BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM
All around the battlefield, the sounds of explosions were echoing as if to announce the grand finale of this gruesome battle. The beginning of the final encore of this opening stage of a new Chaos Wars that would no doubt spread to every corner of the world no matter how developed or devastated, full of life or barren it is. But in order to start, this chapter needs to end, and it was as if the troops from both camps realized that, as they pushed even harder. Now it was a matter of willpower. On both sides, generals realized that troops were exhausted after a grueling day of fighting and their strategies weren't going to work. They resolved themselves to finish the battle as quickly as possible by cutting the head of the snake.
"Kolekh you coward! Come here so I can help you be beautiful by cutting your ugly piece of shit face to pieces!" Elsha roared as she was slicing her way through the Chaos troops that were literally throwing themselves at her in hopes that their lord could escape. But it was like pushing meat into a meat grinder.
"HAHAHA, why would I? I accomplish what I wanted; I will leave for now!" Kolekh laughed at her as he opened the portal towards Chaos Waist.
As the behemoth was close to entering his portal, a giant wall of Ice rose in front of him blocking his way. Thinking this, as a last-ditch effort to stop him from leaving, Kolekh swung his double-edged Warhammer at the wall with full force only to find it regenerating almost as soon as it was obliterated. Feeling confused for a second Kolekh tried again with magic this time only to find the same thing happening again. Looking around to see who was doing that he saw that the whole field around him, Elsha and Oda, who finally decided to enter the battle, was in a lock with Elsha, was frozen solid and some troops around them were completely solid and to confirm what he suspected he pushed one solid monster that as soon as it fell to the ground was destroyed, leaving only it frozen part that somehow managed to keep themselves together with an only reminder that it was real.
"Now, now... It would be rude to run away when I finally have a chance to speak to you, won't you say?" An elegant royal voice spoke just behind the clashing duo before a pilar of Ice erupted in between the two girls forcing them to break up and to look at the newcomer.
"Lucy! What are you doing here? I told you to hold the flank!" Elsha shouted towards the Lucifuge.
"Don't worry, the battle is almost over, my flank has started to push forward now, we have broken the enemy, and Hussars with Kozaks are making short work of the rear guard, I saw a group of Hippogriffs also attacking them. When they are finished mopping up the flank, they will hit the centaur." Lucy calmly told her as she was looking directly at Kolekh who was confused for a moment before he started to laugh.
"Ah I see, you are his woman, that is why you come to avenge him... Too bad little girl, you are nowhere near strong enough to hurt me." Kolekh told her still laughing before he grunted as he saw an Ice spear lodge in his shoulder.
"You talk too much, you know? You are almost annoying as Rias but at least she has looks unlike you." Lucy said before she started to form spears of all sizes and shapes. "Elsha, could you please hold off that wannabe, I want to vent a bit at this shit!" Lucy said deadly calm before a maelstrom of spears was sent flying at the dragon ogre who started to parry and dodge as best as his giant body could allow.
Though his skills with his weapon were excellent he couldn't stop all the spears that were sent his way and after a few dozen blocks he started to look take more and more damage as the attack continued.
"Ahhh!" Kolekh roared as the pain he was receiving was too much for him to handle. And with that, he swung his weapon as hard as he could at the ground making the earth shake that was enough to lift the ground in front of him as a makeshift wall and to trough Lucy and others off balance.
"Damn, he truly is a beast, isn't he?" Lucy questioned to herself as she took to the sky reading another barrage of Ice, she didn't bother to add lightning to it as she heard from Elsha that Kolekh was immune to it. So, with her 1/2 of arsenal shot down she resolved herself to do utmost with a hand she was dealt with.
"You pathetic worm!" Kolekh roared again as he charged at the Lucifuge heir with all his might.
"Time to meet your pathetic family, if they are not playthings of Slaneesh already!" With this said Kolekh swung his hammer at Lucy who was wide-eyed at the mighty Chaos lightning bolt that was rushing toward her.
"You really think I would go down that easy?" Lucy shouted as she started to dodge only to realize it was homing lightning.
