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The Greater Apotheosis of Ainz Ooal Gown

Book : Dusk War

Chapter 3: Battles on Multiple Fronts

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Here they come, Ainz thought as he sat on his command throne on the bridge of the Pride of Nazarick as the majority of his space fleet massed in orbit of Glyth to face the incoming Voidharrow swarm.

Said swarm of the virulent aberrations was led by a monstrous Angelic looking creature they'd codenamed Ordine and were invading Realmspace's Material Plane. They had quickly overrun Garden and H'Catha and now threatened Nazarick's fleet base on Glyth.

Ordine itself was a creature with a white feminine humanoid body that was roughly equivalent in size to an adult Human woman, with orange, green, and blue double helix-like appendages in place of hands and feet, and at the end of white appendages that passed for its hair. Its eyes were permanently covered by the aforementioned hair like growths. It had a mouth full of sharp teeth, three pairs of cat ears with orange highlights, large grey wings, each with a blue, pointed appendage, a violet jewel on the left wing, and a cyan jewel on the right wing. This unique appearance made it stand out despite its relatively small size compared to the horrible swarm of twisted Dragons and other aberrant forms of the vacuum capable Voidharrow swarm it lead. That and it's awesome power as it demonstrated when it had single handedly wiped out the large force that the Elven Imperial Fleet had recklessly sent against it at H'Catha, the lost of which had effectively crippled the elves' space fleet entirely.

Now said terrible swarm was approaching them. They were visible in the distance even from where Ainz sat without any need for magnification. There was so many of them and they were so close that they seemed like swirling dark nightmarish mass surrounded by the twisted, distorted space that followed them everywhere they went.

"Enemy entering range of outermost defenses." A Goblin manning the sensors console reported.

Almost immediately, another Goblin manning the tactical station shouted in reply. "Defenses firing."

At his announcement, thousands of weapons fired from their bases in Glyth's fourth ring and even more mines went off. It lit up the void like a fireworks display and more importantly devastated the enemy.

"Third ring defenses opening firing." The Goblin at tactical reported as even more weapons joined the barrage as the enemy came within range.

"Enemy entering range of long ranged weapons." The Goblin at sensors added and turned to look at Ainz expectantly.

"Order all ships to fire."

With a bloodthirsty grin the Dragonborn at comms began relaying his order and moments later, the weapons of Felmid's space fleet joined that of Glyth's static defenses in unleashing their firepower on the Voidharrow. Most of their weapons were still technically outside of effective targeting range but the enemy swarm was so large that there was simply no need for such targeting and so the fleet was capable of unleashing most of their weapons regardless.

"Enemy losses?" Ainz asked, his eyes narrowed worriedly. For despite over a minute of unrelenting fire there seemed to be no appreciable reduction of the density of the enemy swarm.

"12% and climbing. Enemy is engaging Fourth Ring Defenses." The sensors operator reported.

"Second and First Ring Defenses opening fire. Haven, Mingabwe and Polluter Moonbases are opening fire. Glyth Spacebase is opening fire."

So everything has opened up at this point. Ainz thought while looking at the sensor Goblin meaningfully.

"21%." The green skinned short humanoid reported. "Ordine spotted! Its leading a charge."

Just as planned. Ainz noted with a smile.


Shalltear. Her Husband's voice filled Shalltear Bloodfallen's mind via Message as she sat in one of the plasma cannon batteries built into the Fourth Ring Defense net. Ordine has been spotted. We're sending you it's coordinates now. Once you've received them, Gate in and engage.

At once, my love. Shalltear replied as she walked over to the Human comms operator of the small base and tapped his shoulder impatiently.

Be careful out there Shalltear. Lord Ainz told her with barely restrained emotion. If something were to happen to you-

Nothing will, my love. I promised you that I'll return to you unharmed and I will keep that promise.

See that you do, my love. Lord Ainz said as the spell ended and his mind withdrew from her own.

"The coordinates, my Lady." The Human said as he gestured at the screen of his workstation.

