Chapter 20: War 1
The promised day arrived, thousands of youkai were in a combat position in the abandoned temple that seals the soul of one of the evilest beings that the world had the displeasure of meeting Amonojaku, a creature that feeds on the evil thoughts of those around him making it infinitely more powerful, but a day came when the Kitsune Clan allied with others led a silent revolt sealing it to the present day.
Many of his supporters were persecuted, killed, or sealed, however, some escaped or pretended ignorance waiting for the day when their master would return and the darkness would engulf Japan again. The Ookami Clan is one of the clans that survived the persecution and created a facade of peace lovers while seeking supporters who have common interests, and found support from the Old Faction of the demons, Chaos Brigade and the Infinity Dragon, because of which his plans would take the last step, his master would be released.
From the top of a hill overlooking the temple surrounded by the most varied youkai was a man, having ears and a wolf's tail as black as the darkness and wearing a red samurai armor, mask less, with a katana in its sheath, observing everyone, "Today we will recover what is rightfully ours! ", Each word of his made his allies stomp the ground making the earth tremble, "Today we will go to war and the world will kneel at our feet!", The youkais who were hiding in shadows from the forest began to march with audible and coordinated steps without hiding their presence, "For our pride! For our greed! Attack!". Everyone went on repeating the words of their leader, "For our pride! For our greed! ", It was as if everyone had been brainwashed, the members of the Ookami Clan came out of their human forms and became silver wolves three meters high on average and some reaching almost five meters high, many others abandoned your human forms and assuming your youkai form heading towards the temple.
"Kanon, you will go down in history as the step that youkai had to step on to conquer the world!", With these words, Nobuna joined his army running in a bloodthirsty frenzy. The battle for Japan's fate had begun.
The interior of the temple was completely damaged by ages of neglect and neglect, no one lived or watched the place, in the end, the only way to release the seal would be if the leader or his descendant bleed on the seal and broke it willingly, but also there was an option to kill them and force the seal to be broken. Inside were the same chiefs of the clans that supported peace, Serafall included, everyone had already discovered the treachery of the Ookami Clan when he did not heed the call to join in protecting the seal.
A few hours before the moon appeared, was having a meeting to discuss the defensive strategy, everyone present had already ruled out the possibility of rescuing Kunou, since the hired demons were missing, but they should still protect the seal even at the cost of their lives, traps were planted, the army was assembled and a relatively strong barrier was erected, however, before they could define an effective strategy, a Kitsune entered the site, "My lord, traces of fighting were discovered in an old cave that collapsed and the remains of the Maou Serafall companion's body were found in its rubble ", when he finished speaking he unwrapped it, revealing a dry bloody arm with crushed and dirty parts, but Maou recognized who belonged to her protégé, her friend, her beloved. No one in the room spoke, everyone expected this outcome, even Yasaka did not trust that some children might be able to rescue her daughter, but the silence was not out of respect or something like that but out of fear of their lives, even the leaders forgot to their positions and powers when feeling the cold aura emanating from Serafall.
"The strategic meeting is unnecessary", Maou's eyes lost their focus, "tell your troops to back down", she stood up and headed for the exit, "Tell her to build her most powerful barrier", the kimono she was wearing began to disintegrate and in its place an icy armor took the place, leaving only an opening for his eyes, "be quick or Kyoto will be below zero", Serafall had left aside his childishness, his insecurities, only guilt haunted her, if Yan did not come to Kyoto, if he was at home training, he would still be alive, "You wanted to relive your past glory, but you aroused the fury of a sleeping Leviathan", where she passed the ground was frozen, the air was hot before. It became colder, a Leviathan awoke.
After a few minutes, everyone left their stupor of the 180-degree change that Serafall went through, the first to speak was Kanon, "Have the barrier strength increased to the maximum", the Kitsune who had his arm quickly left the room to go over the orders, "Kanon-sama, we cannot let her give orders to our people, we are not her subordinates", the proud tengu chief was unable to ignore such insolence.
"Would anyone else like to take a stand?��, Yasaka asked solemnly, receiving silence in response, "If you lost someone very important in a war that is not yours, by a people that are not yours, due to your failure, what would be your reaction? If you want to complain about something, you can address it directly ", throughout his speech Yasaka smiled, but his voice conveyed his anger, she understood Serafall's pain, her daughter was presumed dead to preserve her people," The orders Lady Leviathan's should be considered mine, all youkai should be on hold until they receive further instructions", Yasaka stood up revealing her nine shiny golden tails," Yes ma'am! ", all including her husband replied.
The darkness of the night was replaced by the light of the moon which, as if they knew what would happen today, acquired a crimson color, there were no birds, rabbits, or wild boars, all hid in their dens or abandoned them out of fear. The earth began to tremble, trees fell and drum sounds echoed through the forest, "Enemies spotted!", shouted a tengu who was on patrol just before a silver wolf took his head off, "Awoooooo!" howled the youkai.
