Pov. Unknown
As I looked around, my head felt like a fog was over my mind, and I could think straight. I was in a group of people, and from the looks of it, it was a huge group. Couldn't even see to the other end of it. As the fog cleared up, I noticed what these people were wearing.
Knights armor, Samurai armor, Mongolian armor, ancient Greek armor, Persian armor, Vikings armor, and many more.
Some weren't even wearing armor. They were dressed as different warriors throughout history. Like pirates, native American warriors, Zulu warriors, Nubians warriors, a cowboy, some of them even looked like cavemen.
There was authentic looking armor, but most looked like they were out of a video game, cartoons, animes, or movies. I think I saw one guy with a Greek linothorax with an orange shirt underneath, blue jeans, and a Xiphos.
I recognized some of the armor and weapons were from For Honor, Deadliest warrior, Assassin's Creed, Elden Ring, and even games like Happy Wars. Everyone had some type of weapons, and others had things like battle flags or even some old guns. It seemed like the guns ranged from a simple flintlock rifle to a Tommy gun.
Out in the distance, there were ancient war machines like ballistas, trebuchets, catapults, and cannons. The cannons seemed to be from different time periods like pirate cannons to the Ottoman supper cannons.
There were men and women of all ages and nationalities.
While everyone was confused at first, it only took a second for everyone, including me, to all look in one direction. We didn't know why or even who, but we all felt it. Someone had spilled something they shouldn't have, and now their blood must be spilled as payment.
In front of us was some kind of army of humanoids. They looked human, but they had bat-like wings. We instinctively know many of us wouldn't survive the charge.
"LEEEEEROOOOY JENKINSSS!"
As we all said that at the same time, as of practiced all the siege weapons and arrows fired as well.
It seems we were right that this being used magic to defend themselves, but the sheer number of arrows, bullets, cannon balls, and boulders overwhelmed many of them.
Though it seemed they weren't the only ones with mages on their side since I noticed spells both familiar and unfamiliar. Unfortunately, it seemed the vast majority of us were warriors, so we just started running towards the enemy.
It was a chaotic mess as if someone fed hundreds of geese crack and handed each one a knife.
It seemed that many of the people with similar armor were trying to get into formation. From the Roman phalanx, Greek phalanx, Zulu horns and chest of the buffalo, Nubian archers, and medieval tactics.
As they were all doing this, there was a group that had to buy time for them so they could get in formation. While all the people with range attacks were doing the best they could, it wasn't a constant flow of arrows, bullets, cannon balls, and rocks being fired at the enemy. Some of their attacks weren't any damage to some of the enemies. In fact, I think the majority of the kills and injuries were due to the surprise attack.
That's where my group that did fit into any of the other groups came into play. The Happy Wars, Elden Ring, Assassin's Creed, and For Honor players acted as the vanguard. We would attack them first and give the others enough time to form their formations.
As we ran towards the enemy arrows, huge boulders and cannonballs rained all around us. So I lifted my Commander's Standard into the air, causing a red aura to sound all of us. It seemed like I wasn't the only one to do that as I felt different types of strengths wash over me.
As we kept running, some of those demons must have thought it was a good idea to attack us from the sky. And they were right for the most part until some of the warriors threw chains, ropes, and other things to bring them down to earth. Others were able to jump high enough to attack them and cause both of them to plummet to the ground.
One assassin in front of me was having a hard time trying to pull the devil to the ground until someone with the onion knight armor grabbed the rope and slammed him into the ground.
As they did that, I ran up ahead of them, jumped up into the air, raised both my halberds above my head, and brought them down onto him, killing him in one blow. That surprised me, but I chalked it up to the extra holy damage my Golden Halberd inflicts.
Rolling out of the way of a devil that came down swinging at me with a spear. It seemed he was looking at me because he missed the Warden that was up ahead of him, was able to hit the devil with his greatsword. Slamming the devil into the ground before he was able to pull back into the sky.
Whatever happened next, I did stay to watch as I continued to run forward, but I did hear the dying screams of someone behind me.
As I continued to charge ahead, I saw a knight with a cartoon-ish looking armor beating a devil with what looked like a stick with a unicorn head on top of it. With every swing of the weapon, it left a rainbow trail behind it. And from the looks of it, he was doing some heavy damage to him until a giant boulder fell on both of them.
Running around it, I came upon a devil facing away from me as he fought a person wielding a huge ax that they swung around effortlessly. Her armor looked like something a Monster Hunter would have made from their prey.
