Beginning of the End 4

For hundreds of millions of years, the battle between the Gotts and Daemons had long started ever since before the two World Wars, before the French Revolution, before the United States of America was found, before the Trojan War, and long before the first human civilization had existed. These godlike beings was the sole reason why Earth had such harsh natural disasters that took millions of lives since the past until the present era.

But unfortunately, planet Earth would cease to exist if these disasters did not exist. It's like a volcanic eruption phenomenon, wherein the volcanoes all around the world had to erupt from time to time. Otherwise, the heat on the Earth's core that was beneath the surface would pile up and may cause the whole planet to explode to smithereens if not taken care of.

For an easier explanation, it's the same scenario as a frustrated person bottling up all their anger, frustration, and other negative feelings and it would end up with them blowing up a fuse that would cause great harm to their whole surroundings as well as themselves.

Before the great Immunditia Palatio (Latin for Impurity Palace) and Die Krippe des Baby Regia (German for The Baby's Crib Palace) were built in their respective territories in spite many buildings and households already started to occupy their areas, the third generation of the Gotts' Kings had a meeting inside one of the households near the under-construction palace.

"This is very bad, everyone. I theorized that we may completely lose our lives against the Daemons since they already have a lot of advanced technologies compared to ours. In fact, they would one-sidedly annihilate us in the next battle since it was evident from that recent one that we all barely made it out alive", Yahweh, who was the first king, agonized as he explained to the rest of the 'kings' who were standing and sitting from all around the place.

"Clearly, they had the upper hand. Should we surrender now while we still have the chance and do what they said? They may spare us, but the worst-case scenario would be serving them for the rest of our lives... Wait, for all eternity since we all have longer lifespans compared to the mortals on Earth", Allah, who was the second king, yawned as she covered her mouth with her left hand and gasped in realization.

"Well, we had a short time together, but it was fun being with you all and goodbye", Brahma, who was the third king, clapped his hands together and announced.

"This is no time for you to mess around, you know", Shangdi, who was the fourth king, reprimanded the fellow king.

"Actually... I have something to tell you guys", Amaterasu, who was the fifth king, nervously said in a shaky voice.

"What is it? We're all ears", Shangdi focused his attention towards the flustered fifth king.

"You see, I... um... I was doing this thing for a while now and I think... that it may help with our current problem", Amaterasu informed everyone with a slow-paced way of speaking.

"So, what is this 'thing' that you were doing?", Sanqing, who was the sixth king, asked as he did an air quote gesture with both of his hands.

"Actually, for the past few decades since we fought against the Daemons, I... I discreetly stole some... only some of their advanced equipement so... I suggest that we use those to... you know, assemble our own advanced technology to genetically transform Gotts and make them immune to the... Daemons' Impuritas (Latin for Impurity) and their Nigrum Sanguinem (Latin for Black Blood) won't always have to be life threatening for us... If everyone's ok with it... If not, you could just ignore what I sa—", Amaterasu elaborately explained in a slow and nervous manner but was interrupted by everyone's loud cheers.

The Gotts in the room murmured their compliments one after the other, "You did good... no, great, Amaterasu! Now, we can finally have a chance to beat those Daemons at their own game! Hooray! To think that you made such a great plan! You should've told us earlier since it was such a good idea! Long live for Amaterasu! Yes!"

Amaterasu turned red from her whole face until hear ears as the praises kept on coming one after the other.

The fifth king may have said that the Impuritas and Nigrum Sanguinem were both life threatening to them and it was kind of unfair that they always have to basically be on a lookout for everything whenever they battle against the Daemons like they were all walking on a very thin tightrope or a wire. But too bad for the Daemons that they don't have that kind of battle advantage for they too, will be disintegrated instantly if they got into contact with the Gotts' Reinheit (German for Purity) and Pur Nesentliche (German for Pure Essence). So, those two were both life threatening and the Daemons were also walking on a tightrope as much as the Gotts do.

As Amaterasu led the other eight kings, including Waheguru, Zeus, and Mireuk who were not yet mentioned earlier, to her secret storage room, what everyone saw as soon as they went inside were numerous amounts of parts and other gadgets that were either used or already destroyed. It was basically what you call a technician's or the mechanic's paradise.

They all began executing their plan as soon as possible and started to build the necessary equipment to use for genetic mutation foe the Gotts. Surely, the plan was risky for it requires a lot of trial and error regarding the experiments. They would definitely lose several volunteer Gotts just by determining the machinery's functions, its effectiveness, and several more to test out the compatibility for each individual. But it won't be a problem for Amaterasu's intelligence and knowledge for she could lessen more casualties compared to some ignorant idiots who would try and attempt the same thing.

Several years had passed since they first executed the plan and finally... finally! The experiment was a huge success, and they finally had the first Gott wo was completely immune to the Daemons' 'poison'. The Gott received the title 'Lucifer' for he was reborn during the time when everyone could see the morning star shining the brightest compared to the other stars twinkling into the dark sky. They proceeded with the trial on the front lines immediately.

Lucifer, who was once a rookie soldier who barely had any fighting experience on the real battlefield, was placed with the pros in the Voraus Platoon (German for Advance, Ahead, or In Front). He, who was terribly frightened by the gruesome scenery of Gotts being 'poisoned' and turn into white particles, was cowering in fear somewhere on the battlefield.

A Daemon, who noticed the chicken for a Gott, tried to shoot him with a black orb from the back. But as soon as the orb instantly hit Lucifer, the tennis ball sized orb that was supposed to instantly disintegrate Gotts into white particles, only gave him a small scratch like it was only but a pebble.

Lucifer stood up slowly as soon as he realized the Daemon's presence and he fired off a pebble-sized white orb from his right index finger. The Daemon was shot by his left shoulder without warning with a speed as swift as a comet. Without realizing being shot, the Daemon turned into ashes and disappeared into thin air as Lucifer turned his back to walk towards his victorious comrades as he coughed under his breath.

