The death of Satan brought an end to the ceremony.
But there was nothing to regret.
Every scene up to the mont of his death had been broadcast across the entire Mixed Realm through the Library.
Even the sight of Satan’s final monts.
Mikael descended beside Yu-hyun.
She seed unable to accept the reality of Satan’s death, her gaze fixed on the place where he had just been.
“…Are you alright?”
“……”
Even though Yu-hyun asked, Mikael didn’t respond.
The shadow on her face spoke volus about her emotions.
“Satan left a ssage for you before he departed. He said he was sorry. And he was thankful.”
“……”
Mikael raised her head and stared at Yu-hyun.
Perhaps because she had witnessed the monts right before Satan’s death, Yu-hyun imdiately guessed who Mikael really was.
“As I thought, you’re…”
“…I am Mikael.”
Mikael turned her head away, avoiding his gaze.
As if saying she wasn’t permitted to reveal more than this.
“I have forgotten my forr na. No, I don’t even deserve to rember it.”
She had forgotten even the person she once loved.
She beca imrsed in this na, leading her to hate and resent him.
Foolish, like a simpleton, she had never even thought it strange.
For so long.
Through the disappearance and rebirth of stars, through the rise of human civilizations up to this mont.
She hadn’t realized a thing.
To rember it now, of all tis, what a cruel twist of fate.
“I have no choice now but to truly beco Mikael.”
That man was dead.
The precious person she had shared her human days with had turned to dust along with the mories.
She had no right to claim her forr human self.
“…Are you alright?”
“How… was he in the end?”
“The sa as always, as he ever was.”
“I see. The sa as always.”
Those words seed to provide so solace.
Mikael shook off her sorrow and looked up at the sky.
Although Satan was gone, Elohim hovered around them, seemingly unwilling to tolerate anyone who knew the truth, waiting for a chance to kill.
“You should flee.
Elohim won’t stop.
Now that most of them know the truth, they will seize control of this area and kill everyone.”
“And you, Mikael…?”
“We’ll retreat as well.
I’ll buy ti, now go!”
Soon, a massive noise filled the sky, and even the Administrator seen above Calot appeared.
Back then, it was only one, but now, there were twelve Administrators present.
Every single Administrator in the Foundation had appeared.
“Mikael!”
“Everyone, retreat! Get as far away from here as possible!”
Mikael ordered the angels who had followed her, but they hesitated, unwilling to leave her behind.
At that mont, Elohim made their move.
Red light radiated from the spear they held, directed toward Eden’s legion.
Countless streaks of red light cut through the sky.
There were so many that it was difficult to count with the naked eye.
The entire space was flooded in red.
So of Eden’s angels began to defend or evade, but those who couldn’t react were struck and plumted below.
Elohim’s bombardnt didn’t stop there.
*Kiing*
The Administrator’s single eye glowed fiercely, unleashing a massive beam that swept through Eden’s army.
“Aaaah!”
“Ugh!”
Angels caught in the Administrator’s attack scread as they disintegrated into dust.
The re touch of the light fully dismantled their very existence, sentencing them to an irreversible death.
Mikael imdiately spread her six pairs of wings and soared high into the sky.
“Stop!”
With a booming shout, intense light erupted from each of her wings.
Compressed to its limit, the light transford into giant blades.
Mikael swept through Elohim’s ranks in that form.
*Boom boom boom*
The six pairs of blades, a total of twelve, slashed through Elohim in a burst of blinding white explosions.
Thousands of Elohim vanished in a single blow.
However, the number of Elohim pouring out from the Foundation was far greater than that.
Tens of thousands.
No, even more than that.
If left unchecked, their numbers would quickly reach the billions.
Moreover, the remaining Elohim weren’t idle.
They imdiately assessed that Mikael was a threat and acted, aiming their red spears at her.
A simultaneous barrage with no margin of error.
Seeing the air filled with red streaks, Mikael gritted her teeth and wrapped her wings around her body.
