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In the divine realm, the Valkyries, Divine guards and Holy knights are assembled before a pantheon of gods. This pantheon is ruled by gods who dress as nomadic warriors with males mostly bare-chested. The gods are making an announcement to their army on the start of a new war.
Far away from this place, on a small floating island covered by clouds. Anna is watching, she's spying on this pantheon hoping to gain information on the war. The Chief god of the pantheon steps up, "The Demon realm has declared war on us." He said, "And so we will respond in kind."
Anna watches from afar, "So, war is upon us. It looks like all the pantheons will join the war this time, Master moved the entire demon realm just for this war." She sighs.
Anna keeps observing this pantheon. After what seems like an hour, Anna spreads her wings and flies back to her pantheon. She arrives in the Valkyrie spire, she notices war preparations also going on. There seems to be some gods present but mostly demi-gods. Anna arrives on a big platform ready to enter the spire, the demi-gods notice but ignore her.
The Valkyrie captain walks over to Anna, "Lieutenant," She winks at Anna speaking, "We're almost done preparing for the war, you should get into position. The gateway will be opened soon."
A demi-god (Lightening) over heard her but couldn't understand what she meant. "Aren't the Valkyries supposed to fly to the battlefield? So why do they need the gateway?"
A demi-god of earth nods, "Yes, but the gateway can be used as a strategic card for reinforcements and retreat. It's only natural for 'it' to worry about the gateway." The first demi-god sees the answer to be good enough so he ignores them.
Anna and the Valkyrie captain enter the spire to show 1000s of Valkyries armed for war, but a different war. The Valkyries are in arrays with the gods before them, from primordial god to demi-god. The gods observe the Valkyries prepare to fight for them.
The same thing is happening on the Divine guard grounds and Holy knight settlement. All the forces of the gods are ready to leave, specifically the forces that defected to Twenny's side.
Anna joins the front liners since even before meeting Twenny she was considered an exceptional soldier. The gods go on to give a speech about how the Valkyries should show them their true power in servitude of themselves.
Anna grins and her thoughts, "Everything is going according to plan, if these morons any paid attention to us they'd know we all have different armor compared to the previous wars." The speech goes on and Anna cheers along with the Valkyries, "Glory to Zerstort pantheon! Glory to Zerstort pantheon!"
The same happens across the other armies, cheering for their respective pantheons.
Anna spreads her wings with the Valkyries, the fly out of the spire towards battle. A god notices Anna flying ahead of the captain, she thinks it as insolence and keeps her face in memory for when they return, if they return.
Anna flies ahead of the entire army, she stretches her hand forward. "This is it MASTER!" All the Valkyries, all the Divine guards, all the Holy knights light up blocking the view of the gods across the entire divine realm.
The light dies down to show nothing, none of the soldiers who just left are present anywhere in the divine realm.
A god of fire is shocked, "What?! MASS TELEPORTATION?! But how?" he flies up into the skies and spreads her aura around them, her thoughts. "Is it an enemy attack? No, that Valkyrie clearly said 'Master' before they vanished. Did they betray us?"
Star god looks to the east in the sky, "A portal? Right next to the neighbor pantheon…..This energy….Devils." he flies towards the location with multiple gods with him to fight. The portal stabilizes and primordial devils pour out of it launching their most powerful attacks. *BOOOOM BOOOOM BOOOOM CHIIINGG* The neighbor pantheon are taken by surprise but they try to fight back, this surprise attack caused a lot of casualties on their side.
A devil holding a banner swing it yelling, "THAT'S MORE THAN ENOUGH!" The devils quickly dash into the portal with the banner holding devil remaining. He snickers, "Le veut le Maitre." He tosses an object the size of a tennis ball and falls back into the portal closing after him. The ball blinks *BLINK BLINK BLINK* the it opens by splitting into 2 but does not scatter. An orb is inside the ball. *BRRRRR* The orb rotates violently then *BOOOOOM* a major explosion covers the entire pantheon.
Star god was blown back along with the gods with him, the target pantheon was completely obliterated. Star god notices the same kind of explosions in various location, he coughs blood. "It was a simultaneous attack." He looks at the place the explosion occurred with shock, "…..No survivors…." He grits his teeth and hits the ground with his fist in rage, "DAMN DEVILS!"
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All the Valkyries, Divine guards and Holy knights appear high up in the sky surrounded by clouds. Some are distraught by the sudden teleportation, and regurgitated some food. A warm feeling envelops all of them.
Anna looks around her in thought, "Master is supposed to meet us around here. This feeling must be hers." She sees a black figure ahead of her, she slowly approaches it. "Mast-" She draws her weapon in horror. All the armies present are shivering in horror before the figure, the figure is just a man in a cloak. But to them, death stands before them.
The figure pulls the cloak over his head and claps, "Alright, just on time." It's Sers. "Twenny told me an army would be arriving her so to meet them. I'm guessing you must be the leader."
Anna regains her composure, "Yes, I'm the one appointed by Master Twenny to lead the army." Anna bows along with all the armies.
Sers has an exasperated look, "Urgh, stop the bowing, it feels weird. Almost makes me want to reap your souls.....Just kidding!" her laughs but to the people present... they don't get the joke.
Sers claps his hand clearing his throat, "Alright, enough jokes. Let's get you to your new base, having all of you out in the open will attract a lot of attention." Sers points below him, "You all see the ground, there's a dungeon called Ergos Xenia. Enter it and fly to the right corner of the first floor, the monsters there are programmed to only attack challengers on land. If you fly through the floor, no monster will attack you."
Anna bows, "Thank you lord. We will depart immediately." Anna starts to descend with the army following behind her towards Ergos Xenia.
Sers looks up above him, "Thorn."
Space cracks and opens revealing Thorn in his home, "You called, my prince."
"Yes," Sers speaks, "I need you to make sure they weren't followed. Deal with tails as you wish." Sers gives Thorn a rod with runes on it and a screen with a keypad. (Port-rod)
"As you wish, my prince." Thorn bows. Sers descends towards Ergos Xenia leaving Thron alone high in the sky.
Thorn looks at the rod in his hand, "Killing gods...I really got demoted." He sighs. He spreads his hands wide, "SUMMON HOUSEHOLD." The sky darkens…..No, an army so huge in numbers they blocked light from passing through. The army includes a variety of undead, vampires, skeleton guards and a whole bunch of monsters.
Sers lifts the rod, he taps a few buttons on it and small portal opens. "Go, my household. Spread across the earth, anyone stupid enough to search for the Valkyries must never be allowed to find them." Howls and various noise fill the skies. Then the monsters charge into the portals to places only he knows.
Thorn sighs, "Who's crazy enough to spy on me? I guess someone is." He turns to his right at an empty space, "Shadow Magic? Since it's this high up then you must be a god to sustain that kind of magic."
"Indeed," A voice replies, "To think the devils had such an ally with them. And to stand in the open like this. You made it easy for us to find you." A figure appears in the sky followed by 15 other figures.
Thorn smiles in thought, "On the bright side, I get to fight, rather than argue over the strongest at home."
[AU: INFO:
- Gateway: Artefact capable of joining space between realms for inter-realm travel.
- Star god: One of the minority primordial gods against abuse of the...ungods.
- Portal: A gateway which would normally form naturally but can be made to travel anywhere with the location known, even across realms.
- Port-rod: A rod made by a lazy Azurian who wanted to access the fridge from the bed…..This invention was later improved and adopted by merchants for travelling but the required fuel for it is not EP making it rare to see it in action.
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