Meanwhile, on earth, everything was a mess. Humans, giants and other monsters, all of them were busy trying to one-up each other. Although they were tied up, the humans were no longer in despair.

Since the fire giants and Arnold’s elite summons were already there, it was only a moment of time before the Deathless would appear there himself. When that happens, the tide of the war would be irrevocably changed in their favour.

Till then, it was up to them to hold those bastard monsters off. Also, thanks to their united efforts, both evacuation and fending off the monsters were simultaneously going good. 

But that all changed soon. The army of monsters was already giving them a hard time, but now they had another calamity to take care of. 

Three new portals had just opened up over LA. But they were unlike the portal which had opened prior. With just a glance, Nina could say that they were in deep trouble because the portals looked exactly like the one from which Hercules had appeared. 

“Mistress, you should back out now.” Talos urged Nina to get back along with the rest of the humans, which only confirmed her suspicions.

“Something terrible is going to come out of there, isn’t it?” Nina asked with a tired smile.

They had been fighting relentlessly for days. It was a miracle they were even able to hold their weapons properly and just when they thought they had everything under control, a curveball was thrown at them. 

They weren’t some majestic species, but mere humans. They might have superpowers but at the end of the day, they were just… humans, who had their limits. Right now they had been pushed further and further. So it was obvious most of them would break.

It was, for this reason, Talos asked them to go back. In their condition, they were better off helping with the evacuation rather than fighting. 

However, there was a reason why Talos respected Nina. She was just as stubborn and careless as his master. When it comes to protecting the ones they loved, they would rather die trying to beat the odds than give up. 

“Go away? Why would I do something moronic like that?” She said with the broadest smile her blood-drenched face could come up with, “How will I ever look Arnold in the eyes if I always keep running and hiding behind his summons? If he wanted me to protect myself, he would have given me a shield, not this badass sword.”

She continued, “Now, if you don’t want to fight, just stay behind me. I’ll take care of Arnold’s precious science project.”

“You sure know how to hurt my nonexistent feelings, mistress.” Talos shrugged his shoulder, “I just didn’t want the master to go on another rampage. That’s all.”

“Could have fooled me.” devon chimed in, “Well, let’s just kill them already and get this over with. I still have some research to do and these morons would be the perfect test subjects for it.”

The three of them weren’t aware of it. But their casual bickering was enough to boost the morale of the others around them. Hell, if they could be so casual right in the middle of Armageddon, then why couldn’t they do the same?

None of them was delusional enough to think all of them would make it out of the battle alive. But they weren’t going to let that thought ruin their battle spirit anymore. If they were going to die anyway, then they would do it with a smile rather than get depressed and accept defeat without fighting back. 

“Mages, Archers, everyone who had any kind of ranged ability, aim them towards the portals.” Nina roared at the top of her lungs, “It doesn’t matter how little damage the ability does. Just bring them all out!”

Her cry was nothing less than a lioness’s roar. In an instant, all of the warriors were filled with energy and adrenaline. They knew no matter what, they had to stop whatever came out of the portals. They were humanity’s first and only line of defence against unknown enemies.

If the enemies made it past them, everything that they had been fighting for would be obliterated in moments.

However, once they saw what came flying out of the portal, they realised that things were not going to be easy. 

“D-Dragons!?” One of the warriors shrieked in panic when she saw the majestic creatures flying out of the portals. 

In an instant, they were reminded of what happened when that three-headed dragon had appeared in LA, all those years ago. Even with all of the warriors combined, they weren’t able to put an end to a single dragon and now there wasn’t one but several thousands of them simultaneously invading their planet?

How the hell were they supposed to stop them?

“The hell are you fckers spacing out for!? Fire away damn it!” Nina roared once again, snapping all of them back to reality.

A moment later, all of them took their shots against the dragons. However, the result was as to be expected… all of their spells simply bounced off of their scales. The dragons who had been looking forward to a fight, and a look of annoyance on their faces. 

Since the gods were having a lot of trouble against these… humans, they had expected them to put up a fight. But now that they were there themselves, it seemed as if their expectations of the humans was misplaced. 

“Annoying little bugs…” Typhoon mumbled, “Burn them down to ashes!”

A moment the dragons of all shapes, sizes and colours rained hell on earth from above. The moment their flames touched the ground, loud explosions could be seen, followed by earth-shattering noise.

With an attack like that the dragons had no doubts, the human could not have possibly survived.

“Why did we even bother to come here? Who were we here to fight against?”

The next moment, the sky was torn open with a loud explosion as over a dozen dragons were shot down like flies. 

“You want to fight? Don’t make me laugh.” A masculine voice echoed throughout the skies as the dust began to settle down back on the ground.

As that happened, Typhoon was left behind utterly stunned. She was sure their attack had obliterated the humans, however, there was not a single scratch on any one of them. It appeared they were protected by some kind of a shield.

It was only when the dust was cleared completely that Typhoon realised what had happened. Right in the middle of the army of humans, stood a man clad in adamantine armour. Right next to his feet was a sapling… the sapling of the world tree. 

It was thanks to that sapling the humans were able to survive. But that wasn’t all… behind the man stood someone whom Typhoon had believed to be long dead, along with another dragon. One who had the presence of a queen… a true queen, unlike herself. 

“Tiamut…” Typhoon mumbled absentmindedly.

“So what’s it gonna be? Fight or surrender?” Arnold asked the queen of dragons while brandishing his sniper rifle, the one who had just taken down 14 dragons in a single shot.