Arpious of the Planes

"I heard you the first time… You want me to help capture this woman alive, right? The ancient frost is that important to you?"

"Well, it's not important to me, but it isn't something a mere mortal should have,"

"And you call that thing a mortal?" The man asked, turning to the dragon that began to evolve yet again, doubling in size, power, speed, and magic.

"Please… your eminence… I'm grateful to be graced by your presence, but the other demon lords will be unhappy if I don't bring the ancient frost back,"

Though it seems I made a mistake as the dragon viciously smiled, the edges of his mouth grinning up to each ear lobe.

"Tell me… is all of hell aware of what happened to me?" The man asked, but I could only squint my face with confusion as I thought this man had just disappeared.

It seems I intruded on something much more sinister and horrible than I originally intended.

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(Arpious POV)

When I reawoke, I found myself standing atop the corpse of a woman who had been cut up yet still looked so beautiful and dazzling.

Her wounds began to heal almost instantly, but the succubus remaining right beside her kept her asleep.

The draconic man next to her crouched down across her body and held his palm firmly across her toned stomach, which seemed to still resist the magic being injected into her body.

She was completely limp and unconscious, like a real corpse, yet for some reason, her resistance was still apparent in the way her body continued to fight back.

Suddenly, a single frozen ball of ice in the shape of a tear rose from her chest, and we were all entranced by the power this thing held to notice the monster which swept by and snatched it away from us.

The draconic general quickly reached out a massive draconic arm that wrapped itself around the very ribcage of the monster, and what I noticed was something that made me almost cringe to myself.

"So you all really came to take my children…." I muttered through gritted teeth, and as the siren struggled within the claw of black scales, I took out a sword of black flames and swiftly cut his head off.

"I'll be heading off. Inform me once you succeed,"

"Sure," The dragon shrugged, and I resisted the urge to kick him right then and there, but there were more important matters to attend to as of now.

Hey! Are you there, asshole!

'Ugh… stop screaming. Taking over your body was such a pain, and I could barely even muster 10% of my strength… you're seriously trying to kill me,' the demon groaned.

Wake up and tell me what happened while I was away. You better not have fucked with my family or the plane at that.

'Ugh… shut up, will you… I didn't do anything but neutralize that damn dragon. She was such a pain since the succubus took fucking forever to get here… anyway, I think I can take over your body again whenever you want. With this new evolution, your body can even hold the power of a demon lord… crazy, isn't it?"

I couldn't give any less of a shit… Even if it made me a god.

'You really don't like me, huh? Well, you should stop worrying about me and go find those children of yours. Sirens don't give up until they've achieved their goal,'

Clicking my tongue, I found myself in front of a new battlefield, away from the slowly easing tension where the ice drakes were fighting the rest of the plane.

It was literally my children, Ysal, and a single elven queen fighting off a seemingly endless amount of sirens who poured out from the fake sky.

It was pretty much a stalemate since my children were pretty strong, but the elven queen and Ysal were just on a completely different level.

With the overwhelming amount of sirens, they were kept held in place… but it was truly just a gruesome sight overall.

Ysal made sure to burn each and every corpse in order to ease the cleanup of this battle later.

It was already won.

"[Vault of Cursed Weapons]," I muttered, and a thousand portals appeared behind me, swirling with a purple madness that began to gather in the very center of each portal.

From there, weapons were formed, chained by some kind of void-like abyss that attempted to hold them in, but by using this skill, I broke the chains, and they were sent flying outward, tearing everybody and everything to pieces.

Even my allies had to back up since they were nearly in the crossfire… but the best way to solve this mess was to deal with the source.

While the squad down there held the sirens back from entering the battlefield behind them, I flew upwards toward the source of where these monsters came from.

Soon, I was swarmed by these pesky ants, but with a few swats, I was able to completely destroy them and pave a clear path to the gaping hole in the plane.

Somehow they managed to destroy it, but the plane regenerated insanely fast, so I knew there must be somebody keeping it open.

[Weak Celestial Bone Dive]

Using this skill, I dove through the plane and arrived on the other side, where I found myself in marble halls lined with hundreds of thousands of sirens who wanted a piece of this new plane.

Just the sheer amount of these things sent shivers down my spine.

But, as I was swarmed again, I noticed a single siren mage who kept his calm and just barely managed to keep the hole open in the floor of the plane's skeletal system.

"You must have an interesting skill," I licked my lips before diving downwards and summoning both of my weapons.

SHING

But, just as my weapons tore through the atmosphere and neared his neck, an invisible barrier sent shockwaves through my arms, nearly tearing them off as my weapons collided with such a thing.

"Damn… I guess it wasn't going to be so easy," I muttered.