Silvanus was currently resting after a fairly major battle and a particularly stressful meeting with the gods that allied themselves with him. This had all spiraled way further out of control than he had ever intended. Now it had turned into a full scale war between all of the lesser gods in the entire solar system. Mid Gods had already started investigating so he was absolutely certain the Greater Gods would get involved soon. All because Lanius had a stick too far up his ass when it came to laws and rules. None of this would have happened if that bastard could have just left well enough alone!

No matter. Even if the Greater Gods did intervene at this point, he had already done irreparable damage to the Human Kingdom. It wasn’t quite the genocide he wanted but killing over twenty five billion humans over the course of this war would have to suffice. Though they hadn’t intervened yet so maybe he and the other gods that were on his side could get that number all the way up to a solid hundred billion before the Greater Gods finally got involved.

Furthermore, even if the Greater Gods intervened right now at that very moment and he was no longer able to assist the Nature Spirit in getting free, he had already guaranteed her freedom regardless. Isabelle was a wonderful help in that regard. Mortals were so easily influenced, especially when a part of them truly wants to do whatever they are being influenced to do. That was exactly the case with Isabelle. All he had to do was subtly strengthen the part of her that wanted to help the Nature Spirit until it overpowered her morals. It didn’t need to overpower them much, just enough to make her help Natura. Thus the reason he spared her and sent her to that universe in the first place. Otherwise he would have just killed her just like the other high lords. The lie about him sparing her because she was a half elf and she annoyed him the least was just that, a lie to make him banishing her to that universe less suspicious.

And the best part? Once Gerhardt learned what she did he would honestly believe she betrayed him of her own free will. Then he would turn on her and kill her for him. Thus Silvanus will have killed not two but three birds with one stone! He will have killed one more human by tricking Gerhardt into killing her for him, he will have freed a nature spirit from her imprisonment, and he will have done immeasurable damage to the Equines Gerhardt allied himself with thus getting his revenge for that demigod bitch’s insult against him when that rogue mage was attacking the Crystal Empire. Comparing him to the Father of Liches, how dare she?!

Well, he wouldn’t have to wait long to see the results of his efforts. Due to Isabelle’s rituals the time it would have taken to free Natura had been reduced by several months. In fact she would break free very soon indeed. All that needed to happen was for Isabelle to conduct one more ritual then he could just sit back and watch the show. He couldn’t wait.

[In the Everfree Forest]

Winter had come to an end and had finally given way to spring. In fact today was the first day of spring. And today would be the day Equestria would come to an end. Isabelle steeled herself for the coming ritual. She really didn’t want to do this, knowing what was going to happen. However, it was much too late now. At this point Natura would get free with or without her. Besides which she felt like she needed to do this even if she didn’t want to even though she couldn’t exactly explain why.

Taking a sip of wine from a flask she was carrying on her hip in an attempt to calm her nerves she stepped into the ritual circle.

[In Ponyville]

Gerhardt was currently in the above ground portion of his factory in Ponyville conducting maintenance on the various machines inside. He was just about finished when he heard a loud roar from outside and a very ominous, very familiar, and very unwelcome sense of malice and danger washed over him like a tidal wave. The exact same sense of malice and danger as the day he first entered the Everfree Forest. His eyes instantly dimmed and genuine fear and horror flooded through him. The Nature Spirits of the Everfree had apparently grown completely fed up with the ponies and were about to begin their rampage.

“Nononono…” He muttered to himself, as he dropped his tools and immediately sprinted out of the factory. The previously clear sky was pitch black with storm clouds, it had started raining heavily, and the sky was crackling furiously with thunder and lightning. Shaking his head he immediately sent the wireless signal to raise the barrier generator he built to protect Ponyville in case the Changelings attacked. It would take about thirty seconds to fully raise and it wasn’t designed to hold off spirits so it wouldn’t be able to hold them back for very long, especially not if they decided to just teleport past it, but once it was raised hopefully it would hold the spirits off just long enough to evacuate Ponyville. Or at least long enough to significantly reduce the body count.

As a large circular section of ground next to his lab lowered, split in half, and began sliding open warning sirens he had installed on the roof of his factory and on the roof of his house began to blare. Along with the sirens an automated message began playing. “Attention all citizens of Ponyville. This is an emergency. I repeat, this is an emergency. The princesses have already been notified. For your own safety please get yourselves and your families to the portal arch at the train station and evacuate to Canterlot as soon as possible. This message will repeat…”

With that done, Gerhardt used his built in communication systems to send a text message to both Celestia and Luna. Along with the text message Gerhardt sent an emergency override signal to the Princesses’ phones forcing them to display the text message along with the word “Emergency” in big bold red letters, all while playing an alarm.