Shalltear just glanced at it for a moment and nodded, using the coordinates as a guide she opened a Gate and summoning her armor and her Spuit Lance, she leapt through. She emerged in the vacuum of space just ahead of the thrust by the Voidharrow. One that was being mauled by fire from their defenses but which was kept going by the creature at its head, Ordine, who shielded enough of its brethren with its massively oversized wings to keep enough of them alive to maintain the advance.

Not for long if I can help it. Shalltear thought as she vectored towards the monster.

"Implosion!" She cast, her voice carrying even over the vacuum and causing the Voidharrow Angel's right arm to collapse inward.

The creature shrieked, a sound that like her own spellcasting carried through the emptiness of space, and spun to face Shalltear and spit a beam of corrupting rainbow colored energy from its mouth at her.

The goddess of blood and mayhem easily dodged the attack and sent one of her own at the enemy in reply.

"Brilliant Radiance!" Shalltear cast, surrounding the aberration in holy light that burned away at its very unnatural existence.

Again the monstrous Angel roared in pain, but it quickly shook it off and abandoning its position at the head of the Voidharrow charge, it flew towards Shalltear instead.

Just as planned. Shalltear thought with a smirk as she and the Angel exchanged attacks all whilst she drew it further and further away from the rest of its fellows.

At the same time Deathwing and his Dragons, and many metallic Dragons in service to Bahamut that had been unexpectedly sent by their god to assist them shortly before the news of the fall of H'Catha reached them, flew in around behind them intercepting any Voidharrows attempting to join the fight. Normally, most Dragons couldn't just fly or breathe for that matter in the void like this of course but Deathwing was the god of the vacuum, bestowing such a simple boon on the lesser Dragons was child's play.

It was just a little easier than the evasions Shalltear had to make to avoid the lesser Voidharrows that Ordine was shooting at Shalltear out of her wings or the double helix appendages that stretched and weaved through the void like tentacles in a bid to skewer her on their sharp lance like ends.

The adds she's summoning are pesky though. The True Vampire thought as she evaded a squid like thing that had rocketed towards her in a bid to impale her with the spike atop its mantle by graceful twirling out of the way. Let's even the numbers up, eh?

"Summon Household!" She incanted, invoking one of her skills to summon a whole colony of Elder Vampire Bats and Vampire Bat Swarms, only to discover they couldn't fly in space. As a result, her summons just floated around her uselessly as they futilely flapped their wings.

At least they're undead and don't need to breathe? Shalltear tried to console herself even as an embarrassed blush flushed her face at her mistake. Of course they can't fly in vacuum! Didn't I just think Deathwing had to bless his Dragons so they could do it? Wait! I'm managing because I'm a goddess, can't I grant the same power to my bats?

Before she could give the idea more thought, much less implement it, Ordine's summoned Voidharrow started massacring her bats.

Argh! That's a lost cause. New plan!

"Impure Shockwave Shield!" She shouted, unleashing a reddish-black wave of force that exploded from her body and cleared the area around her of everything but Ordine who she proceeded to charge at.

The aberration let out a defiant roar despite the smoking wounds caused by her Impure Shockwave Shield and opened fire on Shalltear by shooting energy beams out of its mouth and the two jewels embedded in its wings.

"Hah! You still can't hit the broad side of a barn!" Shalltear taunted as she weaved through the beams with effortless grace. That said, she wasn't going to let the attack go unanswered.

"Purifying Javelin!"

Raising her free hand in a throwing position, a gigantic lance of the holy energy formed in her waiting palm that she promptly threw at Ordine. Where it stabbed the grotesque imitation of an Angel in the gut and caused it to scream in pain.

It tried to retaliate by lashing out with its tentacles at Shalltear, but the True Vampire would have none of it.

"Impure Shockwave Shield!" She shouted, using another of the powerful shockwaves to blast the tentacles into non-existence.

"It's over for you, you ugly parody! Einherjar!" Shalltear shouted as she dove in to finish Ordine once and for all. Her newly activated skill causing a ball of white light to coalesce in front of her, which slowly shaped itself into a humanoid form until fully resolving itself into a golem-like duplicate of herself.

Einherjar was arguably her most powerful skill. For although the construct could not use spells or skills, it had the same stats and equipment as she did, which thus allowed her to deal twice the damage as she and her double ran their Spuit Lances right through Ordine's body.

