Monarch of Darkness, Arsene

Chapter 816 Hell - The Festival

The skies were on fire, the world below my feet was beginning to wither, the laws were becoming torn, and more and more gates of Hell were opening. Ash was falling like snow, bringing about the tinge of brimstone.

Standing before me stood billions of Demons that would usually make me feel scared or unease about what would happen, but for some reason, there was only a cool icy calmness. But I knew that wasn't going to last.

Pulling down my robe that covered my chest, I cracked my neck, revealing a slew of tattoos that glowed with the Light of Hell, Abyss, and Darkness. Tainted by my Tarnishing, I sucked in a deep breath and connected with the other three souls within me that had left my control when my body went into the Hollowing.

Images after images came like a flood, and before I knew it, I blinked, and all the memories of the past half a cycle returned. A cruel smile slipped over my lips. "I was quite the badass, wasn't I?"

"Master?" Freya called.

"I'll make an opening for you. Do not hold back," I coldly commanded and whipped off the ground into the air, shattering the earth with such force that an abyss erupted below me. Unsure how fast I was going, a flame that did not burn but devoured rushed out from me.

The sounds of screams resounded as I howled, turning hundreds of Emperyian demons to ash, and then nothing. Using all my power, I shadow stepped deep into the army, beginning a dance that would make the Hells cry as blood gushed.

I don't know why these demons and devils refused to die, but under the tarnishing flames of night, their souls and bodies were devoured by the glow of tattoos around me. Turning their power into mine, I felt a heat within me awaken.

Swirling my spear akin to a whirlwind, the dao of sin awakened within and rippled through the air, causing the demons and devils around me to fall into a frenzy. Falling down to their basic instincts, they came at me like a wild beast, followed by the Billions of light that came rushing at me, threatening to tear me apart, but as I snapped my finger, a large cylinder of darkness came into creation, sucking in all the aerial attacks, I felt an immense amount of power filling my darkness, reaching a limit where I felt my insides about to burst, I snapped creating hundreds of openings beneath the shadows of these demons and released all the aerial attacks that came my way.

Thousands of bodies fell from the skies spilling onto the land, forming mountains of limbs and bodies. Crys of tormented demons seemed to edge into laughter as they laughed as I tore away their arms or ran my hand through hearts ending their lives. It was Hell.

Cuts and bruises were slowly gathering, but with the number of bodies I was absorbing, I was healing quickly; despite all that I had killed, I knew it would take years to escape this encirclement.

Paying attention to the battle a few hundred kilometers away, I could see Bael, Asmo, Levi, and a ton of other paragons gathering one after another, releasing their powers in full force. I felt life and death flash before my eyes.

As a heat, different from flame, different from anything, I had face whipped over my face. Unsure when it happened, but screams of tormented joy bellowed as I saw hundreds of beings from Hell roar.

Watching as their faces began to become deformed as if they had been hit by radiation, I trembled as their noses began to curl inside their heads while their skin began to turn the color of white and black. They fell like flies one after the other.

"Where?" I shouted, looking around for the source of such power

"Heed my call, Mighty Prince, Beelzebub!" A devil bellowed and stared at me to my utter horror as I saw this bastard releasing a power that began killing his people.

"Heed my call, Lord of the First Sin, Lucifer!"

"Heed my call, Commander of the Fallen, Samyaza!"

"Heed my call, Practitioner of Sacrifice, Moloch!"

"HEED FUCKING THIS!!!" Lilith howled as her sword stormed the skies, splitting apart the darkness and the light; her blade came like the coming of the next god, wiping away life, as I shadow stepped out of the way.

Has it been two hours? Fuck!

"How'd you get here so quick?" I shouted when suddenly, a pillar of abyssal qi and a tarnishing fire came from the skies and onto the demons below, whipping out thousands in a blink of an eye.

"PAPA!!!" Ty and Arkanos bellowed, followed by the Abyssal children who came crashing down like gods, whipping out their weapons.

"FUCKING ARSENE!" A sudden cry bellowed as I snapped my head towards the voice that seemed to be coming from where Freya fled.

"Layla!? How is that possible? How are you up?"

"Cuz I'm a fucking Paragon," she cried as a storm of divinity so powerful came like a storm.

Hair fluttering wildly, Lilith landed near me with a cold expression, "She seems pretty feisty. What did you do?"

"Nothing, she's just angry," I said as the Dutchess's power began to rise, reaching heights that made the void tremble.

Lilith slid her gaze to me, "Now it really feels like a festival, huh?" She said, surveying her surroundings. "There are hundreds of Hell Gates opening. Shit, and it seems all of them are coming here."

"ARSENE, YOU FUCKER!!! YOU LEFT US! WERE FUCKING FAMILY!!!" Eroma howled, covered in a slew of blood with ghastly wounds over his body.

Noting Grey standing silently behind him, coldly just staring, I said nothing but made a deeper note of something going on with him.

"Is it just you guys?" I calmly asked Lilith, having no time to deal with Greyson's emo phase.

"Yeah, we were in the middle of an operation when this shit happened. You are lucky we are married," Lilith coldly reminded me, glaring at me, " Have your people attack; now's the best time."

Nodding my head, I pulled out my Holocube and relayed my order to the Shadowfell, "Commence Operation: Loki!'

"You really named it after that bastard?" Lilith muttered, and I, of course, nodded, putting away the Holocube.

"Of course. Loki is the biggest snake I know, and we are fucking over everyone we know. If all the Shadowfell we planted has been turning other people, then we have an army hiding in each base around this planet. Let's fuck some shit up!"