The celebration was finally over, everyone was resting from a good job done. Zareth was on a white floor with lots of holes in him and a gun rack by the side. Belzorath is hanging on a drying line, he looks wet. Ebonvar looks rounder than before. Gorgomor is hanging upside down with a few sticks on the ground. Malvagor is... he's still hanging on for dear life, apparently a black hole is below him if he falls, bet tickets and rocks around him. Azurath is doing handstand with whip marks around him. Nethrax is jumping through fiery hoops. Valtorus is juggling balls, he has to throw the explosive one away or *BOOOOM* that.
After 24 hours of a hearty reunion, the sealing artefacts Zareth and crew brought finally wore off. A bright light covers them, the Azurians watch expectantly waiting for a show.
Kael smiles, "Maybe they have a secret skill."
Astrarigel is on a pole, "And they're now activating it? Better late than never. I think it's going to a 9th tier runic circle at best."
Lucian rubs his chin, "Could it be an empowering skill?"
Zephyr grins, "I hope they call back up." He smiles...the kind that causes bad dreams. Kael chuckles.
Isabella goes closer tilting her head, "Guys, doesn't this look like an escape thi-" they vanish.
The Azurians blink their eyes looking at the empty spaces left behind. Well not all of them left, Valtorus and Azurath remained. They're muscle heads who never carried escape scrolls on them because they said it's for cowards, now they see the benefit of HAVING one.
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In the Divine realm, on a floating island, a Pantheon of gods is sited on it. This Pantheon massive not in architecture alone but in power as well, the building is like a huge castle with pointy tips. In one of the buildings, a primordial god is walking around minding his own business. Then light appears before him, he covers his eyes to block out the light. The light dims and horror covers his face at the sight before him.
"Zareth? Zareth!" He goes to aid Zareth, "Son! Who did this to you?!" so he's Zareth's father, he applies healing runes….magic on Zareth trying to heal him but no effect. "Helena! Helena!" he calls out then another primordial goddess arrives.
"Arcturus, what's the matt- ZARETH!" she rushes to Zareth and tries to heal him also but no effect. "Let's take him to a healer, quick!" They bring Zareth to a goddess of healing, many gods gather at the scene to witness.
The healer shakes her head, "I can't heal him. Whatever that hurt him is too powerful for any of my skills to work. I feel Abyssal Magic from him."
"Abyssal Magic?" Arcturus speaks, "Agreth!" he turns around and moves at light speed to the dungeon passing a little dark green figure but he didn't notice it.
He barges into the prison on the lowers level, "AGRETH! WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THIS?!" He stretches his hand at Abyssal primordial god Agreth hitting him with a powerful beam. "YOU DARE GO AFTER MY SON?! MY SON?!" *WHIIIII* He keeps blasting Agreth burning his chest.
Agreth forces to speak, "What did I do?!" Arcturus stops, he realizes there's no way Agreth could leave and he's the only Abyssal god powerful enough to beat Zareth.
"Tch." Arcturus clicks his tongue and leaves slamming the door behind him.
The dark green figure enters the room in tears, "My lord!" she rushes to Agreth, "I'll heal you." Tears stream down her face as she heals Agreth but he recovers slowly.
Agreth looks at the figure, "Nalassa, what happened?"
Nalassa wipes her tears, "It's Zareth, something happened in the dungeon. He returned heavily injured, he set up a barrier so the others couldn't enter the dungeon."
Agreth opens his eyes, "Could it be Nytri?"
Nalassa shakes her head, "No, she's only mortal. Last we checked on her she recently passed Paxius in level." She's talking about Lyra not Nytri.
Agreth tries to stand up, "I have to go, Nytri is in danger. If they go to my dungeon, they'll have her killed!" the chains eats into his flesh and he grunts in pain.
Nalassa tries to stop him, "My lord, please stop. The chains will only hurt you more. I'll return to the dungeon and help Nytri escape. Please rest for now." She comforts him. Agreth sighs and nods.
Arcturus never left the dungeon, he waited at the door hoping to get anything. And he got something, "Nytri." He says with hate, "That mortal will have the answers I want." He leaves the dungeon and sets a trap for Nalassa, he gets other gods to restrain her and every god supporting Agreth. They put them in the prison with Agreth but Nalassa manages to send a message to 'Nytri' though it'll take a while for her to get it.
Arcturus gathered the pantheon together and informed them of what happened, he made plans with them on how to trap the culprit.
The gods agree to their plan and some even voice their thoughts. "I suspect it's the devils." A god of fire says.
"No, we've formed an alliance with the devils to start a holy war." A god of storms speak, "There's no need for them to attack one of us."
"So who attacked Zareth?" A god of space speaks.
Arcturus speaks up, "Nytri, that's the name I got from Agreth's snivelling underlings. I want to descend to the earth and interrogate her myself."
"And if she's the one who hurt Zareth?" Helena speaks.
Arcturus bangs his table, "Then we make her suffer a 100 no, a 1,000 times over!"
They make up plans to descend to the mortal realm, to Nytri and torment the answers out of her. They're armed for war also.
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Nytri is on the throne in the 129th floor grinning, she opens her eyes as the light around her eyes glows after being dim. Nytri stretches a bit, "So, they wanna fight? I was planning on letting this end here, but trouble keeps coming. This FEAR vision is handy, I can see whatever those who fear me see and kill them whenever I want with TERROR. But, I do need a beacon to help me get to the Divine realm."
She gets up from the throne and claps, "Alright guys, we're taking a vacation to the divine realm. Only Calamity ranks are coming with me." She turns to look at King and her thoughts, "Nope, bad idea. Setting the Golem set loose in the divine realm will cause irreparable damage."
Nytri turns to King, "Only Azurians." King makes a disappointed face, Nytri looks at Dialdelios. "Will the Xenos join?"
Dialdelios shakes her head, "No, there's no need. Running around crushing bugs won't be fun."
Nytri shrugs, "Suit yourself." Nytri walks to the 128th floor, she swipes her hand making a rift for herself. The Azurians can also make rifts wherever they are, so they join with coordinates from Nytri to 5 kilometers around Zareth.
Nytri wonders about the demonkings. The demonkings are immortal and Traumatized, they'd never go close to a human taller than 2 meters again. Some even started researching for places Azurians couldn't reach.
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Back in the Divine realm, Arcturus and Helena are by their son. Arcturus lowers his head, "I'll find the one who did this and make them pay, I promise."
Helena looks at Arcturus, "Can this Nytri give us the answers?"
Zareth heard the name Nytri then he shouts, "Nytri! Nytri! AAHH MONSTER! CLOUDS! DANGEROUS! TERROR!" He tosses around onto the floor rushing to a corner, his parents try to help him.
"Son. Son!" Helena rushes to Zareth, "What is it?"
"NYTRI. NYTRI. MUST FLEE." Zareth hits his mother's hand away screaming in fear, "MUST FLEE! DANGER. GATE. CLOUDS CLOUDS! HOLES DARKNESS!" His mother tries to comfort him but Arcturus listens to his son's crazy words trying to figure out what it means.
*BOOOOOMM* Arcturus sees an explosion outside through the window, he looks at the source. "That's from the Divine Teleportal! Was there an accident?" Helena looks at him annoyed, so he focuses back on his son trying to help him.