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  Chapter name is 'We will bury you'.

  [colpse]This chapter's OST is 'Lisa : The Painful - Final Fight Revamp - Rando March (e B's remix) (The st rando men Version)' Holy hell that's a long ass title. I suppose that's what happens when you have a remix of a remix from an obscure indie game about suffering.

  Things were going well... too well. Breag into Melthazar's realm was almost trivially easy with both Cathy and Katherine w together from the local church. Oher were no padins projeg themselves to the realm of their god, no pope ing to block them o time, no pesky hero seeking to put dowrey o time before she caused even more trouble. The entire realm was made of solid clouds, with a singur cathedral he portal. The ter of his strength, he would not let Esstrey waltz around it untested, but the cathedral was empty, the entire arty brought along was tense. From ihe cathedral looks as mundane as from the outside, there are even pews and a le from which a pastor could preach about god. The entire dispy could even be mistaken for a Catholic Church with ease.

  There is oail that stands out to Esstrey, and that would be the skylights. Through the skylights the sun shines inside, down on all her officers looking around like they are looking for someone hiding in the church. For a moment she thinks about the term 'Sors' used to describe humanoids patible with transmogrification, a lot of those terms back then had truth behind them that was lost by the modern people, apparently Sors were called as such due to their e with light magic. Fod of light, there aren't many sources of light withihedral, the only source would be the sun shining through the skylight, is this pce designed so prayer is only possible at noon?

  As Esstrey stares into the sun, she swears its getting a little bigger, but It's hard to see when staring into the sun, she remembers her sergeant yelling something at her... what was it again?

  "GET DOWrey yells just a little too te, the skylights burst as a bright fsh of light envelops the room as a miniature sun has broken through. Most of the more resilient troops brought along are blinded by the entry of a God, while the less resilient ones are scorched to death. Some were quick to respond to Esstrey's warning, and found cover between the pews that look undamaged at the dispy of power.

  Melthazar doesn't waste any time turning into a form, the miniature sun takes on the form of an armored knight in full pte, the form is massive, standing about a head taller tharey, and being made entirely of solid light. The knight walks towards Esstrey's spot of cover, walking through the pews he disregards the terrified survivors and burnt dead alike. A small rustling ween the pews catches his attention, a brave warrior i on ambushing him perhaps?

  No, a small bck cat ruween the pews meowing as it goes, passihazar by. His eyes follow it for a split sed, and that is a split sed too long against a bloodmage with a crossbow. Esstrey pops out of cover to shoot a bolt in his face, which for the front-half simply disies upon tact while the back half gets smashed to bits. Melthazar looks at Esstrey, and she tell the God is amused. He is entirely unscathed, while Esstrey's Alty is sgged and hanging off her face, her body is covered in burn marks, and her armor is tattered by the bst of heat. However, with the firing of her bolt a spell in the room is broken, and all survivors jump to ambush the God.

  The first attacks to reach Melthazar are bullets, a bunch of quick-witted liquidators being the first to fire as the slow liquidators are dead already. The bullets shatter a upon impact, and for a momehazar's entire body gets a little brighter as the shots nd. The o strike is Zha'klos, a demon face their final death if their body is bsted with enough energy ao infernal energy, but to strike at a god is a suct opportunity she didn't miss the first time, and she won't miss this time either. Her spear makes tact with the shin, causing a rge amount of sparks to emit from Melthazar, and Zha'klos is forced to back off as the heat traveling through her spear quickly bees too much. Melthazar attempts to ssh at Zha'klos, i oroying the infernal pest ond for all.

  His attempt is thwarted by a simple slime, she looks like a basic water slime, but her hue is slightly more... solid. Melthazar is a god of immense power, and feels that he actually has to it a little effort to wrench his sword-arm free from the slime. Is the eed thing made from adamantine? Only an insane alchemist would produething as dangerous as her. If there's ohihazar takes more serious than the Infernals, it would be dangerous beings like Sofia. He sms her into the ground with his shield, and attempts to position his sword at where her core is. Sofia ejects her core from her body with a little mass still attached to it, rather leaving behind most of her adamantine body than being at the receiving end of a God's s.

  Esstrey fires another bht at the visor of Melthazar, the bolt disies upoering the suit of armor, indig a greater amount of heat within. She just saw the sun take the form of a knight, and effortlessly deal with a coordinated assault from Malencia's fihrough raw power. They were never going to win a test of strength, but the level of being outmatched is disheartening.

  For Melthazar, the as of the Malens seem suspicious, if they had e to strike him down, they had clearly just wasted their best attempt, but the ck of a retreat or even a desperate st attempt has him thinking there's more to all this. The mermaid is their leader, she should be the one most aware of the situatio every seelthazar spends trying to read his oppo she seems to get more certain of her victory, what could this extradimensional stain on the world be plotting?

  Extradimensional...

  The door to the cathedral swings open once more, revealing the diminutive form of a creature of The Beyond pretending to be a maid.

  "This one has [aplished/succeeded/finished] fifty pert of its objective, and will not be able to fulfill more." The maid throws two figurines on the ground, one a figurine of a rge moon made of flesh, sleepy eyes looking in all dires. Anurine of a huge worm that looks wrong it's legs barely seem like legs at all, and even as a figuri seems to damage space around it. The tter tains the blood of Katherine as a... 'booster'.

  The figurine of the wives off a stant amount of light visible even under Melthazar's radiance, while the figurine of the moon is dormant and unresponsive. Something has answered the call.

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