Chương 505: Nightmares of the Dead

Deafening concussions filled the air as dozens of artillery cannons went off all at once, filling the skies with explosions and fires that bathed the dragons bearing down on them.

"FIRE!" Saya cried out after Yuna triggered the first volley, only to watch incredulously as several shells hit their mark, yet none of the dragons showed signs of any injuries.

"That can't be...!" Saya exclaimed in disbelief when the dragons barely flinched from her specially made shells.

Even Yuna frowned as, despite knowing herself how tough dragon scales were, she knew the shells should've at least done SOMETHING to the dragons.

"Ngh..." Yuna flinched as suddenly received a powerful wave of attacks from the opposing side, as the Daedra sent another psychic wave at her to try and demoralize their people.

"Haaa!" She cried out with another surge of will, pushing them back yet again. However as the godly figures appeared directly across from her, Yuna realize they were just playing around.

"Don't look down.....on the Pawn of the Dragon Emperor!" She grumbled with frustration, willing her opponents to take her seriously.

Soon however Yuna felt several presences approach her as Yua and the other shrine maidens arrived at her side.

"Let us work together! And by the grace of the one TRUE Dragon Emperor, we WILL prevail over his enemies!" As she declared so, Yuna felt a sudden rush of energy as the shrine maidens supported her in repelling the mental advances of the godly beings opposing them.

As they did that, there was suddenly a concussion of noise as several of the dragon had begun using the Thu'um ability the Companions had warned them about, which impacted the barriers Alex created with enough force that numerous cracks appeared. Thankfully they quickly began to mend themselves immediately after, but before they could repair themselves fully the dragons unleashed a second volley, before unleashing a third.

"I will go." Yami stated as she summoned her white feathery wings, and took flight to go deal with the dragons.

Meanwhile at the base of the wall, the defenders prepared to face the rapidly approaching army as they charged directly at them. And though he held no actual authority over them, Vilkas declared to the rest of the gathered fighters,

"Remember that this is a defensive battle, NOT an offensive one! Hold the line and don't give them a single inch!"

"Stand strong and don't falter in the face of their charge!" Farkus added after his brother finished speaking.

In response to the two brothers, the members of the Companions on the front line readied their shields and braced themselves. Meanwhile the defenders similarly braced themselves, but one could tell they were marginally more nervous than the Companions.

Never before had any of them been in a battle like this, and definitely not against such terrifying opponents when all they had trained against, and for, were the mindless undead.

"Sentinels! Form ranks!" Saeko suddenly shouted at the people bearing the Sentinel Dresspheres, making them move as they got into position at the head of the formation. There they quickly activated the Sentinel skills Steelguard and Mediguard, abilities that would significantly increase their defenses, while also allowing them to heal the damage taken to them over time.

And as the ground troops prepared to face the onslaught, Saya cried out,

"FIRE!"

Even as the artillery cannons fired upon the dragons above, the Gunners, Black Mages, Rangers, and anyone able to wield a firearm atop the walls open fired upon the advancing hordes.

Bullets, spells and arrows rained death down onto the attackers from above. Their armor may have blunted the arrows, and their enchantments may have muffled the spells, but there was nothing the attacking army could do to prepare for 'modern' ammunition.

Bullets from normal firearms and magically enhanced firearms tore through the attackers basic leather and metal armors, bringing down hundreds of them along with many of the creatures that had no armor whatsoever.

They were just a small portion of the attackers though, as several of those who wore armor made of stronger materials, along with creatures like vampires and werewolves, shrugged off the bullets as if they were nothing. Thankfully for the defenders, there was also a small troop of Gun Mages who readily analyzed the werewolves and vampires, before firing magical ammunition at them that dealt devastating amounts of damage.

However, similarly to the dragons that had been hit by the artillery shells above them, none of the attackers even showed signs of being damaged, even as several of them fell to the ground, dead.

"What is with them?" Rei exclaimed in alarm, to which Saeko calmly said next to her,

"Looks as if they don't receive wounds, and don't react to pain... I look forward to seeing how much they can ignore!" As she said that Saeko started to slowly draw Gōmon from its sheathe, while licking her lips in anticipation.

"READY!"

Vilkas shouted as they prepared to receive the charge head on when their opponents mere feet away from.

*CRASH!*

"HOLD!" Vilkas roared as their line gave way against the enemy force, before he and the rest of the Companions pushed back at them.

Against the horde that was merely following the will of the Dragon Emperor, the Companions that had been through hundreds of battles together worked together flawlessly to push back on them, and gain a little ground back.

"PUSH!"

"HOLD!"

