Coast of the Human continent, random soldier POV


    More than sixty percent of the Empire''s army has been deployed to the coast in the past three days by the Emperor himself. As a simple soldier without any decoration, I can''t even fathom to think about knowing what our great Emperor is thinking but such a high numbers of soldiers and battle slaves at one place makes me feel pretty anxious and those numerous roars of the continent shaker aren''t helping. Sigh, I just want to go home and lay down on my bed, my son would give me some good food while my wife would massage my sore back.


    |Soldier, yes you there. Come here.|(Man)


    A blond man with a round belly called out to me, he couldn''t be called fat but he certainly was plump. He was wearing a golden armor, showing that he was a noble, and had the coat of arms of the paladins sewed on his right gauntlet. As a commoner, I couldn''t just ignore him so I walked to him and saluted. He nodded calmly and told me to rest.


    |Good soldier, pardon this one''s indiscretion but would you happen to know why was the army gathered here ? I fear I have missed the briefing.|(Man)


    |No sir, you haven''t missed a thing. Nobody knows why we are here, I even asked a captain but he did not know.|(Soldier)


    A small light of unease flashed through his eyes as he took a battle-hammer that was leaned against a wall and sighed.


    |Thank you, soldier, you did well. I''ll give you an advice as a repayment. If I were you I''ll pack my thing and run the farthest away from here as I can. Something big is coming, I can feel it in my guts and trust me when you''ve been in my line of works for as long as I do you know when things are heading South.|(Man)


    |Does sir plan on escaping ?|(Soldier)


    |Who do you take me for ?! A coward ? No soldier, I don''t plan on escaping but if my intuition is spot on might as well save the more people I can.|(Man)


    A loud ring echoed in all the city and every soldier started to run to the coast and so did I, as well as the noble. the alarm had ringed and the army was ordered to assemble at the coast. There were around ten million soldiers, and more than twice that number of battle slaves, at the beach. Each one of us armed with our mithril arms and wearing our magic infused armor, making them deadlier, sturdier and many more time better at stopping a blow from an enemy.


    In the corner of my eyes, I was able to see the noble that talked to me earlier shouting at someone else while waving his hammer in a rather angry way. Then a middle-aged man appeared on a winged horse, it was so white that my eyes felt like melting at its sight. That was our general, rumored say that nobody could stand to him on the battlefield and that the last victory against the Demon continent was entirely because of him. His golden armor lighting the entire army and filling us with a feeling of invincibility.


    |Men of the Huan-si, many of you must be confused as to why you were summoned so far away from your homes. The Huan-si need you to defend our great nation once again, a monster able to sink our goddess-blessed fleet is coming towards us. But fear not soldiers of the Huan-si, we are the children of the Great goddess and nothing shall bring us down to our knees. Whatever monster is coming our way we will prevail and out of the adversary, we will rise even greater and closer to our Great goddess that is watching her glorious Heros from above. And those who die in her glory may their souls be welcomed in her loving embrace FOR WE SHALL BE IMMORTALS IN HER GLORY !!!!|(General)


    Hope filled our heart and as our warcry echoed another roar was heard, a roar that could make the earth shake and yet not make us deaf, a roar that came from the blue sky. A shadow cast upon us, although smaller than average this Dragon seemed to have trampled our hope as soon as he came down from the sky. Twenty meters in length and ten in height although it as hard to say as he was flying above us. A long crocodile-like mouth with sharp white fangs coming out of the lower jaw. Dark red reptilian eyes that seemed to be filled with un-measurable anger. Wide black wings that covered the sun and devoured the light.


    A unicorn-like black horn with a red tinge at its end, the same for the seven other horns. Those two enormous horns coming out of its hind knees and went up to his shoulder like an armor. A light-brown mane between two lines of spikes that went to the tip of the tail where two hammer-like spikes were. Black scales with a hint of dark red at their tip. Its canine legs making it look more like a gigantic reptilian wolf than a proud Dragon.


    Dark red flames coming out of its mouth and sending shiver down our spine.


    Such was the beast that descended from the sky and landed right in front of the general. Our hope was lost at such a sight and the scent of piss and shit already started to drift in the salty breeze that came from the sea. The beast grunted and suddenly started to shrink and morph into a humanoid form. A five meters tall man, with the same dark and ominous wings, horns, and violent-looking tail, was standing where the Dragon once stood. Long light-brown wavy hair that fell down on his muscular chest. Arms so big one could think that man is able to crush an orc''s head bare-handed.Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.


    Wearing baggy pants with some sort of large belt, on which something was written, hanging down his front. Such was the man who was glaring at us with so much hate that some soldiers and slaves dropped unconscious and I wasn''t better off myself, my legs were shaking and I used a spear to keep standing. I can''t afford to fall down.


    The bright and booming voice of the general was replaced by a deep and low voice, it almost sounded archaic and coming from the depth of hell.


    |Inferior life-forms ... that''s what ya Humans are. Ya should''ve been glad that I did not decide to wipe yar species off the map years ago. But now ya''ve done it. GWAHAHAHAHA Lust and tha other got it easy, when they get mad they don''t have that urge ta massacre everything in sight and God knows how many time I held it back inside. Using tha petty excuse of getting of corrupt nobles ta vent my nerves but today ... Oh, what a great day ... today is tha day I stop fighting it and finally open the doors of that slaughter-house.