"HAHAHAHA" Kolekh laugh as he was now amused at seeing the devil trying to get away. "You can try but you can't get away!" He Roared while still laughing like a demon.
"Damit, Lucy Get AWAY, uh... you little shithead take this." Elsha shouted towards Lucy only to be punched in the gut by Oda who was in return kicked in the face forcing her back.
"How the hell are you this powerful?" Elsha growled towards her opponent who was now grinning like a madwoman.
"Oh...that is easy to answer. I devoted myself to the most powerful God." Oda replied before she cackled a bit.
"Most powerful?" Elsha questioned before she parried, quickly sending a few magic attacks to gather even more distance.
"Don't tell me that the great general of the Slavic and Norse didn't notice anything a mist among our forces? I mean it would clearly tell you which God has given the 1st go-ahead." Oda replied before showing Elsha a tattoo on her right arm that had a symbol that even made Elsha shiver a bit.
"K...Khorn? That monster ...no wonder your troops fought so hard. they were all bloody berserkers." Elsha spoke finally while gritting her teeth in rage.
"Yup, all of us got his blessing, hahaha isn't it wonderful? I am delighted that we are blessed by Khorn though there is still more to go, we need to get the Slaanesh, Nurgle, and Tzeetzch's more. But they have their own champions, and their time is coming soon. HAHAHA" Oda shouted while laughing hard.
"You sick bastards!" Elsha shouted as she went into melee again with a Samurai. Who gleefully laughed and counter charged.
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Lucy was cursing as she was finding that this Bahamut was a tough madafucker. She was doing damage to him that was not the problem, the problem was she wasn't doing enough or fast enough. The bastard from the looks of it had a lot of regeneration power and with Elsha who could use Fire magic busy, Lucy was on a back foot. Though that didn't stop the heiress from going all out, but she was slowly getting to her cap. And if this continues, she knew that she would soon lose.
"Think, Lucy there has to be a way to beat this shithead." Lucy said it out loud as blocked a lightning attack with her own.
"Lucy pull back, I will fight them, and reinforcements are coming!" Elsha shouted towards Lucifuge as she saw Dragon Cavalry punching through the center of the Chaos forces and closing in on them with Lazar and Dusan at the lead.
"Hell no! I am not going to retreat!" Lucy shouted back as she took to the skies and started to prepare her strongest attack that she was perfecting.
"Time to die, you ugly piece of shit!" Lucy roared as she gathered all her magic.
Her rage boiling, her emotions on overdrive, and her magic after too long finally at maximum. It was a do-or-die attack, but she didn't care, she was ready to do what was required to finish this fight, she had full faith in Elsha and the other girls that they will finish this without her. Her regret was that if this failed and Kolekh was still alive, she was guaranteed dead, that she would make a lot of people sad especially Issei, but this was something that she had to do. After all she had a lot of plans with him.
Finishing her mental preparation. Lucy started to chant her attack in the most regal while also sounding as demonic as possible.
"To the damn Heaven, I send a message, to hellish Underworld I send praise. I who was forgotten in my land, who was damned for eternity. I will break free from these bounds and take my vengeance on those who wrong me, for I forfeit my life. Unleash the seven circulars of HELL and let this place feel my eternal wrath! FROZEN SUN, SKYFALL!" Lucy roared at the end sending a massive attack the size of the Sun that was so cold and full of electricity, that made everyone's hair on edge, directly at Kolekh who was preparing his counter.
Lucy left without any reserves and stamina and started to plummet toward the ground exhausted beyond comprehension. She could only pray that her last-ditch attack does what was intended while Elsha who finally managed to push Oda back raced towards the falling Queen of Issei's unofficial peerage.
Managing to get to her in time both women watched as Kolekh was trying to stop the attack on his own but as time continued, he was eventually consumed in Lucy's attack which exploded in a similar manner as a Nuke.
"Hope that is that I am done." Lucy hoarsely spoke her energy spent.
"Let's hope dear, hope... Fuck!" Elsha hoped but as if to say fuck you a massive barrier of blood-red color was around Kolekh somewhat keeping the beast alive.
