The Red Sea, the most blessed and cursed place in the world. Although it's called as a Sea, it's size is ten times the size of a continent. It was the place in the world were all concentration of mana congregate.
Hence, the place is also home to the most terrifying aquatic beast and monsters in the world.
The Red Sea served as the border between the East and West continents. The Red Sea is also known as the boundary between the 2 continents of the north and the devious forbidden continent of the south, The Dread Land.
A land cursed by eternal night where light seem non-existent. A place where the most terrifying beings of neither good and evil preside.
However it could be said that The Red Sea is the one that maintains the order as the division between continents.
At the very center of the Red Sea, was another forbidden place known as the Final Triangle.
It was said in the records that no existence have ever entered that place and live to tell the tale.
Legend says that the strongest sea monster, Leviathan reside inside the Final Triangle. The Monster created by God himself.
Inside the very center of the Final Triangle, lay a trench with unimaginable depth.
Into the very center of this trench lay a ruined castle devoid of water in it's surroundings.
In the throne room of pitch black darkness, sat a robed figure. He wore a crimson crown in his head as he leaned his body to the side with his arm supporting his face in the armrest.
The man there lay unmoving without a twitch. The tendrils of darkness surrounding him and a black skull that gaved an eerie glow revolved around him.
Suddenly, It's eyes opened revealing bloodshot ruby like crimson eyes that illuminated the world with an eerie light.
"This will be a hard thing to do, Lucifer." A hoarse and unidentifiable voice rang out from the robed figure.
{I'm well aware that, like me, you know that those childrens wouldn't pose a threat to us. However Fate is a fickle thing. Archangel Metatron wouldn't do anything without a reason.}
A voice of unknown origin sounded out that made the deep sea shudder.
{This is an order from your God. Whatever it takes capture or dispose of those otherworlders.}
After leaving those words, the unknown presence that made the deep sea shudder, vanished.
"To think the Sin of Pride would lose his confidence, how ironic. And to clarify, you we're just my God in name."
The figure in the throne slowly rose up, revealing an old and wrinkled face behind the robe. He held the skull that revolves around him in his hand.
He inserted his wrinkled hand towards the jaw of the skull and slowly pulled out a staff.
It was a staff with three skulls in a triangular formation at the tip. Each skull gave a horrifying aura.
The figure tapped the horrifying staff unto the floor of the ruined castle and his aura shot up.
All sea monsters and beast no matter how strong or big, trembled outside the ruins. The clattering cackle of the skull accompanied his descent on the throne room as he raised his staff.
"Heed my voice, O fellow sinners of Chaos! God has given his revelation: Beings of another world has come to our lands! I Decree in the name of God! Find and Capture or Dispose the said beings!"
His voice resounded to all his followers in every corner of the world.
Their moment of rise is coming. The evils gathered to fulfill their desires. They're will of neither light and darkness but of chaos, burns once more.
"The End loom's still. Chaos presides over our will! Order shall collapse, And our Sin will Begin at last..."
His voice echoed throughout the Red Sea and far away at a distant darkness, where light ceased to exist.
It opened it's eyes.
* * * * *
"So what should do now, Daichi?"
Ryunosuke said as stared at Daichi who was deep in his thoughts. Daichi pondered for a moment before he spoke.
"First things first, let's search for the natives of this world. We need information."
"Actually Daichi, if my guesses are correct, then the timeline of this world is similar to medieval Europe." Ryunosuke said.
"If what Shouko-kun said is true, then we need to search for a nearby city or village." Shin chimed in their conversation.
Akashi merely listened to their discussion in a corner. He stared at the forest behind them, and felt a chill in his back.
'I have a feeling that this forest is more dangerous, we should not stay here any longer' Akashi thought as he braced himself and spoke towards Daichi
"Um... Hayate-kun-"
Just as he was about to speak, Tsukasa who was snoring while leaning his body on the boulder, woke up and sprang upwards.
"Dai-chan! We need to get out of here ASAP!"
"Now, now Murokawa-kun, calm down." Daichi said as tried to pacify the shivering Tsukasa. That's where Akashi followed up and supported Tsukasa's thoughts.
"I agree with Tsukasa, Hayate-kun. Let's talk while walking opposite from the forest."
"I don't get it but there's no harm from it Hayate-kun."
Daichi stared at Shin in shock. Normally, Tsukasa and Shin would always banter at each other, no matter the situation. Realizing that his friends had a bad feeling about this place in their expression, Daichi nodded his head and walked away with them.
"Let's go. We'll discuss along the way."
With that the group began to venture into the grassy plains that seems relatively peaceful. Too peaceful in fact.