Her wings swelled, protecting her entire body.
Elohim’s attacks rained down on her like a torrential shower.
To Mikael, each individual strike wasn’t much of a threat, but when the attacks numbered in the thousands, tens of thousands, the story changed.
“Ugh!”
She tried to dodge and deflect the attacks with evasive maneuvers, but even Mikael couldn’t avoid every drop of the red rain filling the space.
Most concerning was the presence of the Administrators.
They cunningly ignored the fast-moving Mikael, cloaked in light, and targeted the remaining angels of Eden who had yet to leave the area.
“No!”
Red beams cut through the air.
Just monts ago, a single blast like that had killed hundreds of angels.
Mikael spread her wings wide to block the Administrator’s attack.
The power of an Administrator was on an entirely different level from Elohim.
Each of their strikes could wipe out a country, proving they were not rely the twelve beings among Elohim’s upper ranks, and even Mikael, a first-generation Divine Spirit unmatched in combat, struggled to fend off their assault.
One, two, three.
When the beams exceeded five in number,
One of Mikael’s pairs of wings was scorched black and disintegrated into ash.
“…Not yet!”
Mikael had six pairs of wings, twelve in total.
Only two of them were gone so far; she still had ten wings left.
However, the Administrators’ focus on her was far fiercer than that.
Mikael was confronting the torrent of red light alone.
*Screech*
Her wings, her symbol as an archangel, began to crumble one by one.
One by one, her wings disappeared.
Soon, Mikael was left with only a single pair.
Anxiety crept into Mikael.
‘I can’t lose these wings…’
The last pair of wings she had.
Though smaller and more humble than the ones that had disappeared, to her, now filled with mories, these final wings were the most precious.
‘Because these were the first wings he gave …’
Even if it ant her death, she couldn’t let these wings vanish.
The white shield that had protected her was gradually overtaken by the red light.
Soon, her vision was filled with the red torrents unleashed by the Administrators.
‘Ah.’
Mikael sensed her end approaching.
Defense had never suited her fighting style anyway.
She had always stood at the forefront, wielding her flaming spear and sword to cut down enemies.
But she couldn’t allow the angels of Eden who followed her to die.
That was what it ant to be the archangel Mikael, what she was ant to stand for.
Before long, the white wall collapsed, and the Administrators’ attacks aid directly at her through the gaps.
At that mont, Yu-hyun stepped forward.
“Darwin. I’m counting on you.”
[Yes.]
Darwin, with his massive figure, appeared behind Yu-hyun, throwing a punch just in front of Mikael.
At the sa ti, Yu-hyun threw his fist at the torrent approaching from his side.
The ultimate union of two perfect physiques created a combined strike.
Not only did it strike the core, the weakest part of the torrent, but it also pierced beyond.
*Pah!*
The red light from the Administrator scattered in all directions.
Elohim caught in the blast dissolved in an instant, leaving a large gap in their ranks.
“Are you alright?”
“Ah…”
“I’ll help you.”
Yu-hyun could tell that Mikael wasn’t in good condition.
Her once-beautiful wings were nearly burned away, and her shining golden hair had faded.
But there was a chance for recovery.
If she could leave this place even now.
‘But, it doesn’t look like we’ll be able to escape.’
Surrounded by Elohim and the Administrators.
Back in Calot, rlin had exhausted all his magic to activate a teleportation spell, allowing them to escape, but this ti, there was no help to rely on.
The only solace was that, while Mikael had been buying ti, the angels of Eden had managed to retreat to safety.
Only Yu-hyun and Mikael remained.
‘Should we try to break through?’
But he was concerned about Mikael’s injured state.
With little ti for hesitation, Yu-hyun had to decide quickly.
‘We’ll break through for now.’
Using Descartes’ power should allow them to escape.
Just as he made this decision, a third voice ca from a distance.
[Stop.]
It wasn’t directed at Yu-hyun or Mikael.