"H-how?! That attack should have wiped him out. Lucy gasped in shock as she looked at still standing Kolekh.
"It is Khorn's doing. I should have known this would happen." Elsha said before she grabbed Lucy and jumped back avoiding an attack from Oda.
"What?" Lucy questioned but was out cold not long later with her mana and stamina hitting the bottom.
"I will explain later now we need to pull you back." Elsha told her, even when she knew that Lucy was out, as open her arm and teleported Lucy away from the main battle leaving her alone with two enemies.
XXX (backline) XXXX
Finally, back into the realm of reality Issei slowly stood up, seeing the Dragon Emperor getting up a cheer rang across the army to encourage the allies and to demoralize the enemy.
Hearing a loud cheer, Issei smirked a bit. It was refreshing to hear soldiers and warriors of old call to him in a way and he wasn't about to disappoint them.
Calling forth his gear Issei looked towards the sky while opening his eyes which were radiating with power as they shined bright.
"Time to put an End to this" issei said it quietly before he let out a mighty Roar that was heard everywhere.
The Roar alone made the earth shake as the true monster of the battlefield was finally awake and released.
XXXX (Moscow, Kremlin) XXXX
In the main chamber where the war council was. The 4 Gods of the Slavic realm were at the table with a map and the positions of the troops that were fighting hard. With them were a few others. Namely the 3 generals of the elite units and 2 generals of old that were very respected by God's, especially Vido who called them here personally.
The 1st and closest to Vido was an elderly man with a short bear and a mustache that were white as the picks of the snowy mountains, his eyes were dark brown with his hair also being white from old age. The old man was in an old military uniform that was decorated with medals showing his art in war that were huge. But that didn't stop the old man from giving his ideas and formulating new plans as the ones he created and found faults in them. He was an old veteran of many wars as well as a Vojvoda of the South Slavic Armies one of 4 great generals.
Next to the old general was another though this one was even older than the previous. He was dressed in an 1800s style Russian uniform with all his medals of war on display. He wore a calm and calculated look on his face as he observed the situation on the field of battle. What he saw was a classic thing in the war. Though he would have preferred to keep the losses of his troops to a minimum, he understood that in this kind of battle it was impossible. After all, this wasn't some little skirmish it was a battle to set the stage for the invasion of a far deadlier enemy than the one he faced centuries ago but that didn't matter. As he spotted a few places that could do wonders but he needed to consult with others. After all, this is a matter of life or total war and destruction.
"So do you see a way?" Vido asked the two old generals who were intently looking at the map and troops' movement.
"I do see a few, but my lord, we need to activate a few more hard-hitting units. The troops now are well trained and experienced, but they are too exhausted to push them on a few places that are weakened. My suggestion is to send Iron Regiment. Along with Preobrazhensky regiment to smash through the weakened position." A Russian general said making his colleague nod his head.
"I agree with Suvorov and would like to ask you my Lord to review this plan." The Serbian Vojvoda said before he gave the battle plan to God Vido for his review.
"Hmmm, I see what you mean, and you have my approval. Perun, can you lend your unit?" Vido asked as he gave a battle plan to his brother who after looking it over nodded.
"Of course, when do you plan to send them Putnik?" Perun asked the Vojvoda who after a moment of thinking replied.
"In half an hour, we need to brief and give a detailed plan to the commanders." Putnik replied before Perun and Vido nodded and called their generals to call forth the Regiments commanders to come and hear the plan.
All in all, units were to be assembled and be battle ready, near the city out of the view of both forces and be ready for time to strike. The leading unit in this small mobile assault group would be Iron Regiment with its artillery. The other units were 2 guard rifle division of the general's Katukov army group that were veterans of WW2 and Polish wing lancers the saviors of Viena with the support of the motorized regiment for quick the end the elite Preobrazhensky was to be held back and be on full alert in Moscow in case enemy tried anything.
The battle plan was to use Iron Regiment as a 1st line unit to smash into the enemy while the 2 guards' rifle Regiments were the support and for lancers to circul around the back and hit the enemy. In essence, this was 3 prong attack as the enemy was already facing the regular army that was an anvil and these shock troops were the hammer to destroy the weekend flank so that the whole right flank can turn in and rush the enemy center that would fall quickly when overwhelmed with additional troops that would be free to hit them as hard as possible.
