Chapter 355: The Godslayer Descends Part 2: The Challenge
(General POV)
Location the Warhammer Old World-Norsca, the Lands of Vargs/The Golden Monolith Battlefield; Dark Legion Vs Forces of Chaos
The Godslayer swung his Plagueblade at the Chosen of the Gods, only to be easily blocked by said Chaos Lord.
The Godslayer, growled as he forced all his strength through even placing his other claw onto the rusted blade's back to push more force onto his attack, but still the Chosen of the Gods didn't buckle or relent against Yuri's strength and instead they started their counterattack, channeling their combined ruinous powers onto their avatar's right arm, causing it to glow in malignant energy.
This of course caught the Godslayer's attention as they wanted, as they struck with a power knee to the daemon prince's chest, stumbling back and breaking their deathlock the Warp Gods struck with a full charged [Chaos Strike] at Yuri's stomach.
The blow surging with the combines power of Laharl's darkness, Tzeentch's eldritch arcane, Nurgle's plagues and Khorne's hellfire bursting throught the body, of the Daemon Prince, Yuri the Godslayer!!!
Such a blow was unlike anything that the Godslayer ever faced or experienced before as he was blasted away, knocking into several knightmares that were fighting against his own bloodletters, which were also caught in the crossfire of Yuri's crash landing.
Groaning in pain, the Warp Gods smile inside their avatar, as they made it run straight at the downed Godslayer, seeing Ixion Daemonhart approaching them made the enemy bloodletters divided their focus to fight against the knightmares and the Chaos Lord of the Dark Legion.
Rushing straight at them, with their hellblades held high, and eager to shed the blood of the Chosen of the Gods, and offer their worthy skull to their dark master.
But these bloodletters, they weren't facing another mortal, but the very Warp Gods themselves and their quite eager to kill, with every swing of their massive daemonic sword they cleaved through the lesser blood daemons.
One of them tried to decapitate Ixion aiming at the neck area, only for them to grab onto the swinging daemonic blade, and kicking the khornate daemon in the face, making it let go of the hellblade's handle and crash onto the snow, before the bloodletter could stand back up the Warp Gods struck stabbing the hellblade straight between the eyes of the daemon, killing it.
Another daemon swung his blade, bouncing off the armor so in response to the annoyance the Warp Gods/Ixion swung out his arm and grabbed the bloodletter by the throat, squeezing him tighter and tighter as the daemon struggled in their grasp.
Then after a few moments the sickly sound of "snap!" and the khornate daemon went limp in Ixion's hand, as he toss the corpse aside, as they noticed their target, Yuri Godslayer standing back up, shaking his head that's when Tzeentch focused his psychic might through the avatar, and aim that psychic power straight at the Daemon Prince and pulled him straight at them.
Before Yuri could get his baring, he suddenly felt a great force pushing onto and allover his body, and before he could react he was pulled against his will towards Ixion, unable to move or resist all he saw was Ixion sheat their blade get into a slightly bent state and clap their hands together, which confused Yuri completely...in the moment between Tzeentch making his move against the Godslayer, and him soaring towards them, Laharl decided to teach his brother, the Blood God a new classic wrestling move from the Apex Predator, the Viper, Randy Orton himself.
Temporarily taking the reigns of the avatar, he instructed his brothers to follow his instructions for a brutal grapple move.
Once the Daemon Prince, was in range he bend and turn to Ixion's side and using the momentum of they grabbed and dealt a Power Slam Ala Viper!!!
Yuri didn't register everything aside from the pain, surging from his back, wings, and tail as he was slammed in full force against the snowy ground, Laharl wasn't done paying respect to the Viper...in all honesty the Dark One was very interested in collecting several souls from the Wrestling World, as his eternal fighters and entertainment...but that was still in the planning stages.
