I wake up in my bed... our bed.
We are all hugging each other in bed.
"It has been two months already huh... The runes will be ready by today Queen" Says Meroin
I kiss Meroin on the neck.
"Good work" I whisper slowly in her ear
Meroin is very sensitive in her ears.
"Mmm" Meroin moans
"Queen... If you keep seducing me like that I can get up to work" Says Meroin with a lustful tone
Everyone in the bed laughs a little.
"Well then, time to get up my cute darlings, future awaits us" I say getting up
Everyone gets up from the bed and puts on clothes.
Im wearing my usual set of clothes like everyone else, a black trenchcoat open in the middle, the left sleeve is torn, a dark red turtleneck top leaving my stomach showing, and black mini shorts that stop at my middle thighs.
My left arm armor is in the underground, Meroin is making runes on it, should be ready today though, and my boots too.
We make our way to breakfast that those new maids we got make every day.
Soon Meroin bring our equipment.
"Here my Queen, in the arm, there are runes to make it stronger and more resistant to impacts, and a rune that gives it new powers, at the boots runes to make it more flexible stronger, and resistant, plus the same fear rune you have at your sword that will make you faster based on how much people fear will, as you asked" Says Meroin pointing to my equipment at the table
"For Vani katana, runes to make it more sharp and resistant, plus a new effect of miasma every time you cut something it will freeze if you put your mana in the sword" Says Meroin
"For Griviela gantlets, a new rune power that makes you split the ground if you hit it" Says Meroin
"For Eleonore knives, sharp increases"
My left arm armor looks more cybernetic now, rune letters are glowing in red at the side starting at the shoulders and ending at the back of my hand, and my boots are looking more cybernetic too, a black pair of boots that look more like a prosthesis with red rune letters making a circle around my calves.
The left arm armor covers everything from my fingers to my shoulders and the boots covers everything from my knees to my toes.
There is much to improve with science but that is the best we can do right now.
"Good work, Meroin Faori" I say with a gentle tone and I pat their heads
Everyone praises their work and we go outside to test it out.
I go first, I put my left hand up at the height of my face, and I clench my first.
A shockwave goes forward and pushes everything in its way.
I can pull things in my way too, I will name this left arm Pull And Push Arm from now on.
Now in Vanis try, she made a small cut in a tree and the cut started to freeze.
On Grivielas try, she punched the ground and a crack went forward opening the ground.
After some praises and laughs, I call everyone inside to talk about something.
Everyone sits down and I remain standing.
"Good work to everyone, all of you worked hard in your respective areas" I say with a serious tone
"But two months ago, I said that we need to fight the popedom to the best of our abilities, Meroin Griviela come to me" I say
They look excited I guess they already know what will happen.
Meroin and Griviela stand and kneel in front of me.
"Today, I will cleanse the mortality from your bodies" I say raising my voice a little bit
I take a knife and cut my right hand in two places
"I will grant you my blood, drink it and you will be reborn" I say extending my hand to them
They drink it more and more until they fall into deep slumber.
One day later, Griviela and Meroin woke up.
"I feel so powerful right now!" Yells Griviela excited
Grivielas two white horns are now black, and her eyes are orange almost red.
"I feel too, I never trained my body but for some reason, I feel much stronger than before" Says Meroin excited
Meroins eyes are now orange almost red, her skin is paler, and she grew a little.
"Welcome to the afterlife, you both are dead now" Says Faori laughing
We all laugh a bit.
"Well, let us get going, shall we?" Says Vani
Faori sighs in disappointment.
"Are we not forgetting something?" Says Faori with a childish tone
I take out the red cloud earrings from the spatial ring and give one to each of them.
It is a black earring with a chain holding a red cloud.
We all put it on our left ears.
"Yeah!! now we look totally like a villain organization!" Says Faori shaking her tail and making a dumb smile
Everyone smiles while looking at her, she is so cute when she is happy.
We get out of the tower and we give some money to the slave maids, we will not be here anymore so it does not matter if they tell someone or not.
We are now outside.
