-Vorgrim's POV-
"Keep on firing people, we have to take down that dragon. Our God has given us the order and we have to fulfil it." The commander of the army said. I looked at the millions of people trying their best to kill me but nothing worked. In the same Tier's, the Dragon's were invincible and the army in front of me was in the same Tier as me. So they didn't stand a chance from the start, it was a lost cause.
I kept on killing and killing and killing some more and then some more, it was never ending. I had been going at it for an hour but the people just kept coming from the spaceship firing their guns, using their weapons and throwing spells at me but still the result remained the same.
The ones who died were resurrected as undead by Ayer's spell. Seeing that their spells were doing no damage to me at all, some of them gave up, only to be killed by Ayer and to be raised as undead. I pitied them, having to do what Ayer said and if you went against his order, the only option for you was to be raised as undead, it was cruel.
I looked at the spot where I could see Lizandra, fighting Jolviun and Argor. She was carrying a black sword in her hand, it looked like a piece of cosmos, containing stars and galaxies in it. Looking at the fight for a few seconds, I was shocked to see her blocking both the long sword and the axe with ease. Those weapons were no joke, I had to use my everything to defend against them and seeing that she would not have a problem defeating them, I was relieved. The only problem for her would be Igtharus if she managed to kill Jolviun and Argor. I looked around and found Reinard in a really bad situation.
I panicked and left the battlefield behind me as I transformed into my human form. I teleported and reached him but alas I was a bit late ‘Fuck !!’ I cursed myself for not looking at him earlier even though I knew what it meant to fight the Generals. I couldn't do anything as I watched him get hit from all sides. The rage that was subdued inside me was released at that moment and as I was about to use the self-sacrificing spell, I saw Lizandra coming from the other side, flying towards me.
-Liz's POV-
'Fuck ! Fuck ! Why now? Why here? You idiot.' I screamed internally and teleported from the spot as Jolviun and Argor's weapons clashed against each other.
I teleported one more time and appeared right in the spot where the four generals were. I looked at Vorgrim, who had also arrived here. I saw his golden eyes gaining a red tint to them. The rage inside him was about to be released and that was not going to help our current predicament at all, so I flew towards him and once again teleported, taking him with me, right outside the dome.
"What the hell are you doing Lizandra !!! We have to save Reinard or else he might just die." Vorgrim shouted as he thrashed around trying to get out of my grasp, but it was fruitless. I was not going to let him die.
"No, he won't but we would've died if we stayed there a minute longer." I replied as the two of us kept floating in the sky, looking at the spot where the Seven Generals gathered. Most probably to behead Reinard.
"What do you mean? We have to go there and resurrect Reinard like you did with me or else we might risk losing his soul to the Grim Reaper." Vorgrim was hell bent on going inside the dome. His mana levels were going insane, I could feel his body getting stronger. I had released him from my grasp and used a spell to cancel out his self-sacrificing spell but he kept throwing spells at the dome trying to get inside to save someone, who didn’t even need to be saved now.
"Just stop, Vorgrim. Reinard is not dead. My hubby may act like an idiot sometimes but he would never let himself die before me." I said and looked on as Ayer appeared beside his Generals.
"What is wrong with you?" Vorgrim asked as he kept throwing spells at the dome and suddenly he stopped. Looking at the scene inside the dome, with a dumbfounded face.
"Everyone has a different side to them and you see, my hubby is a bit of a battle junkie and when he finds someone capable enough. He will unleash his true nature. The one that I fear, even though I know he would never hurt me." I said and stared at the place where Reinard was.
-Ayer's POV-
I hadn't seen this kind of barrier in my entire life. It was indestructible. I had told the captain of my spaceship to use all his arsenal but nothing worked. I tried teleporting outside of it but that also didn't work. It was like we were put in a cage, that white haired woman had created. Leaving me with no choice but to wait for her to get killed or her mana to run out, as she was the one powering the barrier, I knew it because I had traced the source of the barrier and it led to her.
