Chapter 361: The black cloud of despair
*Flash* *Boom*
With an explosion of light, the other eight angels from Melitta"s group land in the area where Lucien met Eve while the other angels land near his group.
Five of them are men of ages who seem to vary from twenty-five to forty, but all of them are over six hundred years old, just like most ordinary Sky Realm people.
The other three angels are women of similar ages, but two of them look thirty years old while the youngest appears to be twenty-five.
The angels land in one of the craters created by Lucien during the battle with Neoc and their comrades. The younger couple of angels move on opposite sides of the group with swords and s.h.i.+elds, prepared to fight.
One of the other male angels creates a barrier using a defensive artifact like that of the female angel who fought Lucien"s wives.
Another female angel stands behind the angel with the artifact supporting him while two other male angels keep bows ready and look around for anything hostile.
Meanwhile, the other couple of angels is in the middle of the group. The man looks north with a concerned expression while thinking aloud. "Melitta shouldn"t have separated us!"
The female angels crouch on the ground and begin to touch the sand, looking for traces of June. "You know she felt demonic energy there, and we can"t ignore demons."
"But..." The man bites his lips of apprehension. "I feel that something is wrong... Whatever is in this world, it is dangerous, and we should not be separated."
The woman taps his leg. "Stay calm, my love. Our main problem now is to find Lady Alexa"s a.s.sistant. Any demon is less dangerous and scary than that woman."
The couple of angels keeping the barrier laugh, and the woman comments. "Are you underestimating Melitta? That woman is tough. She has taken care of our house for hundreds of years, and there is no problem that she cannot solve."
"I"m not worried about her but about us. I just feel that something is wrong here..." The angel responds.
The male angel with the s.h.i.+eld frowns. "Just focus on finding the d.a.m.n girl. If we get this over with quickly, we can get out of this f.u.c.king world sooner."
"He is right." The female angel with a s.h.i.+eld nods and then looks at the other woman in the center of the group. "Did you find something?"
The angel tracker rubs the earth on the ground and lets some sand fall slowly as her eyes s.h.i.+ne with gray-white light, similar to Maggie"s eyes when she uses her vision ability.
"There was a great battle here... but it was fast..." The woman thinks aloud and starts walking through the crater as her group follows her, always keeping their guard high and the barrier raised.
Then she stops at a deeper place in the crater where it is shaped like a body on the ground. "There were two separate fights; one on the ground with many people and the other in the air with few people."
The man beside her makes a thoughtful expression. "Those who fought in the air should be the leaders of that group, our companions. They must have faced people from the Sky Realm..."
"I think not..." The woman makes a curious expression; then, she looks at the man. "I need do it."
The man takes a bottle of white liquid from his storage ring and gives it to the woman while stroking her head. "Don"t push yourself too hard, my dear."
The woman smiles and drinks that liquid. Then her eyes s.h.i.+ne with an even brighter white light as she uses her ability to the maximum.
Now she is not only able to see traces of energy in the atmosphere, but she is also beginning to see flashbacks of things that happened there.
She sees Neoc in a fury attacking Eve; she sees one of his sisters as well as other angels being killed by Lucien and Pride as they fought.
"I see them..." She thinks out loud. "Neoc tried to fight a woman from the late stages of the Earth Realm, but he never had a chance... the others were killed by a strange couple... the woman is a demon from Earth Realm late as well, but the man..."
"How strong is the man?" Another female angel asks.
"Mortal Realm." She responds.
"Huh?!?!" All angels make confused expressions as they don"t understand how someone from the Mortal Realm fought angels from the Earth Realm.
"Did the demon kill Neoc or the woman?" The male angel asks.
The tracker is enchanted by Lucien"s beauty when she sees flashes of his face. "He... It was the man who killed Neoc... I think he is a demon, or... a dragon..."
"How can you have that kind of doubt?!" The man furiously asks as he has never seen such an enchanted expression on his wife"s face before.
The tracker stops focusing on finding out what happened and uses her ability to a.n.a.lyze Lucien"s body, or rather, delight in watching him in flashbacks.
"That long red hair… He"s so f.u.c.king handsome..." She can"t help but comment while smiling.
"He is MY husband." The angels hear a loud voice that crosses the sky like thunder.
They look up and see Sophia lying on her floating pillow. Most of them are not tense as they soon realize her Earth Realm aura.
But the tracker"s husband makes a concerned expression while gazing at Sophia. "I knew something is wrong... stay ready!!"
"What"s the problem? She"s just an Earth Realm girl alone." One of the other male angels comments.
"I just need one shot..." One of the archers aims an arrow at Sophia.
Sophia raises a hand slowly. "What do you want with my love?"
"Don"t kill her; he may know something about the man who killed Neoc!" One of the female angels talks to the archer while the tracker looks at Sophia using her vision ability.
As Sophia slowly raises her hand, the tracker sees a strange green energy spread in the air around her and came towards the angels.
