Olympus, Unknown time:
Zeus was angry because Athena didn't make peace with Alex but when Athena told him that Hades' student broke his agreement with her as soon as he left, he permitted her to punish him.
She then came to the weapons room and left for the mortal world.
Demon Wars, April 437:
After the victories of the Centaur Turkic Khaganate, the demons obeyed their lord's order and attacked with full force.
All the cities in Central Asia were raised to the ground while demonic monsters and Beelzebub's flies were eating the centaur's population, it was a bloody massacre that made the Turkic Khaganate retreat as quickly as possible from Central Asia.
What made it worse was that the Scarlet Empire and the Roman Empire sent a combined force of a hundred thousand troops and were fighting alongside the demon forces.
In three days, the Turkic Khaganate armies were on full retreat as the coalition of Demonic, Vampiric, and Roman forces but the tide of the war changed the moment the allied forces arrived at Otuken, the dragons led by Athena herself bombarded the allied forces and then dropped troops from the dwarves and the dragonkin who defeated the allied forces forcing Behemoth to abandon all his gains in the core lands of the Kaghanate back to central Asia.
Rome, last days of April and beginning of May 437:
Alex received the news of Athena's victory, he didn't panic and issued a new order to Lucifer through his undead messenger: "Tell the demon forces to produce a lot of god-killing weapons as they are the ones that are capable of defeating Athena.
Battle of Buryatia, May 437:
After defeating the demon forces, Athena redirected her focus to the occupied elven east and her first target was Buryatia and she aimed to liberate the city.
After arriving with her massive army, she expected to be greeted by the people who worship her but instead, all she discovered was empty because all the elven population had been evacuated somewhere safe per Lucifer and Alex and even the army left the region.
Athena was ecstatic and she advanced to the mountains alongside the dragon forces who were scouting from the air trying to spot any enemy.
"This is strange as if Alex practically admitted defeat." Said Athena.
Meanwhile, Alex, who decided to take over the demon army's command, had ordered the mages to cast invisibility magic and ordered his demon army to spread around the mountain and cover all the roads that his enemy would use.
Once he saw Athena's fifty thousand troops, he gave a signal for everyone to show up and ordered Beelzebub to spread his most lethal flies everywhere.
Athena was utterly shaken when she saw thousands of flies descending upon her army, the mages tried to block them and succeeded but not without casualties as one thousand human soldiers died due to the poison that the flies carried in their bites.
This wasn't the worst as demon soldiers began attacking from everywhere and killing her forces left and right, the mages were no match for the determined demon soldiers who were aiming for the goddess' head, her army began to retreat and the morals collapsed but unfortunately for them, Alex's undead army began to surround them and join the fight.
"KILL THE GODDESS, TO ALL DEMON SOLDIERS, KILL ATHENA" Alex screamed and the demon soldiers intensified the attack on her army.
She was forced to join the fight as her army kept getting slaughtered but this was one of Alex's plans as she is now fighting for her life as every demon soldier she fought is trying to kill her and she kept getting injured by each demon she fights and kills.
She kept fighting and fighting and throwing spells with ferocious strength and determination to survive but in the end, she lost her hand as one undead soldier made a surprise attack with his ax and cut off her right hand, and in coordination with Behemoth's forces one of the undead warriors cut off her second hand and wanted to kill her but Alex told them to stop and appeared in front of the goddess.
He looked at the heavily injured Athena, and he laughed:" Finally do you admit defeat? A goddess is kneeling in front of me Hahahaha".
Unfortunately, his celebration would be cut short as Palas arrived and rescued her best friend back to Olympus.
Olympus, some unknown time
Athena arrived severely injured and screaming while blood was flowing from both of her hands, Palas barely arrived at the healing god Asclepius' Palace.
Olympus, Asclepius Palace.
Once the injured goddess and her friend arrived and told the healing god everything, he was shocked not because of what he was told but because her mana was completely depleted.
"How can this be possible? Athena's mana was completely depleted, I mean who was she fighting? another god?" Asked the healing god
Palas answered: "Something like that, she was fighting Hades' student Alex Rodgers and his demons and i can say that he is a genius because he lured Athena into an ambush and told his demon to focus on killing her and that is the main reason her mana was depleted to its current level".
Asclepius told Athena that the healing process would be extremely painful and she ordered him to begin healing her.
For a very long time, she kept screaming and the pain that she felt was unbearable but after several hours
All her injuries were healed and she swore revenge against the one that drove her to humiliation. She called for a divine trial hoping that the gods would punish Alex for his crime of nearly killing a goddess.
