<strong>Eicher</strong>


    “The Lord has given us orders!” Several legendary werecreature shamans charged into the battlefield without the slightest hesitation. Mr had roared out their orders, and with him being the object of their faith their zealotry left them with no choice but to obey.


    However, the secr leaders of the werecreatures grew irritable. Despite their reluctance, the shamans had pulled them into the fray.


    “How much longer till preparations are done?” Mystra asked as she turned to Tyr. She had managed to block off the orc gods with her silverme, and Leylin had been trapped as well.


    “I need another moment, this is something we borrowed...” Tyr had reached into a ball of light that was surrounded by blue sparks. It seemed extremely magnificent, putting great pressure on the orc gods.


    “There’s also some worms crawling over that don’t seem to know their ce...” Mystra turned to the several legendary werecreatures.


    “We’ve already prepared, haven’t we? Let our people take care of them,” Tyr replied indifferently.


    At the same time, the ball of light finally assumed the form of an incredibly sharp spear. Ilneval was rattled immediately by the sight, and even Leylin’s eyes shed with amazement.


    “Eicher’s Thorn! They actually borrowed it!” Eicher’s Thorn was a divine weapon that even the gods feared. It had the ability to ripple out any damage done to an avatar to its controller, and even gods weren’t immune to its powers. It had caused the fall of two lesser gods in history, and sent a third into deep slumber. Mystra and Tyr had somehow managed to borrow such an ominous weapon.


    “Hmm?” Leylin’s brows furrowed as the A.I. Chip retrieved the relevant information from its now almost all-epassing database.


    ‘So it’s from just after the dusk of the gods. This ability, and the energy it’s radiating...’ Leylin smirked, ‘So they actually just took the weapon of a Magus ofws and renamed it. So much for integrity...’


    Despite his smirking, Leylin grew more serious. He feared Magi much more than he did gods, their mysterious powers posing a much greater threat to him even as he was now.


    On the other end, Ilneval sent a message to hisrades, “Everyone should’ve heard about Eicher’s Thorn. If you can’t get away, it’s better to destroy the avatar than to let it injure you. A bit of your energy reserve isn’t worth being thrown into a long slumber.”


    “Mr!” Yurtrus shouted, “Stop being so stingy with your subordinates! We’ll give you enoughpensationter...”


    ......


    Pressured by his party, Mr pulled back the team of legendary shamans he’d sent to deal with Leylin.


    However, their efforts had been halted before they could even re-enter the Moonwood. Cardinal Karal had arrived with pdins in tow, holding a staff made of aged maple. The cardinal chanted a holy spell that caused the pdins’ armour to glow with light.


    “Purge all evil in the name of justice!” The werecreatures were a bunch of bloodthirsty savages in the eyes of the pdins, existences that had to be removed from the face of the world.


    “We don’t have much time...” Gara looked at the pdins before him, a menacing look filling his face as various runes surfaced on his body. They seemed to be sacrificial rites.


    Chaotic energy began to descend upon the region as arge fire began to burn in mid-air. Arge metal door materialised, and numerous demons charged out under the lead of a legendary balor.


    This was a legendary spell, Summon Demonic Army. Its unimaginable might was only canceled out by theplicated requirements it posed as a chaotic evil spell. The summoned army wouldn’t necessarily obey the orders of their summoner.


    The balor looked at Shaman Gara with hostility, but another group in the area stole its attention. Pdins and demons were inpletely opposite alignments, and neither group would rest as long as the other side. Just listening to the word pdin was disgraceful, sphemy to demonkind.


    “Demons from the Abyss!” A pdin screamed as he rushed forward, waving a greatsword bathed in holy light, “Holy sh!”


    “(%^!%$!” The balor spoke in an iprehensible ancientnguage as it looked at the group of pdins, its voice coarse and unpleasant.


    “The words of sphemy!” A white rune radiated purity from Karal’s solemn face, “This is getting too troublesome.”


    The balor’s spell had been cast in an instant, rooting the charging pdin to the ground. The balor smiled malevolently as he brandished his sword, cleaving the still pdin in two.


    “Hehehe... It’s the prime material ne! We can harvest souls now...” Many other demons charged out from behind the balor, throwing spell after spell as they turned the ce chaotic. It all happened too quickly, and that pdin had fallen to the balor’s sword before anyone could react.


    “Damn it! You evil vermin, you shouldn’t exist in this world!” Rafiniya screamed as she recovered from a daze, killing intent boiling to the surface.


    However, the words the balor uttered as it looked at Rafiniya astonished her, “Hehehe... A legendary pdin? No, I smell a whiff of energy from those idiots in Baator on you...”


    “I am a pdin, protector of justice. Don’t try to ruin my reputation!”


    Even Karal didn’t put any stock in the demon’s words. They only served to agitate the pdin, and she radiated powerful energy as she drew her sword and entered a frontal sh with it.


    “Kill!” The other pdins looked each other in the eye before charging forward to meet with the demon army.


    A scene of chaos began to unfold.


    ......


    The battle of the gods had reached its zenith at this moment. Eicher’s Thorn had absorbed all the light around it, and the spear hade to float in the air as Tyr pointed it at Mr.


    *Whoosh!* The spear pierced through space to arrive at Mr in an instant. The Beast ws had already been damaged once, and a hole was pierced through them with this attack. The spear moved forward unthwarted, heading towards Mr’s brows.


    “ROAR!” The avatar could only cry in indignance as it exploded, filling the skies with divine light.


    Seeing the situation worsening, Ilneval shouted at Leylin, “Damn it, do you still want to keep us engaged? Mr’s avatar has already fallen, there is nothing left here that you would want...”


    “Of course... Not!” Leylin agreed immediately, just as Ilneval expected. He retracted his massacre domain, immediately reducing the pressure the three remaining gods had to face. However, none of the three noticed a spot of red lightnding amongst them.


    “That’s right, we can still...” Before Ilneval could heave a sigh of relief, Leylin’s next actions left him stupefied.


    [Beep! Silverme has been analysed, beginning protection with the Shadow Weave.] Leylin immediately dashed towards the fire in the sky, as if he wasmitting suicide. However, a dark web seemed to cover his body as he came into contact with the mes, cancelling out with the Weave and allowing Leylin to escape.


    Without the spatial lock of the silver mes, Leylin immediately cast a teleportation spell. White light shed on his body as he immediately left the Moonwood.


    “This...” It wasn’t just Ilneval that was dumbstruck. Even Tyr, controlling Eicher’s Thorn from the outside, gasped.


    Of course, the one under the most duress was the Goddess of the Weave. “The Weave,” Mystra muttered, but then she grew silent for a moment. “No... the Shadow Weave! SHAR!” She spat out the name of her rival.


    “Shar? The Goddess of Shadows?” Tyr seemed to have recalled something, “Didn’t she fall already?”


    “I can’t be wrong, that’s the Shadow Weave,” Mystra confirmed. The Shadow Weave was primal and childish, but it had once been a prototype of the current Weave. How could she not recognise it?