AN: Here we go, Anti-Monitor do your thing! ENJOY!

ARC Eight: Sins of the Past

Chapter Sixty Seven: Anti-Monitor

A brown haired man in a blue kimono was making his way down the hall, an erupting scene of panic happening around him. Many knights and heroes were running around; the heightened sense of security was evident.

As he was now in the main hall to the throne room, he looked out the large crystal glass windows that overlooked the capital…he could see the frantic scenes below.

"...Truly electrifying."

He narrowed his eyes, but kept a calm demeanor, as he could see in the distance, plumes of smoke beyond the mountains.

Below the castle, in the capital city of Rupgana, the people were panicking as they saw knights riding Sky Dragons, as they flew by. A little girl looked out her window and saw the massive army leaving the city.

Ground Dragons. Magic cannons. Spellcasters. Knights.

All of them numbering somewhere in the thousands. Most likely eight thousand.

Everyone could feel the fear in the air...above the many concerned and scared citizens, countless birds and sky dragons were flying in the opposite direction of where the soldiers were going.

The brown haired man made it inside the throne room, where Vincent Vollachia was speaking with several military advisers and two God Generals. They saw Cecilus come in and motioned him over.

"Sorry I'm late."

"That's fine Cecilus, please come."

Cecilus watched as Emperor Vincent sat on his throne and put his hands over his head. The man was clearly tired.

"Cecilus, you and the God Generals that remain, you know of your mission."

"Yeah, you want to go with the army to strike down the threat."

"Of course…"

Vicent actually removed his crown and rubbed his head. Cecilus showed no worries in the situation; being the strongest warrior in Vollachia made him sure that he would have no problem dealing with the country's current biggest threat.

But the emperor had other worries.

"And here we were hoping to send troops to guard against a response from Lugnica...now this! The Blacksnake attacked us a few damn months ago...AND NOW THIS!"

Everyone except Cecilus flinched as they saw Vincent toss his crown to the floor, he was clearly frustrated, confused and bewildered.

"And now this…'Anti-Monitor' has shown up and attacked us!"

Vincent then pointed at one of his wives.

"Tell me, is it still there?!"

"Let me see."

She used a Metia that let one see far off in the distance, more than even normal binoculars, they could see to the other side of the world. She went quiet and placed the Metia down.

"...Yes, the tower is still there."

What she was referring to was a large golden tower that the Anti-Monitor was building over the last five months. Everyone remembered how he began working on it when he first made landfall and killed the Blacksnake...but as he converted the very matter around him into the pieces needed for the structure, that began the over five month long campaign to take out the Anti-Monitor.

A bombardment from several islands off the shore...ended in the islands sinking into the bottom of the waters.

A large cavalry charge of 12,000 men...ended with only two people returning alive.

Their strongest sorcerer was sent to handle it with a squad of magic users...they never came back, eyewitnesses could only describe the situations as them being overwhelmed. The head sorcerer was stomped to death by Anti-Monitor.

Vincent was enraged, nothing they sent to handle this armored giant worked. And now, Anti-Monitor was destroying the nearby land. Seven different towns, eight villages and three forts were destroyed, anything living in them were incinerated. For a radius of 10 miles, all vegetation was burned down, leaving the land to look like a hideous depiction of hell.

But it was just like that...nothing the Vollachian Empire sent to kill this being ever worked.

"And that's why I'm sending you to kill this bastard once and for all!"

"Understood! This sparkling stud will take care of this giant, no sweat!"

"Good, we need to hurry this up and ease the people before shit gets worse. I'm so tired of hearing the people crying and complaining about it! And the damn influx of refugees is a pain in the ass!"

"Got it!"

Cecilus Segmunt, Chisha Gold and Goz Ralfon were now making their way out, as they headed to meet with the rest of the Subjugation force.

"Cecilus, you ready for this?"

"Of course Chisha! My thunderous might will end this giant once and for all."

"Hope so...we're the last of the God Generals. All the others are gone, no thanks in part to Grodd and Lugnica! Just glad at least Grodd is now dead."

Goz patted Chisha on the shoulder as he nodded with him.

"One day we'll make Lugnica pay for sicking the Blacksnake on us and killing our friends."