I channel thunder god chariot and a red storm forms in the sky.
"I will take us as far as I can with thunder god chariot, we walk the rest of the way until I can use thunder god chariot again" I say to them
The storm is getting stronger.
I put on a grim smile
"We got a popedom to burn" I say letting out a sinister laugh
Grim smiles appear on everyones faces.
"Thunder God Chariot!" I scream and a huge bolt of lightning strikes us
...
We land, we still have some good walk to do before we get to the border.
"If I was still a mortal I would be crying just from thinking of walking this much" Says Meroin laughing a little
"Lets plan what to do when we get there while we walk" I say to them
"Get a map for sure I think" Says Vani
"True, first we need to get information about the land, even rumors might help" I say
"Try to find someone with enchanting skills if we can too" Says Faori
"Someone who can make us a base too" Says Meroin
.....
2 days later
"Finally close, walking is boring even if we dont get tired" Says Griviela letting out a sigh
I sense something with mana vision.
"There are people at the border, Crusaders, about a dozen, lets get them for information" I say with a serious tone
They all agree.
Soon we got there.
"Eleonore this is your type of job, go" I say with a serious tone to Eleonore
"Understood My Lady" Eleonore answered with a bow
Eleonore sends a wave of mist toward the border, there is one little tower by each side of the road.
Anxiety starts to appear in the Crusaders after the mist gets to them.
Eleonore swiftly makes her way tying up Crusaders with thread.
All you could hear was people screaming for help.
Soon Eleonore signed for us and took out her mist, we walked there and saw 12 soldiers tied on the ground.
I walked toward the closest one to me.
"Eleonore free his mouth" I say with a serious tone
The thread from the soldiers mouth gets looser.
"WHA-" The soldier tried to say but I kicked his head with a lightning speed kick.
And I must say these new boots really are good, I almost cant feel it in my legs.
I turn myself to the other Crusaders who look terrified.
"If you open your mouth without getting asked a question I will kill you" I say with a serious tone
I go to another soldier and I ask Eleonore to free his mouth.
He is silent.
"Do you guys have a map of the popedom?" I ask unfazed
"No, we-" He tried to say but his head exploded after a lightning speed kick
I look at the next one.
"Did I forget to mention? If you lie you die too" I say sarcastically and laughing a little
The girls laugh too.
Eleonore freed the mouth of the next one.
"Same question, speak" I say with a serious tone
"Ye-s inside the to-wer on the left side of the r-oad" Says the soldier terrified
"Vani take it for me, would you" I say casually
"Yes Queen" say Vani with a bow
Vani goes toward the tower to take it.
"Do you guys know about us?" I ask
"Y-es" Says the soldier
If they didnt know I would be very disappointed with the popedom.
"What were your orders?" I ask
"I-f we see red storms of lightning in the sky, we should report to the high ups immediately" Says the soldier
"How would you going to report?" I ask a bit curious
The man looks at a few horses standing behind the tower on the right side.
Information travels ridiculously slow, there are literally people who can make artifacts capable of creating an infinite amount of thread but no one thought about a walkie-talkie?
Vani came back with the map, and she gave it to me.
I take a good look at it.
"So the popedom has about 8 minor cities and 1 capital, there are some villages too" I say casually
"Say, soldier, what do you have to tell me popedom cities" I ask
"Not-hing they are ju-" Tries to say the soldier, but his head is not there anymore
I walk to the next soldier.
"I think it is better if you dont lie, what do think?" I say while putting my foot filled with blood on his face
I take out my foot and seems like he is about to throw up.
"If you dare to vomit I will kill you" I say with a serious tone
He held back his vomit.
"Good, now same question speak" I ask
"Every city has a Paladin to take care of the city, about 30 normal troops, 15 commander level troops, and 2 knights" Says the soldier talking fast
Knights and Paladins, thats new.
