Sin of Lust

"Who am I" Astrid asked, staring deep into Vil's eyes, blood red, they started to cry, clear blood started to flow out of his eyes, and he started to smile, his expression was one of releafe, and sadness at the same time.

"You truly are fit for me..."

"Time for you, to find out who you are!" Vil yelled crazily, blood splattering everywhere as slowly tapped Astrids head, knocking him out.

...

It felt like he crossed an endless tunnel at a speed very close to that of infinity.

He flew past the space filled with nothing but darkness; the light seeping into this space from such a long distance away slammed into him in an instant.

After the blinding by the light dissipated away….

Astrid was greeted by the immense spectacle laid out before his eyes – no, below him – and spat out a shocked gasp in his mind.

'Oh, my god….'

An army consisting solely of innumerable monsters stretched far beyond the scope of vision below him.

From where he was, all the way to beyond the horizon. Countless monsters completely covered up the ground until there was no uncovered patch left.

In all honesty, that was one hell of a terrifying sight to behold. If this many monsters jumped out of a Gate all at once, humanity wouldn't have a chance in hell at winning against them.

Just from seeing this, he felt his innards tighten as if he was having indigestion.

'Hold on… Where is this place, anyway?'

It couldn't have been Earth. He could see thin, tall, and bizarre looking rocky outcroppings jutting out from here and there on this reddish-brown, dried up plains where not even a single blade of grass grew.

This was a completely foreign landscape that he had never seen before.

His eyes could catch the sight of the reddish-brown ground, those strange rock formations, and then, the great army of monsters standing on top of said ground.

Astrid shifted his gaze over to these monsters.

He spotted weaklings commonly seen in low ranked dungeons, all the way to the powerful monsters that could only be seen in much higher-ranked dungeons, such as High Orcs, Dream Eaters, and even Demons.

This disparate gathering of monsters that ignored their ranks and species were busy looking up and waiting for something to happen.

'What are they all looking at?'

Astrid followed after their gazes and raised his head to the sky above. And then… he discovered it, or rather, them.

'…..!!'

7 beings of absolute power, each posing a humongous threat to humanity, he couldn't even sense the power from these beings, it was as if, they were gods...

One of them suddenly looked straight at him, she wore a simple top and pants, but her face... you couldn't describe it with words, it was that beautiful, seductive, cute, all combined in one! She then looked to the other six and said, "Let's start this already, I don't want this to go on forever!"

"LOL! You suck! How long will you wait until you get a successor!" Another man said, playing on his phone.

"I won dumbass, did you even know that you lost!"

"I was too lazy to check, oh well!"

"Fine! Let's start, its 4 of us this time right?" Another man asked, this man was built different! He had muscles that were in places unknown to man! He was too buff, thats all you could comment on him.

"Yep, I know I'm going to win this time!" an old man said with happiness, he was soaked in drip, and I mean literally soaked. He was swimming in a pool of money and was surrounded by the hottest women, but they could not even compete with the girl in the top and pants, she was in her own league.

"Bet bitch who takes baths with bitches with his bitch dick! I will win no matter what, don't hurt my pride!" this man was wearing a black hood and his skin was burnt, but there were these red blobs of energy emitting from his body, giving him the aura of a being of absolute power.

"Ok, since that fat ass and snake are not here, let's start the fight."

Suddenly, a huge lake spawned out of no where.

No, it was actually not a lake. Astrid mistook it for a lake because of its sheer size. But, it was a Gate so big that he couldn't even begin to guess its size. And it was silently looking down on the ground.

This black 'hole' was blocking up the purple sky beyond it.

'Purple sky, is it…..?'

Seeing the color of the sky that should not exist, he became doubly sure that this was not Earth anymore.

In a world that was clearly not Earth, something major was about to happen between the monsters and that Gate.

He unconsciously swallowed his saliva. Trapped within this eerie silence, his nervousness also increased as the time wore on.

Gowooooh….

Just what would come out from that Gate?

Astrid began wondering if he'd get to see the weapons of humanity or the armies of humans stepping out of that huge Gate, just like how monsters would step onto Earth through those portals.

However….

CRACK!

What came out of the cracked-open Gate's mouth was soldiers decked out in golden armour, with wings attached to their backs.

These golden-armoured soldiers poured out of the Gate like agitated bees rushing out of the disturbed beehive.

While monsters covered up the entirety of the ground, these soldiers in turn utterly blotted out the sky.

