The Karcist and the Lord

a S.C.P. Foundation Mythos x M.G.E. crossover

Chapter 19: The God-Eaters Wrath

As the Pantheon stared in disbelief and horror, Ion turned and faced them. His torso was covered in ichor, the yellow substance that was their equivalent to blood, leaving the thing before looking like a blood-covered creature. His eyes gazed at them, clearly not satisfied with just the one feeding. However, he did not attack them, yet.

Instead, he walked towards the former throne of Aries, as he communicated to them telepathically.

So, do I have your attentions now? Good. He said, gesturing to the table with a outstretched arm, as though nothing had transpire. While I would've consumed you all by now under normal circumstances, I have been given a... preposition by your leader, so I would like for you to sit and get comfortable.

"How do we know your not going to just do that anyways?" Eos asked, the God of Love visibly angry yet scared about what had happened to her friend. As her sisters made murmurs of agreement, she turned to the Chief God. "And what did you promise to this barbarian?! If you plan to sick him on the Mamono, then you are beyond incompetent! You are a genocidal monster, no better then your Order of tyrants and-"

Suddenly and without warning, the Chief God slammed her hands on the table, and stood up and glared into her upstart subordinates face, the sudden aggressiveness of her reaction making the goddess of Love stiffening up from the sheer rage being shown by the Chief God.

"WHY DON'T YOU JUST SHUT YOUR MOUTH FOR FIVE SECONDS!" She yelled. With a finger pointed at Ion, who sat in his new throne watching everything unfold, the Chief God let loose her anger towards her siblings, who were now silent.

"I had to sit and endure your bullshit for a thousand years, while abhorrent bestial Gods like him circle this world like sharks drawn to blood! You want to know why I was so desperate to kill the current Mamono Lord?! Because every time a Demon Realm is made, every time a Human is corrupted, and every second is spent without the Cycle is not fulfilled because you were not doing your duties, the Barrier that keeps this world from being destroyed slowly fades away a little more, and a little faster!" After this, she breathed in, then let out a sigh before continuing further, jabbing a finger into Eros' chest, who flinched in pain. The Chief God also began pointing at her peers. "And I allowed Grand Karcist Ion into Heaven, because he is likely the only one who'll practice enough restraint to not just wipe out this world and everything in it. And when I was thrust into the Throne of our Original Chief God and did not know what to do, did any of you even try to talk to me, to ask why I was so adamant about supporting the Order? No, instead you all ran off to help that damnable Succubus and her allies. Not. A. Single. One. For one thousand years, I was trying to prevent things like the Cult of Nalka from finding this world by killing the Mamono Lord and reinstating the Cycle. WELL CONGRATS, YOU STOPPED ME!" she screamed out in rage, holding her arms outwards as Ion turned the throne around to gaze at the Pantheon from behind her, amused by this greatly.

"So send your armies at him and his cultists then, not us." Hel said. At this, the Chief God slapped her, while Ion let out a wheezing sound.

"What armies?! Where do think the majority of my forces are, you idiot! Running around with the FALLEN GOD, dragging men into Pandemonium to bathe in their essence for eternity!" Hel looked her sibling with a shocked expression. As the rest of the Pantheon watched, the Chief God covered her eyes, which were overflowing with tears. After several loud sobs, she looked at them with sorrow and fear. "So I had to take action to limit what damage he will do, and where."

"What did you do?" Dionysus asked, apprehension and fear creeping into her voice. Before she spoke, Ion interjected.

There will be a time and a place for that conversation, but I do believe I have something to take care. He said. Specifically, a certain something Aries had been maintaining to help the Mamono indirectly. If I'm correct, it's a spell of sorts which made all but the most, hehehe, evil and cruel of the servants of the Order hesitate in killing their enemies. Let's see what I can do with such a spell. Ion said, as he laid back into the throne, and channeled his power through it. The Pantheon looked on in shock, as realization set in.

"Oh no, no..." Eos said, already feeling what Ion was doing to the hearts of the uncorrupted parts of Humanity, and in many places around the world, corrupted Human men and Incubi as well.

**POV SHIFT**

Eros

Ion began to take in what was going on throughout the land. He could see the planet like it was small ball that could fit in his hand. And in it, the many many souls of Monster and Human-kind alike. Aries, as the God of War, could make one stronger then they should be, and also would during the times of the Cycle make Humans and Monsters clash to the death. They would fight with all means they could, including biting tearing at each other if that was all they could, by filling them with an absolute hatred towards one another. Oft time, the wars that happened would leave entire fields of corpses miles around, blood covered wastelands of desolation that were a testament to the War Gods' influence.

