Chaos Will Reign

Chapter Six: Rising Pressure

Aella and Shannan would clash swords, as they both held their swords in an underhand grip. Shannan had a reputation being the best mortal swordsman in God City, and he was certainly no slouch. As Aella smiles wickedly, the tail like extensions on her latex bodysuit would start to rise. One of them thrusts forward at Shannan's head, but he quickly darts his head to the right to avoid it. A second one lunges forward next, this one slashing at his torso. This made the man wince, as he jumps back to avoid getting cut up more.

As he adjusts his sword grip, he watches Aella multiple herself, creating a shadow clone that seemed to just be standing behind her the whole time. The two run at Shannan from both sides, swords primed and ready. As he watches both, he focuses his senses and materializes a second sword in his palm. He uses both weapons to block the incoming attacks, and pushes one of the Aellas away to focus one down. However, once again, Aella multiples as a second clone appears. Shannan quickly glances behind him, and sees that a fourth popped up as well. He couldn't even tell which one was the real Aella. He figured only the real one could make clones, but that was debunked in an instant.

As the clones of Aella begin to strike in tandem with each other, Shannan starts finding himself to be overwhelmed. So, he decides it would be best to cut them all down at once. Shannan squats his legs slightly, and positions his sword over his shoulder. He begins to concentrate, and as soon as all the Aellas are around him, he swings wide, a blood red flash of light gleaming around his body with an astounding 270 degree circumference. All the Aellas disappear, except for one. The real one was knocked back from the slash, but she gracefully lands on her feet.

"Hm... It seems I was wrong to underestimate you." Shannan says with a smile. "For a goddess whose primary goal is to sing and have sex, you fight remarkably well."

"Hehe...~ Why thank you." Aella would smile. "I appreciate the compliments, but I'm married. And I also have a mission to complete." She says with a grin.

Shannan was confused by both of her statements, but would feel what she meant by the last one, as a stabbing pain runs through his back. He looks down, seeing Aella's wakizashi stabbed through his torso. However, it seemed like she missed any vital organs, as he quickly pushes himself away from the clone, and cuts her down.

"Lord Shannan!" LaRissa would yell across the battlefield, as he gripped the wound in his stomach.

"Heh... Seems it was a bad idea to underestimate you... But I also have a mission to get done." He says as the dark elf and oni would jump in from both sides of Aella, surrounding her. As Shannan stood tall, Erii arrives just in time with a needle like sword in hand.

Seeing that she was finally surrounded, she smiles, and puts her hands up. "Oh dear. Seems I'm outnumbered now. And I need to replenish my chakra to create any more clones. What ever will I do?" She says in the fakest sounding surrender ever.

Despite this, Erii wastes no time and zips forward, entering Aella's mind and quickly retrieves her save data. "Hm. Not exactly who we were looking for, but it's save data. It'll do. Let's get out of here." She says and teleports everyone away to deliver the data to Chaos.

Seeing her mother surrender, the dark skinned rabbit girl backs away and returns to Aella's side. "Are you okay, mom?" She would ask, as Aella gently rubs her ears.

"Mommy is fine, Trixie. Thank you for asking, sweetie." She reassures her daughter. Once the enemies were gone, Aella lifts her phone from her a pocket on her leg. "My data is gone. What next?" She asked.

"Don't worry. Everything is going well on our ends." Ava replies over the phone. "We'll get your data back once everything starts to fall into place for our plan."

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Things Aileus's temple weren't going as he had intended. Despite all his experience, skills, stats, weapons, and equipment, he was no match for the mortal woman who was basically just running him down. Her strength was monstrous, and felt like she could break almost anything Aileus wanted to throw at her. And while she was chasing the god down, the brunette man would watch on with a glee. He seemed to be enjoying Aileus's suffering.

As Aileus primes himself to catch one of the woman's punches, he opens his palm and outstretched his arm to stop her attack. However, her force seemed much greater this time around, as her arm continued in a straight path, barely obstructed by Aileus's block. As soon his palm met her fist, Aileus could hear the bones in his snapping like twigs from the sheer impact. His eyes widen, and he makes a quick attempt to dodge now. If that had hit its mark, his skull would've been smashed for sure.

Just as he was about to recover, she grabs onto his limp arm and uses it like a rag doll toy, slamming him into the ground. He was out of breath from the slam, as he laid on the ground, virtually motionless.

'Holy shit... How is this lady so strong...?' He would think to himself as he laid there. However, he felt no anger in this defeat. As he knew that once he was defeated, they can move on to the next part of Damien's grand plan.

Erii arrives soon after, and quickly nabs the save data, then gives it to the demonic looking man. With that, they leave, as Erii teleports the group away with her.

It took Aileus a moment to recover. His vitality skill seemed to be intact, as well as every other skill he's copied thus far. He would stand up and walk over to his personal quarters, grabbing his phone. "Hey, they just took my data. What now?"

"Now, we track them. Thanks to Aella stabbing a tracker into that Shannan fellow, we now have their whereabouts. It's time we bring the battle to them." Damien answers the phone this time.

"Got it." Aileus nods and hangs up the phone. As he opens up his inventory, he's met with a shocking revelation. While he maintained all his skills, all of the weapons and equipment he gather, as well as his level, have all disappeared. "MY CUTIES!! WHAT THE FU—?!"

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"Hmm..." Suoh would groan a bit, sitting in a chair as he waits for the news.

"Something wrong, Suoh?" Anny flutters into the room, tilting her head slightly.

"It's just...something doesn't feel right. Sure, I have Damien's save data, but I still don't feel any different like Shannan did when he got Yan-Shen's. I don't feel any smarter, and I certainly don't feel any surge of divine power that Erii explained either..." Suoh says. "It almost feels as if...he was never a god in the first place? But that can't be right."

"I think I have an idea." Kheios chimes in.

"Lord Kheios?"

"The God of Wisdom...must have passed on his powers before his save data was stolen from him."