The Apogee of the Rebellion: The Fall of the Archangels

Excalibur was not a simple sword. It was a sentence, a blade that forced all existence to confront the Truth.

Michael moved slowly forward with his Excalibur in his hand. Vmmm...

«You have built your power on shaky foundations, dragon. But here, in the face of the Truth, even you cannot hide from your weaknesses.»

Michael lowered his gun slightly.

«You don't remember me, do you?»

Volmeryn (baffled): «Why should I?»

Michael smiled bitterly.

«Centuries ago, before you became what you are, I saw your kingdom burn, my dear Xal'therion.I heard you died, I'm surprised to see you alive. I have seen what you have sacrificed for your power... and I understand.»

Volmeryn paused for a moment. Tzzzt...

«I have no idea what you're talking about and I don't know this Xal'therion and it's not me.»

Michael: «Lie.»

«You're Xal'therion. Lying will be of no use and I know exactly how to defeat you.»

Metatron: «You really don't know what you've been up to, mortal.»

Volmeryn ( confident smile): «Hmph... I know very well what I'm tackling.»

Vwoooosh! The confrontation began.

A battle of power and will where the divine light would collide with the force of a being from another reality.

«This is just the beginning», Volmeryn whispered. Fwoom!

He was ready to face anything the celestial realm could throw at him.

Each strike from Volmeryn disrupting the foundations of the celestial realm. The archangels launched such powerful attacks with the power of the sun, but Volmeryn faced them without hesitation.

Michael with his divine sword Excalibur in his hand:

«Do you really think you can defy the divine will?!»

Volmeryn (mouse): «The divine will? It is not yours that I defy, Michael, but the illusion you have built around you.»

In a flash, Volmeryn projected himself at an unimaginable speed, redirecting the flow of reality around him. VWOOSH!. Michael tried to react, but Volmeryn's speed was such that the archangel could only see a trail of dark energy rushing towards him.

«You see, Michael, even the light can be broken.»

Gabriel: «You're making a big mistake. We were chosen to maintain the heavenly order, and you can't just erase that.»

Volmeryn (with a smirk): «Choose...? No, Gabriel. You have been manipulated into believing that you are at the top. And it's time for this illusion to stop.»

Gabriel raised his hands to the sky and then a flood of divine energy materialized around him. FWOOSH! The light intensified and every particle vibrated with purity, it was the breath of the universe itself.

«Try to break it, if you dare.»

Volmeryn let the divine energy surge around him, only manipulating the laws of reality at will. SHAAA! A black glow came out of his hands and transformed into an aura of darkness that encompassed Gabriel in an attempt to stifle the divine light.

«I'm just showing the true nature of things.»

[System: BEEP! Use of "Demonic Distortion" enabled. ZAP! Reality and causality reversed to thwart divine laws. Increased the efficiency of original energy manipulation to 800%.]

Metatron, who was observing with wisdom, decided to speak: «You may be right, dragon but there is a price to pay for this arrogance. The truth is not always so simple.»

He raised a finger, and VMMMM! A parallel field of reality formed around him, distorting time and space.

«Look at the price of your folly.»

Volmeryn (faint laugh) : «You want to show me the laws of the multiverse? It's cute, Metatron, but you've never seen what I'm capable of yet.»

Metatron's attack was swift and devastating. CRACK! A network of infinite energy unfolded around him, plunging Volmeryn into a multitude of fractured realities. But Volmeryn was not a simple being. SHIIIIING! With a movement, he reversed the effect of the reality that was distorting around him.

In an instant, BOOM! Metatron's aura was nullified and the entire sky was twisted in spatial confusion that took the form of hundreds of copies of Volmeryn. FWOOOSH! Each of Volmeryn's forms attacked the archangels at the same time and made their perception of reality chaotic.

[System: BEEP! Fractured Wraiths: A skill that sets up the simulation of an alternate multiverse where each Volmeryn form occupies a distorted role, disrupting the order of combat and altering the perception of opponents. Efficiency rate: 99%.]

Volmeryn: «That's the truth, Metatron. The reality is malleable. It can twist, bend, and there's nothing you can do about it.»

But as he gained the upper hand, an army of angels and millions of celestial fighters descended from heaven.

Sssshhrrrrrr! They attacked in synchronized attacks with divine arrows and swords of light that flew at full speed towards Volmeryn.

Whoooosh! Each of these angels was covered with a divine light capable of reducing any ordinary being to dust.

But Volmeryn didn't even move. He simply opened the palm of his hand and a wave of purple energy escaped from it, reducing the celestial arrows to nothing. Crack! The angels' attack was then repelled by a wall of tangible dense dark energy. Rrrrrrrrrrhh

«Your light... has no hold on what is real.»

