The Godsfall Chronicles

Book 7, Chapter 98 - Last Judgment Comes

Cloudhawk’s most important task was holding off the Supremes and general crowd-control . He shuttled across the field, guarding his allies from danger and preventing casualties .

The G.o.ds were few, comparatively .  

Still, the G.o.ds were a galaxy-conquering race who didn’t need numbers to dominate . A few deaths to them meant nothing . It meant nothing when a creature like Cloudhawk rose from among the herd the G.o.d King was little concerned . It would send waves of G.o.ds at him on a whim, and they with their superior weapons and tools would raze this planet promptly .

On the other hand, if Cloudhawk wanted to win this war then every life was precious . The G.o.ds could afford to lose a dozen of these grunts . The Alliance would crumble if they lost that many here .

For the moment the humans were winning . Little by little, the G.o.ds lost ground .

“Cloudhawk, get ‘em!”

Dawn released a beam of energy, large enough to engulf one of the soldiers . At the same time gravity increased by a thousand times under her power . Her target bowed under the weight as a streak of power closed in .

The G.o.d thrust its spear at her, striking several times . Dawn’s armor protected her from harm while her foe’s power siphoned away by the Abyssal Scale .

Cloudhawk summoned a vortex of spatial energy . With a heave, Dawn hurled the G.o.d through it . One less soldier to worry about .

At the moment things were going their way . One Supreme and four soldiers were captured, and two more slain on the field . Meanwhile Cloudhawk made sure their losses stayed at zero . If this was representative of the G.o.ds’ strength, then they didn’t deserve to be masters of this galaxy . Cloudhawk and his band of primitives were ripping through them .

Almost laughable . Their species wanted to rule the cosmos?

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Cloudhawk, however, was unsettled . It was too easy . He drew on more of his energy to expand the Eye of Time . Perhaps he could protect them from any unseen traps if he peered deeper into the future .

“That’s… strange . ” He realized the same thing Selene was discovering . Their Eyes didn’t work .

Not vision, but their ability to look through time . No insights of the scene to follow . Somehow that power was being interrupted . The future was a dark curtain .

Not often the Eye is suppressed . Something’s off .

The sense of foreboding in him grew . More enigmatic tools were being used by his enemies, things he hadn’t antic.i.p.ated . Cloudhawk decided to fall back in the sake of caution .

“Break off! Withdraw!”

His sudden order came as a shock .  

“What?!” Dawn balked . “We’re winning!”

She was right, they had the upper hand . If they kept fighting there was a chance they could wipe out this whole group . How did it make sense to fall back now?

“Follow orders!” Cloudhawk didn’t explain himself and stuck to his decision . He trusted his instincts . Any power strong enough to disrupt the Eye of Time wasn’t one he could discount . If they didn’t leave now it might be too late .

Legion knocked back an encroaching G.o.d with his sword . “Go!”

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The humans banded together while Cloudhawk prepared their escape . They’d accomplished enough, humiliating the G.o.ds and capturing a few . Time to go, even if it was unlikely this small victory would do much for humanity’s morale .

At last the G.o.ds had enough breathing room to regroup . The Supremes saw that Cloudhawk was trying to flee . “These humans are clever to recognize our plans . ”

“No matter . Escape is not possible . ”

As the two G.o.ds exchanged their thoughts, changes crept into the environment . It caught everyone’s eye, approaching from overhead .

The sapphire blue sh.e.l.l covering the planet was stained dark red, like looking through goggles . A sudden and ominous sunset .

The humans looked on in confusion . One of the Supremes thrust his sword forward and released a beam of energy that was not uniquely strong . It was aimed directly for Legion but Abaddon saw it coming . He leaped in front of his Elder, hands raised, and summoned a burst of sand in midair .

He called on it to form a series of solid walls, yet he discovered the sand wouldn’t listen . It started to form but something intruded and it failed . The streak of light cut through the floating particles and struck Abaddon, cutting him open .

“Wh?” A gout of purple blood poured from his body .

How did the Gospel of Sand fail…? Abaddon’s defenses were more than strong enough to deflect a blow like that . Even failing that the book turned him to sand instinctively to protect him from harm . This time, though, it didn’t .

Something was happening . The demon’s powers were gone and he’d suffered a grievous wound from it .

“The relics aren’t resonating!”

Bruno recognized it first . His job had been to keep the area locked down and prevent reinforcements from arriving . But the instant the sky turned red he found his link to his relics was gone .

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Frost pointed his spear at the nearly split body of Abaddon, encasing it in ice to pull him back . His power also quickly faded . One by one the others lost their connections . It was hard to even remain flying and they started to plummet .

Cloudhawk’s Eye was useless, but he saw what was happening . Selene, Dawn, Legion, and the Cloud G.o.d… they all felt it . The hum of their equipment was gone, and with it their power .

It had to be these f.u.c.king G.o.ds! s.c.r.e.w.i.n.g with reality somehow .

“All the gifts Sumeru gave you can also be taken away . Your Last Judgment has come . ” The G.o.d’s emotionless decree filled their minds . “Your relics fail you . Without them you are as harmless as ants . ”

More than just their relics were being affected . For Legion and the Cloud G.o.d, their divine armor was weak .  

“So this is Last Judgment . When did the G.o.ds build this scourge? Could they have… ?”

In the millennia he could remember Legion had seen nothing like this . He was shocked, for nothing he knew hinted at Sumeru having such a power . He could think of only one possibility .

Cloudhawk’s face was growing darker by the second . Last Judgment was an energy field that was cutting them off from their relics . To humans this was a disaster! A Master Demonhunter was only slightly better than an average person without his relics .

At the end tally humans were merely humans, except those like Skye Polaris who trained his body to perfection . Martial artists of his level could still tear down mountains with their bare hands under this field, but they were few . Much fewer than Master Demonhunters .

“Did you truly expect victory, fighting the G.o.ds with their own creations?” Another Supreme spoke a command as the orbs of energy spinning around him faded from few . It seemed they were also affected by the Last Judgment .  

“Eliminate them . ”

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The Supreme was right . Relics were made by the G.o.ds and they wouldn’t have given their weapons away without a fail-safe . They made the things, they must know how to turn them off .

Once again the divine soldiers circled round . Even without relics these beings were deadly . What"s more, their spears were custom made for this occasion . Each weapon had its own energy stored like a battery, charged in advance and employed when needed .

The skies were crimson now . Relics were useless .  

Ever since the great war, humans thrived in the Elysian lands by the grace of G.o.ds and their technology . For most everyone, relics were the root of power . It had to be said that the G.o.ds were brilliant, they pulled the rug out from under humanity with a flourish .

They fell clumsily out of the air .

“Foolish mortals . Judgment cometh . ”

Several dozen G.o.ds formed into a line . All at once their spears were engaged . Streaks of light screamed through the air, threatening to blast their fragile human forms apart .

Cloudhawk understood now why the Abyssal G.o.d didn’t come himself . Why it didn’t dispatch more soldiers . If the Abyssal G.o.d had come itself would Cloudhawk have been foolish enough to come? Would the humans scramble out of their hole if a thousand divine troops were marching their way?

Instead a small contingent was dispatched and spread across the globe . Cloudhawk would surely come if they began exterminating humans . That was the perfect opportunity to deliver Last Judgment .

The Abyssal G.o.d’s trap was sprung . When this petulant group was destroyed, this planet’s rebellion would wither . They never were worthy of posing a threat anyway .

Nothing could stop what was to come .

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