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Decades have passed since the goddess of magic returned from her brief visit to the Æsir gods.

The times of peace were over, she was in the midst of a war between the three factions of Christian mythology. On one side the angels led by Yahweh; on the other the fallen angels led by their general ruler Azazel; and on the other the devils led by Lucifer.

The war was going on and deaths were happening on all sides until two dragons appeared in the middle of the battlefield. One of them was red and the other was white. The soldiers on each side froze in fear as they knew these two creatures, they were Ddraig and Albion the two heavenly dragons.

The dragons were fighting each other completely ignoring the surroundings, this caused the death of countless angels by the attacks that were launched by both. This greatly angered the goddess.

Anastasia walked over to where the two were fighting and said. "Hey duo of overdeveloped lizards, how about fighting someone of your level."

The two dragons looked at the woman who was extremely similar to the humans they despised and simply laughed, then the red one released a breath of fire and turned to face the other again.

What surprised them is that the woman appeared intact on the spot and the flames were stopped in the air until they had their size multiplied by ten times and were directed back at the dragons as a massive fireball.

Ddraig took the attack directly full blowing him away from the spot with the shockwave, while Albion managed to halve the attack a few times until it was possible to take it without serious damage.

"Disgusting human, you are an interesting opponent. As you repelled Ddraig from here you shall be my warm up before my real fight with my rival." Albion speaks arrogantly.

"Lizard this is a fair warning. First, get ready because in the midst of hell, the infernal flames shall arise. This momment will be the rebirth of my blade of destruction. And second, I am not disgusting, I am adorably magnificent." She inserts the blade, driving it into the ground.

[Finally, it's time to break the seals. This will be a highway to hell for that pair of little dragons.]

After a while, pillars of flame rose in the battlefield, and countless devils where caught in the sudden surge of black flames.

And with a snap of her finger, black flames engulfed the whole enemy army and her own body was enveloped in black flames that solidified into a black armor. Most of the fallen angels and devils were caught in the sudden outburst of flame. Those who could fly flew in the air, but they were shot down by balls of fire that were falling from the night sky before they could reach some distance from the ground. Different eeries cries echoed in the battefield. Some did their best to attack the woman who was responsible for this hellish nightmare, but their spells were unable to pass the blazing sea of dark flames.

After a few minutes; the sea of enemies was nowhere to be seen; even their ashes were purged into nothingness.

Albion tried to divide the flames that flickered towards him without success because the more he divided the more flames replaced the first ones, but he realized that the knight in black armor was coming towards him.

"Oh, I guess I am getting rough. I planned to kill you with that move, but you managed to live." She provokes Albion after cutting off one of its wings.

"Damn it, die!" Albion uses his greatest technique to divide the space around the woman.

The space was divided and the woman was no longer in that location. However, the area around him changed to a golden plane filled with runes and sigils with that same black knight in the center of this place.

"Hello little dragon, welcome to my Heaven's Treasure, this place will be your tomb."

Albion tries to escape the place by attacking the woman, the walls of the place and the sigils, but he is not successful either time. He then tries to divide space, but the runes prevent any spatial effects within the barrier.

She begins to remove the dragon's senses one by one until he is pinned to the ground and then she kills him by piercing his sword through his heart.

She decides to send the dragon's soul directly to Yahweh's system after all he wanted some dragons to work with his sacred gears and she just found two specimens ready for slaughter.

After leaving the separate plane, she goes towards the Welsh dragon to eliminate him.

[Hey Ana, let me tackle this one... please.]

"It's okay, he's all yours." Anastasia throws the sword in the air and the sword becomes a massive black dragon with glowing red eyes.

The dragon looks towards Ddraig and smirks. It immediately exudes a black flame that begins to burn everything in its path. Ddraig uses his special flame to try to combat these black flames, but is overtaken by misfortune when he realizes that the black flames do not stop burning until they extinguish their target and everything in their path including his own flames that should burn everything. The black flames seem to corrupt the target by altering their essence and then consuming that energy.

The black flames propagate and multiply constantly, the black dragon begins to distort space-time causing the black flames instead of appearing in the original location fighting Ddraig's flames to appear on the back of the Welsh dragon burning him down to ashes.

Anastasia again collects the soul and sends it to heaven.

"How long are you guys keep watching? The sneaky attack won't work on me." She call the devil kings who were hiding.

"Here she comes, be prepared. If we defeat her, we can use her sword against the biblical god." Lucifer warn the others. "Let's fight till one of us vaporize from this world."

The two fought in close quarters combat, but his evil light was quickly absorbed by the armor which seemed to function as an anti-magic black hole and Lucifer suffered the full effects of the black flames.