After the Mamono rebellion was started however, Aries had been doing the opposite. She would essentially get Humans to feel guilt in murdering the 'innocent' Monsters, who were only looking for a husband after all. Ion internally felt disgust, which was surprising for him, but then again, he is not going to be one to talk for long. At Zipangu, he found a little village to perform, an experiment. He focused on what appeared to be a mansion, with the perfect opportunity to sit and watched his experiment play out.

He watched a Man try to argue with a Danuki that was threatening to kidnap his crippled wife to pay off a medical debt, how when he clenched his fist, he couldn't bring himself to commit to the action he so wanted to. Seeing this, the Mamono loan shark sneered. She began to say that was willing to forgive him, for a price, while looking at his pants. The couple were hesitant, as the spell of Aries was compelling them to submit to her, in her mansion where no one was looking but his wife, who was nursing a broken arm. The Grand Karcist was not having that.

So he made Aries' spell give him thoughts of rage, just like in the Cycle, and the results were immediate and glorious. As the man began to loosen his sash, he suddenly stopped, and began to struggle mentally and shake violently. As the Mamono looked on in confusion, she noticed the mans wife was convulsing as well. She began to wearily back up, until a crashing sound was heard. She ran out to the balcony to see what it was, and for what seemed the first time in the Danukis life, she felt fear, as a lynch mob of her 'clients' were fighting her bodyguards, a number of Goblins, Orcs, Oni, Orges, and a number of Dark Elves.

The Humans that were flowing past the now smashed gate were running over a cart full of marble, gravel, and stones. It was toppled on its side on top of the toppled iron grates, and the contents were also being picked up and thrown at the Mamono forces, or used to smash in the bodies of any Mamono unlucky enough to be surrounded by the berserk, screaming, raving, and bloodthirsty Humans. They were also using various other objects as well, mostly farm equipment and other things they picked up. The Mamono were in a disciplined formation yes, but the fact they never had to worry about any repercussions from their boss extorting these people meant they were outnumbered by a hilarious degree of around 70-to-1, and they might've had a chance if they managed to bottle neck the Humans when they first appeared, but alas, too late for that.

When the Danuki turned around, she saw the man come screaming at her, and dodged an attempt to stab her with chopsticks. The Human turned to her, and glared with such hate in his expression that the Danuki held out a hand with some gold on it, trying to pay him off. The Human slapped it away, sending the gold and silver coins flying away to the ground. He then grabbed her, and slammed her head into the wall, before stabbing her in the abdomen with the pair of chopsticks. She screamed in pain, punching him in the face hard enough to stagger him, and pulling out the wooden sticks so her regenerative abilities would heal her. As she turned to run, the Human Woman grabbed her by the neck with her good arm, having been standing back to let her husband perform his duty. When she saw the damnable creature try to sell away his rage, she cheered him for rejecting the offer. Now she was furious and angry beyond comprehension. Lifting the squealing and crying Mamono up with a strength she had never felt before, she threw the loan shark off the balcony into the crowd below, before going to her husband. When she watched him try to protect her, she felt love for him. Rekindled after years of never kindling it. When he finally became angry enough to try and kill the Mamono, a voice told her to gaze upon how he fought for her, how he screamed and raged at the Monster. When the man saw her, she flew into his arms, and the two went to the Danukis bed, ready to inflict one final insult to the little home wrecking shit, who was screaming from whatever was being done to her by the cheering and celebrating horde of Humans.

Scenes like this were happening throughout the world, however it was not all over like Ion expected. Curious, he proceeded to examine the areas not affected. Interestingly, he found that while every area was hit all at once to some degree, including the Demon Realms which were all created, the strongest and innermost territories of the Mamono, such as Royal Makai were relatively unscathed. He then went to work taking mental notes of the strongest Demon Realms, now content to sit back and watch the response from the Mamono. It will be good intel to see how their 'husbands' turning on them will affect the Monster Race as a whole.

**POV SHIFT**

Lescatie, outside the walls

As Sasha Fullmoon and the Were-Wolves exited the forest, they were shocked at the state the city in. The first sign something was wrong was smoke coming from its direction, and the group hasten their pace, afraid that the Order had launched a counter-attack.

But when they got there, confusion caused them to watch from a distance.

"What in the hell? Where's the Order crusaders?" a Were-Wolf by the name of Gennira asked, her fur standing on end."