The Voidharrow Angel screamed so loudly and piteously even as it collapsed into the sludge from whence it had been formed that Shalltear almost pitied it. No, that was a lie. The aberration was an enemy of her beloved Lord Ainz and she had no pity for any of those.

"Let's see if killing this damned thing did what we hoped it would." Shalltear said to herself as she turned towards the Voidharrow swarm to see a large portion of it seemingly start disintegrating for no apparent reason.

"Guess it did." The goddess said with a smirk. "I did good, didn't I Husband?"

You did brilliantly, Shalltear. Lord Ainz's perfect voice filled her mind. Well done.

Shalltear allowed herself a moment to preen at the praise before she took a breath to steady herself and turned towards the still dense but rapidly thinning swarm of enemies.

Time to get back to work. She thought as she shot towards the enemy, her Einherjar golem flying by her side.


Even as Ainz and Shalltear fought the enemy over Glyth, a portal opened unexpectedly on the Kanto Plain and a Voidharrow host poured out of it onto Felmid. Despite the suddenness of the invasion however, the world's forces were prepared and acting with efficiency that would put most beings to shame they rallied to their world's defense.

Thus it was that Victim and Gargantua found themselves staring across the battlefield within the Kanto Defense Zone at a massive three headed Voidharrow creature as big and tall as the god of the stone. The head on the creature's left shoulder resembled a humanoid wearing some kind of blocky helmet over its upper portion but whose exposed lower half was taken over by a mouth ringed by a set of writhing tentacles. The head on the right shoulder sported a long, stout jaw as well as a bony growth that resembled a haloesque crown. The central head looked mostly Human but had a three-pronged jaw from which hung a tongue that was probably as long as it was tall that ended in a massive organic scythe.

"That must be their leader or at least one of them." Gargantua concluded. "Victim, together?"

"Noib, ol zorge. Ca el. (Yes, my friend. As one.)" The floating fetal like Angel replied.

"For Lord Ainz!" Gargantua shouted as he sprinted across the battlefield and tackled the Voidharrow Giant to the ground. All around them lesser Voidharrow moved to swarm over the golem in a bid to aid their counterpart, but precise and unrelenting suppressive fire from the Felmidian defenders kept them off their god and allowed he and the gigantic aberration to continue their fight unmolested.

And that they did, the two massive beings wrestling and for a time looking evenly matched. That is until Victim floated over and added his magic to the contest.

"Titan's Strength!" The angelic god of sacrifice cast, enhancing Gargantua's strength greatly and allowing the god of stone to finally overpower his opponent. Whereupon he lifted him over his head and tossed the other giant far away from the other Voidharrow.

Even before the aberrant Giant hit the ground however, Gargantua had broken into a sprint in the direction where he'd thrown him so he was on hand just as it was struggling back to its feet to deliver a powerful right hook that sent it stumbling back to the ground.

"Victim! Bind it!"

"C t! (On it!) Sacrificial Bind!" The god of sacrifice shouted, its body exploding into blood and viscera that quickly transformed into crimson chains that wrapped themselves around the Voidharrow Giant before anchoring themselves firmly into the earth.

"Time to die!" Gargantua declared ominously as the Revolver Knuckles he'd built and wore began spinning. "Taste the power of my engineering!"

With that declaration, he punched the aberration hard in the left shoulder which was building up a blob of acid between its tentacles presumably to spit at him. It never got the chance as with the impact of the punch, one of the stored magical effects of the Revolver Knuckles was released and a massive pillar of fire erupted that incinerated the whole shoulder, the head growing out of it included.

The Voidharrow monster cried out in what sounded like agony at the blow, but Gargantua ignored it, choosing instead to mercilessly pummel it. Each blow unleashing yet another devastating magic stored within the Revolver Knuckles. Ice, lightning, holy, unholy energies and of course more fire all slammed into the creature with blow after powerful blow. It was thus no wonder that within minutes the once intimidating Giant was disintegrating into the disgusting Voidharrow sludge.

