4 War in Hell (1/2)
”He was my only son, Alexander, Emperor of the Chaos Empire” Adone said as he looked at the man on the throne solemnly.
Only then did Kael notice that the man on the throne was surrounded by a large number of humanoid creatures, some had pitch-black eyes, others had serpent-like tails growing from the back and few were similar to humans but Kael was sure they were not humans at all.
They were discussing something in a completely different language but Kael was able to understand it clearly after some time that they were ministers of Alexander's court discussing the military actions of the kingdom.
”So you can tap into your bloodline memory of the Chaos Ancestors, not bad” Adone complimented before he continued to explain, ”Bloodline memory of the Chaos Ancestors is the knowledge that every member of the Chaos demon race passes down to the next generation.”
Alexander, who was silently listening to the reports of ministers while sitting on the throne suddenly stood up and rushed towards Kael Strider, before he could even blink his eyes Alexander passed through his body without any resistance what so ever.
”What was that?” Kael asked Adone.
”These are the memories that I have awakened in you so that I can see my people one last time and explain to you, your responsibilities as well” Adone said before snapping his fingers again.
It felt like he crossed an endless tunnel at a speed very close to that of infinity. He flew past the space filled with nothing but darkness, the light seeping into this space from such a long distance away slammed into him in an instant. After the blinding light dissipated away... Kael was greeted by the immense spectacle laid out before his eyes – no, below him.
”Oh, my god....” was the only thing he could utter.
An army consisting solely of innumerable monsters stretched far beyond the scope of vision below him, with a few humanoid monsters supervising. From where he was, to all the way beyond the horizon. Countless monsters completely covered the ground until there was no uncovered patch left.
In all honesty, that was one hell of a terrifying sight to behold. If only a few of these monsters came to Earth, humanity wouldn't have a chance in hell at winning against them. Just from seeing this, he felt his innards tighten as if he was having indigestion.
”Hold on... Where is this place, anyway?” It couldn't have been Earth. He could see thin, tall, and bizarre-looking rocky outcroppings jutting out from here and there, on these reddish-brown dried up plains where not even a single blade of grass grew. This was a completely foreign landscape that he had never seen before. His eyes could catch the sight of the reddish-brown ground, those strange rock formations, and then, the great army of monsters standing on top of the said ground.
Kael shifted his gaze over to these monsters. This disparate gathering of monsters of different species was busy looking up and waiting for something to happen.
”What are they all looking at?” Kael followed after their gazes and raised his head to the sky above. And then... he discovered it.
”…..!!”
He saw a pure white lake, quietly floating high up in the sky. No, it was not a lake. He mistook it for a lake because of its sheer size, it was a curtain of light. This curtain of light was blocking up the orange sky beyond it.
”Orange sky is it.....?” Seeing the color of the sky that should not exist, he became doubly sure that this was not Earth anymore. In a world that was not Earth, something major was about to happen between the monsters and that black hole.
”This is hell and those monsters below are the cannon fodder of armies of various empires in hell with some demon generals supervising them” Adone finally commented while looking at the scene below.
Kael unconsciously swallowed his saliva upon hearing this. Trapped within this eerie silence, his nervousness also increased as time went on.
”CRACK!”
What came out of the curtain of light were soldiers decked out in silver armor, with pure white wings attached to their backs. These silver-armored angels poured out of the curtain of light like agitated bees rushing out of the disturbed beehive.
”Angels! Are they Angels?” Kael asked the question with an obvious answer.
Adone nodded as he silently watched the war below.
While monsters covered the entirety of the ground, these angels in turn utterly blotted out the sky. It was truly a spectacular sight. Kale couldn't stop admiring this incredible view.
The monsters, however, thought rather differently. They began howling at the top of their lungs upon seeing the silver-armored angels covering the sky and began bucking around in agitation. He didn't even have to be a genius to figure out what would happen next.
It was a war.
”Swahhh-!!” The flying angels became silver drops of light and descended to the ground below.
As it turned out, there was more than one curtain of light in the sky.
There were several of them, and angels poured out of them one after the other. Monsters on the ground versus the angels in the sky!! The two groups, clearly burning with hostile intentions against each other, soon collided just above the ground.
A battle of indescribable scale and proportion unfolded next.
”ROAR…!”
The beastly roars of the monsters shook the land below.
And