Giving up on trying to get out of the barrier, I decided to observe the fight for a while and there has been no conclusion yet. I looked at Vorgrim massacring my army but I didn't care about them. They were worthless, their death wouldn't mean a thing in front of my real army. The only thing I could do for them was to raise them as undead. My gaze then shifted to the white haired woman who had been fighting Argor and Jolviun for at least an hour. She was weak, weaker than the golden haired man taking on four of my generals all alone but why was she still alive, when she should’ve been killed by now, I didn't know. I then shifted my gaze and to my surprise the fight with the golden haired man had reached a conclusion. He was surrounded and was going to be hit by powerful weapons and spells from all sides, he didn't have a chance to stay alive after this. 'He would've made a good general' I thought, as the attacks sent up dust around him and a crater was created where he stood. I teleported out of the spaceship and stood right beside Igtharus who had also teleported as soon as that white haired woman, who for some reason took that Lizard and went out of the dome surrounding us. ‘Now this would create a lot of problems or maybe I can just take that golden haired man hostage.’ I thought to myself.
I looked at the place where the golden haired man had been, it was full of dust that was getting cleared out by the wind spell Drivlon was using. I tried looking inside but I couldn't see through it for some reason and the dust was also taking a lot of time to clear out.
"Ho ho, now that is what I'm talking about. Such firepower, such skills." We all heard the voice coming from inside the dust, indicating that the man was still alive even after getting hit by the most powerful weapons I had created and given to my generals. The weapons which could even take down Demi-Gods.
"Feels good to be back after so long, right Lizandra?" Through the dust we could see the figure of the man, but still not clear enough to determine if he was dying or not.
-Vorgrim's POV-
"Feels good to be back after so long, right Lizandra?" I heard Reinard's voice coming from the dust and I could see his figure but there was something blocking me from seeing how injured he was. "Why is he talking like he hasn't seen you for a long time? Weren't we all together before the fight started?" I asked because I was genuinely confused, like who would say such things to a person they had been with, just an hour ago.
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"That is not my Reinard." That was the only answer I got from her, making me more confused by her cold tone while answering me.
-Ayer's POV-
I looked at the place where the white haired woman, Lizandra was floating right above the barrier looking at all of us with that Lizard right by her side and I deciphered the conversation between them by reading their lip movements.
My gaze shifted towards the smoke as it finally cleared out. Standing there, was the same man but with black hair with purple shade to it. His eyes looked like the abyss, drawing you in, tempting you and his expressions were jovial. I wouldn't have noticed his features, probably would've ignored them. But at this very moment I couldn't, I felt fear for the second time in my life. His mana levels were rapidly increasing, his every movement would let out short bursts of void energy around him which were so potent that even the air around him was getting thinner and thinner.
"Who might you be?" Reinard, as the white haired woman called him asked me, while pointing his finger at me. "Nah, forget it. Don't answer me." Reinard said and turned to look towards the Generals, who were pointing their weapons at him, ready to kill at any moment. A few seconds later, the man moved and appeared a few kilometres away from us. I couldn't even track him and I knew that he hadn't used a teleportation spell because there were no signs of mana usage from where he was standing. He was fast, too fast for even my eyes to see him.
-Vorgrim's POV-
"Are you seeing what I am seeing?" I asked Lizandra because only she knew what was really happening. I had no idea why Reinard's appearance had changed.
"Yes and that is why I got us out of that place." Lizandra said.
I looked at Reinard who was talking with Ayer and his generals but the next moment he disappeared and was floating in the sky, right where Ayer's army was. The commander of the army never stopped giving orders. He told his army to search every inch of L.A. but they didn't find anything because Lizandra had already teleported everyone out of the city.
-Ayer's POV-
All of us teleported near the man, as he floated there in the sky looking at my army. I didn't know what he had in mind but I had a feeling that it was not going to be something good.
"LAW OF VOID." Right after thinking that I heard a voice, like a decree of a God. All encompassing. The next moment everything went black. I couldn't see anything, even my own body, I couldn't even hear my own voice. It was darkness all around me, I tried using every skill and spell that I had, to look around me but nothing worked.
"Don't. You are inside my Domain." I heard the same voice again, it sent a shiver down my spine, me, a God who had nothing to fear was helpless in front of the voice.
