Falling From Grace

 

 

 

Surrounded from all sides with 6 billion Journeyers, basically, the Allied Forces were all with their backs and arms to each other and on top of some walls that indeed looked to be of the Resplendent grade at the very least as they had some blackish gold glint coming off from them. Behind those walls that were so spread in a circle as if it wanted to form a mini Sub-Divisional City but was not even that at the same time, the last plethora of Godly Journeyers from the Allied Forces remained.

Farther behind those lines of Godly Journeyer soldiers behind the walls were a bunch of flying fortresses with those cannons ready to be used and even performing some movement from time to time as if making sure that they were working as well as those within said flying fortresses.

And in the middle of it all, a bunch of old and young people were seemingly waiting and doing nothing more but to seat while all the other Godly Journeyers of the Allied Forces felt several different emotions instead; excitement, somewhat nervous, confused by a little, expectant to the big fight they were about to have, expectant to see the future of the game afterwards, etc.

While those at the center were seated and having a good time together, relaxing; the Godly Journeyers were more than ready to start fighting, but they would of course not be the ones to start. But just as they’ve been waiting for more than half a day and boredom was getting to them and their ‘for fun’-like heads, The Order attacked and began their offensive.

…puh puh puh puh puh!!!!

Whistlee~~...PWKWANK!!! PWKWANK!!! PWKWANK!!! PWKWANK!!! PWKWANK!!!...

RUMBLE~!! RUMBLE~!! RUMBLE~!! … … …STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP!!! Step, step, step, step, step…

“At your positions, get ready to hold the line!!” A Godly Journeyer who was blasted away and backwards by the dirt and some boulders exploding from below the ground and that had easily destroyed their walls in just a moment yelled, signaling and waking up the silly Godly Journeyers of the Allied Forces but successfully helped them all to begin taking formation.

The Godly Journeyers of the same no longer had variant full equipment grades on their armor, weapons or even accessories and, instead, they all had a kind of white, bright armor that gave off silver glints, gleams and even glowed from time to time. They were all equipment, weapons and accessories of the Formidable grade.

While their weapons and armor had changed, and for the better, their behavior was even better, as they each held their weapon, be it a sword, bow, shield, dagger or even their bare hands alone, and held them in front of their chests or overall in front of their torso.

As they heard the stomps coming from the Journeyer soldiers of The Order, and no longer any kind of fire coming from those extremely powerful cannons after the walls were razed to the ground, the Allied Forces began to slowly calm down, evening their breath and tranquilizing their hearts…as they waited for the enemy to go through the smoke from their walls.

“INCOMING!!!!” A sudden shouting voice alerted them all, and as the Allied Forces’ Godly Journeyers began heightening their senses and reaction levels were already at their max, they finally saw their enemy come!

Baston rode his vanguard and came over to intercept the enemy, holding his small shield with his left hand, sun-like energy came from the center of it and his glabella as he became like a terrifyingly furious step-father whose step-daughter was taken away by a boyfriend…alright. As the Godly Journeyer saw this, they began to yell to their heart’s content, but it was still as if they were in slow motion with each of their comrades’ faces moving and changing slowly.

“AAAAAAHHHH!!!!” Their yell coming through, the bright white armored soldiers received the overall obscure, dull gray armored soldiers mounted on their Abysmal Creatures, stopping the charging enemy Godly Journeyers but not managing to take them out of their Mounts, and instead, being pushed back and forth all together with The Order slowly dealing more and more constant damage to their HP bars.

CLAASSHH~!!! CLANK CLANK- CLINK CLINK CLINK~. CLONK! CLANK! CLAANK!!

“Heal!” From one side, Baston came right in, charging at them and bringing about millions of other Godly Journeyers with him, but that was only from one of the many sides like the north, south, west and east of these Allied Forces that became tortoise-like.

On another end, Raoundozia led another army of millions with him and surrounded the entirety of the Allied Forces, not letting them have any other way to escape as Kalen took another side along with Synfyl. Even though the latter 2 didn’t have specially protective capabilities for even themselves, that much, they were the ones to lead The Order into the enemy’s formation nonetheless.

“Keep going, keep defending!! Keep holding your lines!!!” Young voices could be heard, most of them kinda trying to badmouth the Godly Journeyers of The Order from time to time, only to have a blade coming their way and slashing their mouth and nose off or a heavy object to slap their faces squarely from their chin to their forehead and shut them up.

Clink, cink, clank! Clank!!

The Order had its Godly Journeyer soldiers slowly make a carnage out of the Allied Forces’ Godly Journeyers, but with a kill happening on every tiny fight within the battlefield every few seconds, it would take days when so many buffs, defensive skills and counter attacking offensive skills bombarded The Order nonstop as if they didn’t have any MP or Stamina consumption and the like.

“Men and women of The Order, chaaaarge!!!” Baston, was first in giving the command, but just as he and the soldiers following him began being covered and lightly embraced by a yellowish-gray energy all around their armor and weapon even if it extended out to several meters away from their fingers, that happened just as well with the rest of the Godly Journeyers of The Order!