‘Princesses, Ponyville is under attack. I have begun the process of evacuating everyone to Canterlot and am going to deploy combat golems to protect everyone, but I’m afraid I’m going to need your assistance. Please get here as soon as possible.’

Next he called Deus, “Deus! I need your help now! Ponyville is under attack! It’s the nature spirits of the Everfree Forest! I need you to help protect the ponies as we evacuate them to Canterlot! I’ve already sent a message to the princesses!”

“Understood.” Deus responded in an emotionless tone before hanging up on Gerhardt.

Finally Gerhardt sent an activation signal to the few hundred combat golems he had stored in the underground levels of his factory. Moments later hundreds of Combat Golems teleported in front of his factory already in perfect formation. He took a few microseconds and reprogrammed them to protect Ponyville from the nature spirits and their constructs rather than killing Changelings as they were originally built for.

Suddenly Pixel appeared next to him in a flash of silver light. “Daddy! What’s happening?!” She cried, visibly terrified by everything that was happening.

“The Nature Spirits have finally gotten fed up with the ponies and have decided to attack! I’m going to stay here and try to evacuate Ponyville, you need to teleport yourself to the Crystal Empire! I want you as far away from here as possible!” Gerhardt informed her, teleporting his personal combat rifle into his hands.

Pixel shook her head. “No, I want to help get everyone to safety too!” Pixel refused.

Gerhardt frowned at her. “Pixel, that wasn’t a request, that was a gods damned order! I am not giving you a choice in the matter!” He raised a hand and teleported her to the throne room of the castle in the Crystal Empire. That ate a good chunk of his arcane energy reserves but as long as Pixel was safe he didn’t care.

With that done, he began following his combat golems sprinting towards Ponyville at maximum speed. As he reached the edge of the town he began hearing screams of terror and agony mixed with beastial roars, and he saw massive wooden constructs rampaging through the town. Some were in the form of manticores, others were in the form of bears, others were in the form of wolves, and more still were flying in through the air and were in various forms of large vicious birds. As soon as the constructs came into view, he and his combat golems began opening fire on them.

Bolts of arcane energy launched from his rifle as hyper accurate particle beams lanced through the air all around him. The bolts of arcane energy hit one of the manticore constructs and blasted it to pieces as the particle beams hit other constructs and punched holes straight through them, getting the constructs attention but doing very little else as they had no brains or vital organs to pierce. Some of the constructs turned and began rushing towards Gerhardt and the combat golems. As the constructs got within range combat golems unleashed torrents of superheated plasma that incinerated them within moments. The plasmathrowers were significantly more effective against the constructs than the particle beams, for obvious reasons.

Sending the combat golems wireless commands, he ordered twenty five of them to guard the portal arch and protect any of the ponies that were trying to flee through. They would also be defending the arch itself to keep the nature spirits and their constructs from destroying it before Ponyville was fully evacuated.

Before he could get much further into the town, he saw Celestia and Luna appear directly in the middle of the train station. Even at a brief glance the two of them understood what was happening and didn’t hesitate to begin blasting the constructs to pieces. Gerhardt saw a box he recognized as the one they used to store the Elements of Harmony floating next to them, surrounded by a golden aura.

Gerhardt turned and ran towards them, continuing to shoot at the constructs. All but twenty five of his combat golems continued sprinting past him into Ponyville itself. Particle beams and plasmathrowers blazing as they waged war on the constructs.

Sliding to a stop next to the Princesses, Gerhardt said, “Good, you got my message!” As he said this, he continued firing his weapon at the constructs to protect the fleeing ponies.

“Gerhardt! What the buck is going on here?!” Celestia demanded furiously.

“Repercussions! The nature spirits residing in the Everfree are attacking and they likely plan to exterminate your entire species!” Gerhardt told them.

“What do you mean by ‘repercussions’? More importantly, why would these spirits want to exterminate us?!” Luna exclaimed.

“It doesn’t matter! We can talk about this later! For now I need your help finding and evacuating everyone before things start getting really bad!”

“You mean it’s going to get worse than this?!” Celestia asked, clearly horrified by the prospect.

“Yes! Now get moving!” Gerhardt shouted back before running deeper into Ponyville, leaving the princesses behind.

