Godslayer's Legend

War: An organised armed conflict between nations or organised groups, deliberate violence planned and executed for political, economic, or territorial goals.

It was a concept that could be applied to all levels of civilisation, from the lowest to the highest.

When it was applied to independent universal civilisations fighting in the interstitial space between universes, the scale of things could rise to heights that couldn’t be predicted.

These weren’t nations fighting across continents, but entire universes waging war, each backed by its ruling Pantheons and massive armies consisting of quintillions.

Even a single campaign involving just two universes could easily span decades, given the distances involved, the resilience of the combatants, and the scale of destruction required to actually threaten a universe’s integrity.

When dozens, possibly hundreds, of universes were pulled into the fold, things only became more complicated.

Even the weakest and lowest-ranked soldiers in such a conflict were Deity Realm Existences who could battle for tens of hours nonstop without succumbing. A single confrontation between Higher Deities and their armies could last for months or years before one side yields.

Multiply that by thousands of such engagements occurring simultaneously across the war front, and a war lasting for decades becomes the bare minimum expectation.

Complex logistics were also involved in transferring troops and resources across immense distances.

Then came the even more complex alliances and interventions.

A war that began between two universes would never end with just those two universes.

All of these aforementioned factors applied to this war that started with just Hell and Olympus, and very quickly, within an hour of the initial declaration, had already begun pulling other universes into the fold.

The first battles between Olympus and Hell didn’t begin as an equal conflict.

Olympus had already suffered a catastrophic internal collapse before the first organised armies of Hell arrived. Four of the Twelve Olympians had fallen, with their souls taken by Hades, while others had sustained severe injuries during Hades’ attack on Dodekapolis.

The ruling structure of Olympus had been damaged, its strongest figures were either dead, wounded, or occupied with the consequences of Hades’ actions, and the sealing of the Underworld had disrupted one of the most important systems within the universe.

The timing couldn’t have been worse, and the far-reaching territories under Olympian influence were the first areas to suffer the consequences.

The vassal universes located throughout the outer territories of Olympus weren’t prepared to withstand the full force of Hell’s response. Their defences had been designed to protect against isolated conflicts and smaller invasions, not a coordinated military campaign launched by multiple Devil Universes and their allies.

As Hell’s armies advanced, those territories began to fall one after another.

The rulers of those vassal universes were defeated, their Main Entities captured, and the Authority governing those universes was transferred to Devil Deities who had distinguished themselves during the early campaigns.

What had once been Olympian territory became territory controlled by Hell’s allies, with new Rulers appointed to maintain order and expand their influence.

The first phase of the war was therefore not defined by massive battles between the strongest powers, but by rapid territorial losses.

Olympus, already weakened from within, was forced to watch as portions of its influence were stripped away before it could properly organise a response.

The advance into Olympian territory only came to a halt when reinforcements from Asgard and Romersk’s vassal universes arrived to support the remaining Olympian vassal universes.

Their arrival prevented further immediate losses, restoring enough stability to stop Hell’s expansion within those regions.

However, their intervention created a new battlefield.

The Devil Universes immediately treated the support provided to Olympus as justification to redirect their forces toward Asgard and Romersk.

Within the Nine Realms Cluster, the situation changed almost immediately.

Muspelheim and Jotunheim had remained silent throughout the first months of the war, watching as Olympian territories fell to Hell and its allies without committing their own forces.

The moment Asgardian forces moved to support Olympus, that silence came to an end.

The Fire Giants of Muspelheim and the Frost Giants of Jotunheim launched their own campaigns against Asgardian territories, targeting the same regions that had sent aid to Olympus.

The Asgardians would’ve preferred to focus their attention on assisting Olympus, but the giants within their own cluster ensured that such freedom wasn’t possible. They couldn’t leave their own territories undefended while their ancient enemies began moving against them.

Romersk faced the same situation.

The Gigantes immediately began their own military operations, moving against Romersk territories almost as soon as its forces supported Olympus, creating the impression that their actions had been planned long before the war began.

However, the truly premeditated aspect of the conflict wasn’t the decision of the giants to attack the god-ruled universes.

It was how quickly those god-ruled universes were able to mobilise support for Olympus.

The speed of their response suggested that preparations had already been in place before the declaration of war, as though they had anticipated the possibility of Olympus becoming the centre of a major conflict.

This suspicion spread quickly among the Masters of the universes that came to make up the Hell faction of the war.

On the Asgardian battlefields, Jormungand, during a rematch with Dragon Slayer Sigurd, openly accused Odin and Zeus of orchestrating the entire situation, claiming that the apparent deterioration of relations between Asgard and Olympus over the past few decades had been nothing more than an act.

According to Jormungand, the disagreements between the two rulers had been a deception intended to conceal their cooperation.

He claimed that his Authority of Destiny had revealed the truth behind their actions and that the alliance between Asgard and Olympus had never truly been broken.

Whether his accusations were true or not, the damage had already been done.

The scale of the war had expanded.

What had started as a conflict between Hell and Olympus was now affecting neighbouring universes, forcing universes that had been rivals for millions of years to enter the battlefield and creating new fronts before the original conflict had even reached its full scale.

Meanwhile, the main front around Olympus’ territory continued to increase in size.

As news of the losses suffered by Olympus spread, more universes began making decisions regarding their involvement.

Some Universal Masters who had initially intended to avoid the conflict began reconsidering their position after witnessing the speed at which Hell’s forces had expanded. Others saw an opportunity to challenge the existing balance of power within the region.

The conflict was no longer limited to those directly allied with Hell or Olympus.

Every universe within the surrounding region had to consider what the outcome of this war would mean for its own future.

If Hell and its allies achieved complete victory over Olympus, the balance that had existed for hundreds of thousands of years would be broken.

If Olympus and its allies managed to resist, those who had stayed neutral would still have to deal with the consequences of the war.

As more powers became involved, the number of battlefronts continued to increase, and the war gradually transformed from a confrontation between two sides into a chain of conflicts spreading throughout the region of the multiverse surrounding Olympus and Hell.

For the civilisations far below the level of these universal powers, the effects arrived much later.

Mortal civilisations didn’t understand the decisions made by universal rulers or the conflicts taking place between universes, but they still experienced the consequences.

Changes in their spatial environments, disruptions to universal systems they depended upon, and the disappearance of beings that had once protected their worlds became signs that something far greater was unfolding beyond their understanding.

The war had expanded far beyond the battlefields in the space between universes, and with every passing year, more and more universes were pulled into the conflict, the war becoming something far larger than the conflict that had begun in Olympus.

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