Chapter 90: But put in a fake name in the document

"Beelzebub! Stop!" Azazel called out for the Maou who kept getting more and more horrified each second over the conflict unraveling around them. "What are you trying to do here?! You know damn well we don't stand a chance against the Outer Gods without Him!"

The Maou flinched as the Heaven's system activated and dealt a spike of damage to the Maou. "Azazel! Dammit, that isn't the case! You're being played!"

"Yeah? You saw Him hold back the Dark Young!"

"That's because he must have spoken to Shub-Niggurath and acquired command of them, somehow! They are relatives!" Beelzebub dodged a laser that came from the sky as Azazel unfolded his latest innovation, an orbital laser cannon. In return Beelzebub slammed his hand against the ground, using [Power of Imagination] to create a railgun in a flash that fired straight up, blasted a hole in the roiling clouds above, and after a moment of travel disintegrated the orbiting device that was far beyond the karman line.

"Dammit, stop breaking my toys! Don't you realize how long it took me to innovate that?!" Azazel despaired as he was starting to run out of tools and brought out [Down Fall Dragon Spear] while he planted a plushie-sized robot on the ground that unfolded itself into a proper mecha and started to fire rockets at Beelzebub.

Azazel knew that he was just buying time for Michael to finish fighting Sirzechs and come help him, and that Beelzebub was likely buying time as well- But for himself to power-up properly.

The leader of the Fallen Angels knew that he'd be hard-pressed to capture Beelzebub by himself, and the same applied to Beelzebub towards Azazel as well. While the two's power was roughly equal, the fact Beelzebub was growing his understanding of Azazel's power by the second was slowly starting to tip the balance to the Maou's advantage as he could soon use his more devastating attacks- Such as the [Kankara Formula], which could essentially one-shot Azazel if Beelzebub became too well acquainted with his power. Which was also the reason Azazel was throwing all sorts of wacky innovations at Beelzebub- To keep him off-balance and guessing.

Still, seeing the look on Beelzebub's face when Azazel had fired his genderbending-raygun at him had been priceless, even though Beelzebub managed to dispel the boobs that had grown on his chest a moment later.

A massive flash of light distracted the two, however, and the appearance of two massive angels further paused the duel between the two.

And the speech that had followed the two massive angel's summoning had severely destabilized Beelzebub's mood, specifically when it had been followed by Him resurrecting Gabriel.

"Huh, looks like pops learned new tricks during his… I don't know, self-exile?" Azazel shrugged to cover up his own surprise and slammed his hands together so that a robotic road barrier he had planted earlier rose up to the height of a skyscraper and blocked Beelzebub from flying towards 'Momon' and stabbing him in the neck with his injector while he was distracted. "You wanna surrender anytime soon, Beelzebubs-tan? We're both lab-coats so we both know how this is gonna end. Look, your people are already revolting."

True to the Fallen Angel's name, the devil ranks had splintered and a well-organized battle-line had disintegrated into infighting and fleeing towards the manor above which the two massive armored angels stood.

"Guh… Dammit, everything… Was all this planned by Hastur?! Our plan… Dammit! We let him out of our sight for a moment, and… Damn it all!" Beelzebub slammed his fist to the ground, causing a massive magical circle to form and sending hundreds of spikes of rock to rise from the broken pavement and catapult towards Azazel.

Azazel created light-spears to match, and the two projectile attacks met each other mid-air and cancelled each other out in a wave of rubble and dust.

The Fallen Angel waved his artificial [Sacred Gear] spear, dismissing the dust cloud… Only to see that Beelzebub was trying to pull a runner.

Azazel tossed out a wave of chains, light-spears, and a few mystery boxes that exploded into constricting tentacles (as those items were highly requested by the female clientele amongst the Fallen Angels for reasons that Azazel knew but preferred to not inquire about), and the barrage halted Beelzebub's escape.

"Dammit, Azazel!" Beelzebub cursed as one of the tentacle-boxes grabbed his leg and the offending and highly disturbing 'item' was disintegrated in an instant.