"Tell me more about those Paladins" I ask curiously
"Paladins work like some kind of Mayor, they protect the city and command the Crusaders, their connection with Oriel light is stronger than any other rank is capable of, There are 9 Paladins, and each of them has a unique power that was given to them by the Archangels of Oriel" Says the soldier
"Do you know what their unique powers do?" I ask
"They rarely fight, but there is a rumor saying that the ninth Paladin, Kelain Of The Archangel Raphael, can use the power of the sun" Says the soldier
Shit, thats going to be a problem.
I asked a lot of more things.
In the end, Eleonore killed every guard.
We are now walking the road toward the first city.
"What do you think about the information Queen?" Ask Faori apprehensive
"For now we still have the advantage of surprise, lets make our way to Belan the first city, and see the strength of those so called paladins" I say casually
They all put grim smiles on their faces.
"After that, we investigate that rumor about a magic architect in the north" I say
"A magic architect... how the hell would that work?" Says Vani puzzled
"An innate skill that makes a house appear from the ground?" Says Faori laughing a bit
"Is possible to create structures with stone magic, so in theory, you could make a place to live but you would need a tremendous amount of architectural knowledge, if you make a mistake even if it is a minor one the whole place would crumble" Says Meroin
"Then it is just a person who didnt focus his skills on fighting and chose to use them for architecture, that is what I call rare" Says Vani
Griviela laughed a bit
"I hope it is a cute girl that likes other women" Says Griviela laughing
We all laugh.
I hope the same but I will abstain from telling.
.....
We are now close to Belan.
"Seems like they are very alert, there are guards in the walls and 5 commanders in the gate" I say with a serious tone
"How should we proceed My Lady?" Ask Eleonore politely
I put on a thoughtful look
"Sneak inside was never an option to begin with, getting the close we can without them knowing then we kill every crusader we can find until the paladin shows up" I say with a serious tone
Soon we are close to the gate.
I sent a bolt of red thunder to the sky.
"Red Storm" I whisper
A bolt of red lightning coming from the sky strikes the gate killing everyone nearby.
"Eleonore protect Meroin and Faori, Griviela, and Vani will fight the knights, and I will take the paladin" I say with a serious tone
"Time for some action baby!" Yells Griviela excited
Vani grabs her scabbard with her left hand and puts it on the height of her face, taking out her katana slowly.
Vani makes a serious face.
"In the heat of battle, she remains cold; in the midst of catastrophes she keeps freezing the dead" Says Vani trying to make a cool voice
We stop and look at her with puzzled expressions.
Vani blushes.
"Stop looking at me like this already!" Yells Vani blushing
We laugh a little, not Vani though
"I found it cute Vani, next time we are in bed I will play the maiden in need and you will be the samurai" I say with a seductive tone
Vani blushes.
"Such a teaser" Says Vani with a low voice
We entered the city and killed everyone who tried to get in our way.
Soon a trio appears before us, In the middle is a man with full plate armor leaving only his face to be seen, a golden armor with the church crest on the chest.
His face is kind of square shaped, has black spiky hair a well shaved black beard, and green eyes.
The two others at his side are wearing blue full plate armor with helmets closed, and swords at their waist.
Strangely the one in the middle dont have a weapon.
They stop a few meters away from us.
"So you are the group of Demons from the rumors, I was starting to think that you were too afraid to come inside the popedom, it took quite a while huh?" Says the warrior in golden armor laughing arrogantly
I laugh loudly.
"In a hurry to die? we have a suicide here" I say arrogantly
A vein pops out in his forehead.
"You will be dead soon Demon, but for common courtesy in a fight, state your name" Says the warrior in golden armor hinting angriness
I grab Horror Bringer from my back.
"Im Seraphine Noire, Queen Of The Calamities" I say raising my voice a little
The man in golden armor puts his hand up into the sky and sends a ray of light into the clouds.
Soon after a huge spear made of yellow bright light fell from the sky in front of him.
He takes the spear into his right hand.
"Im Veien Of The Archangel Sariel!" Says Veien proudly
We stare at each other for a few seconds.
In a bolt of red thunder, I dash at him, we clash our weapons red lighting appears surrounding us.
