Fear Tactics

'What!?' Ares asked mentally. 'He's right here! If I kill him we can win!'

"But you can't! And if we lose you that will be a heavy blow to us!"

'Fine! At least let me gauge his strength a bit first!'

Akuro watched as Ares struggled under his pressure. He was honestly disappointed, he expected the god of war to at least be able to stand against half of his aura. He was only releasing half of his total pressure, and he couldn't help but wonder just how weak the gods were.

"I don't think it's that they are weak, it's just that you are too strong." Mato said. "I'd go so far as saying you are probably almost as strong as Azazel now."

'Lilith said something like that a while ago as well.' Akuro responded. 'Have you ever actually met Azazel in person, Mato?'

"Erm, no. Never." Mato lied.

'Hm. Oh, he's moving.'

Ares slowly rose to his feet, struggling under the pressure. Akuro simply stood and watched as the god moved closer and closer to him.

"Show me what you've got.." Ares growled, then drew his swords and stabbed them into the ground, the earth erupting in a line towards Akuro, who seemed to vanish.

"What-" Ares exclaimed as Akuro reappeared behind him, the blade of his scythe to the god's neck. "The hell... are you?"

"I told you. I'm Death." Akuro answered, flicked Ares in his back, shattering his Aura Cloak and sending him rolling end over end across the ground before skidding to a stop.

Ares backed away from Akuro who slowly walked towards him, black aura forming around his body, blocking out his features as his crimson eyes shone through it.

"Aphrodite!" Ares roared, "Get me out! Now!!"

Akuro stopped, then raised his finger and pointed at Ares, as he did a stream of black aura shot down from the sky and impaled the earth, causing the ground to quake.

When the aura faded out, Akuro walked to the edge of a massive hole in the ground and looked over the edge. The hole seemed to be bottomless, all he could see was darkness.

"He got away..." Akuro said quietly. Then he grinned.

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God stood in the throne hall, a large room with white walls and gold highlights. His throne was pure gold and marble while diamond chandeliers hung from the ceiling casting a soft, warm glow over the room.

Aphrodite sat at the edge of a small summoning circle, mumbling some unintelligible words. God bit his tongue, deep in thought as he thought about the war. To think that Akuro's aura would be so strong, the fact that they were able to feel it's affects all the way up in the divine realm. It was intimidating. They had underestimated their enemy and had lost another pawn because of it. He scowled. He'd have to end up killing that Deity, no, that demon himself.

The markings of the summoning circle suddenly lit up with an orange light as a figure came into sight, materializing in the center of the circle. Ares sat on his knee, panting, blood dripping from his body as his wounds slowly closed over. His Aura Cloak had completely faded now and his eyes were wide as if he'd seen his greatest nightmare.

"Ares!" Aphrodite said, "Are you alright?"

The war god waved his hand for her to back away. "I'm fine." He turned angry eyes to God. "Why didn't you tell me that bastard was so strong? He overwhelmed me!"

"I myself didn't even know until now.. I underestimated him." God answered.

Ares scowled. "As did I..."

"I also didn't expect him to join the fight, I only thought you would be fighting the Archdemons."

"I could handle them fine, but him... he stopped my Dawn of War in an instant, as if it was nothing to him. What.. is he?"

"He is the result of our foolishness." God spoke. "We never should've given humanity our power, nor should we have blessed them with their creativity."

An expression of rage plastered to Ares's face. "Then we will strip it from them! We shall end their miserable existence!"

"Yes..." God's eyes narrowed. 'Why hasn't Akuro concealed his aura yet..?' He thought, pushing out his own aura, sensing the world below. Then he realized that Akuro had concealed his aura, but for some reason it was still present in the throne hall. God's heart skipped a beat. Akuro looked up at the sky directly at God's Aura Sense, then smirked menacingly.

Gas rose from his throne, extending his hand towards Aphrodite.

"Get away from him now!" He roared, but it was too late, a black wave of aura exploded outwards from Ares's body, swallowing him completely as well as engulfing Aphrodite, shattering both of their souls as it swallowed them. The entire throne hall shook violently as it was swallowed by the shadows of Akuro's Dark Implosion which he had attached to Ares's back when he had flicked him, waiting to trigger on his command.

When the attack was over, God hovered in the air, his aura shield fading out as he looked in awe at the destruction around him. The entire throne hall was now gone, wiped out of existence, as well as the temple around it. He reached outward with his sensory, and he could see that a total of four gods had been caught up in the attack, their souls being shattered.

God shook with rage now. He had been okayed for a fool, his own pawn used against him. 'That fucker...' he thought. 'I am going to kill him... I swear I will put his existence to an end... I will not lose this war!'