Asmodeus' Attack

"It's bad. They took down the Jumsall!"

The pink-skinned petite girl shouted with a solemn voice. She was looking at the monitor in front of her which displays images of the destroyed city. It was complete destruction. Not even a single human survived.

"What about the troops we send there? What's their condition?"

A deep voice sounded in the back of the room. The pink-skinned girl flinched when she heard the voice. Her face went pale and she was barely able to talk.

"T-t-they s-somehow escaped. B-but Miranda is s-suffering f-from the after-effects of summoning..."

"Did the summon succeed?"

"N-no..."

When the voice remain silent, the girl became even more afraid. She knew who this voice belonged. It was the leader of the Rebellion, Asmodeus. He is the most feared spirit currently alive. He is known to be a killer of countless spirits. Many clans, including the Undine clan, perished because of him.

'I'm just an inferior class spirit. His presence alone is causing me to shiver! I don't want to be here! I don't want to die!'

While she was in her thoughts, Asmodeus' voice was again spread across the room. It was emotionless but still scary to her.

"Which city troops of the Council are hiding right now?"

"I-it's Orkross."

"Hmm, okay. Let's see what they will do."

"Umm... Yes?"

Suddenly Asmodeus' presence disappeared from the room. She relaxed and took a deep breath. Just being in his presence was causing her a great amount of stress. But what he last said was still on her mind. She was confused. Suddenly she froze.

"H-he w-won't do that, right?!"

She quickly touched the monitor and a transparent screen come out. She typed the name of the city and images quickly changed. It was a big city full of life. Even though it was midnight streets were still crowded. And in the sky of the city, a dark figure was floating.

"Oh no..."

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"So this is Orkross. It might have been enjoyable to sightsee here but, well this city no longer exists."

[Beast of the storms, calamity of the ancient ages. I offer you a sacrifice. Devour as you please. Hadron, I summon you.]

The clear sky was immediately covered by storm clouds. Bolts of Lightning fall, claps thunders are heard and cold rain drops fell on the streets.. Everyone in the city looked at the sky with a surprised expression.

From inside of the storm clouds two shining orb could be seen. They were getting closer and closer. Humans started to fear them instinctively. And they were right to be scared. The two shining orbs were actually eyes of creatures they could never have imagined.

When it's the face seen everyone drops their knees with fear and despair. It was a face of half-human and half-eel. There are visible lightning bolts on its face. They were moving just like how blood moves in the veins of humans.

Its eyes are like bright fireballs as huge as two-story buildings. It opened its mouth and countless weird creatures come out rushing. They were looked like eel-headed eagles. They rushed at the closest humans and buildings.

Humans didn't understand what was happening at first. But when one of the eel-headed eagles bite off the head of a child they begin panicking. Just in a few seconds tens of humans died. A minute later city was in chaos. Minions of the Hadron were entering the buildings with breaking in from the windows.

"With this war is inevitable now. It happened before he predicted but beggars can't be choosers."

Asmodeus muttered while watching the chaos the city descended. He gets a little impatient. It was difficult to keep the summon of Hadron, and if he wanted to make it directly attack it will take a lot of mana and minions will take too long.

He was looking at the corpse of a young girl. Suddenly he had a nasty idea. He descends to the ground. He put his hand onto the ground and a complex seal appeared on the ground.

[Summon Zombie]

The seal glowed with a red light and it turned into a portal. From it, a corpse of a humanoid male came out. His skin was rotten and some parts of it were already gone and his bones could be seen. This was humanity's one of most feared nightmares. An undead.

After the first zombie several more come out of the portal. They quickly went after the nearby people. With just a bite or a scratch, zombies can turn humans into zombies. Their individual strength is not much but they spread amazingly fast especially when there's a lot of chaos.

Seeing that his idea was working as he wished Asmodeus was pleased. He recalled the Hadron and its minions. He was a Great Spirit but even his mana was finite. He watched from the sky as alive was being devoured by the dead.

{Asmodeus, I have found a lead about the "Eye". Meet me in the base at the Spirit Realm.}

Asmodeus one last time looked at the remains of the city and opened a portal at mid-air. Just now the message belonged to Velcro. The eye he mentioned was Odin's Eye, which every spirit was looking for. It has power enough to fix the Spirit Realm. But Asmodeus wasn't looking at it for the purpose of fixing the realm. His plans were much different and sinister.

After Asmodeus left within the portal, a teenage girl float out of the nearby building or what's left from it. Her whole body was covered with sweat. Her face was pale and had a terrified expression. Her body was uncontrollably shaking.

"So this is the power of a Great Spirits. It's certainly terrifying. I thought for sure that I was dead."

She was a spirit who was hiding in the city for a while now. For those who are neither part of the two main factions, it's hard to survive. Especially now that conflicts and the possibility of war is growing, wandering spirits are in big danger.

"I need to have a good impression on him, so helping here would have a good chance, right?"

She brought her hands together and complex runes appeared around her. Runes glowed and transparent barriers appeared around the city, sealing everyone inside of the city.

"This would keep undead inside. I have to go and find the mage."