Of course, the Russian general also added to the plan that at least one rifle division stay behind to protect the flank in case the enemy tries to surprise them and the old Vojvoda agreed.
With everything agreed upon and the commanders of the shock troops appearing on their call from the Gods of Slavic Lands and the plan was presented and elaborated to the present who understood the importance of those actions.
"Vojvoda, I have a question if you would like to hear it" A tall man with black hair and big mustaches said making everyone listen while Vojvoda noded his head. After all, it was rare for the commander of the Iron Regiment to ask or question anything that the HQ set before him.
"What is it Brko?" The Vojvoda asked making the veteran salute before speaking.
"I am not questioning this plan, I am only asking that Iron Regiment be at full strength, what I mean is that the 2nd Morava division be completely mobilized, and half of its artillery be used in attack while half be along with half of the division be in support defense. We aren't fighting regular enemies after all." Brka the man of high renown said making Vido smirk as he understood. Brka was a raw talent that was rare to find, he saw a good way to use as much power possible in a 1st charge and then to slowly weaken his power in a way that would not hurt his forces.
"Brko, it will be done as you asked, Morava division has the green light to mobilize and be ready for battle. I expect great results from my guard, and should your mission be fruitful you can expect the best that our blacksmiths and mages can make for you and your soldiers along with new battle standards that I will personally commission for your Regiment, along with whatever else they want." Vido said making the commandant of the most elite unit of the South salute in understanding.
"Your order shall be completed my mighty Lord even if all of us perish we will complete without fail. Now if you excuse me, I need to brief my solders about this battle." Brka said as he left leaving very good mood Vido and HQ of the south Slavic Army.
"My Lord is that wise?" Vojvoda asked looking at his God.
"Of course Putnik. I am confident that Brka won't make mistakes, after all he is your prodigy along with Misic and Stepanovic. I suspected that he would ask to enter the field of battle soon anyway as he wishes to give the enemy a death blow with his unit. But instead of him asking to enter, why not send him along with a prize if they manage to beat the Chaos? Though truth be told I was planning on giving them a new banner anyway that they can display with pride along with their already Iron Banner." Vido answered Putnik making the old Vojvoda nod his head in understanding.
"It just to show that you, my Lord understand the heart of a warrior. Though I am a bit saddened that our elites couldn't join in this fight. I am sure they would be helpful, but I also understand that protecting the capital is a must and Ice Castle." Surov added making Perun sighed.
"Surov, I am more than grateful to my brothers for adding their forces to the fight and if it was possible, I would have only relay on our arms, but this is a special case and we must do what we must, we have a very large territory to defend and we cannot overextend ourselves. Though where we can, but it is also important to be ready for surprise attacks on other cities that is why I ordered other units to be battle ready." Perun said making Surov nod.
"I know my Lord. I studied the art of war all my life and even now, supplies are critical for any army, especially ours. That is why I am more than glad that we have souths and western's armies fighting with us we can at least do our utmost that they have everything they need for this fight, that is why I ordered Kutuzov to this delicate task." Surov added before looking at the battlefield with wide eyes before smirking.
"Looks like your unit is way more trained Putnik, I see that they are already at the position even without support. I am impressed."
"Hehe, what can I say, they were and still are the iron wall and fist that the enemy is afraid off. They were battle ready at any time and with our Lord's training they are even more deadly as you will see Surov." Putnik replied as he continued to watch only to see that the battle was like it was on pause for a few moments.
Seeing this he looked at everyone present to see them also confused before a defining Roar was heard and a magic disturbance was felt.
"Hmm, it looks that the true beast has awakened. Tell all units to stay clear of Red Dragon Emperor. The warpath has started." Triglav suddenly spoke making everyone nod in a hurry and do what was said.
"Looks like the Chaos just made an enemy that will hunt them even in their own lands. I pity their souls almost." Vido said as he looked on seeing a red light blitzing towards the main battle between Elsha and Chaos generals.
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