[Hidden Town]
~Three days later~
Three days have passed since Raguel was beaten up by Argos, during this time the news about the destruction of the empire has spread out to various kingdoms, thus shocking all of them as the strongest empire was taken down that easily
What's more all of them somehow felt like another looming threat was above their head as their opponent suddenly rose to one
They have their hands already full of fighting the Demon army when another prospect enemy showed up, based on hearsays they categorize the four main culprit as a small organization (Calamity Class Beings)
Upon hearing such title which was new to their ear, they begun asking for scholars to find out what type of title was that, as the title was the only thing that the four people share
Soon they somehow acknowledged the existence of this new enemy as the war for survival suddenly turned to a three-way-war
As the fall of the empire was eminent, they on turn together with their people have no home to come back to, but after much struggle the holy city has permitted the Empire's people to temporarily migrate to their own city, thus it indeed happened
As news of it spreads out, such news bore significance as Ingrid gathered them all up and was discussing this to everyone inside the meeting room of the city hall
As the people of hidden City has somehow stopped their fluctuation rise of population, their population suddenly became stagnant, as people daily lives begun to become peaceful, but since the whole world was in a state of war, non of its citizens dare to relax one bit
As their population stagnated so did to the recruit of soldier for the hidden City suddenly slowed down
Even though there were people who accidentally tumbled to this city and would migrate here after falling in love with it's beauty, it didn't change the fact that the sudden stagnation has stopped its inflation, in fact with a city made for former slaves such people were hard-working people and more action be than ordinary ones causing the Hidden City's military potential to become peak at it's moment and not losing against the Empire's soldiers
With a population of already 500,000+ such huge City was quite amazing even though the development of its structures and technology was still comparison to medieval Europe
As Ingrid was discussing the news about Kaido and this mysterious companions of his, the door of the room suddenly slammed open as both Melfina and Rebecca arrived here with the help from Anna who teleported them here
After hearing about Kaido's current news and situation, both Melfina and Rebecca wanted to know more of what happened while they were away
With that Ingrid explained everything from the time Kaido appeared to them, to the time when they left after destroying the Empire and beating up Raguel black and blue, almost leaving him crippled
After sitting down on the chair that was provided, Melfina soon started to analyze everything she had heard from Ingrid's mouth herself
"So your saying that Kaido-sama together with this new companions of him just... Took down the whole Empire? Something that we couldn't provide or do for him?" Asks Melfina in surprise as shock was still apparent in her eyes
"Well yes... Due to the Empire's strength and the Hero's constant rise in power, we can't even do anything to them, much less Jack as his operation suddenly halted the moment the hero became as powerful enough to cover the whole Empire with it's Mana... But this three new companions of his succeeded themselves In taking them down... It's a feat something we couldn't provide him" said Ingrid as she felt useless at this moment
After thinking it through Rebecca suddenly spoke
"So your saying Kaido found a more reliable group than us, thus he left all of us in our own instruments after all we've been through? Is it that easy for him to discard us?" Asked Rebecca as frustration swept over her
Suddenly in the midst of that Melfina slammed her hand against the table as she felt useless all the same
Cause of this the other people beside the three of them inside the room kept silent as they don't know-how to answer her questions
"Well instead of leaving us... It felt more like he doesn't remember us at all"
As the atmosphere suddenly turned gloom, Pablo in turn spoke up which made it changed drastically
"What do you mean?" Asked Melfina giving him a skeptical look
"I mean I know the face and Express of a person when abandoning someone but it's different for Kaido-sama case, in fact his expression that time when he appeared was confusion as he doesn't know what's the barrier for our city was held up for, in fact he himself was the one who proposed it yet he doesn't know its purpose? With this in hand I deducted that he have lost his memory while trudging the Demon Continent" answered Pablo with full of confidence
"Not only that, it's only understandable for their strength, after nights of no sleeping I finally found the meaning of such title (Calamity Class Beings & Child of Calamity) from an very old book that I even needed Horus to provide, what I found out greatly scared me as if the whole world was ending... Do anyone wanna hear it?" Asks Anna as she stepped up and face everyone in the room
"Proceed" said Ingrid
"Thank you! your majesty"
After that she cleared her throat as she started to speak up
"The reason for their strength and many more of their peculiarities, greatly leaned into this two title... (Calamity Class Beings) this thing really surprised me as this title was buried deep into history, in fact in the far past or most likely in ancient time, Calamity Class Beings is a title which became a sign of fear for all people, not the Demon's, not the God's, but this people who reached out for it and existed as one of them" said Anna
"During those times such people was revered by many like a god among men, they worshipped them more than the gods, both Demon's and gods greatly respected them... From the very beginning of time of creation such creatures already existed as generation after generation just passed them by to continue their purpose" said Anna