Now, back to the present...

Enyalius happily said, "Because of you, it's been easier for us to invade and bring more soldiers compared to before. Heeeh... So that's how you survived after all the years you've been staying here. Judging from your physique, you're pretty young so you must be a descendant of those defects from the failed Venus Project a few centuries ago." All the Daemons who were in the hearing range were shocked.

Natsu was in great shock and faced Sirius, "It's not true, right? Tell him that you're a human, Sirius!"

Sirius casually replied, "I guess the cat's out of the bag. No offense." He took off his white mask and wore a wicked smile that was so unusual for him to express that Natsu was devastated when he saw him. Sirius continued, "That’s right. I'm a Gott all along, you ignorant piece of trash. You were all so gullible, it was so easy deceiving everyone, especially you, Natsu."

Natsu clenched his teeth, "So that's why you never recovered no matter how many times I healed you. I even thought that due to my lack of experience in healing someone, you may end up dying. But how come I can sense Impuritas (Latin for Impurity) within you and you're actually aging like the humans who received our power?"

Sirius clicked his tongue as he explained to Natsu, "It must be due to that stupid project the other Hauptmadn (German for Captain) mentioned earlier. I heard from many Gotts before I ended up here that the project's purpose was to reproduce Gotts like Lucifer to be immune against your filthy Impuritas but since it the Kings forbade more Gotts like Lucifer to be made and it wasn't the kings' scientists who conducted the experiments on those gullible rich bastards, it ended up in failure. The experimented Gotts and those involved with the project lost all their status and were hunted down under the order of the 'King'. They also became so sickly and frail that their appearance age faster than it should normally be. They have shorter lifespan than anybody else that they would croak before being caught by the military but still producing offspring just to keep their stupid legacy alive when they would just be gone without a trace in Gotts' history no matter how much they struggle."

Enyalius was impressed and suggested, "For a defect, you sure made a huge contribution to us. The Kings would be really we happy when they hear about your achievement. They may even give your status back and let you join the military as a reward."

Eryl immediately jumped towards Enyalius to slash her with his right claw, but his attack was blocked using her hammer.

Eryl declared while struggling to break through Enyalius's defense, "Like hell I'm going to let you escape out of here alive!"

Enyalius clicked her tongue in return, "Persistent mutt." She then swung her hammer to hit Eryl by the head, but he managed to jump back and dodged the attack.

Eryl dashed towards Enyalius and was ready to release a slash with his right claw, but she positioned herself to hit Eryl in a batting position and swung her hammer stronger than the last one. Eryl jumped up and dodged the hammer, spun himself in mid-air, and swiftly slashed Enyalius's face with his right claw. She screamed as she stepped back in pain and all of a sudden, a white whip-like thorns came out of her hammer, and quickly chase him. Eryl, who was still in mid-air, did a cartwheel to land on ground, and run away as fast as he can.

While the two captains were having a heated battle in their own area of the battlefield, Sirius suddenly swung his spear to attack Natsu, but he easily blocked it with his sheathed katana while it was still tied onto him. Natsu positioned his scabbard vertically so the spear would slide down to the ground and swiftly smacked Sirius's head with his scabbard like it was a baseball bat. Sirius immediately fell on the ground, completely unconscious.

Afterwards, Natsu looked back to Eryl and was shocked of what he witnessed so he quickly tried to chase him, but Eryl got stabbed by the white whip-like thorns from all over his body and fell on the ground.

Eryl coughed blood with ash starting to come out from his wounds. Natsu immediately ran to Eryl's side and heal him. While Natsu was in panic, Eryl said,

"Sh*t, I messed up. I should've transformed into a three-headed dog from the start. Maybe I'll have a higher chance of dodging that thing."

Natsu replied in a shaky voice, "Stop talking or your wounds will get worse."

"Don't worry about me. I'm the same as Raaz, after all. The very cursed blood that made Raaz's and my life miserable will always end up ironically saving us from the Gotts' attacks, so we won't die that easily", Eryl's eyes had started to close, "Let me just... sleep for a moment... I got lucky that... I don't have my... Sigillum Notans (Latin for Branding Seal) right now..." Eryl's eyes were completely closed as his consciousness fade away like his comrades' ash that were blown away by the cold wind. No matter how strong a godlike being is, they were still vulnerable to one thing that every living creature feared and cannot escape... it was death itself.

Natsu clenched his teeth and thought to himself, "Dammit! Why is my healing technique so slow as heck? Is it actually due to my bloodline?" His train of thought was suddenly got interrupted by Eryl's snore. "He slept too fast! Also, your snoring is too noisy.", He thought as he pinched Eryl's nose really hard.

Sirius, who was lying on the ground, coughed briefly while he was a few distance behind from Natsu. Natsu looked to his side and was going to face Sirius, but he hesitated and faced back to Eryl, focused again on healing the wounds. Blood drips suddenly from Natsu's bitten lips.

On the other side of the battlefield, a loud crack was heard, and it was shown that Raaz stood still as he catch his breath continuously with his left leg was already chopped off while there were multiple burns from all over his body, and ash already came out from all of them. He had his double axe blade already stuck on ground and big cracks were formed around it. Raaz held onto his axe handle to support himself like it was a giant cane. Aesculapius, who was across Raaz, had a huge black slash from his head to toe, and he started to turn into white particles.

"Remember me... Adieu!", Aesculapius said his final words as he completely turned to white particles and disappeared into thin air.

Enyalius witnessed her comrade disappeared into nothing while she placed her hand onto her face with a slash wound while white particles came out of it and said to herself, "Tch! They got to Aesculapius!"