"Yes, that day will come no doubt about it."

Cecilus walked faster ahead as zoori sandals clacked on the ground. He was more than excited to face this new being.

Cecilus got on his Ground Dragon, and looked back, seeing the vast army that was ready to go. He raised his katana high up.

"Alright everyone! Let's go kill a giant!"

Everyone roared in agreement and made their way to the ends of the earth to face the Anti-Monitor.

He remembered it well. He was used as a battery source for the Black Lanterns in the main universe, the excess energies he had spread throughout other versions of the mulitverse, making the moment repeat similarly in other worlds...though not all similarly, once again making him disgusted in the idea of it.

"The multiverse, should not exist...it besmirches the order of things."

Though he was eventually brought back to life, he saw no progress in his plans or anything important happening around him.

Until...a voice reached out to him.

"I want to make a deal."

"And who are you to make such demands?"

"I...am the Witch of Envy...I am from another world."

"Foolish! I know of the existence of all worlds in the multiverse."

Envy showed him the existence of her flat world and the timelines that existed in it. This enraged the Anti-Monitor.

"This universe...to exist peacefully outside of my original plans...Wait…!"

He then saw the unique dark matter that made up the space outside the flat world and the strange energy the existed within it. It was mana. He began to laugh.

"This world would be perfect! I can create another Cosmic Tuning Tower! Yes! How incredible!...But why show me this?"

"Because...this is the deal I want-"

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"...I see. I have no qualms in what you desire of this alliance of ours."

"As long as I get what I want, nothing matters."

"Very well, then we make the deal."

An Unseen Hand shook hands with the Anti-Monitor, and at that moment, it opened a void in front of him. He swam through the void and could see people looking back at him.

"I know you."

He saw Batman staring back at him, so he charged forward, but saw that they were trying to close the portal.

He sped up and used his hands to keep the portal from closing...he then forced it to spread more, he growled as he did. He looked down at the strange people around Batman and quietly laughed as the portal squeezed him into energy and he bursted out of the portal and destroyed the top of the tower. His energized body kept travelling before crashing into the Great Waterfall. He rejoiced as he hid at the bottom of the waterfall, in all fairness, he felt exhausted from the teleportation and he began to recuperate...by absorbing the dark matter energy around him.

He was now ready.

Anti Monitor was converting some retrieved matter from a destroyed mountain into another piece for the golden tower. He levitated up and pieced it to an unfinished part. Altogether, the tower was just about eighty percent done.

"Good, we are making excellent progress."

The Anti-Monitor then felt something and looked behind himself. He could sense it easily.

"Idiotic fools...sending more people to die again?"

The Anti-Monitor sighed as he continued with his work.

"They'll just regret it."

It was several weeks into the army marching to their destination. As they continued moving, they could see more refugees making their way past them. All of them had eyes devoid of light, as if they had witnessed terrors beyond their understanding. Ahead, they saw entire mountains with craters littering them, one knight even noticed one mountain had a humongous crater that obviously had a fort...only one side of it's wall remained.

Cecilus whistled to himself as he seemed almost excited in facing this mysterious giant. Goz narrowed his eyes at the state of things.

"This Anti-Monitor...do you think it has something to do with that rumor, about Batman of Lugnica being actually from beyond the Waterfall?"

"Don't know, but that would be shocking! Right?"

"After the last two years, nothing seems implausible...I guess."

Now the army was on a hill, overlooking the devastation of the previous battles, the burnt landscape and the ruined mountainside...but up ahead, they saw the Anti-Monitor continuing to work on his tower.

Ceclius yawned loudly.

"He doesn't look shockingly strong. I don't need to take him on."

Chisha manned up and moved forward on his Ground Dragon.

"Everyone! Up ahead is an enemy to the empire and it's people! He has killed countless innocents and demolished our proud warriors...it has defiled our glorious lands and threatened our families too many times! We must do what we can to muster our strength to defeat that which calls itself the Anti-Monitor!"

They roared loudly as they unsheathed their swords and other weapons.

Crisha aimed his sword at the giant, who finally turned around...all of the knights brave bravado was squashed when they saw his inhuman eyes, rock like lips and the way his inner mouth was an endless void of outer space.

