And here's the second part. Again like I said pretty raw but I'm just too tired to go back and fix everything so if it's too confusing I am sorry I do feel bad but I'm just seriously wiped.

Though.... If you guys want to know other than some Aldnoah Zero, Attack on Titan theme music I really like this song if you guys want to read the last POV with this song I think you'll get some of what I was hoping....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTudmnVqva8

Don't forget to donate I'll leave an Afterward after the chapter for any one who wants to know a little random facts about the story and what not.

Leave a loonnngggg comment and ladies and gents...The season finale of Those Who Aspired to Become Gods.....

Chapter 25: The Start of a Legend

Kyrah’s POV:

If someone would have told me a year ago I would be fighting against the Final Boss himself with such little numbers I simply couldn’t imagine it. If someone even told me a week ago we would be attempting such suicide attempts at killing such a psychotic existence with a piece of jewelry and a bunch of pixies, I would have instead laughed at whoever said such ludicrous statements.

I lost Gharsia, Luca, almost my entire battalion of those with the same genes as me and my brother.  Soon my kind might be no different than Ikaros' race. There species is simply too precious to the Adler ‘a to allow any more of them to fall in this dungeon. Having them in the skies makes everyone’ s individual abilities rise by a solid 30% which increases us together by standards not even I can calculate…… Though almost all of this was lost without even being able to lift a finger.

That damned Balor, using such a petty illusion trick to take us all out at once!!!….Tsk…. Bastard nearly wiped us out. Our front line numbers are now a third of what they were and from what I’ve been told now even Griff and the better part of the leaders who followed him are also now gone…. Shit…’

ROOOARRRRRRRR!!!!!

‘No time to dwell on it all now, I just feel after whatever Balor did in my dreams…even now most of my wings have been dyed black and have fallen off. It’s actually getting a little straining to stay in the air.’

“All units evade!”

The large four legged beast with wings blew through the clouds and soared towards where our right archer unit was located.

“AUEh…!!!!”  - Parcy

The winged beast was simply too quick and already appeared within our formations. Within a moment 3 Adlers were rammed by its enormous sending each of then barreling away.

With one swipe of it’s paw it had swung towards Parcy and who attempted to fly upward but was merely ripped in half.  His body then began to fall back towards the clouds just before shattering into a series of lights and disappearing entirely.

‘Tsk….’

Just then four more of the same creatures flew through the sky and began to spread chaos throughout our already lessened formation.

Each of these large beasts was well over 650 and with simply swipes of their paws and crushing power of their jaws an adler would disappear into a series of lights.

“Stay in formations!”

“ Clip their wings!”

“Don’t let them touch you!”

My captains immediately started barking orders and changing their flight directions.

I along with Alec and Ferra then broke away from our ariel pincer unit and began to ascend higher into the sky until we were nearing dungeon barrier.

Just as we each began to reach the skies each of us crossed each others path and then began to barrel down towards the large winged beasts that were each causing havoc to our numbers.

I started gaining more  and more speed and started to extend my wings outward. Flying alongside me Alec and Ferra each were slicing through the clouds and each descending towards the top of one these Manticores.

“Break off now.” – Alec

“Affirmative” - Ferra

“I got the fuckers back stick with me…” – Kyrah

They each nodded and our speed only began to increase as we descended further and further.  Our images turned into a blur as the number of Adlers that currently live in this dungeon only 4 alive can keep up with me, two if them are with me right now.

WHOOOOOooooooooosh!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!

“FIST OF THE BEAST KING!” – Kyrah

My talons started to glow a brilliant gold and I came roaring down on the elite high level monster who was trying to give chase to another Adler. My Attack Power had increased two fold I planted my fist into the fur balls back but was met with what felt like solid armor.

CRACK!

ROaaaauh

Regardless of this however I could definitely feel a crack give way from the beasts armored spine giving the beast momentary shock at how this could have happened.

The beast then spun violently sideways and was launched like a cannon barreling towards the ground below.

As the Manticore tried to recover its position before barreling towards the dungeon floor I now see Alec was at least successful in clipping on of the beasts wings to the point it had snapped off. The other wing which Ferra was responsible for I can see was however severed almost cleanly off.

Even though the monsters health remained in the green it was now impossible for it to escape its fate of falling nor will he be able to cause us as much difficulty.

I then looked at the remaining 4 beasts that were each darting through the sky I can see in such a short time we’ve lost 20 more Adlers and our formation is almost completely scattered.

With every second that passed each beast would continue kill another one of ours. Alec and Ferra then flew to my sides and we decided to continue as the same plan.

Each of the Manticore’s health were in the green and even while being surrounded by our kind hitting them with barrages of our combined attacks they simply are accepting them as if they were nothing.

We each then started to dart towards the next manticore when I noticed each of them had then stopped what they were doing and each of their hairs raised on end.

The beast then looked in our direction and pointed its tail towards us.

ROooarrrrrRRRRRR!!!!

Guahh!!!

You have been struck by Gravity Spike

All weight will increase by 40%

You have received 1100 damage

Agility has dropped by 125

Critical Hit!

You have been struck by Gravity Spike

All weight will increase by 40%

You have received 4300 damage

Agility has dropped by 200

Critical Hit!

You have been struck by Gravity Spike

All weight will increase by 40%

You have received 2100 damage

Agility has dropped by 55

I was unable to avoid the sudden spray of attack that shot out of the beasts entire body. I attempted to raise my wings over my face but with every black shard that shot out of its body would puncture straight through my wings and shoulders.

Everything in the sky especially those that were close to the beast were simply riddled with these small spikes sticking out of them.

In that one attack almost 500 Adlers had then fell from the sky due to the increased weight from the attack.

‘Damn kid wasn’t fucking around….Ugh…’

I then darted back and attempted to take out some of the shards as my speed was heavily impacted due to this.

As I started to take out each shard I simply didn’t have enough time to get them all as now with everyone in the surroundings has had their speed and wind resistance completely effected and we’ve become  defenseless.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROOAORRRR~!!!!

ROAOaaaROORARA!!

Just then a blinding white flash completely washed over my eyes and I couldn’t see a thing. Whenever the flash had disappeared what I saw were the same four beasts now fully engulfed in a white fire.

Not a single part of their large and armored like bodies were free from the this bright white flame that had surrounded each of them.

Looking around I notice that none of those in the formations however were effected by this white flash but only the beasts before us. Each of the beasts health then started to drop slowly into the yellow and they continued to howl and roar in pain.

“Interesting… What do you think happened?” – Alec

Flying to my side was Alec whose four wings looked to have several of the same black spikes sticking out of them and his right shoulder.

As he pulled it out he too was enamored but what sudden attack had completely engulfed each of these monsters in such brilliant white flames without even touching any of us.

It’s not causing them a lot of damage but from the looks of it these monsters simply cannot take the excruciating  pain that must be coming from them.

“Where’s Ferra?”

As I asked Alec and he simply looked at me and shook his head.

The spray that had flown towards each of Alec and Ferra attempted to evade while I thought my wings would have been sufficient to block them like I have with some Floor Bosses but I was wrong.

Ferra however was unable to evade and received hundreds of shards that covered her body and face. She disappeared instantly….

‘Damn it…..’

“Ok, we need to take this opportunity now… While those fuckers can’t think straight…. Let’s fly.”

I took out the black shard from Alec’s shoulder and he and I both flew towards the now distracted beasts and the remnants of our formation.

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Hjökk’s POV:

‘…..Again… Again he saved me. I’m supposed to be a guardian to the High God’s of Asgard. I along with my sisters are looked at with the pride of Odin and all of Valhala… And yet again this champion of Loki’s  was able to save me. I was unaware that I could dream, I was unaware Balor could even use an ability like that until now…..’

When I woke up to Vali’s shouts he had been holding on to Ari and I could feel an incredibly dominant force tingling and slightly pricking my skin.

“Lightning of the Seventh Star!”

ZAAPAPAPAPPPZPZAPZAPZAPZPAZPAPZAPZAPZPAPZPAPZAPAPPZAP!!!!!!!!!!!

The clouds overhead began to rain down over the already scorched and half dead monster horde.  I continued to think about how Vali could have possibly done what he did…. I believe I’ve seen that cosmic energy before… That’s the void. And Vali must have somehow been able to open a space up to it. I’ve only ever seen it once as Lord Loki said it is not a place I should ever visit willingly. How Vali was able to open up such a space that is said to be the space between worlds is an anomaly. This child itself is an anomaly…. In only two months time he has grown to such an extent that he is able to wield such power. Even I was unable to predict such extreme growth potential. Even if he lost to such an interesting trick from that Neko woman I believe that in time he could wield his power to mere unprecedented heights in this world.

Perhaps he does have what it takes to ascend to a position to what Lord Loki had imagined.

SAAhhhH!HH!H

‘There are some very rare and interesting monsters in this place…. ‘

I for one thought those Adamantine Spiders were interesting as they were a monster that simply gained such abilities and affinities from being near the mythical metal for extended periods of time.

Even now I’ve seen several monsters that I’ve thought to have either gone extinct and some I’ve never even witnessed before this day.

Each of Balor’s monster army were beasts that had been lost with time, so many creations all brought to here. But surely Balor didn’t intend on destroying the world with such little numbers. Sure the human population and most life wouldn’t be able to stand up to such opponents but to a Valkyrie and others like me these opponents are much to look at. He must have more up his sleeve than a mere 100,000 monsters and giants. Vali even stated over his earpiece that Balor had sent out a large number of his forces while everyone was under Balor’s spell.

Which mean we were unable to stop his initial plans but if this is where Balor has set his fortress he must be hiding much more powerful foes within these walls. He wouldn’t simply attempt to destroy this world with the pieces he’s revealed so far.

Even with his vast power over the darkness he can completely manipulate and create armies out of nothing. I remember him in the Old War… He wasn’t an evil deity by any means. He fought with weapons of his own creation and helped even hold back the advancement of the Demon race. But after so much time after his dissention he has clearly gone mad power and revenge.

‘I can’t believe I allowed Vali to talk me into this plan simply to save a few more lives. I simply cannot read Vali at all. He claims to care only for his family but he goes out of his way for others… This is something that will surely get yourself killed. If anything happens….I have to react immediately.’

YyYeeeeeaHYayaahahaha

One of Balor’s hideous Fomorians began to grin towards me and shake it’s head. Each of the long hairs growing out of the top of their heads each looked alive and capable of eating all those who got close.

He as well as several other species in this monster army even have that same Dark Aura ability that Malthiel used…. ‘Balor must have given several of these species rare items to use the same abilities he does…. I want to break the walls apart now but if Vali’s plan is successful then waiting would be the best possible choice.’

My wings of light extended and I flashed to the large guarded best and sent my the tip of my golden spear gifted to me from Odin right into the large giants chest.

The air began to ripple as my speed was instantaneous. The loud roar erupting from my spear sent the giant flying back with the same hideous grin as before. Even after the endless assault on these creatures the Dark Aura surrounding them right now is thick and  almost as tough as Malthiel’s was.

If I recall if you simply cause enough damage the barrier will go down….

