Ascension of the Nephilim

The energy formation circles and the many engraved words started to glow as they received the powerful element of light from Kyros.

The sword continued to pulse light energy and soon the glowing lights overpowered the darkness.

The entire altar was revealed.

"Interplanetary travel? You mean Middle is connected to numerous worlds?"

"Didn't Petra say the same thing? Remember, Middle has always had people being sent to this place either accidentally, or intentionally. Petra claimed that Middle would often repopulate itself even after they made their march around this place. This was the hint that we had to consider. Fate and Destiny have been sending people here. This darkness that was supposed to chain Eugene had been limiting the travel to ensure more of Destiny would arrive here. It was a bottleneck that limits the arrival of the allies of Fate. This is also the way Heralcus and those champions of Destiny arrive in the first place."

"So... You intend to close this portal and stop them?" Eugene asked.

"Close? No. We fight a being that knows the future. There are many ways to fight End. One, allow Destiny and End to accomplish their goals so that they would think that they are winning and only appear as a secret ace on critical occasions. I am against this because our goal is ultimately to give Beginning an advantage. End will have his aces after all. So I decided to create drastic changes that altered End's plan in staggered instances."

"I see. Creating so many changes in the plans that Destiny has to act."

"Yes. This would delay the end and gives our allies more time and resources. And so, I plan to constantly hinder End's plan to give Fate and Beginning more things to work on."

"Won't we be targeted?" Martha asked.

"No. You might have understood my intentions. I won't just delay End's plan by allowing many people to go into Middle. While the key officers of the Fortress will remain in Middle or the Planesworld, we will be training people to move out and go into these worlds!"

"So we open the seals and portals and release great chaos into the different worlds... Our team will go out there and with foresight, challenge every member of Destiny!" Mechiel chuckled.

"Right. These past few days, I've been training my power in Mysterion. I believe I can cover around ten people with it. But man, Mysterion sure is taxing! I'm already hungry right now! Let me just see if there is food in the Fortress... Oh! Airom Bacon! Nice! Now for some sides... a lot of carbs... Wow! I didn't know we have Lemonade Honey Tea!"

Meanwhile... Back in the Fortress...

Grugnyr had just ended his wretched training with Aron and was now rewarding himself with a great meal. He cooked his heart out and made the best meals he could think of. Grugnyr, despite being an orc, was a very good cook. Now, The fortress itself had given him a proper place as he made a request and a kitchen was set up. But as there was no place, the Fortress Storage Space was currently the temporary kitchen. Kyros thought that this was also beneficial and commanded some of the cooks to always have some food stored inside. He was tired and hungry but concentrated and made the wondrous meals that he was about to eat.

He sat down and adored his creations of a delicious meal.

"Finally..." Grugnyr smiled and prepared to eat.

POP! POP! POP! POP!

All of the food suddenly began to vanish one after the other.

"WHAT THE FRAGMENT?!" Grugnyr roared in anger.

Kyros began to munch on the food.

"Ugh... I was soooo hungry after that match. Anyway..."

"Go ahead and eat, Kyros. We can roughly understand the plans. Opening these portals grants opportunities for Beginning to send her forces earlier into this land. But we will send out forces into these places to stop End's successes." Martha continued.

"Not just that. When we were in the Unrecorded Pages, we learned from Breveros that the Eldrich was trying to open the portals in the Planesworld. If we tie that to the current war between the Greater Gods who rebelled against the Ancient Gods and their allies, then we can deduce that a highway is being prepared. The Eldrich is vital in this plan. So, for us, the best way we know how to fight Destiny is by stopping the Eldrich's plans. Causing havoc in these worlds, killing Eldrich, or those that the Eldrich recruited as their allies will help in delaying End's plans. At least at the levels of us mortals." Mechiel explained.

"So it's all going back to these Eldrich. I still have to thank them. If their allies didn't make it here, I would never have become a vampire and met Lord Kyros." Scarlet smiled and gazed lovingly at Kyros who was greedily devouring the Airom bacon.

Kyros paused from his feast.

"Don't think that our actions will have little ripples. These highways ought to be important for their plans and even the gods and fallen would be unable to move faster. So destroying a fortress that belongs to Destiny will inevitably delay the End for a year or two." Kyros then went back to feasting.

"Hm? Lord Kyros... Grugnyr is asking why you took his cooked meal." Martha reported as she glanced at their chat box.

Kyros froze as bacon strips fell from his mouth.

"... Is he angry?"

"He said he just finished training with Aron and was rewarding himself with this meal. He says that it's not an exaggeration that he is dying of hunger as we speak."

"..." Kyros thought for a bit.

"Yeah? Well... I fought a Crown! Tell him that I too, am not exaggerating and am dying." Kyros went back and ate.

"What are your plans, Nephilim? Where do you plan to go with this portal?" Eugene asked.

"I won't be going just yet. I'll remain in Middle and Planesworld for now. It's time to start dealing with the Eldrich. Lea tried to go back home, but it seems that the Eldrich has managed to garner a great force that suppresses the very power of her father. She has been reporting to me her struggles and how an Eldrich of a noble descent is going after her."

"An Eldrich noble? Those are quite strong." Mechiel recalled their might. In that other timeline, both of them died facing one! Kyros was already a Celestial at that time, although he was greatly cursed. But even with her around, they fell against the Eldrich.

"Oh? For the new Mechiel to say that this Eldrich is strong. Are you then worried about Lea? Isn't she a rival of yours?"

"A rival? She ranks lower than Scarlet in Kyros's heart. As of now, there is no ranking?"

"There's a ranking?!" Scarlet was intrigued.

"And I'm not worried for her. I'm actually happy for her. She should be having fun now." Mechiel smiled.

At that moment... beyond the Nephilim Sealing Mountain and further south of the Airom regions were vast, and thick marshlands.

It was full of swamps, damp trees, and constant rain.

But for some reason, there was a large plot of dry sand at the very center of this marshland.

BOOM!

A tall, dark man with an ancient aura gathered an incredible Earth and Entropy energy that took away moisture from the land and had cause the land to dry up.

The man kept his foot pressing down on a dark beautiful creature who was bleeding all over.

Lea had many wounds and some of her Grendelor scales were even ripped off!

"Impressive resistance to my Dry Magic. You chose the marshlands as your battlefield, but this won't do you any good... Princess Lea!" The man laughed.

"Eldrich! I knew you... plotted this! My father will kill you!"

"Your father? He will find many issues. Your disappearance, along with Listrel's disappearance had created a great opportunity for us! It caused a lot of trouble that even I forgot of your existence for months!" The Eldrich laughed.

"Now our forces are in place. The Dark Shine Kingdom will come here and ravage the land! And when we find the Eldrich World Seals and release it, we can now return to this world without hindrance!" The Eldrich laughed.

"Oh? So that's the plan! There is a portal here in the Lowlands... Thanks! I got what I needed." Lea's expression changed as she suddenly smiled.

The power of the Leviathan surged.