C195: Three Versus One
Alt Title: Altered history
Date published: 3/5/2025.
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Representing the truth of Balance and Chaos."They are !!!!!"
The arena door from the gods side is kicked open by the central figure of 3 tall and buff men. The center has a scowl on his face but bears a bit of resemblance to Piquerao who Axel had already killed.
The left side has a relatively skinny man with deep blue skin and ornaments on his head of Egyptian origin that make his hair almost spikey in nature but rebounds after a foot high and returns back to his head. There looks to be two of these strands but it's unknown if the headwear, khat, hides the fact that it's all one long strand of hair that curls around three or four times. His chin also has a slightly long beard of hair that ends a few inches in with a curve forward.
The one on the right is instead looks like DC two-face, the entire left side of his body, including his arms, chest and left leg are all a sort of demonic black while his face seems to be in a permanent scowl with it's white hair while the other side is the exact opposite with regular peach toned skin, a calm expression and black hair.
The center god who is aggressively walking towards the arena has dark brown skin and wearing beastly skins, the god has his fists clenched as he walks forward. Golden bangles adorn his wrists and ankles with sleeve style tattoos adorn his muscular belly with images of space and the supposed creation of the universe/Cosmos. Soon enough they step onto the stage as they analyze Axel with full blast hostility.
The next to step onto the stage is the egyptian looking god wearing the Khat around his head with the curling strands of hair. In his left hand he has a simple looking cane but it wears the mark of the Sphinx while his right holds an Ankh that is attached to his linen skirt. With rows of adorned jewels around his neck and golden bangles around his wrists, upper biceps, and ankles, he does not give the typical impression of a fighter in this world. In fact his gaze is not on Axel at all but on the humans behind him. He closes his eyes with a faint smirk, like he is content with all his decisions that have led up to here.
The final god, Mr two face, steps onto the stage, both sides of his face focus on Axel. he wears a simple chest ornament that only covers his clavicle and sternum. He has metallic bands that wrap around his forearms and his legs, accentuating his physique as he wears a demure demeanor as he has the good will to recognize a worthy and powerful foe, unlike humans. His waist holds another ornament with what looks like a keyhole styled lock right in front of his groin that is held up by chains that wrap around his waist and end at his back.
"Front and Center we have a god of great renown, one so pissed off at the very embodiment of silence that it punched life into it and created the entire continent of South America. After a series of abuse against the Silence, he had settled down and had a son who chose to have children with a human woman and she gave birth to a pair of twins. The god of the sun, Catequil and the now fallen god of the night, Piquerao. This is their grandfather, the supreme of the Inca's, Supreme Lord ATAGUCHO!!!!"
The muscular but simple looking god in the center raises his burly arms up. Heimdall continues his introductions. "To his left, we have a very simple man, yet a king nonetheless. He pioneered his society and fused with the fallen body of Ra-horakhty, to be reborn anew, stronger, faster, smarter, better. The First true king of the Egyptians, Amun-Ra (Amon-Ra)!!!." The blue skinned man joins Atagucho in raising his hands above his head. His expressions seem calm and peaceful but for just a split second, his expression comforts into that of rage upon gazing at Axel. Meanwhile the human Egyptians now begin to pray to Amon, hoping for him to regain his mercy and spare their people his wrath.
"Last but not least, Good and Evil, Light and Dark, the ground and the sky, The true lord who prevails over the very mind. His name itself is Wisdom Incarnate ("Lord Wisdom"). The embodiment of the sky, Ahura Mazda!!!" The half and half man joins the other 2 in raising his hands before switching over to a few poses that showcase his body but the show seems to mostly be for the gods and less so for the humans as all but a select few know of him.
This is due to his presence only seemingly being known around the era of the First Persian Empire around 300-500 BC. Though from archaeological reports, he had been known and worshiped from 5,000 BC but his murals were replaced by other gods and people.
Amon and Ahura take up their respective stances while Atagucho simply closes his eyes while his hands are still raised. Akin to an immovable mountain, he remains still and calm. Yet this is only a prelude as Heimdall gets off the stage and initiates the fight.
"You know, I'm happy that I'm fighting the two of you. I wanted to kill Ra again and seeing the incas send out their poor dear grandfather to avenge them makes me think of the Chinese cultivation novels. So before I kill you today. Do let me know if you have some sort of pet, or ancient supreme ancestor that I should worry about for my next fight?" Axel walks towards the two gods while picking fun at them due to the new inherited memories he has. Meanwhile Ahura remains under the radar.
Atagucho opens his eyes, his wrath made clear as he slams his raised hands down onto the stage and shatters it into no more than loose stones. As if discussed ahead of time, Amon and Ahura rush towards Axel, attempting to pincer him from the left and right. Ahura manifests the winds to guide the god of humanity and sun along with himself to strike at Axel with precision.
Yet when the arena had shattered, Axel who was the initial target of the slammed fists had jumped backwards, out of the arena before rushing forward himself.
BANG x3
All three gods are rooted in place as they find one Axel in front of each of them. They had been under the impression that they had the numerical advantage but reality slapped them awake by showing them that their opponent is indeed named Axel Gram.
