Will of chaos

"(Master!)" (Orion) Thought acceleration is not something natural, maintaining such a state for long periods of time can only be harmful, but as soon as I heard the voice of the only Familiar who was not present, I knew there was something I needed to hear, which becomes unfeasible in the midst of this battle. But the mind is freer than the body and the perception of time varies with the circumstances, accelerating my mind to the limit was as if everything was in slow motion, the same is true even for my body. I concentrate on the link I have with Orion reaching him with my mind, then his mind accelerates along with mine. "Where are you and what do you have to report?" (me) "Master, you need to know..." (Orion) "Orion, tell me where you are." (me) In my mind I create a scenario similar to our house near Eclipse City, our mansion, there I appear in a mental projection doing the same for Orion who forms himself into a large Blood Wolf with ethereal wings and tails, his size no smaller than the mansion behind us. In this super accelerated mental world, every 10 minutes were like 1 second outside, of course this came with a burden to my mind, but the tone of Orion's mental voice seemed urgent. "I didn't see you when I arrived and your presence was so faint that I didn't know how to locate you." (me) "During an attack by the Ascendants a few days ago, I invaded one of their bodies to infiltrate them, I've been observing them ever since." (Orion) "Did you discover anything?" (me) "I discovered a few things, but the pair I encountered were strangely peaceful for the most part, with the only mention of trouble being the promiscuity of one of them." (Orion) "I didn't find it strange until I discovered that my presence was not unknown to them." (Orion) "..." (me) Hearing this worries me, but before I say anything I realize that his Aura and appearance are still calm, he even managed to contact me, so he should be safe now. "Master, those I observed were traitors among the Ascendants, people who are under Davoth's command." (Orion) "Did they say this before or after you showed yourself?" (me) "Davoth appeared personally, I also saw other Ascendants, among them one who is responsible for summoning the Anomalous Creatures in front of you now." (Orion) "He doesn't work with Davoth? Then why is he indicating these damn things!?" (me) "Davoth will not personally interfere in this battle and will not let the Traitors' identities be discovered by the Ascendants, he plans to put his plan into action right after the battle considering his return." (Orion) "Millions, maybe even billions of lives have been lost and he still wants to keep his plans!!!" (me) I am not a hero of justice, I am not a good person either, I would probably be considered one of the cruelest entities in this universe, the number of people I have killed, tortured, experimented on and even manipulated are too great, not to mention the wars I have caused just by existing. But even so, the genocide of such a large number of people was too much to see, that image that seemed to extend beyond the limits of vision, so many people being disintegrated or sucked until they became mummies and only then returning to dust. These horrific images will not leave my mind, such a great fog of death, such a great theft of life, it was horrible to see, traumatizing to remember, and a completely unforgivable act. Davoth dares to say that he will stand idly by in this kind of situation, he knew what would happen and yet he chose not to act!? "Master, we have no time for your outburst!" (Orion) "..." (me) "Don't let your anger cloud your vision, not now." (Orion) "You're right, I can go and settle accounts with him later, is there anything else I need to know?" (me) "Davoth told me he will protect the Souls of those sacrificed, but you will not have to deal with the Anomalous Creatures." (Orion) "The Ascendants have called two forces to join this attack, they are..." (Orion) "The Entities War and Famine, I know about that... but anything else?" (me) "Davoth says the Ascendants have a long-standing business relationship with the Entity of War, but he doesn't understand the other Entity's reason for being here." (Orion) "He says that War resolves everything in combat and hierarchy is everything, if you invite them to a duel with their leader, someone who represents the Entity itself as the Avatar of War and win the duel, then all of them under your command will retreat." (Orion) "That only applies to War, but what do I do about Famine?" (me) "The same thing, but this time it's not enough to just fight, the Avatar of Famine has infinite regeneration and high physical attributes, only being devoured would kill him and only that would make his forces retreat." (Orion) "..." (me) "(In other words, I must defeat them in their concepts, win War in a confrontation and defeat Famine by devouring him.)" (me) So the way to face an Entity is within its Concept, this explains why Callidora in the past used me to get something from the Plague Entity, she wanted from the beginning a power compatible with propagation and knew that Hinata could do it with my help. "(A conceptual fight...)" (me) A strange way to fight, but it would make sense, if the Anomalous Entities are beings that incarnate or are the concepts themselves, then a physical battle is almost completely useless, there is no way to hurt a concept, but one can deny the concept, distort the concept or further elaborate the concept into new meanings. The Avatars, as vessels for these Entities, must be strongly influenced by these Concepts, the battle is how War lives, the conflict prospers its concept in every way, winning it in a battle would be forcing a consensus. But I can't fight two Avatars at the same time, I'm not even sure if I can defeat one of them, I wish I could both. With Orion's explanation, I discovered many things about the Anomalous Entities, many are assumptions, so I don't know how far I am right or wrong, but that can be left for future questioning. "Should it be me fighting?" (me) "For the one who commands the War troops, it will have to be you. It seems that part of the agreement was that he wanted to fight you personally. From what the Ascendants said, everyone was warned not to interfere in the fight." (Orion) "As for the Famine troops, I don't know anything. The Ascendants themselves are confused about your participation." (Orion) "(There is a possibility that Famine is still resentful of the Anomalous Dragons being removed from his influence, so I can use that to attract his attention.)" (me) I can't take care of everything, so I needed plans to handle this situation. Some things were already set. I would fight the Avatar of War, but I can send one of the Twins to take care of the other Avatar of Famine. "Huhh!!" (me) "Master, are you okay!?" (Orion) "I'm fine... just mentally exhausted..." (me) "Is there anything else to know?" (me) "One of the Ascendants in this battle is Baldr." (Orion) "..." (me) Baldr is back. I never liked him. If possible, I wanted to kill him personally, but I have no illusions about it. Even now, I don't think I could face someone like him if he still has the same power as before. "I'm going to summon you. Be ready." (Me) "I'm ready." (Orion) I hadn't even spent 10 minutes in this mental conversation and I was already very tired. My head was hurting because I was already mentally exhausted from the days of chasing and fighting until I got here. Keeping this accelerated mental conversation with Orion wasn't doing my mind any good, but at least I learned some very useful things. At least now I know how to deal with the biggest problems here: the reinforcements of the two Anomalous Entities. I let go of the connection with Orion and stop accelerating my thoughts. The previously still world seemed to start moving once again. My head was still hurting, but it was slowly easing now that I stopped accelerating my mind. "< Summoning of the Divine Beast: Orion >" (me) In front of me, a drop of ethereal red blood forms before spreading into a magic circle from which a column of blood descends like a waterfall. A large Blood Wolf appears with large wings and half-ethereal tails, its large size drawing attention as it appears. "Cortana and Lena, I have something to talk to you about, mother, you too." (me) I didn't waste time this time. I couldn't use thought acceleration again. My mind might be in a bad state to fight later. What I did was have the three of them touch their minds, containing the information I received and what I needed from them. For beings like them, this small piece of information was assimilated in milliseconds. My mother walked away, saying that she would take care of Baldr. "I already knew about it, but if he dares to show up here, I'll take care of him myself." (Selene) "The Anomalous Dragons are under my control now, so I'll deal with Famine, just focus on the Avatar of War." (Cortana) "I'll take care of that Golem." (Lena) Lena points to the smallest of the Golems, he barely draws attention and I hadn't noticed him before, but the other planetary Golems seem to be behind him in an orderly fashion as if he were the leader, clearly he shouldn't be simple. At that moment the Ascendants began to act and their forces began the attack, so we also acted, under my mother's command. "ATTACK!!" (Selene)