Chapter 248: Frozen Wastes of Norsca Part 2: The Dark Master's Scheme
(General POV)
Location the Realm of Shadows
In a separate domain, a powerful and cruel daemon was making his way through the dark and shadow...
This daemon is Be'lakor the Dark Master is the first Daemon Prince of Chaos, also known as the First Damned, the Harbinger, the Lord of Torment, the Messenger of the Great Undivided, the One Who Heralds the Conquerors, the Foretoken and the Bearer are just some of the names by which he is known.
At the dawn of the World, Be'lakor he became the first mortal to pledge his soul to the Chaos Gods a fierce warrior and stalwart Champion of Darkness, the Ruinous Powers favoured him and lured him north to the Chaos Wastes where, having penetrated deeper and deeper into this bleak land, he entered the maddening Realm itself.
The Dark Gods rewarded his courage by destroying his mortal shell and recreating him in their image, which was that of a Daemon Prince.
In this new form, Be'lakor truly is a terrible force, now, his unquenchable ire has been turned upon the very Gods who gave him power, for hunger for power lead by arrogance and greed, earn him the punishment of the Chaos Gods.
Striking down his tower, armies, and even his form becoming nothing but a shadow until he tricked a young Kislev Prince name Yuri, into coming straight into the Chaos Realms and striking down the Bear God, Ursun regaining his physical form and starting his plot to steal Ursun's power to ascend into Godhood, and taking the spot as the Fifth Chaos God of the Old World.
But he never suspected his former spawn Yuri turned into a Daemon Prince, known as the Godslayer to march unto the Forge of Souls, and face him for the body of Ursun and the price of his power.
His army of Soul Grinders faced the Legion of Chaos of Yuri only for the unimaginable to happen next, the Tzarina, Katarin came with an massive army having been able to bypass the defenses of the Forge of Souls, and she struck at both his and Yuri's forces forcing his rival to flee and begrudgingly he too...
Just regaining his physical form he couldn't risk losing it and returning to the Realm of Chaos, to suffer the Chaos Gods fury soo he escape into the shadows.
He was enraged by his defeat, and he learned that his greatest rivals and enemies, Yuri Godslayer and Archeon the Everchosen were preparing to once again attack the Southlands, and maybe bring the End Times.
But suddenly Archeon stopped his plans as per the words of one of his agents, and went to the western region of the Chaos Wastes, but the moment he tried to lead his army to said region a powerful force prevented them entry and a new cult of worship, towards a new God, called the Dark One, the Dark Harbinger, the Bat, the God of Carnage, Laharl Valboga started to emerge and migrate to the West of the Wastes.
This intrigued Be'lakor, he first thought of becoming a last a God, but a new one has emerged using his spies from Chaos Legionnaires lead by his immortal champion, Eternus, the Blade of the First Prince, the Dark Master.
If their is truth about this supposed Fifth God, if he can gain his favor and power he'll might not even need to be afraid of the Chaos Gods anymore, he might ascend further, Be'lakor laughed as he roamed the shadows heading for his secret domain in the Chaos Wastes...the Temple of Shadows.
Location the Sea of Chaos-Within Enzium, Central Level/The Great Hall of Banquets and War
All were present celebrating the feast prepared by their lord, the Chosen of the Gods, Ixion Daemonhart.
But as Khorne, and some extent Nurgle were enjoying the meal...with Khorne eating raw meats and Nurgle quickly rotting any food taken to the "Void Space" within their avatar, the two younger Warp Gods...while they did commented that Laharl's lilims cook better they still enjoyed their meal, a lot more than the disappointing alcohol of mortals.
Laharl had a bit of a ego-boost because of his younger brothers' complements, as he too enjoyed the feast, he sensed something in the darkness which was unintentionally calling to him.
Focusing on his [Abyss] divinity, he saw through the shadows and dark, and found who was responsible and it was the First Damned, Be'lakor...Laharl smirked as he predicted that with the rise of not only their avatar's conquest but also the rise of his worship in the Old World, Be'lakor would strike in pursue of more power, especially from a new Chaos God that was able to also keep not only the Four Chaos Gods out of their conquered lands but also prevent invaders from entering it...
Not some days ago, Acheon tried to invade their lands in the Wastes...
FLASHBACK...
Location the Chaos Wastes, the Boarder to the Dark One's Domain
Archeon was leading his armies to the territory of a rival and pretender to his destiny, as the final and greatest of the Everchosens!!!
His steed Dorghar, Steed of the Apocalypse, buckled and roared flames as he and his legions of followers saw from the hill the entrance to the now renamed region of the Dark One's Domain, not only was this pretender stealing the favor and glory that should belong solely to him, but he is also a blasphemer as he dares claim he and his soo called brothers were favored by another Chaos God!!!?
Drawing his sword the Slayer of Kings, one of the most powerful weapons and treasures of Chaos, the flaming Chaosblade illuminate the dark skies and he commanded his armies to charge in and take everything from this Ixion Daemonhart.
As they rushed straight into the western regions of Malofex to the Bloodfire Fall, immediately once they set foot into the lands own by the Warp Gods, Laharl acted.
Before the battle of Bloodfire Falls, during the month of conquest and expanding both their grip on the Chaos Wastes and their forces to rival even the Everchosen's armies in size and strength, the Dark One under both his brothers permission carved special runes of Carnage and Darkness into the locations they've gained control over.
These runes were very special as they not only feed on the dark magical energies of the Chaos Wastes itself but using his divinities that made them able to use the power of Darkness and the Void itself.
Giving the entire area literal divine protections, one being that any unwelcome invaders come to their territories without permission or malicious intent to them and what's their are cast out...
