[Current location: Holy empire – Capital city – Holy Castle – Throne room]
"…"
(Okay! Am I fucked?!) – thought Iron Will as he was on his knee alongside the Daughter Of Mercy.
"…"
"Stand up." – said the holy emperor.
"…"
Without saying anything, both of them got up.
"I've read the letter from Godfrey and I understand the situation….. But."
"I want to hear it from your mouths how it went."
"…'
(OKAY! IF I SCREW THIS UP, I WILL REALLY BE FUCKING DEAD!) – thought panicking Iron Will.
"The…. The enemy knew that they could not win a head on confrontation with us….. And so, they chose to hinder us." – spoke up Iron Will.
"They took down all of our current means of obtaining supplies while also attacking locations that stored our food supplies."
"We obviously tried to gain new means of obtaining food…. But the enemy also sabotaged every single place, be it a farm or a monster infested locations…. They destroyed everything, leaving nothing for us."
"Afterwords…. Our entire army began starving, losing power…. We were not able to push forward anymore and be forced on the defense…. We were able to hold them back somewhat at first…. But as our search for the food failed over and over…. Resulting in massive scale starvation….. Afterwords, our troops were not able to hold back the enemy any longer, we started losing the ground….. Before then ultimately being defeated."
"Before then taking one of most reinforced ships with the elite escort in order to at least bring Daughter Of Mercy to the safety, away from that lost war."
"And then you were rescued by my other daughter as your ship was about to sink." – said the holy emperor.
"Y-yes…" – replied nervous Iron Will.
"…"
"And you are saying, if you didn't lost means of securing the supplies, you would had won that war?" – asked the emperor.
"Yes…. The starvation was the main reason we had really had lost the war." – replied Iron Will.
"…"
"I see." – said the emperor.
"…"
"…."
"?"
(Am I safe?) – thought scared Iron Will.
" Honestly, I should punish you both, since not only did you failed my order, but also order from the heavens themselves."
"But….. You had saved my daughter and was lost already at that point, therefore, there won't be any form of punishment."
"If anything, I will reward you later for bringing my daughter to safety."
"For now, dismissed, both of you."
"!"
"Yes your holiness!" – said the Daughter Of Mercy as she bowed her head alongside Iron Will, before then quickly leaving the throne room in hurry.
"…"
(HOLY SHIT! I'M SAFE!) – thought panicking Iron Will.
(I've thought I would lose my current nobility status or something, but no?! I really just got rewarded?!)
(Honestly, we all fucked up big time and everything! Hell! I was even expecting some sort of harsh quest as punishment, like the hell mode type of quest, but nothing?!)
(Jezus fucking Christ. I've was really about to shit my pants.)
"…"
"YOU HAVE FAILED ME." – said the heavenly voice.
"I know…I…." – said the emperor before stopping.
" YOUR MISSION WAS TO RETRIVE THE ARTEFACT TO SAVE MY DAUGHER." – said the heavenly voice.
"I've trusted you."
"I've depended on you."
"And yet you failed me?"
"…"
"I have no excuses." – replied the emperor.
"Then try again." – replied the heavenly voice.
"I….. We can't do it." – replied the emperor.
"The sea route is heavily blocked and even if we were to clear up all the sea monsters, there are also merfolks as well as the fact that the enemy apparently obtained means of destroying our Great Barrier."
"Right now, our forces are completely unable to break through the alliance barricade."
"Then find the way." – said the heavenly voice.
"I want that artefact as soon as possible." – said the heavenly voice before moments later their presence disappeared.
"…"
(She is gone…..But….) – thought the emperor.
(If the situation is how all of them reported it to be…. Then we won't be able to break though the alliance barricade.)
(Not only that, but because of our plan to betrayal merfolk was made public, any form of alliances with sea beings may end up being way harder to make.)
(The invasion will fail no matter what we do… Even if we were to create a powerful fleet, the enemy will do the same and even came up with other measures to counter us.)
(The modified Great Barrier won't do its work anymore either.)
(Dammit…. How did this all happened in the first place?) – thought the holy emperor as he started remembering the past.
