Mordred's aura exploded outwards, flattening the forest that they were currently in. Germany went into a panic and the mage associations blocked the evil and ominous mana that was threatening to cause anarchy.
"What is that feeling? Apophis!? Shit, this is Mordred! But I have to block his aura or millions will go insane!" Mephisto put up a barrier and shielded the populace with his magic.
The large shield sapped on his mana like a broken dam. "Fuck, I have to concentrate. I can't call Tannin or Tiamat." He hoped that the other mages would come quickly, or they would have a rampaging evil dragon at their doorstep.
He started sweating as he put all of his efforts on warding off the sinister mana.
"A... A dragon?" Augusta that was inside Lavinia's body was shocked.
"You will pay!" Mordred roared and he charged at Augusta who suddenly transformed to her draconic form due to instinct.
Icy wings sprouted from her back and absolute demise blocked his path as the whole area exploded due to the dense mana.
The doll of absolute demise crumbled. It was like a sand castle being demolished by a tsunami.
"Quick! Masaomi and I will contain the area! Try and stop them!" Cleria flew with Masaomi and they formed a barrier to try and contain everything or Mordred's stray attacks would destroy Germany.
"W-what do we do?" Ise got deathly nervous. They flared their magic to protect themselves. The dense and evil mana coming from Mordred bearing down on them.
"We have to contact Tiamat!" Dulio quickly tried to form a magic circle. But it was too delicate and Mordred's corrosive aura destroyed it.
"Damn it! We can't do anything? Even call for help?" Vali cursed as she also tried to form a magic circle to call Tiamat.
"It's Mordred's magic... I... I can't feel my legs." Kuroka trembled in fear. She used senjutsu and it was the wrong move.
Her heightened senses felt the pure malice and rage from Mordred, freezing her in fear.
Shirone didn't fare any better as well. "Go and help the other two with the barrier! You can't do anything here like that!" Dulio threw them out of the battlefield and they went to the other Cardinal directions to strengthen the barrier.
Augusta flew like a ragdoll as she got hit by Mordred's fist. Crashing through dozens of trees before stopping.
But he couldn't hit her too hard. Mordred struggled with his rage and Apophis broke through one of his chains.
Even though he was getting out of control, Lavinia subconsciously make him hold back.
His magic exploded even further. But his body couldn't take it. Grendel and Apophis' powers were overlapping.
Mordred's body was being overloaded with mana. His core couldn't bear with it. The primordial water was also burning his skin, but he didn't care.
"W-what is with this strength?" Augusta couldn't believe it.
She had to step it up and Lavinia's body was brimming with magic energy for her to use. "Balance breaker! Ultima Magica!" Her aura skyrocketed.
A large wizard made of flames appeared. It seemed to be casting magic and the flames of Incinerate Anthem washed over the battlefield like a tsunami.
"Assoluto Argento Mondo!" She used the balance breaker of Absolute Demise as well, with Lavinia's body remembering how to do it.
A raging blizzard covered the whole battlefield. Temperatures quickly plummeted, until it reached absolute zero.
Gigantic pillars of ice destroyed the barrier that the others made. And the coldness was beginning to spread, threatening to reach Germany. Swallowing the whole country until it crumbles into diamond dust.
"You dare use her sacred gear as well!?" Mordred roared. Black water and shadows were countering the tremendous amounts of magic as they consumed everything in their path.
Ise was boosting herself and transferring it to Dulio. An ability of the boosted gear that helped them to survive the apocalyptic battle.
"What do I do!?" Vali was being overrun by her anxiety. She couldn't use divide on the surroundings.
She has to touch something in order to divide its powers. And if she does touch the attacks flying around, she was sure that she would die.
"Calm down partner! Think, let your desires flourish!" Albion shouted inside of her mind.
"I... I have to stop Mordred! He's hurting himself and Lavinia! He needs to calm down, Augusta's spell must have a time limit!" Vali concluded.
She could see that Mordred's skin was being torn and his muscles were slowly disappearing due to the corrosive powers of Apophis.
Vali gritted her teeth and her eyes turned into thin lines due to her pupils constricting. "Albion! Give me strength! I have to stop them!" Vali cried out in desperation.
"You can only use this for a short amount of time Vali! Go and fulfill your desires!" Albion shouted.
"I, who am about to awaken." Vali began chanting and her body was shining white and blue.
"Am the heavenly dragon who lost all to the principles of supremacy. I envy the infinite and pursue the dream." Armor started to form on her body.
Vali's form began to grow larger and larger. "I shall become the white dragon of supremacy!" Vali raised her arms and roared.
