Escalating War

Veil did not stop the frenzied attacks against Kafka, giving them no chance to attack.

"You will never be able to defeat me!" Kafka bellowed, their claws expanding and starting to strike back against Veil's flurry of attacks.

"Just who are you and why are you doing all of this?" Veil inquired in a grave tone while on a deadlock against the Dark Clown's claws.

"Is that your final words? HAHAHAHA if so, then my name is Kafka! The final remnant of Demise's Grip!" Kafka sneered.

"I asked why you are doing this. It seems to me that you do not have a goal!" Veil slashed away Kafka's claws.

"Heh! The Demise's Grip wishes to destroy the entire Terra in a way that Gods could not intervene!" Kafka licked their claws.

"…" Veil could not answer that, because what Kafka said was true, this is indeed a war that the Gods would not be able to step in to.

Meanwhile, Darthoxis succeeded in knocking down Azgorath, tasking Nerula to finish the Dragon off.

Sure-kill Skill: Shuranian Fury!!!

Sand flew out of Nerula's bracers from both her hands, after a dozen seconds or so, a gigantic pyramid of sand buried the Dragon.

Nerula closed her eyes as she clapped her palms upright with a great force.

Shuiiick!

The pyramid formed millions of needles inside, tearing the Dragon's entire body apart.

After the sand returned to Nerula's bracers, she kneeled down in exhaustion, her complexion is paling.

They finally brought down the Dragon, Darthoxis one arm was torn off when he smashed Azgorath's head, but the same attack is the one that was able to send the Dragon crashing down.

Darthoxis fell flat on his back from exhaustion, his aura weakening visibly.

The Heroes also wiped out the last wave of monsters flooding towards the city, on which then enabled them to tend to Nerula and help out the Valkyries on her place.

One of the Archdemons finally fell; however, The Demon King Vashon appeared.

Vashon is twice as tall as the Archdemons, his sword alone could bisect Azgorath's body; this war will not be ending without annihilation.

When all hope was lost, 5 new gates appeared, this time, the Pentagram joined the fray.

They all gathered when their respective cities have been flattened out by the monsters, but since the scale of the war is not Terrans versus the Dark Clown's army anymore, they would naturally join.

Especially that there is now a Demon King on another side.

Sabriel started the Pentagram's move by playing his harp that rained down soothing mana to the Angels and Terrans' side.

Zarall and Harazath both madly dashed towards the other Archdemons behind Vashon, while Ophanium healed the other Angels.

Finally, Azazel herself raised her Holy Sword Excalibur and charged up golden mana over her.

Third Divine Technique: Transcendental Severance!

A gigantic sword extending to hundreds of yards swung downwards to Vashon, to which he responded by swinging his massive sword.

BOOM!

The collision toppled some trees closest to the epicenter, while the city walls of Stalvan crumbled.

The engineers and Adventurers resting backed farther into the city; this is not a battle they could be able to participate in anymore.

More and more Demons lost their lives, on the Angels' side, only a few have fallen; the Valkyries are heavily wounded.

Azazel's bombardment of the massive golden sword phantom against Demon King Vashon constantly caused him to stumble back; the difference in strength is visible.

Azazel mercilessly swung her sword everywhere with no emotions whatsoever visible on her face, she just wants to get this done.

However, just as when she was about to stab her sword into Vashon's chest, a trembling aura vibrated the space and time itself.

The time was affected because everything seemed to slow down.

Vuoshhhhh!!!

Urziel, the current God of War, has descended from Mara, the realm of the Gods; Urziel laughed loudly with his open arms.

This is now clearly a breach of rules against the other Gods; however, at this point, Urziel does not care of the backlash.

Urziel charged towards a wounded Valkyrie and grabbed her neck.

Skill: Coffin of Death!

Black smoke wrapped the entire body of the Valkyrie before Urziel smashed her onto the ground.

Boom! Crack!

The Valkyrie's breathing stopped, visibly losing her life after that one attack, the black smoke then disappeared.

Urziel continued his onslaught until someone appeared before him, the previous God of War, the Primordial Darthoxis.

Darthoxis was grinning widely, no wounds and his torn arm is as good as new, "You dare snatch away my position, you will pay now!"

"Is that so? Come!" Urziel growled.

The old and new God of War entered a fistfight, throwing punches with rapid succession, both blocking and countering each other's attacks.

After a few more minutes of trading a storm of punches, small cuts started appearing on the two until Darthoxis sent an uppercut that found its mark.

Thud!

Gaghhh!

Urziel was sent upwards, feeling extreme dizziness, Darthoxis followed up by sending a guillotine strike on the former's abdomen using his foot.

Slam! Rumble!!!

The entire ground shook violently after Urziel crashed, an entire crater appearing.

Darthoxis' aura is unmeasurable now, his anger is also reaching its peak; he dashed again and sent more storm of attacks.

Urziel's body structure is even getting visibly reshaped due to the merciless attacks of Darthoxis; his bones are getting broken one by one, his muscles receiving unrepairable dents.

