The Eve Of The Sinking

It only made sense to withdraw when faced with the reapers, but Richard felt a sinking feeling in his heart. Arranging for messengers to call avatars of the three goddesses over immediately, he returned to his study and downed a bottle of wine.

The avatars soon made their way over, looking almost exactly like the goddesses but with completely different auras about them. While the three goddesses were grand and majestic, exuding auras of inviolable awe, these incarnations were more gentle and charming, approachable in more ways than one. No doubt it was completely intentional.

“Stop your wars right now,” Richard said the moment they walked in.

“What? Why? Our troops just infiltrated Kamil’s divine kingdom; everything there will become ours soon. Stopping the war at this point will just him off easily. We’ll take him down in three months, and all the other divine kingdoms are weak as well. I expect...