Chapter 867: The Abominations' Plan
Standing in the middle of nowhere, Nyar looked at hordes of abominations, "We have two ways to go about it. Nira lost, so we have to decide now,"
"I say we attack immediately," A twisted monster with seven heads and long necks, twisting like a hydra replied, "We shouldn't give them time to prepare."
"You fool," Another abomination that looked vaguely humanoid but stood almost nine meters tall growled, "Lucifer and Astaroth are cutting our way in. Getting past them is harder than you think, even getting Nira in was a pain,"
"You're right. She's small and nimble," The first one replied as the hordes of abomination started whispering to each other, discussing their plan of attack as Nyra watched.
"Silence," He shouted, lifting his hand, "Our main enemy isn't Lucifer or Astaroth, it's that wannabe overgod Cain Lisworth. Despite starting as a human, he's trying to take AO's seat."
"Trying?" An abomination stared at Nyar, "He already did. You can feel it as well, the whole world is quickly turning around him. As the gods started to recognize him as their overgod, all of their domains began to soak in his divine existence. He might not be strong enough to rival AO and create the world from scratch, but he's more than strong enough to maintain it,"
Nyar nodded, "That's the weakness we're going to use. Our target isn't beating him in direct combat. We'll allow him to grow just enough to be able to recreate the world then destroy it to force him to spend all of his power fixing it," He smiled, "Then we'll take him down."
"That sounds like a plan, but won't we be left with a crumbling world? We need it to be at least somewhat stable to conquer." An abomination replied, waving his hand and creating a stone chair to sit on.
"That plan won't work in the long run,"
A long smile crossed Nyar's face, "I already have a plan for that, we open the world for him and let it grow far more than he can handle. By time, we'll slip traitor into his ranks to give us access to his power after the fall, it'll take several years, but we'll guarantee our victory,"
"We've waited for thousands of years, we won't mind several years extra," The abomination council agreed to the plan conjured by their eldritch king.
Nyar walked down his stage and approached them, "At the last fight, I'll face Cain Lisworth and I want you to hold his comrades,"
"We weren't able to sense him or half the gods since he left the hells," An abomination woman who looked closer to a massive titan asked, sitting behind the council like a massive shadow.
"He has retreated to his heaven to recover," Nyar replied, "He took Ereshkigal and Bacchus with him so I suspect he intends to grant them divinity to bolster his ranks."
"And those wasting too much energy that he needs to rest," She mumbled, "Can't we find his heaven and ambush him there,"
"That would be dangerous," Nyar sighed, "In human terms, it's like jumping naked into a hornet's nest. We can't risk it,"
"We know that Cain is a problem, what about the other gods?" Another abomination asked.
"There are two other ones we need to be extra careful with," Nyar scratched his head, "Lilia, or should I call that traitor Yog? She's quite the problem with how much she knows about the world."
"And the one that killed Nira, Chad," The titan abomination woman added.
"Chad Lisworth, his power is strange. We know he's the reincarnation of Adam, but the way he wields that power is quite strange, not like the Adam I know. As if he's someone else." Nyar thought, "No, he's someone else. Even if he has Adam's soul, as a person he grew up in this time and that is still a part of him. We can't treat him like Adam and expect to be able to predict his moves."
"His divine power seems limitless at times," One of them added, "I watched his fight with Nira, no matter how she grew stronger than he, he just became stronger to overpower her. The more he swings his fists, the deeper his well of divine magic grows."
"Even I can't sense a limit to his power," Nyar smiled, "But his weakness is the same as Adam's; he's quite adamant about protecting humanity." He lifted his hand, conjuring a small ball of flesh, eyes, and blood.
"I can see all of the time, yet strings of it remain hidden behind shadows." Looking at the ball's eyes, he could see Cain standing on top of the heavens pointing his staff upward, flashing with brilliant light.
He could see Chad sitting on a throne of gold, glaring down at the mortal world with a burning fire of divinity behind him.
He could be a massive black dragon flying in the middle of nothingness, carrying a whole world of existence in his stomach.
He could see white-haired twins clashing with a tall muscular man with black hair and glowing purple eyes.
He could see a blue-haired man walking alone in a forest with a squirrel on his shoulder, an unimaginable divinity burning in his body as he choked on a poison berry.
"This is as far as I can see in the future," Nyar sighed, "What I know is that the world isn't ending the way it is now, we have to change fate and force it to crumble."
"Are you saying that Cain is winning?"
"Yeah, he's winning. If this kept on the current pace," He waved his hand, "To all troops, fight while slowly retreating, open the world for Cain and his gods to explore and stretch their power thin. When the world grows too big for them to control, we'll raid them one by one and kill them all."
The abomination laughed, "A strategy only available for those who have a lot of time. When countries and kingdoms grow too large, they are destined to fall and crumble. That's a fact of reality that even the gods would fall into."
"You're right," Nyar smiled, "I can't see a reason for Cain to stop growing his power, and that's why I'll allow him to eat himself to death,"
"I'm sure someone will notice that something is off. If not Cain himself, Yog might sniff our plan out," An abomination added.
"We aren't to completely halt our attacks. We'll keep fighting them with decent plans that we know would fail 90% of the time. If we fail, we're doing well in our main plan, and if we manage to win, it's all good I guess," He giggled then burst laughing, "Maximum efficiency and dominance. Let's them dance on the palm of my hand,"
"As expected of our Lord!" All the abominations shouted at the same time, "What a plan! What intelligence, the world would be ours!"
"This would be my world!" Nyar lifted his hands, shouting at the top of his lungs.
"Ahem," The titan woman stared at him, lifting a finger up, "OUR world."
"Our world is a collective of Abomination, if we're talking about a ruler, then it's my world. The same way we can call it AO's world while it's the existence world." Nyar stared at her.
"You rule us, we all own the world." She sighed, "But it doesn't matter either way. We should get to prepare the small bait plans,"
"No, I should open the world first," Nyar lifted his hand and looked at it, seeing the gigantic sphere of existence. The outer world was far larger than the inner world that AO created. The only direct way to go between them is the Gate of Yog.
"A tiny marble of perfection in a sea of imperfection, but even so, we too have worlds that are barely stable. Feel free to push forward and explore them. The thinner you stretch, the easier it's to rip you apart." As Nyar said, tens of small sparks of light emerged around the inner world where the whole of existence existed.
It was now possible and relatively safe to go beyond the boundaries and explore new worlds as long as someone had the ability to cross the raging chaos of the primordial world, the boiling soup that the world was born.
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Cain was in the bath laying on his back as Asmo sat on his face and rubbed his flesh with her feet. "Something is off." He mumbled beneath her butt.
Hearing that, she gasped and jumped away with a worried face, "Sorry, did I do something wrong," She asked with an embarrassed face.
"Not you," He replied, sitting up and looking at the ceiling, "Something changed, I feel the whole world moving."
"Me too," Lilia growled, approaching Cain, "I bet Nyar did something, the world was static until just now."
Everyone looked at each other, "We can't feel anything,"
"You won't." Cain replied as he turned toward them, "I can feel it since I'm the overgod and she can as she's the guardian of the gate."
"Should we worry about it?" Asmo asked.
"I don't know yet," Cain replied, pulling her closer to him, "All I can say is that it can't possibly harm us in the short run. For now, let's keep going while I think about it," He jammed his face between her legs.