Altar of Revelation

Nazad rang his khakkhara. "Choke away all hope, Apophis!"

The demon summoned the giant black cobra branded with hieroglyphs. Mivangeline and Isrina jumped away from the serpent's fangs.

"Enbu Fenix! Burn away all unrighteousness!" Oreic called from afar, playing his saxophone.

His song summoned the flaming phoenix that blocked Apophis from attacking Mivangeline and Isrina.

"We'll save Shien together!" Oreic brought Enshiron, Nashura, Calice, and Elysia into the fray. "I brought the squad, Mivangeline! The rest is helping Dorian work on your project."

"Great!" Mivangeline gave Oreic a thumbs up. If the project works, my theory is confirmed. A way to stop Fanghui!

Inveticus and Des Manthesia rolled beside the group while Hel Amuru retreated to Nazad and Apophis. Nazad clutched onto Shien's hair, grinning as his diagonal mouth and misplaced eyes startled the friends.

"Release Shien, you monster!" Enshiron drew his violin bow.

"What? You think you're tough because you have an army?" Nazad laughed, ringing his khakkhara. "You can't stop the Altar of Revelation!"

Behind Nazad arose a bloody altar decorated with muscles, eyeballs, and angel wings.

As Nazad chucked Shien on top of the nasty altar, he stomped his khakkhara. "Protect the altar as you've done for your pharaohs, Nubian Guard!"

Undead mummies with fiery green eyes and fangs crawled from the ground, wearing rotten bandages and nemes. An army of ancient tombkeepers holding spears stood beside Nazad, Apophis, and Hel Amuru.

A dark smog with hooded laughing corpses circled the altar. The freakish fusion of Iagen and the Prognisticus Trinity arrived from the Archkaos, opening its draped skeletal arms that dripped black fluid around Shien.

"Good work, Nazad, dear friend!" Iagen's voice boomed as the bodies combined into a Grim Reaper's skull with ten horns and red pentagram pupils. "With Shien knocked out, we can fuse into him without his noisy fussing!"

"No! Shien!" Everyone charged at the altar, where the black gooey phantom pulled Shien's mouth open and forced its head in.

The Nubian zombies clashed their spears against Elysia and Nashura's sword skills. Enshiron and Calice fired wind and lightning at the liquid apparition that slowly crawled into Shien's throat.

"I don't think so!" Nazad whirled his staff to protect the altar with a sandy twister.

"There are too many monsters!" Isrina pulled Mivangeline away from Apophis' bite. "How do we save my Little Chickadee?"

"Master Oreic! Guardian Inveticus!" Mivangeline grabbed Calice from Hel Amuru's tendrils. "I need you two to lead the serpent and this gross ball away from the battle."

"Got it! You can count on us!" Oreic whistled to Enbu Fenix, signaling his phoenix to taunt Apophis by spitting fireballs at it.

Inveticus nodded, commanding Des Manthesia to breathe a frosty mist at Hel Amuru. As the Vulpi mentors distracted Nazad's most powerful summons away from the altar, Mivangeline and Isrina combined their Avian Form skills to fight the zombified soldiers.

"Enshiron! Calice! I need you two to use your wind and electric powers to divide the guards," The Commander ordered. "Elysia and Nash can take out the trash while Isrina and I take down that demon sorcerer!"

"Yes, Commander!"

Enshiron retreated to an ideal position, aiming his violin bow high to fire wind arrows that soared and descended onto the undead tombkeepers like a mortar. Windy explosions scattered the Nubian zombies as Calice lightning-sped through the army, shocking hordes and further dividing them. Nashura and Elysia sliced and diced the mummies as Mivangeline signaled Isrina to join her rampage at Nazad.

How did she think of that in such a short amount of time? Isrina helped Mivangeline chain-punch the zombie spearmen. Did she learn that from Syanic Earth? That's impressive.

When Mivangeline and Isrina faced Nazad, the demonic sorcerer tapped his khakkhara, summoning a horde of black mambas to attack.

"Cover for me, Isrina!" Mivangeline dashed for Nazad.