With every monster that shot towards me a 100 would fall. When each of the monster horde realized trying to pass through my Asgardian Storm Wall was an impossible feet for them to reach they decided to fight the one who trapped them here.

Even after slaying thousands of each of them none would cower or run in fear. They simply mindlessly continued to try and attack me with their feebly slow movements.

I’d simply use an ability to crush them all into paste but the Floor everyone is currently standing on would fore sure crumble as well. Judging by Vali’s plans and our estimations these walls are actually not as impenetrable as they appear. There is a barrier by each of them but Vali has shown the barrier itself has a weakness. If you attack the barrier with something that too has a darkness attributed barrier surrounding it, the barrier and dungeon wall will take damage.

So Vali wants me to be wrapped in his Dark Aura ability and have me bring down the walls when its time to for our second assault….

BOOOOOM!

BOOooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

“UGH!!...What!...Is..this..Those eyes!” - ?

I could here the fallen god’s disturbed rattling and then could feel the floor itself began to cave in. The light from the outside continued to shine and flash in from above and the ceiling itself began to cave in on our positions.

I leapt through the storm wall and kept it active to hold back the remnants of Balor’s army. I wasn’t able to vanquish each of them as some of them shared in quite the interesting skill sets, which kept them alive for a short time. Even the Fomorians fur was excellently immune to a majority of my Lightning. I however was able to knock off at least 80% of his remaining monsters on this floor so Vali should be able to accept this for now.

I moved throughout the floor and flew past Balor whose rich darkness continued to surround and cover his body. Behind me I could feel and endless power that was even capable of slaying a god build up and expand behind me. I increased my speed fast and faster towards the location of Vali’s presence.

“I’ll taste your flesh today Champion!” - Balor

I appeared at his side and standing by him were a small number of Adlers and other species all surrounding him. As he looked up at me he seemed surprised and then smiled. I tried to warn him of the incoming danger as this whole dungeon was beginning to fall apart but before I could my vision distorted and changed.

Now I was standing on another floor entirely but everything was still shaking. Only now the gradual quakes only shook the walls slightly.

‘Where are we….Hmm Floor 22. ‘

Looking in front of me Vali was still there and now surrounded by several of the race leaders. None in fact had died but judging from the looks of things everyone including Vali looks to have taken quite a beating. Everyone looks to have been simply covered in ash of that flame like skill from before. I myself felt the energy from that ability but I can’t imagine if Balor was able to defend against it… if not, surely this is going to change to me now fighting Balor in an upfront confrontation….

I’ve seen him fight before. He’s slayed many deities by simply piercing them with his horns….

I could hear Vali begin to instruct everyone of what comes next.

This was yet another one of Vali’s schemes that he had concocted when he realized that in all the floors of this entire dungeon, not one of them had a large body of water which he found strange. Every other floor was filled with all sorts of environments and difficult places to even survive but not a single water related level which is odd because what extends past this mountain is nothing but ocean. He then assumed by his understandings that those large creations Balor seems to be proud of probably can’t swim.

The plan now is now that we’ve moved to Floor 22 we will set up in position again to receive Balor’s attack and move to the floating city in the clouds just before Flooding the floor….. He had the Jiji and Pixies help dig a hole towards the edge of this level as Vali believes if it’s possible the ocean itself potentially lies behind this dungeon and if we can bust through the dungeon walls it’s possible we can flood the floor itself.

“But even if this does work we just left Balor on Floor 52. Why would he come down here instead of simply sending his monster horde towards us.” – Adler

“What’s his health at? Were you able to get him below 60%.” – Izzie

“Can we go on with our further preparations or not!” - Neko

Vali then looked towards each of the incoming questions from all those gathered around him. I could see the thousands of demi humans who were gathered on Floor 52 have been moved here as well and can feel their presences in the floating city above.

There are several floating land masses above and according to those who live here Floor 52, 22 and 1 are the only levels that can hold all of our numbers at once while maintaining a strategic position over our enemies.

Commander Locke and the other leaders then looked towards Vali who smirked towards him. I too was curious of how much damage they were able to cause on Balor in the short amount of time they had been attacking him.

Everyone were silent and waiting for Vali and those who were present to reveal what had happened.

“… Balor’s health should currently be lower than 28% with no chance of recovering it at all…. And don’t worry he’ll come down here himself I guarantee it.” – Vali

‘….Impossible!’

I noticed my mouth was agape and then began to shut it. How? Was the power from the First Flame and prized Divine Flame of Olympus truly that powerful when used by Bryn's Pixies? And when wielded by such young children no less….  I’ve seen the terrifying reality of the Hildr Pixies many millennia ago. They are each beyond comprehension and the ones Brynhildr was had stood beside here were even frightening to a majority of the existences in Asgard.

“Wait what? Twen…twenty eight percent are you sure!” – Neko

“ Unbelievable….” – Adimar

“…..” – Commander Locke, Izzie

“Tehe….Balor couldn’t stand up to us at all! “ – Cyanin

“Yah, we roasted him hehe.” – Kai

The small in stature pixies began to high five and dance in the air as they simply couldn’t contain their happiness.

“…. I see. That is indeed good news. Alright MEN! You heard him, this is our time! Balor’s days of holding us here are going to soon come to an end. Let us not let up, let us continue until we can bring that bastard down!” – Commander

“Hoowwwwwww!!!” – Annunake

“To the Dawn!” _ Ollie

Everyone continued to cheer only while I stood there partially frozen… Vali had done it. I had thought his plan was hopeless but somehow he had taken someone who was once a divine and pushed him to such a state.

His plans had each worked.

“Wait, but if he’s truly that hurt why would he come down here? Wouldn’t he just heal himself or bring back more numbers?  Why would he risk it? “ – Neko

“…Don’t worry he’s coming down personally. He won’t let someone else kill us now he’s too pissed. We caused him a tremendous amount of pain I’m sure he has never received before. And besides….. Cosmia how much time do we have left? “ - Vali

Everyone then looked over to the small pixies who were too excited from the previous news to notice had to again be calmed down by Vali.

“Oh..Sorry Vali…We currently have 17 more minutes. As well as 22 of our siblings have yet to use our Trump Card and waiting further orders.” – Cosmia

Several of the pixies alongside their Queen then saluted up to Vali while everyone in the surrounding area simply made another gasp.

“… We can do this… We can win. Let’s stay focused. Let us move forward Hjökk tear the walls down on my ….”

Rumble..Rumble.Rumble.RUMBLE!

Rumble ..rumble

“HAHAHAHAHA!!! Did you simply think you could all flee from me and you would all be safe? I’m going to peel your skin off with my own fingers, crush your loved ones between my teeth right in front of you for treating my body with such disrespect. “ – Balor

I could again hear Balor’s voice as begin to fill Floor 22 and shake the surroundings yet again.

Within an instant Balor was now standing on the other side of the Floor with over 10,000 of his forces still remaining. Several of them were in the red while the vast majority of the rest were in the yellow. A small number of his forces still remained unharmed due to their Aura ability but it’s clear they have each been through an insurmountable hell.

‘Why is Balor coming down himself. Is he really so enraged he can’t think straight? ….Wait so that means Vali’s trick had worked…. Balor still doesn’t know. Even though his body has been fully freed of the fire that engulfed him I can see his health has dropped to 22% and he’s been heavily cursed and poisoned. Even though he continues to use his magic it causes him a good amount of damage.

However even 22% of his health could very well be a height that is as tall as the World Tree that holds this world in place.’

Vali had warped the rest of the ground forces off of the ground floor and back up to the floating city and he stepped out towards Balor yet again.

I then flew towards the sky and pointed my spear towards the small hole that had been dug into the dungeon wall.

I condensed roughly 50% of my remaining stamina and divine power to fire off a force strong enough to hopefully be successful in destroying this places very foundation.

A large purple stream of energy left from the tip of my spear and was guided all the way into the hole and towards the edge of the dungeon boundary.

While still looking towards Balor I can hear his voice simply causes the surroundings to tremble. Even now his body looks to be heavily riddled in scars and torn flesh.

“You think because you simply take a bit of my magical power I simply can’t squash you like bugs….Now…Come for the fate you shall never escape!” – Balor

The floor began to tremble and Balor materialated a large whip of darkness in one hand and an enormous sword in the other. Each bleeding a continuous stream of darkness I leaped away to hopefully hold him off.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMM!M!M1MM!!M!M!M!M!M!M!M!M!M!MM!

“What?” – Balor

His large head turned and I flew towards him and delivered the tip of my spear into the side of his large head.

WHIP!

Guah!

As I got right next to him the darkness surrounding him had simply reach out and latched on to me.

AHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I could feel as if my armor were quickly being eaten away from this and eat at my skin.

I attempted to free myself but the force around me made it impossible to move my body freely.

I attempted to extend my wings of light outward to volley myself away but it was useless.

BooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooom!

BOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!

BOOOO0000oooooooOOOOOOOOMM!!!!

“Ahh!!!!!!” – Balor

Balor then roared in agony as I could feel an intense heat attack my skin. In front of me the golden, pink, and blue pixies all flew into Balor and activating their ability they gained from Mount Olympus.

BOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!

The force behind each of these pixies crashing into Balor sent me and my body flying back towards the ground Floor. The Darkness was too thick and completely surrounded and broke apart my barrier magic and Celestial Class armor while also slowly eating parts of my body away.

I could sense my body was in a critical condition, as I could not move from where I was lying. His darkness was simply too thick and had such disastrous properties to it.

I can even feel that the bottom of my legs are gone as well as part of my left arm which held my spear.

The Aura around him was simply too different than before and in such little time had turned me into such a state. I activated my Recovery mode and sat there while my body began to slowly recover itself and bring it back to the state it was prior to this battle.

Anytime a Valkyrie’s body is destroyed we simply revert ourselves to a point when we weren’t damaged. It takes a short amount of time but soon I will be back to full recovery and full magical power.

‘Please be alive by then Vali. I’m sorry I’m so helpless. I’m a lousy body guard for you as I was turned to such an awful state before I could even do anything to Balor.’

“Cough..coughcough…Cough…Va..li…wh..y” – Uri

“Cough, cough, you, should…have……escaped…” _ Jana

“What you think I’m gonna let the black guy die first.” -Vali

“Cough…wha…t? “ – Uri

As I could hear Vali and the other voices I determined everyone was still alive after that last attack. When Vali looked upon my image I could instantly see emotions appear all alongside his face…..Saddened, Grief, Extreme Sorrow, Anxiety, Hopeful.

“Hjökk……..” – Vali

Vali warped over to my location with each of the three pixies and looked at me as if he didn’t have the words to speak. My image must have stunned him quite horribly. I told him I should be fine as long as I have time to recover. He attempted to use his Soul Recovery on me but it didn’t work at all. He thought it was due to the slowed recovery and healin this dungeon forces on everyone but that isn’t it….. Though I have something similar I don’t have what Vali determines as a Soul. I was created, I was not born…. So his healing magic had all accounted for nothing.

“I’m fine get us out of h….”