Griviela and Vani run toward the two knights.
I use my push and pull arm to send a shockwave pushing Veien and throwing him away from the street.
I dash at him now away from where we were.
We clash again and we are trading hits furiously, he deflects my sword and backs off pointing his spear at me, sending a ray of other light spears in my direction.
I use my arm to create a shockwave and the spears fly away from me.
"Quite the interesting toy you have there Demon!" Says Veien dashing at me
I channel Red Thunder into Horror Bringer and slice the air sending a slash of red thunder forward, Veien jumps to evade and I appear behind him with a rumble, he deflects my hit in the air and we start trading hits again.
I land a powerful strike and he defends with his spear but the impact sends him to the ground, I fall a little away from him
"Time to get serious Paladin" I say with an arrogant tone
Veien looks at me with a serious face.
"Yes, it is time to show you the power of a paladin, Demon!" Says Veien with rage in his tone
Veien eyes start to glow in yellow light and a laser ray of light coming out of his eyes strikes.
I managed to defend with Horror Bringer but the impact sent me flying into a house.
That would be deadly if it hit me for sure, time to get serious too.
I channel red thunder around me and dash at him breaking the sound barrier and making a rumble.
He is taken by surprise and barely manages to defend it, I continue running at full speed around him and trying to hit a strike.
"Enough filthy Demon!" Yells Veien sending a laser ray from his eyes around him
I dodge and retreat, I put my hand up sending a bolt to the sky.
"Red Storm!" I yell and a storm of red thunder forms itself
I rush at him at the speed of lightning and we clash but a bolt of red lightning falls into him.
He didnt feel it, shit he has a lot of mana to protect his body.
We trade hits while red bolts of lighting are falling around us.
I deflect one of his hits and try to strike his head but he sends a laser ray from his eyes making me give up the strike to dodge the laser.
Without giving time for Veien to recover his balance I use my push and pull arm to pull him toward me and channel red thunder into my sword.
"Divine Judgment!" I say while hitting the ground making a wave of red thunder go forward
Veien got hit and was sent flying away through some houses.
Red Thunder starts to become stronger around me and I ascend, I put my left hand up and a bolt of red lightning falls into my hand creating a spear with an ominous shape.
"Heart Seeker!" I yell throwing the spear in his direction with a rumble of lightning following the spear.
Veien on the ground screams from the top of his lungs and sends a powerful laser ray of light in the Heart Seeker direction.
Heart Seeker and the laser ray clash in the air, they stop in the air making friction sending red thunder and rays of light everywhere.
Veien is strong, but his power has a very easy weakness to exploit, he cant look away from the place he is sending the laser.
While he is occupied sending the laser to stop Heart Seeker I dash at him in a bolt of red lightning.
Veien looked away from the Heart Seeker to defend my strike but It was a fake attack, I retreat and Heart Seeker fell onto the ground hitting Veien.
An explosion of red thunder happens.
Heart Seeker pierced through his left shoulder making a huge hole.
But... Veien still stands, with a determined look on his face.
"I WAS CHOSEN BY THE ARCHANGEL SARIEL, I SHALL NOT FACE DEFEAT" Screams Veien
Veien dashes at me barraging me with a rain of strikes, I block everything but he seems stronger than before, but he loses control.
"FOR HONOR GLORY AND JUSTICEEE!" Screams Veien
We are trading hits at full speed, but when it comes to speed... I always win.
I deflect one of his strikes making him lose balance and I cut off his right arm.
Veien charges a laser ray and sends it in front of him, but im not there anymore, I appear on his back and I grab his neck with my left arm.
I put a grim smile on my face.
"TAKE YOU HANDS OF ME FILTHY CREATURE!" Veien is trying to get out of my grip but he barely can move his left arm and his right arm is gone.
I put Horror Bringer on my back, and channel red thunder into my right hand, I take out Veiens two eyes in a blink.
"AAAAA!" Veien screams in pain
I start to laugh loudly.