Azazel sighed and the battle continued.

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"[Resurrection]- [True Resurrection]... Haa…" Momonga was starting to feel a bit of relief as his speech, as cringy as he felt it was, seemed to have worked to bring the three warring factions under his banner… for now.

The fact the Overlord General's [Necroswarm Giant] proved a hammer-and-anvil ultimatum for the factions' hesitation gave Momonga quite a bit of relief. 'Good job… Good… It's all coming together, I think…'

The cat perched upon Momonga's shoulder had woken up during the healing wave the two [Dominion Authorities] had sent out, and the feline was staring at the scene with eyes the size of saucers while the cat was utterly motionless.

'Good, I should be able to return it to the Overlord General if it's healed…' Momonga noted the cat's condition, and almost as if the cat could read his thoughts from the expression Momonga had on his host's face as he looked at it, the cat suddenly went limp. 'Oh, it fainted again…'

Nonetheless the mana drain of resurrecting the dead combatants was starting to build up even while Gabriel was busy helping the Angels fight back the wave of undead that had washed against the now-unified Three Factions.

'The Overlord General created quite a few Death Knights…' Momonga noted as a phalanx of sword-and-shield wielding creatures crashed against the last vestiges of Devil formation that had chosen to ignore Momonga's 'offer' and had stood alone against the now-unified Fallen, Angels and the defected devils, and against the wave of undead that had broken their lines almost instantly.

"Be healed in True God's glory!" The Dominion authority next to Momonga cast another [Under Divine Banner] that cured the living combatants of [Fear] that the undead swarm had infected them with, while a wave of healing and resurrections lifted the wounded and the dead from the mud of the battlefield.

A flap of wings accompanied a black form that perched upon Momonga's other shoulder. He glanced to the crow he had created with [Lead of Yatagarasu], and saw that the bird was thoroughly shaken for some reason, and looked like it had taken cover behind Momonga from an unknown pursuer.

"Lord Yatagerasu! Please wait, thine humble servant beseech thee for aid!" A unknown, bird-like warble from nearby caused Momonga to turn around, and he looked to the side to see a odd bird-headed and winged creature that vaguely resembled Peroroncino, except that it was far smaller, had only one pair of wings, no jewelry and had clothed itself in a japanese-style warrior kimono. "We humbly- ah!"

The odd creature collected itself as it noticed that the crow was perched on Momonga's shoulder. The creature seemed to hesitate for a while before it prostrated itself towards Momonga- A feat that was quite impressive due to the fact the conversation was happening mid-air and the creature was prostrating while hovering with its wings.

"Lord, you who are blessed by the favor of Lord Yatagerasu, we beseech thine aid!" The creature's word turned to a desperate warble. "I may be a mere tengu retainer and have no power to speak for the whole faction... Yet, Lady Kunou has died by the hand of the foul enemy you fight! We see your might and purity is enough to raise the dead, and beseech thee for air! Please! The Shinto beseech thine aid! We fear that without thine help, Lady Yasaka will be lost to rage- As will be all!"

"U-umu…" Momonga felt quite awkward as the creature sounded incredibly honest and at the same time equally dire. And the fact the creature had adopted a perfect japanese prostrating pose, the same kind which Suzuki Satoru remembered having been forced to time and time again after failing to meet some unrealistic deadline in his job in Neo-Japan, touched his heart a bit.

Nonetheless the calculating side of Momonga took over and weighed the pros and cons of the offer- "Very well, but in return, the Shinto faction will pledge to fight by my side against the horrors that have slain your lady Kunou!"

After all, the more bodies between Momonga and Odin, the better.

"Of course! Lord!" The tengu bowed even deeper. "Us, the envoys of Kyoto sacrifice our lives to you, and are yours to use as you see fit… And in return, please resurrect Lady Kunou!"