"What's their purpose?" Asks Luke who seemed curious too
"Since the world was created, to keep it in a balanced state and never corrupted nor destroyed by its living creatures that it created, the world gave birth to a type of people who would do such job of balancing the world and such people are Calamity Class Beings who in fact from the very beginning was an unparalleled existence... Why? Such as their strength was proven as a fact during the 15th world war with the Demon's, they're power by then was fully displayed for the whole world to see... During those times gods too still walked alongside them as Demon's were much more powerful back then, but even though that was the case the Calamity Class Beings easily overpowered them as they have potential to kill even the gods themselves" answered Anna
Upon hearing that a sound of clanking noise could be heard as they all stared at her dumbstruck from hearing that such people can kill gods
"There was a record in the past about 3,500 years ago, that a ruined evil God was ressurrected from the depths of purgatory and brought chaos to the whole mankind, only to be killed and suppressed by one Calamity Class Beings after a destructive fight, by that time no one new who that person is or what was the title for... Thus they left as just a powerful expert" said Anna
After that she looked over at everyone before she continued
"Next up is Child of Calamity, such power was hard to control and especially for greedy people who succumbed to its power and cause unnecessary Destruction, such people was eventually dealt with by its own kind... This title can only be apparent to people who didn't succumbed to its power temptation as the numbered people who have such power never exceeded 10... This only shows just how much difficult it is to acquire such power" said Anna as she stated the fact
"In fact the experience of this so called people were the same, oppressed by the world, loathed by it, cursed even, and many more... We could say that what they experience was a lot worse than just being abandoned... After acquiring such power, their current state would drastically improve at a crazy height that no one could ever top it, they are almost an invincible being except for the fact that they still grow old and die"
"In turn their power is at the peak of the power scale but on a different path than the ordinary peaks" said Anna as she finished her piece
After hearing much from her everyone suddenly had a bead of sweat on their faces, they knew that if they ever wanted to retrieve Kaido back then they'll have to go through such god killing people who was feared by the whole world no matter who you are
"What now?" Asks Melfina as she struggled to come up for a solution
With that tho whole room suddenly turned quite as sound of wind could be heard passing by the room
Suddenly as if breaking the ice, Sui who was the youngest among them and had grown capable enough to include the whole forest as her fighting force, one could say that with her magic and Mana pool, even though she don't have any battle techniques to protect herself, she has the whole nature itself as her own army as if she herself was mother nature avatar
Due to this at any given moment she could turn the whole forest into a indestructible Sentinel army of Elderwood Guardians, thus making her one of the most powerful existence among them at such a young age
In fact currently Anna was still confused of why would a Siren a creature of the sea ever have a power to command nature by its will even though their race was different than the most compatible elves
"Umu you guys said that they killed a god for a reason right? Doesn't that mean that they can be talked through? It's not like they're mindless monsters who only knows how to kill... Perhaps somehow we can ask them why Papa lost his memory of us" said Sui as she carrassed a forest rabbit
Hearing that everyone was turned speechless as they never considered that the other party might be a reasonable people after all, with it Ingrid firstly gave in as she declared her order for the whole poeple inside the room
"Alright! With that we will so let ourselves into two groups! The first one will be led by me as we kept observing any movements of the empire and stay wary for both the Demon's and the church, second is led by Melfina as they will be sent to trudge the dangerous regions of the Demon Continent in hope that they maybe able to talk through to Kaido themselves... Now let's grouped up"
With that they split their forces into two with to meet their own objectives
Team 1
Ingrid
Pablo
Okou
Reinbach
Sarah
The whole citizens
Team 2
Melfina
Rebecca
Sui
Lily
Luke
Anna
Some provided soldiers
With both teams as each their own task they soon sets our their goal the next day as they accomplish their task
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[Eldion Empire]
From amidst the silent and destroyed empire that can be viewed from afar, a single silhoutte could be seen walking straight towards the two tombstone inside the forest
When he arrived before it, the person himself stopped on his tracks as eh felt the wave and existence of the decaying empty shells of body down beneath the ground
"Perfect!" It muttered
Soon purple energy courses through his finger stops as purple cracks started to appear from it's hand as he laid them from atop the grave
"Things have begun to change for the worst, looks like I have no choice but to make my move"
With that he poured his purple energy towards the ground as he murmured a word that activated a spell
"Corruption"
Soon as if breaking the silence, two heartbeats could be heard from under the grave that made the person seamed somewhat satisfied with his work
"It's time to make our move, the whole world will soon know what the word hopeless means"
Author's Notes:
It's been a long time since I talked, so anyway as you observed the once two-side-war suddenly became three-way-war, and finally by the end of this chapter you would notice a fourth Challenger, thus making it a Four-sided-war
Crazy isn't it?
Well I wrote it so it will go according to my imagination
That's all!!!