Chapter 9 - Sins - Part 5

In this frozen world, Nazar and the seven monsters looked at this one person who appeared behind them.

Nazar knew who it was and so did the monsters.

“Dude, let me have my fun.”

“No.”

The other person replied immediately to Nazar.

“Sigh. Did you unfreeze time?”

The man nodded.

“You always comes when things get serious,” Nazar said as he looked very disappointed.

Nazar and the monsters were looking at a tall, handsome and muscular man with blonde hair with red eyes.

He had a threatening gaze in his eyes as usual because of his red eyes. He always looked threatening even when he didn't mean to.

Even though he was not a human, he was wearing a white suit that resembled something that was made by humans.

“You do know that these guys can easily destroy a few universes, right?”

Nazar nodded.

The blonde haired and red-eyed man sighed.

“So, why can’t you let me have a little fun...”

Before Nazar could finish, the monster known as Sloth said something.

“Lucifer?!?!”

The man before them was Lucifer. The first angel and the third being to come into existence.

At the moment, he is a unique being.

30,000 years ago, he became a fallen angel. But 21 years ago, Nazar did something to him. He changed him. Lucifer is now a fallen angel, an angel, a demon and a god at the same time. He is also currently the most powerful being in existence after Nazar - if he unleashes his true power.

“Didn’t think my creation from a few billion years ago would come back one day,” Lucifer said rather casually.

“Eh, you know them?”

Nazar’s airheaded question made Lucifer click his tongue.

“I created them and then killed them but that was billions of years ago.”

“O-oh.”

Wrath gritted his teeth.

He held his axe as tight as possible and threw himself towards Lucifer.

“Luuuuuciferrrrrrrrrr!”

Lucifer narrowed his eyes.

“You bastar--”

Nazar and Lucifer looked at each other in surprise.

“Did you do that?”

“Did you do that?”

“Eh?”

“Wait, you didn’t do that?”

Both Lucifer and Nazar became confused.

These two are two of the most powerful beings in the universe but they had no idea what was going on.

The seven monsters had vanished before their eyes.

“I am looking at them everywhere but cannot find them.”

Lucifer used his omnipresence but he couldn’t find them.

“Maybe they died?”

“No. They were teleported out.”

Nazar let out a sigh.

“You should have left me to have some fun with them and maybe this--”

Lucifer rolled his eyes in annoyance and interrupted Nazar, “Do you have any idea how powerful they were?”

“...Yes.”

“Then you do know that if you had prolonged it any further, they would have destroyed universes.”

“Yeah...”

Nazar was not even feeling guilty.

Lucifer frowned while he watched Nazar pretend to feel guilty.

“I will look for them and let you know when I find them.”

On top of Lucifer’s head, a golden and black halo appeared.

From his back, six wings shot out. Two of them were white. Two of them were grey. And two of them were black.

Around him, faint yellow energy started to appear.

“Hopefully it's nothing serious.”

Lucifer then vanished into thin air.

Nazar sighed and teleported to Chias.

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On an unknown planet, Darkness was in a forest once time froze while being invisible.

She was frozen just like everyone else.

But all of a sudden, the time resumed and she didn’t feel anything different.

She continued to walk in the forest as if nothing had happened. No one felt anything different.

She walked slowly but suddenly stopped once she found a horde of people who were wearing robes.

She stood behind a tree and watched them.

Unlike on the other planet full of mountains, these people were not very short. Some of them were very tall and some of them were short.

“”

Darkness’s eyes widened in surprise.

She looked around as many children were mixed around with these people.

“”

She watched from afar.

The people were different. They did not seem alive but they were alive at the same time. They were walking. They were breathing but once she looked at them closely, she didn’t think they were alive.

They were like walking corpse.

Darkness started to walk towards them.

One of the people noticed her and shouted.

“”

The person shouted but Darkness didn’t care. She wanted to get their attention for some reasons.

In her right hand, a small and red magical circle appeared.

“”

She held her hand towards one of the people and shot an energy beam towards them.

Before they could react, it went right through their head.

“”

Darkness sounded very angry.

However, it wasn’t obvious who she was talking to. Perhaps all of them?

Beneath those people, a massive magical circle appeared.