Suddenly, Elohim, who had been about to throw their spears, froze in place.
The sa went for the Administrators.
‘Who?’
As Yu-hyun looked around, puzzled, a dark figure dropped vertically through the air, stopping by his side.
It was a middle-aged man with a well-grood beard, a handso man dressed in a black coat with a black cape draped over his shoulders, fitting the image of a noble from
the dieval era.
“My na is phistopheles. I’m here to help.”
“Lord of Pandemonium…?”
“Details later.
I’ve stopped ti, but I can’t hold it for long.”
Already, so of the Administrators were straining, beginning to move their bodies.
Yu-hyun nodded and extended his hand to phistopheles.
“I’ll support Mikael.”
“……”
“Look, I get why you’re giving that distrustful look, but do you think I care about things like Pandemonium or Eden right now?”
Well.
If he cared about such things, phistopheles wouldn’t have stepped in now.
In the end, Yu-hyun entrusted Mikael, who was slumped over his shoulder, to phistopheles.
phistopheles carried her, whispering so only she could hear.
“Really, what are you doing?”
“phis… to?”
“Both you and your brother.
Why do you cling to such foolish regrets, putting yourselves through this?”
“Why… are you…?”
“Why else?
The ti for reaping is upon us.
The Foundation has already made its move, and we must make our choice again.
If your brother hadn’t been so foolish, we could have lived without worry for a few more cycles.”
phistopheles seed to be complaining to the dead Satan, but his face was light and even cheerful.
His gaze shifted to Yu-hyun, who was moving ahead.
“Well, since it’s co to this, what can we do?
Let’s shake things up.”
“……”
Instead of responding, Mikael gently closed her eyes.
Having expended too much energy, she fainted, unable to muster the strength to respond.
phistopheles, as if expecting this, carried her along with Yu-hyun as they left.
* * *
Away from Satan’s and Eden’s territories, Yu-hyun and phistopheles decided where to head next.
“Let’s go to the Alliance.”
“There are two first-generation Divine Spirits here; is that okay?”
“Do you think now is the ti to differentiate between humans and Divine Spirits?”
“True.
With a war about to break out, it would be silly to make distinctions.”
Yu-hyun looked at phistopheles, cautiously asking,
“Why did you help us, people you have no connection with?”
“?
Well, I do have a bit of an acquaintance with Mikael here.”
“I didn’t an in the literal sense, and you know it.”
“Hmm.”
phistopheles shrugged.
“A fool did sothing insane knowing it would cost his life.
I couldn’t just sit back and watch.”
“So, you too…?”
“Enough.
I am no longer the human I once was.
Now, I am phistopheles, one of the seven Lords of the Great Army Pandemonium. That’s all that matters.
And that’s not what’s important right now, is it? Look over there.”
phistopheles pointed in the direction they had just escaped.
The land, once white and black, dried up and began to turn into a desert.
“That’s…”
“Logos has begun accelerating the reaping process.
No, this timing was inevitable, but Satan added fuel to the fire.”
“You an that’s the preparatory stage?”
“I saw ‘the unclean spirits co out of the mouth of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet.’
You know the verse.
What follows is already laid out.”
“From the Book of Revelation.”
“Yes.
And that place will soon beco the hill of giddo from that very Revelation.”
The Hill of giddo.
Known by other nas as Har giddo and later as Armageddon, it was the prophesied site of the final battle between the forces of good and evil, and now, it had beco a reality.
“The Battle of Armageddon will happen. Good versus Evil.
They will do their utmost to kill us.”
“So we, the ones trying to survive, are the evil?”
“That way, future generations can declare that good triumphed in the universe.”
All the Lords of the world gathered their armies for war.
The catastrophe Jia had once spoken of, where stars would fall, and the world would end, had finally co to pass.
“So we must prepare.
We can’t just sit and take it.”
“…Yes, of course.”
One human and two Divine Spirits quickly headed toward the Alliance’s territory.
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