Let The Idiot Take It Alone

Baam!!!

Whack!!!

Swoosh!!!

Helel and Michael were going hits after hits, not giving even one chance to relax,

Sometimes sword slashes connected while others were dodged or parried,

All for only one goal, a single slash towards the neck, that would be all it will take,

Just drop your guard own so that your head will drop in the same way,

Ever since conditions were mentioned, Michael stopped using his signature soul weapon, Lance,

Michael had an otherworldly pressure on him,

It was like he was being stared at by millions of eyes every second, from above, from below, from a thousand mile away, from just in front,

He was getting agitated for literally no reason and he knew that, that was what made it even more agitating,

This was indeed one of the goals for which Helel summoned those creepy eyes,

Throughout these years Helel noticed certain features of these eyes,

They induce a sense of fear and worship in the target,

Well, that is for normal beings,

But, beings with too much arrogance or eccentric in nature, just feel agitated and have an urge to trample on them,

And it hurts too much, I mean a lot, ever had a bee sting in your eyes, just imagining it hurts, right?

This is where another one of the six abilities, excluding innate ones, held by Helel, comes to play,

'Poltergeist Creation and Infusion'

With this ability, Helel can create an invisible doll of aether, called poltergeist,

He can give it a set of commands while creating and it lives only for that purpose,

The second part of this ability is infusion, in the first part it takes a lot of aether to make a sustainable body for the poltergeist, however, with infusion, the poltergeist can be fused with non-living or unconscious objects to control them,

Well,

This ability is weird and creepy just like the oculi,

But, what can Helel do except mixing for them together, to create an even creepier nightmare for his opponents,

Helel used poltergeist infusion on the oculi to control them or to be more correct on himself to control the eyes,

To simplify it, the oculi infused with lesser poltergeist are keeping their eyes on each other and themselves, as soon as, one is about to step on one of them, another or same oculus senses it and it sends the information to the poltergeist in Helel's mind, controlling all the oculi as a central point,

It then sends a signal to close the targeted oculus,

In even simpler words, the oculi are infused with low-grade poltergeist with their only task to warn the central main poltergeist controlling the opening and closing of the oculi at the sub-conscious level,

This way Helel splits tasks in his mind with the help of the poltergeist,

Like now, he is using one of the poltergeist which is infused with his mind, controlling a group of oculi and the other electron, to deliver the kids to safety,

All without Helel managing the process, it is doing it by itself,

This put Michael in a despairing position, one of the greatest weaknesses of his enemy was covered for, all while he was sleeping in the name of relaxing,

All his moves were analyzed, he can't sneak attack, he can't summon a surprise weapon, he can do everything but it was futile as his every move was on the watch of these oculi,

'Such a grief, but if I do something he can't account for,' thought Michael,

He summoned a small ball of aether in his left hand while his right hand was busy parrying Helel's strike,

Michael was now getting pushed back due to his concentration getting split and Helel starting to get aggressive after sensing some shit brewing,

'What is he planning to do? There is such a little amount of aether in the ball, I doubt he can even make a small pop sound with it leave making it explode strong enough to turn the tables,' Helel did some futile analysis,

'Anyway, I am going to end this before he does something,' Helel made up his mind to end it,

Michael was slowly getting pushed back just above the hole they dropped from,

Michael began to execute his plan as the orb started shining,

Shrill!!!

Soon, a surprise blinding light strong enough for everyone to close their eyes came from the orb!!!,

'Shit is this his plan!!!' Helel screamed in his mind while his face made an agitated expression for the first time during this fight,

All the oculi closed so, did Helel and Michael,

'It's almost over!!!' both thought as they put forward their plans,

Michael summoned his soul weapon, the Lance, in his left hand, at the same jumping back to get into position while the light explosion was happening,

'A direct hit will hinder his movements, that would be the chance to severe his head with my sword,'

'Just 3 more steps and five more seconds, it's done!!!' Helel rejoiced at his preparations being complete,

As the light faded, they both were in for each other's surprise as they long ago forgot about each other's pov due to thrill,

'Victory is in my grasp!!!' Both decided,

Helel looked towards the hole from which they came, Michael was directly beneath the hole,

His eyes moved from the hole to Michael's lance,

"Stop!!!" Helel screamed,

Michael also got confused, he looked above, if this was a feint, Helel was going to pay dearly for it,

Thankfully or alas, it was not a feint as he saw a scary white tree bark-like masked archangel with feather's covering his body descending down the hole, peeking out his head from the hole now,

But, what caught his attention wasn't the archangel but, the black lightning flickering behind him which the masked archangel was seemingly unaware about,

"You idiot, better stop yourself first!!!" said Michael at the hypocrisy of Helel,

Michael summoned covering himself and the new arrival with who-knows-how-many layers of barriers, nearly exhausting all his stored aether, to defend from the incoming sneak attack of Helel,

He left the idiot alone, after all, it was his lightning, let him take it alone,