Right after Utain left to find Arima, Karez followed the army of devils marching toward the Heaven Gate. Almost all of the devils or prisoners composing that army were motivated by revenge, or to escape Hell through the Gate.
The truth was that they didn't care about Karez at all, but they were still going to act in his favor. The only people who actually listened to Karez's intentions were Baphot, Utain and Vastra. And those three had let him do whatever rely because it wasn't their problem.
Baphot decided to kill him afterward and Vastra, in fact, wholly ignored him. And while Utain didn't want to help in this endeavor, the end of this plane wasn't sothing that interested him in any way and just overlooked it because he had found a Life Hunter.
Karez was aware of this. He knew that he had to destroy Heaven whilst they were all fighting. The army of Hell was moving at trendous speed and so was Heaven's. The first fights started in the middle of a canyon.
Heaven had dispatched a lot of their forces, and the renowned angels represented most of Heaven's power. This war began within a really short ti. All of the forces from each side started fighting at different places across Hell.
Every fighter was all at least at the Fifth Sky with at least half of them being at the First Divine. The scale of the battles was so large that it could be asured in 'number of planets destroyed' if they were in a lower world.
Hell, itself, started to prepare for the war. The ground naturally hardened, the sky darkened, the volcanos erupted and the Original Land beca even more faithful to its na.
As most of the devils, prisoners, angels, and gods were fighting, the strongest individuals from both sides remained behind to watch first.
On Heaven's side, Azes observed the battlefield and squinted his eyes to look hundreds of miles away from him, where he had sense huge auras.
"Baphot," he muttered, that was who he saw first. Baphot was perhaps the one that Heaven was the most scared of.
That monster was able to kill hundreds with a single attack and then use their souls to strengthen himself. He could even retaliate with those sa souls.
Of course, he wasn't the only one worthy of attention. Vastra was almost as nacing as him. Her individual strength didn't go higher than the Second Divine but her control over other beings was terrifying.
She was able to control the mind, the soul, and the body. What made her scary was how she could boost the ones she controlled. She was able to make them stronger. If she wanted so, she could even ignite the mana in their pool to produce kamikazes.
"Aphrodite, I hope you can take care of her," Azes turned toward a graceful woman beside him, wearing a spotless flowery beige dress. She had rosy hair and skin without any imperfection. Her expression reflected her charisma and just being in her presence could make lose control to so.
"Fear not, " she calmly responded to Azes and stared at the distant Vastra who also was looking back. The two beauties kept looking at each other until thunder abruptly pulled their attention. Azes clicked his tongue as he saw the white lightning illuminating the sky.
"Does he really have to be so impulsive?"
Thunder roared again and a lightning bolt fell. At the sa ti, a white figure descended and landed in the middle of the battlefield carrying a huge discharge of lightning with it.
"Zeus" Aphrodite muttered and shook her head. "Azes, where is Gabriel?"
"She should be arriving soon. She was staying in the Chamber until recently," Azes said as he kept his eyes on Baphot and Vastra.
"What about Cronos?"
Azes sighed. "You know him. He completely disregarded the situation."
"Maybe he predicted that his presence was unneeded," Aphrodite comnted. "This is him we're talking about after all. "
Azes snorted. "Overly true," he replied and his eyes suddenly narrowed. "This is" he mumbled and ignored his two initial targets to look at sowhere else. "He ca after all."
Aphrodite nodded with a grave expression. It just took a few seconds for a huge crimson fireball to form in the sky out of nowhere. Its heat affected everyone on the battlefield as it rapidly started falling on the angels and gods' camp.
But when it was about to crash, an angel with three pairs of wings appeared in front of it and the fire was engulfed in white light before being extinguished.
"Hades!" The handso angel with six wings shouted.
Hades didn't respond and looked around, overlooking the seraphim. anwhile, a black-winged angel arrived beside Hades and greeted the archangel, "It has been a while, Michael."
"Lucifer" Michael grunted and his wings glowed with a bright light. As he was about to attack, Hades opened his eyes wide and rushed toward a certain place with a loud sonic boom.
In the next second, an explosion occurred above the battlefield and the shockwave blasted a small mountain not far. Just after, two giant spheres, one made of water and the other of fire, clashed against each other.
"How long has it been?" In the middle of the steam and flas, Hades asked with a smile.
"Around six thousand years, if I rember correctly," Poseidon responded coolly and the two exchanged blows one more ti.
"They really getting fired up, eh?" Lucifer smirked. Michael took a glance at the ongoing fight between Poseidon and Hades and then concentrated on Lucifer.