As I got closer, I moved on pure instinct as my Commander's Standard despaired, and a red glowing symbol appeared on the back of my hand, and I swiped my hand in front of me. A huge dragon hand appeared and swatted the devil away like a fly.
The hunter looked at me before running towards me, her weapon transformed in her hand. As she reached me, her weapon was now a sword and shield. She ran past me, I heard the noise of metal hitting metal behind me.
Looking back, I saw her block the attack of a devil that was moments away from hitting me. She pushed him back with her shield, giving her an opportunity for her weapon to transform back into a giant ax to attack him, sending him flying. And from the glowing thread I saw her used to connect to him that I saw before turning around again her attack wasn't over.
"YHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
I heard a shout so loud behind me it stunned everyone, including me, for a moment before I knew what happened. A smile formed on my lips as I snapped out of my shock and continued as I knew we had played our part. We have distracted the enemy and given enough time for the soldiers behind us to allow them to get in formation without issues.
As I continued to charge forward, my smile turned into a grin fit for a mad man as I knew the chances of our group making it to our target was small. But the vanguard will clear a path to the target no matter what.
Suddenly, a sharp pain came from my shoulder. Taking a quick look, it seemed an arrow hit me. But that didn't matter, I continued charging forward as I killed anyone that stood in my way.
As I continued to cut a road deeper into enemy lines, a small group gathered around me. We could have been the last ones remaining alive from our group. There was no way for us to know since we were too scattered and unorganized to know.
But my grin grew madder and madder as I knew from the enemy's actions to try to stop us at any cost we were getting near our target.
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Pov. Azazel
"What the hell did you buy Azazel?" Asked Baraqiel.
"I don't really know," I answered.
Because I wasn't expecting this when I bought it. Sure, I did know the army that appeared would be big, and I was planning to use their numbers to distract the enemy while we circled around and attacked the rear.
But I wasn't expecting this. The huge army that appeared shouted something before unleashing a hail of arrows, boulders, magic, and some round metal projectiles of different sizes at the devil's side.
They must have been quite surprised because they managed to take quite a number down before they started using magic to defend themselves.
I recognized some of their armors and weapons, but others had things I've never seen before. Their armor and weapons seemed more advanced, I could literally see the progression of how one group's armor and weapon seemed to influence another's group's armor and weapons. How they took something and made it better for different types of war and situations.
And mixed in were humans with armor and weapons that could threaten the gods themselves.
It was a small group compared to the size of the army that appeared. But make no mistake, it was by no means a small group, but if you compared it to an army of 2.01 million, they were small.
It seems like the vast majority of this group decided to be the first wave of attack as the rest of them got into formation.
I thought after they got over their initial surprise, they would be able to gain the advantage over the humans. But to my surprise, I was wrong. It seemed like the thought of humans thinking they would attack them deeply offended the devils. Since they focused all their attention on the group that charged at them, while they were still being attacked by long-range weapons. Even as their allies got hit, they never stopped firing the war weapons, and their allies didn't stop fighting while getting hit.
Though it didn't work out as they thought it would since these humans seemed to have weapons, armor, magic, abilities, and fighting styles that were beyond our imagination. Weapons that transform so fast they were able to be used mid combat with a fighting style that would probably remain unknown to anyone in this world. Items so foolish that they looked like they couldn't hurt a human, and yet it caused massive damage to the devils. Shield so strong they could take an ultimate devil all out magic attack without a scratch. Abilities that allowed them to sneak by enemies while attacking them from behind. And many more, it was too overwhelming for the devils to counterattack since they had no idea what they were up against.
"Was that a dragon arm that hit that devil?" Asked Penemue, not quite believing what was happening.
Not that I could blame her, what kind of magic summons parts of a dragon to attack.
As I was going to tell them to circle around to attack the rear, a shout so loud it stunned everyone here.
"YHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
Looking over at the rest of the army, it seems they were finally in formation and have started their attack. It seemed the previous group has not only provided them with enough time to get into formation but has completely distracted the enemy. Which allowed them to attack those stunned devils from behind, killing quite a number of them.
It also seems that due to the first group's, while for lack of a better word disorganized attack, it caused the devil's original chaotic formation to plunge into further chaos. Those who are left alive are either formed into small groups to continue pushing forward. Or have stayed back to cause further chaos until they reconnect with the second group.
Even though this group was weaker than the first group, they had numerical advantage and cooperation. Something the devil sorely lacked, which allowed the humans to gang up against them. Sure, they tried to fly into the air, believing it gave them the advantage. They were terribly mistaken as the humans used arrows, harpoon, rope, and chains to drag them back to earth before being stabbed by an uncountable number of spears or sliced into by many different kinds of weapons. The worst ones were those that were crushed by many heavy and blunt weapons due to a devil's strong body as well as regeneration that turned into a long and painful death.