Vilkas roared over the din of battle, the clashing of metal on metal, the roars of the dragons and creatures around them, and the constant barks of gunfire.

"!!!"

Farkus' body tensed when he felt something on his shoulder, only for a violet haired woman to fly over them directly into the enemy lines.

"Let me thin them out a bit!" Saeko declared with sadistic glee, her katana flashing in the light as she swung at a man attired in pure black armor.

And true his word, the sword Alex gifted her cut through the strange material as if it didn't even exist, allowing her to slice through the man's helm as she tried to bisect his head.

Frustratingly enough, there wasn't even any blood from the wound Saeko was supposed to have inflicted upon him, though that didn't stop the man from dropping dead.

Even as she frowned from the lack of bodily injury, Saeko didn't let it distract her as she immediately spun to sink her katana into her next opponent. Even as the rest of her clan performed similar maneuvers to help thin the amount of opponents they were fighting, Saeko was immediately the center of attention on the battlefield as she turned into a mistress of death and suffering.

With each swing of her katana she either sliced into an opponent, or their weapon before it could hit her, cutting them into pieces. And any time she didn't deal a killing blow against her opponents, Gōmon's enchantments would activate to deliver any number of effects onto her victims, from the unbearable pain that came with every single slice, to any number of effects that included poisoning, paralysis, petrification, or simply dying on the spot.

"Azura above....." One of the Companions, a dark elf named Athis, swore lightly in awe.

His was among the many comments directed towards Saeko from the Companions as they watched her slaughter the opponents, until Saeko looked back at them with a strange look in her eyes.

"I'm wet..." She uttered in a quite voice, but not quiet enough that their heightened hearing couldn't pick it up, while their noses could also smell the scent of her arousal emanating from her.

They had all also smelt the scent of a man on her, so they all knew she was already taken, though that didn't stop the men's thoughts from running errant.

"CHARGE!" Came another cry, drawing their attention to the other side where Rei was leading a group of women wielding the Valkyrie Dressphere into the fray.

The Valkyries were lightly dressed in metallic armor that had numerous shiny and winged ornaments on it, and all were armed with a spear and small buckler on their left forearm. And along with the numerous skills and passive buffs the Dresspheres afforded them, the girls all appeared to be so light they were flying through the air as they slaughtered any who stood in their path.

The Companions were watching the group fight in awe when a foul scent of blood and rot entered their sensitive noses, and a chill crawled up their spines.

"Vampires!" Vilkas exclaimed as he turned towards an approaching cloud of darkness, within which the bloodsuckers were using to hide from the power of the sun.

The cloud of darkness approached them at speeds that weren't at all humanly possible, prompting several of the Companions to forego their weapons as they prepared to transform.

Just as they were about to make the change to face this new threat though, a certain figured dressed in brilliant golden armor flew overhead in a series of flips.

"WAHOOOOOO!" Shizuka cried out as she swung her giant hammer while her entire body radiated a brilliant golden light, before she came down right on top of the mass of darkness that had hidden the vampires.

The air was filled with the sound of hissing and shrieking as the night walkers were exposed to the combined might of the sun, and the holy energies radiating from Shizuka's body due to her Paladin Dressphere.

The weakest amongst them instantly caught aflame as were mercilessly burnt to ashes, while several of the stronger ones that were able to resist the power of the sun and Shizuka's holy aura for a time tried to destroy the one who caused them such pain. Unfortunately for them, all it took was a single swing of her giant hammer for Shizuka to reduce several of the vampires to paste.

"Disgusting mortal! From where do you draw such power!?" One vampire hissed as its spells failed to penetrate the protective holy field around Shizuka.

The ditzy nurse just looked around at the vampire's question, and tilted her head to the side as she considered how to answer, before confidently puffing her her chest out.

"My titties!"

"..."

The vampire, a powerful being that had existed for nearly two hundred years, was dumbfounded at her answer. He was so dumbfounded, that he couldn't even react when Shizuka swung her hammer at him, and killed him as well.

...

For a time it appeared as if the defenders were actually making headway against their attackers as the ranged fighters rained death down onto them from atop the walls, the ground fighters massacred those in front of them, and Yami worked with the artillery cannons to take down as many dragons as she could.

For a time it seemed as if they might actually manage to survive against the apparent insurmountable army, but then something happened that swiftly began to turn the tides against them.

"Send in the Restoration mages." The Dragon Emperor stated calmly.

Immediately following his command the sound of a horn echoed across the battlefield, sending several thousand mages forward as they began weaving their spells. Unlike the offensive and manipulative spelled used by the other mages, these ones produced a golden light that bathed the battlefield.

