I'm back everyone with a new chapter for you all to either enjoy or despise with all of your hatred, whatever works for you all.
For this chapter we will be checking on E.N.D and the world he's currently on, and whatever else I decide to add in here in case things end up being too short. So let's dive in shall we?
Oh and since I doubt I will be updating any of my stories again before the holiday season is over, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR(AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME ALSO ON NEW YEARS!)
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EDIT: I F**KED UP BADLY! MADE A HUGE MISTAKE INVOLVING "thehappy"'s STUFF MENTIONED NEAR THE END. SO BITS OF THE END OF THE CHAPTER HAVE BEEN REWRITTEN TO CORRECT SUCH MISTAKES.
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Chapter Twenty Four: The Black Giant
'EARTHLAND 1492-B'
In a barren opened canyon located somewhere in the nation of Fiore, mountains with little life standing tall all around the land as sand was blown by the wind, a large hovering warship of Alvarez was spotted flying stationary in its spot over the canyon down below. Its loud engine emitting a constant hum while the small army of Alvarez soldiers remained present inside, having yet to be sent out and deployed.
On a cliff overlooking the wide and empty canyon stood two figures as they observed the land before them. One of them was a woman who wore black colored robes with silver edges and lines all over the clothing, covering most of her pale skinned well-endowed body. A purple tabard was also visible on her body bearing a black colored symbol of Alvarez. A hood covered her head, hiding her long pale white hair while a mask that resembled a screeching skull covered her face, preventing anyone from seeing her blue colored eyes, though her eyes could be seen glowing blue through the skull mask's eyeholes. A large staff that has purple-like necromantic energy coursing through it as it emitted a faint glow. This woman was Hocia Metus, a captain of Alvarez and of her own forces.
The other figure was a young lean muscular man with messy blonde hair and brown colored eyes. Compared to his companion his clothing didn't look as sinister nor as concealing. His chest was exposed allowing his muscular chest and abdomen to be seen by all, and he wore a brown robe with blue patterns on it from the waist down. He also wore two leather shoulder pads with each one possessing a floating ice crystal hovering over the pieces of armor as they emitted a faint glow themselves. On his hands contained sharp clawed fist weapons that faintly glowed red with fire. Last but not least he also wore brown sandals. This young man's name was Unyel Emberwhisper, a shaman of the Elemental Circle and the lieutenant of Hocia.
"I can hardly sense much life on this world… it seemed to not possess a large population compared to most worlds we've gone too." Unyel noticed, while he could still sense plenty of people on the surface of this world thanks to his connection to the elements, it was still small compared to most Earthlands.
"I can see that, I don't think there's even a billion people living on this world. But it will make our job easier I suppose." Hocia responded with an amused expression on her face, though none would be able to tell due to her hood and mask.
The cliff beneath their feet shook for a few moments as the two felt another presence next to them, with Hocia and Unyel turning towards the source of the shaking while the female captain remaining smiling.
"Don't you think so too Lukgan?" The necromancer asked.
The one she was speaking too was the massive giant that was now standing present near the cliff where the captain and her lieutenant were standing on with only his head visible for them to see from their spot. Standing around one hundred meters tall, the massive entity wore black molten armor that covered his entire body, with numerous large spikes emerging and sticking out of his back as the skeletons of what seems to be a few dragons were present stuck to some of them. His head was completely covered by the armor with two large horns that curved upward to the sky apart of the helmet. The only thing that was visible was the two glowing crimson colored eyes visible for all to see. Last but not least, a large pitched black metallic sword was strapped to his waist, the end of it being dragged onto the ground causing the ground he walked by to splinter from the sheer size of his weapon.
As the captain stated, this massive behemoth was Lukgan, a member of a race of giants of humongous proportions that serve faithfully to the Alvarez Empire back on the Earthland they came from, as well as a lieutenant to the necromancer herself.
"I can feel the stench of demonic filth in the air… a demon is present of this world." Lukgan spoke, his deep and powerful voice booming across the open canyon around them all.
Hearing him say those words got the two much smaller entities to be surprised before they tried to sense the same energy like the giant did.
"Now that you mentioned it, I can sense a presence of Fel Energy to the north of our location. Is it one of those demons we heard about?" Unyel asked. Unlike many others in Alvarez they themselves have yet to encounter the unknown and vile race of demons, only having heard about it from those who have face them on different worlds.
"If that's the case it doesn't change why we're here. We will crush it and take this world for Alvarez. And luckily for us…," Hocia started to speak as she took a few steps forward closer to the edge of the cliff, overlooking the massive expanse of land that lied down below in the canyon around them. Seeing the sight got her to smirk, "This area reeks of deceased souls, it seems like a large battle had taken place here at some unknown time. But now those who fallen here will aid us in taking this world."
Turning towards her blonde haired lieutenant, she smiled more even though her hood and mask blocked it from being seen to her companion before she motioned him to come closer to her side, which he proceeded to do.
"I take it you want us to do the usual?" Unyel asked as the white haired woman nodded in response.
"Yes, let us ensure both the dead and the elements are united to crush our enemies." She responded, lifting her staff in front of her.
Nodding in agreement, Lukgan remained idle as both the necromancer and shaman begun to work. Raising his hands up above him, Unyel started to channel his power through his body while Hocia did the same through her staff, both combining their respective power to raise and empowered the dead they were about to raise.
And then without warning, the two unleashed numerous large bolts of elemental and necromantic Magic down throughout the opened canyon below and before them all, tearing the surface of the land apart while their power expanded throughout the area.
Not even a few moments after this was begun did large hordes of skeletal undead started to arise from the torn apart grounds far down below the shaman and necromancer from the cliff they stood on. The numerous dead corpses that slumbered underneath the barren land arisen with the armor and weapons they once wore while alive from so long ago. However, the undead also had ice covering parts of their bodies, showing that they were imbued with the element enhancing their strength. Some undead had their bodies conjoined into larger undead ice covered golem with multiple skulls acting as its head while swords and other weapons stuck out of their backs. Some even had large weaponry frozen in place where hands would be, there were numerous differences in each of the larger ice imbued undead golems.
Their cries of undeath shrieks filled the air that could be heard throughout the opened canyon while Hocia and Unyel ended their unison technique, observing the large ice undead army that now lied before them all.
"There we go, see? Now we don't even have to waste using our own men and women to fight and take this world." Hocia told the blonde shaman, who looked at the sight before him with an unsettled frown. He was still not used to using the elements to combine with raising the undead even if the elements consented to allow such a thing take place.
"No matter how many times we've done this, I can't help but feel unsettled every time." Unyel admitted looking down at the ice imbued undead army down in the canyon below.
"Do not worry, once they have fulfilled their purpose they will return to their slumber," Hocia told the blonde man before walking over towards him, taking his right arm in her own before pushing his arm into her large breasts, getting him to blush slightly from the contact, "Once we finish taking this world and setting up for settlement and colonization, we will take a small break to recharge from this constant conquest. And since how big of a help you have been, I'll be sure to give you a… pleasurable reward."
She couldn't help but grin as Unyel's blush grew even more from the implication despite how they were in a relationship for over a year. She always had him putty in her hands.
Lukgan didn't pay attention to this as he started to go on the move, planning on leading this undead army to conquer this world and bring it under Alvarez control. The land shook with each step he took as the invasion of this Earthland had begun in fullest.
'IN CROCUS'
A yawning Hisui move slowly into the massive kitchen that the palace possessed, being one of the last to wake up and start the day. She was moving rather slowly due to the soreness she felt due to last night getting it on with Natsu along with Lucy, Erza, Sidalo and the other women that took part. However that wasn't on her mind as eating grabbed her attention as she closed in towards her destination.
