Betrayed To Hell And Back

Chapter 25: Horizon P1

To the others, the aftermath of the battle with Loki and Thor, made the battleground look like a wasteland, only a few trees were left standing.

"Is it over?" Vali asked.

Only Great Red spoke.

(I'm afraid it's only begun, once they realize that Thor and Loki have failed to return, they will come full force. The time has come to realize that the war is at our front door.)

Vali was about to speak, but footsteps were heard, and everyone turned there attention to Issei. He had already dropped out of his new balance breaker and was in his base form.

"What the hell was that Ise?"

Issei looked at Raynare and sighed.

"I'm sorry if I scared you, but it seems this power will be the weight to tip the balance in our favor."

Issei looked at everyone and started to speak.

"This is the tipping point of our whole situation, prepare for the hardest battles to come."

Everyone seemed confident in their individual abilities, and Issei saw it clearly.

His willpower had rubbed off on them.

He was about to continue but started to feel dizzy and nausea coming, however, that didn't make sense. He shouldn't get sick, he was a fucking dragon god now, and illness was a bug waiting to be squashed by him.

"You aren't sick Issei Hyoudou."

His eyes widened.

"Bahamut, Ddraig? Did you guys hear that?"

The response wasn't what he was expecting.

[I heard nothing Issei, are you okay? Did the balance breaker cause too much fatigue?]

Bahamut seemed to agree with Ddraig.

"Your dragons cannot hear me, this is a temporary connection between just the two of us. I made it that way so you could focus solely on me. Now take a deep breath and listen to what I have to say."

Issei relented and did as the mysterious voice asked of him.

"Good, now I am going to severe the connection between you and the dragons inside of you for a small bit, so that we don't get off track here."

Issei waited for this voice to continue, he wasn't about to interrupt it. Whoever it was, was clearly not going to take no for an answer. If he could severe the link between him and the dragons that resided in his soul, this entity was very powerful indeed.

"I don't have much time with you, so I'll have to go through this fast as possible. You sparked my interest that night in hell when you accepted Bahamut with open arms, only the foolish or those with tempered wills of steel would do that. You are the latter, and as such I watched you in your journey to see what fruit it would bear. It seems you are the one to change the world. I have no ill will of what you are doing, even if I don't agree on every level of your plan. However, that doesn't dispute the fact that the hand of fate was tempted and it will respond in kind. I knew it the moment I felt the energy you unleashed in the battle with Great Red. You, Issei Hyoudou have been chosen to stop the end of the world."

Issei was at a loss, so he just let the entity continue.

"In the incoming days of your war, an opponent you know all to well will appear before you. Though they are not the cause. It is the people they have in their group that will plot behind their backs to try to achieve world domination, but will ultimately bring about the apocalypse."