Moments later, in the place where they left, a crimson goblin with a towering figure and bulky build walk out from the forest.
Slowly but slowly, their numbers began to increase as it grow into the size of a mini battalion.
Hundreds of Goblins and tens of Hobgoblins gathered in front of the burned woods
"Kieeeek!"(Where are the humans!)
A hulking scarlet crimson goblin with a claw mark in his chest held a giant halberd in his hand and shouted towards a group of green goblins.
"Kieeeek kieeeek!"(I swear they were here!)
"Kiek kiek kieeeeek!"(yes, yes I personally saw them!)
"Grrr kieeeek kieekieeek!"(arrgh search for them!)
The Goblins began to scramble up as they heard the rage filled voice of their commander. The hundreds of Goblins began to form a net that went towards where the smell of humans that seem to reek.
Meanwhile from a far away, Daichi and crew walked farther away from the camp place.
"What was the rush earlier Tsukasa?" Shin said as he raised his glasses and looked questioningly towards Tsukasa.
"I don't know how to explain this. Have you watched movie where there is that spider hero?"
"Oh! I watched that! Daichi too watched it." Ryunosuke butted in front of them as Shin tilted his head in confusion.
"That's why you must go out and make friends. You don't even know the Spider hero." Tsukasa spoke with disdain as Shin frowned at his expression. "You know something like instinct, intuition? Back then, I had this nagging feeling that danger will come if we stay there for a bit more. Like a Peter tingle."
Shin raised an eyebrow at Tsukasa's explanation but half-heartedly agreed to his words.
"Well Murokawa-kun is always right in this kind of situation. I attest to that." Daichi spoke at the half convinced Shin.
Ryunosuke smiled and nodded at Daichi's words as he too was saved from Tsukasa's intuition when they have gone camping in class deep in the woods.
At that time, Tsukasa decided to retreate a mile away from their camp, and that's when a huge bear went and rampaged to their camp place.
With a nostalgic expression, Ryunosuke grew a pleasant smile. When they reached up in a slightly elevated terrain of the grassy plains, Ryunosuke turned to look back.
Just as he looked back, Ryunosuke saw a bunch of green dots in his vision. With his skill, [Eagle eyes], Ryunosuke saw a massive flood of disgusting green looking creatures.
Coincidentally, his eyes met the gaze of the crimson Goblin with a towering figure and froze at his spot.
It was so scary that Ryunosuke almost pissed his pants and hurriedly said to the others.
"Hey, guys we need to run! Goblins, there are goblins! And en masse at that!"
The others were surprised at first but they quickly regained their composure. Daichi asked the flustered Ryunosuke.
"Calm down, Ryunosuke can you tell me how many should we be expecting."
"More or less a thousand!"
His words were like a bolt out of blue towards them and they began to run in top speed.
From their backs, a mile away, the crimson and muscular goblin grinned and screeched at his legion.
"Kieeeeek! kieeeek! Kieeek!!",( I found them! Follow me! Kill!!)
The crimson goblin pointed at a direction and the swarm of a thousand goblin rushed towards them.
"Hoo... Haaa... Huff... Haaah."
With an adrenaline that surged towards Akashi's heart, Akashi ran. Realizing that he was about to run out of stamina, Akashi began to circulate his mana.
He gathered the golden particles in his hand and pressed it into his chest as he converted the mana into energy to be used by his body and rejuvenate his stamina.
Realizing that Akashi slowed down, the others also slowed down and stared at Akashi in fluster.
"Akashi come here. This will be much faster." Ryunosuke said as he lowered his back and gestured at Akashi to let him carry him.
Akashi's brow twitched as the adrenaline began to mess with his head. Without any particular reason, Akashi remembered the chantings of healers in some of his games. He held the cane in his hand and pointed the curved tip towards him.
"O great Goddess of mine, heed thy call, By the power of thy light, grace me with speed, Haste!"
As he chanted those words, a purified holy light that resides in his chest began to rose up and gather towards his cane and shot out towards him.
Akashi didn't know what he just did and was purely consumed of his adrenaline that he spoke those words.
Suddenly, as the holy light hit him, his body grew lighter and he felt a bit nimbler. He ran past the other four but the others paced up their speed.
The other four was surprised as they let their jaws hung open as they ran together with Akashi and picked up the pace.
Moments later, Akashi felt tired and revolved the mana inside him with the golden particles and rejuvenated his stamina.
However this time was different. As they slowly ran up in a rising small hill of the grassy plains, Shin stopped and began to catch his breath.
"I feel.. tired... Huff... Haaah..." Shin said as he breathed slowly with rythm.