"Honor? Glory? Justice?" I say laughing loud
"If you still had eyes I would ask you to look around" I say with a sarcastic tone laughing
"But you can feel, right? you can hear, you can smell" I say laughing
"Just kill me already filthy demon If you think I will give you the pleasure of hearing me beg you are wrong!" Yells Veien with a determined tone
I laugh even more.
"Your city is crumbling to the ground, your subordinates are dying like flies and you stand here half dead talking about glory honor and justice? hahahaha what a joke" I say with a sinister laugh
I stop laughing and I put on a serious expression.
"That dont matter on the battlefield, where is your god now? where is your archangel? they are not here, are they? they do not care about you or the people dying here" I say with a serious tone
My hand goes through his back and I gently grab his heart.
Veien screams in pain.
I can feel his heart beating slowly and slowly.
"Chosen by an archangel... but right here inside your chest, your heart beats like any other mortal" I whisper in his ear with a sinister laugh
I slowly tighten my grip on his heart while the man screams, and finally, I smash his heart with my right hand.
Veien falls to the ground lifeless after I let out of his neck.
I grab his eyes and put them on the spatial ring, I will ask Meroin and Faori to investigate.
Thinking about this fight, it was pretty close, if either of us committed a mistake would mean death, I could abuse his power weak pot, but im not sure if I would win without discovering his weakness.
I was faster but Veien could accompany me using his instinct, and with his quantity of mana, normal strikes wouldnt work either.
I make my way toward where I was, from afar I can sense Vani and Griviela fight seems like its almost the end.
Griviela has a few scratches on her skin, well she is fighting like a berseker is not really hard to hit her but making a wound that could kill her is definitely hard.
Griviela opponnent dash at her to strike her chest, but she punches the ground with her two hands and it splits making the knight lose balance, Griviela jumps like a gorilla and falls into the little knight turning him into a pool of blood.
In Vanis battle, Vani is making a funny face for some reason, I think she is trying to act like a samurai...
The knight tries to strike Vani with a up to down slice, but in the middle of his swing, his right arm falls to the ground.
Vani put her katana into her shelter and walked slowly passing by the knight side while his body froze.
Ok... that was kinda cool I admit.
Making my way back to Eleonore I can see that everyone is fine.
Vani and Griviela are already there.
I arrive and they all come to greet me.
"How was it Queen? He was strong?" Ask Faori with a hint of worry
"Yes, It was an even battle, but with my speed, I managed to win" I say with a serious tone
"Shall we get going then?" I ask them with a gentle tone
We make our way out of the city and are now heading north.
Walking the road while we talk.
"Good work everyone" I say with a serious tone
They all praise each other and laugh a bit.
"After this city, it would do us best to try not to get too much attention, paladins are definitely strong, trying to fight them heads on now is not a good idea" I say
"True, they are still underestimating us, but if they come with everything they have we would get annihilated" Says Meroin with a serious tone
"Plus, now that we destroyed this city they will realize that their paladins can lose, it is just a matter of time before they come at us" Says Faori with a serious tone
......
Light Popedom Capital, a few hours after Belan destruction.
In a room with a road table, five men wearing white mantles sit.
"How!? A Paladin just died?" yells one man
"We underestimate them! I said two months ago, that we should assemble the Inquisition and march to Avantenzel to kill them as soon as we learned that they were there, but you fools are too preoccupied with politics, now we lost a Paladin!" Says another man inraged
"Let us calm down and plan our next move" Says a man with a calm voice
"They are in our territory there are no political limitations anymore, we should assemble an inquisition and wipe out these demons from the face of the earth" Says another man with a calm voice
"But if the Dragiokasi learn about this the impasse will be broken" Says another man with worry in his voice
"They call themselves dragons but they are more like snakes! If they learn that we are assembling troops and that we are vulnerable right now, they will attack" Says another man with disgust in his tone
"There is nothing we can do about that, we need to deal with the problem in front of us first, there are six walking disasters in our land and we need to stop it!" Says a man with an angry tone
"Assemble the Inquisition and march throughout every corner of the popedom until these demons are dead"
They all agree.