"Avian Form: Blackhawk Missile!" Isrina whirled into a cyclone that shredded the mambas down. "Ouroboros Fang: Baneful Dreadscythe!"

While Isrina protected Mivangeline from the serpents, Mivangeline chain-punched against Nazad's staff.

"Avian Form: Wryneck Scythe!" Mivangeline slashed her palm to cut Nazad's weapon.

However, the khakkhara didn't break. Mivangeline kept on striking as Nazad blocked.

"I'm afraid that attack won't cut my staff," Nazad lunged his staff to push Mivangeline back. "Eszkeios crafted it with the strongest of witchcraft!"

"Witchcraft is nothing compared to God!" Mivangeline took a moment to think as Nazad swung his khakkhara at her.

The Commander blocked it with Wryneck Scythe and noticed the eye of Wdjat in the center of the dangling rings. "Avian Form: Hummingbird's Tongue!"

With a precise finger strike, Mivangeline impaled the arcane symbol. The eye bled and engorged with tumors before exploding, making the staff crack into pieces.

"No!" Nazad wailed, picking up the bloody pieces in vain. "My contract is broken! How can I pay back my debt?"

Suddenly, the Nubian guards stopped attacking Mivangeline's party. They stomped spears in rhythm and walked to Nazad.

"Wait! It's not what you think!" Nazad backed away. "I technically didn't fail you, Eszkeios! I got Shien on the altar for you, right?"

The undead soldiers faced their spears at him. Nazad ran until the mambas coiled around his arms and legs together.

"No, please! Have mercy, Eszkeios!" Nazad cried as Apophis bit his neck. "I did my best to protect the gift you gave me!"

The demon sorcerer shuddered when Hel Amuru flailed its tongue tentacles and opened a giant mouth. Mivangeline and her party huddled, watching the zombie tombkeepers stomp their spears faster. Apophis dragged Nazad towards Hel Amuru's mouth.

"I promise to pay you back, Eszkeios!" Nazad whined. "Please spare me! Give me another chance! No!"

Apophis dropped Nazad into Hel Amuru's mouth, which chomped on the demon sorcerer. All of Nazad's creatures disappeared into dust.

"That's what happens when you make contracts with satan," Mivangeline huffed as the Altar of Revelation crumbled.

Everyone ran to check on Shien's body.

"Shien! Are you okay?" Mivangeline hugged Shien as Isrina and the friends gathered. "Say something!"

"Oh, Shien? The sisters and I put him in a deep sleep!" Shien's eyes opened with red pentagram pupils, swatting everyone back with elongated claws. "We hated his annoying voice fighting us back!"

"My Little Chickadee?" Isrina cried.

"Shien!" All the other friends wept.

Oreic growled. "Iagen, you coward! Let Shien go!"

"Not a chance! Ouroboros Fang: Weeping Earthbound!" Iagen's voice from Shien's body shouted a shrilling sonic cry to bleed their ears and knock them out cold. "Arise Prognosticus Trinity!"

He slit his hand with a sharp thumb to drip Shien's blood on the ground. The blood puddle split into three and molded into tumored masses that formed the three Prognosticus Sisters. Terrhina of Earth, Indeavorga of Ice, and Delmisa of Death wallowed in the puddles of Shien's insides, licking all they could to revitalize their lost legendary magic.

"Now, go! Resurrect your imprisoned creatures in celebration," Shien's body dictated in Iagen's voice. "Consider this our exercise before tomorrow's war ritual when the solar eclipse arises!"

The three sisters turned into black smoke, venturing through the sky to their fossils.

"N-no..." Xneong looked from afar as Suvenjior squeezed his throat with his mechanical hands. "I-I failed... to save the world..."

Suvenjior crushed the Korean High Envoy's throat, letting his corpse drop dead.

"Supreme Herald," The Venezuelan High Envoy then pressed an earpiece. "Xneong and Thalamoid are dead. The Revelation Concerto has begun."

"Good work, Suvenjior," Fanghui applauded him. "The war ritual that will demolish the Vulpi has finally come!"

