Inferno [we tried everything we can to help our people, but even if they recovered a bit we knew that they would be the losing side in the end, since the enemy gods started to help their people a lot as well, so we tried to think of something, but we had little power and no options left, so Earth suggested for each of us to make a person a saint, now as I already said before finding a saint was extremely difficult and the gods didn’t really like to do it often as well, since they would become more emotional and we just don’t like that, positive emotions are ok but negative are not, and from both the negative are often the majority, but after we considered it and couldn’t think of anything else we all agreed to do it, making a saint didn’t take a lot of power so we could do it with the little we had left]

Night “but what about Earth, and the person he liked”

Inferno [I am getting there don’t interrupt, actually now that I think about it, even this suggestion of Earth, to make saints was because of his feelings, usually Earth would have been the one most against it, but as we were all concerned with the situation we were in we didn’t think too much about it, now the thing about how difficult it was to find suitable candidate was that, if we were wrong, they would die, no exceptions ]

As he said that, Day gave Inferno an angry stare.

Seeing this Inferno again immediately explained

Inferno[of course John can immediately tell if someone is compatible, we already know that, right Day]

Day just nodded, he already had this info, but it still made him angry to some degree, the fact that one mistake would have been his end, and Inferno just straight up did it with no hesitation back then.

Inferno[but since at the time John couldn’t help us, we had difficulties finding if there was someone compatible in our tribe, since we had no way to say for certain]

Inferno made a sad expression again, this time there was no anger in it, just disappointment in himself and bitterness.

Inferno[we failed a few times, but we didn’t have a choice, the people knew the risk as well and they all agreed, but after we lost a few which we cared about, we each found a saint, mine was a young girl, whit incredible character, we fought at time but we were friends if I could say so, each saint was extremely close to their god after all, and we also treasured them. They werent the strongest but they were still strong enough to make a difference, as we made saints and we could finally talk to someone much more clearly than before the four tribes finally met and became allies, their strength increased a lot, the enemy had stronger people in general, but with cooperation and the power of the saints our side finally started to emerge victorious, the saints also became close to each other, the same way we were]

As he remembered those times, inferno smiled again, it was obvious that he wasn’t good at controlling his emotions at this point.

Inferno[of course the enemy didn’t let go easy either, but the power of the saints couldn’t be underestimated, whats more one of the saint evolved into god-child, it was my girl]

Inferno said with a proud expression.

Inferno[after even more battles the war seemed to be at its end, we were going to be the winners, but as they didn’t want to let that happen the enemy decided to make last ditch effort, they didn’t have saints but their fighting power was still a bit superior so they decided to go all out in a frontal attack, to call it bloody battle wont do it justice, nobody was spared woman, children or elderly, the moment they got caught they were all massacred, at that moment we really wanted to intervene even more, but that was already our limit, there was nothing more that we could do, but the losing side could not be completely determined at this point]

Inferno again started to speak with a dark tone.

Inferno [but Earth just didn’t want to hear it, as I already said we didn’t know that he had fallen for a human at the time. Even now I dont know since when Earth had started to pay attention to someone, as I already said we gods are spiritual being, things like lust and even love are unfamiliar to us since our beginning, the same way laying eggs is unfamiliar to humans, or at least that’s what we had though, and the one to prove us wrong was Earth. He had started to have feelings for a daughter of a knight, and since we all paid attention to our own tribes, nobody saw how Earth rose the position of that girl in his tribe and took care of her, we didn’t know how exactly it had happened but for him she was more precious than anything.]

Inferno just bitterly shook his head [I guess that isn’t surprising however, considering that gods usually don’t have feelings, if something like love really happened most would laugh, but the god that experienced it would most likely protect it with its life, even if I didn’t understand Earth I couldn’t blame him for his following decisions]

Day”that is actually surprisingly mature of you”

Inferno just smiled gloomy in response.

