(First POV - ????)
It was.....a disaster. There are more than millions, almost a Billions of corpse. Or maybe even more than that.....I don't know. I have fought this war for over three years. Our army were twice or thrice bigger than the enemies yet.....yet we lose!
Damn it! Damn it!! If it wasn't.....if it wasn't for that God's Avatar descending and helping the Eastern Empire of Martial Goddess, we would have never lost!! I would have never lost!!
Suddenly a blinding ray of light falls upon my face as I was kneeling on the battlefield, defeated and utterly battered in blood and scars. My back is pierced with more than ten arrows and spears, my right eye is stabbed by the enemy and my body has been slashed so many times that I can't even distinguish between my skin and scars.
Despite that, I'm still holding my bow in my one hand and my spear in another hand. I slowly opened my left eye to see a beautiful woman that rivals the beauty of God's from ancient texts...No. It is a Goddess. Yes, She's the one! The reason why we lost this war!!
"Martial Goddess.....Veythara...." *I spoke up in hoarse tone, my throat hurting so much to even speak. I slowly look up as I saw the Goddess who is the reason of our demise.
She is wearing an extravagant imperial gown, designed in a fiery palette of deep crimson and shimmering gold. Flowing red silk embroidered with golden phoenix and flame-like patterns and the fabric is layered and semi-translucent in parts
Making her looks like a Elegant Empress even in the bloodshed battlefield. On the head remain the Crown that is her signature identity, The Crown of Calamity. Her Raven hair swaying in wind while her eyes are sharp with golden shine of her pupil
There she was standing tall and eleganty while holding a double-headed Spear in her hand, The Heavenly Spear, which has one head buried into the soil and the other head is pointing towards the sky with a beheaded skull of my closet friend and my only family, The King of Ankharis, The Land of Sands!
As I saw the head of my dear friend, tears started fell unconsciously from my eyes. As I was about to speak, The Goddess of Martial Arts spoke up first
"The reason of your lost isn't because of me but due to the reason that what you have tried to do is wrong and I have descended to make sure that you don't start the corruption before it's intended time" Veythara spoke to me in a soft yet authoritative tone, worthy to be a Goddess tone.
But what is she talking about? Wrong? Corruption? Before it's intended time? I don't understand anything but I know that she is delaying something by protecting the land of Shenzhouxia, The Land of Dragons and Bhavantra, The Land of Heaven.
"I don't care what reason you have, Veythara! You.....You are the reason why I lost.....why my friend lost.....why our kingdom lost!" I mustered up all my remaining energy. I don't fear death nor do I care if I died but I will make sure...I will make sure that you fail, Veythara!
"You wish to protect the land of Shenzhouxia and Bhavanta, huh?" I gripped upon my bow tighter and lift it up, mounting my spear on my bow as an arrow and point it at Veythara. I watched as her eyes narrowed and her gaze hardened at my actions
"Hahahahahahahahahaha!!! Do you think I fear death, Veythara?! Before you can even react, I will achieve my goal!" I turned my bow to my right, aiming towards the capital city of Shenzhouxia, Tianshan. I saw Veythara's eyes widened in horror as I smirked widely
"I will make sure that your plan fails!" I know what I'm going to do is wrong but they have taken everything from me and I will do the same!
With that, I released my spear which I enchanted to be turned into a deadliest weapon in the world. And it's aim? Towards the Shenzhouxia Emperor's Wife, Empress Yin Shenyue. But it wasn't to kill her. No, it was towards her unborn child in her womb. To kill her unborn child and barren her womb completely! To never let them a bloodline successor!
"Augustus!!! You dare attempt to harm an innocent unborn child and barren a innocent woman!!" Veythara roared furiously in front of my face, her golden pupils are burning in rage and anger that threatened to swallow my entire existence
I saw how she pull out the other head of her double-headed Spear from the soil and other end in which my friend's skull was implemented. She tossed aside my dear friend's skull and enchanted her weapon too. She threw her in same direction where I shoot my spear
My deadly enchanted spear can travel much faster than the speed of light but Martial Goddess Heavenly Spear seems to be on completely different level. I felt that my spear was merely an inch away from Yin Shenyue when Veythara launched her Spear yet....
Yet it reached there in a mere instance and nullified my attack and even shattered my spear in an instance. Damn it! Damn it!!! Even in my final moment I have failed to accomplish what my friend wanted
"You don't have the fear Death, Augustus? Is that it?" Why is Veythara saying that in such a dark tone?! What is she planning?! Damn it! I don't even have an ounce of strength to speak a single word
"Augustus....You dare attempt to harm an innocent unborn. Such immoral thing was something that is a shame to any warrior! As a Goddess, I curse you!" As I heard those words through Veythara's lips, I glare at her as my mind kept racing with thousands of thoughts
Wait! What do you mean by curse?! What are you doing to me?! Damn it! I know that it was wrong and a shame to any warrior but that's the only thing I can do and I have no regret on what I did!!
"Since you don't fear death, let take away blessing of death from you, Augustus. Your body will decay, your skin will be eaten slowly by bugs and many creatures yet you will live until end of time! Craving for death yet you will never get salvation!" Veythara roared indignitly, her eyes were cold and deadly. Nothing similar to her usual cheerful and positive self, the wise yet playful Goddess that everyone speak off
She turned her around and slowly walk as I can only watch with a single thought in my mind that kept ringing in my head as I cursed Veythara
"You dare curse me, Veythara!! You took everything from me! My friend, my home, my people, my parents, my master!! Yet you still curse me!! Arghhhh!!! Damn you, Goddess! Damn that Shenzhouxia Emperor!! Damn that Bhavantra Queen!!!" I thought that in my mind yet I couldn't spoke up due to the fact that I have no energy, no power and no authority.
I kept weeping in despair and cursing them all as I saw Veythara stopped for a moment while muttering something yet I couldn't hear what she is saying. The only thing that I can able to hear is that "You will understand this when the time came, Augustus Verasius..."
With that being said, she disappeared from the bloody battlefield. Leaving me the only alive in here with a horrific curse upon and that's how the war ended. The Great Tenma War has come to an end....