The Dragon Emperor watched as several thousand depleted and empty health bars from his fallen 'party' members began refilling, as his Restoration mages used powerful spells to heal their fallen comrades, along with resurrections spells that they were able to obtain through the Gamer System.

In an instant, all the work the defenders had done to whittle down their forces was undone. Even several of the vampires killed by Shizuka were similarly revived due to the bastardized necromatic spells from the Restoration school, which were designed specifically to heal and empower the undead.

And as the Dragon Emperor literally watched his army raised from the dead, he said to the Daedric Princes around him without turning to look their way,

"I don't feel like waiting around until they get tired. Go and finish this however you want, just bring me those two once you've had your fun." Pointing to Yami and Yuna as he said that, the Daedric beings smiled widely since they were finally able to seriously move.

...

He doesn't deserve you...

"Huh!?!" Yuna exclaimed in surprise as she looked around for whoever was speaking, but found no one there.

He trampled everything you held dear....

Why should YOU be a part of his 'collection'?...

Why should you share him, with HER?...

"Stop it..." Yuna said out loud to the voice, drawing everyone's attention to her as she began speaking to herself.

...

Meanwhile Yami was still in the sky fighting to bring down as many dragons as possible, her hair and eyes possessing a silvery glint as her expression remained neutral, even when she watched all the dragons she'd already killed getting back up.

With the vast numerous of opponents she had this time, combined with their numerous unknown techniques, Yami had triggered her pseudo transformation into Ultra Instinct.

Her hair whipped around her in deadly whirlwind as if it had a mind of its own, felling numerous dragons from the skies with minimal effort as she herself lightly glided along, just barely shifting her body occasionally to avoid an attack.

"You look like you're doing well...Yami." Drawled a voice that dripped with sarcasm and venom, a voice that shocked Yami out of her calm and collected state as her palms grew sweaty, and her stomach nauseous.

Trepidation, horror, nausea, and revulsion grew within her as Yami slowly turned around to see the source of the voice.

"It's not possible...!" She exclaimed with growing horror as she saw a man who was severely obese floating across from her, the only thing adorning his disgusting body being the black and pink robotic armor that did nothing to hide his erection.

"""GAAN LAH HAAS!""" (Stamina magika health)

"""KRII LUN AUS!""" (Kill leech suffer)

Taking advantage of her momentary stupor, Yami was suddenly assaulted on all sides by numerous dragon shouts, with the vast majority consisting of the Drain Vitality and Marked for Death shouts.

The first was a vicious shout that continuously sapped Yami's life force(health), stamina, and magic power; while the second weakened her further by draining more of her vitality away, and making her more susceptible to damage.

With all the energy rapidly draining from her body, Yami's wings quickly lost the capability of keeping her in the air, though she wasn't going to be allowed to fall to the ground.

"AUS BEIN KIIR!"(suffer foul child)

One of the dragons cried in their language as it slammed her with its tail, breaking several of her bones as Yami was sent tumbling through the sky.

"FUS RO DAH!" (Force balance push)

Another dragon shouted as a raw force of power escaped its mouth, battering her body even further as Yami was sent rocketing directly towards the ground, the power of the shout even forming a crater around her.

Broken and battered with blood oozing from numerous cuts and lacerations on her body, Yami could only lay there limply with absolutely no strength left within her.

"How pathetic." Drawled the same voice as before, as the man it was attached to knelt down in front of her so that his erect cock was right in front of her face. Horror rose within Yami even more as even his putrid scent filled her nose, a scent she had hoped she would never smell again.

He then grabbed a fistful of her hair and raised her head up to look at 'him' properly, as he snarled at her, "I was kind to you bitch! And you replayed me by jumping into some other man's bed like some kind of slut! Well now you'll get what's coming, and I'll be there to enjoy every single second of it!"

The moment 'he' finished speaking, Yami felt another hand, or rather claws, seize her hair and pull her up by it, twisting her around to put her face-to-face with a demonic being covered in scales, with a set of bull-like horns protruding from its face.

"You'll do nicely, wench!" The being growled with relish while bearing its sinister fangs.

*RIP!*

The next thing Yami knew she was stripped naked as the being tore her leather dress from her body, the only things remaining being her boots and bracelets as the being looked up and down her body with relish.

"You'll make an excellent Daughter of Coldharbor!" The being declared as its free claw started to trail up and down her body, roughly squeezing and groping her every place they could.

Though every part of her being desperately desired to resist its touch, to cut off its filthy claws and eviscerate it with extreme prejudice, she couldn't even move a single finger as it groped and molested her. Even when she saw something beginning to rise beneath that loincloth that was the sole piece of clothing it was wearing.

