Chapter 48: ANGEL 003

A cold sweat ran down Lucius's face as he stared down the Angel before them. "Lillian. Don't let your guard down."

Lillian glancing back at Lucius never saw him so serious. She put all her focus onto the Angel before them, Conjuring forth multiple balls of fire around her. "I know-…"

The Angel suddenly disappeared from their sights!

Lucius blocked the Angel suddenly, Protecting Jala from its attack. Lillian is in utter shock seeing this. "H-he's faster than that last angel I fought!"

Lucius deflected the attack, instantly burning it with his immense power with his free hand.

The Angel stuck his hands through the fire grabbing and ripping off Lucius' arm!

"Thank you for the meal." it said.

"GO!" Lucius ordered.

Jala dashed from the courtyard.

Lucius backed away from the Angel, watching it absorb his arm into itself. Not too long after, Lucius instantly regrew his arm.

"Mmmm… You must be the king of Demons… Such excellent and potent magic. This should help sustain me for a whole ten years!"

The angel holding out its hands, made it grow larger and larger. With a smile he slams his huge hands at Lucius, cratering the ground. Luckily for Lucius he evaded But was met with a ball of fire hurdling his direction

"TCH!"

He readied his free hand to stop the attack but is saved by a water barrier conjured by Lillian.

Lillian starts hurdling her own Fire balls at the angel who takes them all without flinching.

"Ah yes you… Your magic is familiar. You wouldn't happen to be the holder of the holy light would you? Or perhaps an offspring."

The Angel shrinks his hands only to enlarge them once again. He attempts to grab Lillian. "Nonetheless your magic will serve to make me stronger."

Lillian evades the angel, pelting him with an even faster flurry of fire balls.

Lucius follows up slicing at the Angels fingers rather than the hand itself. With his last slice decapitating the hand completely.

Within a second the hand completely regenerates itself.

"I should've known." Lillian muttered.

After a moment of deliberating, she changed her Fire magic to earth.

"What's this?" The Angel asked

Lillian reformed the Earth spheres around her into the shape of rods

"This is new…" it said.

Without hesitation Lillian unleashed a flurry of Earth shaped rods at the Angel. Rod after rod penetrated the Angel from its legs to its body, even its head. It began to use its hands to block the incoming attack.

Eventually the flurry stopped. Peeking from its hand it found Lucius moving in, cutting its head from its body!

Lucius slid far distance away from the Angel, watching for any signs of life. Sure enough the angel regrew its own head.

"Ah~. Nothing like a warmup to start off my first few moments in God's paradise."

Hearing the angel Lillian became more serious. "Warm up?"

Before she could realize it the angel stood over her ready to attack. Everything slowed down to a snail's pace.

She blocks and is sent flying through the courtyard wall. Her arms became numb from the impact of his blow, then her head struck the small homes behind her. She tried reorienting herself only to find the angel before her once again!

"Lillian!!"

Lucius parried his attack. But this leaves him exposed in midair.

The angel using this small window shoots Lucius with an earth rod no different from Lillians.

Both Lillian and Lucius land in different sections of the fortified city.

Lillian quickly got to her feet and as her arms healed, she endowed herself with additional energy and strength using her own powers.

Her eyes darted around, waiting for the angel to attack any second.

"Where are you? Where are you? Where are you?"

Lillian suddenly hears the sounds of buildings being demolished. "There you are!"

She grew her wings, quickly taking off to the source of the sound, she finds both Lucius and the angel engaging in an intense battle. Each blow they made led to the decimation of houses and other buildings, leaving the city in an even more ruined condition.

Lucius conjures three huge balls of fire, sending it the Angel's direction. It easily deflects this attack and sends one of its own to Lucius who cuts through this magic!

The demon king wastes little time closing the distance, cutting through the angel. He turns blocking an attack with his sword, quickly dodging through the Angels counter attacks.

Lucius cuts through the angel's arm, only for it to completely grow back in seconds.

He's then grabbed by the Angel's enlarged hands, crushing his stomach. Luckily for Lucius, Lillian intercepts them with her wing magic slicing through the angel's arm.

Lucius quickly distances himself from the angel with Lillian joining by his side.

Lillian scoffs. "What happened with your undead army Lucius?"

"And bring fodder for this Angel, that won't help us, Lillian."

"Then how do we beat him?"

Lucius scowls. "All we can do is keep attacking until we exhaust it... Angels are unkillable creatures that only die from exhausting their magic."

The Angel Closes in for an attack, Stretching and slamming its arms down. They both evade in time.

"Lillian! Whatever you do, Don't let it consume any flesh! It'll only make him stronger!!"

Lillian glances back at the angel, remembering what it and the other angel Enocht did before. The angel hearing Lucius smiled creepily.

Lillian lands on the ground sending pillars of earth rod from its arm up to its body. It breaks through as if pain was just a concept. Stretching back to Lillian 

She backs off further, endowing herself with what little power she could muster.

"So, you are the holder of the holy light…" The Angel points a finger at Lillian. "How rude of me I should've introduced myself."

Lucius Quickly approached from behind, ready to cut at the angel once more.

The angel dodge, pointing and blasting a beam of energy from its finger at Lucius!

Lucius is shot in the chest! He ignores the pain slicing the angel's head off again.

Lucius grabs the head, burning it to ash. He quickly distanced himself as the head completely regenerated back.

"My Name is Terrocht, God Cassells faithful Commanding Angel." Terrocht gives a quick bow, before clashing with Lucius again. "Tsk tsk tsk. Don't worry I'll have you returned back to the cycle with those other Heroes of Prophecy. After all, if you don't return, God will be quite upset."

Lillian slices through him with her wind slices.