Rome, June 437:
Samantha told her husband that she was pregnant and expecting a twin, he was pleased and ordered her to start a party.
In the early morning of the next day, Alex was woken up by Kahn who looked anxious and scared.
"what's going on friend?" asked the Roman Emperor
"You tell me what's going on, did you fight with goddess Athena and nearly kill her in a battle somewhere?"
Alex understood that something terrible was about to happen and told him everything about his battle with Athena and how he nearly killed her and he was proud of this.
Kahn handed over a letter delivered to him from Zeus, and his friend took it and started reading:"
Dear Kahn
You are invited into the divine trial of Alex Rodgers, the reason for this trial is his battle with the goddess of wisdom Athena which nearly led to the death of the goddess, and also his tyrannical actions against his people"
Alex smiled: "Athena in her desperation to defeat me, now called for a trial that she will certainly lose, no worries my friend, I can handle this oh, and tell Samantha that she will administer the empire in my absence" a messenger left and told the emperor's wife that her husband would go for a trip.
Olympus, unknown time:
Alex and his friend went to the Palace of Justice, and suddenly Alex was chained by followers of the Goddess of Justice Themis, who came late and brought her scales and started her speech: "Today at the request of Athena and Palas, we are here for the trial of Hades' student Alex Rodgers who is accused of multiple charges such as: "nearly killing a goddess in a battle with her in Buryatia provoking a civil war by slaughtering thirty thousand innocent civilians who were protesting his rule and grotesquely killing a lot of people during the war between him and the former Shah of Sassanid Persia Shapur the First Sassan alongside many more charges"
Alex requested to defend himself and immediately started his counter-argument:" Dear everyone, as you all know I stand before you accused and framed of doing crimes by someone so desperate to see me humiliated and killed, let us start with the charges; as for the first charge which is injuring Athena so badly that she nearly died, well I must accuse her of starting wars in the mortal world and intervening in the affairs of the non-divine world, now as for the battle between Athena and me, well I must say it is connected to the demon wars, well I just got the news that the demons defeated the Qin dynasty in three days and fortunately they didn't conquer their domain, now back to our discussion, the demons and the elves were fighting a brutal war until she and I intervened and ended it but it was in the favor of the demonic empire, now she didn't like it and struck again using the centaur turkic khaganate who lost their lands in central Asia and then she ordered an attack on my capital that killed many innocent women and children and then she demanded a truce in an arrogant way, of course i did not like it and immediately attacked the gokturks and defeated the so called goddess of wisdom"
After hearing the Roman Emperor's speech, Themis the goddess of justice declared that Alex Rodgers was not guilty and released him of all charges.
This decision shook Athena to the core and she immediately ran away from the palace of justice back to earth.
Alex wasn't happy and immediately told Kahn to leave back Earth, his friend, and even Hades asked why he was very anxious and didn't celebrate.
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"It's Athena, I guess she is planning something nasty that involves putting Rome into a dangerous war, Now go!" Alex spoke with great concern about the future.
He summoned Asmodeus, and the demon prince came and reported his lord's victory against the dragons of the Qin dynasty and the dwarves of the Gupta empire and reported that Lucifer wanted to reunify the lands of the former Lorian Empire.
"Prepare for war, oh and this time to your west because trouble will start to appear”. Spoke Alex with a concerned tone
Scarlet Empire, June 437:
Somewhere in Dacia, Athena snuck to meet the leaders of the Orcs and the humans that Palas contacted for her while she was in the trial of Alex Rodgers.
After tense negotiations, the Orcs agreed to unify with the Humans and declared their rebellion against the vampire regime in Berlin.
Another rebellion was formed and this time it was the Slavs and the dwarves that Alistar conquered during the collapse of the Elven Lorian Empire during the Rus revolution.
The fighting was so intense that the vampire forces immediately abandoned their positions and retreated from the lands that they once ruled.
Athena and Palas' plans didn't end there, they split up and went to both the kingdoms of Caledonia and the Asgardian Empire to convince them to attack the Roman Empire.
Rome, June 437:
Alex teleported back from Olympus and saw Samantha crying, he asked about the reason and the answer he got was that she believed that he was cheating on her.
"Samantha, if I ever neglected you, I am so sorry and to tell you the truth about the reason that I have done long trips is that I am in a proxy war with Athena that nearly got me killed and nearly got her killed oh and I am a use of divine tier magic and my magic is essentially combining the element of darkness and Necromancy similar to God of the underworld and the dead Hades"
She was shocked and believed him after Kahn told her about the trial, she also told him that he needed to change his name to a more noble name to gain further legitimacy and that she named her son Philipos the Fourth.
