The dragon's harem

Behind her, billions of angels and archons lined up, and all of them looked both terrified and excited. For the first time in millions of years, she was standing on the ground, and from what they guessed so far, she was going to fight for real and push the abominations’ lines back.

“There are currently over nine thousand colonies surrounding this quarter of the universe. The closet one is five light-years away, and the furthest is a hundred light-years away. I can sense a total of nine avatars, and all of them are at their peak power.” Amaterasu explained what her eyes saw, and the archons standing near her approached.

If an abomination colony is one light year away, then it would take a light dragon a year to go there, then he has to fight and win, then spend another year coming back. So it would be at least a two-year expedition.

The archon walked in front of Amaterasu, and bowed down, almost putting his face on the ground. “Yes, she indeed had came out of nowhere and performed far better than we could.

As all the archons looked confused, another person teleported in, and this was an archangel, a tall, muscular man who stood over five meters tall, had over a thousand wings, and his eyes burned with so much fire and divine magic that some could mistake him for a god.

“Lucifer, I remember the days you were this big.” She reached toward her knees with one hand, “And always came crying to me when Adam refused to let you go fight the abominations with him.”

She smiled, “Of course not, you know I am not that hasty.” She lifted her foot, wriggled her toes a bit, then stomped down.

“I understand, I’ll take control of your angels and make sure everything is prepared. Be careful.” As he spoke, the archons all gasped in the back.

Since the universe started spinning, dark matter now acts on it like a centrifugal force, forcing the shell to expand. The catch was that the shell was stable for billions of years, and if it started expanding now without the proper scaffolding of space and time, it would shatter, or at least crack and eventually allow more abominations to seep in.

When Amaterasu said that AO showing up early could destroy the universe, this was one of the scenarios. He came, and now if they don’t manage the universe’s expansion, it would be the end.

She started floating up, and all of her archons looked up. “I’ll be back soon.” Smiling at them, her body disappeared into a wormhole.

Nyar had informed them that even though they had suffered a lot of damage recently, the universe would soon be forced to expand and crack, which would allow him to send billions of abominations to colonize it from the inside.

One of the abominations, a wounded soldier of war and a veteran who had fought for over a century, walked through the streets, finally reached what looked like a bar for his kind, and sat down. “Many had ended and returned to our father’s embrace. They should resurrect soon so we can counterattack.”

“There you are.” That was a strange voice, and when the abomination looked up, the bartender was dead on the floor, and Amaterasu floated there, looking at him with a smug smile.

“What… are you doing here?” He couldn’t mistake the face of one of the deadliest divines; just seeing her made him certain that this colony was about to get destroyed. “It should take you four years to reach this place, and I’m certain that you were in the universe at the last attack.”

He lifted the mug, stared at it, and then threw a glare at Amaterasu. “Is there any way I can convince you not to destroy this place?”

After a moment of hesitation, the abomination gulped the mug whole, fell dead on the counter, and the sun started to rise on the abominations’ colony, burning the entire place into ash as the entire planet got swallowed by the sun’s gravity.