In the large kitchen others such as Natsy, Lucy and Erza were awake and were already eating at a large table that held a grand breakfast for many to eat. A few other women were also present on the table, some who she recognize from last night as they seduced the pink haired man and others who didn't take part just yet, mainly the maids and guards as they also helped prepared the food and keep an eye on everyone. At the end of the table sat her mother Hoseki eating with polite manners. Sidalo no where to be seen, probably already having returned to her duties elsewhere.
The green haired queen felt another presence arriving towards the table as she looked up to her right to see her daughter approaching them, a small smile on her face from seeing her child.
"Ah Hisui, looks like you decided to finally get up have you?" Hoseki asked, getting the attention of the others as they saw the green haired Princess making her way towards them.
"Hey Hisui! Did you sleep well?" Natsu asked after swallowing some bits of his waffles with a smile on his face, getting the green haired female to smile softly as she took a seat next to her mother, a plate of food already prepared in advance for the Princess of Fiore.
"Slept like an infant. Don't think I have slept that good in months." Hisui admitted while she too started to eat her meal in a polite manner like her mother and the other women present.
"Same here," Erza admitted as her eyes trailed over to Natsu who was enjoying his nice breakfast with the female company around him, "Then again after how long we went at it last night it would be a given we would be tired out completely for a good night sleep."
That got a blush to form on Natsu's face with embarrassment, looking down slightly after recalling last night.
"True, he did make us feel so good yet was so gentle and loving at the same thing." Lucy recalled with a small smile and a blush on her face, remembering how Natsu managed to make them all feel loved and so intimate as they handed their bodies for him.
That merely got steam to erupt from his head, which got the other women to giggle from his reaction. He was so innocent even despite having slept with numerous women last night.
"So… when will I be expecting grandchildren Hisui?" Hoseki asked with a teasing grin, getting her daughter to blush herself as she looked at the food before her.
"We're working on it…" Was all she muttered, getting the queen to giggle herself in amusement.
"That's good," She admitted before thinking to herself with excitement and love as her gaze turned towards the still blushing pink haired young man, 'Of course, I won't let you and your friends have him to yourselves. But you don't need to know that yet.'
Yep, the queen was planning to give herself to Natsu also. After all, from how long she has known him and knowing how he was like she knew she wouldn't mind being with him. Unlike with Hisui who was conceived through magical means thanks to women she knew who possess Magic, she planned on giving Natsu some loving and having him give her some in return.
"By the way," Erza asked towards the queen, getting her to look over towards Irene's daughter with a curious expression, "Did that E.N.D creature wake up by chance?"
Hoseki nodded as the other occupants at the table listened in as they were too curious if the black winged demon awoke or not.
"He did not too long before you all woke up. He looked… how should I say this… very annoyed and didn't seem to have gotten up much sleep. I do wonder what kept him up at night." Hoseki wondered putting her hand on her chin in a thinking manner, completely unaware that her daughter and the other women having sex with Natsu deprived him from his sleep.
"Where is he now?" Lucy questioned with curiosity as the queen looked over to Layla's daughter.
"Last I have been informed he's in the courtyard." Hoseki informed her and the others, confusing them as they wondered why the demon was hanging out there of all places.
'WITH E.N.D'
The courtyard of palace, a place where grass and flowers grew next to the concrete paths that led inside to the large palace in the center of the city with female guards patrolling said paths. A fountain was present in the center of a diversion path while gardens were also around growing beautiful flowers. Also present in this area was a pond with kohaku fish swimming peacefully in the pond.
Hovering over this pond was where E.N.D was currently located, his legs crossed along with his arms as an aura of Fel Magic enveloped his body. His eyes were closed as he focused on his mental training and mediating. He didn't usually do this but since he didn't have much else to really get down and wreck he resorted to this.
Deep within his mind, E.N.D found himself in a dark abyss filled with emptiness. His eyes were still closed as he focused on images of Gor, Ebur, Ternir and Irroth appearing around him, each image of the Fel Etherious he had personally killed looking ready to tear him apart. With that in mind, he opened his eyes and powered up, prepared to fight.
Gor rushed in to his left while Ebur charged to his right, with E.N.D retaliating by raising both of his arms to block the incoming punches, causing a small shockwave before the Fel Demon grabbed both of them by the fists and slammed the two demons into one another. Jumping back a good distance, he fired off a large blast of Fel Fire towards the group that consumed the two images of the demons, erasing them. As he landed on his feet, he swiftly turned around to block another punch thrown by Ternir who then reacted by jumped over the demon and proceeded to kick him in the back, launching E.N.D a good distance away into he ground. Luckily however E.N.D managed to get back up in time and turned around to duck underneath another punch thrown by the image of the crimson skinned demon. Seeing an opening E.N.D delivered a strong uppercut into the demon's chest, causing the image of the Fel Etherious to shout in pain before he was launched up into the air. Finishing this quick, the Fel Demon then proceeded to unleash a Fel Fire Roar towards the muscular demon which ultimately consumed him, putting an end to the image.
That left only one left, Irroth. The image of the Fel Etherious general grinning like a madman stood still in his location as if he was waiting for the other demons to be taken care of before he stepped in. Irrosh got into a fighting position while he powered up, as E.N.D did the same thing to continue his training. The two dashed at one another, prepared to battle one another…
"E.N.D!"
That got him to snap out of his thoughts as well as making him loose focus. The aura around his body vanished before he found himself plummeting into the pond beneath him, causing a large splash to take place.
The one who shouted his name, one Irene Belserion who was passing by with her own squadron, looked on in puzzlement from the reaction she had got. E.N.D resurfaced a few moment later with a kohaku fish on top of his head before shaking it off, allowing it to go back into the water around the now annoyed Fel Demon.
"THE F**K WAS THAT FOR WOMAN?! I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF FOCUSING ON SOMETHING!" E.N.D shouted as he jumped out of the pond before landing near the armored covered crimson haired mother of Erza who flinched a little from his words. It was clear that the demon was ticked off for being interrupted.
"My apologies, I did not realize you were so focused on something. I thought you were merely resting over the pond." Irene admitted, getting the demon to scoff from her words.
"Trust me I don't have time to rest now despite it being deprived from me last night. I was working on mental training since I doubt you all would like it if I decided to turn your courtyard and city into a personal training ground." E.N.D responded to the demon who crossed his arms in annoyance while Irene got confused.
"Why were you unable to fall asleep? Was the bed we provided not comfortable enough for you?" She asked with a raised eyebrow. After all before her was a demonic creature with horns and wings, so maybe he didn't find a normal bed to be much use?
Being reminded of what kept him up at night got a tick mark to form on the black winged demon's forehead while gritting his teeth from being kept up almost all night long.
"No, the bed was fine. It was just your daughter, Natsu and who knows how many women F**KING ALL NIGHT LONG SO LOUDLY THAT I COULDN'T EVEN BLOCK IT OUT NO MATTER HOW HARD I TRIED TO DO!" E.N.D roared aloud in anger, catching the red head woman off guard as a faint blush formed on her face from being told that.
"O… Oh. My apologizes, I was unaware." Irene replied while E.N.D only grunted.
"Whatever. This time tonight just put me in a room that isn't next to Natsu's or any of the other women so I can rest peacefully." E.N.D requested as Irene nodded, making a mental note to tell the queen that the demon wants to be relocated somewhere else.
It stayed silent for a moment before Irene spoke up once more, grabbing the Fel Demon's attention.
"So… E.N.D, by any chance do you know the me from the world you come from?" Irene asked, getting the demon to raise an eyebrow from the request, yet didn't see a reason not to answer her question.