The moment that Archeon and his Warhosts of the Apocalypse, came to invade and destroy what belong to the stronger and older Dark Gods of the Warps, the runes reacted immediately.
The powers of the Void, upon crossing and stepping onto to the soils embued with they were immediately swallowed up and tossed out the Dark One's Domain, Archeon realized something was a miss he stopped Dorghar and his armies, looking around he immediately noticed that the hill they descend upon was now in front of them, instead of behind...
Turning his head back, in confusion and iratation, he made Dorghar turned and head back to the Dark One's Domain slowly this time, as the Everchosen did this he was soon joined by his armies, and once again when he and his followers set foot onto the lands that their about to pillage and raid, they are swallowed up, and spit back out with the hill in their sights, but this only confirmed that there is a powerful magical force preventing their entry to the enemy's lands.
Enraged Archeon ordered all his sorcerors to use their magic on whatever barrier surrounds the area, with him also using the lore of fire, to unleash magical flames onto the "barrier".
But another protection took affect all attacks aimed at their lands and servents will be...utterly dispelled...
All spells and attacked launched by the Everchosen and his Warhosts were utterly useless, and with the permission of his brothers the Dark One install something special to their lands, a low amount of Warp energy that permeates the area they conquer and mark, meaning not only can they sense all that is happening in their territories, but intervene when necessary...and it was necessary now...
It was time for all the Gods of the various races of the Old World to experience the Dark One in physical manifestation...or one of them at least.
As the Warhost of the Apocalypse, continue their futile assault to try and breach the lands controlled by Ixion Daemonhart, that's when a great and ferocious storm started to gather with violet lighting surging the black clouds above.
Then as the mighty daemonic steed of the Apocalypse, Dorghar roared out of fear and all the warriors of Archaon's were intimidated and stopped their assault immediately, as they stared at the event unfolding before them all, thunder and lightning overflowing with the power of Chaos, crashed around the land, as the only one not affected was the Everchosen himself and some souls spying on them from afar...who will are shocked by the event happening before them, they heard of the supposed Chaos God of Darkness, Laharl Valboga and it seems that the rumors might not have been false, this same thought also was emerging within Archaon's mind as well...
The corrupted, desolated earth being scorched by the violet lighting striking down, as daemonic shadow silhouettes started to converge into one spot.
Becoming a cyclone of malicious shadows and violet lighting as a creature was starting to form, multiple variant sized, glowing amethyst colored eyes started to illuminate through the cyclone.
Bursting out the cyclone were nine eldritch serpents of black, maroon, and dark violet color scales and skin, as black barbs and spikes pertrude from the spine and sides of the serpents bodies with frill and fins around the necklines of each head, on the forehead of each of these beasts was a black semi-liquid crown floating over them.
Their fangs were like massive, razor-sharp, curved blades with a pair of upper maroon fangs coming out the sides of their mouths, dripping with black colored venom that upon touching the ground below, not only sizzling upon contact but creating more daemonic shadows, all praising and clamoring up to their God...the nine serpents roared as the rest of this heinous and divine creature made itself shown.
A eldritch hydra...emerged as the main body made itself known, a massive maw with thirteen eyes over the giant chest mouth with rows of massive sharp teeth.
In the exact upper center a huge, pale daemonic skull with a black spiked crown, and a massive forehead eye acting as the "face" of this beast, next emerging from the shadow made cyclone was a ginormous draconian claw stomping forward, covered in black thick fur and maroon tipped spikes.
Upon that foot stomping against the desolated grounds of the Wastes, causing such a great earthshake that stumbled all present aside from the Everchosen and his steed...
The most massive pair of six wings burst out the cyclone as well, leathery and fur-covered resembling more that of bats then the drakes and dragons that roam the Old World.
As the other leg of the beast emerge and cause another rumbling upon it stomping of the Wastes, the unknown Chaos embued beast started to emerge even more from the shadow cyclone, as the chaotic infused, violet lighting, surged and flowed throught the beast as it touched the dark skies with ease...a true Titan, amongst the Monsters of Chaos.
Then a number of more appendages started to show themselves black, and maroon colored insectoid like legs, somes closely resembling the legs of caterpillars, and three pairs of six massive arachnid like legs all aiding the monster movement, from the side of the lower body of the monstrous hydra, were countless black and amethyst glowing dark runes, and maroon colored large eyes, all focused on the Warhosts.
It was clear whatever this monster is...?
It did not belong to any of the Gods, all that weaklings amongst Archaon's ranks started to crumble, falling into complete panic and utter lunacy, before the Everchosen or any of his subordinates could gain control of this chaos, the beast spoke in a deep, powerful, daemonic but also ethereal voice, "The Thirteenth Everchosen...dares enter, the Dark One...Laharl Valboga, claimed domain?"
Archeon stared at the Hydra Monster, as it was clear this is the ultimate guardian, of Ixion's lands, feeling rage and jealousy at this upstarts rise of power, but also it was clear that rumors of this supposed "Fifth Chaos God" might not been false after all.
Unmounting Dorghar, and sheating his sword the Everchosen, fearlessly approached the edge of the "barrier" and stared at the eldritch creature that stared down at him like an insignificant ant, Archeon could tell whatever this being is, it was obviously a servent if this new God, and with the confirmation of a Fifth, came possible new power, and blessing for the true "Chosen" of the Chaos Gods.
The Hydra spoke again, "Answer me, mortal. Why have you come, to Dark Harbinger? And the Chosen of the Gods, lands?"
Archeon stared fearless, as he began pleading his case and rite to be the true champion of all the Gods, including what he presumes is this "Fifth God's" ultimate servant.
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