"Hey, co on, don't tell you're going to personally kill ," Lucifer bantered.
"I will. It is my duty to take care of you," Michael retorted, and a spear made of light materialized in his hand.
Lucifer sneered, and a second figure appeared at his side. Michael frowned and rolled his eyes when he saw who it was. "Now, what? Satan? I rember you hate my dear fallen brother right there because of how much people confound you two. What is this turn of heart about?"
"Well, the enemy of my enemy can be forgiven to be a temporary friend. And, honestly, you can't tell you didn't expect to be on this side," Satan laughed. "Although I prefer when the conditions are fair. We'll be your opponents," he declared and a blazing pair of twin swords appeared in his hands.
Lucifer grinned and invoked his own spear before initiating a barrage of blows along with Satan.
Miles away from there, Azes' eyes flashed.
"How is it?" Aphrodite asked.
"Everything's in order. Michael should be able to win alone. Poseidon will have a hard ti but he's not overconfident, he will call for help if he's in bad condition. For now, we have the lead," Azes said and paused. "But this will change soon."
At the sa ti, Baphot roared and the whole battlefield froze for a second. The goat monster jumped and landed in the middle of everyone. He stamped the ground and a pentagram ford, glowing below everyone's feet. The corpses within the pentagram's influence shone with an ominous light and a white mist erged from them. The mist shrouded Baphot and darkened before entering his body.
anwhile, Vastra chanted sothing and strange mark appeared on almost every devil. All of those who had that mark howled in pain at first but then grew bigger. Their eyes beca bloodshot and they beca a lot more aggressive.
All of this happened in less than half a minute. The first one to react was Zeus. He transford into lighting and appeared right in front of Baphot as if he had teleported. He lifted his hamr and smashed the monster with it.
Baphot scoffed and blocked the hamr with an organic-looking great sword.
"Do you really believe you can beat , Zeus?"
He mocked and black smoke erupted from his sword. It covered Zeus and the latter's armors and weapon started decaying. When Zeus noticed it, lightning fell between him and Baphot to separate them.
"It's ti for to go," Aphrodite declared from afar and flew off in Vastra's direction. Azes looked at her for a short mont and then jumped away from the mountain he was standing on. He rushed toward Baphot to help Zeus.
Azes's job in this war was support. He would assist the fighters at different places of the battlefield and he would do his best to lead them.
"(I have to reduce the casualties as much as possible until Gabriel arrives,)" he thought and joined Zeus in his fight whilst connecting everyone with a telepathic link.
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As Arima and Utain were staring at each other, they saw the clash between Poseidon and Hades from where they were.
"Looks like it started," Arima glanced at the discharges of magic and comnted.
Utain didn't even look at it. "It's not my problem."
Arima shrugged. "Then why don't you attack already?" Utain had been staring at them for almost a minute now.
"You're hesitant, right? We have Kerberos on our side and you don't know what the others can do, including ," Arima said and Utain's expression twitched.
Arima snickered and looked at him in the eyes. "Why do you want to kill anyway? Apparently, you t my 'clan'. Did they do sothing to you?"
"Tens of thousands of years ago, before I was sealed in the purgatory, I encountered them while they were still alive," Utain answered calmly but his aura didn't recede at all. "They didn't really do anything to , nor was it their intention. But, in the end, everything cos back to the sa thing."
"Indirect harm? Vengeance, huh?" Arima muttered.
"You can take it like that. But you can also say that I want to give justice because of your clan's cris."
Arima fell silent then nodded at his group. "Well, I apologize. I would gladly fight you normally. But as you can see, I'm too weak currently."
"Do you think you can run away from ?"
Arima smirked. "Can't you see what I'm sitting on?"
"A motorbike?" Utain frowned. "What could you do with a piece of human technology?"
Arima chuckled. "A lot of things actually," he said and Deva ignited its 'motors'. "See you later, Destroyer," he waved his hand and released the brakes.
Utain was looking at him attentively but when Arima raised the brake pedal, he lost sight of both him and his group. Utain stayed stunned in place for a mont. He was sure to be completely focused on Arima's group but he still lost sight of them in the blink of an eye. He couldn't even feel their presence anymore.
"Was that" he muttered and his eyes widened. "Origin!" He exclaid and turned around toward the war's location. "Damn it!" He cursed and flew off.
"(If he really didn't go through the Life Judgnt, that battlefield is a gold mine for him. It's full of life force ready to help him for his breakthrough!)" Utain shouted inwardly. "(If I don't stop him now, he'll beco too dangerous!)"
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