"I do, you live with me, Natsu and the other women in the Crocus back home. And in case you're wondering you are also with Natsu as with the other women." E.N.D answered the red head woman, who looked surprised to hear that while a faint blush formed on her face.
"Really now?" She asked once more to make sure, with E.N.D nodding in agreement as the red head processed this information. So her double got with the demon's own version of the pink haired young man? That was interesting to hear, not like she could blame her double. If this other Natsu was anything like their own, she wouldn't be surprise if that was the case, "You mentioned he was with others, may I ask who these other lovers your Natsu is with?"
"That's a rather odd request and kind of creepy to ask." E.N.D admitted with a deadpanned expression on his face.
"How is that creepy?" Irene asked, unsure why that would be the case as the Fel Demon only shook his head.
"Nevermind, so you want to know who is with my other half and who lives with us in the palace right? Let's see here…," E.N.D started to say as he begun to recount the women who he was living with and who were with his pink haired idiotic half, "There's Hisui of course since she's the Princess and practically owns the place along with her dad-."
"Princess Hisui has a father where you're from?" Irene interrupted with surprised. Hisui has an actual dad in this other world the demon was from? But why wasn't queen Hoseki mentioned? Was she no longer around in this alternate Earthland?
"Shut up and let me finish. Now as I was saying, there was Hisui, then of course there's yourself, Erza and Lucy. Then there's Mira, Lisanna, Juvia, Cana, Kinana, Kamika, Cosmos, Meredy-." E.N.D had started to say and would have continued to finish listing off those he was living with and who was dating his other half…
(Cue: "AXIS" by Tom Player)
…If the ground didn't begin to shake for unknown reason, nearly causing E.N.D and Irene to loose their footing as the shaking ceased for a moment before it picked up again, repeating this process.
"What the f**k?!" E.N.D questioned aloud, turning his head in all directions as other nearby guards patrolling the courtyard were also caught unaware of the sudden shaking.
"What was that?!" Irene asked aloud as she pulled her weapon out, her senses were screaming at her that danger was closing in. But what kind of danger she was unsure, but her instincts never let her down before, so she wasn't going to doubt them now.
"How should I know the answer to that woman?!" E.N.D shouted at the red head. He didn't know what was going on either so why would she think he would have an answer to that?
But then his eyes widened as he felt it. Numerous energy signatures were now being sensed as a stern and serious expression appeared on his face as he looked to the west, looking annoyed as he sensed incoming danger.
"Oh you have got to be kidding me." E.N.D muttered to no one in particular.
Outside of the city, the female guards that patrol the entry ports and the surrounding border of the city also felt the shaking of the ground. Naturally this caused them to be both confused yet alarmed as they readied their weapons.
"What's going on?" One of them questioned, unsure of what was exactly happening.
Nearby one of the watchtowers that surround the city of Crocus, the female sentinels present at the top of these structures looked out with their telescopes to see if the source of the shaking was coming from somewhere nearby the city.
Once they did, their eyes widened in horror as they took a step back, shaking slightly in fear.
"W… What the f**k?" One of them muttered which got those who didn't notice to take the telescope from the fear filled sentinels and looked out into the opened flat valley where Crocus resided in.
When they did, they too felt shocked and horror.
In the distance slowly closing in towards the large city, hordes of ice imbued undead were seen trampling over the land as they closed in towards Crocus. Many were small while some were large and combined into ice covered undead golem-like creatures also. A single airship of an unknown nation that they didn't recognize was spotted also hovering high over the land and undead army below.
But what stood out the most however, and the source of the shaking of the ground they felt beneath their feet, was the massive one hundred meter tall black armored giant that was also, not exactly running but quicker than walking, making his way to the city in the middle of the undead ice empowered hordes around him. His massive blade in hand as with each step he took the land beneath his feet quake from the force of the massive giant.
Luckily, one of them managed to snap out of their fear induced state before rushing over to the large bell hanging in the center of the room overlooking at the top of the watchtower before ringing it loudly, getting the attention of other nearby watchtowers who also ringed aloud, signaling the alarm to be heard throughout the entire city.
"EVERYONE! GET INTO POSITIONS!" A female sergeant shouted to her squadrons around her, getting them to quickly move on their feet to prepare for the incoming large scale attack of ice imbued undead. Turning to a few scouts standing by, she quickly gave them orders with haste, "BEGIN EVACUATION OF THE CITY! AND ALERT THE QUEEN AND ORDER BACK UP! WE CAN'T ALLOW THOSE THINGS GET IN THE CITY!"
The scouts shouted agreements to their superior before using their Magic to boost their speed to travel as quick as they can. As they bolted away from the watchtower and the edge of the city's borders and into the city to do just that. With the forces already gathered outside of the city's borders and prepared for the incoming army. Though they all knew there were outmatched. There was like more than a million of the undead while so far they only had around a few thousand troops at most stationed at the border of Crocus. But nevertheless, they prepared to give their lives if it meant protecting everything inside of the city.
It didn't take long before the first wave of the ice imbued undead arrived, with a large ice covered undead golem being the first to strike as it plowed its way through numerous female soldiers like nothing, sending them all flying into the air before crashing down to the ground. More undead rushed in as many either tried to pass the small number of soldiers or simply fought through the defense, with some struggling to hold back the rush of undead.
Luckily, before any could get fully pass them, a certain Fel Demon arrived onto the scene flying from the sky before crashing down on to the ground, unleashing a large blast of Fel Fire that struck and disintegrated a good amount of the undead that first arrived. This gave the remaining soldiers a breather before E.N.D made haste before firing off numerous blasts of Fel Fire from his hands towards the onslaught of ice infused undead ahead of them, each blast going outward into the field surrounding Crocus and detonating on impact, wiping out thousands of them in a matter of moments.
However, E.N.D raised his eyes upwards to see the still distant yet fast approaching black armored giant ahead, getting the demon to widen his eyes in surprised before gritting his teeth once more.
"Wow… that's one tall bastard," E.N.D spoke to no one in particular before turning around towards the women soldiers around him, "Keep holding the line and try to deal with the undead, I'll handle the big one over there."
"WHAT?! ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!" One of the female soldiers asked, unable to think that this creature that had crashed into the palace a week ago thought it could take down that behemoth making his way over to the city. Not to mention the undead still have them greatly outnumbered by like a million.
"Relax, I'll be sure to clear a good portion of the undead in the process to give you all a fighting chance. The rest of these walking corpses you will have to deal with, but I'll make sure the big guy doesn't get to your city." E.N.D told the soldiers around him with a confidence grin while he cracked his knuckles.
And before any of them could get another word in, the Fel Demon powered up further, unleashing a shockwave from his form before he bolted off into the large undead army, bulldozing any that were unfortunate enough to be in his way leaving behind a trail of charred ground in the process.
E.N.D continued to fly slightly over the ground while unleashing a large vortex of Fel Fire that pulled in and obliterated any undead caught in his warpath. The demon would also fire off blasts of his demonic flames elsewhere into the hordes of ice imbued undead causing massive explosions that took down undead by the tens or hundreds of thousands in order for the city to have a fighting chance to fend the remaining undead off themselves. Seeing the approaching giant ahead, E.N.D grinned before picking up his speed plowing through many more skeletal undead in his way.
Lukgan noticed the incoming demon's present, causing him to cease his movement to wait for the demon to come towards him. His large sword in hand, the one hundred meter tall black armored giant awaited for his opponent to reach to his location.
E.N.D eventually closed the distance as he set off a large explosion of Fel Fire from his body large enough to engulf hundreds of thousands of the undead all around him once more, clearing the area around him and taking care of a huge chunk of the undead army for the most part before he took off straight into the sky above to better get a look at the giant before him face to face. Hovering high over the ground, the Fel Demon looked ahead to see the black armored giant ahead of him a small distance. The giant's gaze staring straight into E.N.D own much smaller body.
