"People are born… from the sins of the one they pray to"- Devoro
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**Northern Tribe's Village, Afternoon… North Section Main Quarters**
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In the north section of the northern tribe's village… in front of the setting sun, underneath the purplish&orange sky stood a tall five story grey building with black tiles, and an open rectangular window. Standing inside the building, looking out the window, a reflection of a woman with flowing black hair and black eyes, with red lipstick and her hands behind her back…
She wore a dark red robe with black rose symbols on the lower part reaching her ankles, black and red rings on each hands fingers, and black low heels with red bottoms… she also had a somewhat big scar on the right side of her face going from her forehead, over her eye and all the way to her cheek… It was the northern tribe's general Asami…
"…"
Inside the office was a black chair behind a brown desk, topped with countless paperwork and a long black sword at the end of the table, along with a bloody picture of what appeared to be a young girl… the dark and silent room only which's only source of light was the light shining through the open window…
Then suddenly, the silent room was shaken with the loud noise coming from the abruptly opened door with at least four sorcerers rushing in. "General, urgent message!"… the man in the middle of the group of sorcerers shouted aloud.
Without even turning around, she spoke out in a seemingly tired tone of voice. "What is it?"… "General Yaku of the western tribe has been taken down by an unknown foe, who apparently entered our universe from hell!", the man's voice shouted in a rather panicked voice…
Asami responded in a clearly dismissive manner, "Any problems regarding tribes other than our own is of no concern to us… so with that being said you should get back to your other miss-"
"Ma'am! With all due respect, this isn't the time to be petty… there are six foes who've entered our universe, two of them are attacking the southern tribe, most likely after Mr Masayoshi's Daughter Who's Just Recently Taken Over As The Southern Tribe's New General!
Asami had finally turned around, her interest in the matter peaked at the sound of "six foes", especially six from the hell universe… in her mind there was no doubt who these six were. "The one who attacked Yaku… any description on the appearance of this intruder?", not even a hint of fear appeared on Asami's face nor voice. "All we've heard from the sorcerers of the western tribe, is a mark the foe had on their tongue… it's inscription read, "gluttony" on his stomach."
"Hmm"-Asami
"Has the pursuit squad made any progress on tracking down the location of Malum's vessel?", Asami spoke out in a slightly quieter tone, her voice sounding as if she needed to clear her throat. "He's somewhere near the southern tribe's village… he was there when he aligned himself with Kaida Masayoshi when she killed her father Hotoke, so if they're information is correct, then that might be where he is… but how's that important to this?", the sorcerer at the far right end of the lineup said in a fearful tone…
"Oh it's important alright… because if that's where he is, then he's the only reason those six would've invaded our world."
Asami sat down in the chair behind her desk, putting her cupping her hands in front of her mouth as she looked down at the blood stained picture to the upper right part of her desk which was facing down…
Suddenly the youngest sorcerer to the left of the line up blurted out while her hands were trembling, accompanied by sweat dripping down her forehead… "Please excuse me if i come across as disrespectful but, but you sound as if you know these people ma'am… if may ask, how do you know them, and what's their goal?". The man next to her glanced over at her with a look of annoyance on his face, ("I hate people like her… always asking questions and never minding their own business, now general asami's gonna be pissed and we'll have to listen to a whole monologue about how useless we are")…
Asami had raised her eyes toward the girl on the left and waited a few moments before looking back at the picture on her desk, and in a voice which sounded as if she needed to clear it she said "Over one thousand years ago, during the golden age of sorcery, we sorcerers of that era had battled against Malum and his wife Azura in the blood war". The sorcerer next to the one at the far right had made a silent remark, "The blood war?, Malum's wife?! What's with all this new information, how come the four generals never told anyone about this?!"
Asami continued, "And during that war it was evident that Malum and Azura did indeed have children of their own, but with those seven kin of Malum and Azura, if we had battled against them as well as the king and queen of hell, then humanity would've went extinct along with three of the four universes"
"However during the blood war, the patriarch of the Yamikei clan transported himself to the hell universe to battle against their Queen Azura, he managed to seal her away within the heart of Hell, and also somehow managed to seal off transportation from Hell to our and other universes… and the seven just so happened to be in hell right when he did so", Asami stopped as one of the sorcerers stepped forward.
"Pardon the interruption, but you're saying that the grand elder withheld information from us sorcerers because he thought it unnecessary to focus on enemies with low possibility of coming here?"
