The Arcane Archer 20 Aetius, The False God

A short man holding many bundles of paper was running down a deep hallway. After taking a few turns here and there, he finally got to what seemed to be a dead end.

Making sure that nobody followed him or was watching, he quickly turned back to the wall and saying a couple of words that sounded like gibberish to anyone that might've heard it. After saying these words, the wall that originally a dead end started to transform into a simple wooden door that seemed to belong there naturally.

Rushing through the door, the person then made his way up a set of stairs that seemed to be made of pure light. At the very top was a bustling city filled to the brim with people that had giant white wings on their back.

The short man who had no wings, pushed his way through crowds of people until he got to a massive building with a bunch of heavily armored people with wings at each entrance. They armored angels initially stopped him but after the short man showed them something on the papers, they quickly ushered him through.

The man, running as fast as he could, eventually got to an open area with stairs leading up to a single throne in the back of the room. Sitting atop his throne appeared to be an elegant angel with wings who had bits and pieces of light shooting off them.

Once the man got to the center of the room, he quickly got down on one knee and looked downwards and avoided looking at the man sitting on the throne. His breathing was ragged after pushing is body to get here as quickly as he could.

"Human…" Said the elegant angel sitting on the throne said simply. "Why are you here when none of us have summoned you?"

The man looked up from the ground and looked in the general direction of the angel but never once attempted to look him in the eyes.

"We have recently discovered that a human… No, they're no longer a human anymore for what they did! They decided for some reason to befriend and protect those filthy elves by hiding them from us." The short man said with despise. "Aetius! Please help u-"

Aetius, simply gestured with his hand for him to stop speaking.

"Human. What have I said about using my name while in my presence here" He once again simply said.

The short man looked away after realizing what he had done.
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"I-I'm sorry my god!"

Aetius got out of his chair and walked down the stairs one by one till he was eventually on the same level as the man. Walking up to the man, he put his hand gently on the side of his head, got down on one knee, and made their foreheads touch.

"It's alright. I need to thank you for bringing this to my attention. After everything I've done there are still so many amongst you who are refusing to accept the truth." There was then a moment of silence. "I should reward you for what you've done…"

The guy's eyes seemed to sparkle with happiness upon hearing that his god was going to reward him.

"But you've done something I've forbidden."

Both looked up at each other at the same time and their eyes met. Aetius's eyes softly glowing gold before the hand that was resting on the side of the short man's head suddenly forced it downwards into the ground, killing him instantly.

Blood spattered everywhere and a few drops even got onto Aetius's face but instead of making him look like a fiend or monster, it somehow only seemed to amplify his elegance and handsomeness.

"Guards," Aetius called out after staring at the mess for a few seconds. "Clean up this mess and bring me the council of Gods. We have some things to talk about." Before turning around and heading back to his throne.

Once sat upon his throne, a small smile formed upon his face. "Oh, how I love to play with these toys." He said ever so silently before cleaning of the blood on his face with his hand, and then licking it clean.

~~~~~Back to Leo~~~~~

After eating, we all went to our corresponding rooms to get everything prepared for the journey ahead. It didn't take any of us that long because everything was pretty much already prepared.

The 3 of them had everything in big bags on their back, and I obviously had my inventory where I could just throw everything into it without caring about organization as I could simply ask the System to get it for me if I was lazy.

After that, we all said our farewells to Eric and the left. On our way out, a few people here and there occasionally thanked me and tried giving me something as thanks for what I've done for them the last few days, but I politely declined each time.

Eventually we got out without people constantly stopping me every other minute. We continued walking and talking for a good while to pass the time during our trip. At some point, I decided to stop.

Something in the back of my mind made me feel as if something forbidding was going to happen at some point. I looked around to find where this feeling might've come from but couldn't find anything. Eventually I looked up towards the sky and without warning, a chill went down my spine.

Chapter end