The Karcist and the Lord

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

Chapter 29: The First God-Hunt begins

As Koragh tore another Mamono in half with a scythe blade of blood from his, hands he turned to Nadox and called out to him. Nadox himself was currently wrestling an Orge, who then cried out in pain as she was stabbed with a knife in the back by one of the Humans fighting alongside the two, who were using all sorts of strange and exotic powers the Arch-Lich had never seen before.

"So in all my years, both as a Human and as a Lich, I ain't ever of a Were-Wolf who knew magic, where are you from, the Land of Mists perhaps?!" he yelled out, catching and blasting a Witch to ash with her own fireball using his Mana as proverbial 'tongs' to handle the Demonic Energy without corruption. The Mamono were visibly panicked by these Humans, who only fought harder when corrupted by them. "I was planing to invade that land and learn its secrets after defeating the Monster Lord, but you saw how that turned out." Nadox burst out laughing.

"Funny story really! I'm not actually a Were-Wolf, I just happened to acquired this one earlier after my own one was rendered useless. So I guess I'm technically a Lich as you would understand it. Hold on, we got a strong one..." The man then spotted a Dragon flying towards him. She then

"Stop killing your potential mates! We only-" Nadox interrupted her by snapping her neck telekintically with a flick of a wrist, and she fell on the ground with a thud. Several Monsters who saw this then proceeded to turn and flee. Koragh filed the answer Nadox gave about acquiring a new body for later, having been attacked by a Red-Cap that came close to hitting him with her cleaver. The Lich blocked it with a barrier, then made her scream as he boiled her alive by heating up her blood.

"No, I think I'll keep killing them..." Nadox said, then turned to an archer of some kind. She was currently resting, eating away calmly at an arm Koragh suspected to have come from a Dark Elf despite the carnage all around her. When she saw him turn to her, she then drew her bow and nocked an arrow. After walking up to another archer and tapping his shoulder, the cultists swapped places.

"Why are we still here?" Koragh asked. "I know that killing these parodies of the Monster Races is satisfying and all, but who is left?"

"This particular group of Nalkacites' Karcist! He is their leader who answers to me, one of the Cults High Karcists!" Nadox responded. Koragh then noticed that a soul similar to the Cultists of Nalka was coming to them, and was fighting through several Mamono. When the Arch-Lich channeled his mana to see who it belonged to, he saw some strange creature fighting several Orcs at once.

"Was he separated from you, and does he look like a combination of an elk, a spider, and a very sickly human?" the Arch-Lich asked. Several of the cultist soldiers then looked at him.

"Yes to both! You found him!?" One asked.

"Seems like it! He is coming from this direction, but there's too many of these blasted creatures between us and him!" Nadox then stopped casting spells, and sat down.

"I'm about to thin their numbers. Tell the Karcist to move to the side, unless he wants to get caught in my next attack!" With that, Nadox held out his hands in a semi circle around his body. A lighting bolt fell from the sky then, and exploded where it struck, killing a number of Mamono, as the entire battlefield paused in shock. "That was not me..." suddenly more bolts fell, and both sides then saw they were shaped like spears, which vaporized rock and burned flesh. The Mamono then started to panic.

"Why are you attacking us?!" one screamed, as thunderous claps resounded throughout Royal Makai. The sky began to grow gray with storm clouds, and a heavy rain fell, drowning out the yelling and crying of the Monsters trying to figure out what was happening, as the spears of lighting fell and struck the ground, causing the Monsters to run and flee.

"Odin is on our side!" Koragh yelled. "The God of the Skies is now punishing these creatures! Now is our chance to conquer them here and now!" then just as though waiting for something to say that, a portal opened, and from it a number of Mamono dressed in the colors of the Fallen God came. The leader, a Dark Valkyrie then began shouting orders to those that came with her.

"This way! Get these Mamono and their husbands out of here!" she barked.

"By Ions maw! She's the same one that attacked Bolas' Brood!" a Cultist screamed. A number of the Cultists of Nalka readied for battle.

"Ignore them! Get Karcist Bola, and then we're getting out of here!" Nadox yelled, and the horde charged as one in the direction of Karcist Bola, which thankfully was away from the portal of the Fallen Gods' servants. The Cultists hacked and chopped at anything in their way, ensuring those who saw them for safety. One of them did scream and point at a group of Fallen God worshiping Orcs coming at them, but one off Odins spears struck and killed them, and since then they had no difficulties getting to the Karcist. He had taken cover in a toppled tower, and was feeding on the body of an Imp.

