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Chapter 896 War Against CARNAGE.
There was a swift and violent reaction to the red eclipse of the lumen plane. Some people didn't take this event lightly. They thought that there had to be something very wrong when the sun was blocked. An eclipse is not normal. These powerful individuals could also sense the demonic influence spreading throughout the plane. What's more, is that they couldn't leave the plane because the planar portal had been blocked by a spawn of CARNAGE.
To observant people, all of these signs were an indication that there was something very wrong going on in the plane and that it probably had something to do with a demon God. Specifically the demon god of Carnage.
So the different families contacted their origin God ancestors. Even world gods heard of the unfortunate development but they couldn't come to help. World gods are not allowed in the realm tree. So the responsibility of freeing the plane fell to the Origin gods. Thousands of them came to the rescue.
A large battle ensued. The Origin gods bombarded the red energy sea covering their plane with attacks. CARNAGE also fought back. It grew large tentacles made of blood in the form of different weapons and fought against the horde of origin gods. The weaponized tentacles clashed against the downpour of attacks.
It was an epic war of might and power. Hundreds of thousands of origin gods fought against a single demon God but they failed to dislodge it. They were like tiny flies disturbing a giant octopus. A single swipe of the octopus's tentacle is enough to swat away scores of flies.
CARNAGE came prepared. It came in a form with a lot of energy and power to spare. It could also replenish itself by absorbing Origin gods. Its tentacles would grab Origin gods and pull them into itself to feast on them. The only ones that could resist it were the Origin gods with supreme laws. They can cut off the tentacles and even destroy them.
The Origin gods with supreme laws were capable of thinning down CARNAGE but they were too few in number. There were only 16 of them out of all the hundreds of thousands of origin gods. So they couldn't stop CARNAGE quickly enough for it to not infect the plane with the plague of Carnage.
As CARNAGE was fighting the Origin gods in the void, it was also fighting the gods in the divine plane. A rain of blood was pouring down from the sky onto the black plains of Armageddon. The droplets of blood in the rain hit the ground and turned into blood clones. The blood clones then attacked the divine plane in numbers too much to count.
The hosts of the divine plane were fighting and are still fighting back these blood clones and preventing them from gaining access to the mortal realm. Gods and angels have taken to the battlefield to defend their plane from the incursion of a calamity. This is not an ordinary demon invasion. The invasion of demon kings is very much preferred compared to this.
Some of these blood clones are humanoid. They are formed completely with red blood but they have legs and arms. Others come in various forms and have numerous arms, legs, appendages, tentacles, and other sorts of limbs attached to their form so most of them are far from humanoid. It would be an understatement to call them the stuff of nightmares.
Even the humanoid ones are horrific-looking. Their legs are misshapen and their arms are weapons. Some blood clones are insects. The blood clones come in different shapes and sizes. They have different amounts of power too which is related to the amount of blood that makes them. So the bigger they are, the more powerful they are.
All the clones are feral. They have no intelligence whatsoever. There is only one thought in their nascent consciousness. This thought makes them snarl and bite everything. They claw and try to rip whatever they can reach. They only exist for Carnage.
The blood clones are an extension of the will of CARNAGE but he is not controlling them so they operate solely on instincts. There are too many to control them personally. There are billions of these blood clones and they are trying to break through the barricade set by the gods.
The only restraint on them is their inability to harm themselves and other blood clones intentionally. Without those restraints, they will not be of any use. But now that their priorities have been set straight, they can be unleashed on the gods without worry and with reckless abandon.
But even so, the gods held their own against the tide of blood. This is because the blood clones are generally weak. None of them have authority so they are no match for Celestials. Unfortunately for the gods, there are plenty of blood clones to fight for several Origin cycles.
The weakest of the blood clones is at the low God level while the strongest is at the Grand God level. The gods have the upper hand in strength and they are able to eliminate a lot of the blood clones but more are just being made as quickly as they are being destroyed.
The blood clones don't need to be strong. They just need to get to the mortal realm. Then they will be able to propagate endlessly by feasting on the life within the plane. In fact, all of them don't need to reach the main plane. A single one is enough for the Will of Carnage to be fulfilled.
The gods were at a stalemate. They have quality but it is not enough. They fought for decades but the blood clones are endless. The gods will be overrun if they relax just for a little bit. They had to maintain the barricade and fight constantly or they will lose the plane.
Their strength also diminished as time passed. They are losing manpower but the blood clones seem endless. Things are not looking good for them. It is all because of a demon god. This demon god is the equivalent of an Origin god with a supreme law in terms of quality. But it apparently outmatches any origin god in terms of quantity.