The Dark One, he told his brothers to follow everything about the upcoming brutal finisher, Ixion throwing himself onto the snow, smashing his fist against the ground a couple times, before one right arm smash and pulling back, then doing the same with the other arm, as they watched Yuri slowly and groggily stand up with his back showing at Ixion/Warp Gods.
In a kneeling position they stalked their prey, once close and he turned around clearly angry at Ixion, Yuri was meet with a reverse, neckhold and Laharl yelled out, "RKO!!!" smashing the Godslayer's face against the ground.
As the Blood God really enjoyed the newest move his older brother show him, while Tzeentch just called it, "Pure savage, brutality..." before they could follow up the beatdown on the Daemon Prince, more bloodletters and a few remaining daemonettes of the Godslayer, rushed them, and for brief moment save the daemon prince for a further beating.
Jumping back from slashing and attacks from the lesser daemons, Ixion was made to unsheath the Hellbane and fight against the large number of daemons, blocking, parrying, and countering all the attacks sent against them, as a mix of several of those daemons to eliminate them all with a wide arcing slash that cut seven daemons in the stomach spilling all their innards and vowels onto the snow.
Before Ixion could return to facing off against the Daemon Prince, Yuri took flight before they could see him, so instead they've use their divine senses to locate, the Godslayer which they detect him.
Flying at top-speed at them from behind, as they made Ixion turn around it was too late as Yuri rammed them at full speed and strength, knocking them away, crashing against the snow over and over.
Ixion/Warp Gods smash in-between a battle of their new hedonites against the tzeentchian daemons of the Godslayer.
Horrors, Screamers, and Flammers were fighting against Arrel-zhan's hedonites as she cast a the Shardspeaker, sorceress creates a small pink and purple portal though which the raw power of Slaanesh can flow throughout the enemies of the Dark Princess, this is the spell called the [Born of Damnation].
This dark spell affected the pink and blue horrors, allowing the hedonites painbringers and pleasurebound knights to sweep in and strike down the first and following horrors spawn from their fallen...but the tzeentchian daemons stopped focusing on the slaaneshi warriors, and turn their attention toward the Chosen of the Gods, the bigger threat and target.
As the Warp Gods made their avatar stand back up on it's feet, they noticed the incoming threat as Screamers and Flamers of Tzeentch, flew towards them.
Laharl sighed, while both Khorne and Nurgle were excited to kill change daemons, which if Tzeentch didn't know that they were talking about his weaker counterpart's minions, he'd be quite insulted and annoyed by that comment that his older brothers made...
Getting ready to keep fighting and killing against their enemies, when Dullahan came charging on the far side of the battlefield, leading a squad of knightmares and a couple of cockatrice to aid his dark master in battle, Khorne and the others commented on their admiration of Laharl's servents loyalty, making the Dark One smirk and thank his younger brothers, as they were again ready for more slaughter.
The Screamers swoop down to attack, and Ixion/Warp Gods jump avoiding the attack and driving down their massive daemonic sword onto the head of the screamer, causing it to crash and drag on the snow and killing it.
Pulling out the sword, and delivered a high downward cross slash, cutting the hellbeast in half, then their reinforcements started fighting against the flamers with Dullahan cutting down two flamers from in half in both vertical or horizontal.
The Warp Gods dealt with the rest of manta-ray daemons that were circling like sharks in bloody waters.
This time two screamers swoop down, so the Dark One started to channel and harness the power of the Lore of Lightning, causing a great thunderstorm to gather and strike down at area, spreading out the avatar's arm while the open palms pointed to the sky, making the lightningbolts, strike, surge, and empower the gathering magic of Ixion's spell.
Sensing the danger incoming the tzeentchian hellbeasts started to scramble, with the two that were about to swoop at them, once the Warp Gods...minus Khorne...gathered enough power to cast the spell, [Thunder Burst] unleashing a massive light blue, blue, and white beam of pure magical lightning, vaporizing all the Screamers of Tzeentch, completely connecting all those hellbeasts with electrical surges as the beam of the [Thunder Burst] killing them all.
