I: POST MORTEM THROES
Limbo's mask of divinity burned down as it collapsed.
The prospering cities of lust decayed away like its once beloved ruler.
Gluttony dissolved itself with the sinners, bathed in acid and decaying blood.
II: DECAYING VENGEANCE
Like the failed Insurrection Ions ago, Greed crumbled under the weight of blinding gold.
The ocean of Styx dried up as the sinners died out, leaving behind an uninhabitable wasteland in Wrath.
Heresy fell into eternal darkness with the husks that resided there.
III: THE DEATH OF GOD'S WILL
The blank walls of Violence were painted red by countless hands.
The layer of Fraud found reason as the last of the sinners withered away.
Only Treachery remained, its icy walls preventing the machines driven by survival.
It seemed that entropy had found its way to the almighty's most potent creation.
Hell was dying out, and it could no longer sustain the machines that longed for fuel. It was going empty. In a desperate attempt to maintain capability, the machines breached the walls of Treachery and entered, killing anything they could find to draw and harness blood.
As the machines, countless in their desperate fight for salvation, the lakes of treachery ran red with the blood of both the machines and the sinners.
The war went on for time uncountable.
Hours, Months, Years
The total amount of time elapsed did not matter.
The machines killed and killed and killed, only to find another wave of machines just like them, longing for blood and fuel, about to kill them in turn. It was the climax of everything, at least in the realm of the Inferno with the machines locking themselves in eternal war. The last loud bang before all ended—a final act of sin laid in before the ultimate stasis this seemed.
Amid the chaos, there was V1, a machine built specifically for warfare alongside the majority of the machines there.
However, only V1 was the model designed to truly thrive in situations like this-- unending machine-to-machine combat, where speed and tenacity meant longevity, even for a fraction of a second.
An incarnation of the Reaper it seemed to be. It had destroyed everything that it encountered, and it was decimating the machines nearby, showing no mercy.
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A machine's guide to Divinity
FanfictionViolence, Fraud. All gone. And with Treachery soon to follow. The machines are decimating everything in its path and Hell itself is on the verge of being wiped out. Or so it seems. Hell was aware of its layers being destroyed, but it didn't care fo...