As the monster died, Gargantued turned back to the battlefield. The attacking horde had been thinned quite a bit by the loss of the anchor provided by the Giant but there were still thousands of the aberrations. And even though the Voidharrow were being mowed down in droves by the prepared defenses all around the plain, they were, heedless to their losses, still advancing.

"Ge duty i still unfinished t seems (Our duty is still unfinished it seems)." Victim said as he rematerialized next to Gargantua.

Gargantua just nodded and stamped his right foot hard.

Immediately, hundreds of massive spikes of stone burst from the ground amidst the Voidharrow's ranks, impaling anything resembling leaders, killing them and whatever of their fellows they anchored. Victim was slower on the uptake but a moment later he too joined the battle by beginning to rain down all manner of deadly spells into the hordes doing much the same. Between them, they killed tens of thousands of the aberrations and held an entire front.


But there were more than one front on Felmid at that moment. On the opposite side of the Kanto battlefield from Victim and Gargantua, Mare and Aura were fighting their own battle against another of the Voidharrow's twisted leaders.

In this case it took the form of an oversized set of sleeping conjoined Human infants wearing a tattered, dirty smock and a scarf which appeared somewhat feathery. Besides their heads, none of its pale skinned body was exposed save a pair of enormous, adult-like arms that came out from underneath their smock, as if they were a pair of legs. As if this appearance wasn't unsettling enough, the monster also sobbed in a pair of sharp shrill voices.

"Damned! Can't it just shut up!" Aura shouted as she rode Fenn, her giant, crimson eyed, black wolf, in circles around the monster which had stomped its way out of its own lines directly at her and her brother, her bow ready to pelt it with arrows.

"Whoa!" She shouted as Fenn swerved to the right suddenly to avoid one of the monster's gross arms/leg things extended insanely as it made a desperate attempt to grab her.

All whilst it was simultaneously engaging Mare it in a duel of magic.

"Stream of Lava!" Mare cast sending a torrent of molten earth at the monster, only to have it countered by both the aberration's heads breathing out a chill breath that froze his attack solid well away from hitting it.

"It's got magic too!?" Aura cursed. "This is just unfair."

If Mare felt the same, he did not show it instead shaking off his failure entirely and simply casting another spell.

"Impaling Earth!" Her twin incanted, causing a forest of razor sharp spikes to shoot out of the ground to impale the monster from all sides.

"Good job, Mare!." Aura shouted in praise of her brother successful immobilizing the monster, leveling her bow and activating a skill. "Monster Slaying Arrow!"

Her magically charged arrow slammed into the monster and exploded causing it to reel in pain, even as it unleashed a surge of dark energy that shattered the spikes and freeing itself. Though it staggered perhaps due to its injuries.

"You're not getting away." Mare declared. "Earth Surge."

At her brother's invocation, the ground around the monster came alive and surged towards and proceeded to smother the disorientated monster, binding it in place within a mound of earth.

"Rain Arrow!" Aura shouted, activating her skill and sending hundreds of magical arrows falling on the monster causing it to howl in agony.

"Stream of Lava!" Mare followed up, sending another jet of lava at the monster which this time was in too much pain to disrupt his spell.

As a result, the molten earth burned the monster causing its already piercing screams to grow to an even greater intensity and it began to disintegrate into the Voidharrow sludge. Before it completely collapsed however, it stopped crying long enough to say something coherent for once.

"Onee-chan, Onii-chan bye bye."

Mare was startled at this and Aura frowned even as she guided Fenn to her twin's side.

"T-That creature was just-" Mare said looking at the monster's remains with a conflicted look on his face. "I dunno why but I feel sad for it."

"Yeah, me too." Aura agreed. "But that's why we need to defeat the crazy god who unleashed these things in the first place. Before he can create more horrors like these."

Mare's conflicted look vanished almost immediately at that and was replaced with one that radiated determination.

"Yes." The Druid said with a firm nod. "We will destroy whoever made these sad things."

"That's the spirit, Mare." Aura declared as she pulled her brother onto Fenn's back. "Let's go free more of these things from their suffering shall we?"

"Let's." Mare said gripping his staff tightly. "Before they can hurt Lord Ainz's kind heart."