"And I shall take you to the limits of innocence." Albion's voice finished and she transformed into a special balance breaker of the heavenly dragons. (pic)
"I... I can't keep this up long! I'll make an opening and call Tiamat!" Vali roared as she disappeared, leaving a crater that sent Ise and Dulio flying.
"Divide Divide Divide Divide Divide!" Albion's voice announced as Vali made the magic of Augusta and Mordred weaker.
"Half dimension." She started to halve everything in front of her. Even Augusta's balance breakers were weakening greatly.
"TIAMAT! WE NEED YOUR HELP!" Ise cried out to a magic circle they managed to form as Vali gave them some time.
"Vali! Stop! Or you'll lose your mind!" Albion warned desperately.
The previous wielders of divine dividing left their hatred and malice in the sacred gear. And it will encroach her mind.
Due to her massive energy reserves, she was able to ward it off. But not for long.
Vali roared and it started turning more draconic. "Shit!" Albion overrode her control of divine dividing and reeled in the power.
"Take her away from here! I will cancel the juggernaut drive and Vali would be in danger!" Albion shouted.
Dulio quickly swooped in and tackled Vali. He heard Albion's warnings and Vali started to revert back, completely spent.
The terrible magic and attacks resumed once again and Vali would've died in the crossfire if Dulio didn't swoop in to save her.
A blue magic circle then appeared. "Where's my baby!?" Tiamat looked at the destruction of the area and she quickly made a barrier.
Mephisto who was shielding Germany suddenly felt the aura lighten by a lot. "Tiamat arrived, thank goodness…" He sighed deeply.
"A mage that possessed Lavinia's body!?" Tiamat glared at Augusta.
She roared and breathed in deeply. Releasing a full powered breath attack, a thick blue beam swallowed Augusta's balance breakers whole.
A shockwave of magical energy got released as a powerful pulse. The others huddled up to form a barrier and it cracked from Tiamat's magic.
The blue beam traveled through the skies, parting the clouds that were enhancing Augusta's blizzard.
She then pounced on her, trapping her under her paw with a growl.
"Begone!" Tiamat overpowered her forbidden magic by cycling her raging mana inside of Lavinia's body.
Augusta screamed as Tiamat's mana burned her soul. The overwhelming mana from the dragon king mercilessly attacked the foreign magic signature.
With Tiamat's mana being attuned to their whole group, it isolated Augusta's soul and tore it apart without causing much damage to Lavinia.
"Mordred! My son!" Tiamat transformed quickly and went to Mordred.
With him feeling Augusta's soul extinguishing. His outrage ended and he dropped to the ground.
Tiamat gasped when she saw his body, almost all of his skin was peeling. Parts of his torso was corroded by the primordial water of Apophis.
Some of his bones were even showing. Mostly at his limbs that controlled the terrible powers of the eclipse dragon that even fought Ra to a standstill.
"Mordred, my baby..." Tiamat started to tear up as she healed his body.
"Sorry, we weren't able to stop them." Dulio walked up to them with a frown.
Tiamat ignored him though, she was tuning everything out. She focused on healing Mordred who was a mess.
They all gathered and had to teleport out of there due to the mess that would be happening.
Mephisto and a lot of mages checked out the epicenter of the battle and they were simply gobsmacked.
The amount of mana that lingered in the area was stunning.
"This is terrible, whoever fought here must be incredibly powerful combatants." A mage commented and Mephisto nodded.
"We will start on casting a wide area memory wipe on Germany. Begin on forming the magic circle for it." Mephisto ordered, he was the chairman of the board after all.
They started cleaning up the residual magic in the area and Mephisto frowned.
"I can feel Incinerate Anthem's holy aura here... This must be an incident caused by Augusta." Mephisto concluded.
Mordred is a reasonable person. And he would never attack someone without reason. Even Tiamat's anger towards Ddraig didn't cloud his judgement.
And that was concerning the most important person in his life. "Damn it Augusta... What the hell did you do?" Mephisto sighed at the paperwork this will bring.
__Familiar Forest__
Mordred was currently on bed, alongside Vali and Lavinia. "How are they?" Cleria asked Tiamat who was hugging them protectively.
Mordred might be their master, but she considers them a part of her hoard as well.
"Vali's experiencing severe magic depletion. She should be fine if I cycle mana to her. Lavinia is safe, I fucked that bitch's soul ten times over. Mordred... Mordred, I don't know." Tiamat cried.
She continued giving Vali some mana. Cleria then flinched when she saw Lavinia wearing a cross.
