Chapter 140: Looks like it started. (1/2)
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 Baphomet, Utain and Vastra. And those three had let him do whatever merely because it wasn't their problem.
Baphomet 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 something 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 tremendous 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 time. 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 measured 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 became even more faithful to its name.
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.
”…Baphomet,” he muttered, that was who he saw first. Baphomet 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 same souls.
Of course, he wasn't the only one worthy of attention. Vastra was almost as menacing 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 some.
”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 same time, 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 Baphomet and Vastra.
”What about Cronos?”
Azes sighed. ”You know him. He completely disregarded the situation.”
”Maybe he predicted that his presence was unneeded,” Aphrodite commented. ”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 somewhere else. ”He came 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 handsome angel with six wings shouted.
Hades didn't respond and looked around, overlooking the seraphim. Meanwhile, 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 flames, Hades asked with a smile.
”Around six thousand years, if I remember correctly,” Poseidon responded coolly and the two exchanged blows one more time.
”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, come on, don't tell me you're going to personally kill me,” 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.