"U-umu, in that case, bring her forth." Momonga felt a bit disappointed in the tengu's promise, as it dodged the whole issue of 'pledge from Shinto' in favor of 'sacrificing the lives of the envoy'- The favor was a strategic boon that the Tengus clearly didn't either want to offer, or could not offer due to their status, and the latter seemed something that the creatures practically rejoiced in offering in comparison. 'Haa… Well, I suppose they are diplomatic envoys… And haggling after the fact would be seen as petty, since technically they are part of the Shinto faction and I didn't specify that I wanted the entire faction to join me in exchange...'

He glanced down to see that his Peerage was seemingly dumb-struck by the whole chaos around them, and decided to descend to the ruins of the manor while the Tengu scrambled to get back to it's comrades.

Momonga noted that the Youkai had dragged the now-ragged looking Shinto convoy closer to the manor that had seemingly become a stronghold of sorts, as the six [Cherubim Gatekeepers] had shed their human disguises and had formed a barrier of gold light that helped shield the manor from ranged attacks occasionally coming their way from the Norse faction and from among the undead that still pushed against the front line of the unified Three Factions.

"Right, how are you doing?" Momonga greeted his Peerage… And then dodged a wild blow from Serafall as the woman attacked from the side. The only reason Momonga managed to dodge her at all was because Serafall was clearly a bit exhausted, and had bleeding marks on her face that looked like scrapes left by a spear or some sort of blade.

"Stop! Stoop! Stop this!" Serafall had tears streaming down her face as she looked at the devastation and war around them. "Momon-kun! I know you're behind all this- Stop this! Please!"

Momonga felt a wave of cold wash down his spine in response to the woman's words. 'What? She knows? How much does she know? Did…'

A halberd swung past his face and forced Serafall to withdraw her next attack and dodge as the six [Cherubim Gatekeepers] formed a phalanx around Momonga in an instant to block the Maou's attacks.

Serafall backed away as the halberds thrust forth, and she prepared a lance of water… Only for a shape to crash to her from behind.

"Kukuku… Naughty, Se-tan…" Sona practically purred to Serafall's ear while she held a knife against Serafall's throat from behind- Yet, on closer view the girl's arm was tied around Serafall's neck, but the knife was pressed against Sona's throat so if Serafall tore herself off the girl's grip, she'd also force the knife into Sona's throat.

Serafall's eyes were full of tears as she looked at Sona's eyes. "Sona… Please…"

"Se-tan… Will you lose faith at the last seconds of the prayer… Kukuku…" Ravel joined in to stroke Serafall's flank and drew a hostile glare from the Maou. "Let it happen. Or else."

"You- damn you…" Serafall seemed to lose strength from the ultimatum Sona forced on her and which Ravel put to plain words, and she glared at Momonga with enough hostility in her gaze to cause Momonga to sweat against his will.

'Uh…' Momonga glanced mentally at Ddrag who seemed quite reprimanding as well, likely for Momonga causing the 'idol' Maou distress, but the fact the dragon had empty bags of chips, popcorn and snacks around him as well as crumbs all over it's maw led the disguised Overlord to disregard the dragon's glare.

"Right, umu, ahem… Could you please keep an eye on Serafall? I think someone had done something to her. She's delirious." Momonga told two of the [Cherubim gatekeepers] who nodded. Although he knew that Serafall could win against the two if she fought, the least they'd be able to do is to buy him time. "The rest of you…"

"Momon! What did she mean- What is happening?!" Rias seemed outright insane as she was crying and had mascara running down her face from tears. She grabbed Momonga by his chest and shook him a bit to drive the question home.

"U-umu, I think the Supreme Being is attacking. Please focus- And remember the formation we've practised! I think Serafall ate something weird or got, umu, some wrong ideas!" Momonga dodged the issue and pointed at the wave of dead that threatened to overcome the formation of devils, angels and Fallen fighting side-by-side. "That's not important right now- Yubelluna, please start bombarding, and everyone else, to your positions!"

Serafall's glare only deepened from the words while Ravel chuckled to her hand after hearing Momonga's orders, and Sona practically hissed with mirth that caused Serafall to shiver in fear.