"You use the Fel… but you're not the same as those other demons we heard about. Who are you?" Lukgan asked, his voice booming over the large land all around them with Crocus far in the background behind the Fel Demon in front of the giant.
"Don't know me do you? I am E.N.D, and I'll be the one to bash your ugly face in. Speaking of which, is this some kind of giant growing ability you have or are you just naturally this tall?" E.N.D couldn't help but ask, wondering if this guy was this big due to an ability he had to alter his size.
Lukgan scoffed at that as his gaze remained on the much smaller black skinned winged demon before his face.
"I am a giant, my people serve the Emperor and Alvarez. Do my kind not exist where you are from little demon?" Lukgan informed and questioned, surprising E.N.D from this revelation. This guy was a giant? What kind of giant though since the ones he knows of were no where near as big as this guy was.
"So you're with that world hopping Alvarez huh? And to answer your question, giants do exist where I'm from, but no where near as large as you are. Are you from a certain race of giants that differs from normal ones or something?" E.N.D asked in curiosity.
The demon however shook his head before he focused on the task at hand, remembering that this giant guy was an enemy while a confident grin formed on the demon's face.
"Whatever, no matter how tall you are I'll strike you down. And unfortunate for you, due to your size I can tell you no doubt have sh*t speed, so you can't even touch me!" E.N.D shouted as he prepared to dive toward the black armored giant before him.
And with hat E.N.D dashed through the air with great speed with his fists pulled back, reading to attack the giant once he got close enough…
…Only for Lukgan to seemly vanish in his place, shocking E.N.D before the giant reappeared right behind the winged demon. If one could see his face underneath his black molten armor, they would have seen an amused smirk on his face.
"Speed like this little demon?" Lukgan taunted with amusement.
E.N.D couldn't react in time to say or dodge before the giant threw a punch with his free hand not holding his sword directly into the much smaller entity, making a direct impact into the Fel Demon with E.N.D being launched through the air like a rocket while a shockwave resulted from the impact. The Fel Demon then found himself crashing and skipping over the ground before coming to a stop, his face planted onto the ground before he slowly got up.
When he turned around his eyes widened as he saw the giant having jumped into the air with his sword ready to be swung vertically, causing E.N.D to bolt with great speed to dodge the incoming attack. Lukgan landed as his blade crashed into the ground, shattering the land beneath its weight while unleashing a devastating shockwave that decimated the land in front of him for a few miles ahead. Acting quickly E.N.D dashed through the air with great speed before slamming his knee into the cheek of Lugkan who was unable to react in time to dodge or block the small attacker, causing the giant to nearly stumble back a bit before recovering. With his sword in hand the giant swung it at the Fel Demon who flew out of the way to avoid the massive blade that rivaled the size of a skyscraper. Flying above the surface of the sharp blade towards the black armored giant, E.N.D raised his hands before firing off numerous blasts of Fel Fire directly into Lukgan's face once more causing him to stumble a bit backwards once more. Flying high above the massive entity before him, E.N.D raised his hands up above him before forming a large ball of Fel Energy with a grin plastered on his face. And not wasting time proceeded to chuck it directly at the giant beneath him.
Unfortunately however Lukgan managed to recover from the other blasts to his face in time to raise his left arm up before slamming the large Fel Energy ball with said limb, deflecting the demonic attack as it flew into the air before it detonated, causing a large explosion that shook the air. However, this left Lukgan opened for a moment as E.N.D once more dived down to deliver a kick straight into the giant's cheek, causing him once more to nearly topple over. The giant recovered as E.N.D flew around the demon quickly before diving in to strike him from behind, unfortunately for E.N.D however Lukgan retaliated quickly by swiftly turning around before slamming his left arm into the much smaller entity, crashing directly into E.N.D which sent him flying through the air far away from Crocus and the land around it and towards the nearby mountains. Lukgan quickly followed after the airborne demon taking off on foot, each step he took shook the very land beneath him as he did so. E.N.D meanwhile managed to recover from the earlier attack stopping himself mid air before he could crash into the nearby mountain not too far behind him only to look up and see Lukgan running towards him with his blade still in hand. Gritting his teeth in annoyance, E.N.D fired off numerous blasts of Fel Fire from his hands at a rapid rate towards the incoming massive giant. The black armored giant in response to seeing the incoming attack merely jumped up high into the air once more, shocking the Fel Demon before he quickly bolted through the air to avoid Lukgan's blade being swung at him as he landed on his feet. This resulted in shattering the mountain ahead of the giant while shaking and crushing the very land beneath his form in the process.
Back on the distance Alvarez airship hovering over the land with the city of Crocus in their view with the remaining undead attacking the defending forces and breaching into the city, both Hocia and Unyel looked on towards the mountain as their massive comrade could still be seen pretty far due to his massive size with surprised expressions.
"That demon managed to wipe out most of the undead army in a matter of moments! And now he's facing against Lukgan without dying already?" Hocia questioned with irritation in her voice, not liking this turn of events.
"His opponent must be pretty strong if their lasting this long against Lukgan," Unyel figured before looking towards the white haired necromancer with a raised eyebrow, "Besides, I don't see the issue with the losses of undead. We can just raise them back up or simply send out own forces in to handle the city."
"I'm fully aware, but I don't like how we would have to resort to having to resurrection those mindless corpses again. They should have been more than enough." Hocia responded with annoyance still in her tone.
Sighing for a moment, the hooded and mask wearing woman merely looked back towards the city with a small glare on her face, though her hood and mask made it hard for anyone to really see.
"No matter, I'm sure with Lukgan handling that demon, the remaining undead should be more than enough to handle this city and the rest of the nation without needing to revive the rest of the undead again." Hocia answered to the blonde shaman. They hardly had much challenge in the Earthlands they managed to conquer so far, so she doubted that, the demon Lukgan was dealing with aside, they won't have to worry too much about strong opposition from this world.
'IN CROCUS'
"HURRY EVERYONE! MAKE IT TO THE PALACE!" Sidalo shouted as she and her squadron of soldiers were escorting numerous civilians towards the direction where the palace was, knowing it was their best shot and best defense and protection against the invading undead that have managed to breach into the city.
Undead, that was something the orange haired woman didn't think she would ever have to deal with. She thought undead was something they would hear in make believe stories even despite living in a world where women were capable of using Magic. Yet here they were now, an ice covered undead army now attacking them. E.N.D managed to seemly wipe out a majority of them in such a short period of time, yet the remaining undead were still proving to be difficult to deal with.
The building in front of them a good few yards ahead without warning had something smashing their way through it, bringing it down and kicking up smoke. This forced the women to cease their movement and cover their eyes for a moment to block the smoke small shockwave that emitted from the collision.
When they uncovered their eyes widened in horror as a large undead ice golem now stood before them, its three skull heads infused into the mostly ice covered body staring directly towards them as it turned towards their direction.
"SOLDIERS! PREPARE YOURSELVES!" Sidalo shouted as she and her squadron got in front of the civilians and readied to fight, either with the weapons on hand or the Magic some of them possessed, they were ready to give it their all to protect the innocents behind them.
The ice undead golem let out a roar as it prepared to charge at the group in front of it, raising its arms up like an ape would to crush them.
"HEY UGLY!"
Another voice grabbed the golem's attention, getting it to turn around only to be met with a large Magical explosion slamming into its face, causing it break apart and collapse backwards as it shook the street when the body made impact with the ground. That surprised Sidalo and the others before they looked ahead of them where the palace was located only to see a certain pink haired young man wearing Magic infused armor, having taken it from the armory in the palace.
