Chapter 2107: The Sisters of Entropy and Stillness
Chapter 2107: The Sisters of Entropy and Stillness
With both Isdis and Lucy working together, the orcs were going to have the worst day in the entire history of their species. As the moon above looked down at them with pure hunger greater than their own, the cold blizzard wrapped itself tightly around their bodies, freezing them like food to be preserved.
Their machines and weapons started to fail, their minds were shattering as they heard their kin cry in agony as they were eaten by the rats and hyenas, and they only fell more into despair as their flying aircrafts were bitten to pieces by the flying megalodons.
The two sisters, who never stood together on a battlefield, were surprisingly in sync. One danced among the orcs with a rapier in her hand and a cold, emotionless face as she slashed and pierced their necks with divine ease, and the other one was small, energetic, and had a large, sadistic grin on her face as she bit their faces off.
Lucy had been in great pain, and still was, but getting to play with her sister was good enough for her to ignore her agony and focus on what mattered, getting rid of the orcs. Killing the ones here won’t help much with the hunger spilling out of the rift, but it would help a bit with her hunger at least.
"You’re biting their faces off? They are ugly and disgusting. You’re eating all of that snot and teeth?!" Isdis growled at her sister and got a giggle.
Lucy bit another orc, this time taking a massive chunk of his chest and thick armor in a single bite. "Why not? I’m not a picky eater like you." She gave her older sister a mocking grin. "I should be the one crying about my vegetables, not you."
The orcs fired their artillery at them, and when Lucy was getting ready to order one of her megalodons to act as a meat shield, Isdis moved forward on her own, and, in the blink of an eye, slashed all of the artillery shells down at once.
"You’re fast!" Lucy gasped. Even as a goddess, she couldn’t even see her sister move.
"I’m not fast; I can freeze time for a bit. It’s like the spell Time-Stop if you know it, but it works differently." As Isdis looked back, Lucy stopped moving and rested her fists in the pockets of her fur coat, "I know what that spell is, and how it works. Gojo would’ve whipped my ass if I hadn’t taken my studies seriously."
Isdis paused for a second as she sent a wave of ice blades to slash all of the approaching orcs. "Wait, I heard from Liliana that Gojo isn’t punishing you for skipping classes."
Lucy laughed, "Well, he always says to make up for what you miss in theory with practice. So if I didn’t study Time-Stop well and understand how it works, he would use it in our practical fights, and I’d end up suffering there."
She looked back, and piranhas burst from beneath the ice to consume everything around in a bloody mess. "Since I’m a goddess, I’m more durable than Liliana or Gug, so he goes extra rough with me. He once punched me in the face so hard that I forgot who I was for a second... he lost his fist to my jaw though."
"I don’t know what is more impressive. Him punching a child like that, or you actually biting his arm off. Isn’t he more durable than Arad?" Isdis sighed and Lucy laughed. "I mean... isn’t he younger than me?"
"No, he is older. They lived for more than two decades inside their mother before being born in this world." Isdis looked at the sky and saw Kory fly above them, breathing fire and ice at the marching orcs.
"Yoo.... I too want a dragon like that, a white one... with a horn like a unicorn." Lucy looked at Kory with a grin and then shifted her gaze toward Isdis. "Do you know how disappointed I was when I found that Gojo’s draconic form was black and not white like his hair?"
"Their human form follows their draconic form, not the opposite. What is off about Gojo is that his human side is high human, so it won’t affect his draconic shape." Isdis approached Lucy and gave her a closer look.
"You don’t look all that good." She asked with a worried face, and Lucy pointed at her stomach. "It still hurts a lot; the pain of hunger of billions of trillions of orcs is spilling into me, and it’s unbearable. It’s like a hole had been punched in my stomach."
Isdis looked toward the rift in the distance. "So? We kill all the orcs here and close that rift?"
Lucy shook her head. "The orcs here are just a small portion of the orcs spilling their hunger to me. It’s like a single spoon in a massive pot. Killing them here isn’t helping the pain that much..." She frowned, and her sharp opal teeth seemed to grow longer.
"It is impossible to close that portal once it has been opened up, and only the orcs’ higher-ups know how to close it. I was thinking of jumping into their world and eating them all." She started scratching her teeth with her sharp fingernails, "But... twelve worlds, each world has at least ten full planets. That’s a lot of orcs to eat, even for me."
"So what?" Isdis tilted her head as the blizzard around them raged even harder than before, and the wind was now blowing at over 140km (75 mph), "Give up?"
Lucy smiled from ear to ear as she glared back at the rift, and her teeth grew sharper. "I’ll gorge myself to death; it can’t hurt more than the pain I’m already in."
The one-eyed moon above groaned, and then orcs spilling right out of the rift were already the only ones left, and not even their corpses were left.
"I can’t let you do that. It’ll kill you." Isdis growled, and Lucy smiled. "Well, it won’t. I’ll eat one planet, wait a bit to digest it, then eat the next. As long as we don’t allow the orcs to escape to other worlds, I’ll eventually get rid of them, or at least scare them enough to lock the rift."
Isdis looked at her own shadow, and then her eyes burned deep blue. "Come out, the cold won’t hurt you."
From her shadow, a vampire woman emerged kneeling down. "I’m at your command."
"Hoo! You got a servant ready!? Why don’t I have someone like that?" Lucy rubbed her chin, and Isdis ignored her for now. "How is the progress on the orcs’ language going? Did you finish it?"
"Enough for Lord Arad to have a basic conversation, but he still sounds like a dumb, dense, musclehead." As the vampire spoke, she looked at Isdis’s face. "Are you planning to talk with them?"
"I hope I can convince them to leave our world alone for now... diplomacy is what I do best." She looked at the rift. "That would end quicker and easier than killing them all or having Lucy eat them." She then looked toward Lucy. "Look at her. See how her fingers shake just slightly and how she can’t put her weight on both legs, always shifting from one to another? She is in extreme agony, no matter how calm and tough she pretends to be."
"I never denied that I’m in pain." Lucy waved her hand, and Isdis looked back at the vampire. "That being the case, I believe a diplomatic approach would achieve our goals faster."
"I understand, but it’ll take you a while to learn the language." She looked a bit hesitant to speak. "You... are not as quick as the emperor when it comes to learning."
"That why I’ll use a translator who knows the language." She smiled, and the vampire woman looked even more terrified.
"I have to apologize, my queen. But... none of the vampires have a clear understanding of the language by now. Only the emperor had compiled all of that knowledge into a usable format." She gulped, "It’ll probably take us longer to master it than it would take you."
"Who said I’m going to take a vampire as my translator? You’re the research team. I’ll have Arad act as my mouth and ears." She looked at him. "Tell Arad to find me their rulers. They are going to pay for making my little sister cry."
"I never cried!" Lucy protested in the back.