Swish, swish swish swish!- Bvreee-Vwlsht Bvreee-Vwlsht Bvreee-Vwlsht Bvreee-Vwlsht…~~!

Without letting the Allied Forces catch their breath as they saw once again this strange occurrence within The Order’s methods, dozens of Allied Forces’ soldiers were being cleaned away from The Order’s way deeper into the enemy ranks. The normal and most basic attacks of each Godly Journeyer of The Order became as lethal as any of their commonly used skills, and it began being a feast for the blades of The Order that went through flesh and treated their armor like paper.

A year ago, these equipment’s grade might’ve taken The Order to always deplete their MP or/and Stamina, but now, they could simply keep on moving their hands and arms and that would be enough to overwhelm the skills of the enemy right in front of them; like it was happening right now.

“AAAH! Dammit, I can’t-” - “They are using it, quick!” - “Hold your lines, we are starting preparations, get ready to charge back!!” Amidst the disordered shouts that came from the Allied Forces right before they died or were crippled, a few certain ones that were rather calm and only began speaking after The Order kept on attacking them by the minute sounded rather strange.

“NOW!!!”

Pa-pwooooooung~~.

Just as The Order was advancing without facing obstruction, some of the Godly Journeyers of the same were only being forced to send out a skill or two every half a minute, keeping their resources safe and almost full. It was right at that moment that all of the Allied Forces' Godly Journeyers seemed to have become incendiary, their bodies and armor becoming lava hot as their bodies exuded hot as hell steam into the sky.

“ATTAAAAAACK!!!” From behind the frontlines of the same, a shot came to everyone’s ears and only the sound of screaming soldiers and cheered warriors sounded back in unison as they had written all over their faces the words of ‘now I got you, puny soldier of The Order!’ with pride and disdain as if they were trying to show The Order that they weren’t the only ones resourceful.

Clank, cliiink, clank clank!! Bvreee-Vwlsht~ Bvreee-Vwlsht~...

As soon as the fiery, burning and even melting-like Godly Journeyers of the Allied Forces began doing their counterattack and charged at the Godly Journeyers of The Order, their speed at advancing became almost twice of those from The Order just now!

Their scalding hot blades ran through the chests, arms, shoulders and even heads and faces of The Order’s Godly Journeyers, while each implementation of their skills didn’t had the same unique properties as their blades and gear, they were still being accompanied by their smelting equipment and they themselves carried a huge momentum of their own.

Even doing unnecessary movements like the jump of a Godly Journeyer of the Allied Forces to cut terrain and brandishing his crooked saber in the air, not even hitting the weapon of a soldier from The Order; he was still taken as an immense threat with every soldier of the latter backtracking and going into a defensive formation.

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Meanwhile, tens of Godly Journeyers fell one after the other even with their Godly skills being employed, as vanguard was vanguard and almost all of their prowess relied on direct melee contact. It was at such a moment that shouts from Baston, Raoundozia, Kalen and Synfyl began from all over the army of The Order that were forced back quite a few meters in total…

“Go! NOW!” - “Stand on your feet, don’t step back!” - “Hold the damn lines! Do not let them take one more step!” - “Whoever gets to make a step back will have all their equipment donated to The Order!!”

CRUUSHHH~!!!

The Order that was suddenly ‘running away’ stopped backtracking and began holding each of their feet directly on the ground, those who had shields raised them and bashed them into the incoming hot blades and weapons, while those who only had a weapon of their own attacked and attacked nonstop with their speed still being as fast as before but their objective being that of blocking and even parrying enemy attacks and not on killing the enemy itself.

CLANK! CLANK! CLANK! CLANK! THUD!! CLANK CLINKKK! CLANK!! CLANK! CLANK!

It was even more dangerous for those without weapons whenever projectiles came towards them, but after training within The Order for so long, whenever a comrade was getting overwhelmed by projectiles and melee attacks, it was either those with shields using a skill to cover them both or several others as well or others nearby using their weapons and throwable items to help each other out.

In any case, even as the hot, molting weapons came their way and some of the Allied Forces even tried to ‘share’ the effect of having their armors smelting to the soldiers of The Order, no actual such tragedies occurred from part of The Order, while it was the Allied Forces instead who were getting fucked from the front.

CLINK CLINK CLINK!!- Bvreee-Vwlsht Bvreee-Vwlsht~!

“For The Order!” - “For our Brothers!!” - “And Sisters!!!” From behind the frontlines of The Order, just as a soldier of the Allied Forces was about to gnash another from The Order to little mincemeat pieces of flesh with a skill of multiple basic attacks, his right bastard sword rotating in his hand nonstop, yells and shouts that came from behind the enemy made the Allied Forces attentive to become alarmed like shit at the next moment.

“Shit, they’re preparing to take over their other comrades! Everyone, you’ve been trained for this, hold your front and wait for the incoming charge, you’ll be resting after you put those bastards do-AH?!” A general just now that was shouting at his people suddenly became speechless, he had already said enough to wake the minds of his most silly soldiers, but he then became shocked silly as his soldiers were waiting for the incoming new bunch of enemies.

STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP…!!!

