Angel Monarch-Chapter 274: The Angel and the Dragon
Lucy stood above the toad’s corpse. The large body fell through the rainbow platform and landed in the middle of the battlefield.
But calling it a battlefield was a bit of an exaggeration. The fighting had mostly stopped when Lilith and Adam arrived with the Hippogryph Legion.
Their numbers barely depleted in the fighting on the southern front. Upon their arrival, the northern army broke quickly. With no Transcended left to support them, they had no reason to continue the battle.
The potent, dark green, almost black smoke moved around Lucy’s body as she slowly absorbed every drop of the toad’s Essence of Life and Death.
With each kill, her power greatly increased, and after killing and assimilating 5 Transcended, she felt extremely close to the next Rank. Unlike normal human Evolved, her evolution had changed with her race.
Instead of collecting normal essence from each monster and Evolved kill, she had to absorb them. Killing them gave a small amount of her required essence, but by assimilating them, she increased her strength much faster.
By killing Transcended, she basically stepped into the doorway to the next evolution. She just had to find something to evolve with to make it official. Her power was already potent enough to fight with most Transcended on equal footing.
Right now, she could defeat even Damien. At least, that’s how she felt. In reality, she would probably lose just because of experience and lack of diversity in abilities.
A Transcended wasn’t someone with only an increase of pure strength. With every evolution, most people acquired new abilities, which greatly increased an Evolved’s versatility and adaptability. Your journey continues at novelbuddy
On top of the new abilities, their old ones get more powerful, and could get extra effects. Even if Lucy had the physical strength of a Transcended, she wouldn’t be able to fight someone as experienced as Damien.
But, just like she had done with all her previous problems and shortcoming in her life, Lucy ignored this difference and just acted like the queen of death. Her title was Sovereign of Death for a reason.
After the initial shock of her new strength passed, she began going around, telling everybody how she killed 5 Transcended alone.
She conveniently failed to mention every time that Sera killed the first Transcended, and without the first kill, she would’ve killed none of the five.
The healer’s regeneration and other buffs were simply too strong to fight against, combining that with the debuffs he put on everybody, and winning was outright impossible.
While Lucy ran around like a child, telling everyone how amazing she was, Sera and the others discussed what to do with the prisoners. Lilith and Adam made a rough headcount. There were more than a million who dropped their weapons. Thousands of them were Evolved.
The regular soldiers weren’t hard to take care of, but the Evolved needed constant watch. For now, Sera gave the order to bring everyone behind the Aegis System.
They needed to get the shields back online as soon as they could. Sera wasn’t certain, but her gut told her the fighting wasn’t over just yet.
With Vicky’s portals, the transportation of the prisoners went smoothly. They were reluctant to enter the portal, but the nearby hippogryphs’ screech made everyone move their feet faster.
While everyone stared at the prisoners with watchful eyes, Sera and Bea stared towards the western horizon. They both had a bad feeling coming from that direction.
Sadly, she already gotten too close when they realized what the feeling was.
On the horizon, one person appeared. Her three pairs of wings extended a few meters from her back. She wore an intricate silver armor, and in her hand a long curved, serrated blade rested.
The world around her burned in silver flames, and she rapidly approached the city. Immediately after noticing her, Sera and Bea ran towards Vicky.
The prisoners were still calmly walking into the portals, but at that point, they had no time left. Vicky stood a few meters away from her mothers. David and Melinda stood nearby, while Faith rested in her shadow.
"Vicky! Emergency teleport!" Shouted Sera. All three of them stared at the mothers’ frantic expression with worried eyes, then they noticed the woman approaching behind them.
They didn’t need to say anything else. After taking a deep breath, Vicky transformed into her Spatial Form, and extended the size of her portal.
The soldiers stopped dead in their tracks, but that didn’t really matter. Vicky moved her hand over the plain and concentrated on the portal. She dragged it across the mass of people, teleporting everyone without letting them choose.
The hippogryphs, their riders, and every soldier of the Angelic Order entered the portal, too. In less than a minute, everyone was behind the Aegis System’s shield.
At that time, Scarred Sera was already less than a kilometer away from Rome. She flew high in the sky, increasing her speed and preparing to attack.
Sera, Bea, Vicky, and the others stood a few meters behind where the shield would rise. They had already notified Mary and James, but the missing sections still weren’t online.
Scarred Sera approached faster and faster, her weapon glowing even brighter. A wave of silver flame followed its arc as it spread and went to hit everybody.
Sera and the others prepared to defend against it as best as they could, but the attack’s extent was simply too large to fully defend against it by them.
A large part of the flames would reach the city, destroying a large portion of it, killing millions.
The wave of fire continued to approach fast, when some strange sound echoed in the surrounding plains. It was a loud roar, with an unknown origin.
The roar was full of authority and superiority, making everyone fall to their knees. Sera tried to ignore it, like she did with Amygdala, but the feeling wasn’t the same.
With Amygdala, the need to kneel wasn’t really there, it was more of a strong feeling of terror, which made everyone lose their ability to stand. Since Sera couldn’t feel fear, she was immune to her passive authority.
But, this feeling explicitly felt like an order. Everyone fell to their knees, even the Transcended. Even Scarred Sera and her flames obeyed the command to some degree.
A large portion of the silver flames extinguished, while others changed direction, hitting the grassy ground underneath.
The majority of the flames still headed towards the city without stopping, but just as they got to about hundred meter away from the edge of the shield, a different fire went against it.
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Above everyone gigantic wings beat, and black flames met with silver ones. The two fire met and weaved through each other. They didn’t stop one another, not for the first few seconds at least.
The silver and black flames mixed, then suddenly exploded. They were polar opposites of each other, and so when they connected, they began dismantling the other’s structure.
The black flames were much more overwhelming. The silver flames had no chance and after a dozen seconds, they got extinguished.
Scarred Sera stood a few hundred meters away, and even though her expression was hidden behind her silver helmet, Sera knew she was pissed.
The other person’s presence was still quite strong, but with each moment it grew thinner, and soon the stronger willed could stand again.
The enormous wingbeats approached, and finally everyone could lay their eyes on the being that saved them. The gigantic dragon landed in front of them, outside of the Aegis System.
His scales were black, like the clear night sky. The noble presence around him, was something only a Stellar could have. While landing, its long neck turned, and he glanced back at Sera and her group.
The gray, draconic eyes stared at everyone with recognition, but when they landed on Sarah, the eyes turned sad. The taciturn, seemingly emotionless woman, broke down wailing after seeing the dragon.
Most of them didn’t recognize him, since they either never met him, or forgot their meeting. Only Bea, Damien, Will, Leslie, and Sarah knew who he was.
Bea, Will, and Leslie remembered him from their time spent in Castleburg, while Damien got his assignment in the Realm of Boundless Frost from him.
But Sarah had a much deeper connection to him. How could she forget how her own brother looked like?
His size changed quite a bit. Last time she saw him, two years ago, he was only about a few hundred meters in length, but now he wasn’t small even compared to a large city like Rome.
The black dragon stood straight on his four legs, and spread its gigantic wings to the side. It roared loudly towards Scarred Sera.
Everyone had to give her credit though. The mad lady didn’t back down. She took a stance, and charged the dragon many times her size.
The black dragon roared again, then leapt forward accepting the challenge. With that a deadly battle began between Otto, the Second Prince of Castleburg, and Scarred Seraphine, the Broken Angel.