It took more than one human to kill one lower rank devil but they weren't fighting one on one and if one human happened to be killed he made sure to make an opportunity for the human that replaced him to attack.
"Are you sure we need to do anything? They seemed to have it under control," said Penemue.
"I can see that, but this is our chance to inflict heavy damage to them while they're distracted," I said as I led them to attack.
'I really got a good deal,' was all I could think about as I looked at the destruction the humans were causing
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Pov. Beelzebub
"What the fuck is going on!!!"
"A human army appeared out of nowhere and started attacking us," answered one of my attendants.
"I can see that you useless waste of space! What I want to know is why something as pathetic as humans overpowering us!"
"I'm sorry lord Beelzebub we have no idea why these humans are overpowering us," he said as he got on his knees.
"Useless!" I shouted as I grabbed his head and in mere moments my insects turned him Into bones.
"Will you calm down, you're making yourself look unsightly worrying over those lower life forms," said Leviathan as she floated over towards me.
"She's right Beelzebub, no need to get so worked up over those low born devils failures. After all, we only need to send one of the 72 to clean up the humans," said Asmodeus.
"No, I'll deal with them personally," I said.
"Really? I would find it beneath me to deal with humans, but I guess that's just me," said Leviathan.
"Lord Beelzebub, Lord Asmodeus, Mistress Leviathan the fallen angels have circled around and have attacked or rear! The 72 pillars have intercepted them but they're being pushed back" said a middle class devil as hurried toward us.
Fffffuuuckk! Leviathan, Asmodeus go deal with them I'll join you after I'm done with crushing the humans," I said I swung my arm cutting that devil in half.
"Fine but be quick about it Azazel can be a pain in the ass to deal with," said Leviathan as she left.
"Hurry up," said Asmodeus before following Leviathan.
'Dammit, nothing is going right. What am I going to tell Lucifer, "sorry but we were stopped by a bunch of lower life forms." Fuck his going to have my head.'
As I was heading towards the humans I was too distracted by my own thoughts. I didn't notice the huge glowing shield that was heading towards my face until it was too late.
I tried to use my insects as a layer to shield my face but it was too thin. The shield hit my face sending me flying backwards while the holy power flowing through the shield burned my face.
"OuuuFff!" I let out as I was hit.
As I straightened myself out I saw a man in armor that was black and golden. Its helmet shape reminded me of a wolf. He was swinging a golden spear that looked like it was also part ax to attack me.
I tried to dodge it by flying backwards but I was still cut and from the stinging sensation I felt the weapon was also filled with holy energy.
As I was going to unleash my insects on him I felt like my back was hit with something heavy sending me flying forward towards the glowing shield. As I hit it I felt the holy power burn my skin but that wasn't the end of it as I felt something hit my back.
I smelled it before I felt it, it smelled of rot and death. I had no idea what it was but it pushed me onto the shield as I felt my back rot and a dirty pinkish gas pushed me forward.
"ENOUGH!!!" I shouted.
I've had enough as the gas died down and the shield pulled back to try to attack me with his sword, I unleashing my full power.
Insects covered me from head to toe covering my entire body. From their perspective I'm sure I looked like a shadow with glowing white eyes and with two pairs of insect wings instead of my normal devil wings. Everything started to move slower and I finally got a clear look of the man with the huge shield.
He was dressed in unfamiliar armor with a red cross on it and the shield. As his sword headed towards me I grabbed his sword, it burned but the pain was much smaller than before.
I put my hand through his shield and armor as I crushed his heart. As he coughed up blood and I smiled as I felt his life leave his body he let go of his shield and grabbed my hand.
"AaaAgh!" I shouted.
As I felt a sharp pain from both my ears as I felt someone's hand on my head. If I hadn't released my full power it would have killed me. A tried to turn around but I couldn't pull my arm from the man's grasp.
So I vibrated my wings, cutting the man behind me to pieces and ripping my hand from the man's grasp along with his hand since he didn't want to let go.
Removing what was left of the man that attacked me from behind that was stuck in my head. I saw two hidden blades coming out of his wrists. Turning around I found the last two humans from the group.
One was the wolf armor human but the other was a human woman that had a blue fur outfit with a horn on her head and a sword and shield that looked like it was made of bones. The shield itself had two horns coming out of it.