[System: Activated the "Void Storm." Resonance of primal energy to neutralize any physical or magical attack. Dissolution of all divine matter in direct contact.]

Darius, who was watching the fight through a floating crystal from Cælora, whispered words to Lyara.

«Volmeryn is something else. The archangels are not even a challenge to him.»

Lyara: «Volmeryn is more than a dragon. He has transcended all the laws and he is not there to discuss.»

Carlos at their side, burst out laughing.

«Ha ha ha.... Do you really think he can make such a number of archangels bend? Ha! It seems like he decided to play their game, but in his own way.»

Back in the fight, Michael straightened up.

«You think your tricks are impressive, Volmeryn. But we have abilities that you can't understand.»

He took a step forward and then raised his Excalibur to the sky. Tssss

«I will prove to you that no being, no matter how powerful, can defy the heavenly will.»

Michael raised Excalibur above his head and in a flash of divine light, the sword dissipated before instantly reappearing in another point in the universe.

This was not a physical displacement; it was an instantaneous rewriting of reality around the blade, a reordering of space and time itself.

A breath of infinite destruction then came out of the edge of the blade, it was a wave of truth ready to erase everything it encountered.

"Reality erased... Absolute Justice." Michael murmured.

It nullified the laws that governed its target's very existence. It wasn't just about destroying matter or energy, it was about removing the essence of what was. A space where Volmeryn could no longer exist even in the abstract. His memories, his essence—all of it was erased.

Volmeryn, stunned, felt himself seized by an abysmal void. His flesh was rotting and his thoughts were fragmenting. He was like a doomed creation. A voiceless scream, an endless agony. His powers, normally infinitely powerful, were like flames lost in an ocean.

The Omniscient System in a terror suddenly reactivated.

[CRITICAL ALERT: COSMIC ATTACK DETECTED]

[SYSTEM IN PANIC: REALITY DISRUPTION BY "EXCALIBUR" ACTIVATED]

[ANALYSIS IN PROGRESS: CONCEPT OF THE EXISTENCE OF HOSTILE TO SURVIVAL]

[FAILURE: THE EXISTENCE OF THE CONCEPT "VOLMERYN" IS THREATENED WITH ABSOLUTE ERASURE]

[INITIATING THE EMERGENCY PROTOCOL... INSUFFICIENT RESET]

[MAXIMUM ALERT: IMPOSSIBLE TO REALIGN THE HOST WITHIN THE LIMES OF REALITY]

[ADVICE: AVOID ANY CONTACT WITH THE DIVINE WEAPON "EXCALIBUR"]

[INFORMATION: AN ENDEMIC ENERGY MUST BE MANAGED FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE HOST]

The system, completely disoriented by the nature of Excalibur, was struggling to find a solution. However, faced with the imminent suppression of Volmeryn's existence, an intervention by the Omniscient System took place.

[EMERGENCY PROTOCOL ACTIVE]

[ALERT: THE EXISTENCE OF THE CONCEPT "VOLMERYN" ON THE WAY TO EXTINCTION]

[PARTIAL FAILURE OF RESETS]

[ENERGY ALLOCATION MEASURES IN PROGRESS... PARTIAL SOLUTION INITIATED]

The system had intervened in the devouring flow of light by injecting an invisible force into the wave of destruction to protect part of Volmeryn's essence. A bubble of fragmented reality formed around him by deactivating a portion of the light flow and placing a dimensional filter that blocked Excalibur's attack. But it was not without cost.

[ALERT: SYSTEM UNABLE TO RESTORE FULL REALITY]

[DEGENERATE INFORMATION: DEFICIENT ALIGNMENT ENERGY]

[COST: PARTIAL LOSS OF ACCESS TO HIGHER SYSTEM FUNCTIONS]

[RESULT: REDUCTION OF COSMIC ANALYSIS LEVEL TO 75%]

[LIMITATION IMPOSED: DECREASED MANIPULATION CAPACITY]

[DESTABILIZATION ALERT]

[WARNING: INTERVENTION POSSIBLE BUT AT HIGH RISK]

Volmeryn struggled to his feet with his vision blurred and his body exhausted. Michael's attack had severely weakened him, but he wasn't completely destroyed.

Thanks to the system's intervention, he had been able to save the essence of his existence, but part of his power had been sealed and the system itself was no longer at its full potential.

[Alert: Excalibur Attack Probability]: 78% chance of direct impact on the entity "Volmeryn"

[Intervention time before reset: 25 seconds]

[Risks: Internal instability of the body and system at 82%]

[Recommended strategy: Retreat or dissipate forces]

The System had found a small flaw in Excalibur's attack, but it meant that he would now be forced to use his powers with a severe limitation, forcing him to play more carefully and strategically in order to survive.

