"My name is Kralax, I am one of the Generals of Lord Eligos' army. I am fairly sure that you were the ones that lured our army to this ambush, right?"
Kralax immediately started by speaking more eloquently than any other Demon Zagreus had seen before. Despite his monstrous, multi-armed and multi-headed, reptilian appearance, he was speaking better than most Gods.
"So they found us!" Hanshuan muttered. "We have to run, Zagreus!"
"Stay calm and silent, Hanshuan..." Zagreus glared at Kralax.
He instantly knew that the second they gave this Demon General their back, they would all die before realizing it. Even more as that Demon's current form.
However, there was also another thing within Zagreus' mind he wanted to address a lot, the powers he was able to unleash, which allowed him to save the lives of the two moon goddesses.
"Zagreus...! Y-You saved us!" Sindarin said.
"Thank you..." Glimmerdust muttered.
They were both wrapped on Zagreus' phantasmal aura, tightly touching his own body, as a young man he would've already gotten very flustered, and the girls perhaps as well.
However, the situation demanded complete seriousness, things such as embarrassment weren't allowed, this was a thing of life or death.
And the thing in front of them, his pressure and aura, although not as overwhelming as Eligos, was more than enough to slaughter them all.
"Not answering, huh?" Kralax muttered. "Should I start by tearing a few limbs then? Perhaps then you'll speak about your alliance with the Humans..."
"A-Alliance?!" Zagreus muttered, surprised by what the demon had concluded.
There was nothing like an alliance!
Although several Gods of Genesis might've had human ancestors at some point, none of them were considered humans anymore.
What's worse, these humans were completely different from the ones found in Genesis, they were overly aggressive and also held an immense hatred against all things non-human.
Even when it was reported they met a village of humans from Genesis, these humans were killed on sight, the entire village burned to the ground.
The one god that had spied what happened reported these humans called the humans from Genesis as "mutants", and that they weren't considered their save brethren.
They had evolved and gained such a superiority complex that they believed that the humans from Genesis, their ancestors, were mutants not worth saving!
The only reason they kidnaped his mother was probably to extract her powers or try to use her as bargaining chip the next time they came to invade Tartarus...
Zagreus had no allies among all these invaders, to him they were all the same!
And yet...
"That's right..."
Zagreus smiled, proudly nodding as he glared at the enormous demon in front of him, his aura exuding phantasmal beings constantly, as if several souls had appeared out of nowhere to feed his power.
He still couldn't even understand what this power was, as he never had it before this... But as the son of Hades and Persephone, he could guess there was some power hidden within him, that was only able to awaken after he reached the limits of his emotions and stress.
"We are allies of the humans, I suppose it was pretty obvious, right?"
Kralax smiled, as if he had finally managed to discover the truth.
The other gods glared at Zagreus with confused faces! Sindarin was about to confront Zagreus and ask him what he was even talking about.
"Z-Zagreus? What are you even...?"
However, Glimmerdust covered her mouth with her hands, stopping her from speaking. The shy Moon Moth Goddess glanced at her friend, waving her head.
Sindarin fell silent, quickly realizing what Zagreus was trying to do.
To buy time.
"Since when have you Gods allied the humans?!" Kralax asked furiously. "What do you plan to do?! Tell me how many of your forces are moving here! Are there more like the titan fighting Lord Eligos?"
Zagreus nodded, remaining calm, although he didn't smile anymore.
"Yes, there's at least three more of those coming here," Zagreus said. "We're going to eliminate all the demons from this Realm!"
"You bastard...!" Kralax roared. "To think things would turn out this way... Hahaha... Maybe you pathetic worms weren't as pathetic at the end?"
"..." Zagreus resisted the impulse to speak back, gritting his teeth. "If you kill us right now, a signal will be sent to the humans, and they will rapidly come here to avenge us."
"Oh? So they'll avenge you but they won't protect you?" Laughed Kralax.
"Indeed, they hate us, and only allied us because of what we could accomplish," nodded Zagreus. "But it doesn't matter, as long as it gets the job done..."
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"..."
Kralax squinted his eyes, beginning to think what to do, he felt slightly...
Cornered.
Zagreus deceiving words were somehow working!
As this happened, Zagreus' powers flew elsewhere.
He used his mind to rapidly manipulate all these phantasmal, ghostly spirits coming from his aura into different, invisible shapes.
He sent them inside of his Divine Realm and then through a portal of his Divine Realm above
the clouds.
This was only possible because his Divine Realm was larger than other Gods, as the Son of Hades, he had received a fragment of Tartarus after he reached his adult age.
"Heh..."
Kralax, however, laughed.
"You're too bad at this, Zagreus."
"Huh?"
"You think... You seriously think you can deceive a demon?"
"!"
Zagreus moved back, as he felt the immense pressure of Kralax.
"I half believed your bullshit just because I had yet to read your heart, but it seems I'm right,
you're just lying!"
"I'm not lying! They'll come here at any moment!"
"Is that so?! Then let them come! Did you seriously believed you could deceive demons?! We are the ones that deceive and tempt mortals, foolish idiot!"
Kralax rushed towards Zagreus, his massive claws equipped with his powerful armament at
full power reached him.
"THIS IS YOUR END!"
"Ngh..."
Zagreus felt immense fear as the claws rushed towards him, he felt almost paralyzed.
"They won't make it in time, dammit! FUCK!"
As Zagreus panicked internally, he rapidly harnessed this mysterious power again, the
amount of ghosts and souls suddenly...
FLAAASH!
Suddenly began increasing by the hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands!
"Hmm?!"
"W-Wha...?!"
CRAAASH!