Book 4: Chapter 85: The War Begins


    <strong>Earth</strong>


    <strong><em>The next day</em></strong>


    Everywhere on the, humans proceed to go about their business as usual. Parents shopping, children going to school, newly minted Guardians fighting in Fractures and going to their Guardian Universities.


    But everythinges to a grinding halt when the moon all over the world  one that has been blood red for days now  finally begins to ze with an eerie ck and red me with droplets of blood seemingly falling off of the tips of the fire. And as if a fire was sparked in everyst demon on the, ck and red mes begin to lightly taste each and every demons skin without harming them in the slightest. And from those mes, droplets of blood start to fall off of every tiny me licking at the air around them, soon covering the ground in any location filled with demons all over the with blood.


    Screams echo from all over the world, but thanks to the nning of the government and the Associations, ss IV Guardians stationed all over the quickly begin to deal with any demons that make it past the Fractures, the barriers no longer responding to the demons and instead letting them pass through. Meanwhile the demons that had all gathered around the frontlines over the past couple days finally let out one synchronous roar before charging straight towards the human Guardians who meet them halfway.


    Lastly, a ball of zing hellfire enhanced by the ck and red me of the Demon Moon shoots across the sky over the demons and humans, making a beeline straight towards the Headquarters of the Republic. And within less than a minute, the ball of ck and red me stops right above arge fortress spanning several thousand meters in radius. It then turns into an oni with medium length crimson hair, glowing crimson eyes, two ck horns stretching in a narrow arc, and glowing ck and red veins covering his bare torso, armor only being on his lower half, shoulders, and hands.


    But hes not alone as above the fortress, three figures can be seen floating in the air, and not a single human aside from them can be sensed from the base itself.


    Of the three figures, one has ocean blue hair and is floating with various tentacles slowly moving around him stretching out of his back, through his medieval styled blue armor. And when his eyes lock onto the oni floating before them, they narrow, his hands turning into tentacles from his fingers up.


    Another of the three figures, a man with wild red hair and glowing red eyes, floats several meters away from the first as he grins widely at the oni with one of his arms holding a helmet to his side. A helmet that he soon raises and puts on over his head, the eye sockets of the helmet soon ring with a deep crimson light as he summons a ck and red sword coated in hellfire to his side.


    And thest of the three figures standing in the middle of the first two, a woman with long stark white hair without a hint of color, stares at the oni without any emotion on her face. Meanwhile white specks of energy appear all around her, simply absorbing anything theye across be it air, light, blood, or even fire or water from those to her sides as the woman summons a ck sword into her hands. One that is made of pure null magic despite its color, matching the ck and white medieval armor she has on and the cape blowing in the wind behind her.


    A single second passes in silence before arge dome of red and ck energy a different shade from the energy and colors of a demon, a darker and more sinister shade, forms all around them and the base, spanning several thousand meters in width. And it only takes a moment for everyone within to feel the sinister energy of the destruction magic filling the dome. One that is blocking a fifth of the Demon Moons light. And at the same time, destruction magic can be sensed from those within the dome from every battlefield across Earth, even if the source of the magic isnt powerful enough to badly harm a ss V.


    The oni grins and raises his voice, So you brought your little monster to the fight, did you? Maybe Ill be able to capture the disgusting creature this time.


    Silence fills the space as none of the Knights feel any urge to defend the patriarch of the Knights despite two of them being his children. Then Satan frowns as he realizes the man in question isnt within the dome.


    Coward, he states, his frown soon turning into a scowl. But it doesntst long because when his gaze turns back to the Red Knight of Humanity, it turns into a bright smile as he deres, Red Knight, we meet on the battlefield again atst! Then his eyes narrow. But this time you wont be making it out alive.


    ck and red mes begin to gush out of the man along with blood sourced from the mes, enhanced by the Demon Moon whose light still manages to shine through the destruction magic dome a little bit, the source of the dome not being powerful enough to block most of the light. And in response to the mes, ck and red mes gush out of the Red Knight as well, along with a pure white light from the White Knight, and torrents of water from the Blue Knight.


    Then shadows start to fill the dome from the ck Knight who is hidden from view at the same time as a bright purple sh thatbats against the Demon Moons light even more, blocking a third of it while letting the remaining light empower the oni.


    Let the true war of the speciesmence!!! Satan shouts, his voice echoing out of the dome and all the way through to the battlefields where his demons are interlocked with the humans. And all across the, demons can be heard shouting the very same thing as Satan shouts with a wave of hellfire directly towards the Knights.


    For the Demon King!!! For His Majesty!!!