Currently Raven and the others were gathered in the Human's War room. Here aside from the Saints from Kalpa, the Human Emperor was present and a few of his elite Saints. Hours ago, they finished with the last Saints of The Devils and currently they were back to playing defense. Since they successfully subjugated the Humans, they only needed to keep the Devils at bay.
Elara looked around at everyone then spoke up.
"Akasha told me the next battlefield we need to move to the one with Isis's group. They are fighting against the Demons and Devils and now that we have bit more manpower, we can make this quicker. All of the Saints gathered here aside from Vlad and Carmilla will head to next battlefield."
Hearing all of this everyone nodded, but the Humans had curious looks on their face. Noticing this look Liora spoke.
"What's with that look?" As she asked this she focused on the Human Emperor. He sighed then spoke.
"We're just curious that's all. Why does it seem like you guys are in a rush, normally wars take years of time." He asked with genuine curiosity.
To this Liora shrugged her shoulders and spoke bluntly.
"To be completely transparent with you, I don't know either. However, my love asked us to do it so we will." Liora said before she turned to the others. There was a total of 8 saints that will be leaving. After she made a silent count, she spoke again. "Well, I guess we can leave now."
Hearing this the others nodded, and they turned to leave the war room.
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Out on the battlefield with Demons and Devils, the group from Kalpa has stood strong for the past few months. Here the group was led by Isis, Thalia, and Sara. Compared to the other groups this one could be considered one of the weaker ones. This is because Sara and Thalia both were only Peak Transcendent and The Elven Queen who was previously a part of this group left for the Human Battlefield.
However, even though this was the case one person in particular has been carving out a path of blood. For the past 6 months holding down an entire side of the battlefield, with only her sword. She was becoming something she never even dreamed of before.
Currently Isis found herself in a 3v1 situation and against her were 2 Early Saints and 1 Peak Transcendent. This fight has been going on for well over 30 minutes and early on Isis found herself at a major disadvantage. She was only an Early Saint herself so fighting 2 people at her same level was already a task.
Even with this being the case she never once faltered. Draped in her white battle dress and a white longsword, she gritted her teeth and fought blow for blow. After 30 minutes of clashing her condition was not the best, but neither were the other three. They had cuts and leaking wounds all over, but as they looked at Isis one of them couldn't help but smile.
"You're pretty good." The demon said as he wiped the black blood from his lips. He then cracked his neck and spoke again. "However, it's time to stop with the testing." As he said these the other two demons smiled as well.
Then they simultaneously released their Auras. The two Saints proceed to activate their concepts and once they did the two made moves.
|Concept of Fractured Oaths|
|Concept of Heart Chain Rupture|
After their concepts activated the two of them made moves that surprised Isis. The first demon closed his eyes and the moment he did the Peak Transcendent smiled wickedly and plunged his fist directly through the Saints chest!
HUMMMMM!!!!!
However, the moment he did the Demons eyes flashed open, and energy surged to him in droves. He then spoke to the Transcendent Demon.
"Thank you for your hard work."
SHK!!!!
With one swift motion he sliced the Demon's head of with a short blade he conjured. As he removed the arm from his chest he looked towards Isis and moved. Isis who watched all of this happen within a split second quickly raised her sword to block.
CLANGGGG!
BOOOOM!!!!
She managed to block, but the force behind the short blade was too much and she was sent flying, crashing into broken rocks in space. The Demon smiled and then spoke to the other Saint.
"Go ahead before she recovers."
Hearing this he nodded and then turned towards the weaker cultivators. He then disappeared and once he did, he began to reap the lives of whoever he came across. Whether it was Devils, Demons, or people from Kalpa, he killed them all.
One might wonder the reasoning behind the acts of these Demons, right? Well, that is because their concepts. The first Demon's concept is 'Fractured Oaths', which revolves around betrayals. Like all concepts this one was created from the core characteristics of this Demon and in his life, betrayal was like his best friend.
So, with his concept this became a reality. His concept provided boost when he experienced betrayals during battle. Not only that while his concept was active any attack that successfully wounds him carves a sigil into his body.
Once three or more are accumulated, he can unleash an Echo, which is a mirrored wave of the exact pain he received.
The other Demon who had now returned had the concept 'Hundred-Hearted', which revolves around carnage and killing. For every kill this demon makes, a phantom heart is harvested and stored as a burning rune in a chain that coils around their arms and chest. Each heart unlocks a new level of fury, enhancing speed, strength, and durability exponentially.
Isis stood thousands of meters in the distance watching the two Demons. One of them had a glowing red sigil on his chest, while the other had literal a firey red chain coiling around his arm. Seeing them she didn't panic, not one bit and in her eyes only a burning fire could be seen.
She then gripped her sword in her hand and activated her own concept and not only that she activated her mandate as well. Seeing that the Demons didn't take her seriously still, she intended to make them pay for it with their lives.
|Concept of Equilibrium Severance|
|Mandate of Absolute Equilibrium|
The moment she activated her abilities her sword began to shine brightly with white light. Behind her a geometric lattice of white glyphs unfurled, representing the cosmic balance scale. Gravity hummed as Ice forms in fractal spirals at her feet, then she spoke.
"All things must return to their rightful vector."
|Entropic Absolution - Final Judgement|
SLASH!
A simple vertical slash was drawn through the vast expanse of space. As the arc formed it seemed to be moving in slow motion, but in fact it was anything but slow. As the slash formed space itself seemed to resist the slash. Isis's blade glowed fiercely as if saying nothing could stop it.
HUMMMM!!!
The moment the blade arc completed its arc the Demons who had yet to remove those smiles, they met their dooms.
They both disappeared as if they never existed to begin with. The hundreds of lives reaped to power his concept was undone.
The betrayal the Transcendent did, it never happened. Even the memories of the existence of the three Demons were fractured like glass. All around the battlefield stillness could be seen as all those who died at the hands of the Saint Demon were brought back to life.
As all of this happened Isis stood looking with fierce eyes and as everything began to return to moments before, a temporal portal closes behind her. The battlefield restored to a version without the acts of imbalance. Her blade, gleaming with threads of erased potential, returned to it sheathe.
*Whistle*
The sound of a whistle caught Isis off guard and as she turned her head she saw Raven, Elara, Liora, Elyndra, Kaelen and three Human Saints.
"My, my, if you fight like this all the time, you might catch the eyes of Akasha. ~" Elara said playfully. They had already been here watching the entire fight. Truthfully, they wanted to help out a bit, but Elara knew Isis was stronger than she looked.
Hearing this Isis fierce look broke and a blush formed. She shook her head and approached them while asking.
"What are you all doing here? Shouldn't you be busy with the Humans?" As she said this, she looked at the three unknown humans with a curious gaze.
"Well, we're done with that. Now, we came to help out here. Anyways let's go back to the camp you have set up, there's some things we need to discuss." Raven chimed in. And hearing these words Isis nodded and they left.