The true meaning of Wrath : the secon Verset : birth of a wrathful scale


    Demon princess POV


    When, late at night, I was alerted that intruders had entered the palace I imediatly armored myself and took my weapons to run after a group of idiotic thieves. Little did I know that the Vampire, that me and my men had pursued for a certain time, was only a decoy for his companions to enter the dungeon. If one wonder why this princess knew he was a Vampire it is because he would often become smoke to escape and confuse us, only powerful Vampire are able of that.


    When my magic watch warned me that intruders had entered the dungeon I immediatly rushed to it.


    |Princess Lilith, who do you think it could be ?|(Woman knight)


    Sizifa, my personal knight, asked me. Of course as the princess I had my suspicion on who it could be, certainly the Bran''hiev family who wanted to make a coup to take my mother''s place and declare a war on humans. As much as me and my mother hated humans we knew it was stupid to attack them as we would be crushed, the last holy war had disminished greatly our territory and even two hundreds year later we had trouble with its consequences.


    Plus the rumors of powerful warriors appearing since five years ago are worriesome, the one we sealed was quite the tricky one, when she crossed our border we chassed after her but that lead her in this very castle. No matter how tired we made her by preventing her from resting she would only get stronger because of that my mother the Queen had to use a forbidden technique to seal the woman''s strengh, this very woman who cried that she didn''t wanted to do that. You don''t destroy half of a palace by accident.


    Anyway soon my watch warned me that they had reached the second floor, then the third.


    |What ?! It''s impossible !|(Lilith)


    |What is it princess Lilith ?|(Huge knight with an halberd)


    Goliath, My second personal knight, asked me in his deep and seductive voice.


    |The intruders already reached the third floor.|(Lilith)


    |Impossible !!|(Sizifa)


    |How could it be ?!|(Goliath)


    |I do not know but we''ve got to hurry, the powerful warrior is there and she is most likely to be their goal.|(Lilith)


    Their fast descend in the dungeon worried me, only people with the royal crest could enter without being attack by the monsters, that included me, the palace''s knights and soldiers and also the prisonners since what is the point in caging them if a alligadog devoured them right after that ? There is no point.


    When we entered the dungeon we all heard a deafening roar, one similar to the one we had heard a few month ago,that roar however contained much more hatred.


    |GUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!|(Something)


    The palace and the dungeon shook and our ears ringed but we moved forwards to the bottom of the dungeon. After such a roar our troops moral was dropping, I only had two hundred or so soldiers and fifty knights with me so of course something powerful enough to make the earth shake would scare them. We hurried even more to the last floor.


    When we arrived to the last floor my soldier quickly ran in front of me and we saw it.


    A beast, a monster. It was five meters tall and at least ten meters long, it was covered in dark blue scales with a hint of dark red at their ends, a long reptilian tail with a two spiked hammer tail, two pair of spikes started from the base of its neck and became one just before the end of the tail, in the middle of those row of spikes was a light brown mane that came from its head to the end of its tail. Its hind-leg were like the hind-legs of a dog but a nasty looking spike was sprouting from behind the knees, its claw were digging in the floor. The front legs looked more humanoid and its claws were also digging in the floor. The pair of large ragonic looking wings. And then the face, a long yet thick jaw filled with white razor sharp teeth, a larger chin than a alligadog one. Crimson red slitted eyes that seemed to be ignited by the flame of rage. A pair of horns defying the sky, another coiling itself to the back of its head and finaly an unicorn looking horn in the middle of its forehead.


    It was facing us in such a way that we could see the entire right side of the beast. Attached to some of its spike I could see what seemed to be clothes and on the ground there was an enormous great-hammer if someone was seeing that he could think that the beast simply murdered the one to whom those items belonged but there was something that was bothering me ... and that was blood, there wasn''t any trace of blood except the one belonging to the prisonners. Speaking of prisonners I could see that behind the beast there were two people with the powerful warrior''s arms around their back to help her to stand.Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author.


    |W-was there such a monster in the dungeon ?|(random soldier Joe)


    Asked one of the soldier but I did not answer, I was petrified, the beast had set its eyes on me and slowly stated to walk in our direction. Each step that it took make the ground shake because of the energy it generated, each of its breath released two cloud of grey smoke. I stopped at five meters of us and growled at us. The woman in armor who was standing behind the beast let go of the powerful warrior.


    |Apocalypse stop this !! It''s you who said that we shouldn''t kill them, remember ?!|(Woman in armor)


    The beast named Apocalypse threw a quick glance to her before setting its gaze to me again, it growled and then.


    |GUUUUUUURRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!|(Apocalypse)


    Some of the soldier were thrown back by the sheer power of the roar, but most of us held our ground by stabbing our weapons in the ground. What is a monster like that doing here ? How did it fit in the corridors ?! The people who saved the powerful warrior seems to be humans.How did they managed to get in the capital ? Who were they ? All those questions were spinning inside of my head and made me failed to notice Sizifa calling out to me. She slapt me to make me regain my composure.


    |PRINCESS NOW IS NOT THE MOMENT TO DAY-DREAM !!!|(Sizifa)


    |Sorry ..... Soldiers CHARGE !!!|(Lilith)


    |YOU BLOODY IDIOTS !!|(Woman in armor)


    My soldier raised a war cry and charged at the beast named Apocalypse with their weapons ready and their heads high. That''s until the beast jumped in the middle of us, killing at least thirty soldier by crushing them and making at least fifty of them fall on the asses. The one that remained standing tried to stab it with their weapons but the beast swinged its tail and skewered two of the soldier with it.


