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Chapter 5 - Invidia; The Sin of Envy: The Guardians Have Lost

A deserted land, yet mountains of bodies piled up next to each other that stretched across the land. Among those bodies, stands a man in a somewhat broken full combat armour. His stance proves a lot that he is struggling to even straighten his knees.

"The hellspawns are making their way towards the Over Gate, Envy!" A male with a high pitch voice yelling through the communication device of the male in the combat armour.

Envy hovers his hand to his combat helmet before sighing slowly. He can visibly sees his shaking arms and missing fingers.

"How am I supposed to shoot?"

Even with blood flows through the cracks of his armour, Envy straighten his back only to see creatures of dark called 'Demons'; some gigantic while most of them are of the humanoid form, marching towards him, or specifically, the huge portal in the form of a gate behind him.

"The Seven Sins are already doomed, boy! Give up already!"

A demon spoke out to Envy while he lifts up his right arm as the gauntlet heating up. Crackling sound of fire that surrounds Envy grew louder while the fire itself flew towards him.

"I don't even know who you are."

The fire around Envy curl itself into a ball before forming a wall, separating the hellspawns and the gate; halting the movement of the demons.

"I've slaughtered many humans before, but no one has ever acted the way you did."

The demon tried to taunt Envy as he clenches his left hand as a blade draw out, similarly the way an assassin's hidden blade works. The necklace around his neck glows dark and the cracks of his armour welded or 'healed' together. The ring on his left middle finger glows yellowish as an assault rifle appears out of nowhere on his left hand.

"I've slaughtered many demons but you will be the first one to die with my middle finger on the trigger."

Metallic wings sprouted behind his back while the ground in front of him trembles. After a short while, small number of zombies comes out as Envy himself hovers above the ground.

"Impressive, for a human, you sure can handle the Artefacts of Sins very well.

"Yeah, and I'm going to use every single one of them to kill each and every one of you."

...

It's been months since I came to New Japan, or Shinjikura as the Japanese calls it, and I'm already baffled with 3 things,

1, Devils are now living among humans and even climbed the higher tier of the class of society.

2, Other world beings now have found a way to enter the Earth.

3, The pervert finally got a girlfriend.

Smh.

Well, seeing is believing as most people say, so I decided to trail Wilson and his partner to their date. It's pretty normal date, if I'm being honest. Well, minus the fact that I'm not the only who were trailing them.

Then, the fact that Wilson is a 'Pendragon Reincarnate' came to my mind.

The Siblings probably knew Wilson is a target to some people, and they just want to find the opportunity to gain his trust easily and resurrect him.

Well, blame Art for being popular, even if it's his incarnation.

By the end of their so called 'date', Jacob was impaled by his 'girlfriend' with a light spear to the stomach. Which to my surprise since she's an angel, and she's murdering a pervert.

I think that's justified.

I just watch the whole scene of Jacob's downfall as I continue to glance at a certain white haired Cat Goddess; that has been eavesdropping the two without noticing me. She's just finished talking to someone from a scroll and readied herself for something next.

Then, all of a sudden, my sights went blurry as my entire body is getting hotter and hotter.

"What...the...hell..."

I looked down to my arms and see its original form. As my sights are getting blurrier and my head is getting heavier, I can feel my own consciousness slowly fades away.

...

Overworld.

Northwest of Volga River, Stalingrad, New Soviet.

Hunters and soldiers of the New Soviet are spread across the trench by the Volga River as volley of cannonballs flew above them. The opposing enemies march towards them in boats and battleships while more of them comes out of a portal right above the waters. Some already engages the Russians in the trenches.

Clearly, the Russians are fighting a losing battle because one might say the enemies are human, but if they look at what the men and women are seeing on the water, they are not.

Remnants of the deep water, victims of the Davy Jones Locker, or known as; the Dark Water Pirates.

Once were pirates from the world with no continent, sunken by the Great Flood and forsaken by their Sea God, the dead pirates returns from the water to haunts the sea with immortality. Equipped with sabres, swords, flintlocks and tricornes, the dead pirates finally arrive by the beach of another world.

"Dimitri! We cannot hold any longer!" A Soviet soldier yelled out to an officer in charge of the one part of the trench.

A soldier of the New Soviet, Dimitri Petrenko, holds an AK-47 on his hand as he stares beyond the trenches. He sees dozens of his comrades being stabbed, slashed, and even torn apart by the 'monsters' of the Dark Water.

"We...can't win this..."

Meanwhile, the hunters that were commissioned by the New Soviet government, and also who were supposed to handle the dungeon break with their abilities and skills are running away from the battlefield; screaming things like, 'I don't want to die!' 'I didn't signed up to fight an army of monsters!'

Still gripping the rifle, Dimitri holds it as he points the barrel at the monster. He fires the whole magazine into one of the monsters, barely made any damages to the pirate. The demonic pirate turns to Dimitri with a seemingly sinister grin.

Dimitri still pulls on the trigger despite the rifle being empty of its ammo. Just as the monster about to lunge at Dimitri, the portal where they came from suddenly exploded as every monster that spawned from it all disintegrate into ashes.

"What just happened?"

As those words left his mouth, a dark amber light is emitted out of the portal, blinding everyone in 5 kilometre radius.

...

La Santé Prison, France,

Thud. Thud. Thud.

The sound of a ball hitting the cell wall echoes the entire building. Being the only criminal in the maximum security building, no one is there to interrupt the 36 years old man from playing football, or soccer as the 'Muricans calls it, on his own, except the guard of course.