"I don't know, but I would love to- HEY WAIT!" another one cried, as Sasha pushed through and ran at full speed, fear propelling her towards the city.

The children! I must save them! The Dark Priest thought, ignoring the cries from Primerias' pack mates as she ran into her home city of Lescatie, which was glowing an amber orange with a thousand flames, and smoke billowing out everywhere as the sounds of fighting once again engulfed city. But there were no moans of pleasure, only terror and panic.

When Sasha looked through the gate-house into Lescatie itself, what she saw caused her to stop. She saw none of the Chief Gods' servant fighting the Mamono forces. There were cries to her to grant them strength, and her banner was not being flown. What she was much worse.

For reasons she could not explain, a number of the menfolk of Lescatie were rioting and burning all around the street. The bodies of several dead Mamono were seen, but overall the reinforcements that were sent from Royal Makai were able to repel anyone attacking them. The problem is that the Humans were everywhere, and most of the casualties Sasha could see were from gangs of of the rioters singling out and attacking individual Monsters that over extended themselves. That, and said rioter could be sensed running around the entirety of Lescatie.

What in the Fallen Gods name is happening? Sasha thought, before she spotted a man coming at her with a blood-soaked meat cleaver in hand. He was covered in the red fluids, and as Sasha parried his strike, he punched her in the jaw with his free hand, his fist flew out with an unnatural swiftness.

"DIE!" he screamed, his throat horse from prolonged yelling as he raised it again. Sasha blasted him with a force blast, knocking into a wall. She sensed that while he was laying still, he was knocked out for now. She then saw an Orc who came up to her.

"What's going on here?" She asked.

"No fraking clue. Half the men here just went apeshit and started attacking their wives, burning and looting buildings, and killing both each other and any Mamono they can gang up on, and the other half is running around screaming like headless chickens. Just figuring out which of our men has gone psycho, and which of them is actually just scared shitless is bad enough, but since the rioters are intermingled with the panicking people, everything gone downhill."

"When the hell did all this happen?"

"No clue. My unit was told to get you and Primeria to the castle, but we got ambushed on the way several times! And these guys are just flat out insane with the stuff they're pulling off!" the Orc explained.

"What do you mean?" the Dark Priest asked, as the two ran to the keep.

"They have been improvising all sorts of shit that our forces aren't prepared to deal with. For example, there have been reports of men loading up barrels full of rocks and bricks, then rolling them downhill into formations of Mamono soldiers, often with their fellow rioters in the midst. One of the ambushes my unit encountered was the result of a Human throwing bottles of alcohol that were ignited by burning rags stuff into them! We have at least several confirmed sightings of Human Men also running out into the forest and scattering in different directions! We're too tied up here too deal with it, so the Lilium has left Merse in charge of stopping all this!" the Orc explained. This made Sasha suddenly grew worried.

"What about Garah, our husband?" Just as the Orc was about to answer, several musket shots were heard. Both Sasha Fullmoon and the Orc recoiled in pain as they were struck by the lead projectiles, and took cover in an alleyway. Sasha lucked with just a grazed arm, but when she heard a gasping wheeze, turned to see her fellow Mamono had taken the brunt of the gunshots, and had a hole in her throat and was holding onto her stomach. She likely hadn't felt it until the shock wore off, so Sasha immediately sprung into action to help her regenerate.

"No time. Get to the castle." the Orc said, pointing to the keep. She then passed out, the pain overwhelming her body. Sasha then ended up having to carry the Orc with her, as the sounds of someone about to round the corner were heard. When it turned out to be a Hell-Hound that pacified the men that shot her and the Orc, she calmed and allowed it to carry her to the keep.

When she got there, the first thing she did was run up to Merse and Wilmaria, who were dealing with several butlers that had been in the castle at the time all of this happened.

"Where's Garah?" she said, grabbing a hold of Merse. When she looked at Sasha she held her by the shoulders.

"I should probably show you." with a few minutes passing, they came to the entrance of the dungeon, from which screaming and wailing could be heard as Sasha gasped. The butlers were dragged along with them, and the Dark Elf to the side of the iron doors that marked its entrance opened them. As they walked down a dark and damp corridor, the loud screams and cursing was growing louder and louder, until Sasha came to the sight of the dungeon cells, all of which were packed with prisoners who were jostling and fighting each other.