"NATSU?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT HERE?!" Sidalo shouted in shock and confusion, knowing that him being out here put him in danger.
"I'm here to help save the city that's what!" Natsu responded as he ran over towards her and the others, concern on his face as he looked towards the large group of women, "Are any of you alright?"
No one could answer the Magic armor wearing male before the footsteps of undead grabbed all of their attention, forcing them to turn around only to see groups of the ice imbued skeleton warriors along with a couple more ice undead golems heading towards their location.
Seeing them got a determined look to form on Natsu's face as he quickly moved in front of Sidalo and the rest in a protective manner.
"Get the innocent people to safety, we'll make sure to hold them off." Natsu told Sidalo, knowing there were more innocent women still stuck in the rest of the city not having been escorted or found yet.
"We?" Sidalo questioned, wondering what he meant when it was clearly just him.
She would be proven wrong however before without warning a certain armored up red head arrived onto the scene from the air, slashing her rather massive sword down creating a shockwave that slammed into the incoming horde of ice covered undead, striking down a good number of them while dazing the rest.
"Lady Erza!" One of the soldiers in the squadron shouted with awe at the arrival of Irene's daughter, the red head warrior using her Magic to help defend and fight against the undead that had breached into the city.
"My mother and her soldiers have gathered and are spreading out into the city to fend the undead off. We'll provide you all with as much help as we can to save the others still stuck out there in the chaos. Now get going!" Erza spoke up before ordering to Sidalo and the other soldiers around her.
With that the daughter of Irene bolted towards further down the city towards the remaining group of undead in front of her, as Natsu turned to look at Sidalo and the other women with a small yet determined smile.
"Don't worry, we'll make sure no one get left behind." Natsu told them with his assuring smile, which got plenty of the civilian women protected by the soldiers to feel their hearts beating faster from the sight of him.
And with that Natsu dashed into the fray once more, planning on using his Magical armor to help fight the undead off and rescue any more people that were still caught in the crossfire. Seeing him take off to join Erza to continue the fight, Sidalo snapped out of her own blush she had from seeing Natsu with his smile before turning towards her soldiers.
"YOU HEARD THEM! LET'S KEEP MOVING!" Sidalo ordered out aloud, which got the soldiers and civilians to snap out of their own daze before nodding in agreement, following the orange haired woman as she led them towards the palace all while making a silent vow to have another passionate night with Natsu after this.
'BACK WITH E.N.D AND LUKGAN'
"HOLY CRAP YOU ARE ONE TOUGH BASTARD!" E.N.D shouted as he flew up high above the massive giant before firing another barrage of Fel Fire towards the giant below, who merely raised his left arm up in front of him to block the multiple blasts of demonic flames, "WHY ARE THERE ALWAYS ASSHOLES OUT THERE WHO ARE A PAIN IN THE ASS TO KILL?!"
Lukgan merely grunted in response before using his right hand carrying his sword to swing the mentioned blade up above him towards E.N.D, who barely had enough time to hastily fly and duck out of the way of the massive blade. However that only left him vulnerable when Lukgan dashed with great speed despite his humongous height before slamming his left fist directly into the Fel Demon, causing E.N.D to shout in pain once more as he's launched through the air and through multiple mountains, bringing them all down in the process. Lukgan chuckled before looking towards the direction where he just launched the demon flying.
"I may lack the destructive capabilities that you and many others in Alvarez possess, but my strength and stamina are more than enough to handle a little demon like you." Lukgan responded with amusement in his voice as he slowly walked towards the direction where he launched E.N.D at, "In the name of the Emperor, I'll ensure your carcass hangs high for all to see once the conquest of this world is realized."
E.N.D was quickly spotted by Lugakn flying high from the spot he crashed landed too before ceasing his movements, his wings keeping him hovering over the land far down below him. A look of annoyance on his face as he wiped dark green blood from his chin, his glare not leaving the one hundred meter tall giant a good distance from where he was at.
"Like I would let that happened. But you shouldn't get cocky giant." E.N.D responded as a serious expression appeared on his face.
That got Lukgan to be confused while ceasing his movement before he spotted the flying Fel Demon gaining a small smirk on his face.
"I will give you one thing; you were a nice partner for training. But I think it's time I stopped playing around and get serious." E.N.D responded, planning on no longer holding back most of his strength and power.
"Heh, you really think you can trick me? There's no way a puny little demon like you is holding back so much." Lukgan responded with a grin though his helmet blocked this from being seen. After all he was knocking the demon around like nothing despite the few attacks the demon would be able to get in. To him, E.N.D was already going all out.
He would be proven wrong however as E.N.D grinned wider once more before without warning shouted aloud as he powered up, a demonic green aura wrapping around hid body while the action caused a large shockwave to be emitted from his body that shook the land and mountains around him. This took Lukgan by surprised as the massive giant felt the sudden spike of power the demon just unleashed.
'He's been hiding his strength? He was just messing around then?! No matter, it won't be enough to take me down.' Lukgan thought to himself before he raised his sword once more before he started to walk towards where E.N.D was only to pick up speed in the process, now running towards the much smaller being while the ground shook with each step he took.
E.N.D smirked with confidence before he seemly vanished from his spot, surprising the giant before he felt the demon reappearing and slamming into his stomach, causing him to shout in pain which echoed through the mountains that surrounding him. This caused the giant to stumble back before E.N.D dashed through the air once more, flying higher and around the dazed giant before striking at the back of the giant's head getting Lukgan to fall inward and crashing into the ground. This had once more shook the land as he slowly got back up before with rage swung his blade directly at where E.N.D was flying at. To his horror however E.N.D caught the incoming blade, stopping it in its tracks before the Fel Demon roared loudly then proceeded to lift the skyscraper size sword and to extent Lukgan as he was gripping onto it up into the air before chucking the both of them, sending them both flying through the air and into multiple mountains once more. The force of the giant colliding into them shattered and collapsed the natural rock structures, bringing them down as the land around them shook from the impact. The sight caused E.N.D to grinned like an idiot before he dashed through the air towards the giant who was slowly getting back up onto his feet.
Seeing the incoming demon caused the giant to roar in rage, gripping his sword once more before raising his high above his head to bring it down upon the approaching Fel Demon who remained having his smirk plastered on his face. Bringing his right hand back, he begun to empower it with Fel Energy as he closed the gpa between him and the giant, the former's sword about to strike down upon the demon.
But then E.N.D quickly dashed to his right, dodging the massive blade as it crashed into the land below, shattering the ground upon impact and decimating the surrounding area of the impact as a result. Lukgan didn't have time to react or dodge as E.N.D dashed directly towards the giant's chest.
"HERE! A ONE WAY TICKET TO OBLIVION!" E.N.D yelled out as he thrust his right hand towards the giant's chest.
With that, a massive beam of Fel Energy was fired and unleashed, completely crashing and even piercing through the chest of Lugkan whose eyes widened from receiving such an attack as it continued to crash through numerous mountains before detonating in the background, causing a massive explosion that could be seen for miles by all in its range.
Unable to make a single noise, the giant stumbled back as he dropped his sword which caused the ground to quake due to its sheer large size as his hands tried to grasps where the large hole in his chest was, trying to process the loss of armor, flesh, bone and inner organs that were there such as his heart before Lukgan fell backwards, the back of his body colliding into a mountain as the life left him.
Now, if anyone were to come across the scene not only would they witness the mountain range completely devastated, but see the massive corpse of a giant that now lied still covering the side of the mountain. E.N.D was flying high over the still body with a grin on his face, content with the victory.
"There, now that you're out of the way…," E.N.D then turned towards the direction where Crocus and that Alvarez airship was at, his grin becoming more crazed as he cracked his knuckles once more, "Time to deal with the rest of your buddies!"