Asami slightly nodded, "yes… as for the reason why, i suspect it's something to do with his goal to-"… Asami suddenly paused for a moment, the sorcerers in front of her looked confused. "Uhh General?"…
("Wait… if he's planning to-")-Asami
Asami stood up and picked up the black katana from the top front center of her desk, and sheathed it while strapping in on her back. "New order, get a transport seal… we're heading to the southern tribe."
The four sorcerers shoot their surprised gazes toward the general, all thinking the same thing… "G- General, you're going to the battlefield?", the youngest sorcerer at least 18 years of age spoke out in a almost timid sounding voice. Asami responded while giving a sharp glare toward the girl with a grim expression on her pale face, "if you have any problems with that, now's the time to speak them aloud." Asami continued to glare that didn't seem like one with contempt or annoyance, but a rather calm look, one that can be seen by anyone who knew Asami as petrifying.
"Apologies ma'am, I've spoken out of turn"… the other sorcerer next to her spoke out, "kids nowadays… always talking out of turn." Asami left out of the office with the squad of sorcerers following behind her… ("if caelirach is planning what I'm assuming he is, then we need to get rid of Malum's vessel as soon as possible, and afterwards get rid of him too.")
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**Over 100 kilometers outside the eastern tribe's village**
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At least three hours had passed since Yaku had been taken down by Devoro… Athena and Asura had only went as far as a hundred kilos far out from the eastern tribe's village due to having to evacuate civilians and sorcerers alike… "Get a move on, that demon from earlier has probably already gotten to Jason and aria!" Athena spoke out in a hurried manner while she flew like a bullet next to Asura…
"Miss Athena, you need to calm down a little… I understand your worry for your daughter's safety, but going in there without knowing what exactly it is we're dealing with."
"You were malum's first vessel… surely you know what the deal is with these people, and why they're after Aria of all people." Athena said in a panicked voice, almost sounded out by the wind blowing past the two… "I do have somewhat of an idea as to why they're after Jason which is pretty obvious by now… but I dunno what they'd want with Aria, unless they plan to use her since she is the reincarnation of the all See'r."
Athena gritted her teeth… and picked up the pace at which she moved… why would anyone from hell go after the reincarnation of the almighty Queen, an angel which is a direct counter to their kind? That's the only question that replayed through Athena's mind as she rushed toward the southern tribe in fear for her daughter's life.
Asura glanced over to Athena, catching the unusual look of worry which she barely ever showed… "a strong sorcerer like her, though it's understandable for a parent to worry this much about their kid."… "Miss Athena… your daughter's strong, she'll be alright… have a little more faith in her strength."
Athena looked back at Asura, who had a grim expression on his face. "Even if you worry about her safety, Jason is there right by her side… as long as that kid's there, he's not gonna let anything happen to the one who he's sworn to stand beside and protect with his life." "Just like I promised to Miss Aaliyah and Selene to protect Jason, so let's hurry."
?!?!?
Suddenly, sweat began dripping down Athena's cheeks… her figure began shaking uncontrollably, Asura noticing this spoke out in a confused voice. "Hey, what's wro-?!"
An figure wrapped around Athena's body like a snake suddenly became visible, the woman had snake slits in her eyes, and sharp teeth… with an elongated body with a mark on her tongue reading "Envy"… she spoke out, in a low voice. "Please do not speak so highly of the girl… you make her seem so flawless."
Athena's eyes focused behind her, reflecting the sudden surge of fear being poured into her being… Asura Turned And Shouted Aloud, "Athen-"… but before he finished his words, a crimson beam of chaos energy blew right through his chest. He turned around after wincing in pain to see another demon with six rings on his fingers and white hair, tan tattered robes and a gold glowing mark on the back of his hand reading "Greed", It was Avarus…
"A foolish decision to assume that only one enemy is around, would you say?" He spoke with an intimidating voice as the wind blew past. Figuring that it would be pointless to waste time on words, Asura clasped his hands together forming a hand seal… then suddenly his crimson colored chaos energy surged and blasted through the ground and clouds, the wind picked up and blew through the area…
Athena taking advantage of the moment, her eyes turned white and bursting forth from her body was a blinding white light of divine energy mixed with spiritual energy… causing a burning sensation on eris's serpent-like body wrapped around Athena to burn from the immense heat generated by the combustion of two similar yet opposite energies… "She's Self Destructing?!"-Eris
BOOM!!!
