ARC - 8 - THE KHAOS GODS (BEGINNING) CHAPTER - 35 - THE MAGICAL FOG OF IRA JEZA - PART - ①

Deces held a meeting. The meeting was held in the castle of Deces, on the land of Tartarmus. Everyone was sitting on a long, rectangular table. The atmosphere was cold. Vanzel was sitting at one end of the table, like the most important person of the meeting. Deces was sitting beside Vanzel. She started speaking,

"The next hellish god is one of the gods of chaos, and her name is IRA JEZA or KHAOS. But, when I said Khaos, I meant it as a title. The hellish gods are divided into many divisions. The name which they use is a position in their particular division. My real name is HEL Tartarmus. I was in the division of underworld. Of course, I inherited the said position form my father. Vergif's real name was Bagog Otrov. He was in the division of poison. We both have betrayed our said divisions... and that's why we had to join Navertozwein's alliance. The next goddess who has joined the his alliance is from the division of the gods of Khaos, or chaos. Her real name is ERIS. She has immense power and she hates men. She had a long dispute with Zeus, one of the kings of thunder and that's the reason, why she became one of the Khaos gods. She might ignore the women of our team, but she'll definitely strike down the men. Also, women's attack don't have much of an attack on her, but men's attack deal a nice amount of damage to her. That's all I wanted to say."

Deces wiped sweat from her forehead as she completed her sentence and took a breath of relief. Before Alcesto could say anything, Schwartz spoke up. He said,

"So, all that to say, she holds the immense power of chaos and is a sexist, right?"

Jae-Hyuk responded to what Vanzel said,

"Well... You may be right but, I've heard a rumour about the Khaos gods that they don't let their comrades' death go to waste."

Kyung-Soon started speaking as Jae-Hyuk completed his sentence.

"That's correct. If we will kill her, her comrades will respond to our actions by doing the same."

Zhao paid attention to Kyung-Soon's words and asked her a question,

"Does that mean... They'll attack us even if they are not a member of Navertozwein's alliance?"

Before Kyung-Soon could reply to her, suddenly, she sneezed and instead of Kyung-Soon, Schwartz replied to Zhao,

"Yes. That's absolutely correct."

Vanzel paid attention to everything his teammates were speaking. Their faces looked worried. But, instead of calming them, Vanzel was staring at a vase which was in the middle of the table, as he was trying to form a wise plan.

As everyone was worried about their upcoming life filled with chaos, Kyung-Mi clinged onto Alcesto's right arm as she was the one sitting nearest to him, and started speaking.

"Alcesto-shi... Im really scared... You would protect me, right?"

Alcesto got flustered. He patted on her head and said passionately,

"I'll definitely protect you at all costs! If I am not able to protect you, then I won't be able to protect my pride..."

After thinking for a moment, Vanzel started speaking. He asked his teammates,

"I'm saying this for the last time. From this point, we don't know what might happen to ourselves. The new members have already witnessed the strength of our enemies. From now onwards, we will be fighting even stronger hellish gods, the Khaos gods. So... Are you guys prepared to risk your lives in this hellish adventure? If there is a problem, then say it. If you guys are ready, then please be quiet. Silence will be deemed as an yes."

After he stopped speaking, Alcesto thought to himself,

" I... Have to... Protect my pride!"

He didn't said a single word and his silence was deemed as his answer.

Schwartz, looked at Alcesto and thought to himself,

"I can't see any emotion flowing inside him, except one, which is the emotion to protect something. Hm! I can't back off now!"

As Zhao saw Schwartz's silence, she didn't spoke a single word as she had already dedicated herself to stay with him, always.

Jae-Hyuk was scared from the intense battle on the land of Otrov. He looked at Kyung-Soon. She was sitting tightly at her chair. He thought to himself,

"Tch... How pathetic can I be? My friends are ready to give their all... And... I... I will also give my all!"

He calmed himself and gazed at Kyung-Soon. This time, she was also looking at him. She smiled, and thought to herself,

"Looks like he's ready to give his all... I won't be able to call him my friend if I leave his side now!"

Kyung-Mi didn't thought anything, as she had already witnessed Alcesto's affection towards her. She decided to tag along with them, and destroy the demi hellish god, Navertozwein.

Deces already held a grudge agains Navertozwein and didn't had any reason to back off now. Without giving it a second a thought, she kept silence.

After a few seconds later, Vanzel felt really glad as he saw that his whole team was ready to give him their full support. He smiled lightly and said,

"Well, looks like we will be slaying these chaos gods altogether, right?"

"YES!"

Everybody shouted in unison.

After hearing their thoughts, Vanzel decided to leave right now. He ordered his team,

"Everyone, since we have already decided on our mission, let's carry it out right now."

Alcesto panicked on his sudden order and asked him,

"D-do you mean we have to leave right now?!"

"That's correct."

"Uh!"

Sighed Alcesto.

"And I thought we are finally getting some rest after two intense battles!"

"You can get all the rest you want, once I f-... I mean once the Earth is saved."

"Okay - okay."

Alcesto exited for his room slowly without saying anything.

A few hours later, Vanzel called everyone outside the castle.

He was standing there with Deces, who was focusing her dark energy on creating a dimensional portal which would connect her land to the land of Jeza, or one of the chaos goddesses, Eris. As everyone came closer to Vanzel, he said,

"Well then... Lets slay some chaos gods, shall we?"

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