Avernus, the first hell of Baatorian mountain, was known as the battlefield for the infamous Blood War. A war that was necessary to maintain the balance of law and chaos in the multiverse. It was the battle between the devils of Nine Hells and the demons of Abyssal worlds.
However, it was also the homeplane of an entity whose powers far surpassed the Archdevil of Avernus. And the name of this entity was Tiamat, the mother of all Chromatic Dragons. She also had various other titles, all bestowed upon her by both the enemies and flatterers.
It did not matter whether you hate her or like her, she was an important piece in the great game of multiverse where she could cause imbalance the law and chaos. Despite her chaotic tendencies, she was well worshipped by both demonkind and devilish races. Being the mother of chromatic dragons, she had the very same mentalities of the chromatic dragons.
Greedy as red dragons, hierarchical as blue dragons, clever as green dragons, sadistic as black dragons and vengeful as the white dragons. She was the very definition of chromatic dragons in both physicality and magical prowess.
And so, there came her own agenda.
To avenge the death of her father : Asgorath.
All because her twin brother, Bahamut, considered himself to be the righteous ruler of the world. His self-appreciation of his powers was the reason why the dragonkind was divided.
He must pay for the crimes of deicide and she would ensure that the justice would fall upon her. The workd had called her evil, worshipped her as the mistress of disaster and so many blasphemous titles.
Tiamat hated it, but understood the fact that the history was written by winners.
The time she understood this fact, it was too late. His brother swayed the minds of tge dragonkind and mortals into thinking her as the Evil Dragon Mother. Her divinity changed, her portfolio altered, and while she attempted to counter his false claims, she was stuck with her divine body.
The only way to unite the dragonkind was to become the common enemy of the dragons. She employed evil tactics and strategies to make her children strong. It worked sometimes, but they also carried the burden of becoming the target of hate. And with the passage of time, they had turned evil as well.
It teared her up, but what else she could do than throwing tantrum in the pits of Avernus.
As of now, she had been planning to bring out her most trusted servant. Her plan was not that hard.
With one of her Aspect in the Faerun, she could go after the weaker Metallic Dragons and kill them one by one. So far, no deity had found about her plan. It would be too late to act if the Argland Council State took actions upon her. She might be strong, but she was far from the strongest. She must lay her traps for the adventurers subtly, to the point that they could hardly figure out.
Until then, she had to wait for the said group of wyrmspeakers and the Dragon Masks. The ritual for permanently summoning her Aspect would then be completed to finally wreak havoc upon the world.
The level up process of YGGDRASIL was very strict in its working.
As long as the player was fighting or killing opponent weaker than his/her levels, the amount of XP would immediately drop to zero. That was the rule of growing up in the virtual reality of YGGDRASIL.
However, if the said player fought alone against someone whose levels were greater than him, they would gain bonus XP in return. Such was the logic YGGDRASIL players had followed and chose Raid Bosses or World Enemies to kill.
Satoru had a different case here, if only a little.
When he first slayed the Old Gnawbones, he got his first level up. This meant that the Green Dragon he fought was stronger than him, but either out of arrogance or the lack of good offensive abilities to kill or even damage him. It was pretty obvious that Old Gnawbones was not a fighter material, but a poison and illusion user. Her powers were oddly good for long term scheming and to ground up an intelligence network with seemingly no chances of getting caught. King Witchthorn called her a sly, smart and hedonistic dragon whose goal was to become the human with all her draconic powers intact. Such a twisted dragon she was.
His second kill gave him a major XP boost. As he dud not slew a powerful mortal, but an immortal heroic dragon. The Red Greatwyrm was his best kill so far.
Truly using his offensive powers, but no strategy in his fight. Only his sheer arrogance had led his demise by Satoru. Otherwise it should be impossible for Satoru to level up this fast. But that was not an important issue.
His current enemy was Tiamat, the Mother Goddess of all Chromatic Dragons. The Archdevil of Avernus. The Evil Lady of Dragonkind. The Five-Headed Dragoness. And many other names which presented her as an evil, cruel, sadistic and ultimately a greedy dragon.
Therefore, he must be prepared for what was going to happen to him. Though he did not wish think too much about it.
"[Gate]"
The 9th tier spell summoned the obsidian dark gateway to another world. A world that ge'd searched through that divination pool. It was the world that had scared mortals for many times. A world that was infested by devils and Tiamat.
In reality, it was the first layer of Baator — Avernus.
The time had finally come to face the Dragon Queen.
Just as he closed the Gate, he was graced by tge sight of devils, who watched him coming out of Gate. He stood atop a hill devoid of any plant life, with illusory water filled around him.
Not far from him, the Blood War was going on as the fiendish river of blood was coming from there. The devils who saw him were covering his line of sight as they usually hunted in groups.
"I don't have time to play with small fries. You can have my Death squad to play with."
Another [Gate] opened, not far from him. And from those portals, multiple horrific creatures appeared. Their appearance was similar to that of undeads.
Death Knight for defense, Death Warrior for offense, Death Cavalier for speed, Death Wizard for magic and Death Priest for support had appeared around him.
Normally, he had no way to fix their problems regarding coordination as they were still mindless undeads, except Death Wizard and Death Priest who had some intelligence. But thanks to his level up, he got some new necromantic spells.
"[Negative Energy Flood, [Undead Inferno, [Necroplasmic Armor, [Mind of One, [Gazeb–"
And many colourful spells buffed this squad. Satoru smiled at the group as they looked akin to an adventurer party of undeads. However, amongst his buffs, there was one that he liked the most.
The spell called [Mind of One, a spell that joined the intelligence level of his undeads equivalent to the necromancer. That way, he could share his knowledge of PKing and PKKing without any issue. The effect of this spell was obviously easy to see.