An explosion of white lightning rocked the sky and ground beneath them, cracking the ground and clearing the clouds above. A few moments passed and on the ground there was what appeared to be slimy skin belonging to Eris herself, while Eris emerged from the ground Athena descended to the ground, bruised… ("she shed her skin to get away before taking severe damage from the explosion")-Athena
Meanwhile, the crimson chaos energy in the sky finally dissipated revealing Asura who bore three faces, and four more arms… "full power at the jump eh?" Avarus said in a chilling voice, still with his hands in his pockets. "I'm glad you aren't like most other sorcerers who'd underestimate their opponent and hold back until the end."-Avarus
Asura had held two of his arms out and manifested tangible chaos energy in both hands, forming a spear which he then threw right at Avarus… still standing on the air with his hands in his pockets, Avarus raised his hand and caught the spear… then out of nowhere he ate the spear, completely devouring the chaos energy making up the spear…
"I can taste it… the power of our father, it's a wonder as to how you've managed to master it, yet you hadn't taught brother to control it within the two years of your training him."
"?!"-Asura
("He knows about my time training Jason in the pocket dimension?!, if that's the case why didn't they attack sooner?")
Avarus then took both of his hands and raised them showing the six rings on his fingers… each ring reading "soul"…
"I commend you for not taking us lightly, but I'd like to speed this up…", Avarus said as all six rings in each finger which glowed a dark yellow color lit up and a massive black smoky cross formed all around Asura, completely encasing him. Then Avarus said aloud, "Six Soul Cross Killing: Cross Execution." Then the cross caused the earth beneath them to shake and crack, the space around them began to distort until the cross exploded, blood splattering everywhere as asura fell to the ground.
Athena attempted to move toward Asura but was then ambushed by both Eris and Avarus, Eris wrapped her snake skin around Athena once more to hold her in place while Avarus flew like a bullet down toward Athena and stomped her into the ground, completely knocking her unconscious.
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**Southern Tribe Outskirts, Above The Wall**
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Jason and Aria had stood there, frozen in shock… Devoro still had his hand right on top of Jason's hand he had attempted to use to unsheathe his blade, "we've analyzed you over the past two years of your previous death, and rebirth… and your training with our father's first vessel. I'm sure you're not mentally challenged enough to make an illogical decision here, you know you can't beat me." Devoro said in a calm and chilling voice, one that sent sweat down Jason's face… Jason's hand balled up as he bent his arm a little enough to throw a backhand punch to Ikari's face…
Upon contact the bones in Jason's hand shatters, "ACK!" His eyes widened as Ikari placed his hand on Jason's stomach… "Seems my judgement was wrong." And right before Devoro attacked, Aria cupped her hands and summoned a white swirling halo around Devoro's body… she then jumped in and grabbed Jason, to retreat into the sky… while the halo swirled fast enough to form divine white flames which engulfed around devoro's body.
Aria held Jason, a look of worry was on her face seeing his now broken hand. "Hey Jason, hold still… I'll heal i-" before she finished her sentence she looked down to see the flames being sucked into Devoro's mouth, and the halo shattered. Devoro opened his mouth moments after closing it and suddenly a white light resembling Aria's searing halo technique shot out toward Jason and Aria…
"Dammit!" Aria said while Jason just looked down… as he thought to himself, ("Should I use thunder-blink? No time, it'll fry my brain if I mess up activation… shit")… Jason then summoned a stretched out black hole which went around both his and Aria's bodies… the oncoming white flames had been absorbed through the black hole.
"Aria… please go and find my mom and Selene, when you find them meet up with your mom and-"… Aria interrupted Jason's irrational but understandable words, "What're you talking about?! How're you so sure you can beat him and the other one down in the village by yourself?!" Aria shouted…
But her eyes did widen at hearing the words. "Your girlfriend's correct brother… seems there's at least one with intelligence here, though fortunately for you you'll be dealing with Ikari." Her head turned quickly but when she looked up, Ikari was already down right in front of them and had planted his palm onto Jason's stomach, and sent him flying back down into the southern tribe's village.
"Well, Aria… me and you." Aria levitated and activated her divine seals of Heaven which glowed a white color across both her arms and legs…
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**Southern Tribe Village, Below The Boarder**
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Jason came crashing down through multiple buildings, and fell right on the sandy ground in the east section of the village… smoke from the impact of his fall spread through the area, grunting trying to stand up, Jason heard a voice coming from the smoke. A voice sounding cocky and ecstatic, "Finally…" Jason looked up to see a glowing red mark through the smoke, an inscription reading "wrath" he stepped through the smoke, it was Ikari… grinning while looking down at Jason…
Jason stood up, readying himself to fight Ikari only to see another figure walking through the smoke, surrounded by four sorcerers… Jason thought, "Kaida?" But no… it was another woman with long black hair, a scar on her face with heels on… The northern tribe's general Asami.
To be continued in chapter 85…