A beam of white light shot across the multiverse, the speed at which it traveled made even the fastest celestial's look as if they were incomparably slow. Rianor held on tightly to Maw's arm as he struggled to even comprehend the speed at which the were traveling. However as they jet across the gaps between the universes; Maw had noticed a dark cloud of smoke that enveloped many universes, the aura they exerted was one of malice.
"Is that the great miasma?"Maw asked as he looked down towards Rianor.
"Yes it is, no one knows what it is it just suddenly appeared a few years ago. The chief abstracts felt it wasn't an issue yet it spiralled out of control, it has taken hold of nearly a quarter of the multiverse." Rianor answered as he looked worryingly upon the miasma. Maw nodded as he thought to himself for a few seconds. "From what the chief abstracts said it is safe to assume that it is coming from the terror realm." Maw states as Rianor nodded. "But my Lord wasn't it you who created the terror realm, so wouldn't you might have a clue as to what caused this?" Rianor inquired. "I did and I do have a hunch, you see I created the terror realm to...seal a great evil. An evil that was born out of pure malice and resentment." Maw explained to Rianor. "But it seems the terror realm has changed greatly since then."
"Well from what you have said it has changed entirely, the great demons use the terror realm as there stronghold." Rianor said.
It wouldn't take long before the terror realm cam into view; fires spewing out of the centre as the universe was enveloped in the fire flames of that Slithered around the universe like a snake around its prey. Yet this show of red was dwarfed by the black miasma the poured out of the terror realm, it's malice so strong that Rianor struggled to even breath. Yet they soon entered the realm before landing on what was an empty flat plain of dust and decay, the strong winds that created great clouds of murky dust that plumed up into the sky for it truly was a wasteland. "How are we meant to know where the source of the miasma is coming from?" Rianor asked as he looked around trying to find a possible place to start searching. "We don't but from what you said there are Demons that inhabit this land. So they must know where the source of this issue is." Maw replied as he began to walk in a certain direction.
"This is much different to what I remembered." Maw said as if he was trying to find something however in that moment the two felt w low rumble. They swiftly turned around sensing something was off yet could not see a anything wrong. The rumbling became harder and louder with every passing second, the look on Risnor's face becoming slightly more worried. "What is going on?" Rianor ask in a worried tone before pulling out his sword from its sheet, it's shiny reflective surface creating a beautiful scene yet it was shattered when what looked like a massive dust cloud came into view. Maw starred at it for a while before realising something. "It's moving." He said in a calm tone. He looked closer and closer and with every second that passed the tremors would become increasingly more violent, with the ground cracking apart and shock waves constantly passing through them, the problem cane into view.
Multiple gargantuas giants appeared out of the could of dust, their bloody made of stone with faces that reflected nothing but revolting ugliness. The giant in the lead throw itself for the two before Rianor jumped up, slashing at the hand that came for them. A powerful jet of magical energy erupted out of the blade as it shattered the hand, Rianor land with a smug look on his face as maw watched on impressed by his power. However the giant returned with a jet of flames that enveloped the area, Rianor had flew up into the air and felt as if he was burning to a crisp as he watched his armour begin to glow red from tge intensity. Yet he yelled a scream before lifting up his left hand towards the flames, a what was tidal wave of water poured out extinguishing the flames. Rianor landed back down on the ground before trading blow to blow with sword against the giant. He was shocked to see however maw had remained untouched from the flames, before continuing to fight.
"Could you at least help!!" Rise or cried out to Maw who simply smiled. "Your doing good on your own." He replied as he saw the other giants begin to hone closer to where they were.
Rianor then upped his game as he unleashed his power upon the blade, each swing, each jab, each stab sending with it a tsunami of energy. He then jumped up before burying his sword into the chest of the giant. He then let out another round of magical energy unload in its chest before a gaping hole appeared. The beast howled as Rianor jumped back down, watching the sixty foot tall giant come crushing down to its death. Rianor smiled before remembering that were more running there way and when he looked up he held a mortified expression. There at least a coup hundred giants running towards them, the ground beneath them begin to cave in and dip with small holes appearing around them. Rianor using all his strength slashed a his sword towards them sending a great shockwave, but they just slapped it back causing a much greater shockwave. Rianor was hit by it and his face went blank, the pain was excruciating and he realised he was sent flying backwards yet came to a sudden stop as he dangled upside down.
"Thank you my Lord." Rianor croaked with Maw catching him by the leg. "I said stop calling me Lord." Maw replied before placing Rianor on the ground. The force of the shockwave had badly hurt Rianor as blood run down his body with multiple visible lacerations being its source. He watched Maw simply pull a blade out of thin air, he was amazed by it. A great sword of immense statue, it hold round with no cross guard but rather multiple spikes that acted as if it was a crown. The blade was circular, extremely circular but it visibly had two sharp edges on either side. However what made Rianor tremble the most was the immense amount of blue must that radiated out of the sword. Then in an instant Maw was gone.
He shot up to the sky and looked down upon the giants before chuckling to himself "so you do t have souls...good." He said as he zoomed towards them creating shockwaves as he moved before he made a terrible cut upon the central giant. However nothing seemed to happened as Rianor looked in disbelief and dread as he began to lose hope.
The sky turned blue as a magnificent explosion rippled past the giants, a large thrust of alterion energy shot into the sky. The dark clouds parted in an instant and the entire terror realm violently shaking. Just like that the explosion ended leaving only a massive crater behind with all of the giants having dissipated with the show of power. Rianor was in utter shock from what he had just witnessed, attempting to find the words he lay on the ground injured. Maw landed next to the wounded celestial as he looked at the burn marks that littered upon his sword as he sighed. "I over did it, I guess my body wasn't used to using that much power." He thought to himself as he then knelt down next to Rianor and placed his hand on his shoulder slowly healing him.
"I knew you were powerful but....that's not normal." Rianor said as he looked towards Maw. "Isn't there a limit to how much power you can have without it affecting your mind?"
Maw hesitated for a second before laughing it of. "I guess I'm special then." Maw said apprehensively before letting go of Rianor. "Your healed." Rianor nodded and thanked Maw and the two set of in the direction of the crater. "What were those things? I mean I could sense a soul within them." Rianor asked.
"I suppose they are some sort of sentries, they probably came running for us because we are not meant to be here."Maw replied as he looked down into the massive hole cause by the explosion. "I guess we found the real terror realm then." The home opened up to what was an expansive kingdom of blood red towers that all scaled up into the abyss. The flames of war lit amongst multiple beacons, and at the centre of the terror realm a dark swirling mass with multiple tendrils that shot out of it crashing through this kingdom of chaos and breakthrough Into the outer multiverse. It was the source of the miasma. "So that's we're miasma is coming from." Maw stated. "Which means this is an illusionary realm." Rianor however remind confused. "What's that?"
"Well it's a defensive mechanism one would place on a certain place to keep people out. So I'm guessing whatever caused the miasma does not want celestials getting in."
Rianor gazed into the terror realm in horror, the thought that a universe could house this much chaos and disorder greatly baffled him. "I was told the terror realm was bad but this is...." he couldn't even finish his words and was forced to swallow it down. Maw chuckled slightly as gave Rianor a pat on the back. "It could have been much worse." Maw said as Rianor didn't understand what he was talking about, but the two then jumped down into the crater and the vast plain soon shattered as the sky turned black and the true terror realm came into full sight. When the two land they dusted themselves before looking at their surroundings, yet the location where they had landed was littered with multiple people all quickly shuffling to surround the two. "Shit..." Rianor called as they both new they were all demons.