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

I could hear the dungeon beginning to crash apart as I heard the roars of running water blast forth and destroy the entirety of the cave wall. The small hole was now non existent as Vali’s assumption was correct in thinking the ocean that lied behind this place not only began to flood into the floor but quickly everything on the ground floor was covered in water.

Vali had picked up my half destroyed body not much different than he does that small child…. ‘Hmm….I’ve never been held before. This is…. An odd feeling…”

Snap!

Our image had then disappeared and now my vision was staring off into the clouds.

“Vali! It worked!” – Commander Locke

“Yes, I know but let’s not wait around for….”

“YOU DARE TO face me with such petty TRICKS! How dare you flee from ME!” – Balor

Vali peered over the side and now I too could see the dungeon wall almost up to the clouds themselves was now non existent as the violent power of the roaring ocean beyond this place came flooding in.

Each of the giant Fomorians began trying to flee but even with their abundance in size they were forced to the ground pushed down with incredible force.

Snap!

My vision had changed again and now I alongside everyone else had been transported to Floor One.

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Vali’s POV:

‘Ok… Our final stand is here. He can’t bring his army down here and in his condition. This is where it’ll.’

We’ve lost many. This battle hasn’t gone on for even half an hour and already we have lost a tremendous amount of our numbers. There have been an insurmountable amount of sacrifice that has all been made for us to be standing here in this moment.

As we now got down to Floor One everyone was currently taking up places in the interior city of Anfang and awaiting the emergence of the Dark Lord.

The walls and ceiling were simply covered with the stench and decay of all those who were lost here thousands of years ago. Standing on the ground knowing there are simply a mind boggling number more below our feet.

The rear guard has now been re outfitted and currently has 7 of my Dullahan Knights. I have each of them working to cover Elyria and the other race leaders.

Hjökk’s state is pretty bad. It’s to the point we can’t even rely on her at this point. The moment she attacked Balor to distract him from myself I saw her get swallowed up by the endless darkness surrounding him. A moment later the pixies had bombarded him with their own bodies like small bombs.

The force simply sent the god tumbling over to where I had to go save each of them.

The pixies too had their bodies practically mutilated but they were successful and freeing Hjökk and giving everyone time to escape. Now she along with many others are in the back of the city of Anfang awaiting the final stand. If we can’t hold him back our next move will be fleeing this dungeon entirely…He should have less than 20% health by now…I can’t imagine how long it might take but we can do this.

“….And now we wait…”

“….Vali…It has been an honor sharing the field of battle with you. With your help we simply wouldn’t have made it so far.” – Commander Locke

“Well let’s not get ahead of ourselves… We’re not out of the woods yet.”

“True… But I can taste the sweet aroma of freedom getting closer and closer nya.” – Izzie

“….Come on… I’m so ready for this. “ – Adler

Kyrah and the remaining Adlers were each flying overhead the city while the Pixies currently lit up the whole Floor.

Pek and several numbers of the Jiji are now standing on large wooden stands they they have appeared to build to tower over the city. In their hands appear to be small hand held cannons with small sacs of cannon balls.

Pek and the Jiji gave themselves the ability to arm themselves with portable canons and are now lining the walls of Anfang. I could see some within the city who even had on strange gauntlets with large black claws coming out of them. Pek said even though they are ridiculously heavy he was successful in creating a Fomorian Claw weapon for many of his race as well.

The Arachnee Queen along with all of her subjects are standing in the rear guard along with Pek, Cari and thousands of the rest of the Rear Guard.

Suddenly I then felt the atmosphere start to change and grow cold. The air trembled and within an instant Balor warped himself right in front of the city gates.

He currently looked 15 feet tall and his entire body looks completely different than the beginning of this battle.

Every square inch of his back looks to have been clawed and mutilated while the rest of his body was smoldering with smoke slowly raising over him. His Dark Aura is currently off and you could hear a pin drop everything had grown so quiet.

His eyes looked only down at me.

“You think all your efforts will actually mean anything. Even now champion, you’ve given me a series of Status’s that should continue to destroy the rest of my magical supply but it was all for not….. “ – Balor

Balor materialated a large sword and whip in each hands each made from darkness. His body too began to cover itself in armor and then engulf in a Dark Aura.

“It is all hopeless before me. So you kill a few of my creations and kept yourselves alive to this point. Even if it hurts to use magic it is but a simple scratch or ache. Not enough to harm something like me. Though I shall make all those here dread their eternal existences that shall be worse than anything you have ever imagined….I applaud your efforts but your simple struggles end here. I shall enjoy myself at taking your life with my own hands….” – Balor

[Vali the illusion is going to drop in 8 seconds…] - Cosmia

“Hehehe…..Hehehehehhee”

Balor then turned and looked towards the one who was laughing. I too turned and noticed Commander Locke along with Alysteir and the Elite Neko units surrounding the areas outside the wall. The Annunakes too were standing on the far left with my Dullahan’s out in front.

“Hmph you think your demise is so funny. You think death is even going to save you? “ –Balor

[3…2….]

“For all eternity your fates shall be…………” – Balor

Balor then grew silent and stared down towards me with a peculiar look. Thouh his eyes were merely glowing yellow dots I could hear the sounds of surprise and anxiety now fill his voice.

“Hmphmphmph….So now you know….You walked into our little trap you big dumb bitch.”

Balor then twitched and continued to look at me in silence…. Just now the grand finale to the illusion array the pixies had placed had finally come down. When I discovered the pixies had the capabilities to even add illusions to things like the Party System I asked if there was other possibilities to this. I had become eager towards this and asked if I wanted to place an illusion on a status if they could do it. They said it should be possible and we went blindly with these methods of attack hoping he wouldn’t be able to see through it.

Though the pixies had placed multiple illusions to the scenery and each of us they were also successful in placing a particular illusion on Balor’s health bar. Regardless of all the pain, damage, and endless fire that has left him in such a state he believed his health had always remained over 90%.

Sure he must have thought we caused him a tremendous amount of damage from the fire but he must have thought that with his limitless powers from an almost eternity of living and was simply overwhelming us. He didn’t seem to have gotten into a fight with Malthiel, so I first assumed around that time he probably is even unaware of how weak he is as he has never even seen just how much when he’s been pushed to his new limits. So he instead chose to ignore our attacks as meaningless and continued to pursue us without his armies and all of his prized monsters….

I looked towards the Final Boss in front of me and looked at his status.

Balor The Endless Dark Current Health: 17%

Fallen God of Darkness and Drought

Balor however then gave off an impression as if he didn’t care.

“Hmph you think because of a few tricks I would possibly fear you. Such an insignificant existence like you can’t possibly hope to slay me, I am immortal! I’ve survived a war against all gods. You pathetic existences are nothing before me.” – Balor

The atmosphere grew tense everyone began to sweat as his voice echoed through the whole floor. The bodies hanging from the chains began to rattle and shake.

“If you like that trick watch this…..”

I then jumped over to a location slightly closer to Balor’s still impressively large figure. Even after taking all this damage his vitality is simply something astonishing as even after all the endless abuse he is still standing.

‘….He however will lose with this move.’

I stuck Abgrund into the ground and told everyone on the earpiece not to get close especially to the pixies.

I looked up towards Balor and he then lunged towards my position as if realizing now it was not a good idea to take me lightly as an opponent. He slung his long whip of darkness towards my position but it was already too late. I had activated the 2nd unlocked ability from Abgrund after my understands of Death Magic had increased.

“Age of Death….”

I then cast the spell and the cast time was practically instantaneous. A dark transparent bubbled shot outward from the scythe and flung in all directions around me.

As Balor’s whip had flung towards my direction the moment it came into contact with the dark field expanding in all directions it disintegrated and disappeared immediately.  

My ability didn’t stop there and continued to shoot past Balor until it had reached out far behind him making his escape impossible.

No damage was done to Balor at all but the effects of the skill I can see worked perfectly. Balor’s Dark Aura, Dark Armor as well as his weapons have each disappeared and now what stands before us was a helpless ancient deity.

When my understandings grew for Death Magic I realized death can come to things that aren’t even tangible or thought to even be living. The skill Age of Death is by far the most overpowered ability in my arsenal as I believe that this skill is what will decide Balor’s ultimate end.

I severed the ties of magic to be used by any and all of my enemies within the range of effects of the skill. As long as he remains in this area Balor will be unable to use any an all magic. Nothing, outside of the cities walls will even be able to use an ounce of magic besides my self as the ground has turned black and the air has become stable.

Balor’s eyes grew as he was trying to realize at what I had just done. Such an ability from Malthiel must have made him a monster. All magic used by anyone but myself will be currently impossible within the range of this field.

I slowly turned my head back towards the Adlers, Annunakes, Neko and Reiki all at my backs. I nodded to them and they each drew there weapons while grinning back their fangs.

“AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!! How splendid! Ahahaha Well if I can’t use my magic anymore I might as well make it all interesting! “

Balor then took out a small trinket and broke it. At this action everything changed…….

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Malfius’s POV:

RUmbleRUmbleRumblerumble

Ching. Chink.Ching..chingching..Chink

The floor itself began to warp and shift. The  moment Balor broke the small golden item in his large hand everything on the Floor began to quake making it almost impossible to stand.

Boom!

Boom!

Booooom!

Hands started bursting out through the ground floor and digging themselves out. The walls itself began shake and I could feel now this odd energy circulating around each and every one of the bodies lining this wall. Each of the skeletons that were all chained to the walls broke and shattered causing the bodies to start to fall.

The ceiling then began to rain down thousands of undead all over the dungeon floor. Every body that was coming alive began to twist and contort while slowly moving towards all of us.

Even though I wanted to move to Vali’s location and assist him the number of foes currently piling up between us and him was by far too many.

Knowing there was a need to act quickly all forces at my command began their final attack.

“This is it! Feel the weight of all those who have fallen here. You all shall never escape me!” – Balor

The floor again began to shake as the dead ancestors of all those who have fallen here began to animate and attack each of us.

“Byokko Fist…”

BOOOOOM!

Splat!

I delivered a punch into the half decomposed corpse in front of me and it immediately scattered into several peices. The Reiki at my sides too leaped forth and began to attack the sudden emergence of the overwhelming number of opponents.

“….Tiger’s Rampage!” -  Ollie

“White Tiger’s Claw!’- Reiki

I could hear those around me too jump into the fray and attack the endless sea of fallen soldiers fallen onto the field. Everyone even the rear guard I’m sure has to now fight for their lives. I simply cannot think of anything more than the foes in front of me right now and pray everyone is fairing alright.

With every swing of my paw another foe would fall but the number of fallen currently falling from the ceiling and pouring out of the walls is simply starting to become overwhelming.

Many of the falling monsters would land on one of our own until the sea of monsters began to surround and attack them.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

A loud roar erupted around Holland I could see a large see through green wall of stone surrounding himself.

As I downed 4 more opponents I avoided falling bodies and began to advance towards Vali’s position.

‘You really are something kid… I never would have thought we’d come so far. I knew putting our faith in you would bear fruit. But I can’t help but feel anxious as he is currently having to face the monster himself.’