"Why are you running in the open?!" he shouted when his Brood, with Nadox and Koragh gathered around him. "The sky has gone and started blasting everything to dust, and you just jogged out a merry good time in the rain?!"

"It's one of this worlds' Gods giving us an opening to get out!" Nadox said, creating a portal of his own. "Now move!" with that, the Cult of Nalka Brood ran into it, along with the Arch-Lich Koragh and their Karcist. Nadox gave one last look at the storm, then stepped through...

**POV SHIFT*

Heaven

Odin stared at the running Mamono, now scattered and terrified of what has happened when she cast her spells upon them. She then turned to Ion and the Chief God, who watched. The Chief God looked away, closing her eyes while Ion the Grand Karcist smiled at the destruction he had wrought upon the world, and made the Sky God partake in. With a sickened and disgusted look on her face, Odin spoke.

"Is this not enough to sate you?" she growled in anger. "You tore apart the Mamono Lords family, made her watch her daughter lose her beauty, and now you've destroyed her city and scattered her most loyal servants. What ever happened to you to make you so callous to the mortal lives you destroy?" Odin then turned to the Chief God. "Have you gone mad sister? Are you really that hateful to people who just want freedom to love who they want, to bring this murderer into our universe?" Ion chuckled darkly, and turned to Odin. She squirmed as his crimson flesh and white bone plated face turned to her. He was seated with her so his head swiveled in an unnatural manner, just a little under a 135 degree turn.

You weren't there when I consumed Aries were you? Ion asked.

"No." Odin said, shaking her head. The Chief God got up and walked out, and Odin glared with fury at her back. She saw her former superior stop for a second, only to continue walking out the room they were in. When her face became visible, Odin swore she saw a tear on the goddess' face, and Odin started to feel guilt. As Odin began to open her mouth, she heard crunching noises as Ion transformed.

"Look at me Odin." he said bluntly and commandingly. As the God of the Skies looked over at the Grand Karcist, now in Human form, she stared contemptuously. With a false face of civility, he spoke again. "Why do I do the things I do? I want to hear what you think motivates me." Odin sneered.

"Its obvious of course. You are a mad God, that enjoys tormenting those you deem inferior to you. All you have brought is death and destruction upon this world, enslavement and pain and sorrow is your legacy, and you want to drag us down to your level. You are a God in form only, but you don't deserve such a noble title." she growled in anger. Ion smiled.

"Well, I'm not going to lie, that is part of my motivations. However, that is only the surface of what I am." the God-Eater said. "I do bring pain and devastation and sorrow, enslavement and destruction. But answer me this: What is enslavement? Is it not to bind someone to your will, and forcing them to do your bidding?" Odin visibly grew offended. Being one of the more intelligent Gods, she knew where Ion was going.

"You actually believe that corruption from Demonic Energy is enslavement of a Mamonos' husband? It only brings forth a mans feelings of love. They do not give in if those feelings aren't there!"

"Bull. Shit." Ion replied. "You and I know if that was true, there would be a thousand battlefields worth of Mamono corpses long before I came here. You call me a slave master, because I assert my influence upon Humanity to have the spine to fight back, yet what about Dark Elves, who openly call the husbands they look down 'slaves', who love being treated the way they do because of Demonic Energy? Or Ogres, or Hell-Hounds, or the myriad of Mamono who all get what they want through corrupting the hearts of men and women, while the Order fought tooth and nail to be free from them?"

"The Order of the Chief God are a bunch of zealots. They refused to turn away from the Chief God. Without them, there would be peace and harmony, for all mortal beings." Ion held up a finger.

"Peace and harmony for all mortals, as is defined by the Mamono Lord, a Succubus who did earn her position on equal terms, but by you and the Gods rigging her fight against the previous Monster Lord, and the subsequent fight with Koragh."

"Because he was a danger to her plans to unite the world in love." Odin replied. "We had to step in and stop the bloodshed." Ion laughed, a deep rumble as she continued. "Why are you so against them bringing everlasting peace to the world?" with that question, Ion suddenly grabbed a hold of Odin by her head with both hands. He was almost frothing at the mouth as he answered, a evil glint and smile as he spoke.

"Because peace and harmony are just nothing but illusions. War and chaos and hate and bloodshed and anger? These are the true states of all reality. Good and evil are naught but terms the weak make to rule and keep down the strong. Peace and the 'Greater Good' are for those who want to pretend they are not merely animals, so as topple the strong so they can take their place without lifting a finger. You call me a monster, but not a thousand years ago, this world was like mine, where I learned all about how chaos is the only truth of existing. I have never pretended to be anything more then what you see before you Odin. Now, listen to the Mamono Odin, I do believe by now you can make out their calls and invocations." Odin was taken aback by Ion, as the Grand Karcist stared with such insanity that it made her feel fear. Was he planning to consume her? Up until the last sentence she prepared her Spear of Thunder, and then Ion lifted her to the table, and made the Prayer Oracle Odin had show her what the Mamono were saying, a crystal ball which gave the God the ability to communicate to her followers, without walking upon the world.