While his undead, daemonic knight was killing all the flamers leading the dark knight daemons of Laharl, (knightmares) overwhelming the flamers, while a few of them fell the flames of change of the tzeentchian daemons, killing nearly 20 lesser carnage daemons.
Seeing this Ixion went to provide aid, and join the battle with Laharl's loyal knight, meanwhile Yuri cracking his bones from the blows he just suffered from his last encounter against the Chosen of the Gods.
That's when a Tzeentchian Chaos Lord came down next to the Godslayer, on his disk of Tzeentch, kneeling beside him reporting their losses and small victories that they've manage during the battle.
Both causing annoyance and relief to the Godslayer, but neither force were managing to get ground over the other in this battle, he needed to win this battle quickly before he could lose the advantage which is still a larger army against the Dark Legion.
He gave his order to his Chaos Lord to gather and reorganize his forces, they were about to attack in a full-out assault against the Dark Legion, saying "aye" the tzeentchian chaos lord, stood up and commanded his disk to fly off to the side, Yuri Godslayer swung his blade, before flapping his wings as he took flight.
Returning to Ixion/Warp Gods, knightmares were sweeping the remnants of the flamers that were fading back to the Chaos Realm, as Dullahan and Amonn were standing beside their dark master with soul sword and shield pointing to the ground with Dullahan's hands on the pummel of the large blade, as Dullahan and Amonn watched as Ixion was stabbing the last remaining flammer and fading away, that when the sound of stomping and snow-crunching was heard.
Ixion/Warp Gods turn to the right to see Kholek and his Shartak/Dragon Ogres, rushing towards them and Dullahan, stopping just a couple steps before them, bowing to them, Kholek reported the their in a deathlock with the Force of the Godslayer, not being able to take a lead over them, but also Kholek told them that the Daemon Prince and his forces were withdrawing and reforming formation against them this excited Laharl and Khorne meaning a massive surge of violence and carnage was about to breakout between the two forces, even Tzeentch was a bit excited cause of this unexpected change in the battle, not wanting to disappoint the Warp Gods order Dullahan and Kholek Suneater through Ixion to withdrawn and reorganize as well, and also prepare for a bigger fight between them all.
After both armies reorganize and marched to the center of the Golden Monolith grounds, the two forces stood some distance from the other, standing in front of each other's army, which are eager to once again wage allout battle under the direct command of their respected Lord, the Godslayer roared out, "ENOUGH!!!" making Ixion make a hand signal to his commanders to stop their forces from further battle.
Ixion/Warp Gods started walking over, as the Godslayer did same the two most recent and renown Chaos Champion, stood before each other, while Yuri showed much more damage then in comparison with Ixion/Warp Gods, the strong cold air blowing, as the Godslayer pointed his Plagueblade at Ixion Daemonhart, saying to them, "I see your strength and worth to the Gods, Ixion Daemonhart. But there can only be one favor champion, one lord over Chaos, and that is I!!!" taking a short pause before taking a step forward, with his sword lowered and pointing his golden armored index-claw at Ixion and continues speaking to him, "I challenge you before the Gods of Chaos, one will stand in glory before the Gods!!! Becoming stronger than the other, leading the greatest army than even the mightiest Everchosen...while other will fall in shame, now face me!!!" this impressed the Warp Gods this made the four of them desire the Godslayer more.
So Ixion/Warp Gods laughed, and complimented both Yuri's strength and bravery...so they accepted the challenge, and in the end of their duel they'll make the Godslayer surrender and become their servent, making Yuri laugh as well as they started a stare down...
All the while like many times before, Zxaie-xie was observing everything playout from somr distance away in the air, with eagerness and also knowing that the Troll King and his forces was getting closer, and closer as time goes on.
Thou surprised that this battle was about to be settled with a duel over a bloody full-out war, but all was welcomed as long Ixion Daemonhart dies, as the duel was about to comence.