I can see hundreds of Annunakes and Nekos on the ground currently fighting for their lives and doing the same as us. We needed to surround Balor…I don’t know how Vali was able to cut off his magic supply but if he hadn’t I only imagine those monsters he created from nothing would be wreaking havoc on us right now.

Although there are thousands of bodies falling from the ceiling and being released from their chains their levels are not very high. Even though each and every dead who is coming to life was once a warrior they are simply too inferior to those who currently reside in this dungeon. Their weapons are nothing to a Reiki

BOOOM!

BOOOOOOOM!

HA!

I continued to increase my movements and fling off incoming attackers. They were simply too slow to compete with the Reiki’s ways of movement and my forces were slowing advancing on Vali’s position. I can see in the sky the Adlers  and pixies are currently having their fair share full as well considering there are also undead from their race in here too. They simply are too low of level to cause us any real harm but they are easily slowing us all down.

I swung my paw into an oncoming dead Annnake and flung myself over its shoulder and kicked the walking dead behind me for my son to clean up.

As a falling Reiki came into view I simply punched it and it’s head witch showed his own skull had exploded.

‘Practicing on those Adamantine Spiders has truly helped…My paws have become something I have even come to be awed at. With every swing my fist connected and another fallen would explode from the power coming from my paw.

I continued to advance but even with eyes like mine I can’t see how Vali is fairing through the thousands of enemies standing between them and me.

BOOOOOOOOOOM!

BOOOOOOOOOOM!

BOOOOOOOOOM!

Constant roars from the walls continued to rain down on the encroaching monsters but they too were having to deal with.

HOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!

I then saw Vali’s silver wolf leap over Anfang’s wall and turn into a large dark creature. It had horns on its head and stood at 15 feet tall. He leaped into the endless sea of the dead while being fully engulfed in several elements. His health was in the yellow but I could see he was causing much more harm the the surrounding dead were to his fur.

Lighting then streamed out from Fenrir’s horns and then began to spread and spray through hundreds more.

Each of the half decomposed to fully decomposed dead began to shake violently and slow down.

BOOOm

BOoooooom!

BOoom!

Loud explosions then came down from above and crushed the surrounding sea of dead into a craters.

Just then I saw the image of a gold pixie fly out in front of me and crash into an undead forcing it to the ground.

“LIGHT HAMMER!”

BOOOM!

SPLAT!

In one motion a large hammer of light came down and crushed the head of the oncoming undead and then the golden pixie had flown off.

I then saw several pixies then flying in the direction with Kyrah and her guard towards Vali’s direction. I could see somewhat out in front of me was Alysteir and Commander Locke with his guard as well. Anything that got within a few feet of Alysteir was merely turned to dust, their advancement towards Balor was now open.

Adimar and the elite Annunakes were also pressing forth beside our fellow Reiki and seemed to be advancing at a similar pace to our own.

With one continuous heartbeat at that moment we were all one. All those who have gathered and fought have chosen to live or fall together. And right now regardless of the thousands of enemies who have appeared we only continue onward to the worst beast of them all.

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Kai’s POV:

Impossible….

I continued to stand to the right of Cari and form a wall of our kind to shoot off our fire to the oncoming sea of the dead. With several Dullahans out front I had placed each of my siblings with the Black Hydra ability to the front.

In a long line everyone in the rear guard made up of every race was fighting for their lives. The Annunakes and Reiki were on the outside and attempting to hold off the shere endless amount of enemies.

They simply came out of nowhere and started to approach from all directions.

Within moments our whole formation was in chaos and everyone was fighting for their lives.

I still had several of the buffs Vali’s mom and Hjökk had placed on me as well as some of the Adlers buff that increases our Attack Speed and Agility as well.

We were slowly holding them off but everyone was clearly becoming exhausted. Everyone would attack and fall back to drink from their Stamina Elixirs or Health potions with every passing second. Even with our endless healing ability each and every one of my siblings is receiving endless attacks right now. If it wasn’t for the added help of Vali and these new armors I honestly don’t believe our ‘catchers’ would be able to save them all.

BOOOM!

BOOOM!

BOOBOOOM!

The Jiji to our flanks each continued to step up and rotate firing squads with their mini weapons that resembled the same that sit atop the wall.

The destruction power from the small metal weapons was phenomenal as everything for several meters forward was simply mutilated.

“Ok now advance!”

The pixies heard my and we each began to step forward over the dead bodies and deliver the fatal blows.

We were starting to gain the upper hand. Even though the number of enemies was well over our own, we were slowly pushing them back.

Looking around I can see every one even those who have never fought before swinging their weapons with everything they had. My siblings whom were just a few days ago going through unimaginable pain are now fighting alongside us with such endless strength.

It’s enough to bring a smile to my face as the lower generation truly is amazing.

I looked forward and activated Light Hammer and knocked an incoming Annunake flying back and crashing into those behind him.

None of their levels were even over 60 but there was simply so many of them….’ Vali come on … we need you to end this.’

“WAHAHAHAH!!! Why look at these poor pathetic saps fighting with all they’ve got but let’s see how they enjoy this….” - ?

A strange voice echoed throughout the bloody battle taking place and I looked up and now saw hundreds of new figures standing in a hole on the cave wall close to the top of the ceiling.

Each of them had dark skin and long and pointy ears. They had long silver hair flowing out beside them and each wore dark leather armor and with black capes.

They started waving their arms around and I could see small symbols of light appear that almost resembled letters.

I pointed towards them to warn everyone but it was too late.

Within a few moments I bright purple dust began to fall and drop onto the sea of undead. Each and every one of them began to glow a pale purple and rush towards us now appearing faster than before.

If that wasn’t enough even the ones surrounding us who had fallen began to reassemble and stand back up.

BOOOM!

Booom!

Booooooooom!

Ahhhh!

I could hear screams of all those in the front lines start to receive the attacks of the monsters ahead and were having their health ripped clean away.

With every swing of their weapons our forces slowly were being forced back and much of our health at the same time. If the front line didn’t have such equipment and buffs we might not be able to take much more of this.

“Flame MORTAR!” - Tanin

“Flamethrower!” – Cari

Fire began to blow past my ear and onto the oncoming sea of enemies.  

Tanin had then had a fire appaear at his feet and several balls of fire appeared at his sides. An instant later several streams of fire shot out from Tanin in the direction of the oncoming undead and causing a large rain of explosions in a straight line.

Beside that a large gust of white fire came shooting out from Cari’s arms and towards the undead that were each all slowly standing up and now stronger than before.

“Moonlight Claw!”

Jumping out in front of me was a large white wolf with one arm. In one solid motion he had cleaved an oncoming Annunake in two and then pressed forward.

“You! Go stop them now!” – Boro

I nodded towards the large beast man and peered back towards my siblings and pointed up.

We each flew upward and towards the new figures who came in and clearly had done something to the fallen foes here….’Those gotta be the Dark Elves…’

As we flew toward them each of them pointed their hands towards us and similar letters as before began to appear and violent streams of magic began to fire down in our direction.

“Evade!”

With my instructions those flying around me began to scatter while advancing towards the hole in the cave wall.

BOoom!

Boom!

Ahh!!

An arrow flew past me and I was nearly able to dodge but Aurora behind me had instead be shot in the head.

The beam of dark light shot straight through her barriers as well as her head.

With a dead pan look her eyes then became alive and she continued to fly alongside me.

“Wha!” – Elf

“Kill them what are you waiting for!” – Elf

“Este vese ghaia favre ence!” – Elf

The dozens of elves continued to fire more and more magic but our healing abilities were vastly supierior. We left Cari alongside Bifrost as well as Vali’s mother whom is currently fighting as well

Each of us shot fire and ice magic towards their direction repeatedly while continuing to fly forward.

A large cloud of dust then appeared and we continued to fire while flying forward.

BOOOM!!!!

I flew through the cloud of dust only to crash into what felt like a wall.

‘Ahhh…Impossible was that an illusion?’

I backed away and waited for the smoke to disappear but already I could see a bright white light started to appear from behind the dark cloud…. It almost looked like… Cari’s….Wait….Impossible.

Currently staring right at me was a brightly adorned pixie with white wings and brightly colored hair. She’s just like Cari…. Only this one has short straight hair and a metallic headband on.

She is standing next to another pixie who has short hair just like this one and Cari’s and white wings as well. They were each the pixie we cherished most but how…..

Not giving me a moment to a think a bright multicolored light shot out of the girl and boy pixies eyes and the moment the beams touched my body I was sent the other direction with a large hole in my chest.

BOOOOOOOOM!!!!!

I crashed into several walking dead on the floor below and looked back up.

I could see clearly there were pixies that looked just like Cari but their magical signitures were just completely different….Those are puppets!

I could tell.

I could feel Cari had already healed the hole in my chest and I then started to fly back up to the pixies who just emerged. Their levels ….541 and 555.  The were the strongest pixies I had ever seen. Behind them were several of the same Dark Elves unharmed and I can see 3 large figures standing behind them.

They had large antlers and a white radiance that cascaded down from their horns and onto the Dark Elves in front of them.

“LOOOOK!!!!”

“Our fallen Elkia!”

“Grrrrrrrrrrrrr YOU!”

I could hear several voices of astonishment, as several of those below were fixing their eyes on the small group currently peering over the cave wall. I didn’t know Balor had made puppets from Elkia and our own race. They look completely different than the dead below but are instead look to be alive simply unconscious.

“Ohohohoho….. I was wondering when I would see you brats again…. What’s wrong… don’t remember my face? “ - ?

One of the Dark Elves then walked forward with a large smile on his face. He looked towards me and my siblings who were each hovering over head and addressed all those in the rear guard.

“What’s wrong forgot my voice already….” -?

“…yo…..you…” – Freyki

Turning around  I see no Freyki looking back with eyes of shock while also nashing his teeth.

“Who is it Freyki?” – Vale

“… It’s Jhenson…” – Sona

“………”

As I became shocked at hearing this statement I looked back towards the thin and dark elf out in front of us.

This is the one who had tortured my siblings all for a cure. This is the bastard that Vali had ripped his mouth apart killing the sicko but he is now standing here?

“I don’t understand?”

“Oh don’t get it little bugs….Well let me just say that you can’t kill an elf by simply slaying a body our souls were attached too…. I had to withstand a great deal of pain because of the trouble you caused me little bugs. Today all of you shall die!” – Jhenson

‘…..’

“….. Cari….Burn him.”

I gave the call through Daisy’s communication piece for Cari to light the place up, after Balor some how managed to take her flame away the first time we waited for the opportune time to use and now her cool down time should have fully recovered.

As much as I wanted to save these pixies who are puppets we simply do not have the time and they are insanely strong.

Besides…. I’m tired of hearing his voice.

“Flash Flame!”

WOOOOOOOOOOHMMMMMM!!!!

Within an instant everything became white and a brilliant heat flew past each and every one of us. My sisters light has a way of calming each of our spirits as she simply embraces each of us with it at all times of the day and night.  Not even a weak ago she was sitting in a small room to herself hidden away from the world. She’s had to endure more than every one of our kind, I knew how much it hurt her not to be able to stay with her family who were each dying off one by one.

