Chapter 1 : Letting loose V

"I have had enough of your proud countenance, I will no longer stand for it."

Agares remarks.

"Oh, quite unfortunate. in that case...ENOUGH."

Sirius finishes of in an otherworldly voice.

Agares stopped in his tracks and his attack seized abruptly, Sirius smirked and began to walk towards Agares with slow and calculated steps.

"What is the meaning of this??"

Agares asks wide eyed.

"My authority is above all things. As long as you are under the sound of my voice, you shall obey me."

Sirius remarks moving closer to the demon earl.

"Impossible, I shall not go down like this…. Come to me."

Agares remarks with a shriek that echoed across Lagos.

The sound offset Sirius and caused him to stop in his tracks and cover his ears to provide some comfort.

After the shriek came a certain calm with Sirius wondering why Agares had shrieked like that and in such a battle nonetheless.

Not too long after, the life-force of all of Agares forces still standing and scattered around the battlefield began to converge to Agares, entering and causing him to evolve into an even more advanced and unsightly demonic entity.

 "Now you shall feel my wrath."

Agares now enhanced by the life force he had absorbed says in a loud voice which boomed across the city they were in.

Sirius stared down Agares after which he burst into a maniacal laughter.

Agares vexed by Sirius antics tried to smash him into the ground but Sirius leaped out of the way after which he puts up his palm facing Agares with a smug look

 "if you think that absorbing all your forces actually helped your chances against me then I'm sorry to say but you are sorely mistaken."

Sirius remarks in a condescending manner as he stared down the monstrosity before him known as Agares.

"I'll make you eat your words, human scum."

Agares retorts in an angry tone as he attempted to move on Sirius.

"You can try. But then again…. Heavenly art : Laser."

Sirius says as he pointed his index finger at the approaching Agares.

Before Agares can react, a thin line of amplified light is shot from Sirius's finger and cuts through him in the middle with the demon struck with shock at the speed and destructive capability of the attack.

"What the…"

Agares trails off as a numbing feeling moved across his body.

Agares splits into two clean halves and explodes into ashes with the area behind him getting affected by Sirius attack as well with several large explosions occurring for a couple of miles back with Sirius watching the scenery with an absent mind.

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The other apostles converged at where Sirius was with none of them looking slightly satisfied by the easy victory they had just enjoyed with most looking sullen and others brooding rather loudly.

Elisha sees this and tries to uplift the spirits of his subordinates by walking over to a place where he was visible to all eleven apostles.

 "I know you all are still sad over the fact that Eliza is not here with us but right now we have something really important to talk about."

Elisha remarks trying to grab the attention of the others.

"What's that ??"

Aria asks with others showing little interest.

"Who got the highest number of kills of course, I think I won."

Elisha remarks in a jocular fashion.

There was silence for a while as the other apostles didn't respond immediately but keep to the moody atmosphere for a few seconds before the ice was finally broken.

 "Don't kid yourself bro, I'm clearly the one who won."

Caleb says with a smile.

"Whoa, hold it right there… did you guys see me in action, I was taking down those demons like it was nothing."

David remarks as he spoke with his shoulders up high.

"If I remember properly you were struggling until I arrived to give you moral support."

Zino says with a few muffled chuckles coming from the group.

"Anyways I'm clearly the winner since I had five minions doing the killing for me."

Zino continues with a knowing expression.

"I don't think it counts as your score if you didn't do the killing yourself."

Serayah points out.

"No-one said anything about not using minions."

Jay chips in.

"Minions or not, I'm clearly the winner."

Aria says while thumping her chest.

"How can we trust any score you guys give since you all were fighting at your own places."

Jonathan remarks while stroking his chin.

"True, but I have a feeling I'm the one that got the highest score."

Natalie says with a nod.

"Yeah keep telling yourself that till you believe it."

Leah remarks with a tease.

"What about you, Sara… how many did you kill??"

Zara asks.

"Well I was only going for their leaders, so I won't say I took down a lot but I guess I did my best."

Sara replies in a meek voice.

"It's quite unfortunate that any of you think that you had the highest score as I destroyed not only Agares but all demons and undead he had merged with."

Sirius joins in with a proud smirk appearing on his face as he tried to push his sadness to the back of his mind and join in the conversation.

The apostles continued in their back and forth banter on who had the most kills with their voice ringing out into the desolate land and laughter being heard amongst them with the fact that Eliza was not with them being pushed to the back of their mind not because they did not care about her but because they knew she would want them to be happy.