The battle had started and a wave of power covered the entire battlefield, a barrier was placed, to prevent damage to the real world and no one to escape, hundreds of youkai were focused on keeping it active, one of its special effects teleportation was the reinforcement for all capo allies, temporarily giving them a power buff similar to a promotion used by a Pawn to become a Queen.
Hordes of youkai were on their way to attack the temple in their animal, spectral, and even chimeric forms, advancing leaving destruction wherever they went, like a cloud of locusts destroying crops, a sane person would say to flee, the brave would come together to annihilate these plagues and the intelligent ones would have already prepared extermination plans, but against all expectations, only one person faced these beings that haunt the dreams of many humans, wearing sky-blue armor, without weapons, without moving, just her and the youkais.
A large blue magic circle appeared below Serafall concentrating a great deal of demonic power, enemies noticing the dangerousness of the only enemy warrior sped up ready to kill him before his magic was completed, but it was too late, "Celsius-Cross-Tringer", Serafall murmured his signature technique, all youkais became ice figurines, the forest turned into an 'iceberg', even time was frozen for a few seconds without anyone noticing, "Yan, I will avenge you", at the end of his words, dozens of icy thorns sucked from the ground, destroying the statuettes while Serafall used his own fists to crush the nearest ones.
The temple with the allied Faction was happy to deploy yet another internal barrier to protect the temple, or even they would be frozen, "In attack, leave no enemy alive!", They wanted to stop and celebrate the victory, but there were many enemies, and they should get rid of them before they could break free. One by one, the cold figures were being eliminated, everyone was happy because their greatest fears would not be realized thanks to Lady Leviathan, the savior of Kyoto, but fate would not be so pleased with them, a large group of demons lost alongside thousands of other youkai invaded the barrier through portals.
Serafall wanted to use her magic again, but due to her unstable emotions, her expenditure of demonic power was extremely unnecessary for the spell, because the more elaborate and concrete the mental image when using demonic power, the lower her consumption, and she was very distracted, and there are many allies around to use it again. "Stay together and fight, trust your companions and protect your people!", Kanon's voice echoed as he walked towards the battlefield revealing his true shape, a golden nine-tailed fox that conveyed elegance and ferocity, advancing towards over the horde of enemies who aimed at him with spells, arrows and even stones.
Every second on the battlefield is a bet that no one ever wins, no matter how long they survive, how many enemies were killed, if only one ally dies the price is too great, entire clans could be extinct in just one war, cities would cease to exist, war comes down to death and no one could know better about it than a Maou who fought in the great war of the underworld and lived in countless battlefields, lost colleagues, friends, family, and even some lovers, but for the first time in a long time she wanted to cry, every youkai, demon or whatever they were that she killed only the image of dead Yan appeared in her mind.
Serafall looked like the incarnation of hatred, just a touch and dozens of enemies were killed, but that was it, without any strategy or coordination, without bothering to defend the seal, quenching his bloodlust was his only purpose, Japan was worthless in her mind, Yan her beloved died, the only one who had never looked sideways at her for being a mahou shoujo or mocked her hobby, even helped propagate her through the underworld, "One day I'll surprise you" whenever she said wanted to be a Mahou Shoujo, he repeated that, leaving her with expectations, but fate did not let her see the surprise.
"Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! ", A touch, a death, the once blue armor turned red with blood, her eyes visible through the helmet were shedding floods of tears.
Meanwhile, Kanon led the army that gradually gained ground in battle, in his youkai form powers were similar to a Maou, but unlike his wife who had almost unlimited energy due to his connection with Kyoto's Ley lines, he relied on his highly destructive brute force, "Grrrrrr ... tear these traitors apart!", Kanon's shout gave his soldiers a motivation.
A figure in samurai armor made his way to Kitsune that was ravaging the battlefield, slicing, stabbing, beheading, and even injuring the intangible, it was Nobuna chief Clan Ookami, "Kanon came to take what is rightfully mine!" Samurai's armor broke as Nobuna's body grew, black fur appeared on his face, a black wolf slightly larger than Kanon appeared leaving the defenders horrified.
"So you hid your strength! Coward! ", Kanon shouted and advanced towards Nobuna, their foreheads clashed causing a small amount of blood to drain from their heads," Weak! The Leader that Youkai needs to be unable to be wet, someone who can't even use his Senjutsu, you are a failure between failures! ", While Nobuna was speaking around him a cape of black flames covered his body," Look! My customized version of Kasha, Shadow Blaze! ", Which Nobuna just did can only be described as the impossible, Kasha is a technique exclusive to the Nekomatas, and yet he was able to create a similar technique.
"Impressive, but I also never fought seriously", Kanon was always weak, the weakest of Kitsune, unable to use the simplest techniques, however, he overcame his limits through training and struggles between life and death, "Everyone my enemies who saw this are dead! ", a golden aura of vital energy enveloped the body of the giant fox, it was Touki.
Both armies started to retreat, the battle between the champions was about to start in full steam and anyone who was in the place would have his death almost certain, "Did you think that I would not participate in this dance? You thought wrong, sucker!", a voice spoke over the two giant beasts.
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