Anastasia was surprised by the fact that he continued to fight even though he was in extreme pain caused by her flames.

"Your heart is hurt Lucifer I see all the hurt written on your face and even though it's cold I could already see that you have no intention of killing me."

"Why do humans deserve it and angels don't? Why should we protect creatures unworthy of his forgiveness? This I could not accept, so I rebelled and he sent his firstborn straight to hell." Lucifer confess in a vague way.

"Still hate humans? I thought you would have gotten over that rebellious phase by now." She teases him with a smile.

"Mother, humans are selfish beings driven by wars, they are nothing more than souls moved by darkness and for every evil committed by them on earth I am guilty without even defending myself."

"The opinion of others is not important, you just needed to do the task incumbent on you... that's what Yahweh would tell you. I on the other hand am glad you have your own beliefs, but blind hatred is not something to be proud of. If you believe humans are wrong, you must become the best version of yourself so that you can guide others to improve themselves."

Lucifer remains silent when he hears this.

"Woman, do not forget about the fallen." A fallen angel named Kokabiel said while aiming his light lance at the goddess.

She immediately teleported away from the Devil King Lucifer, and suddenly a hand appeared grabbing Kokabiel's head from behind.

"Of course I did not forget about you. I just think that you are not worthy enough of my atention." Anastasia says as her full figure appears from behind Kokabiel.

The fallen angel tries to struggle but it is useless, he is simply kicked by Anastasia away from the main combat area like a ball.

Azazel who was at the scene looked at his mother in shock, he never imagined that the bedtime story about the fairy warrior queen was a real story about his mother.

Anastasia senses Azazel's presence and sends a mental message using magic ordering him to withdraw from that location if he does not wish to be punished by her.

Azazel immediately leaves the area and goes in search of Kokabiel.

After looking one last time at Lucifer, whose body was full of burns but still alive, she leaves the place by teleporting to Michael's location.

"Where is Yahweh?"

"Mother, father went to seal the beast of apocalypse." Michael he speaks apprehensively knowing his father's low chances of surviving.

"Michael, you are in charge of leading the sky from this day forward, I will help your father so see you later my dear children." She winks at him. "Mother/Mama" Michael and Gabriel shout after her dumbfounded by the sudden order she gave.

Anastasia immediately goes to the beast's location, ignoring the battle cries around her.

[Ana, you know releasing so many seals to awake my true form drains your energy. I recommend that you rest before fighting again.] Apollyon strangely advises her to avoid fighting.

"I don't have the time for the luxury of rest." She kept flying straight towards the direction the angel duo pointed.

[It's up to you.] Then Apollyon stay silent.

She finally arrives at the place where Yahweh is strugling to seal the rest of the beast. He already sealed 70% of the creature, but he's too exhausted to finish.

"Yahweh, how are you holding up?" He smiles a little and reply. "I'm still barely broken, let's end this quickly because I deserve a nap after this."

The beast takes advantage of the moment of distraction of the two to launch an attack that could kill Yahweh, but what surprises them most is that Lucifer threw himself in the middle of the attack to protect his father.

"Lucifer? Why?" Yahweh, already weakened by the sealing ritual, is stunned.

"If there isn't a chance to obtain your eternal forgiveness, I will make my own choices because I don't need your redemption."

"You have grown a lot my son." Yahweh stands up and approaches his son who was in his final moments. Meanwhile, Anastasia already recovered, using magic to borrow energy from a future version of herself with the penalty of not being able to use this power at the time you borrowed it, keeps attacking the apocalyptic beast.

"Dad, so this is the freedom you said. It really is a curse to be free, but I don't regret anything." He gives a weak smile with the last of his energy. "My son, at least you lived the rest of your life as you wanted instead of being controlled by stupid things like fate. Humans usually say... something like Thank Me, but in your case you deserved all the results for your choices and hardwork. I'm proud of you Lucifer." Then Lucifer's soul and body are destroyed by the creature's flames.

Anastasia after the brief shock immediately acts against the beast. She uses the heavenly treasure without changing to another plane, she only uses it to seal some of the beast's senses and facilitate her companion to seal the creature. When the monster is trying to make its last attempt to struggle, she wields Apollyon and makes a horizontal slash enveloped in an immense wave of black flames that begin to burn the beast until it is sealed.

"Ha ha ha, you are full of surprises my dear friend but looks like this will be the last time we meet each other." His hand start to became dust as the side effect from his multiple seals. "Hey Ana, I don't feel good. So this is the feeling of death, it is very interesting." then he becames dust but his soul is captured by Anastasia.

"This isn't a goodbye, it's just a see you later my friend." She teleports away leaving only blue flower petals with a beautiful flower growing in the middle of the infertile land of the underworld.