Inferno[so anyway, with the passage of time the war was coming to its end, but at the same time the danger also grew exponentially, almost no one was left unrelated, Water, Wind and me didn’t really mind as we just wanted out tribes to survive, we didn’t care about one person more than the other, except for out saints of course, but Earth did, he didn’t want to let the girl die and protected her at any cost. The saints had power but she wasn’t the earth saint, Earth was too afraid of the chance that she was incompatible for his power and didn’t even try making her a saint, so as a result even if she was a knight daughter she was still too weak to have a high chance of survival on the battlefield. Earth tried to protect her to an obvious for his people degree, and that didn’t sit right with them, they couldn’t accept their God obviously having favorites and as the battle got at its all time high she was sent to fight as well, the moment Earth saw that he was enraged beyond compare, he cursed, attacked, sweared and even wanted to kill his own tribe, at that point it became obvious even for us, but we didn’t know what to do and since he was our friend we tried to be supportive but nobody could have guessed what would happen next ]

Inferno looked at the ground, he felt guilt starting to flow in his chest .

Inferno said with a dark tone [my tribe betrayed the rest]

After a few minutes of silence he raised his head but saw that neither Day nor Night had a change in expression, which he didn’t know how to feel about.

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Inferno[To this day I don’t know what I did wrong in leading them, I gave all my efforts, and tried my best, but it seemed that for some reason they had turned against the other three tribes, whats more the war was at its worst at this point, but it was finally at its end, and my fault, my mistake, doomed everyone else]

”I havent been there, but if you tried your best and failed you cant blame yourself, you have done all you could, if that wasnt enough it might sound a bit rude, but that is just how it was meant to be” Day knew his words sounded hollow but there was noting more he could say.

Day, as Inferno saint could feel how much the latter blamed himself and didn’t like this feeling, so he tried to comfort him, he didn’t want to say it but humans are humans, they are not nice creatures, if anything they would stomp on the good creatures and use them for their gain, but he couldn’t just say that, now could he.

Inferno shook his head[well that might have been the case]

Day knew that inferno didn’t feel better but didn’t know what to do, he wasn’t good at comforting people, let alone immortal gods.

Inferno[as I already said, since the betrayal, the end of the war was pretty much set in stone, my saint however didn’t seem to be on board with the whole thing so she betrayed her tribe and went to help the tribes of my friends, but even that wasn’t enough anymore, they not only lost around one forth of their battle strength but it was turned against them, the disadvantage was not something a one man could turn, it might have been different case if she was God-King but she wasn’t, I explained all I could to them and apologized,and they didn’t seem to blame me too much, we were friends after all, only Earth was enraged at me, we barely didn’t fight, but as John was there he prevented it as he didn’t want to see it, then Earth tried once again to persuade John but he was resolute at the matter, Earth couldn’t get a rest, he tried to think of something but we were all already out of options, I even wanted to help them and tried to tell it to my people several times but they didn’t listen to me, so finally it came to this]

Inferno let out a deep sight.

Inferno[as the girl was close to dead and the Earth saint died while protecting her, Earth decided to break a taboo set by the gods, it wasn’t a law enforced by John, but it was something we all had agreed on, he decided to come and fight personally, as I already told you, gods are gods, even if the enemy army was ten times their original size and power they wouldn be able to put up a fight, let alone win against Earth and he knew it, we tried to dissuade him but we couldn’t, even John failed to do so, but when Earth came it was already too late, the girl he loved had died, her head was pierced by an arrow, as he saw that and the influence of the lower plane hit him, the feelings went to his head immediately, he went completely berserk, he didn’t differentiate between ally and enemy, the battlefield began to turn into literal hell, his humongous body crushed everything into meat past, the earth itself seeked retribution from everyone present, nobody could escape, Earth made sure of it, countless screams resounded everywhere, as we saw this and heard the prayers of our tribes we decided that there was no choice for us, but to go as well , we were all concerned for our own people, even if my tribe betrayed me I still didn’t want them to die at the time, especially in such a gruesome manner, John tried to stop us but we were determined, the worst thing however was something else, to come down here there was a price, when a saint reaches a God-King they can temporally summon us on earth, but before that if a god needed to come immediately there was only one way, our saint must sacrifice their bodies, we loved our saints and didn’t want to do it, but they couldn’t watch what was happening to their families, friends and lovers, so they begged us to come, they sacrificed themselves the moment we told them how it was done, the battle at that point was worse than hell, Nightmares looked like nice dreams compared to it, a Behemoth made from rock the size of several mountains, was making the earth turn every living being into a dead one, some tried to run, but earth spear impaled them, boulders crushed them, the earth split and ate them, as we descended we all took our forms, a human shaped tsunami, a tornado which looked like a monster, and a human shaped white flame comparable to size to the other three, we tried to protect everyone but it wasn’t easy since we didn’t want to hurt Earth too much, as our worshippers saw us they finally calmed down a bit, they could tell we were their Gods, we tried our best and managed to suppress Earth and a lot were saved, but a lot of people died before we could do anything as well, the place we fought in looked completely devastate, but we still settled the war which with us there was nothing at all, only other goods could suppress us after all. After that we separated and went to places which we decided would be our homes from then on, with what was left of our tribes, and since we were here nobody dared to touch them anymore, I asked for explanation from mine, but they didn’t give me a clear answer]