However, Chisha snapped his reins and his Ground Dragon dashed forward.

"Come on men! CHARGE!"

The knights snapped out of it and they all began charging forward. The magic cannons fired their contents at the giant, the Sky Dragons blasted him with their fire breaths, knights that could use magic fired everything they could. Chisha looked up and noticed it first.

"No…"

All the blasts were hitting him, but he looked more annoyed than anything. He glared at the army as he turned his body fully to face them. The knights continued charging, but the Anti-Monitor raised his right foot high into the air.

When he stomped down he released a powerful shockwave, the resulting dome of energy killed half the army, their bodies bursting into puddles of blood. The land around him shook, and pieces of the earth crumbled, two nearby mountains fell and the resulting cloud of debris made it hard for the airborne forces to see below.

As the dragons glided in the air, Anti-Monitor fired his eye beams and sliced apart the last remaining airborne riders from the sky. The Anti-Monitor looked at the hills where the magic cannons were and aimed the tip of his right hand's fingers at them. Pink beams fired out of the tips and bombarded the hill killing everyone on it.

"MONSTER!"

"Hm?"

Chisha leapt in the air as he aimed his sword down at Anti-Monitor...who blocked his strike with his pinky finger. The strike caused a large shockwave...but to the Anti-Monitor it was a little bird chirping in his ear. Chisha's eyes widened in disbelief and he felt his heart drop. Anti-Monitor flicked him down to the ground, causing a chunk of the ground to cave in. Chisha struggled to get up, his arms and back were clearly broken, blood drenched the crater around him.

The surviving knights tried to make it over to Chisha...but Anti-Monitor spat out a large beam from his mouth that annihilated them, down to the last molecule; the land around him caved in, molten lava was literally spewing out of the fractured world.

Goz grabbed a large javelin and tossed it at the Anti-Monitor, the velocity from the blast sent dirt and wind flying behind him. Anti-Monitor simply took the hit...the javelin bursted into a thousand pieces.

"...Ha….Hahahaha….HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What absolute uselessness this world exposits as strength! None of you could give me a challenge to stave off my boredom."

The Anti-Monitor pointed his finger at Chisha, blasting his body apart with a beam. The Anti-Monitor spread his arms wide and looked down at a lone figure running at great speed towards him.

Cecilus made it through the smoke and embers as he looked up at Anti-Monitor. The giant then punched at him, causing more damage to the ground around him. Goz could only watch in confusion at the scene before him...The Anti-Monitor standing in front of his golden tower, smoke and fire all around him, lava spewing from a crack in the earth.

It was like hell on earth.

Cecilus was running up Anti-Monitors arm, having dodged his fist.

"You truly are a shocking opponent, Anti-Monitor! Now to end this faster than a flash of lightning!"

Cecilus pulled out his two katanas, and imbued them with electricity magic. He then did rapid strikes against his gigantic armored face. Goz raised a fist.

"Way to go!"

But through the smoke they both saw his large glowing eyes.

Cecilus was smacked away by the Anti-Monitor, his body crashing into the side of a mountain. The whole mountain shook from the impact, leaving a crater fifteen times the man's size, on its side.

The Anti-Monitor turned to get back to work...but Cecilus ran down the mountain, making his way through the smoke and fire around him. He spit out some blood and had electricity course through his body. As he leaped in the air...the Anti-Monitor quickly turned to face him, roaring as he did.

The Blue Lightning himself struck down with a powerful strike, colliding with Anti-Monitors palm. A gigantic lighting strike struck the metal giant, shaking the earth itself as well. An immense blast of wind shot out of the collision. Goz actually lost his balance and fell back, but as he looked back...Anti-Monitor used an incredibly fast punch to hit Cecilus away from him, his body smashed into a mountain. He quickly made his way back and increased his speed to try and move around Anti-Monitor.

Cecilus used this to slice at Anti-Monitor over and over again, even aiming at his tubes and his feet.

"ENOUGH!"

Anti-Monitor clapped his hands downward, and the resulting vibrations, crushed Cecilus down to the ground.

Cecilus got up, but was coughing and holding onto a katana...the other one was broken, almost as much as his right arm was. Cecilus glared up at the giant...then the giant snickered at him.