[Fluttershy]

Fluttershy was outside feeding the animals when all of the sudden everything started to get really dark and it began to rain very heavily. She was startled by this at first but quickly recovered and looked up at the sky. “That’s odd… There was no thunderstorm scheduled for today…”

Suddenly there was a very loud roar from the Everfree forest and a sense of malice and danger washed over her. She was about to run back into her house when the eyes of some of the more predatory animals she was taking care of started to glow with a leaf green light and they turned and began snarling furiously at her.

“W-what’s wrong? Why do you all look so angry?” She asked the animals. Then her mind was drawn back to the day the manticore attacked. Its eyes had also been glowing just like this and she hadn’t been able to break through to it whatsoever. Realizing it was happening again but this time to more than one animal she was paralyzed with fear. She wanted to turn and run away, to go get help, but no matter how hard she tried she couldn’t so much as move a muscle.

Seeing this, a now possessed bear she had been taking care of ran up to her and was about to tear her to shreds when a bright blue beam of pure arcane energy blasted a hole straight through its head and it fell over dead. Goldy then landed on top of the bear’s corpse and hissed furiously at the other possessed animals. They snarled back and charged. Goldy unleashed four more beams of arcane energy from its mouth and killed four more of the animals before extending its monomolecular blade claws and flying towards the rest, ready to slice them all to ribbons.

Fluttershy could do nothing but watch in abject horror as the proceeding slaughter unfolded before her very eyes. Goldy was a whirlwind of blood and carnage as it slit throats with whips of its tail, sliced through flesh and bone with its claws, tore out throats with its rows of razor sharp teeth, and gouged out eyes with its horns. Every action it took was intended to kill its targets. However, that did not mean Goldy came out unscathed.

As animals would try to make it past Goldy to get to Fluttershy the little metal dragon would intercept them and take as many attacks for her as it could. This resulted in it losing one of its wings, breaking one of its legs, and getting some pretty nasty dents, some of which impared its mobility.

Suddenly she began hearing sirens in the distance along with Gerhardt’s voice. “Attention all citizens of Ponyville. This is an emergency. I repeat, this is an emergency. The princesses have already been notified. For your own safety please get yourselves and your families to the portal arch at the train station and evacuate to Canterlot as soon as possible. This message will repeat…”

[Rainbow Dash]

Rainbow Dash was practicing her flying after a hard day’s work of clearing the clouds from the sky when the last thing she expected happened. Even more clouds began to rapidly coalesce in the sky forming a single massive dark storm cloud that extended as far as her eyes could see. In fact, while she had no way of knowing this for certain, it seemed like the clouds may even extend across the entirety of Equestria.

“What the hay…?” She muttered in confusion as the rain began. Said rain was very quickly joined by such an intense volume of lightning that it was legitimately too dangerous for her or anypony else to try to go up there to clear them out.

Suddenly there was a loud roar from the Everfree Forest and an intense sense of malice and danger crashed over her like an avalanche.

Suddenly she saw things rushing out of the Everfree Forest towards Ponyville by the dozens. Some were running across the ground while others were flying. Some of the flying ones flew towards her and she saw they were large bird-like creatures made entirely out of wood and leaves just like the timberwolves and they looked just as aggressive.

Realizing Ponyville was under attack, Rainbow Dash prepared herself for a fight.

As she began her epic clash with the wooden birds she began hearing a siren coming from below her, along with Gerhardt’s voice.

“Attention all citizens of Ponyville. This is an emergency. I repeat, this is an emergency. The princesses have already been notified. For your own safety please get yourselves and your families to the portal arch at the train station and evacuate to Canterlot as soon as possible. This message will repeat…”

[Applejack]

Applejack was at her orchards trying to finish getting everything ready for spring when everything started to get much darker and it began to rain quite heavily. Thunder and lightning crackled violently in the sky.

“What in tarnation…?” She muttered in confusion as she looked up at the sky.

Suddenly there was a loud roar from the direction of the Everfree Forest.

Concerned, she began running towards the area of the farm where she knew Applebloom and Granny Smith were helping Big Mac plant crops. As she ran she heard a siren coming from the direction of Ponyville along with what sounded like Gerhardt making an announcement.

“Attention all citizens of Ponyville. This is an emergency. I repeat, this is an emergency. The princesses have already been notified. For your own safety please get yourselves and your families to the portal arch at the train station and evacuate to Canterlot as soon as possible. This message will repeat…”

As she processed this grim message she heard something rushing through the orchard towards her. Sliding to a stop she got into a defensive position and looked to see what it was.