However, while the new few million of soldiers coming towards them from all cardinal points, the nearest by Godly Journeyer soldiers of The Order weren’t going away, and they were instead, even forming a damn long line that stretched from the frontlines all the way back for kilometers and from which their brand new temporary speed thanks to the use of Two-Fated Nature Selection for the Wind Core Element, it was done much easier than it would’ve been if not.

Yet, while there were tens of thousands of such lines from the east, west, south and north of the battlefield and surrounding the Allied Forces, there were equal the amount of charging Godly Journeyers with earthly green energy covering their bodies as they made a sudden intense and ferocious charge towards the Allied Forces’ formation among the lines made by their comrades and didn’t seem to hold any thought about staying in one place and to fight.

Meanwhile, the Godly Journeyers of The Order began chunking down potions and receiving tens of AOE heal as well as dispel skills, while some received selective healing skills and dispel skills for those who had unique and rare debuffs applied to themselves for one reason or another. But while The Order’s children were being spoiled, the other children were about to be slapped by their mothers…

CRUUUUUSHHHH~~~!!!! CLANK CLANK- CLINK CLONK- CLANK~~!!!!

As soon as the galloping Abysmal Creature Mounts made contact with the scared Allied Forces with their armor smelting, the Allied Forces had already expected it from their training even if it hasn’t been done for even months, and hoped that they would at least detain these new batch of enemies with their deaths.

However, as soon as the Abysmal Creature Mounts reached them, like falling off a cliff several kilometers into the ocean, but instead of falling off of one, the ocean came up to meet one instead; the Allied Forces’ Godly Journeyers could feel that themselves as they were sent flying in several different pieces of their body and flesh, bones simply breaking to look like splinters and their world as if turning slow mode to see the charging soldiers of The Order make a long, long and wide line into their own army.

Brandishing their weapons, mostly polearms with the rest using bows and crossbows, The Order intruded into the enemy’s formation, going as far as almost 2 kilometers in before beginning to make a ‘U’ turn.

By the time that the head of the charging cavalry came out from the enemy’s formation, that ‘U’ had a lot more of lines in the middle that went from the enemy’s formation to the outside and to ride abreast their comrades who were also returning from the very same ‘U’ turn created by their leader far ahead at the front, before reuniting once again far behind the vanguard of The Order.

Such an overwhelming move baffled the generals of the Allied Forces, who were just better with choosing a location and either deploying troops or bombing them with their orders alone. Never did they work ‘so hard’ to think of such an implausible possibility for such an attack to be successful.

And though The Order indeed had a few casualties in that ‘raid’, the numbers were just so negligible that it would make the generals of the Allied Forces open-mouthed without remembering how to close them lips and clench their jaws.

“CHAAAAAAARRGEEE!!!!” An ever so ferocious shout came from Raoundozia’s throat, and that alone was enough to send the whole battlefield into a blood-boiling turmoil as all of the Godly Journeyers of The Order battlecried in unison and to their very heart’s content! “HUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH~~~!!!!!!!”

STEP STEP STEP STEP- CRUUUUUUSH~~~!!!

Instantly, the stepping forward Godly Journeyer with their Abysmal Creature Mounts abreast with each other once again reached the Allied Forces’ front line, and without taking any moment to do anything else but to bash their own bodies against them so ‘brainlessly’, the Allied Forces faced their hot blades at them…

Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssss~~~!...

…only to realize that The Order’s Godly Journeyers had ‘changed’ their energy and had become surrounded by an aqueous blue energy instead of the yellowish-gray from before, from Wind Core Element to Fire Core Element!

“No, damn it! No!!” - “Quick, use Earth Core Elements’ dervi-” - “Hold the front, give us enough time to-” - “General, there are a few tens of thousands entering our army from the side, they are- they are… THEY ARE ALL LEGENDARY CLASSES!!”

“!!!!!!” As the General heard the very last shouting report, his eyes were fully fucking damn holy shit lost, and after he recuperated a tiny % of mental intelligence, he looked with his whole body turning around in a jolt like a zombie, he saw…a bunch of blood-armored Godly Journeyers coming at his soldiers and reaping them with just a couple of swings from their blades, 3 ‘leaders’ were leading the entirety of the terror getting into his head.

Meanwhile, on the whole entire battlefield that the general has stopped placing his attention to, the Water Core Element supported Godly Journeyers of The Order used just their bodies to move forward and forward, their blades barely moving as they became almost untouchable by the whole lot of Allied Forces’ soldiers with smelting overall equipment.

“Send…just start everything, start everything.” The general, whose eyes became lost for real at last, said as he lowered his chin and tilted his head to hide his neck, but his face was still clearly visible. Just that it was darkened, being both: relieved of such stress and impossibly heavy a burden as well as pained for losing it all.

With nothing but a dying 'nation' and a hopeless, senseless war fought for basically nothing with death and war clashing right at their door, what was even the point of feeling bad about it, even, at all? Anymore? All that remained was for the other side, for that one person, to be the victor. To be the one collecting this debt sowed from vengeance, it wasn't anything else but them losing, they were...really lost.

 

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