"That's another month lost…"

The angel deflects Lucius back. "It's alright to be scared of death, holy light holder. All creatures fear death but it brings them to the holy land to live in tranquility."

PING

"Oh?" The angel found itself in the air. It found Lillian now punching its gut. 

Lucius followed up slicing through the angel.

"The demon races fable blood magic, Huh?"

One side of the Angel completely regenerates leaving Lucius to burn the other half.

They all land back on the ground.

"Looks like it works," Lillian says.

She readies her bloodied hand, this time splattering her blood to the ground.

The Angel Found himself in a dizzying confusion of attacks. One second, He's blocking an attack the Next he finds himself attacking Lucius. This then changes once again to him clashing with Lillian.

Lucius cuts him from behind.

"Ah, Magic strips away pieces of memory with each drop accounting for about ten minutes."

Lillian flinches hearing the Terrochts' analysis.

"This is an easy remedy."

PING

Once again, he is in the air with Lillin readying a huge explosive fireball from above. He shoots it at the angel, but he simply reflects the attack towards the fortified city wall.

PING

Terrocht Block's Lucius Sword.

PING

Now he finds himself Conjuring a ball of Fire Shooting it at Lillian.

PING

Now he's deflecting their attacks. He catches and grabs Lillian's arm. She yelps and Lucius cuts Terrochts arm from Lillian.

"Too late."

Lillian splatter blood on the ground once again. Thier battle ensues with Lillian strengthening herself on last time.

She huffs. "I'm at my Limit, Lucius!"

"Hold out for a little longer. Jala and Azar will be back any moment!"

They evade a beam of Light from Terrocht. Their battle ensues with an intense back and forth between two forces.

"This is it!" Lillian thought to herself.

Lillian watched as Lucius made use of the small window but…

Turning around Terrocht pointed his entire palm to Lucius.

"Huh?"

A beam of light shot through Terrochts hands, blasting a large hole into Lucius's chest.

"Lucius!!"

But just like before, Lucius ignored the pain, instead moving forward to slash the angel in half and burning both slides to a crisp.

Lucius stumbled to his knees coughing up blood. The angel instantly regenerated its body once again, now looking down at Lucius. It reaches its hands out to grab the demon King but is stopped with Lillian snatching away Lucius to the furthest spot away from the angel as possible.

Lucius regenerated himself back. "We're lucky we haven't come across any remains so far. Looks like they came through on their end…" Lucius struggled his way up.

"Stop."

"We can't Lillian. As long as that Angel lives, He'll kill every demon in sight. And I will not let it kill my people. We've come too far to let it all end here!"

Lucius tore off the remaining bits of his armor that remained and fell to the ground hard.

They both looked back to the angel seeing that was seemingly examining itself.

"They Shaved my lifespan into a messy year…"

Terrocht looked back at them plainly as if bored with them. He then hovered himself in the air flying further and further up. "I shall cleanse this earth of you demons and put an end to this charade."

"W-what is he doing now??" Lillian questioned.

Lucius' eyes widened in surprise. "He's going to destroy this entire city…"

"Quick Lillian! We need to-!"

BOOM

BOOM

Loud explosion roared. Fire scorching through flesh of both Lillian and Lucius.

The perpetrators are none other than Jala and Azar now holding the freshly shot pipes in their hands.

Both Lillian and Lucius fell to their knees, no to long after being frozen in place.

"J…Jala?? A-azar!!???" Lillian became confused, quickly realizing the circumstances.

"So, you both were working under Rakon after all." Lucius hissed. "I should've killed you both a long time ago!"

"Rakon already told us your plans of negotiating with these human nations. After all they've done to us, they deserve nothing but death."

Lucius could only glare at Jala before being completely encased in Ice. Lillian also began to be encased in ice.

"J-Jala, Azar you're making a huge mistake!"

"No. Our only mistake was accepting you as our queen. A demon with human origins is no Demon at all." "Jala stated.

"Well said Jala, "Azar said.

Without warning, Jala is suddenly stabbed in the back by Azar, shocking even Lillian. "A…Azar?" Jala wheezed.

She pulls her sword from Jala's body, leaving him to fall to his knees. He feels his fatal wound and looks at the blood on his hands.

"W…Why?"

"The new King will have no need for a demon like you either. You know him, hates disloyal followers, especially those he knows will turn their back on him. He knew sooner or later that you'd learn that he convinced that brother of yours to turn on you." Azar circled around to meet Jala face to face.

Azar flashes a snarky smile at Jala. "He knows how sensitive familial bonds are for us demons so he figured it was best to stem the bleeding now before you could fester any further."

Furious, Jala attempts to use his Ice magic on her only for her to use earth magic to crush his arms!

Jala screamed in pain.

She crushes his other arm with her earth magic, locking him to the ground as Lillian slowly finishes becoming encased in Ice. She then looked back up seeing a huge ball Energy the size of the entire city.

"Heh, nice knowing you, Jala."

Sprouting wings, Azar flew off before the Angel devastating attack could be launched.

"AZZAAAARRRRR!!!!!!!"

Terrocht, watching from above, could only smile in amusement. He continued to gather the energy in his hands, all the while Azar Flew further from City and past the fleeing demon army without warning.

"Isn't that Azar?" A soldier pointed out."

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With the motion of Terrochts arm, he sent the enormous ball of energy hurtling towards the ground. The ball of energy slowly hits the ground enveloping even half the fleeing demon army in light, killing everyone in range.

Luckily for Azar she manages to get out in time, satisfied with the results.

Not too far from the battlefield Rakon watched the events unfold. He smiled contently seeing as a newly made crater is revealed with the angel nowhere in sight.

"Where have you gone…"

Rakon turned away, leaving the hill side he watched from. "No matter, that Angel shouldn't have much time to live. It achieved its purpose. Now… This country belongs to me."