Pov Goddess Selene:
I was seeing Zenos’ battle against the Annual Monster Wave through the eyes of my Priestess Vanessa, I had a crystallized blood mirror floating in front of me showing everything that is happening.
“Seeing the consequences of what you’ve done?” (Akatosh)
“Go away you giant lizard, I don’t have the patience right now.” (I)
I’m very irritated ever since that bastard Baldr dared to send a message demanding that I go to him to give an explanation about his Priestess, his messenger was a subordinate God of his.
I say “was” because now he’s dead, Baldr sent the most foolish and arrogant God possible knowing I would kill him, that bastard wants to convince the other Gods to go against me.
“I see you’re still furious at Baldr’s senseless tricks.” (Akatosh)
“That bastard is playing childish games when we already have too many problems to deal with.” (I)
“You should have known that he would do something after stealing one of his Priestesses most likely to become a Saint.” (Akatosh)
“I didn’t rob anyone, I just saved someone who was trying to get away from this idiot.” (I)
“Also Baldr is proud and arrogant, he thinks he can face what’s to come with his current followers and his strength.” (Akatosh)
“I can’t tell if he underestimates his enemies or if he’s so foolish as to think he’s superior to everyone else.” (I) ．
“I think both, but he’s always been like that.” (Akatosh)
Sigh
“If he keeps pissing me off like this he’ll get what he wants, so I think he’d better continue his little games with his believers in the mortal world like he’s been doing so far.” (I)
“Don’t do that, you know your forces are similar, a battle between you if taken seriously could destroy a third of this universe.” (Akatosh)
“I will not participate to help either side.” (Akatosh)
“Don’t worry, I won’t start a battle over anything like this fool, but I won’t back down if he tries to attack me directly.” (I)
“Then let him get on with his tricks, you also know that no God will be fooled by things like that.” (Akatosh)
“He did it to spread among mortals that you killed a good and just God.” (Akatosh)
“It doesn’t matter to me, it won’t affect my believers too much, all it will do is increase the conflict between our religions.” (I)
“Why not take advantage of this to strengthen your new son?” (Akatosh)
“Huh?” (I)
“…” (I)
Akatosh had appeared by my side without my realizing it, he’s probably the only one who can do something like that, but talking to him helps me get that anger out, if it was at other times when I was more impulsive maybe I’d be fighting that one Baldr’s idiot, but I’m not going to make the same mistakes of the past that would only make an already bad situation worse.
“It can be done, actually this is a good idea.” (I)
“But it will have to wait until he reaches the Dark Continent, I will send an oracle to Zenos’ daughter when the situation is favorable for that.” (I)
“Aren’t you going to let them know what awaits them in the Dark Continent?” (Akatosh)
“I don’t need to, with the bad luck he has the problem will knock on his door whether he likes it or not, knowing him I can imagine what he’s going to do, my message will just be something that will help in what he will do, at the same time it will help some new believers.” (I)
“The initiative has to be his, I don’t need someone to follow my orders, I want him to do things his way as best as possible.” (I)
“Do what you want, now my Priestess is already together with him, the more battles she has the stronger she will become if she survives, she is one of the possible candidates for my champion.” (Akatosh)
“I’m sure Zenos will be able to perfect the potential I see in her.” (Akatosh)
“I hope she helps with what’s to come.” (I)
“Does it speak of the consequences of what you did?” (Akatosh)
“Yes, a single drop of my blood caused an imbalance in the entire Morror Continent, it would have been worse if Zenos hadn’t absorbed all that power while he was born, but just that brief moment did it.” (I)
“It will be good for him and his companions to test their strength, against a few dozen enemies of the same level.” (I)
“What are you going to do with the Black Dragon? He’s been getting impatient since he found out about his daughter.” (I)
“I like him, the way he does things suits me, but this time it’s going to be a little troublesome as it’s too soon for him to meet his daughter.” (Akatosh)
“There are a lot of eyes on him, if he moves in person it will draw the kind of attention that Zenos and Nix won’t be able to survive.” (Akatosh)
“Want me to send one of my daughters to him?” (I)
“Which one will it be? Will it is the responsible one, the lazy one or the troublesome one?” (Akatosh)
“The lazy one, she’s been sleeping for a thousand years, she needs to wake up a bit, she’s the only one who hasn’t reached the rank of Demigod, besides Zenos.” (I)
“She might work, she’s someone difficult to deal with who will distract the Black Dragon for a little while longer.” (Akatosh)
“Zenos is growing fast, we just need another ten years, maybe less.” (I)
“Aine is happy lately, with the Heretic God’s death she got a fragment of the deity, with that she can choose one of the Demigods that follow her to become a subordinate god.” (Akatosh)
“Considering whose deity it was, I think you’ll have to choose between Fairies with dark or dark elements.” (I)
“I’m more worried about what she’s up to, since the last time I saw her I think she’s doing something.” (I)
“Don’t worry, she does things at her own pace, just leave her alone and wait for the show she’s going to put on.” (Akatosh)
“I heard that she went to meet the Beast God and the Spirit God, but I don’t know what they want to do.” (Akatosh)
“I think you’re right, let’s just sit back and enjoy the show.” (I)
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Pov Zenos:
It’s been three days since this Annual Monster Wave started, from the second day there were already several Grade S monsters attacking us, there were also some Grade SS monsters.
Now that we are on the third day, there are already many Grade S monsters and several Grade SS monsters.
I just signaled to use the ritual spells that we were keeping, I asked this to give a breather to the troops who are not having time to rest, we only have about 7 ritual spells ready to use.
“Activate the first ritual magic!!!” (I)
I give the signal and the front line retreats, then a magic circle in the backline glows and shoots energy into the sky above the monsters that keep running after the retreating troops.
From this magic circle in the sky a gale starts across the battlefield, this wind was not something normal, this wind was formed by wind blades that were completely destroying enemies to pieces, this magic would last for about an hour with the amount of Mana that we put into it.
Most of the troops were tired and out of energy, many were even injured, so I used this time for the troops to rest and heal using the potions Lyra had made in advance.
After this rest time passed the ritual magic was starting to weaken, so I joined forces with Layla.
I use Layla as a means for this a large-scale magic making a tornado of flames like the one we used in the capital of the Makari Kingdom, but this time it was just Layla and I doing that magic.
The tornado was twice as big as I expected and it had a very big suction force, the monsters were swallowed by the tornado and turned to dust in a few minutes, and even the battlefield underwent major changes as the ground was being covered in magma due to the tornado heat is melting everything on the battlefield.
The monsters that were closest to this magical attack were sucked in with no chance to resist, but the strangest thing for me was seeing the monsters try to keep running towards us even while passing over the magma or getting close to the fire tornado.
They were just running to their death, I couldn’t understand how these monsters had no survival instincts and threw themselves to death like that.
But thanks to this magic I got more time to finish treating the rest of the wounded and for everyone to return to their fighting positions in a better state than before.
After twenty minutes the fire tornado disappears, but there was still magma on the ground, but the monsters were using the bodies of the monsters that died earlier to get to us.
I make a compressed water sphere and throw it into the lava, the water sphere turns to steam quickly due to the high temperature of the magma, then an explosion of hot steam happens to kill some monsters nearby while the water helps to cool the magma into solid rock.
After that everyone held their weapons tightly as they rushed to attack.
One thing I noticed was that there was a SS Grade monster among this current wave of monsters, that is to say, that from here it will get more difficult, but one thing I noticed was that the number of monsters was decreasing as the strength of the monsters increased, I also noticed that the monsters were no longer coming in continuously but starting to come in waves with small intervals between each one.