With that, E.N.D then flew and dashed through the air at great speeds to his destination, causing a small shockwave to form from the sudden take off in the air.
Back at the Alvarez airship, both Hocia's and Unyel's eyes widened in shocked as they felt the life energy from Lukgan vanishing from their senses, as well as sensing E.N.D heading straight towards them as their eyes shifted over towards in the direction where the demon was coming from.
"No… Lukgan fell?!" Unyel exclaimed in horror before a look of anger appeared on his face, the giant he called an ally and friend was struck down by the foul demon of Fel?
"That demonic piece of sh*t…" Hocia muttered as she gripped her staff in her hand harder from the flow of anger coursing through her body.
Knowing that the demon was quickly approaching to where they were at, the white haired necromancer, knowing that her voice will be heard by the rest of the ship including those in the control bridge due to the communications she had on her, raised her voice as she shouted aloud to give an order of action.
"MOVE THE SHIP TOWARDS THE DEMON! PREPARE TO FIRE THE ARCANE CANNON!" Hocia ordered aloud, anger present on her voice from how this supposedly simple conquest of this planet went down the drain due to E.N.D. Though due to her hood and mask no one could see such an expression on her.
With E.N.D the demon quickly came into view as he saw the distant Alvarez warship slowly turning towards his direction, the front of the warship opening up as a large cannon was seen sticking out and preparing large amounts of Arcane Energy to unleash, causing the air around the ship to shake due to the large amount of power being gathered. E.N.D wasn't bothered by this before he pulled his right hand back and prepared his own attack against the hovering warship.
"Bring it on losers!" E.N.D shouted before firing off another large beam of Fel Energy towards the Alvarez ship, intent on destroying it and everyone on it in one go, all while he still flew towards the ship at high speeds closing the distance between the two.
"FIRE!" Hocia shouted aloud to fire the large artillery weapon attached to the front of the warship.
And with that, a large beam of Arcane Energy was unleashed, causing a shockwave to be emitted as the two opposing beams proceeded to head straight towards one another while E.N.D closed the gap between the two sides.
However, when the beams then slammed into one another, an unstable reaction occurred unleashing a massive explosion that seemed to spread out and gulf everything in white as it spread around its surroundings including both the Alvarez warship and E.N.D. The former having a blank expression as he felt as if he went through something like this before.
"GET DOWN!" Unyel shouted as he pulled Hocia into his protective grasps as the blast engulfed them and the rest of the airship they were on, including everyone else on board.
"…Huh, déjà vu." Was all E.N.D muttered before the explosion also consumed him also.
For those back down below, the city and its defenders were finishing off the remaining ice imbued undead forces mainly thanks to E.N.D wiping the majority of them out for the humans to stand a chance of finishing them off when they all witnessed the large explosion of unstable Fel and Arcane Magic colliding into one another, completely covering the area of the sky a good distance away as everyone in the ruined streets to those hurdled up in the palace witnessed the explosion take place.
And then a few moments later, everything died down revealing nothing left behind. No E.N.D, no Alvarez ship, nothing.
Natsu finished killing an undead warrior by bashing its skull in thus taking care of the last on in his area of the city, while looking up to witness such a sight take place before seeing nothing else remaining.
"…Uh… are they gone?" The pink haired male asked to no one in particular as both E.N.D and the threat were no longer on their world.
Only silence responded in the undead corpse filled street he was in.
'A FEW DAYS LATER'
Rebuilding was on the way for the city of Crocus, with construction workers and others called from other regions of the nation to come to aid in the rebuilding. While the Fel Demon who was now who knows where due to that unstable explosion had wiped out most of the undead when he took off against to fight the giant whose body still lied on the side of a mountain in the distance of the large city, the remaining undead forces that they were able to fend off still damaged the city and the surrounding structures by a good amount. And unfortunately, not everyone managed to get out of it alive as while the causalities were thankfully low, heart break still occurred to some who lost friends and family.
A funeral is planned for those who have fallen, for both soldiers and civilian lives lost to the ice infused hordes raised and led by the other worldly attackers once reconstruction of the city and the shrouding damaged land is fixed in, but luckily the rebuilding is so far going smoothly. Many had given their thanks to the solders and guards who helped fend off and defeat the remaining undead ice empowered threat such as towards Irene and her forces, her daughter and of course the main man of the city Natsu, with many women in the city having fallen for the kind hearted pink haired male due to how hard he tried to protect them and get them to safety during the chaos.
Speaking of the pink haired young man, it was currently night with the stars out as most of the palace and the city was asleep aside from those still up to keep on rebuilding from the damages Crocus still suffered from as he was currently being led by Irene and Layla who both were wearing dresses that showed off their curves and beauty towards Queen Hoseki's room, the queen having want to talk to Natsu about something important from what Irene and Layla told him. He didn't really know what that was, but he figured it might have to do with aiding the reconstruction of the city further in some way.
However, unknown to him, he would soon be proven wrong.
"Here we are Natsu." Layla told the pink haired male as they arrived at the front of the door that led into Queen Hoseki's room with two female guards standing in place for protection.
"Uh… are you sure that Erza, Lucy and Hisui shouldn't be here with us?" He couldn't help but ask since he figured that if whatever Hisui's mother needed it may be important enough for them to also hear. The three daughters of Irene, Layla and Hoseki were currently in his room since they along with a few other women like Sidalo sleep with him since the big night a few days ago where he was made into the main man for Crocus, trying to get some rest due to the busy day they all had to help rebuild.
"Do not worry about them Natsu," Irene told the pink haired male as she lean over towards him, smirking a little along with Layla as they saw Natsu blushed a bit due to her showing off a bit of her cleavage towards him, "The queen asked for you personally, plus you wouldn't think I would interrupt my daughter's rest would you?"
"Same here, my little girl needs her sleep," Layla told the still red head Natsu, before looking back at the door that led into the queen's abode, "Now let's not waste any more time, I'm sure she's waiting for us."
Both Layla and Irene motioned for Natsu to enter first, which puzzled him from the action before simply shrugging, not really thinking much of it. The guards next to the door opened the entrance for him as he walked inside, not wanting to keep Hisui's mom waiting. As Irene and Layla followed, the two guards gave them both a wink which the two smiled widely from as they entered and closed the door behind them, making sure to lock it so no one would disturb them.
"Queen Hoseki?" Natsu started to ask as he walked into the room, looking around the large bedroom before darting his eyes over to the bed where he assumed Hoseki may be at, "Miss Irene and Miss Layla said you wish to see me-?"
He stopped himself as he ceased his movement, a massive blush forming on his face, his eyes widening in a comical manner with steam erupting from his head as he saw the sight that laid before him.
Hoseki was spotted sitting on her king sized bed, the white bed drapes that were hanging over to the side currently open at the end of the bed allowing Natsu to see the green haired woman, who was wearing rather revealing white lingerie that showed off her impressive body exposing much of her smooth creamy skin with a small yet love filled smile on her face. The same kind of look Natsu recognize when the other girls and women when they wanted to make love.
"Natsu…" Hoseki started to say in a small yet seductive voice as she motioned Natsu to come over towards her. He was still frozen with shock and embarrassment from the sight of the queen in such a revealing state before he felt both Layla and Irene grab him by his arms, making him look at them only to see them also having a similar expression the queen did before they practically pulled him over towards the bed.
He quickly found himself then being grabbed by the collar of his shirt before being pulled onto the bed by Hoseki, who had a small blush on her own face while Layla and Irene proceeded to undo their dresses while the queen leaned closer to Natsu's own face. All the while Natsu remaining blushing like an idiot which to the three older women made him look much more adorable.