Aura blinked in confusion at her twin's logic there. Sure, Lord Ainz would definitely feel saddened like they had if he learned of the monster they'd just fought. He was kind-hearted like that but she didn't think he would order them to fight the Voidharrow because of that.

Then again, it would probably strengthen his resolve to do so. So maybe Mare does have a point. Ah! Whatever! It doesn't matter why he wants us to fight these damned things, just that Lord Ainz wants us to. That's more than good enough for me!

With that thought in mind, she spurred Fenn on and he dutifully carried Mare and her back towards the heart of the fighting. They had an invasion to repel. She could ponder all of the probably manifold reasons the Supreme One wanted to destroy the Voidharrow later.


While her fellow Guardians were on the surface of Felmid fending off the Voidharrow invasion, Albedo stood inside the Nazarick Throne Room overseeing the state of the war.

"Looks like we won't have to worry about the Kanto situation for much longer." She noted as she analyzed the state of the battle there through a cluster of the dozens of holographic screens floating around her thanks to the projectors of the small workstation her Husband had installed for her. With the twins, Gargantua and Victim all there and the Voidharrow's primary leaders and anchors dead, the invasion there was pretty much contained.

The same could not be said elsewhere within their domains however and she frowned as turned towards another set of screens.


One such place that was struggling was the city of Arangyn in the Skelkor Republic where the Momon Renner found herself struggling to organize an effective defense from the sudden Voidharrow attack.

One that was led by a massive beast with a body that consists of a large triangular shaped torso with three long, double-jointed back legs at each point of its body. Its front leg was in fact the creature's head, containing a beak like mouth that was as segmented and foldable for moving around as the other legs. It had two pairs of large and small eyes on its head and two large feelers protruded from its underside and extended upwards, growing on either side of its head which run along its entire body, and ended in two bumps at its rear.

"Shit! It's raising its head!" Someone in the command center shouted and Renner hastily turned to her comms officer.

"Tell everyone to get into cover!"

The Human hurried to relay her order but Renner knew he wouldn't make it in time and she could only watch in anger via her tactical display as the monster shot a pressurized jet of water from its beak randomly at their lines, smashing them open for hordes of lesser Voidharrow to advance deeper into the already half fallen city.

"Any hope for reinforcements?" The usually poised Momon asked the harried comms operator with desperation tinging her words.

The poor woman just shook her head and Renner bit her lip in frustration even as she used the tactical display to guide her as she gave orders to fall back to a new defensive line where she prayed they could hold out until help arrived. It was their only hope. The enemy was just too formidable for them to defeat on their own.

It was however a slim hope at best as all nearby forces were just as beleaguered as her own. Arche and Kelart in Marangor were barely fending off some bird shaped monstrosity despite help from Lord Pandora's Actor. Meanwhile, Fluder had informed her that his forces in Daerr were likewise preoccupied fighting off some spiders aberrations. Similar replies come in from other regional commanders too. Only Caspond in Bellakh had finished fending off the enemy, a bunch of sludge lizards there apparently, but that it would take time, days at least, for him to fully secure the labyrinthine city and be able to spare the troops to reinforce her. Days that she did not have.

This is a shitty situation. Renner mused with a frown. Just my luck to get a cushy job as administrator of a trading hub and then suddenly find myself having to fight off an invasion of extradimensional aberrations! Bone Father if you can hear me, please help me out here!

Suddenly a cheer from her men pulled her away from her thoughts and back towards the tactical display where she could see Lord Merwyrm emerge from the waters of the harbor behind the arthropod-like Voidharrow behemoth and wrapping his tentacles around the monster, dragged it into the sea. Simultaneously, hordes of Felmidian merfolk and aquatic undead were crawling out of the water and into the rear of the enemy lines.

Looks like my prayers were answered. Renner thought with a grin.

"Relay to all troops, advance!" The Momon said to her comms officer. "We'll crush the enemy between ourselves and Lord Merwyrm's troops!"

"Yes ma'am!" The young woman said with more enthusiasm than she'd had the whole battle.

