A few months earlier.
Far to the east is a continent covered in darkness with pitch black skies, the howls of monsters fills the skies. This continent use to be inhabited by pure-humans but the devils invaded this land and contaminated the humans with demonic energy. This energy caused mutations in humans leading to the birth of the demonkin, the animals became demonic beasts and demons ruled over the land as princes with the devils as gods.
At the northern part of this continent, the devils and demonkings held a meeting. A vast land with a city on it, the city has a dark theme with fights happening as the norm. At the center of the city is a mighty castle with an intimidating aura, the castle has many rooms but one of them is large enough for the meeting to be held.
The meeting is in session as demonkings, demons and devils are present, all the demons who went with Zareth to capture Nytri are also present. And they are Ebonvar, Azurath, Gorgomor and Nethrax, Valtorus and Belzorath. Though they survived, each had been scared by Nytri.
A Demon snarls, "We have left humanity for far too long, they've multiplied enough for us to play with for decades. I believe it's time to set chaos upon this world."
Gorgomor, one of the demons that attacked Nytri and the dungeon and survived flinches. He shakes his head, "Humanity has many heroes, it's better we don't int-" He was cut of by a female demon, "Heroes shmeroes. I heard the gods have abandoned them, there's no way for heroes to appear." She sat on her seat with confidence and her feet up.
Nethrax, also a survivor speaks, "As long as I don't see 'those' people, I can destroy and pitiful hero that dares stand before me."
Ebonvar, a female powerful demonking sadly became a stutter after her encounter with Nytri, "D ….. D …. D-Do y-y…you ...t-think… w-we ...might …s-s-see…t-t…them ….a-a….again?" She shook in fear recalling what happened when they met Nytri and Azurians.
A Devil wreathed in flames speaks looking at Ebonvar, "Say, what happened to you? You weren't speaking this way a few days ago." The devil rests his head in his hand.
Ebonvar trembles, "I-I-I….t…th….e..N-N-Ny…t-" Azurath, also one the survivors speaks with a dark face, "We were tortured for hours." He wraps his arms around himself trembling, "Never did I know I could be ripped apart and yet not die." He starts breathing in panic just from remembering the events.
A devil who seems to be important slams his hand on the table, "What is this gibberish you keep babbling about?!"
Belzortath, he was the right hand man of Zareth and fought Nytri's undead once. Belzorath sighs, "Calm yourself….." Everyone looks to him for explanation, "We're all shaken by…by…" Horror shows on his face, "Those monsters!" He glances across the entire room with his hand trembling, "…..They're the ones who destroyed the divine realm."
The devil does not understand him, "What are you talking about?!" his eyes glow red enraged.
The first female demon speaks, "Hmmm, could it be the Azurians? My spies have been trying to breach this nation that just sprang up out of nowhere." The devil turns to her, "Azurians what about them?" The female demon speaks, "My lord, this nation apparently went to war with some of the gods of Alkebulan."
The devil muses, "The Centrallis Continent?" And the female demon speaks, "Indeed, and they won the war." This surprises most of them and she continues, "The gods of did not show up during the entire war, and my spies saw some of them fleeing the continent entirely. This Azuria also sent their gods to face the human army. I presume they aren't well versed in wars and considering how many soldiers they could muster. They won't be a threat."
Azurath, also a survivor stands up abruptly, "'Won't be a threat'? 'Won't be a threat' she says." He slams his fist into the table, "I watched them rip lord Zareth apart like some insect, I was treated as a toy and my head was constantly hit with a hammer as a game! A threat?! THEY ARE WAY BEYOND A THREAT!!" He starts walking to the door and a devil of ice speaks, "Azurath, where're you going?"
Azurath turns pointing his fingers at them, "AWAY! You can seek death if you want but keep me out of it!" some the survivors also get up to leave. Nethrax speaks, "I'm resigning." Ebonvar speaks, "M-Me ….t-too." and start walking towards the door.
A devil of earth stands before them, "I don't know what those worms may have done to turn you into this, but you must seek vengeance. If you leave, how will you get revenge for what they did?! Are you choosing to run! Like a cowa-" Ebonvar yells, "I'M CHOOSING TO LIVE!" Her change surprised them a lot, then she stutters, "Y-y…you g…g-get…y…way!" They walk past the devil.
They reach the door and the first devil speaks, "Azurath, as the bravest of the demonkings, how could you succumb to fear like the rest of them." Azurath looks over his shoulder, "There's no bravery before….'her' only despair." He walks out of the room. 2 of the survivors chose to remain, these are Gorgomor and the silent Valtorus.
The devil looks at the remaining 3, "What about you 2? Gorgomor, Valtorus, Belzorath."
Belzorath sighs, "If we plan our invasion well enough, we won't meet them. I know it's farfetched but, I want to grow strong so that one day….." He looks down at the table, "I'll be able to flee."
A female devil scoffs, "Hah, you don't even want to fight?" Belzorath looks into her eyes, If you've seen what I've seen. You won't ever think of fighting."
The devil who seems to be the leader finally speaks, "Alright, I've heard enough. I've taken your words into consideration and we must avoid this Azuria." Some people were against it but he raises his hand and they keep silent, "For the words spoken by our comrades, I believe we should at least consider and not act rashly. Zareth is dead and whoever caused it is on that continent." He looks to the side to the demonking with the intelligence division sign on her crest pocket.
"Indeed," The demonking speaks standing up, "The Divine realm was destroyed by a magic artefact and the one who used it was traced to Alkebulan and is a native of that land. The gods in the divine realm do not want such an event to repeat so they've sealed the artifact, I didn't even get the chance to see it." Then he takes out a map of the Centrallis continent, "Azuria is located on the South of the Western part of the continent, south of the Forest regions, right about here." She points at it.
Then she points to another part, "We'll begin our invasion to the east of the Sandy Waves region down to the Eastern Forest region to the Mountain regions. We should attack Ardentia which is close to the invasion route, it has an academy with some of the geniuses of the lands. I even heard 3 heroes are being nurtured there." She looks at the whole group, "If we can kill them early we won't have to worry about any resistance."
Gorgomor speaks, "What about Azur-" And the female devil speaks, "We won't get close to it. We'll use the teleportals we've set in the dungeons, so we will begin after Azuria. So just relax, whatever you saw there won't be in our path."
They kept on discussing strategies for the invasion, they mustered their forces and left through teleportals from the Demon Continent to the Centrallis Continent.
[AU: INFO
- Alkebulan is the Centralli Continent, it's called Centrallis because of how it's located at the center of the world with the other 8 continents around. Alkebulan has 2 seasons causing the residents of the land to gain darker skin to be resistant to the heat on the land. The continent is rich in resources, wealth, culture and others. Cathgul was founded on this continent but sadly a small portion of Alkebulan was sunk during the alien invasion of the previous civilization.
- The other 8 continents also have varying conditions, some 4, others 1, 2 and some even having 6 seasons. Each continent's seasons caused the inhabitants to change to adapt to it, those with 4 seasons have pale skin which allows them to resist cold. Those with 6 seasons have silver patches on their skin which actually makes them more buoyant and resistant to lightening….Yeah, they get struck by lightning a lot.
- The continent with 1 season has humans who some believe to be earth people. It's a vast rocky land and humans there are barbaric in appearance. They strangely ride huge warthogs.
- Overall, humans still kept bleeding red, neither could they fart gas.
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