That magical circle span for miles and appeared beneath every single person.

As it did, everyone stopped. They found it hard to move.

From the magical circle, energy tendrils appeared and restrained the people.

Of course, Darkness was not affected.

She walked among those people who found it hard to move.

“”

She took a small pause and looked around.

“”

The people struggled to free themselves. They tried to move but they couldn’t. The magical circle beneath them felt like they were stuck in the mud. And the tendrils were restricting their hand movement.

“”

The Church of Michael was the ruling body of Chochica Empire. To public knowledge, Baros was its ruler but he was being controlled by the Church of Michael. So, one day when Nazar saved their empire, Baros handed the empire to him and the Church of Michael was disbanded.

“”

She slowly trailed off as she looked around.

She found herself rather confused once she looked at the people from a close distance.

“”

Her eyes widened in surprise.

“”

The magical circle beneath them started to light up a little.

“”

She didn’t want to believe that.

She thought that they were using magic to hide it.

She looked at them closely.

She looked right at their very being.

She looked at their...

“”

However, she didn’t like what she found out.

“”

She was surprised by that. She has not seen anything like this before.

Which had her thinking; their life force is their soul. The older their soul, the lower their life force. So, if they didn’t have a soul, they definitely didn’t have any life force left. So, how exactly were they standing before her? How exactly were they able to use magic?

“”

She narrowed her eyes.

The magical circle started to become brighter and brighter.

“”

While she was thinking, the magical circle became brighter and brighter.

(They are not alive. But how exactly are they moving? And using magic? And who brought them back….? What exactly are they? Zombies? Or undead? To see if they are what I think they are, then I need to...)

A thin smile appeared on her face.

“”

The magical circle turned into an energy beam and shot out towards space.

A deafening sound also rang out in the forest beside the blinding light.

The energy beam shooting towards the sky incinerated every single person besides Darkness.

“”

Undead. Zombies. Magic vs science. Which one is it?

In this universe, zombies exist because of a virus. The last time they were seen was thousands of years ago. And they can be killed rather easily if you apply strong enough force against them.

However, the undead are different.

What happens when you sell your soul to a demon? What happens when you work for the demon?

Yes, that’s right. They kill you and then steal your soul. After you are killed, the demons make you an immortal undead that is no different from the living. But you are not exactly alive. You are a dead man living without a soul and without any free will. Everything inside you is pre-programmed by the demon.

So, which one is it?

Zombies vs undead.

Darkness watched as every single person got incinerated.

She kept the energy beam shooting upwards for a few minutes to make sure everyone died.

“”

The magical circle soon disappeared so did the deafening sound and the blinding light.

Even though Darkness was standing inside the circle, she was unscathed.

“”

“What. Did. You. Do?”

She heard a low and angry voice from above her.

Darkness looked up and saw Archangel Michael floating above her.

“I was just checking if they were zombies or undead.”

“Well, they are...”

Michael flew down and picked Darkness by her neck.

“Not! They are not you-- Damn it!”

He threw her towards the ground.

“Ngh!”

She rolled a few times but managed to stop and stand up quickly.

“Sigh.”

Michael looked around himself.

“I could bring them back but it's rather useless. They are weak and pathetic and he… If you know, then he definitely knows.”

“He?”

Darkness made a confused look as a cover.

She was preparing a powerful spell under her tongue.

“That pathetic human. He definitely knows where I am. He would want revenge for what I did to his sister… He will find me if he truly wante--”

“Oh, but you are weak now, “God”, aren’t you?”

“Keh...”

Michael was not expecting that.

He felt his heart overflowing with anger.

“You pathetic creation.”

Michael shot himself towards Darkness.

The distance between them was only a few meters.

Michael was easily moving above the speed of sound.

So, to remove those few meters distance, it would take him less than second.

But.

Michael paused as he saw his opponent smile thinly and look Michael in the eyes.

However, he didn’t slow down.

He moved his hand towards her.

Michael’s hand was about to crash the skull of his own creation.

“Look up.”

She said that and Michael stopped moving.

He couldn’t move at all.

And then...

KRAKABOOM!!

A massive thunder struck Michael.

She jumped back a little.

“That’s the best you can do?”

Michael took it as if it was nothing.