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I didn’t have the ability to let her stay with them…. Although it broke my heart, Cari is our future… I still remember what my father told me. A white pixie is to be cherished over all else. They are our wisest while also our most fragile of all of our kind and should be protected.

Allowing her to fight in this battle was simply too difficult for me but considering she is possibly even stronger than myself now I can’t possibly force her not too.

As the white light began to fade and disappear I now see everything out in front of us has been fully engulfed in fire….Including….

“AHHHHHHHH!H!!!!!!!!!!!.........What is this!” – Jhenson

“It won’t go out!” – Elf

“AHhhhhh IT BURNS!” – Elf

“NNnnnyyyahahhhaha!”

Each of the figures continued to swing their bodies violently trying to put out the flames but with all their effort was for not…

I simply stared at them each squeal and wallow in pain.

I looked down and now all the undead figures from below are too now engulfed in fire from the top of their heads to almost covering their whole bodies.

And endless sea of fire then began to pour out over the whole floor as well as rain down from above. Anything and everything covering this floor that was an enemy as now fully engulfed in  Cari’s flames…..

“Now stay dead you sick….”

“AHHH!!!!”

I then saw a pink blur fly past me and over to the figures in the cave wall engulfed by fire. Each of their health’s were still in the green but they were simply being tormented by the heat and intensity of Cari’s flames.

In one swift motion Freyki activated his light hammer and crushed Jhenson’s hip sending him to the side of the wall.

Each of the rest of us then flew towards him and started to do the same to the other Dark Elves surrounding him.

In one move from Freyki Jhenson’s lit up body was then hurled to the side and crashed into the cave wall.

As he was still engulfed in white flames his health had dropped to 65%....

My siblings continued to surround and torment each of the surrounding Dark Elves when the pixies and even Elkia began to try and stop us.

The elkia would use their healing magic while the two white pixies flew towards us and shot forth a large purple ball surrounded in blue lightning.

BOOOOOOM!!!!!

The large purple ball shot out of the male pixies hands and towards us and just before it collided a black blur appeared in front of me. As the ball impacted against the dark figure it sent them a few paces back but they remained nearly undamaged.

‘….Bifrost?’

Her health jumped from green to the yellow then back up to green before the smoke around her had cleared.

Before I could do anything Bifrost as well as dozens of my siblings then flew forward and grabbed onto the enflamed white pixies and then flew off with each of them.

Seeing what they had in mind I instructed the rest of my siblings to take the Elkia away from here too and hopefully reach Vali in time.

The field surrounding him he told us blatantly not to step in as he’s honestly not sure if it’s safe. He however said any and all magic besides his own will become completely nullified so Balor should be unable to use any of his magic at all.

As my siblings each grabbed the 3 Elkia, they flew away with their bodies as they continued to try and attack them while still enflamed.

I then turned around towards the now smoldering Jhenson and his allies.

“You…YOU!....EUHhhh!.....” – Jhenson

“…So you’re still alive again huh. I figured after big brother Vali kicked your ass you’d never want to fight us again but here you

are….. “ – Kai

Freyki, Vale, and Bri then walked up from behind me and then looked at Jhenson with grim eyes.

“Wati…ugh…Just wait… I only made the poison to kill Balor. I promi…” - Jhenson

“Lies!”

Jhenson started to stutter and shake while trying to speak through the flames that would only enter his mouth every time he opened it and scorch his insides as well.

My sudden burst of anger caused him to shake and slowly retreat towards the cave wall behind him.

“….You hurt my family. All that remains after this for you is death….Don’t come back this time…”

“No…no……nnooooooOO! Ah…No…Sotpp! Cough…cough…ahhh….NOOOOO!oooo!!!”

My siblings surrounded Jhenson and his few remaining followers and started to attack their now defensless bodies.

Their health shaved away by more with every swing. The fire currently surrounding him we’ve discovered has a very violent but strong after effect, and that is it reduces the Defense of those who are engulfed by it until their simply too weak to even receive one of our punches.

“Please…Please don’t!” Stooooooooooppppp!!!” – Jhenson

“No..no more..please!” – Elf

“Ga…ga…..gh…nnn……….” – Elf

Their screeching squeals began to grow worse as the fire was simply tearing apart their flesh and my siblings attacking them as causing them even more pain.

At this point my siblings began to poke and prod with their Spikes and spears while deliver heavy blows with our Light Hammers. I then walked over and sunk my right wing into his right shin causing him to gasp in horror.

We continued this until his health slowly reached zero and him and all of his followers disappeared in a bright white light and vanished.

My siblings didn’t hold any faces of pleasure nor mercy, only scorn for those who have chosen to hurt us.  

As we left the hidden hole in the wall we journeyed to the floor below to reunite with Cari and the rest of our siblings.

The endless sea of fallen continued their attacks almost unfazed by the flames as they each didn’t seem to hold the ability for pain any longer.

Some were simply bones and armor but they continued their vicious assault.

Guh…..Guh!........

Looking forward I see the figures of Cari and a small force surrounding her and Vali’s mother.  I see out in front Boro standing in front of Vali’s mother only now pierced by dozens upon dozens of arrows and spears.

With  a loud roar he continued to swing his large paw in horizontal motions blowing everything around him apart.

He coughed up a huge puddle of blood that then fell to his chest.

All over his white fur was covered in puncture wounds. I and my siblings flew over to his aid and began to blow fire out from all directions to push them back. The fallen could no longer raise again after we killed the Elves but we still had to deal with the remaining forces who seemed much stronger than before.

The rear guard has taken a heavy hit and we have lost well over half of our numbers.

I see countless bodies of the Arachnee, Annunakes and nekos literring the floor alongside my own siblings left over body parts. The Reiki are the only forces who are simply taking the endless attack with practically no practically no damage at all.

I arrived at Boro’s side as he was just ripping off the head of a large Reiki man and biting another Neko with his jaws.

His health was simply dropping too dramatically being surrounding by so many undead.

Boro then swung his lone arm forward and crashed it into the mouth of a towering Adler splitting the bird man’s face wide open.

With that the mighty one armed warrior dropped to his knees.

With the combined assistance of my siblings and all those that remained we continued to push the forces back.

I tried to prop him up as all those flew past me and continued to press onwards.

His health was now in the read and his stamina was almost completely drained.

I tried to hand him a Stamina Elixir and Health potion but he merely pushed his one arm against my chest.

He shook his head no and slowly collapsed while looking up towards the ceiling….

I knew at this point his health was still slowly declining as his whole body was riddled with wounds and scars. Even with the added effect of his Hydra armor his health continued to plummet and I could now see he had been poisoned heavily fighting against the dead arachnee who sprang to life.

I tried to call out for help to the Arachnee who were fighting or anyone.

I felt someone rush up behind me and kneel down. When I looked up it was not the face of someone I was expecting…. With tears in her eyes she simply stared towards the fallen wolf as she tried to stop the bleeding.

This was Vali’s mother…

“No..No…he …he did this to save me…Come on…We have too….” – Elyria

Boro slowly put his large and bloody paw over Vali’s mother who was kneeling at his side.

“di..di…..save….elk…a?” – Boro

I slowly nodded to the dying Annunake which brought a smile to his eyes.  I wasn’t aware if they had gotten the Elkia and pixies to Vali in time. I simply couldn’t tell him  I didn’t know.

“…for…Al..pha….Honored..to fight…..each of you.. side….May you….all…..leave this place…..Ahhhhhhhh……..”

With one long final breath Boro the Warrior exhaled and disappeared into a series of lights and glass.

‘…….’

“No!” – Elyria

Several of the annunakes and pixies had then slowly began to come up and surround us as the surrounding monsters ad slowly been thinning more and more.

As they all peered towards the flickering lights of another fallen comrade each and everyone simply nodded towards Boro’s heroic sacrifice and decided to continue onward…. To leave this place for good. For all those who have fallen here, may they find peace by the end of today.

“Ok…. Let’s clean up the rest and reunite with everyone else….. We have no idea of the state of the front lines must be in so we need to hurry.”

Everyone nodded to my order and we continued onward.

It took several minutes of our combined efforts but we continued to lose more.

The dead Arachnee race simply was poisoning each of the races and it took us a good amount of time to get past them and take them all down. Even with their low levels each race shared in the same traits they had when they were alive and can still be considered as threats.

So we pushed forward to the wall city while me and my siblings flew through the skies. We were followed by a small group of Adlers. Our small punitive force consisted of roughly half the numbers we started with and we all together pushed towards the wall.

Arachnee, Annunake, Neko, Reiki, Adler, Jiji and Pixie continued to move forward together to leave this place. To finally leave…..’ We’re coming Vali… Please hold on. I don’t think my siblings can handle any more loss…. If they lost you I don’t believe many will be able to survive even hearing the news. You’ve simply become to big a part of us. As long as we may live we will stick together.

I could see below Daisy and Cari were surrounding Elyria and the small child. Each of them surrounded in barriers as well as shooting off Black Hydra smog towards everyone on the outsides our formation was highly protected.

We still had 4 Dullahans also marching out and front while we continued towards the city gate. When more dead would continue to crawl from beneath the ground and charge our formation I could see Daisy dropping them in holes and my siblings each working together that it is almost overwhelming to the all of the other races.

The line was currently impossible to break as anything that got close had their stats dropped and then were bombarded with magic.  Each of their defenses were simply nothing now and regardless of the small purple barrier surrounding many of them those out in front of us are slowly falling.

I continued to hurly out my fire magic and black smog while flying above the 4 Dullahan’s given to us by our sibling and we eventually reached the city wall.

Now we see the wall in rubble and can see past the large amount of skeletons and dead races was the towering figure of Balor fighting in the distance. All surrounding him was a bright purple star along with a large black wolf.

Alongside them were all of the race leaders surrounding and attacking Balor… He was bigger than when we saw his figure appear on the ground floor earlier. Now he’s at least 30 feet tall still moving quite unhindered.

His health….’ ….13% really?’

I honestly thought by now it would have been lower but we continued forward while attacking any oncoming threat to our formations. All of the other species were now having a wall of small pixies as well as large annunakes forming a wall between them and the onslaught of undead. Next to them were Reiki tanking for everyone as well as the Neko’s slipping in slicing each foe apart.

There was roughly a few thousand undead left and even though our advancement had slowed each monster is slowly falling even faster than the last. With the Adlers and my siblings raining down attacks from above nothing can come anywhere near our formations and with everything still covered in fire everything’s defense is slowly dropping to 0.

I looked forward and saw Balor who was partially covered in fire and continued to swing his fists and large body towards those below.

With the simple swipe of his monstrous arm I could see him sending the giant wolf flying towards the cave wall. With every swing of his large fists and giant sword in hand everything in the surroundings continued to be blown apart and send shockwaves through the Floor. Even from here I can feel intense force coming off from every swing.

I can see hundreds have fallen against Balor’s sword and have been turned to red paste. But with every movement he makes I can see his health is slowly declining bit by bit…It’s now at 11%.

“Ahahaha! I admit you have some strength boy to push me to this point but you shall never slay me even with your Norse wench and dogs that surround you.” – Balor

We continued to push forward and I could see everyone who was surrounding Balor well in the sky or on the ground looks exhausted.