"Doppelgangers, a concept of having someone who looks exactly like you. My case is a bit different, it's an adaptation of one of my previous inheritances, an elf wraith by the name of Celebrimbor had been trapped in his hatred but when he met one who matched his hatred on the verge of death. They merged, this fusion had created an undying warrior of flesh and spirit. But I called this ghostly manifestation, Shades." Axels voice echoes through the arena, not coming from any one of the three fighting bodies.
All three Axel's punch out with a blue glow as intense shockwaves rock all three gods into distant buildings, separating them all. Amon uses his nimbleness to maneuver in the air before simply bouncing off the building he would have otherwise crashed into. Ahura smoothly crashed into the distant building, a shocked expression when he experienced the punch. As for Atagucho, he was pushed back, 1 foot. Seeing this makes the Axel facing the giant man smile in glee.
"One more thing to note, my shades can channel the power of my other inheritances. So let's count them down, ONE!!!" The three Axel's rush towards their respective opponent or in the case of Atagucho, just steps forward. All three are enveloped in a black purple aura. Amon seems to disappear and reappear behind his Axel. his staff stabbing into that Axel's back but contact is still made and a darker shockwave is unleashed which causes the spry god to nearly fall to one knee in weakness as he is shocked by the effect.
Ahura, after breaking through the building he collided with, chooses to observe Axel instead, he continues to dodge and keep a distance, though he does notice Amon's weakness after making slight contact with Axel and figures that touching Axel at all would weaken him. His gaze shifts to Atagucho who seems to fight with wild abandon. Axel is on the backfoot there as he only blocks each of the giants attacks, though black shockwaves are continuously released as a result. Yet each shockwave only seems to make Atagucho strike harder, as if he wasnt weakened at all but only pissed off.
"Onto the next, TWO!" All three Axel's shift as his features turn more Japanese, with black hair and brown eyes. His muscles deform into that of Migi's active state and their bodies grow more limber as Atagucho's opponent dodges more while striking out with whip-like tendrils. The other two use their reinforced muscles to continue attacking and move faster. This forces Ahura to be able to dodge less but he can at least strike out more as he already knows what to expect from this simple looking ability. Amon suffers the most as the multiple whips keep coming at him, he blocks and dodges but his hands tremble from the seemingly illogical force of the hair thin tendrils.
"AND THREE" Axel now shifts their looks a fair bit, their casual clothes replaced with stylish elven tunics coated in sleek Mithril armor. Ears turn elven while his hair shifts to a much lighter tone, that of a white silver color. Many humans recognize this part as what a typical elven man looks like, though many women in the audience, mortals and gods stand at attention for the handsome looking elf. This dignified appearance is a sheer contrast to the gods who are constantly on the backfoot. During their transformation, a new tiny Axel had appeared in their hands and shifted into a sword, in all Three of their hands. The expert swordplay seemingly akin to a mirage as Axel can strike out multiple times in a second via ghostly white wraith that overlaps each Axel's figure.
Many recreational swordsmen and women in the human audience watch in awe of the swordplay going on. As its oppressive fast strikes mix with heavy blows to wound as well as aiming for tendons or certain joints to stop any form of counterattacks. Amon is the most wounded out of them as the fighting style clearly counters his defensive form. Even Atagucho is being beaten down by it as the ghostly palm strikes that freeze him momentarily keep leaving him open to other attacks.
It's actually Ahura who is able to stand his ground the best against Axels elf sword form. He dug his feet into the ground and layered the very sky around his arms like a set of bracers which he uses to deflect and try to counterattack.
"Onto the fourth" Ahura's opponent states as his skin reverts to normal but ceramic skin tone as his sword disappears and is replaced with a smoking hot fist that sends Ahura flying back through the building and out the other end of it. Amon faces a similar situation before now he is able to utilize his nimbleness to evade the strikes and offer meagre counterattacks that just crack the stone skin before it heals.
Atagucho instead faces a rapidly smoldering black husk of a man. Recognizing the form and soon to be used power, the celestial abuser takes the initiative with his [Cosmic Strike].
This sends his Axel flying as the stone skin shatters and demolishes the opposing building. Atagucho rushes forward with another of his own techniques [Star Alignment Rush]. With this technique, the planets align to show him the maximum way forward for him to collide with Axel yet the disjointed voice keeps calling out.
"Holding back the stars with pure will power is number five" BOOM
The Axel that Atagucho knocked back shatters his building and the ruined stone as a giant of 25 feet tall (7.6m), a blazing red mane of hair, with thick sets of armor combined with 2 thick swords that are equal to one of his legs. This Axel jumps into the sky. Meanwhile the other two take on more golden appearances with beastly thick armor, shorter stature of 10 feet tall with thorn like helmets. Similar but smaller swords as the giant Radahn. These two rush at their respective opponents. Beams of light slam down from above after each wave of their attacks. (Base Radahn combined with Passionlips Sun goddess divinity, a mimicry of sorts)
This light show is soon combined with the incoming meteor that is the giant form of Axel/Radahn that Atagucho continues to slam into via his previous Alignment Rush. Yet his rush falters as Radahns pure will crashes into him and distorts the power of Atagucho's star power. The basic weakness would have been enough to simply push Atagucho back but Axel combined his own Celestial light divinity into the gravity compressed power of Radahn. A new form is given rise.