"Send this to all Scribes of Rome, Alexander Rodgers the former commoner now emperor is dead, and long live Alexandros the fifth of the Revived Argead dynasty but this time it will be a combination of both Roman and Greek cultures like before the collapse of the great empire of Rome".
The news was immediately sent to all newspapers and the people, specifically the elites of the Empire who were satisfied.
News of the rebellions in the Scarlet Empire reached the Roman Emperor and he wasn't surprised because it was Athena's plan.
"Kahn you must go to Khosrow first, ask him to attack the dwarves and annex the Sind lands, if Athena wants to play this game then fine, let us see who wins, NOW GO!" Ordered Alex as he immediately went with his wife to the war room.
War room of the Imperial Palace of Rome, July 437:
Reports of the death of Wilhelm started to circulate, it was Athena who killed him.
Alex was anxious because the goddess was now desperate, what made him panic was the fact that he received the news of the total disintegration of the Scarlet Empire and the multi-pronged attack against his empire that stretches from Britannia to the frontiers of Germania and Roman Gallia and Pannonia and the Balkans.
"Send a letter to the Demon Khazars, tell them to initiate their attack now," Alex told Severus and he left.
He ordered the army to be prepared and ready for combat and declared to the generals sitting in his war council that all Roman legions needed to be mobilized as quickly as possible and that we needed to hold out until the army was ready.
The Roman Empire, Britannia frontlines in July 437:
The Caledonian army combined with the Asgardians, and it was so overwhelming that it destroyed Hadrian's walls and breached Britannia's defenses.
The legions in Britannia were ordered to retreat to the south of Britannia awaiting reinforcement, they obeyed and northern Britannia was abandoned by the combined Asgardian Caledonian forces.
Meanwhile, twenty thousand troops that were mobilized as reinforcement, arrived after crushing the Asgardian navy that was blockading the Channel between Gaul and Britannia and landed in Londinium under the command of Majorian.
Once the reinforcement arrived, the Roman counter-offensive started and it prevented a further advance into southern Britannia but failed to repel the invaders from Northern Britannia, then Roman forces advanced toward the city of Deva Victrix and started its third siege after failing to take the city for two times.
All the Roman mages were ordered to bomb the city walls and they did, and after several hours, the walls collapsed and a bloody battle started.
The battle was so ferocious that corpses started to pile up in the breached section of the walls and this is due to the elite Valkyrie knights facing the Roman legionnaires the battle lasted for several hours until the Caledonian and Asgardian forces surrendered the city.
Meanwhile on the other front. Legio Victoria, composed of ten thousand troops in total, kicked out the invaders out of Northern Britannia and even tried to advance to Caledonia but they got defeated by Prince Loki and retreated to Roman Britannia.
The government of Roman Britannia advised Governor Lucius Verus to focus on defense until further orders from the emperor.
Rome, July 437
News of the victory in the war against Caledonia and Asgard reached the emperor, he immediately ordered an offensive operation against Caledonia while he issued an order to the Roman Navy to blockade all of Caledonia to prevent Asgardian reinforcement.
News of the intense attacks in the Balkans and Pannonia finally reached the emperor and he immediately ordered fifteen legions composed of one hundred thousand troops to be sent to reinforce the frontlines.
Pannonia, Balkans frontlines, July to December 437:
In the early morning, the Dacians under orders from Athena attacked both Pannonia and the Balkans to overwhelm the legions defending both provinces and sent forty thousand troops.
Fortunately, the Danubian legions managed to hold their Dacian enemy at the borders with Pannonia but unfortunately for the Romans, this was a distraction because in the Balkan front, the Troops defending there were easily destroyed and the enemy breached the defenses of the Balkans.
The Dacian army conquered half of Thrace and is now entering Greece, they burned the city of Thessaly to the ground sacked other cities within Greece, and kidnapped many Roman citizens but when they tried to advance to Athens they were interrupted on the way by the reinforcement legions led personally by Emperor Alexandros in the light forest.
Battle of the Light Forest, August 437:
Both armies positioned themselves and prepared for battles, Alex didn't advance and waited for the enemy army to march first and even provoked them to march on his forces.
He succeeded as the Orcs who were a proud race ordered the army to march and forced the human soldiers to march
Roman mages and archers were instructed to shoot at the advancing army and they inflicted losses on enemy forces forcing them to retreat again.