"T-that cross has tons of holy magic." She got scared of it instinctively due to being a devil for the majority of her life.
"Incinerate Anthem?" Tiamat checked it out. "It was said to be an independent type sacred gear. But I never knew that it could pick another wielder even though it didn't return to heaven's system." Tiamat was surprised.
"That is quite surprising indeed." Cleria sighed. "So, what happened?" Tiamat frowned heavily.
"We found Augusta, Lavinia talked to her so she could gain some information about Glenda's whereabouts." Masaomi started explaining.
"Then, everything went wrong. She revealed that the wizards of Oz want nothing but to further their magic. That Lavinia was just study material. Then she called Glenda and confirmed it." Cleria winced at the memory.
"We didn't know that Augusta was buying time to do something. We got her surrounded, but Lavinia suddenly froze and Mordred attacked." Masaomi described what happened further.
"That bitch used a forbidden spell, Mordred didn't feel it quick enough due to it being a soul possession spell that is quite quick. It doesn't need incantations or magic circles. You move your soul yourself, it worked because Lavinia was distraught." Tiamat scowled.
"That Glenda, I wish Lavinia gained some memories from the whore's soul. She absorbed the remnants of it when I tore it apart." Tiamat had a vengeance to fulfill.
"Yeah, this won't happen if that bitch Glenda wasn't an asshole." Masaomi clicked his tongue.
"Um, is Mordred and everybody else okay?" Shirone checked in with the others.
"Shirone, the others are fine... Mordred, I don't know. Apophis' powers are very strong. He fought the sun god Ra with his darkness. That guy is a monster." Tiamat remembered Apophis.
"Yes, Apophis is actually almost at our level. That primordial water and his corrosive shadows are nasty. My flames are better though, hmph." Ddraig huffed.
"I want you to find her, go to Falbium Asmodeus. Tell him that I will cash in on his favor. Mobilize the devils' army to find her! I will tear her apart!" Tiamat shouted out.
They winced at her rage, she wasn't going to stop at all. Tiamat is on a warpath and they'll just received her wrath if they try to stop her.
"I will go with Kuroka." Dulio volunteered and Kuroka nodded, being acquainted with the Satans due to the Naberius incident.
"Let's go." Kuroka teleported them to Falbium's office.
Ise and Shirone looked at Mordred in worry. "Kgh! I will have to get stronger... Ddraig, let's go. I can't be left behind by Vali." She left and would train herself until she was run ragged.
While Tiamat was watching them, she received a call from Tannin.
"Tiamat, that was a mess... Don't worry, Mephisto is hiding it. The Egyptian gods would be on your ass if they knew that Apophis is sealed inside Mordred. He isn't ready to fight a faction yet." Tannin explained what happened back in Germany.
"Thanks Tannin, send my regards to Mephisto as well." Tiamat sighed in relief.
"I know you can fight whole factions yourself, but it's in outrage right?" Tannin felt the aura that shook the underworld back in the past.
And that was two years ago, he was sure that Tiamat is stronger now.
"Yeah... I can kill Ddraig and Albion at their prime if I enter outrage. But doing that will paint us as a target. A war of the deus trinity is already devastating. It would be apocalyptic if all the factions join in." Tiamat frowned.
"It seems you are sensible, we will try to keep it up wraps as much as possible." Tannin ended the call.
__Heaven__
"Brother! We received news that Apophis' aura was felt on earth! Germany to be exact." A blonde woman with green eyes reported to Michael. (pic)
"What!?" Michael went wide eyed. "We can't check on Mordred's seal now... We only managed to sneak in due to father. What happened!?" Michael was alarmed to the maximum.
'Ahh, father. I wish we understood more of the system. Then heaven would at least have gotten him to our side.' Michael groaned.
"It disappeared again, so the seal most likely isn't compromised. Do you think that little Mordred is running around out there?" Gabriel was anxious as well.
"That may be so, we need to check this out... Order the church if there are anyone around that is named Mordred. We need to see if his looks match." Michael frowned.
Gabriel nodded and she quickly passed on the message.
Plopping down on his seat, Michael rubbed his temples. "Father, is this because you have died? Did the seal weaken due to your death? Or someone broke it?" Michael was having a migraine of epic proportions.
Whatever is happening, the evil dragons are at large once again. Sealed or not, it is an extremely risky situation.
They almost annihilated the devils and fallen once. And Heaven is missing the god that protected them.
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Thanks for reading everyone, I will post some extra chapters. After checking out the progress. I am not quite satisfied with the amount of chapters that are out yet, expect it within this week. Anyways, ciao.