Feeling the boost to her own morale, Renner let a smile spread across her face as she watched the enemy get pushed back as they found themselves caught in the vise that was the two friendly armies. The smile only grew and grew as enemy unit after enemy unit winked off the display.

Sadly, all good things must come to an end and soon the tide turned against the defenders once more. This took the form of Lord Merwyrm's battered form suddenly being shot out of the churning waters of the harbor by a powerful water jet and the Voidharrow abomination beginning to slowly stride back onto land. It was missing big chunks of its body but that was cold comfort as the dead body of Lord Merwyrm slammed into the ground right in the heart of his own army, crushing many outright and shattering the morale of all friendlies in the city. Worse yet, as if to add insult to injury, the creature let out a roar not unlike that of a Dragon's in celebration of its victory.

It had however celebrated too early as it was still roaring when a Gate opened right on top of it and the Sliver Queen literally fell on top of it. Caught completely by surprise, the Voidharrow creature barely put up a struggle as the Queen wrapped her serpentine body around the monstrosity and stabbed it viciously with her scythe like arms.

"Kill it!" Renner hissed vindictively. "Kill that damned thing!"

The Sliver Queen was intent on just that, constricting the monster ever tighter in her coils even as her arms stabbed into its body without mercy. It took a few minutes but eventually the deed was done and the aberration began to disintegrate into the sludge that had spawned it.

Renner couldn't help the maniacal laugh she let loose at the sight. Watching the enemy that had given her so much trouble finally die was just too much for her to resist.

"Order our troops to finish the enemies off." She commanded as she regained her composure. "Their numbers have been thinned by the lost of the anchoring effect that leviathan gave them. Our men should have an easy time of it."

"Y-Yes ma'am." The comms officer said a touch nervously.

My laugh was that unsettling was it? Renner thought with a mental frown. I guess it might've been. Oh well! I'll just have to be extra nice the next few weeks. That'll correct whatever damage to my reputation that slip up caused.

Even as she pondered this, she kept an eye on the tactical display as it showed the Sliver Queen move carefully through the battered streets of the city to gently pick up Lord Merwyrm's body.

Wonder what will happen to it. Will Lord Ainz resurrect him? Renner shook her head, clearing it of such thoughts. Whatever! That's above my pay grade anyways. I have my own job to do and that's to cleanse this city of the blasphemous taint of the Voidharrow.


Back in Nazarick's Throne Room, Albedo was far less dispassionate about Merwyrm's death. Looking at the corpse through the screens that surrounded her, she winced even as she used Message to contact the Sliver Queen.

Sliver Queen. This is Albedo.

What is it, Lady Albedo? The Mother of all Slivers said in reply sounding shaken.

Bring Merwyrm home. We'll resurrect him.

That seemed to light a fire under her and the Sliver Queen gently picked up her fellow Lord of Felmid's body.

On my way. The Queen said as she slithered towards a Gate that Albedo used her powers as goddess of administration, love and beauty to open for her to return to Felmid. And thank you for informing me of Merwyrm's plight and providing the Gate. I might not have been able to save him, but I am glad that I could at least avenge my friend.

I merely did what Lord Ainz would've done.

Indeed. The Sliver Queen sent in agreement. Nevertheless, you have my thanks.

With that, the Lady of Beasts disconnected and Albedo turned her attention away from that particular front. As much as she would have liked to have given Merwyrm the honor he deserved for having died fighting for Lord Ainz, there were other battles for her to oversee. And the battle Malwood and Baragon were fighting was one of them. Especially, since it was going poorly.

This is bad! Who can I send in to help?


The aforementioned battle saw the two Lords of Felmid in question fighting in the Himalayan mountains of Felmid where perhaps in an attempt at a flanking attack, a second smaller Voidharrow incursion was taking place.

This one however was led by the being who appeared to be responsible for the portals allowing them to attack Felmid in the first place, a winged serpent made out of a mass of glowing orbs which were covered in thousands of eyes and tendrils, and held together by the black sludge that characterized many Voidharrow. Its body was covered in portals in a pattern that resembled an incomplete scale mesh.