***

Terrhina headed into the heart of California, landing in the busy streets and terrifying the puzzled civilians with her horns erupting from her eye and nose sockets. She opened her mouth unnaturally wide, sucking the skin of every nearby young woman dry inside. Her breasts, waist, and thighs were enlarged and curved in shape as the poor girls' bloody skeletons remained.

"Finally! Shien's blood has restored my beauty!" Terrhina marveled at her body as the panicked people ran about. "No other women shall have men's gazes but me!"

Masters Psyinen and Seniel arrived with the UICA forces that evacuated the civilians.

"Levian Exedra! Bring forth the waters of hope!" Seniel flicked her fingers on her guzheng to summon her giant twin-headed water serpent, Levian Exedra.

Terrhina summoned her triangular qanun and played the strings to awaken the fossil underneath the city. After dripping Shien's blood, something gigantic erupted from the ground. As the sun shined unnaturally bright with a red pentagram, everyone shivered in fear as Terrhina's loyal creature, Abriyamu, slithered from its slumber.

Abriyamu was a hideous serpent segmented with crying baby faces and arms that crawled like a centipede. Its main head was a smiling, iron buddha mask surrounded by a rotating steel halo topped with spikes pierced with dead bodies. The UICA forces fired at the giggling creature but Abriyamu breathed tar to slaughter the UICA forces. While Seniel and Psyinen clashed with Terrhina's qanun leaf blade, Levian Exedra breathed waterspouts against Abriyamu's tar breath in an intense showdown.

***

In South Africa, red ice crystals shaped like arms captured innocent people as Indeavorga slashed their limbs off and collected them.

"Awaken from the earth, Macadion Firma!" Master Yanshi arrived in time, playing his erhu to summon his golem.

The gentle giant smashed the crystal hands to free the innocent from Indeavorga's grasp.

"Lucky people who can walk and touch freely while I can't!" Indeavorga bashed her head on a building as the UICA tended to the wounded and took the civilians far from the site. "It's not fair!"

Master Fermato rode on Echelus, slashing against the Ice Sister's bladed harp fingers with his cello bows. As Yanshi and Fermato cornered Indeavorga, her fingers played the harps and dripped Shien's blood. A large black chest with a peacock statue rose with blood running into each crevice, turning the peacock's empty eye sockets bright red. The black chest exploded as the fossil within took the shape of a giant peacock, Shaphkiew.

The fiendish Shaphkiew had colossal tail feathers patterned with blinking eyeballs and a body made of skin. Eyes and fangs opened in the bird's chest, and upside-down faces with long white hair cried from the flapping wings. The peacock had no head but muscular tentacles in its place, capable of transforming into any animal head. When the UICA forces fired at the sinister bird, the tentacles morphed into dragon heads that breathed fire to incinerate the UICA.

While Yanshi and Fermato sliced against Indeavorga's bladed harp hands, Macadion Firma and Echelus stomped on the ground to summon stone pillars to pierce the peacock. Shaphkiew's tentacles turned into rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and horned boar heads, using animalistic brute strength to plow through the rocks.

***

Delmisa landed in the middle of China, playing her Shamisen to terrorize people with swarms of locusts. Giant sandy hills exploded with flesh-eating scarabs that devoured the innocent.

"You humans deserve to suffer after all you've done to the Vulpi!" Delmisa dripped Shien's blood while the Federation forces evacuated the people. "Time to deliver righteous judgment!"

The earth cracked as yellow smoke shot out, forming a giant cloud dangling with skeletons. Nekhamon was a green, muscular giant whose top half rode on the yellow Jindou Yun cloud and had no legs. The fiend's face had five red eyes lined in a flower formation, a large fanged mouth on his chest, and two enormous satyr horns sprouting out his head.

When the chimaera battlecruisers and barracuda hovertanks fired at Nekhamon, the demon placed hands together to cast a spell. Dark portals opened from the sky, and green triangular pillars emerged. They opened to reveal veiny insides decorated with eyes, firing dark scorching beams at the Federation droids.

"Since Fanghui wants to destroy all Vulpi, why don't I pay him a little visit?" Delmisa commanded her servant to advance towards Fanghui's Arcane Phalange.