48. Aftermath 1

After several hours...

The place where the battle between Ei and the Demon army detached force led by Sophia and Lancer/Mitsurugi had a tremendous change of topography, looking from a high place it looks like a huge scar that is both long and deep and around it are small lakes made by craters.

These were the results done by Ei's gigantic attack by her Avatar puppet in its transformed mode(Raiden weekly boss for the image), luckily it was made from magical power and not from divine energy otherwise the results would be more apocalyptic in scale.

Unluckily because its an attack done by an Elder Goddess hence the remnant energy from it will still linger for a very long time to come.

In one of those mini lakes there's one that is bigger than the rest is two people floating like corpses, Sophia who's holding to a driftwood calls out to her partner " Hey Mitsurugi, are you still alive?".

The dragon boy didn't reply but with his breathing and blinking its quite obvious he's alive, then Sophia continues her complaints to him.

" Look, I'm totally naked right now."

Lancer replies " You don't need to show me... I lost one of my legs, we're lucky enough she didn't put us any importance in her eyes and simply attacked and us only get a "graze". Sophia, there's also one thing she said before she left."

Sophia perks up and looked at her partner, " What did she said?"

" She wants us to improve our basics, we were depending mostly on our raw power due to us reaching this level without anyone actively competing against us. We grew arrogant, hence she taught us a lesson."

Sophia grins weakly and says, " Damn, so she wants us to grow stronger for us to get a chance for a rematch huh? Well I'm totally in for it. But first we need rest and get out of this water Mitsurugi, I get tingling shocks on my feet."

Lancer simply chuckles and says " I think that's a remnant of her attack earlier, you're lucky due to your high level cuz if it was anyone else weaker than us then he/she will die from this lightning energy around this waters."

" What do you think happened to the Demon army who's with us?" Sophia asked as she looks around, unfortunately she only see floating parts of bodies around both of them.

Lancer rolls his eyes and replies, " Mostly dead I guess, you can see their body parts floating. Maybe some of them are lucky enough to avoid the damage or they specialize in defence to survive."

Sophia says, " Man that's cold."

" We're mercenaries in case you forgot." Lancer replied and Sophia laughs and says, " Yeah, you're right. Man we sure encountered someone formidable, Raiden Shogun huh. Now there's someone far more interesting than those two heroes."

Lancer sighs and says to his partner, " I think this will be a war between Three factions now instead of two. The good news is this Third faction is neutral so they won't actively fight to the either two factions, bad news is the Human and Demon faction's war will last for longer than before due to the Third player entering the board and made the two sides nervous."

Sophia grins and cheers up her partner, " Won't that make it more interesting? I'm pretty sure that Raiden Shogun is pissed off to that Goddess, that means she won't side with the Humans. Hey, did she even showed us her full power?"

Lancer closed his eyes and says, " You're right, that's another good news for the Demons. I don't think so, she didn't even looked tired after releasing that huge amount of magic power."

And the two stayed floating for a bit more longer.