Haemon and his friend continued to fall into the bottomless abyss for several hours or more. View was eclipsed by impenetrable darkness, but benefit of both brothers could easily see even through this darkness. "Wine?" Offered a shadow holding out a silver goblet. Smell of the drink was so unusual, there were no notes of such familiar iron. "No" Olympian rejected the offer without looking away from depths of abyss. "How much longer do we have to fall?" Haemon asked finally turning his head towards a dark brother. "Not too long, just some couple of three thousand years!" Calmly declared a shadow reading a certain scroll.
Barbarian's right eyebrow twitched unnaturally, he didn't even have to say anything before shadow began to justify himself: "Well, what do you want, we somehow pass through border of worlds, here everything works differently than in mortal world. Of course, I understand that you grew up under the guidance of half-breed satyrs, but still, you must understand that for creatures like us, time is a relative concept! Your aging stopped when you were thirty by human standards. Speaking of which, did you know that your age cannot be measured for them because we live outside of time and space!?" Shadow jumped to a completely different topic, forgetting the most important thing.
"Because beings like us have powers beyond the comprehension of ordinary people, we become something like fathers who always were, are, and will be for them. True, of course, half-breeds cannot boast of such things, because for the most part, they carry an incredibly small particle of our strength. Not even half of what we have ha-ha. If even one of them tried to fight with the creatures we are fighting, they would die without time to shit themselves. Yeah but also because of our power, we sometimes have small avatars. For example, the same Kraken created Cthulhu and Typhon managed to become the father of Azathoth. Our very existence gives rise to myths, and because of myths, probabilities are born, and from probabilities the multiverse!" Shadow created a broken mirror where something unique happened in each reflection.
"Do we have avatars too?" Olympian asked with interest, looking at the broken mirror. "Ha-ha, oh there is not one yet, since we don't have our own dimension. A place where your true essence will rule alone. All senior lords have such a place, so they are sometimes not afraid to be killed, because if you don't kill the puppet master then puppets will just continue performance!" Enthusiasm of madman flared up more and more, he clearly wanted to tell a lot.
"Does each of these worlds have its own powerful Zeus and Hades?" Haemon touched a shard of a mirror in which he saw his uncle. And as soon as his claw slightly touched a fragment, it immediately broke into many small pieces, and now something new happened again in each fragment. "Ha-ha no, you see it's just a reflection of our real world. These worlds as such are empty shells, good for nothing and incapable of anything. And creatures in them are not even close to creatures that live behind a mirror. All of them just dream with the question what if?" Explained shadow by breaking and collecting pieces of mirror.
"Although sometimes there are exceptions if enough energy is put into the right world" For a second, shadow tilted his head to side as if clearly remembering something. "So we are a beginning and end of worlds" Haemon commented coldly, turning one of shards into dust and thus finally killing world. "Was that my world with ducks!?" Shadow cried out with tears in his eyes. "Enough, can you get us into depths faster?" Olympian's cold voice grew a little crazier, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the shadow. "For this, I love you and always put goal above anything else!" Smiling broadly, shadow snapped his fingers as result another portal opened beneath them.
"Please relax and fasten your seat belts, soon beautiful ladies will offer you drinks from blood of a harpys and treats in a form of babies' hearts. I also want to remind you that we are very grateful that you chose us! Weather in Tartar promises to be rainless!" Shadow took form of a man in strange clothes.
A moment later, both madmen found themselves in a strange place, everything was blue around and a kind of white mist enveloped them. "Damn, we're losing altitude! A fly is an eagle we are losing altitude I repeat we are losing altitude! I take the fire on myself, I repeat, I take fire on myself!" Shadow tightly grabbed Haemon's back, showing owner that they were not on earth at all, but in a sky. Skin starts to slowly ignite from strong friction, while bones cracked from the pressure. Olympian can clearly expect a hard landing. "I just want to sing! Damn, this is beautiful as hell!" Shadow raised his hands to the sky with tears of joy in his eyes.
"Icarus" Barbarian hissed as he saw approaching land. Closing his eyes before hitting, Haemon took a fetal position to reduce damage. A roar shook ground like an earthquake, and clouds of dust rose around the area, creating a mushroom of enormous size from the sand. At the moment of impact, Olympian was able to feel the same pain that Hephaestus had after his birth. Bones tore apart the organs from the inside, arms with legs turned into porridge, same as the head itself, leaving only eye intact. Bits of flesh began to coalesce around the eye, returning head to the tighter shape it had been before. And as soon as his head restored both eyes, strange hands immediately lifted him from the ground. "Did you like it?" Soft maddening voice belonged to a woman with a blindfold. "Shadow?" Haemon asked in a calm tone after regaining the ability to speak.
"Do I really look like as this freak?" With a sad voice woman brought warrior's head closer. Haemon rolled his eyes. Raising a bandage, a woman revealed her snow-white eye to world, it was like stars on darkest nights, its light was so bright that any mortal would become crippled forever. While barbarian indeed didn't fear that, since bodies of lords are biologically adapted to travel through stars. "Confess you like it!?" New shadow smiled happily. "Why did you assume form of a woman?" Haemon raised one eyebrow while at same time causing his semi-restored body to rise with the power of his mind. "This could be my true form!? Or maybe a certain feminine principle has awakened in you?" As raising warrior's head to same level as her eyes, witch smiled predatorily showing her fangs.