"Congratulation my children. You and your champions have prevailed the madness of the monsters and their evil." – said the holy emperor as all 5 children of the emperor was present in the throne room.
"We live to serve you and the heavens alone." – replied the children of the emperor.
"At the rate things are currently, the last remaining cultist will be exterminated." – said Godfrey.
"The champion Iron Will, the adventure, is making way better progress than we had imagined…. Honestly, at this rate he will be able to take on the trial."
"Oh? That is interesting." – said the holy emperor.
"Very well. If he succeed in his next task, then- "
"Oh emperor of the earth and his children, hear me." – said the heavenly voice that suddenly echoed through the throne room.
"!"
"Is that you, mother of light?" – asked the emperor.
"Yes… It is me." – said the divine voice.
"Listen to me o my subject and obey."
"This is a matter of most importance that needs to be kept secret/"
"Hear and obey."
"You are to go to the continent ruled by the vampire infestation and retrieve a artefact of the demonic god."
"?"
"Artefact of the demonic god?" – asked the holy emperor.
"Yes…. This is something that needs to be obtained in order to save my daughter of fire." – said the heavenly voice.
"Daughter…. Wait, did something happened to the goodness of beauty and fire?" – asked worried emperor.
"…"
"She is dying." – replied the heavenly voice.
"Her heart, it was destroyed by the unholy god magic."
"He ripped out her heart, leaving her in a state of destruction."
"At the rate things are, she will die…. And so, she needs the artefact of the god of fire and forge in order to replace her lost heart."
"This isn't a request."
"It is a order from me directly."
"You will obtain the heart."
"…"
(This was the first time ever I've heard the mother of light so worried….. But Owan? God of magic and questions? How did a demonic god like him even managed to lay a hand on the god of heavens? Not only that, but to even straight up steal their heart!?)
(I've wasn't told anything else…. Was I unworthy for such informations? Or maybe the mother of light didn't knew much herself?)
(Either way…. This is way worse than I've could had imagined…. The heavens commands to strike down the unholy once more….. But there is just not enough time!)
[Meanwhile: Heavens.]
"…"
"How is she doing?" – asked an young looking adult woman with a shinning hair that resembled a rainbow as she stepped forward.
"…"
"Well…. Not good o heavenly mother." – said the angel with many limbs resembling combination of wings and arms.
"At the rate things are…. She will.. Die." - said the angel while looking down at the pod containing the goodness of fire and beauty body that had a straight up giant hole in her chest.
"Even with your light, it won't be enough."
"At very beast…. Few more weeks."
"?!"
"You are saying that she only has few weeks left!?" – shouted the mother of light, shaking up the entire chamber and terrifying all the angels nearby.
"…"
"Can…. Can't you do anything to at least buy her more time?" – asked the mother of light as she tried calming down her wrath.
"No…. I've already used every single trick possible." – said the angel.
"The damage that was done to her wasn't just meant to steal her hearth, but also her authority and divinity. A good part of it was stolen and instead replaced with a curse."
"We already removed the curse…. But the damage it has done was far worse than we had originally thought."
"I'm sorry, but there is nothing I can do anymore."
"…"
"Then how did he even got here….. HOW THE HELL A GOD OF HELL GOT INTO THE HEAVENS!? HOW DID HE DO IT!?" – shouted the mother of light.
"We…. We don't know." – said the lady wearing a vail, the daughter of the goodness of beauty and fire.
"Before anybody had realized, a portal suddenly opened…. And before mother could had reacted… She was already struck down by the demonic god, before then he disappeared after plucking out her heart."
"…"
(Dammit! Nothing makes sense here!) – thought the mother of light.
(Even if the one that struck down my daughter was a god of hell, there is no way he would had been able to do it!)
(I mean, this is heaven! His authority and divinity should had been weekend by just stepping a foot in this place!)
(And yet he left my daughter in half dead state while her own power was stolen?!)
(….)
(There is many question regarding this….. But most importantly would be this.)
(What does he plan on doing with my daughter authority?)