    It snapped its jaw and two other soldiers were cleaved in half and thrown away. It swinged its right front leg and blasted away ten soldiers. Sizifi and her squad started to fire magic at it but it protected itself with its wings. It kicked the soldiers that had managed to get behind him and thus killed fifteen more soldiers. The battle hasn''t even been ten minutes long and we''ve already lost fifty-nine soldiers. The beast jumped again and landed in front of me .... not, at the last moment Goliath got in front of me and skewered it with his halberd. It entered its stomach and got out by its back. Goliath pushed the beast back but the beast took the halbard handle between its claws and broke it before roaring againa and slapping Goliath away.


    The beast teared the halberd out of its body and the hole in its stomach started to heal at an allarming rate, I was scared, Goliath was the strongest in our group and he swept away that easily, the wound he gave to the beast wasn''t even useful since it healed instantaniously. The beast tails started to rock left and right and thus it killed another twenty of our soldiers. Its previous roar had knocked at least twenty-five people out. Of my original force of two hundred and fifty men had been reduced to only one hundred and sixty-six men.


    The beast started to growl and thinking that it was going to roar once again most of us plugged their ears and I was part of those people but I suddenly sensed it gathering mana but I was too late a crimson wave charged at us coming from the monster''s mouth. Sizifa and her squad who were expert at sensing mana gathering quickly jumped in front of me and casted a magic barrier. The wave crashed on it and the cries of agony of the soldiers that weren''t in the barrier were heard. Their melting body could sometimes be seen when they hit the barrier, their face distorted in pain and by the flames, shouting to us to let them in. Suddenly.


    |Let go of me, get away no NO NOOOOOO !!!|(Mage woman)


    |Liliana !!|(Sizifa)


    One of the mages had her leg grabbed by one of the burning soldiers who had managed to pass his arm through the barrier and she had been dragged into the fire by that same soldier. Her cry of agony was heard and the fire disappeared short after, all in front of us had been burned to a ashes, in the corner of my eyes I could see Goliath, he was breathing heavily, one of his arms and legs was surely broken and the right side of his body had burned even though he hand''t been exposed to the fire, he was leaning against a wall and he must have been outside of the barrier. We had lost another seventy-nine soldiers.


    My eyes fell on on the three people behind the beast, the woman was looking in our direction with sad eyes. I remembered what she had said when I ordered a charge and she was right we were idiots, the beast handn''t attacked us and we were clearly un-prepared for that fight but I attacked it out of pride and fear. I was an idiot for giving the oder to charge and my soldiers were idiots for listening to me. The remaining soldiers began to ran away in fright. Most of the prisonner had died as well.


    |Cowards !!! come bac here and fight !!|(Sizifa)


    |Sizifa ... go with them....|(Lilith)


    |But princess ... I-I can''t.|(Sizifa)


    |And take Goliath with you.|(Lilith)


    |*cough cough* I refuse .... *cough cough* dying fighting this thing *cough cough* wouldn''t be so bad *cough*|(Goliath)


    |Goliath ?! When did you get here ?!|(Lilith)


    |*cough* It isn''t *cough* about me that you *cough* you should worry about *cough*|(Goliath)


    Goliath had somehow dragged his damage body to us and pointed the beast from which we had averted our eyes for a moment and.


    |What in the world ?!|(Sizfa)


    |It''s standing.|(Lilith)


    The beast had got on its hind leg and was now standing, it had to arc its back forwards to stabilize its body. When you looked at it you could see the might of a divine beast and the anger of an ouragan. It started to run, on its hind legs, towards us and it jumped while doing a punching stance. Sizifa started to cast a barrier but she stuttered in fright, when its fist was about to reach us a ray of red and silver passed in front of us and a barrier was irriged.


    |{Grand barrier}|(Woman)


    |M-mother.|(Lilith)


    |My Queen ?!|(Sizifa)


    |Am I starting to see things ?|(Goliath)


    However when the fist connected to the barrier it imediatly shattered and the ground shook once again. My mother was standing there in her battle dress and wielding her staff. She was standing proud and dignified in front of the beast who looked surprised for a moment but quickly returned to a angered looked. However my mother''s next word shocked me.


    |O mighty apostle, allow me to trade my life in exchange for my daughter''s and her comrade''s.|(Queen)


    She said as she lowered her head.


    |Mother ?!|(Lilith)


    |My Queen ?!|(Sizifa)


    |That''s it, I kicked the bucket and I am hearing things.|(Goliath)


    I looked at my mother who was bowing and at the beast, suddenly the beast eyes as well as its scales turned clear blue. It spoke in a deep and powerful voice.


    |Is that so ?|(Apocalypse)