Each of their health is in the yellow and sitting at the large beasts feet are hundreds of dead and fresh bodies.

He lunged forward and the air began to ripple and explode behind him. As his giant body moved too fast for me to perceive I saw him swing his giant sword covered in darkness down towards a certain position and collide with an oncoming figure.

BooooooooOM!

I then saw an explosion happen on the complete opposite side of the Floor. Looking over I could instantly feel who’s magical signature it was. I looked into the direction and there I saw Vali’s deformed figure with his health in the red.

“VALI!” – Daisy

“..What? “ – Elyria

I started to break away from the group and fly towards the direction of Vali. I could hear loud roars and the giant figure of Balor started to run in an odd way and plow through everything in his path.

In one swing of his sword everything in front of him was destroyed and the floor was torn apart extended past the walls. Those who started to fall in fell through the floor into the endless darkness below.

I saw the image of Hjokk appear from the side and send a strike with her spear towards Balor’s flank.

“Heh…Never learn !” – Balor

BOooooooOOOOM!

With the simple swipe of his arm Hjökk was then sent flying backward and flying past the city wall. Everyone else caught up in the current of his sword swing had shattered in a series of lights instantly.

Balor continued to run forward and I was simply too slow to meet his pace. ‘He’s so massive and largely built how could he run at such speeds. ‘

It sent ripples through the ground and shattered the floor behind him. As he got to Vali’s position before I realized Vali was barely breathing for some reason his health wasn’t going back up.

‘No!’

As Balor began to swing his large sword towards Vali’s position two loud booms occurred on the each of the sides of Balor’s face.

BOooooOOOOOOM!

BOooooOOOOM!

“Get out of my way you vermin!” – Balor

I could see appearing through the cloud of smoke were the figures of Alysteir and Commander Locke. They each were now standing in front of Balor with their twin swords raised and glowing each in flowing colors.

In an instant Alysteir’s figure disappear and a violent storm ran up along side Balor’s arm and then collided behind his head. Then another explosion appeared around his side as Commander Locke had dove on Balor’s other arm and jumped over him while jamming his sword into the tyrants back as he felt to the floor.

BOOOOOOOOOM!

A loud boom occurred on the back of Balor’s head and Alysteir appeared with an almost red color in her eyes. Just as Balor began to fall forward though he stuck his long sword made of darkness forward and caught himself and stuck it into the ground. Even after the thundering roars happening all over him his health has only dropped to 11% .

BOOOOOM!

GUahh!’

Another explosion occurred only this time it was the cave wall as the figure of Alysteir was sent flying into the cave wall.

I was almost close enough to Vali I could be able to grab him and get him out but I didn’t have time to put any illusions on myself.  As I got closer I peered in the giants direction and could see in his arms was a much smaller figure.

‘…..Commander Locke…’

Balor had Commander Locke in his grip in one failed motion Balor pulled the small Neko apart.

As he through the corpse to the ground it immediately disappeared in a show of lights and ascended towards the sky..

I got to Vali’s location and looked down in the hole. His health was in the red and he wasn’t healing…He wasn’t even breathing.

All those who were around him were probably dead but at least he’s alive….

Boom

Boom

Boom

Boom

I could hear the cave wall shaking and turning around I could now see the large dark figure of the horned beast we’ve sworn to kill. With a wave us his arm a large gust of pressure sent my body flying backward as if he were swatting at a fly.

As I crashed into the ground below I looked forward to the figure of Balor swinging his fist down on Vali’s motionless body.

“Hold yourself proud you pushed me to such a state. But be sent to the abyss with this champion….!”

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!

In one loud roar the floor itself erupted and blew apart. Everything in front of Balor was then turned to rubble and fell into the darkness underneath it.

Everything simply began to fall apart and fall into the ever expanding blackness as if it extended forever.

I could no longer feel Vali’s magical signature and for the first time in this fight….. I felt fear.

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Vali’s POV:

“Vali!!!!”

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!

…. Am i… Am I dead?

‘……’

I opened my eyes and I see nothing around me. I felt a massive impact hit me and then everything went black. I tried to activate one of my abilities before impact but I guess I was unsuccessful.

……..

I don’t even see a health bar. Wow…. I guess I really did die.

‘…..We were so close….. He was simply too strong. Even with Fenrir and Hjökk and everyone combined he simply blew right through us. Even without his endless magic I guess it truly was hopeless to go against the gods….’

I can only hope with Hjökk and Fenrir they can all somehow make it out alive…

“I’m sorry……”

I’m sorry I couldn’t save you all…. I guess it was a lot to hope for. Fighting a something like a God…. Honestly I don’t know where I got the idea I could….

I’m just some kid…. A year ago I was working 3 jobs, taking care of my two siblings and not much else.

It’s silly to think something like me could have stood a chance…. Sigh…..

Still though…. It would have been nice not to let someone down for once….

I then gripped onto the small cross around my neck and was surprised to find both were still on my body… and I remembered the small girl who had given it to me.

‘God…. I haven’t spoken to you in quite a while…. I’m not even sure if you can hear me right now or even if you would to something like me, but if you can….. ‘

Sob…..sob….

Please…… Please let my sister come home. Please don’t let her stay in this awful place….. If you’re listening…. If your there like my mom spoke about all those years….

Save her…..

Sob……

Tee heee

‘huh…..’

I opened my eyes and there in the endless darkness I saw a small glowing figure of Cari. She smiled and slowly walked towards me and jumped into my arms.

Looking towards her I saw she was smiling as she slowly fade away.

In an instant Bifrost then appeared alongside Jana. Then Daisy, Then Cyanin and all the rest.

They looked like ghosts and weren’t saying a word. Other than the faint giggle that echoed in my ear they all each of them would do is come over and hug me before fading away into the darkness that surrounds me.

‘Did they….did they die too?....’

I clenched my fists in anger and then looked up and again Cari and the rest continued to run and jump towards me… Wait what?

With every passing second I could start to feel my body start to sting and twitch. I could feel around myself parts of my body grow warm and hot ….. Wait what?

My body I could feel was rapidly regenerating  and with every touch from each of the glowing transparent figures I felt a breath of fresh air. I could feel a surge of energy and now I see my body is glowing around me and shinning a light around this dark place.

BOOOOOM!

BOoooom!

I could hear feint echoes in the distance and everything around me started to shake.

BOooom!

“VALI!”

‘What?’

“VAlI!!!!”

A bright white light began to cave in from above me and shine down. I could see a brightly glowing pink figure.

“VALI!.....EAT THIS!” – Freyki

In an instant I saw the figure of Freyki fly up to me and in the darkness surrounding us and I can see everything around him is brightly lit in ping flames. Even with his surrounding fire however the darkness is slowly putting it out.

He wasn’t see through like the other figures hugging me but I could see he was actually there and was holding a heart.

“Eat now before it’s AH!... Gone!” – Freyki

I took a bite of the small heart and a notification immediately jumped into view.

Congratulations! You have just learned a Divine Skill!

Promethean March:

Engulf the very ground you walk with the First Fire which was stolen from the gods long, long ago

Intellect + 50 Wisdom + 100

I immediately understood the situation upon eating this heart. One of the pixies had ripped out their own hearts and brought it to me. ‘…I’m currently inside of Balor. I did activate that skill in time. I activated Phase Shift in hopes he’d go right through me and apparently I did.’

Now with this skill…..I’m inside of him and the darkness in here has been slowly eating away at me.

The pixies did their best to fire their Light and Fire magic to various points on his body to weaken him but even in his battered state this deity was a completely different existence than we had anticipated. Even with his body half destroyed his power was still overwhelming to the point the surroundings couldn’t even hold together.

Freyki was beginning to break apart and he started to try and fly out of the hole, which was made.

I don’t know how they managed to heal me but…. They did somehow.

I smiled while closing my eyes and simultaneously casting Promethean March.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!

A loud but short boom erupted and I myself  fell down towards the ground.

White fire began to fall and come out of my feet and explode out engulfing all the darkness around me.

Within a moment my vision changed and I was then lying on the ground back on Floor 1. Everything around me is surrounded by an intense white fire and I’m simply too worn out to move… My Mp was drained completely and I my stamina too feels to be almost completely gone. I couldn’t move.

Whoooosh!

Looking up a figure then grabbed me and began to run. Within a moment I saw everything around us slow as if we were in warp speed. In an instant I was away from the brightly lit flames and surrounded by several other species….

The figure in front of me then again disappeared ad I could hear the voices of several of the Annunakes.

“Alpha!” – Akino

I could hear several of the Annunakes approach me and give me their Elixir’s and health potions until I seemed awake enough to move.

I was then held up by Adimar and I looked out to Balor who was currently attempting to fight against Hjökk however…..

“Guah….gohghghg…YOW…WHill…SHUFFer!” – Balor

His body wasn’t even recognizable anymore. With a large hole from his lower waste to his neck Balor looks to be shaking.

Balor The Endless Dark Level: 811 Current Health: 4%

Fallen God of Darkness and Drought

You have to hand it to him… Even now after having my divine skill go off inside of him he’s still standing. He’s still on almost covered in fire and currently lighting up this hole place but no one

Hjökk continued to try and strike him but Balor’s movements were still simply too fast and too powerful not to be weary of him. His speed has yet to decrease however his defense should be in tatters by now.

“Yow! Can’t sopt ME!” – Balor

BOOOOM!

I then saw Balor pull out a small trinket and point it to his mouth. It had a soft blue glow and the moment it touched Balor’s lips his health started regenerating.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Crack!

Suddenly his figure was then thrown forward as the image of Alysteir had appeared sent a force towards Balor’s arm.

Whatever was in his hand fell to the ground but his health had immediately jumped up to 22%

‘Damn it ! ‘

“GrrrrRRR! Come here you wench!” – Balor

He continued to try and swing but the moment she disappeared Hjökk and Fenrir attacked his other side causing him to stumble.

“Ah…Valkyrieeee”

I looked around and could see Adimar, Akino, and 12 of the Elite Annunakes. Behind them was the rest of the pack along with a  large group of several thousand of each race huddled together in a large circle formation with hundreds flying overhead.

“…..No sense in running now… It’s here or never.” – Malfius

“…Let’s join together to take him down.” – Akino

“He dies this day! Come on you dogs you want to live forever! Prepare for GLORY! All for the Alpha and our glorious dead will we never yield!” – Adimar

HOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!

With the Annunake’s loud howls all forces then leapt forward.

All races of all kinds with their weapons rose to the sky they ran forward towards the now lone Boss.

Covered in fire and weakened we decided it was either now or never and each raised our weapons and prepared for one final attack.

Even within this field all magic other than my own can work and I could fel a dull from the lights around the pixies. However no one fled but simply all ran in the same direction. Towards the ancient monster. The floor and the dungeon itself didn’t look to hold up for very long but we continued our fight as in this very spot this beast was at his weakest.

I appeared over Balor and swung down Abgrund right on Balor’s skull. I activated wind claw and moonlight claw with my free hand. The wave of light left my fingers and flew straight into Balor’s skull causing his hole head to jolt back.