[Radahn the unyielding champion of Light]
In this state, his original conscious returns from it's fractured state from his rotten coated mind is healed, he returns to original state of power from before his fight against Melania, blade of Miquella. Yet he is so much more as the centuries of mindless fighting had given rise to a far more primal aspect to his techniques. Combined with Axel's own powers and divinity, the minor shard of his fragment of the great rune which had stuck with the soul fragment from Radahn, now shines ablaze.
"Raphael, scan the great rune. It gives a different sense of power than the inherited memories i got from the gamer souls"
[Scanning: Results show intense signs of Vitality but it is backed by a mark of blood. From the inherited memories, it seems to share properties of Moghs Great Rune. Perhaps there was already traces of the Promised Consort within the soul fragment?]
"But my memories clearly don't show any details about this transformation. There are only details of random parts of his life and then his final battle against Malenia, then it cuts off. My current clones transformation is my own replication of the memories i have of the gamers understanding of Consort Radahn and not the memories of the actual consort."
[Upon closer inspection, it has been found that an alternative format for the possible Elden Ring has been found. While there are traces of a possible eldritch god, it does not seem to be the standard golden icon that the gamers knew: ….]
Raphael explains that the Elden ring fragment he has access to might be from a variant version of the games world where either an unknown elder god replaced the 'Greater Will', or a rival god such as the Formless Mother who sponsored Mogh and his kith in the powers of blood had corrupted the entire elden ring or had been the ones to bestow it in the first place.
The large amount of uncertainty due to fragmented memories contrasting the knowledge he obtained his other mortal memories that treated Radahn as a game character. Granted Radahns memories outline more of his childhood which the gamers don't know about.
But one part which Raphael takes the initiative to show him is some sort of war between the something called the Golden Incarnadine/Golden Blood Order against the monstrous army of the three and two fingers and their maidens. All of that is way too confusing for Axel at the moment as he would need to personally visit to get a proper understanding. Yet this is not here or now as he still has some gods to kill.
Atagucho is holding steady but is marred by many wounds due to the combination of light beams, great rune power boost and Radahns gravitational strength. His left leg has been nearly severed as half of it is missing, vertically split in half, around the thigh area.
Amon-ra has been using his sun divinity to release concentrated beams of heat and fire at his knockoff consort Radahn/Axel but his own beams of light counter it, if the swords don't already do this. Thanks to his invisibliity technique, he is the least wounded out the three but any wound that does land on him is far graver due to his slim physique. As such he is technically on the verge of losing both arms due to small needle like holes in them both caused by the light beams.
Ahura instead has been heavily bashed and battered by both Radahns swords as well as the light beams. To reduce the damage done to him, he has been attempting to run around and use the arena buildings as barriers so he can make counterattacks but the light beams pierce the simple stone buildings and his swords shred them as well so his plan is not entirely fruitful, explaining his dire situation.
Seeing that all three are technically on the verge of already losing, and not wanting to reveal more than he already has. All 3 Axel's soon split into another set of 3 each. Creating a total of Nine Doppelgangers, All in their own respective Radahn forms, fueled by divine sunlight and the great rune of 'blood strength'.
Amon is the first to fall as he is stunned by the appearance of three Axels. His left leg was cut off first and he attempts to use [Prominence field-full release] but is simultaneously chopped into chunks by the 6 blades.
Ahura soon follows as while 2 Axel's chase Ahura, the third destroyed the buildings to pincer the god of Wisdom and stab his sword through the gods back and then he too is decapitated.
Atagucho is the last one left but while all Nine could jump him, there is no real need to so the 6 that have already killed their opponents simply dissipate, leaving only the final three on the field. That is not to say that Atagucho is having a good time.
In fact his state is the worst since he is fighting 3 prime Radahns who unleashing gravity magic and gravity spell, one acting like a mage to create gravity projectiles from the vast amount of rubble from the city while the other two use a variety of sword techniques to hack and slash at the Supreme Abuser. Deep scars coat his body but he remains unrelenting as he strikes back, every part of his psyche is focused on killing at least the central Axel as that one should be the true body while the rest are just clones.
[Big Bang Nucleus]
[Judgment Cut]
As part of the finale, Atagucho compressed all his star-like power into one last attack only for the backlining doppelganger to unleash Judgment cut, severing Atagucho's half sliced leg and then straight into the other leg which makes the primordial god fall to his waist. He still unleashed the punch which shatters the central Radahn and he gets a happy expression but that quickly turns to confusion as the other two don't disappear.
Axel soon manifests in his original form above the ruins of the arena. "Sorry bud, i've been invisible this whole time, you all have just been fighting my shades this whole time while I narrated. Better luck in your next life" SLICE. Atagucho's head falls off his neck as the Radahn shade which unleashed the Judgment Cut sheathed his sword and the rest of the spatial slashes finally connect with Supreme Lord Atagucho.
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Alt Title: Outnumbered But Not Outmatched, Unknown Great Rune, Altered History.
Word count: 3383
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