The violet-haired woman seemed to snap from her shock and moved to create spheres of metal with automatic motions, and launched them at the wave of coming dead, each explosion falling scores but failing to make a significant dent in the wave while the other devils fought with similar means.

'Well, it's not like the [Necroswarm Giant] is going to do much damage… But it'll have lots of health to tank damage with thanks to eating the bodies of the dead created by [Iä, Shub-Niggurath]...' Momonga nodded at Yubelluna while the others moved to their formation automatically and charged forth like robots, clearly shocked from what they had seen but the drills from the training Momonga had put his Peerage through seemed to overcome the shock somewhat.

"Wait- Momon! This isn't over!" Rias shook Momonga nonetheless. "Someone teleported next to us just now and abducted Koneko and Rossweisse! Rossweisse managed to say something about 'Loki', so it must be someone from the Norse!"

Momonga's world felt as if it had ground to a halt. 'No… Odin must have known that Rossweisse was pregnant with my child, somehow, and sent his agent to capture her… Or rather, retrieve her since she was on their side all along...'

The skeletal side of the magic-caster would have wanted to congratulate Odin for his cunning, but Suzuki Satoru was quite horrified by Odin's attack. 'I can't attack indiscriminately while they hold Rossweisse, as she'd get caught in the blast… I don't know if [Resurrection] would bring back an embryo… I should have found a pregnant woman and tried the theory out, when my Peerages were training…'

Momonga glanced at the Norse front, where they had managed to destroy two of the twelve Dark Young but had suffered catastrophic casualties in turn.

However, the Dark Young themselves were starting to look somewhat tired as more and more of Norse troops joined the fray- Alongside more mythical creatures.

Indeed, Momonga saw as a gigantic sea-serpent rose from the sea next to Kuoh, slithered inland and snatched one of the Dark Young with it's massive maw. The squid-like bleating tree was dragged along the ground, leaving massive gouges in the ground alongside gouges on the scales of the massive serpent, but in the end the dark creature was dragged to the sea where it let out a long series of bleats before being submerged into a massive vortex of bubbles and roiling water that marked a underwater struggle where the serpent devoured the Dark Young bite-by-bite.

'That looked like… Uh… Jormungand? Wasn't it supposed to be shackled or something?' Momonga recalled a creature from YGGDRASIL that looked vaguely similar to what had just snatched a Dark Young as if it was a plaything. 'They're really pulling all the stops...'

Momonga undid Gasper's [Ultimate Disturb] and turned to address the cross-dresser. "Gasper- I need you to create a diversion for me. Charge the Norse front, use your full power."

"M-Momon-kun…" Gasper was clearly shaken by the whole ordeal, but nodded nonetheless.

"Find Koneko." Momonga ordered the crow on his shoulder, and it flew off. "[Planar Eye]."

Momonga had placed a tracking spell on Rossweisse a while ago, and used an eight-tier scrying spell on the tracking spell to see where the woman was and what was happening to her.

A view opened and Momonga looked at it-

"...Behold the sacrifice!" Loki lifted a jagged dagger… And plunged it down, striking Rossweisse in the lower abdomen as the unconscious woman lay limply on a floating stone. "Accept this sacrifice, and be sated, Shub-Niggurath!"

The dagger bit deep into the woman's abdomen, causing a geysir of blood to splurt up and the woman shook awake to let out a horrified scream.

Loki rolled the wounded woman off the stone slab, and allowed her to fall down… and into the maw of a Dark Young who had been waiting below Loki and had been jumping up and down in an attempt to reach him with its tentacles like a dog jumping for a treat.

Koneko was brought forth next, and-

However, [Planar Eye] broke, as Momonga was gone from where he stood, leaving behind thoroughly horrified Rias and a tengu who had landed nearby and was offering the dead body of a kitsune child towards the spot where Momonga had been mere seconds ago.

The next moment… A molluscoid creature appeared in the horizon as the darkness that had slowly approached the city broke and let the creature through.

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