Inferno made an angry expression.

Inferno[they knew I was too merciful and didn’t want to harm them and they took advantage of that. After a few years passed the humans betrayed us, a large sacrificial ceremony took place, we were caught off guard since we were never wary against them, but they didn’t have the power to kills so they decided to seal us instead]

Inferno looked at day

Inferno[after that you know the rest.]

Both Night and Day thought that the story was interesting and didn’t really have any questions.

But after Hades heard it he had one.

Hades ”SO YOU ARE TELLING ME THERE ARE THREE MORE GODS LIKE YOU HERE ”

Instead of Inferno however Day answered by nodding his head.

As he heard this Hades head span for a bit, one was enough, but four, this world was doomed if they attacked, however Day seeing the concern in his eyes knew what he was thinking about.

Day”don’t worry, according to Inferno words they probably wont do much, he is sure that John had appeared to them as well, after all after the initial God power he had felt there was no more, which means that like him, they aren’t using it”

As he heard this Hades felt a bit relieved, he didn’t want to see this world being overturned.

Inferno [by the way, will we be taking the god artifact before we leave here or what]

As he heard him Day made a questioning gaze, this city seemed normal, not a place an artifact would be stored at.

Inferno[for real, Day you don’t feel that, even Hades] but the latter seemed clueless as well

Inferno let out a sight[I guess even a monster has its limits, but I cant blame him, I couldn’t feel until we entered as well, there is something definitely wrong with this town, the magic in it is too tick so to say, and the god artifact seems to have the power of the god of life, which cant be happening as he is someone especially known for not making any ]

Day shrugged his shoulders “and what exactly does this have to do with us”.

Night nodded as well.

Inferno let ought a sight[to me and you noting, but to Night a lot, he doesn’t have a protection method, I am a god, you a god-prince, and Hades, well he is Hades, but Night is like baby in a grown man fighting arena, calling him useless would be a compliment, he should be able to at least save his life in emergencies, and this artifact is one of the god of life so its almost certain that it would have some sort of protection method, and lastly even if its of no concern to me, if the magic is left unchecked, it will kill all people here ]

Day” first I don’t want to hear that my brother is useless from the useless god” but as he said that he let out a sight, and gave Hades a look, after he explained it to him the latter said that they should intervene which didn’t surprise him.

Day knew the personality of Hades, he had helped Day, protected Night, and wanted to probably come so he could keep in check inferno, if that person found out that thousands of people would die. it was obvious what he would do

Day let ought another deep sight ”ok we will save the bird brains, and we would get that artifact,” as he said that he shaked his head disappointedly ” we couldn’t even get a break after we came out of prison for fucks sake”.

Inferno however smiled happily[That is how my saint is supposed to be, BRAVE ABOVE ALL]

Night smiled as well, he barely didn’t jump from happiness ”MY FIRST ARTIFAT, AN ARTIFACT, YEAS ”

Hades was still calm”well we cant let them all die now can we”.