Theory of nothing

by Elidjz


Unholy prelude

"Kill, maim, murder, profit, repeat."


Accidents happen. Like now when an unfortunate hippogryph had collided with a bird. This has caused both of them to lose their balance and start plummeting to the ground. The bird managed to regain its balance and fly away safely. The hippogryphs ended up with its neck twisted the wrong way around as they failed to regain flight.

Normally this would just be an unfortunate accident, however recent events had caused the walls of reality to be severely weakened. This combined with the fact that there always was something trying to enter your universe. And many of them can be summoned by doing a specific action.

The hippogryph had crashed into an indentation in the ground. This caused all the blood to pour together. The concentration of blood had caught the attention of less than friendly creatures. Creatures that had been trying to enter the world of Equus for a long time.

A long, scale covered arm then shot out of the tiny pool of blood. Another followed suit, before pulling themselves and the creature attached to them out of the ground. 

The creature is covered in blood red scales and fur alongside patches of black fur. It stood on two legs significantly taller than a minotaur. Its left leg ended in a hoof, while the right one ended with a foot that had long sharp claws. Its hands were similar as its fingertips were long claws. Its head was lizard like, similar to the head of a monitor lizard but sharper and much more muscular. Four pair of horns were protruding out of the back of its head alongside one short, but still very sharp horn where its nose should have pain.

It wore torn black pants and a dirty leather belt. Its left arm was covered in heavy armor, the right one was covered in similar but lighter armor. Its lower legs were also covered in armor. It carried no helmet and its chest was uncovered. Its stomach was covered with a heavy metal plate. The last notable thing, besides the thick spike covered tail, was the longsword that it carried.

It then screamed an extremely loud warcry filled with joy, before lifting one of its arms that then started glowing bright red. A strange glowing star then appeared into multiple areas on the ground. Out of this glowing symbols more creatures were then summoned. Most tinier than the first one, but some covered head to toe in extremely thick armor. They carried spears, swords, flails and whips, masses, shields, hallebardes and other cruel weaponry.

Tinier ones carrying tinier rusted and makeshift weapons then started appearing.

All of the creatures, all of these demons then cheered as they spotted some direction markers pointing towards a lonely town. After some loud cheering the demons then started heading towards the town. They had every intention to burn everything in their way.