"Burn! You monster!" Baragon roared defiantly as he spat balls of lava out of his mouth at the aberration. The damned thing was smart however and it created a portal in front of it that intercepted the lavaballs and then opened another over Malwood that proceeded to shoot them back out, setting the Lord of the Plants on fire.

"Shit! Hang on Malwood!" Baragon cried in alarm as he rushed over to help, digging up dirt off the mountainside and throwing it on Malwood as he rolled around on the ground.

This distraction was costly however as it allowed the monster to hit Baragon in the side with a beam of sickly looking green energy that it breathed out of its mouth, which proceeded to pierce clean through his body and had him collapsing to the ground as he lost feeling in a good chunk of his body.

Is this how we die? Baragon thought to himself as he struggled to rise despite his wounds and saw that Malwood was doing the same.

Even as the two Lords of Felmid fought to rise, the Voidharrow Couatl reared its head back preparing to unleash the coup de grâce. It never got the chance as just as it began to open its mouth, a roar shook the world.

"Get away from them!" Lady Enri's voice boomed as she descended upon the aberration in the guise of a golden giant, her Coram Imperio raised and coming down in one smooth motion that decapitated the monster.

Instead of having the good graces to die however, the blasted thing simply reared back as if stunned even as the stump of its neck bubbled and two new heads began to emerge.

"Let's see how long you can keep that up!" Lady Enri demanded as without hesitation, she lashed out with her sword once more severing both heads even before they were even half formed.

A process she repeated over and over again as the monster continually tried to regenerate, chopping further and further down its length with each swing. It was almost comical if not for the seriousness of the situation but eventually the monster had taken too much damage and as Lady Enri severed the section of the monster's body just before its wings, it finally fell out of the sky and collapsed into the muck from whence it came.

"And stay dead!" Lady Enri declared as she turned away from the pool of sludge to face the two of them.

"Mass Greater Cure Wounds." Lady Enri cast, before looking at them both carefully. "Malwood, Baragon, you two okay?"

"Yes, thank you for the assistance." Malwood said as he shakily got to his feet.

"You have my gratitude." Baragon told her.

"Glad to help." Lady Enri said with a smile. "But if you're well then we still have a job to do."

Baragon nodded, looking at the Voidharrow army still present on the mountain slopes all around them as it battled with his elemental subordinates and Malwood's forestfolk.

"Let's cleanse our Lord's world of this filth."


Seeing Enri save the day in the Himalayas, Albedo breathed a sigh of relief that Felmid was well on the way to being secured and with the destruction of the Voidharrow Coatl hopefully the enemy's ability to use portals would be reduced too. At least before they could replace it. Surely, even if it was not unique, which was a real possibility, then there couldn't be too many of its ilk.

"That just leaves the battle at Marangor undecided." Albedo observed as she turned to face the screen displaying the data from that battle.


The battle for the capital of the Skelkor Republic was mainly an aerial one and was dominated by the titanic duel between Pandora's Actor and the lead monster of the attacking Voidharrow. A duel for which the god of treasure and intrigue had taken the form of his schwester Drau's Primeval Prismatic Dragon Lord form. A fitting form considering the location and the opponent he was battling, namely a monster that had the overall shape of a gigantic crow roughly the same size of his current form but whose whole body was made out of the amalgamation of countless bodies, both humanoid and not, held together by copious amounts of the Voidharrow's trademark black sludge.

It had led a murder of similar but smaller Voidharrow Crows that had descended on Marangor unexpectedly. They were however being held off admirably by Marangor's defenders and the fleet of ships that he commanded which had been tasked by his Vater with supplementing the city's defenses. This left their abominable leader solely up to him.

"Laser Breath!" Pandora's Actor cried out dramatically as he used his form's Rainbow Breath skill to shoot out a storm of thin lasers that streaked across the sky to rake across the body of the enemy crow monster and burned off whole chunks of its twisted flesh.

Much to the Greater Doppelgänger's dismay, when he'd assumed his schwester's form he'd discovered that his version of Rainbow Breath was limited to only what breath weapons that Drau had used in the past unlike her own version that allowed her to create any breath weapon she could dream up. Considering how stingy his kleine Schwester was with the use of her Dragon forms he wasn't given much material at all to work with! But he was a professional and would not be held back by such petty limits!