The moment the blade entered I again felt a tremendous amount of resistance so I removed the blade and then warped away. The pixies began to surround his feet and activate their smog while Adimar, Malfius , Hjökk, Alysteir and I each continued to attack him from all direction.

“AHh!....Nnn yOugh!’- Balor

His movements started to slow and Fenrir had now been able to get a get hold over him to slow him down slightly.  ‘Whatever that is it’s not magic but it’s incredible to hold him down for brief moments.’

It then middle of Balor’s swing, his body began to slow down and freeze allowing Hjökk to land a powerful strike with her spear. A powerful blast of golden lightning and wind magic which surrounded Balor with loud roars.

BOOOOOOOOOM!

Balor’s health then dropped by 5% with that and I appeared towards his right leg and swung Abgrund again.

Pixies continued to surround Balor and stab him but any movement he made with his limbs sent all those around him flying and practically dead. I instructed the large forces back and to instead fire from a distance.

They each obeyed and started backing away leaving only a small few of us.

With Hjökk, Fenrir. Alysteir, Adimar and Malfius at my side and Kyrah along with all the pixies we again began to attack Balor from all sides not giving him a moment of freedom.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

A large impact landed on his back and I immediately activated Lord’s Earth Shattering Smash on his leg sending him immediately to the ground.

He was again on his back and each of us had leapt in after him.

His health was gradually starting to drop a lot quicker than before as the fire surrounding him simply dropped his defense to basically nothing.

BOooom!

BoooooOOOM!

As the floor began to shake large gusts of attacks from Kyrah and the Adler races continued to fire off skills towards Balor and shoot of feathers from there wings.

Everyone was doing a good job at evading but even with the top geniuses gathered together, every swing from Balor’s weapon he took out simply sends shoots of such powerful gusts of pressure anything that gets swept up in it dies.

‘….8%.”

The whole floor began to fall apart and break as its master who held control over it was slowly dying. I warped the back lines away and attempted to do the rest for those with me but each of them refused and wouldn’t leave. Even with the floor breaking a part they wanted to see this through to the end.

BOoooOM!

“YOU!” –Balor

BOOOOOoooom

BoBOoOM!BooOOM!

‘6%.....’

Everyone held their breath as we all continued to watch Balor’s health slowly drop. Every minute to the point death was but a few moments away for the beast older than the world itself. Malfius appeared at Balor’s leg while Kyrah at his other and both delivered devastating punches into his weakened defense.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

As his figure started to slow down and his sword swings which were sending ripples and shockwaves to everyone caught up in the current began to slow down and disappear. If Hjökk or even Fenrir wasn’t here I couldn’t  even begin to think of how many more we would lose. She’s holding back her power not to destroy the dungeon on top of us but even without the use of magic this boss is dangerous to the last possible second.

As he swung his giant sword engulfed in darkness Hjökk had delivered a shot to Balor’s back forcing him to drop his weapon. Even though magic has been completely nullified somehow Balor and Hjökk were still able to show such phenomenal abilities.

“….1%.”

He looked up at me while currently on his knees. As he looked like he was about to put up a fight he simply collapsed on the ground and let out a loud breath.

‘Haaaaaaa……You’ve…won…heh….Here..…..Champ..ion……..Takehhh…...” – Balor

His right arm which was once shrouded in a Dark Aura was now covered in a dark metallic blood and slowly shaking.

In his arm was however a large golden key around a chain.

I didn’t make a movement towards the beast as I wasn’t going to fall for any of his traps.

I raised Abgrund and warped falling over the back of his location.

“….Kill…You must …kill them for …what they’ve done…You must ….” – Balor

‘0%......’

Before I even finished my swing Balor’s health had finally reached zero and the once Dark Lord who has been around since the beginning of time breathed his final breaths.

Rumble!

RumblE!

BOOOOOM!

BOoooom!

The floor and the ceiling then started to shake and fall apart. Each of us were frozen of what had happened but quickly realized it was time to move.

I warped over to Balor’s location and took the small key on the ground and attempted to put his body into my inventory but it wouldn’t work so I instead warped his body away as well.

As the floor began to break apart around us everyone looked to be in tears.  They each looked at me without the words to say….Nor did I have the words back for them.

Snap!

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As Hjökk and the small few who fought till the final moments appeared on Floor 52 and were met with the appearance of a few thousand of those who remained.

‘Or well….What’s left of it anyways.’

Looking up the Giant Wall has now been reduced to rubble. The ceiling is gone and so are most of the floor and walls.

It’s quiet and all that remains are us and the fallen deity and his dead monster horde.

My armor is practically been all destroyed and my pants are now in tatters to the point they are hardly considered pants at all….’Luckily the pixies got me a pair too I should thank them later…’

With a bright bead of sunlight all those who had surrounded me were looking towards the incoming skylight.

Vali!” – Cyanin

“Valiii! “ - Daisy

Several of the pixies had then flown over to me with tears in their eyes and put their faces in my chest.

Looking around I could see why everyone was quiet. They were staring at the 15 foot remains of Balor lying dead several meters away.

No one is saying a word but only staring at the fallen deity with tears in their eyes to the point they were shaking.

Each drenched in blood and sweat while exhausted too had nothing to say.

As the light continued to pour in from the rising sun over the now collapsed dungeon walls, Floor 52 remained silent….

Your Level has risen

Your Level has risen

Your Level has risen.....

Congratulations! You have you have cleared Balor’s Legendary Hidden Dungeon: Buried Life by defeating the hidden Final Boss: Balor The Endless Dark.

Each of your names will forever be written on the Wall of Heroes along the mightiest Heroes who have come and gone.

People will sing songs of your legendary feet that will the stand until the end of time. By defeating the hidden Final Boss: Balor you have now vanquished the dungeons maser.

The vast dark power that once shrouded over from all who attempted to look upon it has now reseeded and disappeared. The effects of the darkness that were currently surrounding this area have now been lifted and has stopped distorting and disturbing the surrounding areas.

Your grand accomplishment shall be rung throughout the realms as the long lost souls of loved ones and precious lovers have been reunited and released from their eternal imprisonment.

You have become a friend of the Earth Goddess for slaying an enemy of Mother Nature and all her precious children.

Intellect + 35    Wisdom + 20    Strength + 35   Agility +15   Stamina + 120  

Defense + 30

Earth Affinity + 3% Darkness Affinity + 5%

The following Top 10 to gain the most experience from Balor The Endless Dark will receive the Title of God Slayer

Cari

Vali

Hjökk

Alysteir

Fenrir

Kyrah

Bifrost

Nhaili

Malfius

Adimar

Congratulations! You have earned a new Title

God Slayer

Slayer of Balor

People will now bow in the presence of those capable of slaying even the Gods who live beyond the stars and watch over the realms. You will no longer be stricken by fear from anything less than a Divine and bow to no mortal.

You will now age at slightly less the normal rate.

Kings and Gods alike will now look at you with admiring eyes as you are one who is even capable of slaying the once Divine.

You have helped send the once Fallen God of Darkness and Drought to his eternal rest.  Though he may have descended before his final breaths, his power over the darkness that envelopes this world was enough to plunge all of Middle Earth into an everlasting night. For accomplishing an insurmountable achievement of slaying Balor The Endless Dark: An SSS+ Monster:

Strength + 50    Defense + 45     Agility + 25      Health + 20,000       Courage: 150     Fighting Spirit + 850

*All Stats Rise by 50           *All Stats of those who participated in the battle have stats increased by 20

Congratulations! For having the Title of God Slayer you have unlocked the conditions for a new skill!

Limit Break

For a brief period of time, pass the limits of a mortal and break through the limiters of your own body.

All stats will rise by 200%  for 5 minutes

After time is up there will be an extreme backlash and you will be more prone to injury. While active Stamina will decrease by twice the normal rate. Once 5 minutes are used up stamina will then decrease at 5 times the normal rate.

Cool down Time: 5 days

Congratulations! For having the Title of God Slayer you have unlocked the conditions for a new stat!

Fighting Spirit has now been changed to Battle Aura

Now at all times those around you shall feel the constant overwhelming presence of your experience in battle. All those at a third your own level will now no longer be able to move against you while within range of Battle Aura.

Battle Aura + 50

‘………..’

As constant notifications began to shoot past into view it had obstructed mine and everyone else’s view of the sun.

As we read through each of them I could final hear the sounds of gasps and those crying.

Aha…Ahahahahaha!

Ahahahahah!

Laughter then started to break out as everyone simply couldn’t believe their eyes and had no way to show their response other than laugh.

I too started to laugh as if just at this moment everyone then realized it was over…

Turning to the side I see all races currently hugging each other with tears in their eyes and celebrating together.

Ollie and Malfius each collapsed on the ground and smiled slowly to themselves. Each of the pixies just continued to walk up towards me to join in on the group hug as all of their siblings were in tears.

Kyrah then ran up towards the Mother Hen Gwen and grabbed the small child in her arms raising her high into the sky.

Each of the Annunakes too began to hold onto each other and I see now that there are a large number of remaining Reiki while all of the other races have taken a hit. I don’t know the numbers yet but each race has received heavy losses and have each sacrificed many for this moment.

I even see now there are 5 figures who are tied up and uncouncious. Their bodies look practically burnt and in the red and aren’t moving but I can clearly see some of their charred bodies are the figures of the Elkia race as their antlers are simply impossible to not recognize…  Several pixies and Annunakes who were each tending to them and their fallen bodies’ surrounded them….’ Woh…555? 467? Geezes who are those charred figures? ‘

I can see now that Sting and the other 3 royal guards had managed to survive and are walking up alongside….

I raised my arms as my mother who was holding onto Ari started running towards me also in tears.

As the pixies each let her get close the woman who has willingly become my mother in this world and was even willing to travel to such a place to find me. If Loki ever did anything right it was letting this woman my mother.

With a soft embrace I can feel her hug me while Ari simply lifted her arms shaking towards me also sobbing.

I took them both in my arms and continued to hug each of them without any words to say. Ari softly started to softly lick my neck and my mother continued rubbing her cheek against mine with their tails each wagging around.

‘Thank God. I was able to keep my family safe this time. Words cannot express the joys that are currently filling my heart as I held these two each close. I don’t know how I came to care for others who aren’t even my real family so much… But they have slowly become a part of me here. Even if I never planned on staying in this world I’m truly thankful to have found each of them in this new life. They’ve made the time I've spent here truly nice.

We had won…. Some how… Some way we had survived.

“I…I thought you died…I thought…. I saw…..” – Elyria

“I know…. I thought I died too.”

“Hehe…I think Vali did get close to dying but we wouldn’t let you die silly!” – Cosmia

“Huh?”

“Yah… We’d never let anything happen to you Vali. You’re our family!” – Cyanin

“Wait you guys actually did save me in there. Not just with Freyki , were you sharing your lives with me then?”

“Teehe… well of course silly! What’d you think we meant when we said we made you our family. Now and forever! “ – Cari

I had never really taken it into consideration but somehow this small magical race has made me a part of their family to the point they can even share their lives with me. Even if I can’t share the ability with them somehow they have literally made me their family which is something that goes even further than my own understanding.