As I slowly floated towards them they ran towards me. The wolf armor one ran ahead as he got closer I swung my arm aiming to take his head off. To my surprise he dodged by rolling out of the way.
As he did that I saw the woman swing a giant ax toward me. Making me crash into the ground before I could get up a dragon arm appeared out of nowhere and slammed me onto the ground again. Before the ax hit me again I rolled out of the way.
"How dare you force me to roll on the ground like some kind of worm! After I kill both of you, I'll make sure Lucifer punishes your entire race for daring to humiliate me like this!" I shouted as I attacked the woman.
Her ax suddenly turned into a sword and shield as I got closer and she tried to block my attack with her shield.
That didn't matter and I made sure she knew it by taking her shield along with her arm from her. But she continued to struggle in vain as she tried to stab me with her sword.
But before I could finish her off a giant tail hit me and sent me flying. As I looked towards the source of the attack I saw the wolf armored man again jumping up and trying to attack me with both of his weapons.
I sent my insects to eat him but he swung his weapons creating a hole through the cloud of insects. Unfortunately the hole wasn't wide enough and the insects devoured one of his arms in seconds. As he landed on the ground he rolled on the dirt like the worm he is to break the fall.
"Now who's crawling on the ground like a worm," I said as I walked up towards him and stepped on his leg, breaking it.
Before lifting him up by the neck, I wanted to choke the life out of him for what he did to me. As I lifted him I saw him grinning like a mad man before he smashed a pot on my face with the only hand he had left.
"AaaAaAAHhH!" I shouted as I tossed him away as hard as I could.
I've been hit with holy water before and it hurt but in this form the pain would be greatly reduced. But with what he hit me was a thousand times worse, it felt like my skin was melting off. The worst part was the holy water covered me from head to toe.
Though my regeneration was working I couldn't see right do to it hitting me in the eyes directly. The most I could see were general shapes and colors but everything was a blur.
"GaAHHh!"
As I was stumbling around in pain he felt someone stabbed me in the back but they did stop there. They lifted me up and from what I felt I was above their head. As I was going to vibrate my wing I heard many things cutting through the air and everything got darker. Then I felt something pierce me throughout my entire body.
As I covered my face with my hands, whoever was lifting me up threw me to the side.
There wasn't a part of my body that wasn't in pain but I still got up and I could finally see but what I saw sent a shiver down my spine. My body was covered in arrows and I was completely surrounded by the human army. And there in front of me was that human woman, the last of her group with one arm holding up a sword pointing at me.
The fighting was still going on, I could see the devils attacking the humans in the distance. But that didn't matter because it was clear to me their objection wasn't to win this war, it was to separate me and kill me.
I had to run if I was to survive, even if I would live in shame. Lucifer's wrath would be horrible but he wouldn't kill me. I would have to pay a huge price though.
"Heh"
As I was going to run I heard the first noise the humans made, a laugh. I ripped their heart out, cut them to pieces, broke their bones, and ripped their arms off and they never said a thing. Never let out a whipper as I shouted out in pain like some kind of lower life form.
AND THE FIRST THING SHE LETS OUT IS A LAUGH.
"DON'T YOU DARE LAUGH AT ME!!!" I shouted as cut off her head.
Suddenly something popped out of the ground and a powerful shock ran through my body. I could move my body like I wanted but I was able to look around and I knew I fell into her trap. The humans have gotten close enough to start throwing javelin and spears at me. They were being led by several humans that had a similar feel to the group I just killed.
One in particular reminded me of the women I just killed but instead of a sword and shield he had a huge horn. I knew I would be dead if they got close so as soon as I regained control of my body I flew into the air until I felt a tug.
Looking at my body I noticed some of the spears and javelin had ropes and chains attached to them. They were bringing me back to earth. No matter how hard I tried I only got closer to the ground. When I was finally brought to the earth I was surrounded by humans.
"I WILL NOT DIE BY YOUR HANDS!!!"
I shouted as I started killing them but they kept coming. Suddenly I heard someone play music and saw a giant hammer hit me in the face knocking me down. Looking up I saw the man with the huge horn.
"KAagahHhhH!!!!"
All I felt after that were people courteously stabbing me.
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Pov. Beelzebub
'Man, that was a strange dream.'
We're my thoughts as I eat breakfast. Normally I wouldn't remember most of my dreams but some just stick with you.
I hadn't had too many of those but fighting an army of devils with my Elden Ring character vea a Ready Player One war is an awesome dream but still strange.
Looking at the clock I noticed it was seven so I opened the store and got ready for customers.
"Now then, I wonder who will show up this time."