How dare you betray us! You are evil! a Dragon was screaming. Odin was taken aback, as she could feel the anger in her prayer. And she was not the only one.

Bastard goddess!

How dare you attack us Odin! You were supposed to be helping the Monster Lord!

Scummy Sky God! Odin is no better then Ion!

Have you no pride Odin?!

Odin was horrified by the things they called her. While she expected a backlash from attacking the Mamono, this was beyond what she anticipated. Ion then started laughing at her once more as she backed up with a hand in her mouth. Odin then tried to speak with them.

"You must understand, Ion is trying to conquer Heaven! I only did what I must to stop him from-"

So you attacked your closest servants?!

Liar! Your a murderer and and a liar! You blasted my husband to ash in front of me!

Cast your spears upon her then, not us! What can one God loyal to Humanity possibly due to the entire Pantheon?!

When Odin heard the last response that interrupted, she froze from the sheer contempt and venomous hate in it, as well as what it said.

You never loved us did you?! You were just waiting to betray us for Ion and the Chief God!

"NO!" Odin yelled. "ION WOULD-"

Betrayer! An Orge interrupted. I WISHED YOU WERE A MORTAL SO YOU CAN BE MY PUCHING BAG! Odin dropped the Prayer Oracle, which landed with a loud bang and rolled away on the floor as she sat down onto the Throne of the Sky and held her hands at her mouth. As she tried to keep her composure, she heard Ion walk over to her.

"I heard them all." he said, in a tone that was comforting to hear. Through now blurred and tear-filled eyes, Odin saw Ion kneeling next to her on one knee, and he placed a hand on her shoulder. "So, you attacked them with your spears, because if you didn't I would have had to release this plague to protect Nadox and my servants, and that was what you got in responce." Ion said, showing a small vial with a red dust in it he kept in his cloak. "I did show what it looks like when it was unleashed on a settlement, and I know you didn't want to see that happen. As you can see, they hated you, because you actually refused them what they believed was their prize for serving you and the others, but would've really been the unleashing of hell for their kind and Humanity on this world. They didn't even ask you why you attacked them."

"No... they, they didn't..." Odin whispered. "I couldn't just let you torture everything. They were so, so hateful."

"Reminds you of something doesn't it?" Ion said, pulling Odin closer to him. She squirmed away, but she turned and saw he was still in Human-form. He had up his hands. "Sorry. Forgot that you know where my true mouth is." Sobbing, Odin then held onto the God-Eater, who brushed her hair. The Prayer Oracle then started to glow a neon green color, and when Ion and Odin saw the symbol of the God of Death on it, Ion reached for a war hammer from the Throne of Battle, when the Hel spoke.

"Odin! Odin, are you alright?!" the goddess on the other end cried out. Odin stopped Ion, then walked up to it. Ion sighed, and set the war hammer on the table next to it as the Sky God picked it up.

"Yeah." Odin choked.

"Damn, I knew Ion did something to you! You would never have attacked the Mamono for no reason, they were so good to you." Odin visibly cringed. Ion looked at her and mouthed 'what?' as he could just barely hear it despite being next to Odin. Prayer Oracles can only be heard by third parties if the third party was holding onto it, and thus become part of the conversation, is part of the conversation via a Prayer Oracle of their own, or one of the communicating parties on either end was experiencing strong or particularly extreme emotions. In a fit of rage, Odin screamed into it.

"I HOPE YOU ROT IN IONS' GUTS!" she then slammed the Prayer Oracle on the table and it cracked. Then she picked up the hammer Ion set aside and raised it above her head as Ion backed up. He may take stronger blows then what she was going to make, but not getting by an attack when possible is always better then getting hit in the first place.

"Woah what did I sa-" Hel did not have time to finish her sentence, as Odin smashed her prayer Oracle and shattered it. She then turned to Ion.

"That arrogant piece of shit!" Odin snarled. Ion shrugged. "She always complained about there being too many dying Humans and Monsters, and having to manage their souls. She actually spoke to me like that, after all I did for her!" Ion visibly looked up.

"Mind explaining?" he asked. After taking a deep breath to calm down, Odin asked Ion a question.

"Do you want to know how to invade the afterlife?"