Lips parting, my eyes flashed to et Lord Hellmaster, whose dark, looming smile seed to deepen as he stood to his feet.
"You ain't too old to get a piece of Lily! Hold my shit! Arsene." Lily snapped, and before I could speak my peace to distance myself from whatever the hell this was, I was booted from wherever I was, rerging where I had left.
"Lily?" I called, but there was no reply.
I knew Lily was a… for lack of a better word, a gangster, but this takes the cake. This system soul is on sothing. Wasn't she the one to warn of Hellmaster? Could there be so prior relationship I'm unaware of?"
Then again, this is Lily I'm talking about. The Mad System with a vulgar mouth.
I ignored the battle raging on without signs of end, and a bitter taste sank in as I teleported back to Iluthath under a veil of darkness, using Tenebrae's blessing. I masked myself the best I could, feeling the fresh air billowing against my cheeks for the first ti in a long ti.
Nothing ever felt refreshing in the Hells. It was scary down there. And with Hellmaster's warning, I didn't want to test his boundaries. At least not yet. He had all right to kill but didn't. Giving only a warning and a cup of tea.
… I like him. But the way he behaved seed almost too laid back. I'm kind of jealous.
"Tenebrae, will you're blessing hide from Michael? And do you know why Lord Hellmaster told that winged bastard was after ?"
Darkness painted my vision following the materialization of black nodes of light. Slowly the nodes began to congeal, taking the form of a beautiful woman with long black hair carrying a few strings of silver. Her eyes were a devouring black, and the features she carried seed as bewitching as any drug.
"The plague that was released. The one you nad Teleth. Michael wants answers. Sothing foul has infected the Myriad Heavens, targeting Angels and Fallen. Alongside the children. A few Nephilims are showing mutations."
"Wait! Hold up! How does he know I was the one who nad them? I don't rember telling anyone that?"
Tenebrae smiled and inched closer, tracing her hands over my cheek. " The mont you spoke their na, it echoed through the Myriad Heaven to every major god and organization. Overnight you beca famous."
"... I only repeated what Lily said…. "
"Then she played you. Making you a great target. You're quite famous. I—"
"No… No… No. Hold up. Are the angels blaming for the Teleth? I haven't done shit!" I pointed out.
Tenebrae smirked, and her dark eyes found a shimr of amusent. " How many people have you blackmailed, or better yet, how many people have you screwed over because you could? The angels might just do it to you. They have the power."
Releasing a sigh, I looked past Tenebrae towards the luminous skies painted with an array of colors and back to the woman I was to marry. "Can you teleport to my Mother's Grave?"
She smiled. "As you wish. Till next we et."
Nodding, I blinked, and by the ti my eyes opened, a field of azure glistening like endless stars filled my sights. And yet, as I stared at these flowers, I watched in amazent as they began shifting from a blazing azure to a milky white.
In seconds it felt like I'd stepped into another world despite not having moved.
Moving through the field of elegance brushing against my robes, my sights anchored themselves on a mid-size monolith a few ters away. Beautiful and refined, I felt my heart go heavy.
"It's been a while since we were here." Ca the voice of Zariel from behind. "Too long, in fact."
"Yeah… you never found her body?"
"I tried… and I'm still trying." He replied. "And I believe I'm close. Very close."
I looked at him, awaiting his reveal. "What, you haven't figured it out? phisto didn't even know about Yuki at the ti. He couldn't have taken her. And even if he did, three people we created owed her a great debt. You think they'd allow her body to be taken and experinted on?"
"The children." I figured.
"Maybe. It's only a guess. I've no proof. Only hope."
"Don't we have a saying about hope?"
Zariel chuckled. "Then I guess I'm weak."
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"It's good to see you again, little brother. Are the others here?" I asked after paying respect to Mother. "I've not seen Iz or Van in a while. Izzy is still alive right?"
"Whose going to kill that cockroach? The Myriad Heavens could end, but he'll find a way to live. But I'm surprised… I didn't think you'd rember him. What changed?"
Looking at him as we made our way down the spiraling staircase below the stone Monolith, I told him about the Path of Abyssal Night and my Divinity of Sin. The mories were all coming back, albeit slowly, but I could rember many things. And it made want to kill the woman and man I called Mother and Father in this life.
But that wasn't fair, even for . That was a little too much.
"Well, Izzy isn't here, only Zero. I've got them on missions. Sa with Vancurro, Aurelia, and a few others. We've been busy."
Coming to a halt before a large tal door, I suddenly felt sothing scan .
"...what's it looking for?"
"Everything. Before this door, if you're unhappy, sad, angry, or happy, you'll be blocked. You need a calm body and mind. If not, you're not getting in. Unless soone buzzes you in. I've been locked out dozens of tis, but it's one of Zero's paranoid inventions, so we're stuck with it."
"Good to see he's not changed."
"Changed? That bastard's gotten worse. He banned Aurelia for a few chaos cycles because he didn't believe she was pregnant. And wanted to run millions of scans to ensure she wasn't a spy."
Watching the gate open up, I swore I was visiting sowhere on genesis as the blinding light of machines caught my eye."
It was exquisite. I could practically see the digital pixels glinting off the air as projections and other devices humd with life.
"You guys stepped up."
"Welco back to the Order of Chaos."
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