Fear

Monsters.

That's the only way to describe the things that suddenly appeared.

The massive portal in the air was the calm before the storm.

It quickly raised massive public attention, a blockade being formed around it by some of Vanguard's strongest heroes.

It just sat there, harmless and inactive in the air, sometimes releasing a few lightning strikes or two, but nothing to worry about.

And so at one of the blockaded spots we see two heroes talking.

" Kevin, do you know anything about this portal that's suddenly popped up? " A young man with brown hair and green eyes asks the man named Kevin, who is right beside him.

" Nope, not at all, I already asked the highest up about it but they won't tell me anything, we're out of luck Lukas. " The man named Kevin, someone who has deep brown eyes, dark black hair, and a rough beard, says in a bored voice.

" Huh, they won't even tell you? It must be something important. " Lukas says as he chuckles slightly, before scratching the back of his head.

" All I know is that I'm bored out of my mind just standing here.. wanna go for a smoke? " Kevin asks Lukas with a smirk on his face.

" Won't we get in trouble, we are supposed to guard the portal at all times. " Lukas says in a hushed tone.

" That's only if someone finds out. " Kevin smiles a bit before covering his mouth with one of his fingers, making a shushing gesture.

A rustle is heard in the bush behind them, they turn back for a split second before paying no mind to it as they couldn't detect a presence.

" Oh fine, I guess we can go for a bit. " Lukas says as he sighs lightly.

And so the two of them go into a bush nearby, which just so happens to be where they heard the rustle.

A few minutes pass, a pale man with cold eyes walks out of the bush, a purple tattoo engraved on his neck.

" Two birds with one stone. " He says as he looks back at the guards he killed, taking the badge and uniform of one of the guards he killed.

As soon as the pale man puts on the guard outfit his face changes into that of the guard named Kevin.

He looks back behind him, two guards in a pool of their old blood.

He lights a small flame on the tip of his finger before sending it toward the bodies, lighting them ablaze instantly.

The man walks through the blockade areas, before finally arriving right under the portal.

The man smiles menacingly before taking out a pocket knife.

Moments later, he plunges the knife right into his heart before uttering three words.

" For the descent of my three gods. " He smiles as his entire body explodes, turning into purple particles and floating into the portal above.

Over the next few days, the mana of earth rapidly thickened.

The cause of this sudden thickening was unknown, some saw it as a blessing from god.

And some saw it as the beginning of the end.

They didn't know how right they were.

Until on a certain sleepless night, a chill went across everyone in the world.

A loud voice could now be heard in the head of everybody.

[ The Three Abyssal Lords are descending, prepare for annihilation. ]

The monotone voice went through everyone in the world's ears.

Everyone in the world went through a state of fright, scared of the unknown entities known as the lords of the very race that had been causing them problems for so long.

Rapid preparation began, and the humans joined the three-race alliance with the elves, dwarves, and orcs.

The three races already knew of the three lords, as they were the very ones that destroyed their previous homelands.

Terrifying monsters, cockroach-like entities that were near immortal, and lived only to cause despair.

The appearance of the three lords depended on your biggest fears, they could be a fire-breathing dragon or a demonic deity, it was all based only on your biggest fear.

Every one of the three lords takes a different representation of your biggest fear, each representation being different in some way.

As long as your fear existed, no matter how small or large, it would take the form of it.

They strengthen the power of your fear to the extreme, if you have a fear of a small spider? Well then the small spider fear they take the form will have incredible powers, it doesn't matter what they are.

They could simply turn into another fear near them if one was defeated, making them near immortal.

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Preparations for the three lords were made rapidly, within days 5 major bases were constructed with the help of the dwarves.

The portal in the sky slowly opened up, the lightning coming out of it growing more and more frequent.

Until one day on a particularly stormy night, a thunderclap was heard all around the world, and a massive purple lightning bolt struck the ground.

Three notifications arrived in the head of everyone on Earth, this was the second time this unknown monotone voice rang into the head of everyone on Earth.

[ The First Abyssal Lord, " Eternal Sorrow that Echoes Above " has descended. ]

The first monotone notification rang into the head of everyone on Earth, and a chill ran over their skin.

[ The Second Abyssal Lord, " Embers of a Vanished Sun " has descended. ]

The second monotone notification rang into the head of everyone, and an extremely fierce heat appeared over the entirety of the earth for a moment, anyone below C Rank dried up instantly.

[ The Third Abyssal Lord, " Scarlet Tears of the Betrayed " has descended. ]

The third monotone notification rang into the head of everyone again, but no chill or anything of the such happened, a few seconds had passed and nothing had changed.

Everyone sighed in relief, until a moment later.

A few who finally thought it was over, took a look out of their window.

Despair.

Complete and utter despair washed over everyone that looked out of their window and saw those things.

It only lasted for a few seconds and then quickly vanished.

Three things that are changing form constantly, eldritch monsters that make your head hurt just by looking at them.

These things were the Three Abyssal Lords.

And the beginning of the end.