Planet Earth
Away from all the tension between the Moderators. Was calmly and peacefully rotating around its axis.
From afar, it truly looked magnificent.
Mephisto really had done a great job in creating a world that could reach the heights of knowledge.
With different law established on it. It was possible for the mortals to go further beyond.
But unfortunately.... It took a turn for the worse. What Mephisto didn’t take into account was the fact that
the law survival of the fittest would apply even to the mortals at the top of the chain.
As he said, the different races had totally different opinions. And no one was ready to bend their own rules.
In the aftermath of the 5th world war. The effects of war caused about 3% of the land to get destroyed
and get submerged in the water.
This war was the most devastating for the Human race. Over the battles that took place little by little the
humans lost the most of the land. After the fifth battle they controlled only 40% of what they used to.
It took Mephisto only few hours to reach planet Earth.
At a few thousand miles away from the atmosphere, Mephisto stood silent.
Watching everything that was happening on the planet. Carefully and expertly mending and carving
his plan to the current changes.
In order the enter the Human’s stronghold, he had to prove his physical and mental worth.
Looking for a minute or two, he had found just how to do it.
“I pledge to abide by the rules. I Mephisto accept the Purge.”
He was sent instantly towards Earth.
Entering the atmosphere, he found that the golden aura that was previously constantly emitting had vanished.
His divine protection was nullified. Due to this he now was a normal human being. A mortal.
Someone who could die from a trivial thing such as a disease.
Well falling through the clouds he quickly brushed aside these thoughts from his mind.
He did notice one thing.
Falling through the atmosphere had burnt his clothes.
So basically Mephisto was a human being, falling from the sky; stark naked.
[It would be very bad for my reputation if people saw me like this. They already make fun of me back on
GramDivide ( The place where the Moderators work and live.) Even the people here will start making fun of me.]
He desperately tried to hide himself with his hands. Not knowing how he actually managed to cover up,
he actually thought he did a very good job of covering himself.
Making the most of whatever you have.
In just few seconds he could clearly see where he was gonna land.
[Just where I wanted.] He smiled.
At full acceleration under the full effect of gravity, with his speed increasing every second by almost 9.8
meters/sec. He landed on the surface. Finally....
But, as he was falling from the sky at probably 1000 of km/hr and crash landed on Earth, the after effect
of his landing were quite prominent.
From where he landed to a 1 km radius, everything burned up. Like a meteor would create a crater,
similarly albeit a smaller one.
Mephisto descent was pretty legendary.
While thinking that and smiling ear to ear, he moved forward without a second delay.
He knew for his plan to work, he had to act quickly. Also the his descent must have created some pretty
huge uproar among the races. So it was better to move away.
He used some of the big leaves he found in forest to cover himself. Using vines of some fruits to keep the
leaves from falling.
The beasts that were nearby would definitely come to check around. It would be stupid to engage them
this early.
Also, Mephisto didn’t really know how much of his power had been taken away. He had lost his divine
aura and Moderator powers for sure. But what about his physical and spiritual strenght?
If he were to fight the beast race there and then and later found out that his powers were insufficient,
then he would be in a lot of trouble.
One of the rules of the Purge is:-
If you die in your mortal form while doing a purge, then your life ends there and then.
It would mean that he would never be able to return to Gram-Divide as a Moderator.
It seemed pretty reasonable. If a Moderator is unable to lead a single planet to peace in the mortal realm,
then how will he hope to achieve the Perfect Harmony?
The jungles in which Mephisto landed were the territory of the beasts. To his knowledge he had landed
on the territory of the beasts and humans. So getting out won’t be much of a problem.
The beast’s territory was the largest of all. Of all the land they controlled 20% of them.
Its not to say the whole beast territory was jungles.
The terrain decided the fauna of that area and the beasts of that region had evolved themselves to sustain
that area.
One of the main features that set the beast race apart from the other races was the rate of evolution.
While humans took thousands of years to get used to the climate and the area, beasts only took 100 - 500
years.
This allowed them to keep every part of their territory in check.
Not only that, due to the aggressiveness of the beasts, they had forcefully seized some of the territories
of the other races too.
Their own fighting art which they called ‘Karnic’ arts allowed them to strengthen their body and perform
various manipulations.
With the plan he had in mind he started moving in the east direction. Within 20 mins. he encountered several
beasts. There were four of them. One was a goblin, pointy ears, pointy nose short height. It carried a sword
with it. The sword was a normal rapier. Shiny and sturdy. Definitely made out of some alloy.
[So even the beasts have advanced this much. Impressive.]
The second was a werewolf. With height easily above 2 ms. His body fully covered with fur. Two upper
canine thooths protruding out of it’s mouth.
The third one was a snake with the upper body of a human. Often called snake-men. His skin was blackish green in color. Tongue hissing just like snakes.
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The fourth was a Chiron. With body of half horse and half human. He was the most muscular of all.
With long hair. It carried an almost 3 m long spear. It was perfect for piercing the body with great speeds.
While maintaining a distance from the enemy.