"Put my head on ground" Barbarian ordered, not paying attention to jokes of his girlfriend. Body of Olympian reached for his head, only to be thrown back by a wave of witch's hand. "Hey you didn't answer question do you like it or not?" Shadow pouted her lips, as turning to his head. "No" Without emotion replied Haemon looking into his friend's eyes. "What an evil you are sometimes, oh, but if you weren't like that, I wouldn't love you!" After stroking her lover's hair, witch walked over to his body and gently pinned her head back into place. Cracking his neck, barbarian out of corner of his eye noticed how shadow lowered its head in some sadness. Sighing, he thanked her. "Thanks for all"
And as soon as he finished, a woman immediately rushed to embrace him with a mad smile. "I knew you liked my look! So I need to come up with a name, maybe Mara?" Sitting on back of her beloved, Mara tightly hugged him from behind. "Hm strange name, but it's up to you" Haemon answered shortly as he headed towards the huge mountain.
Meanwhile, in one of heavenly palaces that were hidden behind a dark forest, three great warriors were trying to come to an understanding. "Ares, you are overstepping all bounds! Olympus has no right to decide fate of other worlds!?" It was none other than the legendary Guan Yu. Defender of innocents is the one who can face army alone. Warrior whose weapon and he knew each other so long that they were able to cut sky itself. His jade-colored armor shone like dragon scales, showing greatness in front of his enemies.
"Ares war between two worlds is not the way out, blood of many innocents will be on your hands! This will also lead to chaos among rest of families. If you refuse, I'm afraid we will return you on shield not with it" Scratching his black beard, Zhong Kui looked straight through helmet of Sparta Lord. "Hmm, ha-ha!" A faint chuckle quickly turning into wild laughter resounded around room at the words of the two Dao Warriors. Ares broke teacup in his hands with a wild laugh.
"Please give me a minute" Trying to compose himself, Ares held up his finger for some time. "Eh, so like ha-ha damn I can't!" Taking a breath, he immediately laughed, clutching his stomach. "Looks like everything is ahem now! And so where did we stop? Hm, you were talking something about innocents blood and blah, blah! Damn, did your demons ate all your brains?" Warlord's voice turned instantly serious, his fiery eyes staring at two Dao warriors with contempt. "Ares..." Kui was about to continue negotiations when Sparta's father interrupted him. "Scribe, you talk too much about innocents for someone who put poison in my tea" Ares signaled with a finger gesture that he was not pleased with the demon hunter's behavior.
"Zhong, how dare you do something like this even after our decision! You promised me that we will not use dirty tricks!" Angry, Guan Yu abruptly jumped up from table and looked at his comrade with eyes full of anger. "Yes, I promised that I would not resort to such a thing, but it was clear to me that this dog will not intend to solve problem by peace! He is like his grandfather monster who only wants to rule over everyone!" Demon hunter looked at Spartan with hatred, his eyes flashed with green flames, and the entire room trembled from an incredible amount of qi.
"You should go on a diet Kui, no really, advice from one lord to another, cause trembling belly can't inspire fear in anyone. Well, you at least were certainly right about fact that I had no intention of making peace! Who do you think I'm, after all, a Lord of Mercy? Ha-ha, I'm bloody Ares Lord of War you idiots!" With insane screams, Spartan cut down negotiating table, signaling start of war. The holy warrior immediately rushed at an enemy, intending to cut him in a half. Hunter doesn't hesitate and immediately called his spirits, demons grabbed spartan by legs as if trying to hold in place while Guan struck. "Weaklings" With a grin, Spartan said destroying spirits while releasing a particle of his strength. A red aura erupted from his body, filling muscles with bestial strength.
Creating a shield in his hand, Olympian blocked saint's blow and then to surprise of enemy, released chains from an object that seemed intended only for protection. Yu tried to jump away but was too close, so chains managed to wrap around his guan dao. Kui summoned a huge demonic arm to protect his friend. "That's quite mean but effective. Wanted to finish everything in one move!?" Dao warrior was slightly annoyed at the fact of losing weapon but tried not to show that. "Olympic dog better give up before you lose in disgrace!" Demon Hunter yelled, calling for more demons.
"Surrender? When we are so close to taking over this damn Emperor hole?" Ares asked sarcastically, pretending to consider the hunter's words. "What?" Surprised, both warriors looked at each other at the same time. "Ha-ha, you see, while you and I, my dear fat man, were peacefully drinking tea, my brothers and sisters were busy conquering the world of Dao!" Ares explained calmly, taking the saint's weapon in his hand. "Hmm, it's a lot lighter than I thought. And how did you do that trick with dividing the heavens into two, something like that!?" Leaning back, Spartan tensed his back muscles and then straightened up sharply, creating an attack of incredible power. "How is that possible!?" Guan cried out in surprise, his eyes were ready to pop out of their sockets from shock.
It was not something absolutely impossible to copy the enemy's military technique, but only this one should have been impossible since it was created so that the owner and weapon had to know each other for many years, then and only then after expiration of time, a warrior could use it. Ares father of Sparta, a war dog who lives with one thirst to conquer, easily copied technique of greatest Dao warrior.