"Shin let me carry you! We'll need to continue running if we want or live!" Ryunosuke said as he helped Shin prop up his self to remain standing.
"This is pointless. We need to find a way to outrun our pursuers. Akashi can you still use that speed up magic of yours."
Daichi said as he went towards the exhausted Akashi and Akashi merely nodded and was jus to about to chant the spell when he was interrupted by Tsukasa's cursing.
"Fuck! We can't escape now!"
Tsukasa shouted as the other four hurriedly went after him towards the top of the hill where they saw a towering cliff less than a mile towards them.
"We don't have a choice but to face those goblins. But how?!" Ryunosuke said as he too despaired as he stared at the looming wave of goblins.
Daichi pondered deeply as he began to consider running to the east or west but rejected the notion since it will just exhaust their stamina.
Daichi began to rack his brain in order to find an appropriate way to escape their predicament when Tsukasa spoke.
"Dai-chan, we don't have a choice. We need to fight them head on. I'll beat the shit out of all of them, just provide cover to the others."
Tsukasa unsheathed his daggers as he brandished them together creating a metallic screeching.
Daichi hesitated as he looked at the number of enemies that they were about to face and felt it was absolutely impossible to fight that head on.
Gazing at them, Akashi had a bitter smile in his face.
Looks like I can't fulfill the promise for her.
I... Still want to live.
"I have a way to chip down their numbers by a lot but I need help."
Shin's confident voice broke out Akashi from his regret and was met by Shin's firm and steady gaze.
"Akashi can you transfer me your mana."
"I don't know. I haven't tried but I think it's plausible." Akashi replied as he looked at Shin with confusion.
Akashi was very curious on how will Shin help them escape from this predicament but withold his curiosity. What's important right now is their lives.
"Then I'll start."
Shin inhaled a deep breath as raise his staff and pointed it at the incoming wave of goblins.
"Darkness, blacker than black and Darker than dark! I beseech thee, combine with my deep crimson! The time for awakening has cometh."
As he recited those words, Tsukasa, Ryunosuke and Akashi had a disbelieving expression.
""No way...""
It was the precursor of the ultimate magic of destruction that was shown into the world by a cute chuuni archwizard.
* * * * *
Somewhere in the deepest place in hell.
"Hoh thy crimson demon has been called forth by a human. To be able to use the ultimate magic art of our race. Kukuku this progenitor of destruction shall heed your call just this once."
* * * * *
"Justice, Fallen in the infallible boundary, appear now as intangible distortions!"
Mana began to congregate in his staff as he recited each words. Akashi snapped out of his daze and lend his hand towards Shin's staff.
He slowly willed his mana and resonated it with the mana inside Shin's body. He slowly copied the wavelength and frequency of the mana as he inserted it slowly towards his passages and guided it towards Shin.
Unbeknownst to the world but Akashi just did a mana transfer only the greatest of mages in the world can do. And while having a Priest profession at that.
Akashi felt something in his mana core bubbling as he merged his mana into Shin as he supply his mana in order for Shin to continue his spell.
Tsukasa and Ryunosuke on the other hand were dumbfounded. Never would they think that, THAT infamous magic can be used in this world.
"Dance, dance, dance!"
Akashi felt his mana slowly emptying out but he still continued transferring his mana while his forehead got feverish.
"I desire for my torent of power with destructive force: A destructive force without equal!"
The Goblins rushing towards them began to slow down as they felt the destructive and terrifying mana.
"Return all creation to cinders, and come from the abyss!"
The mana around him began to rampage as he desperately clung to his consciousness and spoke with his stiff voice.
"This is the ultimate magic know to man."
Time seem to stood still and silence devoured the world.
Although the chanting was cringing him to the bones, Daichi had to admit. Although he had no particular knowledge about it like the others, he could still feel the majesty.
A magic that froze time and silenced space as all creations began to despair in face of the magic of destruction.
A crimson demon with a coned hat that covered her face manifested as an avatar figure above the sky. Her petite and slender hands extended above the incoming goblin troops and a laughter echoed throughout the surrounding plains.
Kukuku! Witness my ultimate magic!
The stacked layer of 3 circles hovered above the sky and Shin began to lose control of his magic.
Akashi stared at the laughing figure and a trace of shock was written in his face but it instantly dissapeared.
Akashi saw that figure in the sky shout and it overlapped with Shin's stiff voice.
""EX~ PLOSION!!!!!!""
Then his vision was engulfed with a brilliant flash of white light and the sound reminiscent of a nuclear explosion rang out.
Ultimate Magic Art: Explosion.