But Mephisto didn’t care for what they looked more than what they were doing.
It seems they were ganging up on two women from human tribe. Most likely prisoners of war.
Or maybe they got caught when the beasts seized more of the human’s territory.
The prisoners of war were treated very cruelly. The women were raped and kept as slaves.
Their husbands were beheaded right in front of their eyes.
Their faces almost unrecognizable after the torture.
The beast race had always enjoyed themselves giving these excruciating treatments to their prey.
Venting their anger and frustration on the captured women.
One of the reason being the fact that the Male/Female ratio was very low.
Almost, for every 20 males there was 1 female. So that created some unnecessary friction in-between themselves.
Mephisto guessed right. They were about to get raped. After that maybe even get killed.
One thing about beasts was, they had superior senses. The werewolf smelled an unknown scent and
immediately faced the opposite direction that he was standing in. Seeing him the other beasts also stood
on their guard. Fiercely looking and growling towards the direction of Mephisto.
It was true. They had found his smell. But even with superior senses it was impossible to tell the exact
location of a person. The Place from where Mephisto was watching them had his remnant smell. But
Mephisto himself had vanished.
The sudden change in behavior of these beasts gave the women a chance to back of as much as they could.
The beasts suddenly started moving forward together. Their sixth sense warning them that there was an
imminent threat.
Within a split second Mephisto launched himself from a high branch of the tree, besides which he was
standing earlier. With quick precision, he landed on the back of the Chiron.
Before anyone could understand what the hell was happening, Mephisto immediately pulled of the spear
from the chiron’s hand and with quick precision threw it towards the werewolf. The spear flew like a bullet
and before the werewolf could dodge, pierced his head, taking him along with the momentum and go
t impaled to a tree nearby.
The chiron who not only let his attention break but also let his friend die started to gallop like a mad horse.
Trying to shake of the man who killed of his friend.
The snake-man got ready with his rapier. But it was impossible to attack him until he got off the back of the chiron.
The Chiron started galloping round and round. But Mephisto tightly hold on on to him.
Until suddenly he let go of the chiron and again jumped off him onto the snake-man who was readily waiting to attack the man. But this sudden lance by Mephisto left him unguarded.
Mephisto immediately hold on to the blade of the rapier. And quickly thrust it into the jaws of the snake-man, killing it instantly.
He took hold of the sword from the hand of the snake-man and looked for chiron.
Chiron was already near the tree where his spear was impaled along with the werewolf.
He tried to forcefully pull out the spear. But it was to deep inside the tree.
Chiron took hold of it with both hands and started pulling. It looked like spear was coming out.
Just when it was about to come out of the tree, a sword flew in like a bullet. Just like before and peirced
both his hands. The chiron screamed with pain. He started kicking his legs around in vain. But just like
the spear, the rapier too was too deep inside the tree. His both hands were stuck unable to move even an
inch.
The goblins are said to be physically but are mentally smart. Probably guessing that he would end up just
like his friends, he had already started running when Mephesto killed the werewolf. He was already 100
meters ahead of them.
Leaving the chiron screaming and writhing with agony, Mephisto easily took out the spear which was
almost already out of the trunk of the tree. Thanks to the chiron.
“Hmm.....(sigh...) probably 112 metres from west of here.”
Saying this Mephisto threw the spear like a projectile in the shape of an arc.
Within two seconds, there was a loud noise.
[Yep... Its the goblin. Judging from the loudness in his voice, it probably hit his kneecap or maybe the ankle.]
So basically, the goblin was pinned down. He himself didn’t have the strength the pull out the spear and
was too far away from the nearest camp for somebody to listen.
[He’ll probably die in this case.
When they find out that the four of their beasts never reported back, they’re gonna send a bigger army.
We need to move and reach the capital before they do.]
But the distance was still great compared to what Mephisto along with the two women could travel.
Suddenly he had a great idea.
“Evening ladies... You are from the human’s tribe right.”
“Yes.. we got captured when the beasts suddenly seized our areas.” said one of the ladies.
One could tell that she was trying really hard not to look at Meohisto’s attire. He was her savior.
It would be probably disrespectful.
The women were all muddy and dirty. Having being dragged around the forest. They had several bruises.
It was probably right to disinfect the wounds as soon as possible.
“OK. Come with me. I’m heading there too.” Mephisto said.
He walked up to the chiron who had fainted due to the loss of blood. He helped the ladies on the chiron’s
back and then himself got on. With slight power, he pulled out the rapier impaling the chiron’s hands.
The chiron suddenly woke up. With sharp pain in his hands and his body feeling numb.
Suddenly Mephisto put the rapier along the neck of the chiron and said
“If you want to live, take us to the border. Otherwise I’ll cut you down right here like I did your friends.”
The shear killing intent coming from Mephisto was enough to cause the chiron to sweat.
“Ok... Ok ... Just don’t hurt me. I’ll do anything.”
And so, on the back of a chiron Mephisto rapidly moved towards the border.
“Haha.... Now the fun begins.....uh.. after I get some clothes.”