here…I have to….Move it…’

Darkness shot past the Dullahan Knights in front of me and within a blink they would each disappear.

As the Dark Wave shot past the defensive lines and shot past my figure I continued to stand firm and attempt to redirect this unimaginable amount of magical power.

‘Come on…Come ON!!!!’

“AHHHHHH!!!!!”

I could feel the pain entiring my palms the moment the darkness touched it but as the Dark Wave came into contact with the Midnight Gauntlet everything immediately began to dissipate around my body and start to shoot around me.

As I finally got a space to open up in front of me I activated my spatial magic around the incredibly large space around my allies and me… From the ground floor to several hundred feet in the sky I activated doorway for the dark wave to enter….

BOOOOOOOM

BOOOOOOOOOOOM!

BOOOm!

BOOM!BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

BOOOOM!

‘WHAT…Impossibl….ahhh!....” - Balor

The moment the Dark Wave went through the open space out in front of us the power coming off of Balor’s body was redirected to the interior walls of this place immediately blowing out the sides and bringing in the sun.

The floor itself was beginning to crumble apart and the holes in the floor only began to crack and break apart.

Looking towards Balor I see now he isn’t even looking in our direction as he is staring off towards the his surroundings as an endless stream of light from the sun is now pouring into the floor itself….I can see now that Balor even appears to be suppressing a certain amount of pain as he looked back towards us with rage.

“YOU!”

His barrier had again disappeared and now he simply looked like a half mutilated giant with his home now caving in around him.

He stuck out his arm and I could feel a very familiar surge of energy….’Shit…It’s Wrath of Balor…..’

I turned around to look to see we lost several of ours in that last attack but the majority of those stood directly behind me and had the Reiki each placed some odd defensive barrier around each of them that looks like a large green castle and is transparent.

It currently surrounded everything around the small number behind me and several of those with me still have all of our Defensive Buffs and barrier magic from Hjokk.

“I..What?...What’s happening!” - Balor

I clicked my fingers and sent everyone to the Rear Guard. Looking forward I now see Balor has his arm out in place still but…. He’s struggling. Somethings happening to him.

GRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

‘This actually looks like…..wait Fenrir?’

The small silver wolf was merely staring wide eyed towards the giant currently looking back at me. His bright yellow eyes were glowing and appeared to have some essence floating out of them.

The floor around him was currently tearing apart but the silver wolf wouldn’t move and instead continued to sit there and not let go of his hold over the god in front of him. I could feel his loyalty towards me as he simply wouldn’t budge and inch until I had escaped…

“Wha…what is this..Those…Those eyes...” – Balor

‘No way…He can even hold down Balor? He really is a god slaying wolf….Ah fuck this, everything’s starting to fall apart we have to move’

I warped over to Fenrir which was close to Balor’s flank and pointed my hand towards him..

‘Mana Bomb!’

My mana which was almost over 3 million dropped to 50% immediately and a giant ball of light shot forth towards the frozen Balor.

The skill was instataneous and the ball of light was not as big as the sphere of blood but I could feel beaming off this ball with millions of condensed magic inside of it had the power of a small sun.

Falling debris and rock continued to rain down from above and crush into the caving in floor. Large cracks continued to spread throughout the floor as if the whole mountain were going to fall. I didn’t wait to see the damage I had done and instead grabbed Fenrir and warped us both away.

As our vision changed the already chaotic scene was no different than it was outside the walls.

The city itself was collapsing and falling down to the Floor below. The clock tower towards the back of the city was starting to fall over and I can see thousands of those even behind the wall are started to fall to the chaos.

“AHHHH!!!!”

“Someone use a warp key!”

“It won’t work. Just RUN!”

“We’re all going to die… Balor’s going to simply destroy us all!”

“EVERYONE SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Even with the city falling apart and the walls itself crashing in my voice simply sent shivers down each of their spines.

As everyone continued to run and flee I started using my warp magic on large sections of space. ‘If I continued to think about using my spatial magic by using it on per person too many people would die and this would have been all for not. But now I can simply warp large areas of space its just that by doing so large amounts of my mana get drained rather quickly… ‘

As I continued to use my spatial magic I casted out large warps over large groups of hundreds at a time and would move large areas of space to warp then to our next location.

BOOOOOOOOOM

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!M!M!M!M!!M!M!M!M!M!M!!M!M!MM!M!M!

As Fenrir and I turned our heads we could see what caused the deafening roar.

Looking now the giant wall that was currently casting a shadow over the city now was not only falling apart but looked to have been blown apart and is now falling to flatten the city itself.

‘Shit…I couldn’t evacuate those on the walls….Wait….’

I could see in skies were now hundreds of Adlers each flying at mach speeds and avoiding the crashing floor from above. Some of them simply couldn’t evade the large debris and were hit causing them to crash into the floor and fall to the floor below.

Each of the Adlers looked to be carrying several species on their backs as I can now see they were successful in evacuating the wall in time and were currently each flying to our position.

“VALI! “

Looking to the sound of the voice I immediately recognized it as my mother’s. She ran up to me while standing next to Boro and several Annunakes alongside the Pixies I had chosen to guard her. Each of their eyes looked towards me with looks of fear and urgency as if looking at me what we should do.

I could hear the floor start to decay and a dark presence simply started to push past the walls and rush towards our position.

Snap!

I warped each of them away while smiling towards Elyria and Ari to let them know it was all going to be ok.

I turned around and continued to use the remnants of my remaining mana to evacuate as much as I could before the Floor itself was no more….

End of Chapter

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