The next thing Yami knew she had been turned around, her knees roughly planted on the ground in a spread position while her head was pulled back by her hair with one claw, and the other pinned both her arms behind her back. She could then feel the disgusting thing that had been rising rubbing against her slit, preparing to penetrate her.

In front of her though was 'that' man, who was watching the entire thing with a satisfied sneer.

"Woman, know that you'll have the 'pleasure' of being bedded by MOLAG BAL! KING OF RAPE!"

Even as her body refused to answer her, Yami desperately thought of a way to escape from her predicament, even as Molag Bal's disgusting demonic cock positioned itself at her entrance.

Time seemed to slow as she cast her gaze around desperately.

She looked up to see their ground troops desperately fighting back against the seemingly endless hordes of warriors and monsters, as monsters far more powerful than the ones they'd faced earlier decimated their lines. The dragons shattered the barrier above the walls with their powerful shouts, allowing them to rain down destruction while also swooping down to eviscerate the defenders with their claws, or tear into them with their lethal fangs.

Still standing atop the wall though was Yuna, who Yami knew was her last hope before Alex returned. But as she looked at her Yami felt her insides freeze as Yuna just stood there, staring back at her with resolution, and guilt. Not even lifting a single finger to help her.

For the first time since she joined Alex, Yami felt true despair.

Their forces were being slaughtered. Yuna had seemingly betrayed her. Alex was nowhere to be seen. THAT man had returned. And she was about to be defiled by someone who was even called the 'King of Rape'.

Molag Bal slowly placed the head of his cock right as her entrance, parting her lower lips as he prepared to thrust into her all at once.

Alex...

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

Molag Bal exclaimed as he thrusted his hips forward, throwing his head back while burying his cock into the best cunt he had ever experienced in his thousands of years..... Or not.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" Molag Bal cried out in pain as his ass was filled by something hot and massive, viciously tearing it open to inflict both pain and humiliation upon the Daedric Prince like he had never experienced before.

He then looked down to see that there was NOTHING in his hands, and that Yami, AS WELL as his cock, were both gone.

Fury rose within the King of Rape as he began to suspect what it was that happened to his cock, and what was in his ass, but before he could act on it a powerful and suffocating presence bore down upon all of them from above.

*SNAP!*

With a single snap that echoed over the battlefield, all of the defenders were suddenly finding themselves within the walls encasing the Takagi estate, alive and well despite either being dead or dying of the horrific wounds many of them had received. The barriers and damage that had been done to the walls had also been repaired, and the only person still standing atop them, Yuna, blinked slowly in confusion as her mind suddenly cleared of all the dangerous and treacherous thoughts that had been filing it.

As one, the attackers all looked up at the source of the overbearing presence and snap, and found themselves staring up at a hulking man covered in bright red fur, with a mane of thick pitch black hair.

Within his arms was the unconscious Yami, her wounds healed as she slept peacefully in his presence. And with a thought a comfortable gown covered her exposed body, before he gently kissed her on her brow.

"Please forgive me for being late..." The man pleaded in voice that only she could hear, before he transferred her to the castle within the walls.

He had used magic to place her in a deep sleep with only pleasant dreams, while simultaneously erasing everything that had just happened from her memory.

Once that was done the man, Alex, directed a fierce look at the army gathered below.

For several minutes after Alex sent Yami away no one moved a single muscle, or even seemingly breathed, as THE Dragon Emperor scanned the army below him with cold eyes.

Then Alex slowly began to descend towards the ground in a calm and steady fashion, his eyes locking onto a single figure in the crowd, the man who had ordered the attack.

Wether he was similarly stricken like the rest of the amassed army around him, or was simply watching to see what Alex would do, he didn't know. But, the moment Alex's feet touched the ground, there was a flurry of movement as a group of short statured people started running towards him.

"Papa!" Myuu cried out desperately, followed by Videl, Kale, Alice, Edith, Mai, Alec, Anna, Regal, Elizabeth, Ryuto, Shuri, Yuki, Aurora, Lana, Yeagashi Saya, Andre, Rito, Mochi, Nocta, Aife, Freydis, and even little Jade.

"Daddy!"

"Dad!"

"Dada!"

Every single one of Alex's children and students were desperately calling for him as they rushed towards him, each one completely naked and bearing numerous signs of torture, confinement, and 'use'. Even the boys.

Alex's expression never so much as twitched as he watched his children run to him in desperation, as Edith began to outpace the others as she hurried towards her father. Towards safety.