Volmeryn (panting): "Do you think that'll be enough to take me down, Michael?"

[SYSTEM :Master, just to be clear, it's because of my adjustments that you're still alive, Volmeryn. Not because you're super powerful or anything. You might want to consider toning down your arrogance a bit, you know, it might help you survive a little longer.]

Volmeryn had a mocking smirk on his lips though he still felt weak.

"You want me to stop being arrogant? I'll think about it… but I'll get rid of these angels first, okay?"

Raphael, the archangel of healing, was not to be outdone. He concentrated by summoning a divine wind to restore harmony, but the moment he recited the incantations, Volmeryn conjured up a shockwave of such intensity that the wind created by Raphael was swept away. Fwoooosh!

Volmeryn: «Are you looking to create balance?. What balance can exist when everything you do can only break before the truth of a higher power?»

The archangels exchanged silent, visibly frustrated glances. Their greatest strength lay in their unity, in their ability to act together but against Volmeryn, their movements became predictable. They rushed again, but this time all together.

Whhhhooooosh, ZZZZZZ! But Volmeryn watched them while remaining motionless.

«Really, a frontal charge? I've seen much smarter creatures attack that way.»

He whispered an incantation in a forgotten language and chains of darkness rose from beneath his feet, wrapping around the archangels before they reached his position.

[SYSTEM : Identified Skill: Chains of the Deep Shadow. A dimensional summoning that manipulates dark energies to create physical and spiritual restraints.]

[Effect: Chains capable of disrupting reality and limiting the movements of celestial entities. High risk of uncontrolled self-summoning, monitor the stability of the energy field carefully.]

KRRRRRRRRRR! They tried to free themselves, but their divine forces were absorbed by the curse, which weakened their attacks. Shhhrshhshhh

Volmeryn (mockingly): «Your only strategy is to band together and hope that your collective power is enough? You think you are impregnable, but you are prisoners of your own rhetoric.»

Metatron watched as Volmeryn's chains wrapped around him with devastating speed. But with divine calm, he took a step forward.

He raised his mythical sword, Astrael, a blade bathed in the light of the first breaths of creation. The sword, older than time itself, began to vibrate. With a single gesture, he brought the blade down with infinite speed.

Astrael lit up with a brilliant light, a light that transformed the dark energy of the chains into stardust.

Volmeryn's chains, before they even had a chance to touch the archangel, were reduced to ashes. A shockwave spread through the ground, cracking the universe around them.

The pain was felt deep within Volmeryn as his body shook from the impact. Excalibur's light had already left an imprint on him, but Astrael went much further. The very concept of 'Volmeryn' was threatened as if the archangel had erased a part of his own essence.

The Omniscient System, caught off guard, issued a message:

[Alert: Critical dimensional impact. Destructive cosmic energy residue. Risk of total destabilization.]

[Calculations in progress...impossible to mitigate immediate damage.]

[Volmeryn…critical condition. Risk of imminent erasure.]

Gabriel, in the background, used a different power. This time, he did not send blind projectiles. Fwhoooosh! He closed his eyes and began to weave circles of light around him with measured and precise movements.

Instead of focusing on the attack, he sought to understand the magical imprint left by Volmeryn in the air and to grasp the interstices where reality could be manipulated. He was looking for flaws in Volmeryn's structure, not just to overwhelm him with energy.

Archangels were like symphony creators who sought to harmonize their powers with the space around them. Tssssss! They understood that their superiority lay not in the mere accumulation of forces, but in the tactical intelligence of their union. However, Volmeryn seemed to see and anticipate everything.

Raphael did not use his light to attack. Shhhh! On the contrary, he advanced by plunging his hands into the space around Volmeryn. Vvvrrrhh

He sought to restore balance by reversing gravity around Volmeryn, which forced him to adapt to a suddenly unstable environment.

But this wasn't a direct attack, just an attempt at subtle disruption, it was an effort to strategically throw him off balance.

Volmeryn: «Is this a dance you propose, archangel? Do you really think you can make me lose my balance with such game? »he said without fear.

But then, all of a sudden, there was a shudder running through the air sssstttt... The vortex that Gabriel had created around him was changing shape. It was no longer a simple light. The magnetic field created around Volmeryn was beginning to intensify.

Volmeryn felt restrained as if invisible chains were trying to limit his mobility. It didn't immobilize him but a greater resistance was felt.

The archangels at this moment exchanged a furtive glance shhhhhh... They understood. Michael, with a new determination, set himself in motion.

CHAPTER ENDED.