Cutting through the plains that spanned a thousand kilometers, Rìshí Huǒ was sparing no one, nothing. As his rampage continued, so did the number of creatures he left in his wake. Tens of thousands of misshapen orange birds swallowed anything that went overlooked by the Orange Emperor.
'DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE!' His mind was in turmoil and there was nothing but rage in his heart.
In the distance, a fortified city, filled with Priestesses from the Eclipsing Empire had seen his rampage from afar. They prepared every measure within their ability.
When he arrived, they were like sand to a crushing wave, pushed and ground against each other, swallowed by the tide and sinking into a wet goop that could run through your fingers. For all their measures of determent, not a single one could stop their citizens from becoming sustenance in his wake, feeding more of his creations to sweep the land. He was headed into deeper into the heart of the populated areas.
Several pillars of light came down, they were red. Iasyou had brought more than a dozen of his Acolytes and Ancestors along to crush the Orange Emperor. Rìshí Huǒ had just annihilated a group of priestesses, their only crime was existence. Even among those that wanted to rise to the ranks of godhood knew the restrictions put in place had purpose.
"RISHI!" Iasyou slammed into the Orange Emperor like a stone in water, he splashed through his body and flared. There was no room to pull his punches, several of the ancestors that had come along began to chant. "You destroyed a hundred Empires and now you look to slay our descendants!"
"Lies!" Rìshí Huǒ reconstituted and flung himself at one of the Ancestors, he was devoured instantly. Another of the strange orange birds appeared. "I will not hear excuses!" Huǒ turned toward the Town in the distance, it belonged to the Nightfall Empire.
"You're a fool!" Iasyou brought out seven suns at once, they hovered above his head in a small orbit. "I am not going to say this again, DIE!" The Seven Suns rushed in a line, One by one they slammed into the ground and burned it to molten rock. They came down in a circle with the seventh at the center. "SEVEN SUNS BURN THE WORLD!"
A great heatwave spread out and then a blinding light consumed the space around the Seven Suns. Orange Birds popped and formed together as one as they fell and orange fluid seeped from cracks in the ground nearby.
"You believe you can destroy me! ..'HAH!'" Rìshí laughed then rushed toward the Nightfall Empire City.
Within its walls were more than ten thousand souls. The Nightfall Empire was a kingdom of Vampires and Ghouls. They had a tendency to stay out of the matters of others, clinging to their own ideals and way of life.
A brilliant wall of fire came from the sky and slammed into the ground outside of the City, Rìshí was forced to go around it but there were miles of wall.
"Lets see how long you can maintain that composure, keeping that wall up while I murder your acolytes will be impressive. I wonder how long it will take to break that cheap resolve you claim as your own." Rìshí spit corrosive fluids out in all directions, some of it was consumed by fire but what wasn't spawned more of his birds. They flew above the wall then back down into the City.
"There is no chance for you." The Orange Emperor liquefied and appeared next to a Red Gimp, he ran him through with his fingers, a beating core was in his hands. "I want you to know I'm enjoying it, being inside of you.." He licked the face of the Red Gimp before his body turned into a spirit stone in his other hand. "All of you.. you've no chance at all." Rìshí swallowed the spirit stone and tossed the core into his corrosive fluids with an incantation.
A soldier in a melting orange gimp suit hobbled out of the muck and lunged toward his former associates. The Orange Emperor laughed, "Lets see just how long it takes for you to give up this feeble chase of yours. I will destroy everything and start again.." He cackled and twisted his face.
Iasyou was nodding to the others that had come. "What are you planning?" His words came out in a seething spittle, then, thousands of orange flying beasts swarmed out of the Nightfall Empires City. "It won't be enough!"
Iasyou gave the signal, he raised the wall then tilted it to slam down on the soulless city, everyone had already died. Thousands of popping noises could be heard, when Iasyou turned his vision away, Rìshí had already taken another three of his acolytes lives.
"Fool, You will never defeat the light of the Sun." Two words left Iasyou's mouth like a soft wind. "Super Nova." In a blink, the seven suns that still burned upon the ground exploded together. The Acolytes that had come along were instantly vaporized, Nightfall Empire's eastern most City and the area more than a thousand miles across turned to ash in a violent sweep to nothingness.
The area across the surface which the blast wave had passed was turned to a liquid mass that puddled into a red dot across the landscape. The Orb of light that continually burned at the center began to collapse on itself and all the air was stolen.
There was a stillness, then a blast of searing hot winds spread out, followed by an intense gravitational wave for an additional thousand miles. Everything in its path was lit on fire and sunken into the ground until nothing was left but a crater that spanned thousands of square miles.
"You're Insane!" Rìshí popped his head out of the dirt at the edge of the blast zone and devoured a massive amount of soul essence. "I was going to use this eventually, perhaps its time we end this, once and for all!"