"Jean."

The man stops kicking the ball towards the wall and turns to the one who called him.

"It would be nice if you would keep it down for a bit."

The man let out a little laugh.

"Why? Your daughter call you again?"

"Yes."

Jean grabs the ball before heading towards his bed.

"Go ahead, I won't bother you."

Just as the guard turning his back from the cell, a bright purple light emits from the centre of Jean's cell before exploding.

"Jean!"

...

Johannesburg, South Africa,

A group of youngsters kicks down an old beggar before throwing him to the side.

"Get out of here, old man! You better not come to this alley anymore."

The old man dejectedly walks away from the dark alley as he holds his stomach in pain.

"I just want a little food..." mutters the old man before he turns to a corner.

The beggar begins to walk by the sidewalk as people are staring at him. Some with pity, some with disgust, while some are making fun of his ragged clothes. Even if it is humiliating to some, the 61 years old beggar feels it is nothing compare to the hunger he felt. Rather than feeling agony, it somewhat sickening to him as the people around his somehow feels delicious to him.

Across the street, a group of teenagers is playing by the playground happily, until the sky suddenly cracks. Darkness creeps away from the cracks as the citizens runs away from the cracks in the sky, screaming; "It's a Dungeon Break! Run!"

The old man stares deeply into the pitch black of darkness, with disbelief stretched across his face.

"The Guardians have lost..."

...

Beijing, China,

"Bye, Ah Wei."

A schoolgirl waves her goodbye to her boyfriend as they part way from the school. The teenage boy waves back before swarmed by his friends.

"Zhang Wei Chen, you lucky bastard!"

One of them puts him into a headlock as the other smiles at him.

"It's not my fault she likes me, alright!" Chen retorts as he let out a laugh.

"Be careful though. She might be-"

"No. I don't think she's the same like the other girls," Chen let himself go from his friend before smiling.

"Ah! Who cares about that! Are we going or not?" One of his friends asks.

"Where? The PC café?"

"Where else?"

The three of them laughs before an explosion happens right where his girlfriend was heading. Huang face's turns to grim as he says, "No..."

Before he could sprint towards the explosion, yellow bright light blinds all three of them as he was struck by something.

...

Novak Corporation, Rome, Italy,

"Bella." A lady pokes her head from .

Clearly annoyed, the lady turns her head away from the monitor.

"What do you want now, Sofia?"

"How about tonight?"

Isabella turns back towards her monitor as she continues to type into the computer.

"No. I rather have watch some K-Drama rather than hanging out with a bunch of assholes that I just met."

Sofia pouts before sitting down on her chair.

"That's why you can't find a boyfriend, Bella."

"At least I won't cry my heart out when they cheat on me."

Silence erupts before being interrupted by sound of the two lady snicker. Then, the emergency siren rings up.

"What's happening?"

The whole building shakes as an explosion occur. Isabella looks towards the window only to find a crack in the sky. Before a word comes out of her mouth, a bright white light engulf the entire area, blinding and deafening anyone nearby.

...

Odin Space Station, 408km from North America,

An astronaut floats in the space with only a metal rope connecting them to the space station. They seem to be repairing something outside the station until they somehow heard something besides the silence in the vacuum space.

The astronaut looks behind them; towards the Earth, specifically North America, to see a huge crack stretch above the whole continent.

Before the astronaut even managed to grab hold of their communication device, the whole station shakes before it shuts down completely, rendering all communication to Earth impossible.

The astronaut continues to look at the huge crack before the door near him suddenly opens. They turn to the opening door only to be shot right through the visor and into the head by another astronaut.

The shooter then opens their mouth to speak, "Odin secured, prepare to launch the Ragnarok."

The space station shakes for a moment before all of the lights turn on. Then, dozens of rockets were launched towards the entire Western Continent; both the North and South America.

The shooter enters the space station again before every personnel in their comms speaks out;

"For the Night."

...

Kujo, Shinjikura.

The angel was about to proceed on killing the pervert but before the light spear managed to find its way to Jacob's chest, a dark hand grabs the spear and shatters it afterwards. Jacob was as shocked as the angel was, but he passed out because of the blood loss soon after the man came.

"What do you think you're doing?!" The angel, or her real name, Rayzelle, yelled.

"Michael..." the man said as he growls afterwards.

'This energy!'

'It's not anywhere near Galdriel's and it's way too far from Azazel but he's far more stronger than me.' Rayzelle panicked and tried to escape from him but he grabbed her arm before she managed to fly away.

"Let me go!"

Soon after that, a sign can be seen near Jacob and portal was made. Came from the portal was none other than the 'saviour' herself, Nora Gregory.

The man turned his head to the Gregory's heiress.

"Mason..."

Nora put her guard up as the man walks closer to her while dragging the angel behind him.

"The truce...does it not...mean a thing...to you...?"

Nora, who is totally confused, approaches the 'demonised' Ryvern.

"Is that you...Ryvern?"

Nora places her hands on Ryvern's cheeks unconsciously, and miraculously, the dark energy on his entire body dissipates as he turns back to normal, and let go of Rayzelle's arm.

"What...happened?"

Ryvern asked before he slumps forward but before he hit the ground, he was grabbed by an unknown person in red helmet and red jacket, who suddenly appeared at the scene.

Nora backs away from the energy that the newcomer let out but before she can say anything, they zoom through the park; along with red lightning behind them, with Ryvern and the angel are now gone too.