THE GATHERING OF FIVE ARMIES
THE GATHERING OF FIVE ARMIES
The demons from the Grey and Crawling militias had nowhere else to go and they had little choice in the matter too. They have to either submit to the woman, the self-proclaimed Savior or die. And they chose to surrender to Eirot immediately.
"Crucifix of Damnation"
Eirot opened her hands and an open fracture in the sky appeared like a bright shining cross before the demons. The surrendered demons prostrated themselves before the Savior, as her mark of ownership was placed on them.
Soon, the demons were quickly transported into Eirot's realm. Even the dead demons were saved by the Savior as their bodies and souls were taken into the realm of damnation.
More than five thousand of the demons of Grey and Crawling were defeated and their demonic souls redeemed by the Savior.
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We didn't rest for long after our battle, as we marched toward Crawling Castle which was the closest to us among the two enemy clans that attacked us.
Brathnok paraded the head of the General of Crawling in front of the Castle as thousands of demons were shouting their warcries loudly behind him.
Then Eirot arrived on Aloysius, her flying elephant flanked by a hundred powerful Demonlords.
"I am Eirot, ruler of this realm. I give you a chance, surrender now and join our army or be destroyed like your old lord", Eirot shouted to the guards in Castle Crawling.
There were still a few thousand demons in the castle who could make up an army but most of them were weaker demons who were workers rather than fighters.
Crawling castle surrendered to Eirot without much hesitation and our army marched into the castle and we reached the castle's Pool of Suffering.
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"I shall claim this Pool of Suffering. Come out Guardian and relinquish your command over this pool", Eirot said to the pool.
Suddenly, a large Incarnate of Xerrus appeared before us like what happened before in the other two pools that we captured earlier.
"To take my pool you must pass the Trial of Killing", the Incarnate Xerrus said to Eirot.
"Stop it. Surrender now or we'll really kill you", Alfred appeared from Eirot's realm to talk to the Incarnate.
"You why are you serving this human woman?", Xerrus asked Alfred.
"Because we are not the Mistress' match and she is the Savior we are waiting for", Alfred told the incarnate.
The Incarnates of Xerrus were mentally linked because they were born from the same Xerrus. The Incarnate of the Crawling Pool opened his mind to Alfred, and they shared their memories.
"Is this true?", the Incarnate Xerrus asked Alfred, but it was a rhetorical question that Alfred would not have to answer.
Their intimate mental link couldn't be faked or forged. The vision that Alfred shared with the Incarnate of Xerrus was true.
But the Incarnate Xerrus still insisted on following the rules.
"Are you submitting to me or do you seek death", Eirot asked the Incarnate again giving him an ultimatum.
"I cannot submit to you even if I must perish. It is my duty to protect this pool with my life", the Incarnate Xerrus told us.
"So be it", Eirot said to Xerrus.
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The destiny of the Incarnate Xerrus was sealed the moment we arrived at the Pool of Suffering. His defeat became inevitable as we nullified his most potent magic, his fiery breaths, with my own Chaos magic.
Aware of his vulnerability, his necks, we swiftly severed his multiple heads, rendering him powerless.
Eirot seized control of the core of the Pool of Suffering along with all its magma, improving the magic and power of her Soul of Damnation.
With our sights set on Grey Castle, Eirot soon captured another Pool of Suffering.
Alfred's power grew with Eirot, and the improvement manifested in the form of two additional wolf heads on him.
Word spread swiftly throughout Hell of a formidable new entity emerging, prompting neighboring Lords to take heed. Such occurrences were rare in Hell, and the Lords were wary of any disruption to the delicate balance of power.
Before long, a coalition of five neighboring castles marshaled their forces and set forth to confront us, intent on quelling the burgeoning threat.
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"Thank you for your help. We would not have subdued the Grey and Crawling clans if your gravity field did not immobilize the ground demons", Eirot said to Anitor and the Control Freak.
We would not be able to confine the ground forces of the Grey and Crawling demon clans if Anitor's gravity magic didn't stop their movements.
The Control Freak, by just the five of them stopped the entire ground forces of the Grey and Crawling in place, while the rest of our demons rose to fight the Demonlords in the sky.
"What is the weapon that your demons used to kill the Demonlords? They could kill them so effectively?" Epius asked me about the metal pikes that our Demonlords used to kill the other demons.
"Those pikes are made from a strong alloy containing Mithrium. Demon's armor couldn't resist the magic of Mithrium", I replied to him.
"Where did you get so many Mithrium pikes? Don't the Church have a monopoly over this material?" Iras asked me.
"You wouldn't want to know how we got them", I replied to him.
"Yeah, we don't want to become their accessory to the crime", Eless told them.
"You have done your part in the mission. You can return to Savior Island, and we would give you enough Hell rocks to complete your mission from the Conjurer Court", I told Iras and the Control Freak.
Suddenly, someone rushed into our Hell Tank to inform me about something.
"The five neighboring Lords are marching to meet our army. They must have found out we destroyed both the clans of Grey and Crawling, and they must stop us before our forces grow stronger", Demonlord Brathnok reported to us.
"It seems we still have work to do before we return to the Ten-Kingdoms", Iras said to us.
Suddenly, Eirot experienced a vision and fell unconscious.
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