-Liz's POV-
"Master, why did the dome go black?" Vorgrim asked me because the dome or more like the barrier I had put around L.A., was now covered in darkness. No one could see what was happening inside the dome, not even me.
"That idiot just used his Law." I answered Vorgrim but he just gave me a confused look. "He used a goddamn domain." I said and looked at the direction in which Luna was, she was heading towards us.
-Luna's POV-
We all had been observing the battle for a while now and the spells that those seven armored people were using were not something even us S Rankers could do. The fight was hard to track because everyone inside the dome was moving at such high speeds that we could only see a blur.
"We shouldn't be going near them, you know." Said the Guild Master of The Angels, Jim.
"We have to, they may be able to help us once that dome goes down." I said as the two of us were flying towards the white haired woman who was inside the dome for an hour and now that she was out of it, we had a lot of questions for her. The dragon had disappeared from the battlefield somehow, one second he was decimating the army coming from the spaceship that was expanding and contracting at the same time and the next moment it was gone. The spaceship’s technology was beyond what we humans could ever achieve, it kept firing spells and weapons at the dome but nothing worked at all.
The dome had gained a black colour instead of the gold one. No one was able to pierce through the barrier and now that we could not even see anything, the only option left for us was to wait or talk to the white haired woman.
We reached her a few minutes later and I looked at the white haired woman, a beauty that I had never seen before. She had gorgeous blue eyes, a curvaceous figure and was wearing a dress that highlighted her curves even more. Standing beside her was a handsome man, he had blue hair and golden eyes, wearing a butler’s suit.
The four of us looked at each other, I tried to discern her level but nothing came up. Same went for the man standing beside her, even with the help of the system.
"Care to tell us what is happening here?" I asked the woman.
"No, I won't." Was the reply I was expecting but "It's good to finally meet you, Miss Luna ‘The Guild Master of Cuties'." was the answer I got from her, like she already knew me.
-Ayer's POV-
"How about you come out and face me, you spineless bastard !!!" I shouted. I didn't know how much time had passed outside but the silence here was louder than my voice, which didn’t even have air to travel around. As a God, I didn’t have the need to breathe but for sound to travel around, air was needed. It was like I was thrown into space, where no sound could travel at all.
"Just wait a few minutes, I have to make sure your Generals receive special treatment for awakening me." Said the voice, which I still couldn't find where it was even coming from and how it could travel in this place. My senses were useless, I couldn’t even feel my own body.
-Reinard’s POV-
“So which one of you pricks was it?” I stared at the Seven Generals in front of me, who were trying their best to search for me but it was a fruitless task.
I didn’t even get an answer from them, their minds were already degrading as the time passed. The Void around was consuming them from the inside. The only one who was still able to maintain his calm was Igtharus, their leader but even he was on the verge of a mental breakdown like the rest of them.
“Let’s just end your misery if you don’t want to answer my questions.” I said and right after that the darkness closed on them consuming everyone. Leaving nothing but the silence that I really appreciated every time I used my Law.
-Ayer’s POV-
‘Dammit, why did I even try to look for that Lizard? If only he was not sent here by that fucking traitor, I would be out there looking for more people to recruit and not stuck in this death trap !!’ I thought to myself, looking around me blankly. I was on the verge of giving up but just then, I saw a ray of light shining on my face, blinding me for a split second.
A second later my vision cleared up and my senses returned, feeling the ground beneath me. I moved my hand and feet like a new born baby who had just now discovered that he can move. I looked around myself only to find the place empty, nothing remained except for the man, the dirt beneath me and the golden barrier surrounding us. The forest, the walls, the city, all gone, even my own army and my spaceship were gone.
The man didn’t speak, he just looked at me like I was a lost cause, a dead man. I wanted to speak but the fear that this man had evoked inside me kept me from speaking up.
“Void’s Judgement.” Those were the only words that I heard before everything went blank once again and pain shot up through my body as my limbs were torn apart. I screamed and screamed but it did not stop and just when I thought my death was near. My consciousness returned, letting me feel my body for a split-second before it was torn apart.