    Remember my name ya scums, for this is tha name of the god ya have angered. Apocalypse Satan Seraph Amael Vermillion.|(Apocalypse)


    The general, who had fallen to the ground when the Dragon showed up, got back up and glared at the man.


    |YOU ARE NO G.. !!|(General)


    The general who was going to rebuke something at the man fell to the ground, his sentence cut off like his head that went flying to my feet. The man was now standing where the general once stood and had already torn the pegasus apart.


    |I have not given ya tha permission to speak.|(Apocalypse)


    And he kicked the floor and disappeared. Screams were heard and body parts were flying. Like a tornado of blood, that man made his way through the army. Everything that met his way was reaped to shred without any chance to fight back. Guts spilling on the floor and blood raining down our body. Punching, kicking, biting, slicing and smashing left and right, a one-sided massacre was taking right in front of my faces and I could nothing about it, feeling my own powerlessness in this battle.


    Suddenly another voice boomed across the battlefield, it was the noble who spoke to me before this slaughter.


    |UNLEASH THE J?RMUNGAND !!!!|(Noble)


    What !!! As soon as he said that a seventy meters long and twenty meters tall black snake came out of the ground, just under the man and swallowed him. Or at least it must have been the plan but the snake wasn''t able to close its mouth. the man was holding it open, he grabbed the lower part of the mouth with his right hand and the upper part with his left one and jumped out of it. And with a big swing of his arms un-buried the J?rmungand, using the long body as a mace. I threw myself on the ground to avoid it but the people around me weren''t that quick-witted and were crushed by the snake.


    |GUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!|(Apocalypse)


    Even with my eyes drenched in blood I was able to see the man called Apocalypse forcefully opening the J?rmungand mouth with so much force that the snake was bisected on all its length. Blood and heavy scales falling down from the sky. He slammed the corpse on the ground several times, the ground shook with each strike, and enormous waves were formed, taking the dead to the sea. But the armageddon was far from being finished, I saw my fallen comrades stand up once again, some kind of fool energy sticking to them, making their dead body move again. However, instead of attacking that one-man-army they started to attack the survivors.


    It was my turn to soil my pants but I was filled with hope when I looked up. Countless of men riding white winged horses were flying in our direction, they looked like a cloud of Holy warriors that were ready to strike down the sinner. They were the Holy skyborne warriors, a unit trained at birth with their mount, a pegasus, the reason for that is that the more a pegasus like its master the more powerful the barrier it unconsciously cast over itself is strong. And the pegasuses of the Holy skyborne warriors were said to be able to defend against even the most powerful type of magic.


    But that ray of hope did not last long as Apocalypse threw a body towards them, in most case it should have splattered against the barrier but the force with which the body was thrown was so cataclysmic that the barrier shattered and the body splattered against the pegasuses, those that have been hit by the body or the shrapnel of the bones fell down like rocks.


    Without warning, the monster took a deep breath and as it exhaled an enormous cone of dark red flames came out of its mouth, swallowing hundred of the Holy warriors. Without a rest Apocalypse Jumped in the flames and started to dive toward the warriors, he closed the distance in an instant and once again blood sprayed everywhere on the battlefield.


    |GUUUURRRRRIIIIIIAAAAAAA WEEEAAAAAKKKKKKK HOW CAN YOU DARE KIDNAP MY DAUGHTER WHEN YOU ARE SO WEEEAAAAAAKKKKK !!!!!!! LEARN YOUR PLACE GURRRRIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAA !!!!!|(Apocalypse)


    Even when the warriors managed to stab him with their spears he would just crush them between his hands and make the one who stabbed him explode with nothing but a punch. The corpses of the dead still rising I sank myself into the water where they did not seem to go. Bodies fell down from the sky and splattered on the ground before standing up even though their spines were falling out of their backs.


    As he was still killing off the Holy skyborne warriors a volley of head-sized fireballs flew at him and exploded in his back, making a cloud of dark smoke around him. Nobody should''ve been able to resist so many explosion all at once but a roar echoed and the smoke was blown away. Apocalypse was wounded, parts of his body was missing but it healed in a few seconds, the missing parts growing back and the skin crawling on him to cover his regenerated muscles.


    He looked at the provenance of the fireballs and charged towards our mages unit at lightning speed, blowing away hundreds of people as he landed. his tail stabbing itself in the chest of our warriors and his hands reaping their life away from their eyes. His flames dancing on the battlefield, those cold flames that burned the flesh of my old comrades. I thought back to what he had said right after he had landed and I burned it in my memories as I stood back up and charged at him.


    |APOCALYPSE YOUUUU BASTARDDDD !!!!!!|(Soldier)


    And my life ended as he tore my throat with his teeth, the last sight my eyes ever had was the one of the god of Wrath, the god Apocalypse, as he walked towards the city like a grim reaper with his army of undead that I joined after a few moments of rest.