"I guess this time we shall advance," Said Alex as he ordered his army to charge at the enemy forces while the orcs prepared for battle as both armies clashed into a violent melee.
The battle lasted for several hours before the cavalry flanked the enemy general Othrug and killed him forcing the enemy to retreat from Athens.
The Roman army celebrated such an easy victory and even charged at the retreating troops only to fall for a trap and get stuck in another battle and this time it was a costly victory as the Romans lost eleven thousand troops.
The Dacians retreated from the Balkans back to Dacia and started establishing defensive positions in the borders of Rome and their lands.
Dacia, September 437:
Alex's advance to Dacia forced the Dacian king Decabolus to call off his Pannonian offensive and brought with him only ten thousand troops to delay the Roman advance.
Meanwhile, the Roman army kept capturing one city after the other within fifteen days, leaving nothing except ashes and dead bodies on their way to Dracul, the capital of the Dacian rebel kingdom.
Dracul, September 15 437 and October 15 437:
Decabolus panicked and was scared for his life and the people of the capital as the The Roman army kept bombing the walls with fire spells and the emperor cut off all supplies using his undead army intending to starve the city.
After an entire month of siege, the city's walls were broken and a massacre started as the Roman army killed soldiers, starving women and children, burning the city to the ground and impaling the remaining survivors on a pike.
Seeing the scenes of the massacre, King Decabolus comes alongside his family of half-human Half-Orcs to meet the Roman emperor and surrenders before Alex kills him and his family.
Somewhere in Olympus:
Athena was panicking that her plans were failing and that all her proxies didn't even last a year.
The news of the massacre reached Athena and she kept crying. Moreover, the sisters of fate showed her a scene in Dacia so horrific that she vomited and fainted.
Dacia, January 1 439:
After spending almost an entire year eliminating any resistance while killing 90% of the population of the nation, he ordered his army to round up the remaining survivors and many of them weren't even Orcs but were humans.
They begged for mercy and even showed him their babies but unfortunately the man in front of them decided to open the new year with a full-scale genocide.
He lined up the remaining ten thousand survivors and with one signal from his fingers, his undead began cutting them all limb by limb and no one survived, their corpses were burned by the Roman fire mages to cover the traces of genocide.
"ATHENA, SEE WHAT HAPPENED? I EXTERMINATED THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF DACIA AND THIS IS NOT MY FAULT AND THIS IS YOURS CONTINUE LIKE THIS AGAIN AND THIS MIGHT HAPPEN TO YOUR FRIEND PALAS" Screamed Alex at the sky while manipulating dark energy sending it to the sky.
Olympus:
Athena received the message loud and clear, she panicked and ran toward her friend's room only to find dark hands attacking her and she was fighting ferociously for her life.
Unfortunately, she even failed to push away the hands as they grabbed her friend.
"It's ok don't worry" Those were her last words as she was dragged from Olympus to the mortal world.
A Dungeon somewhere in Ariminum, January 20 439:
Alex was tired because he spent twenty days trying to kidnap Palas and even while he was sleeping, he was manipulating the hands of Hades with his fingers unconsciously after practicing for several hours.
When Palas was in the dungeon, he was happy and he immediately summoned two undead soldiers and an undead priest.
"Have fun, actually remove her clothes, try to stab her in the stomach or butcher her again and again and then heal her and then do it again while cutting off both her feet and hands" Ordered Alex.
The undead soldiers obeyed and the prisoner was screaming for her life as the undead soldiers pretended to be butchers cutting her to pieces in some locations and healing her again.
The dungeon, three days later
The entire three days have been spent torturing the palace and her screams were everywhere begging for help and starving her.
"Oh no one would hear, this is an underground dungeon I created for this occasion and none goes to the woods, Hahah you are no goddess now you are my plaything" Alex laughed at his victim.
On the night of the third day, Alex was bored and decided to send his prisoner back to Athena but before doing it, he took a knife and wrote on her legs:" To Athena, continue threatening all I love and my people and more of this will happen to all who you use and know".and then he sent her back.
Olympus:
Athena kept crying for days and was extremely depressed and when she finally saw her friend she was depressed even more.
Palas looked shocked and shook, she refused to talk to her friend and she kept screaming.
Her injuries finally appeared and were very painful and when she saw that she was holding her hands and feet, she went crazy.
Athena immediately called Asclepius and he teleported immediately to her, he was shaking at the scene he saw and was even surprised how she was alive because her mana reserves were gone, and decided to immediately start healing the goddess.
Athena declared her intentions and her determination to fight Alex grew ever stronger.