"Reinforce the barrier!!" The tracker speaks to the couple of angels who take care of the barrier.
The male angel and his wife look at each other before looking at Sophia and the tracker without understanding what is happening as they cannot see the green energy in the air.
But then they see a scary black cloud leave Sophia"s hands, so they start to reinforce the barrier with everything they have.
"What is it?" The other angels think aloud while they also see the black cloud that has a strange feeling.
"I still don"t know what that is, but it seems to be dangerous..." The tracker thinks that her group is talking about the black cloud, but she only sees the green energy.
Despite all of them being of the Sky Realm"s, the group of angels is instinctively afraid of the black cloud, yet they are confident in their barrier.
The male angel in the center speaks to archers. "Take her down; just don"t kill her."
Then both archers aim at non-lethal points on Sophia"s body and fire their arrows, ignoring the black cloud.
The arrows, charged with light energy, pa.s.s through the barrier without problems, but as soon as they arrive in the black cloud, arms of black energy break them in an instant, shocking all the angels.
"f.u.c.k!!" Both archers exclaim as they are more afraid of that black cloud.
"Who is that woman?" The tracker speaks while seeing Donna defending Sophia, blocking the arrows with her great ax while Daisy moves the floating platform in front of Sophia.
"Who?!" The angels are even more confused because they can only see the black cloud surrounding their whole barrier.
*Crack* *Creeaaak*
They begin to hear loud noises as they see many cracks quickly form on the barrier.
"We have to get out of here!!" The couple of angels with s.h.i.+elds speak.
The other angels also think the same, but then the barrier quickly breaks into thousands of pieces like a globe of fragile gla.s.s, shocking them to the soul.
"RUN!!!" The angels turn to avoid the black cloud, but they are surrounded by it. Then they cl.u.s.ter in the center of the crater.
Without being able to do anything to prevent that, the angels see the black cloud reach them, but when they prepare to feel pain, they are surprised by the black cloud involving them without causing any harm but preventing them from seeing anything more than two meters away.
"What the h.e.l.l is it?!" One of them exclaims while moving his hands in the air, shaking the black cloud.
The female angel of the barrier shakes her head. "I don"t know... but it"s still dangerous."
"That girl!" Her husband speaks. "We have to knock her down quickly and get it over with."
"I got it!" The male angel with the s.h.i.+eld flaps his wings and flies into the sky.
The archers prepare to go too, but then the female angel with a s.h.i.+eld sees a feather from his husband slowly falling after he flew.
"Wait !!" She is scared, not because he loses a feather but because that feather is already black.
She takes the feather and starts to cry when she realizes that it is already rotten. Knowing that after an angel dies, their feathers only rot after several days, and no disease does that at this speed either, that female angel can only think that her husband is cursed to become a fallen angel.
"WHY?!?!?!" The female angel with a s.h.i.+eld kneels on the floor while she screams, holding the black feather of her husband.
The other angels around her are equally shocked and terrified. Becoming a fallen angel is what all angels fear most.
"T-this... y-y-your..." One of the archers points to the female s.h.i.+eld angel"s wings.
The other angels quickly realize what is happening, and the male angel of the barrier points a spear at the s.h.i.+eld angel. "Stay away!!"
She gets even more confused and then looks around and realizes that all the feathers of her wings are quickly rotting, something never seen before, even in the case of fallen angels.
"NOOOOO!!!" She screams while she doesn"t know what to do.
"We have to get out of here!!!" The archers speak and fly in the opposite direction of the s.h.i.+eld angel.
The barrier angel realizes that his wife"s wings are also rotting and goes into despair. In fact, the wings of all of them are rapidly rotting and falling.
They fly in opposite directions, trying to escape the black cloud quickly, but collide with a black energy net while giant black claws trap them. In desperation, they fail to fight properly and fall all on the ground, crying as they watch all their feathers rot.
Meanwhile, the tracker begins to understand what is happening. She tries to warn her friends that they are rolling on the empty ground while being mentally attacked by illusions, but all she can do is shout at them while trying to dodge the big stone spikes that come from all directions.
In the sky, Sophia sits on her floating pillow in a lotus position while focusing her demonic energy to keep all those angels in an illusion.
Her eyes s.h.i.+ne with green energy as well as those of Sloth next to her, both working hard because trapping a person in an illusion is already difficult, let alone seven Sky Realm people.
"We have to do this quickly!" Wrath speaks while summoning a big red and black spiked warhammer.
The front part of the warhammer head is large and pointed like the tip of a giant stake, while the back is a big sharp spine, both glowing with blood-red energy.
"Let"s go!" Donna nods as she jumps off Daisy"s floating platform.
Although the fight seems to be already over, those angels are all in the Sky Realm, so they will not be killed so easily even by Donna, and as soon as they are attacked, they will be freed from the illusion of Sophia and Sloth.
But while Daisy has to use all her power to contain the tracker, Donna and Wrath smile, excited by a good fight.
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