The last time they had given me a group hug and that lingering glow I felt was this that had changed within me.

When I had gained the Title I wasn’t aware but the pixies had made it to where they could share their lives with me even if they knew I couldn’t share it back with them.

[Good job Vali, we somehow managed to make it out of this alive huh.]

“Heh, yah… somehow….”

Hjokk had then flown over to my shoulder and her beak bent upward showing that she was smiling towards me. She too didn’t have much to say either she simply stared back at me with almost completely different eyes than before. I can see she still doesn’t have a level overhead so I can only assume she hasn’t descended yet….

I started to feel a cool breeze and bright lights started to emerge from the ground and sore towards the sky.

Each light was a different color and began to ascend towards the skies.

Each figure looked to be of a different race and there were millions of them.

Everyone including myself began to look towards all those who have fallen in this place finally leave.

As each of their transparent bodies continued to ascend past us they each peered down with a smile an continued upward. Each race was present and all were ascending to the same place towards the sun.

“J…Joslyn….” –Adimar

I looked over and there I saw Adimar sitting on his knees with his arm reached outward. A large and beautiful figure of a women with towering antlers over her head began to float into view. Her face looked to have been a work of art and had long flowing blonde hair and horns that reached several feet over her head. She had a feint glow that looked to glitter down towards each of us.

‘This was Adimar’s mate….’

“Please…Don’t….don’t leave again…Joslyn.” – Adimar

The large wolf began to shake as he reached towards the floating woman as if his heart were about to break.

Her figure which was ascending then began to peer down and float over towards him.

“I never left you in the first place Adi. I’ve always been with you…Find happiness in this new life and know… I’ll wait for you always, my love.” – Joslyn

I could hear a feint whisper in his ears just before she placed a kiss on Adimar’s large nose. She ran her fingers through his hair and almost looked to have brushed through him.

With this action the floating Elkia then began to ascend towards the sky until her transparent figure disappeared entirely.

Looking towards Adimar I can see his back and whole self were still shaking. His lost love had shown herself to him again just like many others and he the once stoic and silent warrior was now sobbing uncontrollably.

“Mom, DAD!” – Cyanin

“Tiffa!” – Neko

“Jasper!” - Adler

“Boro….” – Kai

As I heard several of the pixies and surrounding people raise their arms and wave towards the ascending souls I was unaware how everyone was able to see each of them but they were clear as day until the moment they passed these walls and they disappeared with the wind passing on to the next life.

I looked up to Kai’s statement and then saw the floating transparent ghost of Boro too ascending to the sky. He now has two arms and looks to be smiling down towards each of us.

As I made eye contact with him I was unaware he had fallen. With looking into my eyes all he did was smile and nod while passing on.

Behind him were hundreds of thousands of large white wolf beastmen all looking down and doing the same. Each and ever race were warriors than spanned across time, all finally free and all finally leaving this place together, the same way they came.

Elyria who was holding my hand had then told me that large wolf had saved her life and died protecting her.

Adimar talked about Boro once… He told me him  Diaga and Boro were actually childhood friends. In the Alpha ranking order Adimar was first, Diaga second and then Boro in third. They were all considered genius fighters that were at the top of their already legendary race.

In any other time and in any other place he would have reigned as an Alpha but instead he chose to follow me with absolute loyalty and even protected my family when I couldn’t...

I simply had a bad taste in my mouth but I could feel my wrist start to tighten.  I looked up at Elyria and she smiled at me and told me she was proud.

As each of the millions of souls smiled down towards us and ascended off this plain entirely each of us continued to watch each of them off.

“We’ve made it! Finally boys! We’ve brought the dawn!” - Malfius

“WOHHHHHH!!!!””  - Reiki, Neko, Alder, Jiji, Pixie, Arachnee

HOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!! – Annunakes, Fenrir

The loud howls from the Annunakes and cheers from all those present caused Fenrir to start howling making some of the pixies start to imitate him.

I could see Akino now helping up Adimar and several figures approaching me. I can see Sting somehow survived and he was walking alongside Queen Nhaili and her select guard. Beside them was the three royal guards who were each staring towards us and the fallen god with no words at all.

They each had their health dropped to the yellow but all in all they were still all put together so that too came out as a success.

Each of the royal guard including Sting simply stared back towards us with mouths wide open.

“Excuse me everyone! I have something to say!” – Izzie

Everyone then stopped cheering and dancing with one another and stare towards the direction of Izzie. Beside her were all of the leaders minus Commander Locke.

As she walked forward she said she had a letter that was written from Commander Locke. He asked that it be read in the event of his death. ‘Locke died?….’

Balor must of….

I gnashed my teeth and Izzie began to read from a small letter.  She said Commander Locke actually wrote one of these before every boss battle and it was simply something he had asked for before the battle even started.

No one said anything as we were now all staring towards Izzie.

To whom it may concern,

If you’re reading this it means I’m dead… But if you’re also reading this it means you have won. Rejoice for today we have each become conquerors! You have lived… Don’t mourn for me. Live for me. My father once spoke of being able to know of the day of your death. I didn’t take much meaning of it at the time but I think I know what he meant now. I believe I somehow knew that this morning I woke that today will be my last but I’ve come to terms with it all…. Tonight I will be dining outside this shit hole and seeing all those I’ve grown to miss. So from here out I’ll be taking a permanent vacation and considering Commander Izzie will not take the position I place the Race leader position to the next available officer.

Just look at how far we've come, and such an effort we gave. I have no doubts in my mind you will all leave this place I can say I have no regrets. How many get to say they died saving those they cared for most, it’s not a bad way to go I think either.

To Izzie, try to get some rest once and a while and don’t forget to bath. I’ll miss our talks.

To Ollie, I place you in charge of the Away Team from now on take care of them.

To Malfius ,I hope to be having a few drinks with you soon, but hopefully not too soon.

To Vali, though I never got to speak with you much but I know in my heart that our paths were meant to cross. You awakened something in each of us here that will not be put out till the very end of time. Even as I pass on this fire will never be quenched. You have empowered and united us and together we shall go forth into unknown together. I ask that you take care of each of them with the same care and devotion you have showed thus far.

To all those I’ve had the honor to fight alongside and to the grateful dead who shall be joining me in this new journey we shall each someday take I say…. Live, together. Nothing will ever become more special than what we have each shared together in this life. For the rest of your lives nothing will break the bonds we have formed this day and will stay with each of us as we walk into a new world together.

- To the Dawn

From the desk of High Commander Erwin Anthony Locke

As Izzie chokingly continued to read the letter of the fallen race leader no eyes were dry as we each mourned all those who sacrificed their lives for us to leave this place…

End of Chapter

Afterword

And with that ladies and gents you have it..... 7 Months ago today I never thought I would be here. I've had ideas and thoughts about this story for a long time but I never honestly thought I'd make it to this point. This arc was originally never suppose to happen and even after I came up with the idea for Balor and his hidden dungeon I honestly suspected the first arc would last to chapter 13..... The more I wrote the more I feel the story started to change and grow as well. Now here I am 7 months later my story has just broken into the Top 10 of Royal Road.

I had a lot of fun writing and doing research looking up new deities  and possible characters to bring into the story, while weaving them in with new possible deities that existed in this world and never traveled to our own. The world simply grew so large 13 turned to 25 chapters and now I almost see limitless places to take it. I have roughly 2 - 3 other arcs already planned as of now and have even come up with possible villains for the next arc.

The relationship between the Elkia and the Annunakes which now seems so perfect also didn't exist at the beginning. I had an idea of a white wolf race and pixies who could heal each other.. Balor was going to be essentially a villain who lasted as long as Malthiel but again the story just kept changing the more I began to put words to page.

It continued to grow and when I would develop a backstory for someone I found it actually related to another like with Balor and Lugh, but I found that there were actually several occurences in our histories that linked up with insanely good plot twists and possible scenes that honestly when I start to reveal new gods and new characters it honestly connects so well together. When I thought up these scenes 7 months ago though I needed a good foundation to the story before Vali simply entered into this new medieval world of ridiculously cheat like existences that can even compete with himself. I mean even from these past few chapters you can see how even with so much new strength and power a fallen god was a completely new existence for Vali that was unlike anything he's ever fought before.

As you guys have noticed this isn't your normal reincarnation or transported story. Vali isn't like the other mc's you've read either in fact It's almost like he's not a full person anymore. I took influence from Shield Hero, Arifureta, Supernatural, Re monster, Akame Ga Kill and even LMS and Arc but in all honesty all sorts of fictions. I mean the first arc almost felt like a mash up between a dark Sword Art Online and Attack on Titan mash up but it turned into something else.... I just love Supernatural and the idea of multiple gods and mythologies just all coming together and honestly seeing what would happen when beings that would never normally meet do....

The story is about someone who normally wouldn't get transported into another world as essentially he was already broken long before ever leaving his old world. His past traumas and new experiences effect him differently than it does others and he isn't this valiant hero nor is he the evil villain. He's not this perfect MC like most other fictions either. He makes mistakes even with his OP abilities which you don't see in other works... Don't get me wrong I love fictions like Against the Gods and LMS where the MC's are essentially perfect. They always make the right decision and I feel with Vali he's not like that. He's intelligent and slowly growing into a much more dangerous existence but that doesn't mean he's invincible nor make any mistakes that he must learn from.

You almost see it in how he doesn't even treat his own life the same as others as you've seen him even grant mercy to those who've harmed him while mercilessly killing those who have harmed others.

Developing him has been fun and with him absorbing Balor's core some very interesting things are going to come into works I assure you.... I enjoy watching shows like Game of Thrones and Walking Dead as not only do you never know what could happen or who might die but you get to see these characters just slowly teeter between the line of madness.

I've had a lot of fun creating a dark story that is going to start moving a lot faster real soon. Again I tell you this arc was never originally intended but was instead I decided as a start of the story as it all just seemed to get into the shit early.... But if I just jumped straight to what I wanted to without laying down any ground work or set up things the twists and fun scenes I've come up for later wouldn't nearly have the same glamour to it.  Soon you're going to see why I gave the title to this fiction what it is as there will be so many twists and turns in the story that it will develop into an ultimate race to become gods.

I hope to go back and clean up all chapters... In all honesty I one day even hope to get this published so I obviously plan on going over and editing/re-writing quite a lot over well... Idk until I'm satisfied. I feel this first arc is good in the direction it went, I might make small changes here and there but they won't change the story in anyway. I just want to clean up certain scenes with less or more info, better dialogue. I wrote the majority of chapter 25 all in one sit in so I honestly feel like in many places throughout this arc could be places I could clean and edit each of the scenes. SO just know that since I am considering hopefully doing something with this story someday I do intend on constantly going back and changing things.

As always thank you to my 2 editors for your hard work. I honestly need to add all their edits they've mailed me. To all my readers as always thanks for reading my story and here's to hopefully more to come.

...May post an Intermission/Side Story chapter that is short and halfway done here in a few days possibly. But for now I'm gonna lay back and play some Halo 5 and enjoy myself. Don't forget to leave a loonggggggg comment about what you all thought and leave a donation if you can. Thanks again guys!