Suddenly a large manticore-like creature made entirely out of wood like a timberwolf came barreling towards her. She jumped to the side to avoid its claws and stinger. Landing on her hooves she turned and bucked it in the side as hard as she could causing it to go flying into a tree where it then burst apart. However the pieces began to reassemble themselves not even a moment later.

Seeing this Applejack frowned. This obviously was not going to be easy. However she needed to get past this thing so she could get to Applebloom and Granny Smith so she could help Big Mac protect them. She sort of wished she had a rope so she could just hogtie the varment, but she didn’t. So she was just going to have to do this the hard way.

[Rarity]

Rarity was in her Boutique having lunch with Sweetie Belle when they heard the sounds of rain and thunder. “Hm? I didn’t know there was going to be a storm today.” Sweetie Belle said, looking out the nearest window.

Rarity also looked at the window in confusion. “There wasn’t supposed to be, if I remember correctly. It was supposed to be a calm sunny day… I wonder what changed?”

Suddenly the two of them heard a loud roar outside and a powerful sense of malice and danger began to permeate the atmosphere.

“W-what’s happening?” Sweetie Belle asked, clearly terrified by whatever was going on.

“I’m not sure…” Rarity muttered in a worried tone.

Suddenly a siren began to blare and what sounded like Gerhardt announced, “Attention all citizens of Ponyville. This is an emergency. I repeat, this is an emergency. The princesses have already been notified. For your own safety please get yourselves and your families to the portal arch at the train station and evacuate to Canterlot as soon as possible. This message will repeat…”

Rarity’s eyes widened as she processed the announcement. Ponyville was under attack. “Sweetie Belle, I’m going to need you to stay close to me and do everything I tell you. We’re going to heed Mr. Mechanica’s advice and evacuate to Canterlot.”

[In Cloudsdale]

Everypony was in a panic as the entire city turned into one massive lightning storm. Hundreds of pegasi were severely injured or killed by the extremely violent bolts of lightning just in the first few seconds, especially those that were trapped inside when it started. Those that were outside were either trying to save their loved ones or were attempting to flee the city as the clouds were completely out of control and it was much too dangerous to try to regain control over them.

[Every Equestrian population center near a forest]

Wooden constructs poured out of the forests and led massive assaults on the Equestrian towns and cities. The local guards and police forces tried their best to fend them off while the citizens either evacuated or attempted to hide in doors. However, it was rapidly becoming readily apparent that it was a losing battle.

[Every Equestrian population center near the ocean]

Everypony who managed to survive the first waves attempted to evacuate in-land or get to shelter as massive tidal waves slammed into their cities and powerful hurricanes began to form, absolutely devastating their cities.

[Applejack]

Applejack ignored the pain her wounds were causing her and ran. She hadn’t managed to defeat the wooden manticore but she had managed to get past it. Fortunately the barrier generator that Gerhardt had sold her to keep the timberwolves out had been on the way so she had already activated it to stop any more of these wooden creatures from getting into the orchard before continuing on her way.

It didn’t take long before she started hearing the sounds of a struggle. Rounding the corner she saw Big Mac holding off a large wooden bear in an attempt to protect Applebloom and Granny Smith. He appeared even more heavily wounded than Applejack.

Applejack bolted over towards the wooden bear and bucked it in the side as hard as she could, breaking it apart and scattering the pieces over a fairly large area. Thus it would take a few seconds for it to reform.

“Big Mac, Applebloom run! Get to the truck! Granny Smith, climb on my back! You can’t run on your own so I’ll have to carry you!” Applejack exclaimed.

Applebloom and Big Mac didn’t bother trying to question her and just started running. It took a couple seconds for Granny Smith to climb on Applejack’s back but as soon as she had Applejack bolted after Big Mac and Applebloom quickly catching up.

As they were running Applejack noticed the barrier protecting the Orchard fall. That meant one of two things. Either the wooden creatures had managed to bust it down with brute force or one of them that was already inside destroyed the barrier generator. Either way it didn’t matter since they weren’t staying here long. They were going to heed the announcement and evacuate to Canterlot.

As soon as the four of them reached the truck Applejack helped Granny Smith into the front passenger seat. Before rushing over to the front driver seat. Big Mac had just finished helping Applebloom into the back seat when another wooden manticore burst out of the orchard and ripped his side open with a swipe of its claws. He cried out in pain as he was knocked to the ground.