It was truly a spectacular sight. Astrid couldn't stop admiring this incredible view.

However, the monsters must've thought rather differently. They began howling at the top of their lungs upon seeing the golden-armoured soldiers covering the sky and began bucking around in agitation.

He didn't even have to be a genius to figure out what would happen next.

It was war.

Swahhh-!!

The flying soldiers became shining drops of light and descended to the ground below. As it turned out, there was more than one Gate in the sky. There were several of them, and golden soldiers poured out of them one after the other.

Monsters on the ground versus the soldiers of the sky!!

Two groups, clearly burning with hostile intentions against each other, soon collided just above the ground. And a battle of an indescribable scale and proportion unfolded next.

ROOOAAAR-!!

The beastly roars of the monsters shook the land below, and….

Vuuoooo–!!

….And, horns being blown by the golden-armoured soldiers thunderously resounded out.

Weapons collided with other weapons; the sounds of armours shattering noisily rang out. The beastly roars soon morphed into screams and pained groans. The ground below was steadily being dyed the colour of blood.

The superiority in this battle was established very quickly.

The golden-armoured soldiers were very powerful. These guys easily sliced off the necks of the monsters that were strong enough to rip high-ranked Hunters apart with their bare hands.

Such powerful beings had formed a massive invading group, so perhaps it was only inevitable that the monsters were being swept away.

The balance was tilting noticeably now to their favour. Even then, golden-armoured soldiers continued to pour out from the Gates non-stop.

The waves upon waves of the golden soldiers crashing forward like the incoming tide erased all traces of living monsters off the dried plains in no time at all.

Kuwaaahk!

Kiiiehhk!

The war began as a fierce clash between two forces, but now, it descended into a blood-soaked massacre, instead.

The swords and spears of the golden soldiers knew no mercy. Because of that, the number of monsters decreased quite rapidly.

Astrid watched this scene of the horrifying monsters being killed off with little to no resistance and was overcome with a puzzling mixture of emotions.

'Am I mourning all those people who lost their lives to these bastards, or am I feeling rueful for humans not being able to possess powers like that….?'

Such trivial thoughts remained in his head for only a short while. The truly extraordinary event only happened afterwards, that was why.

With the complete annihilation of the monsters mere moments away…

The golden soldiers of the sky that violently pushed their enemies back suddenly stopped moving one at the time.

'What's going on?'

Could they possibly have developed a sense of pity for these things now, of all times? But, there was just no way. If they did, then they shouldn't be gripping their weapons even tighter like that.

They were gripping their weapons so hard, in fact, their hands were beginning to tremble noticeably, too. On top of that, the emotions filling up the faces of these silver soldiers were as far from the ones of compassion as you could get. No, they were definitely filled with terror.

Their collective gazes were focused in a certain direction. And that was somewhere behind him.

Astrid suddenly had a hunch. He felt that something extraordinary was about to happen behind him, one amazing enough to overturn this situation on its head.

However, his gaze didn't immediately look behind him, but instead, to the ground below.

On top of this reddish-brown land, a black shadow was spreading out. This shadow rapidly spread beyond the blood dyeing the land red, as well as the mountains of corpses. And when this darkness sped past underneath these corpses, mysterious screams could be heard.

Screams that no one could tell where they were coming from.

Astrid knew of an ability that was eerily similar to this – no, make that pretty much identical.

'Charm….'

A powerful chill ran down his spine immediately.

He slowly, agonizingly slowly, turned his head around to take a look.

And there he found a man whose beauty knew no bounds.

Why did this happen? No one told him, yet Astrid could think of only one title when looking at that dashing man.

'….The Sin of Lust'

Just by being in front of this being subjected him to an incredible pressure that was heavy enough to strangle him.

Whether it was the golden-armoured soldiers from the sky, monsters with intelligence, or even those without it, they all forgot to breathe and simply stared at this Sin of Lust.

Every single gaze within this battlefield was now looking at only this devil.

Soon enough, four others stepped into the arena too, one extremely buff, another dressed in gold cloths, and finally a person who looked like he was emmo.

[…..]

The dashing man glared at the gods in the sky, before extending his hand out as if he wanted to grasp something.

Flinch.

Astrid now could see the sight of the golden-armoured soldiers flinch and start to back away in fear. The intolerable stillness that stifled one's breaths pressed down on the shoulders of every single being under the heavens.

And soon….

The Sovereign's solemn voice shattered that stillness.

"Charm"