That said, as he saw the Voidharrow monster shake off his attack as if it was nothing despite losing large portions of its body he couldn't help but be even more annoyed at the lack of variety with which he had to work with.

He was forced to discard such distracting thoughts quickly though as the crow banked through the air and descended upon him with its talons ready to tear him to pieces. Tentacles were even growing out of its breasts each tipped with a sharp looking spike ready to rip into his flesh.

Pandora's Actor wasn't about to let it get close however and as it made its final approach, he breathed out a powerful cone of cold with his Chill Breath. Drau's version would probably have only left the monster coated in frost, but as powerful as his kleine Schwester was she could not compare to her älterer Bruder. He was a god after all and his version of this breath weapon proved that, freezing the monster solid inside a block of ice.

It began to fall from the sky but Pandora's Actor was having none of that. Sweeping down and grabbing it just before it fell down into the chaotic melee that was filling the lower altitudes above Marangor, he used his prodigious strength and tossed it high into the air.

Already the ice was melting and cracking, the monster growing tendrils from its body to drill and corrupt its way out of its prison. But it would hold long enough.

"Time to die, enemy of mein Vater." Pandora's Actor declared ominously as prepared to finish this. "Explosive Breath!"

He spat an immense fireball at the still frozen Voidharrow monster which impacted with a titanic explosion that blinded everyone for miles around in a white flash and created a roar heard just as far. That was only the minor consequences though as the heat and force unleashed by the blast literally tore a hole in Toril's upper atmosphere miles wide. It would have been utterly catastrophic for all the region's inhabitants if not for Pandora's Actor using his godly powers to still the air and fill the vacuum created.

"I might've overdid it there." The Greater Doppelgänger noted with what passed for embarrassment on his currently Dragonic face. "Oh well! At least the monster is dead and I averted the disaster I almost caused. I'm sure Vater won't be too upset with me."


"Don't be too sure," Albedo said with a roll of her eyes as she saw the near disaster Pandora's Actor's overeagerness almost caused.

She wasn't too upset however. As with Pandora's Actor's defeat of the Voidharrow Crow menacing Marangor, the last of the Voidharrow's incursions into their territory were repulsed.

"With this the enemy's offensive is blunted." Albedo observed as she looked over the various screens once more. "At least for the most part."

There were some fronts like those belonging to the Demons which were still tenuous at best, but most had stabilized. Overall, it seemed that the enemy had focused the majority of their attention on attacking them and with these efforts repulsed, their strength, at least for now, was spent.

A wise move considering just how much of a threat Lord Ainz is to them. Albedo conceded despite her distaste for offering any praise to the enemy.

Abledo. Her Husband's charming voice filled her ears as a Message spell took effect.

"Yes, my Lord?" She asked aloud.

Prepare Nazarick to receive guests. Her Master ordered. With stability on the frontlines established, it is time to prepare our counterattack. To that effect, I will shortly be sending out invitations to the Realms' various powers to meet and discuss plans for such. Make ready to receive them.

"As you command."

Truly his wisdom knows no bounds. He realized the time is opportune for a counteroffensive even before I did and I'm the one entrusted to monitor the progress of the war.

Albedo allowed herself a moment to squirm in pleasure at having such a perfect Lord and Husband before recollecting herself. He had given her an order and she had to carry it out.

She could not disappoint her love.


Done!

Now this is the length I was going for with the chapters of this 'book'. Not sure I can keep it up but I'll try. Hope you guys liked it regardless of length.

Beyond that there's not much for me to say this chapter, but before I sign off, here's the Visual Guide for some of the monsters I borrowed for this chapter:

Ordine = Ordinemon from the Digimon franchise

Victim and Gargantua's opponent = Lephantis from the Warframe franchise

Mare and Aura's opponent = Twin Victim from the Silent Hill franchise

The monster which attacks Arangyn = a Sea Treader from Subnautica

The Himalayan monster = inspired by Yog Sothoth from the Lovecraft Mythos crossed with a Couatl

Till next time, ijeoma!