As the devils attacked them, the Death Warrior took the lead and sliced apart them with ease. The imps who decided to use spells were immediately stopped by the Death Wizard, a lich-like undead with different spells. It could cast any spells upto 6th tier and immune to all spells upto 6th tier. Death Knight took the damage as well as Drew hate from them upon itself, and Death Priest healed it and others to full health. On the other hand, Death Cavalier was covered them from rear. It was a simple strategy to fight off against these devils. Though these devils were fairly weak, unless a strong devil ever came to put down his death squad.
Satoru considered it to be disappointing enough, but it could not be helped. They were hardly his sacrifices, but he still felt bad for them.
His concern of them shifted to fear as he heard the soul-chilling roar from his back.
In the crimson fireball showering sky, there was a large creature flying high towards the Blood War. The creature had five heads, each head of different colour and form. It's massive wings created storms just by the simple flapping. Even an average commoner of Faerun could tell that this creature was none other than the legendary nemesis of gods — Tiamat.
"She has been awakened... no... it should be her avataar. Her true body should be sealed on the depths of the hellish prisons. In other words, the Cult of Dragons has managed to summon her avataar?!"
It was quite surprising to see that some weaklings were capable of summoning an avataar of a deity. Only a Super Tier Spell could summon a deity's avataar. The masks were truly functional by their lore. Unfortunately, that could only summon Tiamat's avataar and the dragon goddess seemed to be invested in other acts than following the orders of the summoner.
"What a unique yet useless item. And here I thought it to be a wonderful artifact. Oh well, I can still use the masks for money." His plan hadn't changed at all.
It was either fight or flight.
But before he could engage with her in battle, he felt an intense bloodlust washed over him.
"Why are you standing here? Shouldn't you be taking her our of this place?" The feminine voice caught his attention for a moment.
His gaze was directed towards the flying bald figure with leathery wings. Her pale eyes loomed over him as she measured him from up and down, while he did the same. She was beautiful despite having no hair. Her soulless watched her with curiosity and anger.
"Who might you be?"
"You didn't answer my question yet."
She rejected her question and remarked at him in her own way. She was tight that Satoru hadn't introduce itself.
Going by her question, she seemed to be pissed that her realm had been littered by mortal intruders. And wished to differentiate between foes and non-foes if her unfriendly way of pointing daggers at him was anything to go by.
It would do him no good if this unknown woman became a nuisance to him. Dedrius told him not to speak lies here, otherwise it would attract the attention of Asmodeus.
"I am not with the Cult of Dragons. My goal for coming here is to ki–" before he could finish his sentence, the bald woman charged straight at him.
"If you are not here to take her away, then you must die. I, Zariel, the Archdevil of Avernus will purge all the unwanted guest from this place." She kept pushing her blade straight through him, yet surprisingly there was no smell of blood in the air. The masked mage stood upright with a translucent heart in his palm.
Wait, a heart?
The mage squeezed the heart with ease, as pain surged through her entire body immediately he did that act. Her body was stunned as she took immense necrotic damage from that spell.
"I like your dedication to save your home, but I am not hear to kill some small fries like you. Rest assure, I will make this painless for you."
After saying his praises for her, multiple magic circles emerged out of nowhere. Runes of unknown origin danced around them, as Satoru prepared his Super Tier Spell to be used upon her.
"I always wanted to see how this spell would affect the demons and devils. You should be honored that you will be the first experiment of my spell."
Zariel's eyes widened as she watched the multiple magic circles to emerge and break into tiny motes of light. The mystical circle enlarged as the mage stretched his hand away from himself. The only thing she heard was the name of the spell.
"[Super Tier Magic : Judgement of Osiris]"
Due to his higher level than before, the activation period of the Super Tier spells had been shortened as well.
And the spell he casted upon her had the karma altering effect. He expected to see the spell changing her into something like Redeemed, a type of holy fiends with both holy and unholy attacks. At the same, they were weak against both of them by half damage.
Much to his astonishment, Zariel flashed into a bright ball of light and vanished.
Seeing this unexpected effect of the spell, Satoru contemplated that the effects of this Super Tier Spell had been clearly altered as well.
It was quite disappointing as he expected something more unique, but not this.
"I guess, that's why people should not expect too much from themselves." Satoru said to herself as he sighed at the disappointing display of his magic.
"Well, atleast it is confirmed that the spell had some unknown effects on the evil-aligned creatures. It should not truly be a disappointment for me."
He tried to assure himself that his magic worked. Though he was not sure how he would fare against Tiamat.
He used [Fly] and [Greater Haste] to reach near of her. Using stealth spells would be fruitless, as the Goddess might have some sort of countermeasures against such tactics. Wasting his mana here would be futile, his plan to bring this Aspect down would require magic and deception.
And his fears were turned out true. The Dragon Goddess stared directly at him with all her five heads. Each head glared at him like he was a nuisance. Before, he could have teleported away, a powerful tail swipe sent him far away from her. As he crashed upon the ground, Tiamat unleashed her breath attacks all at once at him.
The Seven Heavens of Mount Celestia was one of the most beautiful place in the Outer Planes. Normally, the populace of Prime Materia considered it to be the paradise, the Heavenly realms of the righteous souls. But it was far from their actual dreams.
This was the realm of good and lawful creatures where the deads rose through each heavens until they finally attained the enlightenment.
Basically, a pilgrimage realm.
At the vast shores of the lowest heavens, a woman clad in the golden armor stared at the panorama with widened eyes. Her beautiful looks caught the attention of every traveller of this plane.
"I am... back?" Zariel whispered in astonishment as her Solar Archon form had returned.