When she was just a few scant feet away from him though, Alex watched as Edith's head was detached from her shoulders, before the same happened to each and every one of the children. He watched as their blood sprayed from the stump of their necks, before the rest of their bodies were similarly severed and dismembered, with their heads rolling until they were right in front of him, all of their eyes staring at him blankly.

Alex's gaze never left that of his dead children's and student's, their soulless expressions feeling as if they were boring a hole through him, before Edith's eyes blinked suddenly.

"Why didn't you save us daddy?"

"Why did you let us die?"

"Don't you love us daddy?"

"What will mommy say?"

"I feel cold papa..."

Voices that could only inspire horror, revulsion, madness, and grief echoed endlessly from the still moving mouths of the decapitated children, voices that would drive anyone to insanity if they were forced to listen to them, much less their own father.

"I hate you daddy!"

"You killed us!"

"You never loved us!"

"I hate you!"

"!!!"

Just as the children's screams reached their highest pitch yet, they were silenced as Alex's hand shot out and wrapped around something invisible beside him, something that shimmered before revealing none other than a sensual looking woman wearing long flowing robes with deep sleeves, and holding a sinister looking staff in her hand.

"That's enough, Vaermina." Alex growled in a tone that left no room for argument.

The sorceress, who was actually the Daedric Prince Vaermina, lord of dreams, nightmares, evil omens, psychological torment, and memories, smiled widely at the man who was literally holding her by the throat. Not only was she impressed by his mental fortitude from the scene she had shown him, but the physical contact alone had freed her from the control of the 'Bend Will' shout used by the Dragon Emperor.

"Not so easily swayed, are you?" She whispered sensually as the heads, blood, and dismembered pieces of Alex's children and student's vanished into smoke.

But even as she dispelled them, so too did her robes vanish in a puff of smoke, leaving the Daedric Prince completely naked as she hissed seductively, "If not a nightmare, then perhaps a dream?"

As Vaermina said that numerous naked women materialized out of nowhere around Alex who began to kiss and rub up against his body, and, similarly to his 'perfect world' from one of the Great Labyrinths, they were all attractive women Alex WASN'T in a relationship with.

Venelana, ladies Phenex and Sitri, Lulu, Yuriko, Kuriko, Ichika, and several others Alex's couldn't identify, but all of which were exceedingly beautiful.

Even as he stood there, his grip on Vaermina's throat not lessening in the slightest, the women encased Alex in cocoon of soft and warm bodies that didn't feel at all like an illusion or dream. The fake Venelana even dropped to her knees in front of him, and hauled Alex's shorts down to his ankles to reveal his cock to everyone before taking it into her mouth.

Alex's already hard expression hardened even more as he tightened his grip on Vaermina's throat, well past the point of fatal damage if she had been a mortal woman instead of an evil goddess.

"Is this not to your liking?" She hissed both in his mind and ear, as Alex didn't even get hard as Venelana sucked him off.

"I'm not in the mood."

The evil goddess was nothing short of stunned at how he wasn't even fazed by having his greatest dream handed over to him on a silver platter, though she didn't realize that Alex had already faced the exact same temptation once before.

Even as several of the hottest women the surrounding spectators had ever seen were continuing to service him, Alex wordlessly shot his free hand out as it extended to impossible lengths into the crowd. Grabbing the person he was after by the throat, Alex's hand came back with the second Daedric Prince that had pissed him off, Molag Bal.

"Unhand me mortal!" Molag Bal roared with fury and indignation from being treated in such a way, especially since he still had his own cock up his ass. However Alex ignored his protests as he held him up in front of him too, joining Vaermina in being freed of the Dragon Emperor's influence, yet unable to do anything.

For a second Alex just held onto both Princes as they struggled against his grip, Vaermina summoning anything she could think of to temp him, while Molag Bal ran his lizard-like claws over Alex's flesh, only for them to shatter on contact. Both Princes however froze as Alex finally said,

"Thanks to the two of you, I realized something."

Neither one knew what it was, but something in Alex's tone chilled them down to their very core. And that was saying something since one ruled the frozen hell of Coldharbour.

"I realized..." Alex continued despite their increasing trepidation, closing his eyes and breathing in deeply"...that I was becoming too 'benevolent'. I was starting to indulge too much into my godly powers, and was ignoring my demonic side."

At that moment Alex opened his eyes to reveal that they had turned completely black, and they both sensed a powerful demonic and sinister presence coming from him.

"It is time to remind people that I AM A DEVIL!" Alex roared as he tightened his grip on their throats so much that cracks began forming on both Princes necks from the force, and two of the most 'evil' Daedric Princes of Oblivion began to scream from pain and terror.