"Q…Queen Hoseki…?" He managed to stutter out in nervousness and embarrassment, getting Hoseki to giggle from hearing how he sounded. He was adorable when he was all nervous, she wondered if this is how he acted when her daughter and the other lucky females who got with him already initiating sex.
"Calm your nerves Natsu, no need to be so formal…," She muttered back to him as she slowly closed the gap between then until their lips were only a few millimeters apart, lips that looked very kissable to the pink haired young man, "I just want to reward you for all the help you have done so far since what transpired. And what better way to reward the man of Crocus than with giving him my body and love?"
Natsu couldn't even respond when the queen slammed her lips into Natsu's own, causing him to widen his eyes for a moment before closing them, already succumbing to her charms as she pulled him on top of her, making work to help remove the clothing on him as Layla and Irene quickly moved in to join the two.
Needless to say, it would be a long yet love filling and pleasurable night for the pink haired male.
'UNKNOWN'
In a large chamber filled with activity in the massive warship stationed in who knows where, plenty of scientists and inventors were already at work in the massive lab as assistants were running around in the opened up laboratory. The lab had large windows that showed the outside, which for some odd reason looked to be very dark, much more so for it to be simply night. The floor was a dark grey metallic color while the walls of the wide opened roomed lab looked to be more purplish in color, with black drapes of flags showing the Alvarez symbol in a bright bluish purplish color.
Activity continued to be active all around, some of it being more chaotic than others as a lone scientist was running down the large open area towards the center of the room. He was of average height, possessing a lean figure with messy brown hair and green colored eyes which were currently covered by mechanical goggles. His skin was slightly tan, and he wore a long white lab coat that had the symbol of Alvarez over his right chest pocket with a blue shirt and black pants underneath along with large red shoes. He was also currently holding something in his hands as he hurried across the wide cleared color. This man was Doctor Benedict Flugton, or simply Dr. Flugton.
"Alanat sir!" The scientist called out, approaching a man who was finishing talking to someone in the center of the large laboratory with the other person leaving with nervousness on their face.
Hearing his name being called, the other figure turned towards the approaching scientist who managed to arrive right before him while he tried to catch his breath. The other man simply raising an eyebrow at this behavior.
The man in question stood around six feet and six inches tall, a few inches due to the black top hat he was wearing. He wore a black colored long trench coat that went down to his ankles with the collar popped up a bit around his neck and a red colored shirt underneath with a black tie. Also on his attire was black pants and black and white dress shoes covering his feet. On his waist was a black belt with dark grey bags present to hold any item he possessed on him at the moment. His eyes were a sickly green color that could unnerve even a demon if one were to stare into them for a moment, and his skin was also pale compared to most people and had messy and wild black hair with a few bangs going over his left eye.
Despite his somewhat simple and fancy appearance, this man was known as Alanat Leiruti, one of the personal guards to the Spriggan Moglan Devil.
"Ah, Dr. Flugton. I take it you're here about that little project you and some others been working on for a few months now." Alanat questioned with an amused grin on his face that showed his rather sharp teeth, causing the scientist to feel nervous in the presence of the top hat wearing general. But nevertheless he continued onward as he straighten himself out.
"Yes sir! The device that Vext had retrieved from his encounter with that other younger version of Lord Conbolt and his band have managed to allow us to create a replica and know it's secrets." Dr. Flugton responded as he showed the black trench coat wearing man the device he was carrying.
Said object in hand built to be metallic brown in color and resembled a gun. However a cylinder was present on the device that held an unknown purplish glow and black flecks of dark matter inside of the glass tube attached to the gun-looking device. The gun-like item also had a small screen attached to it near the hammer of the gun
Seeing this caused the man to grin as he snatched the gun away from the scientist, observing it up close all over.
"Ah yes, this is a remake of that piece of junk that Vext took from that younger enemy version of Lord Conbolt. The one that can uh… Flugton! What is this thing supposed to do again?" The top hat wearing servant of Moglan questioned once more for an answer.
"Well sir," Benedict started to explain as he put his hands together in front of him, "From what we originally discovered, the original device that Vext had resisted and found seemed to be a weapon using material and substances of dark matter along with other matters and substances taken from stars and black holes for example. After discovering how the original worked, we learned that with this device with the supplied juices of dark matter and other sources are able to basically wipe out not just a person who the device is fired at, but also other versions of said target across different alternate realities. From what Vext saw when the beam attempted to hit him, it would fire off a white beam when in use."
Hearing all of that got Alanat to raise an eyebrow.
"I know Vext is strong and has a pretty high resistance to pretty much all kinds of harm, but even he shouldn't have been unaffected by the dark matter and all of that if what you say is true. So why didn't it work on him?" He asked, wanting to see if Flugton had a reason for that.
"This is just theory for now, but it could be a combination of two things. One, the gadget originally was programed for a woman named Levy McGarden from an unknown Earthland coordinate we couldn't discover to use so it could only work with her, at least that's what we got from the device. And two, the weapon simply didn't have enough juice to simply work on Vext… as resistance as he is, I don't think even he could have fully survived if the device had functionally worked on him." Dr. Flugton answered.
"Hmph, so he lucked out apparently is what you're saying. No matter, those who lack the right kind of protection from such substances like myself and some of the others would easily succumb to this if what you say is true," He questioned as he looked over the new D.M.G device before looking over towards the scientist once more, "Does it work?"
"Well sir, after gone through the challenges to require such matter and substances like from that of a black hole… with a few of our researchers and gatherers loosing their lives in the process, Emperor bless their souls, there's enough fuel to use around five times before it no longer-."
"Does it work or not Flugton?" Alanat questioned once more with gritted teeth and with a menacing glare that most would cower towards, as he wanted to know if he used it now if it would work. Hearing him in his tone and glare caused the scientist to cower in fear.
"It works it works! Just fire it on someone and it will work!" Dr. Flugton responded raising his arms up in a cowardly manner while he ducked as if fearful that the man was going to hit him or worse.
Luckily, the top hat wearing man calmed down now having a blank expression on his face before using his other hand to reach into his black trench coat before pulling out a small black colored remote device. Hitting random buttons, a black portal opened in front of him and the scientist as they looked to the other side.
On the other side of the portal unaware of the gateway in time and space, another version of what seemed to be that one guild most versions of the Emperor, Lord Marvell and Lord Conbolt were in showed up in their view. From the looks of things, they seemed to be partying happily without a care in the world about who knows what. It was clear the portal opened out of sight otherwise those on the other side would have noticed it.
And then without warning Alanat casually lifts the prototype remake of the D.M.G before firing it, a beam of white beam unleashed as it entered through the portal while the cylander lost a quarter of its substance. The beam entered the other alternate Earthland as it hit a certain blue haired Solid Script Mage, shocking everyone else around her before their expressions turned to horror as they saw her be enveloped with a purple glow along with black and purple colored specks of light radiating on the now screaming in agony version of Levy before she collapsed onto the ground, the life leaving her body.
Seeing this take place in the other alternate Earthland Alanat then looked with interest as a number on the screen appeared and started to climb up before hitting just above five thousand, showing how many alternate versions of Levy were affected by what he had just done. Seeing this got a grin to form on the man's face.
"It works! What do you know? So such a device can be useful even if only clears out those who are too weak to resist or do not have the right protections against the dark matter." Alanat responded with glee on his face, happy with this development.
"Uh… so you like it?" Dr. Flugton asked, as the top hat wearing servant turned to look at the scientist with an annoyed expression.
"Of course I do you idiot!" He responded… when little black flicks started to emit from the prototype, catching the man holding it his attention along with Dr. Flugton as they saw the device acting off before without warning…
If anyone was passing by the large closed armored door to the laboratory like a couple of armored guards were, they would have been completely caught unaware and jumped in shocked when a large explosion of dark matter erupted from the entrance, destroying the door as smoke emitted from the now no longer sealed up room. The few guards mentioned recovered from the surprise before they looked at the scene of the destroyed entrance with confusion.