"How utterly weak…"

"...I...I AM THE SWORD OF THE KINGDOM! AND I SHALL-"

Cecilus zipped up behind Anti-Monitor, intending to slice off his head. That's when Anti-Monitor simply turned himself and put his palm out for Cecilus to stare at.

Anti-Monitor fired a humongous beam out of his hand, Cecilus did his best to block it with his electric buffed katana...but his sword began to crack. The beam let out such a sound so horrid, it sounded like a thousand angels crying out in pain.

"And now, sword of the kingdom...you shall die along with the rest of your country."

His sword shattered and Cecilius could only use his arms to block himself. It failed, and he was vaporized instantly.

The beam continued as it smashed through mountains, snuffed out animal life and incinerated all the trees in it's path. The beam dissipated and all that was left was a large section of the world that seemed to be carved out by a mad god.

Anti-Monitor lowered his hand as he looked over at Goz, the last remaining member of the subjugation army.

Anti-Monitor simply stared at him.

Goz breathed in and out, his eyes twitched as he stared up at the being of unfathomable strength. Of insane evil.

"AGHHHHHHHHH!"

Goz charged forward with a large sword, he had tears falling out of his eyes as he screamed loudly. Each step he took in his mad dash nearly made him fall over. Then he was shot by a single beam, leaving only his head and some of his left side in tact...he could only slowly look down as he burned intestines spewed out of his broken body, even going as far as to slip on them...the light in his eyes faded.

Anti-Monitor rubbed his head while looking over the damage done. Then he looked up at the tower as one could say he smiled.

"Ninety percent done...just need a little more time."

But he remembered...Batman was still out there, he suspected that he survived the blast in the tower. Not only that, he was informed on how there were other countries that still existed...they could also try to interfere…troublesome indeed.

He looked over at some smoke plumes below him...inside, were four silhouettes.

"You four, go to Lugnica. Distract the Sword Saint and the others."

The four silhouettes quickly disappeared into the smoke.

He looked to his other side and saw more silhouettes...hidden by fire.

"Take care of the other countries. Our goal is nearly complete."

The fire seemed to make the figures vanish out of sight. And so, the Anti-Monitor looked up to the blue sky that was being covered by smoke and ash.

"Just a little more...and six months of planning will be complete."

He chuckled a bit as he raised his hands to the heavens.

"Soon! EVERYTHING SHALL BE COMPLETE, AND I WILL RULE ALL OF IT! ALL OF IT! ALL OF EXISTENCE! WILL! BE! MIIIIIINE!"

With his hands still in the air he fired beams into the sky, but these curved in the air.

Vincent was being attended to by some of his wives, when they all felt the very castle slowly begin to shake. One of his guards looked out the window and fell to the ground in the fetal position.

"OH GOD! OH GOD! IT'S THE END! THE END!"

"What the hell are you talking about-"

As Vincent ran over to the guard angrily, he glanced out the window...he saw a beam fall from the sky and destroy the capital walls. Soon more crashed into the capital. Buildings flew into the air, swathes of the very earth broke off and fire erupted from them. Countless beams fell from the sky like rain. Then it stopped. All that was left was an entire city engulfed in flames and destruction. If one were out there, they would be able to hear the ear splitting screams and death cries for miles around. Vincent could only stare in disbelief, ignoring his wives cries of terror and the guards mumbles below his feet.

"Damn it…"

He knew exactly what happened.

So he grabbed his crown and smashing it out the window, sending glass everywhere.

"FUUUUUCK!"

The subjugation failed...Vollachia was now completely and utterly defenseless. And they had just been punished by the Anti-Monitor; the victor of this months long war.

In a dark void where Satella slumbered, she hugged her knees. Usually she spent her time here crying or muttering soft whispers...but today, of the four hundred or so years she has been trapped here...she was laughing.

A laugh of joy.

A laugh of utter madness.

Birds chirped, the morning sun hit Subaru's eyes...and he slowly sat up in his bed and did a small yawn, but made sure not to wake up Beatrice who still sleeping. He glanced out the window and smiled.

"Time for the special day to begin."

The Royal Selection Results...was set to be revealed.

At the apex of destruction, lives will be lost and old hatreds will be revived...at last, it has come to this final moment...the end has begun.