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The Battle between the Orange and the Red Emperors continued for several weeks, the lower levels of the Ultinian Heavens had become a pock marked graveyard and more than a thousand cultures had been entirely wiped out during their rampages. Burning fires and pits of corrosive fluids were scattered but continually destroyed the landscapes long after either of them had gone.
By the second week of fighting, Military Forces and Ancestors of the first tier had joined the fight between the two sides, the lowest tier in Ultinia became a full blown battlefield. Whenever the fighting was discussed a brawl would break out. No matter the City or distance from the two Emperors, the longer they fought, the higher the body count was across the entire plane. Defending a single point of view turned into a brutal struggle.
A Rainbow of lights surrounded the warring sun worshipers and even the Custodians of the fourth and fifth tiers were drawn into the fighting.
Resources were the hardest part of the heavens to compete over.
When thousands of civilizations were wiped from existence, opportunity arose, it became a rush for their followers but many were depressed to find out that the lands that had been afflicted by the attacks were nothing but wastelands afterward. There were no resources to be had, then, even more fighting would break out between the smaller factions.
After the first month, the entirety of the Ultinian Heavens were thrown into a free-for-all. The Second Tier had been home to many cultures, not just the empires but thousands of tribes and many thousands more intelligent beings perished in the event. The conflict spread to the furthest reaches of Ultinia and even at the top levels, there was argument. The Balance of power had been tipped heavily and chances for advancement or folly were abundant.
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Blood spattered across the floor as Ajennic had his fill of rending the flesh from Wu Hai's body. The more that Wu Hai twisted in pain, the more that Ajennic enjoyed himself. He danced around in glee when the angle of his slash sprayed blood into the air. It was more than he anticipated and as the blood washed over him, he took on a sinister look. "What?! You think your eyes scare me?!" The Red dressed Ancestor for the Eclipsing Empire pulled a sharpened spoon from the table.
"You know what I'd really like to do with this shuck?" Ajennic leaned over Wu Hai's mutilated and naked body. He crammed the shuck into Wu Hai's ribs like chisels, he grabbed another and started to hammer them repeatedly until his chest came apart. Bones snapped then splintered and organs spilled out of the wound.
An Alarm went off.
'Che' "What is it now?" Ajennic hit the healing gas and walked away. Several Red Gimps took over while he went to inspect.
The Alarm intensified and there was something else. "What's the situation?"
"We're getting word from our scouts, cities on the third tier have been overrun, the Custodians are fighting." The Red gimp read the message, it was a week old, then he returned to the wall to look for messenger birds.
"Why would they fight?" Ajennic grabbed a magic map from his master's study. He nearly tore it from the wall in disbelief.
The map was a real-time battle map, its topographic profile looked more like a broken golf-ball. Craters and massive gouges marked the places were dozens of cities once were.
"What is going on in here!" One of the Gimps walked through the doorway and noticed Ajennic looking at the Master's map.
"Quiet, I'm trying to contact him now.." 'I have to get word to the Emperor.' Making contact with Iasyou was less difficult than it sounded, their spiritual contracts allowed communication both ways and if necessary there was also a special type of fire that ran with an light affinity that could transmit sounds and images.
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The Battlefield across the first level had turned into a world war. No one was safe and everyone that wasn't directly involved was now caught under the crossfires. It didn't take much effort to ignite the flames of war but the idea that resources that had become available was both maddening and madness to fan the flames.
Iasyou was still charging after Rìshí, they had even crossed into and over several dozen boundaries that included other tribes and empires. A ringing in Iasyou's ear was the least of his worries while he dodged attacks and trampled over those who kept them apart. It was a vicious war and nothing could stop him.
The ringing persisted until he had gotten the upper hand for a moment, then, Rìshí disappeared again.
"WHAT!" Iasyou roared over the communication, he was frustrated at Rìshí having escaped. He listened to Ajennic give a description of the map and its changes. There was change in Iasyou's face, it shimmered like there was a twitch atop his lips. He heard a noise that broke his concentration. From the sound of it, it was very far away and the untrained ear wouldn't have noticed it. Iasyou roared and an red column of light slammed down around him. In an instant, he had disappeared leaving the battlefield entirely.
Rìshí took the opportunity to slaughter more, racing toward the fortresses of others in rage.
Generals from the opposing side had set up defensive shields in a ring to help aide the Red Emperor but he had fled and all chances of their survival had evaporated. Moments later, Rìshí had overrun their defenses and not even their spirit stones remained.
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The Column of Red light would take a few minutes to reach the third level, even at his fastest speed there was going to be a fight when he arrived. Iasyou grit his teeth and tried to prepare himself mentally, the clash between great beings could easily wipe out his centuries of work. Splitting the region of space as he traveled by light, he had but one thought on his mind.