“Big Mac!” Applejack exclaimed as she saw this happen. In a panic she bucked the wooden manticore so hard in the jaw that its head flew off. It then collapsed to a pile of wood in between her and Big Mac. Rushing over to Big Mac she helped him up onto his hooves and into the back seat. “Applebloom, there are some rags under your seat! Grab some and use them to keep pressure on Big Mac’s wound!” She ordered before closing the door and quickly jumping in the driver’s seat.

[Fluttershy]

“Goldy!” Fluttershy cried out in despair as a large wooden manticore smashed the little metal dragon to pieces. It then turned and snarled at her before pouncing at her. Closing her eyes Fluttershy braced herself for the pain she was sure would follow.

However before the manticore could reach her a dark blue beam of arcane energy blasted it to pieces. “Fluttershy! I suspected you might be in danger, but I’m glad to see you are unharmed.” Princess Luna said, landing in front of Fluttershy.

Fluttershy opened her eyes and looked at the Princess. “P-princess Luna…” She muttered before bursting out into tears, crying in despair for Goldy and all of the other animals that died that day.

Princess Luna wanted to comfort her but there wasn’t enough time. So she reluctantly just teleported Fluttershy back to the train station in Canterlot, skipping the portal entirely.

[Rainbow Dash]

Rainbow Dash tried her best to fight the wooden birds but there were just too many of them. Just as she was sure that she was going to die there was a blast of golden arcane energy and Princess Celestia flew over to her. “Get to the portal! You fought well but we’ll handle everything from here!”

“No way! I can’t just let these things get away with attacking Ponyville!” Rainbow Dash protested.

“You’re heavily wounded! You would only be getting in the way! Now go, otherwise I will cast a temporary paralysis spell on you and teleport you to Canterlot myself!” Celestia ordered.

Rainbow Dash hesitated for a moment before cursing under her breath and flying towards the train station. She didn’t want to leave but Celestia was right. She was wounded. Staying here to fight wouldn’t be heroic or brave, it would be suicidal.

[Rarity]

Rarity and Sweetie Belle were backed into a corner by a large wooden bear. Rarity had raised a barrier to protect the two of them, but she wasn’t as powerful as Twilight despite using the exercises in Gerhardt’s book to maintain magical fitness. So she knew the barrier wouldn’t last long.

Fortunately it wouldn’t need to last long as the wooden bear was vaporized by a blast of golden light. Looking to its source, Rarity saw a golden golem who she assumed was Deus. She had personally never met or even seen Deus before but it was pretty easy to tell it was him since he looked vastly different from the combat golems that were running around. Also there were only three people that could look like that and the other two decided to take on a more organic appearance.

Rarity was about to thank him, but before she could even open her mouth he turned and began running away. Likely off to go vaporize more of the wooden creatures and save more ponies.

[Gerhardt]

Running past Golden Oaks Library, Gerhardt saw Twilight trying to protect herself, Spike, and a group of about ten other ponies with a barrier as two of the manticore constructs tried their best to break through to maul them.

Raising one of his hands, he grabbed the two constructs in a telekinetic grip and incenerated them with intense arcane flames bordering on plasma. It took a few seconds before the constructs were heavily burned enough that they finally “died” but as soon as they did, he dropped their charred husks and ran over to Twilight.

“Good job on keeping them safe as long as you did! Do you have enough energy to teleport them to the train station?!” He demanded.

“I... I think so. Gerhardt, what’s going on?! Is it the nature spirits you told me about a few months ago?” Twilight inquired, her body visibly trembling.

“Yes! If you have enough energy then get them the fuck out of here! You should get out of here too, you’ll only end up getting yourself killed if you stay here! If you want to help, then help by getting the wounded and dying that come through the portal to hospitals in Canterlot!” He ordered before running off again.

As he was running and shooting, he tried to call Isabelle. The ponies were going to need her help to stabilize the dying once they were safe in Canterlot. However, when she didn’t answer he cursed and gave up. He didn’t think the nature spirits would kill her since she wasn’t a pony but he wasn’t holding out hope. Until he saw evidence to the contrary, he was going to operate under the assumption she was dead.

Eventually he reached Sugar Cube Corner and saw Pinkie Pie trying to hold off three constructs that appeared to be trying to tear down one of the walls of the building in an attempt to get inside. Two were bear constructs and one was a manticore construct. She was seriously injured and appeared to be bleeding out, judging by how much blood she was losing.

Gerhardt blasted the constructs apart with his combat rifle and before he could do anything else, Pinkie Pie rushed towards him. “Gears! You’ve gotta help me get the Cakes to the portal!” She exclaimed in a pleading tone.