Francesias' Roper tendrils could be seen trying to to help the guards contain the situation, but she could only bring out so many at a time, and every now and then Sasha could see a tendril retract back into a wall or the ceiling, mangled and bleeding from bite marks and bruises from being beaten repeatedly. One voice in particular screeched loudly and could be heard to her left. Sasha felt chills as she turned to the cell in question. A sudden crash was heard as the man on the other side shoulder slammed into the iron bars, and then let out another wailing scream of inarticulate rage and hatred. When he tried to grab her, Sasha recoiled in horror, staring into the enraged and frenzied eyes of Garah.

**POV SHIFT**

Pandemonium

All throughout the home dimension of the Cult of the Fallen God, a sense of urgency could be felt. They had been seeing what was happening outside their realm of eternal darkness, but fortunately, whoever undid Aries' charm upon Humanity was not able to influence any of the men inside, nor affected any of the area still held by the Order. Meanwhile, in a twisted parody of the Grand Palace of the Gods in Heaven, the Fallen God herself sat in her throne. Her arms were resting on her knees, and hers were interlocked her chin as her Dark Angels, Valkyries, and Priests began to report the sudden wave of violence that engulfed the entirety of the Mamono territories.

She had designed Pandemonium to be an almost exact duplicate of Heaven, as she believed, along with the rest of the Pantheon that the Fallen God herself should be the one to rule it, and thus she overtime made Pandemonium a recreation of Heaven, but made to suit her tastes. It carried the exact layout, but scaled down in size, and when the Fallen God grew more powerful, so too did her realm.

That idiot! She thought, getting up and forming fists that clenched in the same fury that was on her face. The doors opened, and the Monster Lord walked in.

"I'm here to demand an explanation about this-"

"Not now. First, we need to speak with the Chief God and the Pantheon at once." the deity interrupted.

"No, we're talking about this now, why did you slaughter Human men and women instead of converting them?" the Monster Lord replied, annoyance at this sudden rudeness towards her. She also grabbed the Fallen God by the arm, pulling on it so the goddess stared at her.

"Those may have once been Human, but they are beyond saving. Now, you will let me-"

"MILORD!" A Dark Angel cried, pointing the black sky. When the two looked up, they saw that a blot of the darkness was turning as red as blood, then lighten to a rose-tint. It was then that a figure shaped like a man could be seen within the spot. It was sitting in the Throne of Aries, with a yellow substance leaking from his torso, and where his face was supposed to be was only a shaped mask fused in the red flesh which made up his body. Three eyes arranged vertically on the left half on his face stared down, staring into the souls of all in Pandemonium, causing fear to run down their spines. They could feel this unknown thing was judging them, how it's power was not something that was of this world. The Fallen God herself began to mutter something under her breath, as the vision faded, and the skies turned back to darkness as the new God withdrew its presence.

The Monster Lord, however, recognized this feeling. This thing was what attacked her daughter, this thing was what brought such suffering to her people, and was responsible for this new wave of violence threatening to undo everything the Mamono were fighting for. She turned the Fallen God, who clearly recognized it.

"What is that?"

"That, milord, is why I sent an army to kill the Bone Men. That is their God, the Grand Karcist, Ion the God-Eater. And if he is here, the Chief God has just damned us all." the Fallen God said, glaring into the Monster Lords' eyes.

**POV SHIFT**

Grand Palace of the Gods, Heaven

As Ion withdrew his mind back to his body, the Pantheon stared on, their fear of him palpable and sweet. He could tell they knew what he had just done, and his sheer uncaring display of power made them tremble.

"Why?" Hel asked, her voice horse and tense with anger. "Do you not care at all what will become of this world?"

Does it like I do at the moment? Ion asked. I'm now offering you, an ultimatum. As you have been officially helping the Chief God, it has been no secret you all have in reality been loyal to the Mamono Lord. She was not able to banish any of you, due to your combined power, and the fact it would've meant calling for a Pantheon vote, something only she is allowed to do. Now, you do so no more, as I extend one last choice. The Sorcerer King of Adytum explained, holding up a finger. You can continue your defiance against her, and be cast out of Heaven. You will be hunted, and those I capture, well Aries should be a good demonstration of what I'll do... Ion then held up a second finger.

...Or, you can bend the knee, and beg for forgiveness and mercy. If you do that, you will then swear fealty to me like your sister has done, and I will stay my hand, and let you live. In exchange, you will cut all ties with the Mamono Lord at once, relinquish and deny her further support, and you will reinstate the Cycle, but this version will be one of my own design. You will then perform your duties, and I will rule this world as its new Chief God.

Ion then stood up, and the Pantheon shirked back, as he practically towered over them. Once you decide, know this: there will be no going back from your choice to stay and obey, or leave and defy my will...