The flurry of attacks did not stop until the ground was deep enough for water to gush up to the cracks.

Feeling satisfied, Darthoxis summoned his domain skill to finish off the God of War.

Mana Expansion: Millennium Requiem!

Thousands of swords rained down and stabbed everywhere around and on the crater, some.

Darthoxis then waved one of his hands control one of the swords.

Primordial Sure-kill Skill: Sword of Boundary!

A pure white sword flew out of the crater and stabbed Urziel's heart.

Splat!

Aurkggghh!

Blood gushed out of his mouth, white chains growing out of his heart and expanding towards his entire magic circuits, Darthoxis noticed something amiss.

Urziel's divine mana was nowhere to be found, meaning, he was stripped off his position when he joined the war.

Darthoxis did not think much of it, he just destroyed Urziel's entirety, both physical and spiritual bodies ceasing to function for eternity.

The Sword of Boundary does not deal any physical damage, instead, sealing the target's mana and magic circuits.

If a creature's magic circuits are sealed, it will slowly eat up itself to search for a supply of mana, without that supply, the physical body along the spiritual body will die, which no healing magic would be able to restore.

Darthoxis undid his Mana Expansion and joined the fray against the remaining Demons; the four other Pentagram members have successfully turned the tide on their favor.

Meanwhile, Azazel made visible progress on her battle against the Demon King Vashon, causing massive wounds on the colossus.

However, Azazel is paling after using the Third Divine Technique nonstop, which is eating up all the available mana.

Due to the lack of atmospheric mana, Azazel is supplying everything with her own mana, thus, the exhaustion catching up on her.

[…]

Kafka's clown outfit has been torn apart, revealing the structure of their body.

Purely dark with galaxies of stars could be spotted all over them.

Even Kafka did not bother restoring their clothes and prevent their body's shape from leaking out.

The Dark Clowns' body is similar to liquid or mana, flowing through a certain pattern.

Ordinary physical attacks and even attacks imbued with basic mana types are nullified against the Dark Clowns' body.

However, special types of mana poured into attacks could damage them, similar to Veil's lunar, solar and dark mana from her Umbralia.

Kafka is moving extremely fast; even Veil struggled to perceive the movements, until later on that she got kicked on her stomach.

Auckkk!

When Kafka sensed the isolated space faded out temporarily, they realized that the existence of the barrier is erected based on their enemy.

As long as they knock out the girl, they will be able to go out and use skills again.

Kafka screeched loudly and laughed maniacally after dancing around Veil, attacking on all sides with the growing claws.

Veil's clothes received small incisions; however, she did not stop sending counters.

Cling! Dang! Swoosh! Sweep! Thrust! Swipe! Clang!

The exchange only lasted briefly as Kafka's claws found its mark: Veil's abdomen got pierced.

Splatter!

Kafka threw the girl away, the barrier slowly fading out of existence.

"HAHAHAHA, all of you! All of you shall face my wrath today!!!" Kafka declared with the most disgruntling grin painted on their face.

Mana Expansion: Monarch of Demise!

A gigantic black heart appeared on the sky, beating loudly.

Every beat it pounded, everyone not able to resist its aura is falling down on the ground, losing consciousness.

Sylphy sent a Demon crashing before checking on Veil, even Nerula detected that the barrier has been shattered.

Sylphy immediately healed Veil's pierced stomach, restoring the damages both external and internal.

Veil's breathing calmed down and her complexion visibly returned to normal.

Fortunately, Veil bought enough time, the battle against the Demon is about to be concluded when Azazel finished the Demon King Vashon.

Kafka belatedly realized that the army they amassed for hundreds of years are now wiped out of the world; even the Draconic Pillar Azgorath's corpse has been pulverized.

Kafka exploded in anger, transforming into a chaotic wave of mana, which resulted to some of the Angels, Demons, Heroes and Valkyries instantly dying.

The needle like mana strands from the explosion then flowed back to the pulsating black heart in the sky.

The Pentagram Archangels' faces hardened, they recognized this ability.

ROAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRR!

When all the black mana strands seeped through the black heart, a deafening roar came from the skies.

'Here it is' Ophanium's face paled.

Even Azazel who is busily fighting Vashon momentarily stopped to turn her head towards the source of the roar.

["I do not like it when my sleep is disturbed!"] A voice speaking divine language echoed from the skies.

"KYAHAHAHAHA! Great! Great! Demon God, I offer you this black heart to descend upon Terra and send it to the void!" Kafka's voice filled battlefield.

"The Demon God?!" Sylphy's sweat dripped down on her temples, she knew that the Demon God has been sealed away even before the Ancient War.

The reason for being sealed is the Demon God's desire to destroy all the worlds, getting the attention of the One True God, the Supreme Being.

A translucent hand appeared from beyond the skies, grabbing the black heart and lightly squeezing it; the black heart then turned into smoke and flowed into the hand.

Shortly, a humanoid creature fell down from the sky, the same direction where the gigantic translucent hand appeared.

Crack! Crack!

The humanoid creature bent his neck from two sides to crack his bones before evilly grinning, "I have returned!"