He nodded. “Very well, but first let’s seal this wound so you don’t bleed out. I’m going to cauterize it, but I’ll be using a spell to numb it so I promise you won't feel a thing. Just try not to move.”

Pinkie Pie closed her eyes and turned her head away but nodded. “Alright. Just hurry!”

Gerhardt cast a spell to completely numb the wound before casting another spell to cauterize it. Flames spewed forth from the wound for a few moments and the smell of burning flesh filled the air. When it was over he teleported Pinkie Pie to the train station and rushed inside the building, but didn’t see the Cakes anywhere. Though his sensors detected four energy signatures consistent with the Cakes in a room up stairs. Running up the stairs, Gerhardt found the room they were hiding in and knocked. “Mr. and Mrs. Cake, this is Gerhardt Mechanica! I’m here to help you get to safety!”

“C-come in!” A timid voice said from the other side of the door.

Gerhardt pushed the door open and walked inside. He found himself inside what was very clearly the room the Cake’s foals slept in, judging by the crib. He saw the Cakes cradling their foals trying to comfort them.

Walking over to them he said, “I’m going to teleport you four to the train station. My combat golems are protecting the portal arch, so none of the wooden constructs will be able to harm you. I just need you to get yourselves and your foals through that portal as soon as possible. Miss Pie is already there waiting for you. Understood?”

“Y-yes. Thank you so much, Mr. Mechanica. W-we would have never made it there on our own. Not with those m-monsters rampaging through the town.” Mr. Cake stuttered.

“Of course.” Gerhardt responded before teleporting the four of them to the train station.

With that done, Gerhardt teleported himself back out of the building and was about to turn and start running towards the center of town when he heard the roar of an engine. Looking, he saw Applejack driving the truck he built for her family and saw Granny Smith in the seat next to her. He assumed Big Mac and Applebloom were in the back two seats. They drove past him in the direction of the train station.

He was surprised by this as due to their proximity to the Everfree Forest, he had assumed the four of them were dead. Apparently he had been mistaken. Perhaps one of the Princesses had saved them?

Shaking his head to refocus his thoughts he turned and began running towards town hall. He passed plenty of mutilated corpses, and saved as many of the surviving ponies as he could. A few minutes after he reached town hall, which appeared to be the epicenter of the battle between his combat golems and the wooden constructs, a triumphant roar and laugh resounded through the air. “FREEDOM! AHAHAHAHAHA!” Cried a gleeful voice that seemed to come from every direction simultaneously.

Looking towards the Everfree Forest, he saw what looked like a massive wooden deer emerge from the trees and rise high up into the air. A sense of cold dread filled him as he realized this was no ordinary nature spirit. No. This was a greater spirit of nature.

Blinking, he processed this situation and came to the conclusion that it was impossible for them to win. There was no way they could beat this thing. As if to confirm his thoughts, the spirit looked at Ponyville and completely shattered the barrier protecting it with a single immensely powerful bolt of lightning.

Sighing in resignation, Gerhardt teleported himself to the portal arch and immediately pressed the button to deactivate it. He knew Equestria was doomed, but hopefully this would buy the ones who had already escaped to Canterlot at least some time. After that he sent a signal to deactivate the sirens and the automated message that had been playing on repeat the entire time.

Casting a spell so his voice could be heard all throughout Ponyville he said, “This is Gerhardt Mechanica. If you are still alive and haven’t gotten to the train station yet, it’s too late. We’re all going to die. May the gods have mercy on our souls.”

Author's Note

And finally we come to the part I've been building up towards for so long. I'm so excited! Keep in mind, this is going to be dark. Not as dark as it would have been had this happened earlier but it will still be dark so prepare yourself for that.

Anyways, I forgot to add this question in the last chapter until a few hours after I posted it. And there's still time to answer, so I'll ask this again now that you all have a bit more context. Gerhardt or Pixel? Strawpoll Link

Fun Fact: Silvanus was originally planned to be a goddess instead of a god and her name would have been "Natura". However, I decided to change that because I planned to add a goddess of technology that was angry over Silvanus banishing Gerhardt from the universe. I obviously changed my mind last minute and never actually included this goddess of technology because I thought it would be a bit cringey. (Trust me, it would have been. The story is way better off without her.) So I decided to give the Nature Spirit the name "Natura" instead.

Anyways, as always, constructive criticism is more than welcome. Please, tell me what you guys thought of this chapter and how you think I could improve if at all. I hope you all enjoyed reading this chapter as much if not more than I enjoyed writing it!

Stay safe out there everyone!