Inside of the large laboratory, the entire chamber looked like a mess as many of the scientists and researchers who were present in the room were no longer present, their bodies having been completely consumed by the unstable dark matter from the explosion of the prototype which was now nothing more than ash. Some of the nearby equipment had also been consumed by it with any research present on them gone with it all. The portal to the other world was also closed, having done so before the device malfunctioned.
However, not a moment later did a small dark grey liquid shoot up from the ground before it grew and formed to reveal Alanat, who looked displeased as he dusted himself off. Snapping his fingers, another drop of the dark grey liquid shot up from the cracks in the floor before it expanded and spitted a wide eyed and surprised Benedict out who landed on his butt, causing him to let out a faint "Ow…" from the impact as the living liquid returned into the top hat wearing man's body.
Alanat didn't look to angry yet was displeased as he looked at the now ruined laboratory with the few surviving scientists who were thankfully not caught up by the large amount of dark matter trying to fix their own tables and devices that were also spared from the sudden eruption of dark matter.
"Hmph… guess I need to get someone to fix this mess." He muttered before his eyes shifted towards one of the surviving researchers, who gulped from the small glare before said scientist ran out of the damaged laboratory to get a few repairers to do just that.
Turning towards the brown haired man, Dr. Flugton flinched in fear from seeing the narrow eyes aimed at towards him.
"It seems that your device decided to explode Doctor." Alanat pointed out in a casual tone while Benedict slowly managed to get back up on his feet while rubbing his head.
"I noticed sir," Dr. Flugton responded, holding himself back from shouting since he knew that would only anger Alanat, and it was never a wise thing to do such a thing. Making sure he wasn't missing any limbs, he looked back towards his superior with a small determined grin on his face, "Don't worry sir. Luckily all the information and research I have on it are all back on my desk so I can try to see what went wrong and rebuilt it aga-." The scientist started to say as he looked and motioned towards where his desk was at in far end of the laboratory…
…Only to pale when he saw his desk, along with all the research about the D.M.G and a few other projects he had in the works were all completely gone. It seemed the dark matter explosion had managed to reach and consume it also.
Seeing his wide comical eyed expression, it didn't take a genius to figure out what the problem was. At least not for Alanat.
"…All of your research on it was in your desk wasn't it?" He asked with a raise eyebrow.
Dr. Flugton only nodded slowly in response.
"So I take it then the research needed is gone also and you don't remember how to built it by heart do you?" Alanat also asked with his same expression.
The scientist once more slowly nodded as anime tears went down his face from the loss of such research. He didn't even figure out who the Levy McGarden they learned from the old device they remade into the prototype which was now gone and consumed by the dark matter was or what coordinates she may have been from. It would have been nice to meet another scientist who made such creations like himself dang it.
Alanat merely shrugged, not really bothered by the loss since he knew Alvarez had plenty of other means to take other worlds and defeat their opponents. Plus when it comes to learning and understanding new things, he was aware that sometimes trying to learn will result in failure.
"Anything else I should be told about or do you have something that will also explode?" Alanat questioned with a hint of amusement in his tone, which unsettled the scientist since sometimes that meant he was about to do something very horrible to those he was speaking too.
Swallowing in nervousness, Dr. Flugton went on to answer as he was reminded on something that the servant to Moglan ordered him to do.
"Uh… yes sir, there's something else that we have managed to complete that you wanted done." He started to say, getting the servant of Moglan to look over towards the brown haired scientist with a raised eyebrow.
Not wasting time, Benedict pulled out a small vial that contained a rather sickly dark grey liquified matter before he held it out for Alanat.
"That one specific plague that popped up on Earthland 8484-N after Lady Megara rewind the planet, we managed to contain it, studied and have done experiments on it, yet so far we have yet to fully weaponize it, that has been slow compared to some of the other plagues we have encountered and took for use. But we can still use it if needed to be." Benedict informed the man, who grinned from hearing that.
"Ah, interesting!" He snatched the vial as he looked at the content that resided inside of it. Another plague that was studied, and if things continued to go right will hopefully become a much more powerful plague much more effective than it was before. Another weapon to add in the Empire's ever growing arsenal against their enemies and the worlds for them to conquer.
He looked over towards the scientist once more.
"Is this all you have in use at the moment?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.
"No sir, we managed to have a good number of examples primed and ready for use along with all the other weaponized plagues we have in stock." Dr. Flugton answered, 'But do we really have to resort to using such vile viruses and plagues? They're too inhumane and could be dangerous if they grow out of control.'
Of course, he didn't say that aloud less his boss before him gets angry.
Humming as he looked at the vial, the man once more pulled out his portal remote before typing in random coordinates before opening a portal to another alternate Earthland before chucking the vial through it. The small glass cylinder then shattered as it hit the hard dirt covered ground as an unholy dark grey sickly gas then shot up through the air before it mixed in with the air of the planet.
With that done Alanat closed the portal with an amused grin on his face, knowing that the plague will basically take care of the planet for them before they go cure and colonize the planet. They probably don't have to wait too long either since time can work differently in these other timelines. For all he knew if he checked now a hundred years could have passed already in the world he just unleashed the weaponized plague on.
Seeing him just casually do such a thing got Benedict to face palm from his boss's action. Guess any plague they have, fully weaponized or not was alright to use in his boss's book apparently as long as it got the job done.
"Ah… this is wonderful, trial and error aside like with that dark matter device, with such new things to learn and take to grow not just our own arsenal on hand, but for the rest of the Empire to use also. Who knows what new things we learn and can use to destroy our enemies with?" Alanat laughed a little after he spoke those words as Dr. Flugton laughed nervously along with his boss, more afraid than anything else from hearing that while repairers arrived through the door to fix the damaged laboratory, hovering Magical yet technological tools and machinery hovering all around to fix the mess that was made.
Zooming away from the servant of Moglan, the scene now showed the full massive warship that the powerful entity was in, showing that the warship along with many others that were flying next to it were all in fact space based vessels, hovering over an Earthland that is now under Alvarez control.
This was the first space fleet that Alvarez managed to build due to learning from the more advance worlds that have achieved such means, worlds that they managed to conquer and add to their ever growing Empire, and it certainly won't be the last as Alvarez's conquest across countless Earthlands continues ruthlessly.
No one shall stop them, and those who try will be destroyed by their might.
There we go! Chapter finally done! …Honestly, I thought this chapter would be much longer than it would, but I was wrong. But hey, as long as it gets over that 10K mark then it works for me.
So E.N.D managed to protect a world from Alvarez, and we'll see where he and the Alvarez ship he faced end up later on. We got to see another personal guard to the Spriggans and we got to see what else Alvarez has under its arsenal and abilities since I've been meaning to show them off more than just the typical normal soldier stuff. After all they aren't your ordinary version of Alvarez after all.
Next time we'll be seeing how Romeo is doing… and soon this story will be reaching a turning point that I have been wanting to get too since forever. Just a couple more chapters and then things can really start picking up speed! I can't wait!
EDIT: I have edited the last section of the chapter a bit as I ended up making a mistake involving the D.M.G, so hopefully this is solved now, the secrets of the D.M.G now lost to all but "thehappy"'s version of Levy.
And in case anyone's wondering, thank "thehappy" for creating such a device. If you all need a reminder as to how something like that got into the Alvarez Empire's hands in the first place, the answer lies in chapter ten of this story.
Anyway, what did you all think? Good? Bad? Let me know.
See you all next time, whenever that will be.