He laughed.

“Haha… Really how-- What?”

A massive beam of energy shot from the ground.

It hit him in the chest and he started to fly up.

It wouldn’t hurt him that much but it will definitely buy Darkness some time.

(I wasn’t expecting him at all.) She thought to herself.

On the surface, she had a confident look but inside, she was worried.

(My energy reserves are not as unlimited as his. I just need to survive for 10 seconds.)

She placed her hand in her coat’s pocket and took out a communication device.

While she was doing that, Michael, many meters above her, narrowed his eyes.

He clenched his fist and punched the energy beam.

He did it with enough force the beam deflected and was now coming towards Darkness.

Her eyes opened wide in surprise.

But before she could react to that, Michael picked her up her by the back of her head and slammed her face into the ground.

He lifted her face a little and then slammed it in the ground once more.

Darkness did not feel a lot of pain.

Michael was not entirely focused on her.

So, that gave Darkness an opening.

She clicked a button on the communication device.

(Now onto my next trick...)

She vanished into thin air.

Michael, without realising that she had gone from his hand, slammed his hand into the ground.

He noticed it only after he felt the impact of his hand against the ground.

“Huh…?”

He stood up.

“Tch.”

Michael looked annoyed.

He looked around and let out a sigh.

“No one can save me...”

He trailed off.

He looked up and saw Darkness floating above him.

Blood was coming out of her mouth.

“This… This is all I have got.”

Michael felt something.

“Huh?”

He looked at his body and then looked at Darkness.

“You… You are not as weak as I thought.”

Darkness didn’t hit him with an energy beam or anything.

She was doing something else. Something that Michael was not expecting at all.

He tried to move but couldn't move at all. Darkness was restraining him within an invisible prison that surrounded him.

“Even if you put me apart atom by atom, I will come back,” Michael said as he noticed that his feet were becoming undone.

Darkness snorted.

She brushed her palms as she said, “Yes, I know… But by then, I will find a way and be ready to kill you again.”

She mustered all of her energies and focused on Michael.

Darkness then grunted as she slowly moved her palms away from one another.

Michael was becoming undone atom by atom.

“I am not weak, Michael. I never was,” Darkness said out loud as she forced a proud smile on her face.

She applied a lot of power to her hands too.

She felt pain all over her body.

But she was not done yet.

“And it’s time you learned that.”

Darkness forced everything she had on her hands and pulled them away from one another.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!”

She pulled her hands away with force and the process in which Michael was becoming undone increased.

She was using a matter manipulation spell. With this spell, she can manipulate matter on the atomic level. She is moving all of her magical energies from her body to her hands and from there, she is guiding Michael's molecules to separate with the help of the barrier around him. However, using this spell require a lot of magical energies. And since Michael's body is far denser than anyone else, she is using everything she has.

To use magical energies, one must pay the price with their own life. Even though she is immortal and supposed to have a lot of life force - if not unlimited, it is still taking everything she has to use this spell. She might not be able to recover from this.

Which is why she called for help. On Jabalot Empire, there are many beings who can help and heal her. Once she is healed, her energies will return and she will be back to normal.

“I bested an angel!”

As she shouted in excitement, Michael became undone.

He went from a man to atoms scattered all over the place.

“I… I did it...”

Darkness looked surprised too. She also felt relaxed and happy. She felt a range of emotions because this is the greatest thing she has done and it took everything she had.

While feeling happy and surprised, she didn’t notice that she was falling to the ground.

She had used everything she had to best Michael. All of her energies had been depleted.

(I… I asked for help… Someone will… come and… find me...)

She didn’t even have enough energy to keep her eyes open.

Her vision flickered and was about to hit the ground.

But something happened.

She didn’t hit the ground.

She did not feel the cold and hard surface of the ground.

But instead felt hands on her back.

Darkness opened her eyes and saw someone with white hair holding her in his arms.

Her eyes opened a little in surprise.

“Nazar…?”

Nazar looked down at her and smiled.

“Good work.”

(This...goddamned...human...)

She should have been on full alert but for some reasons, she felt relaxed and closed her eyes. She knew that Nazar won't try to kill her when he knows that he would use her later.

She asked her comrades for help but instead, Nazar showed up.

Once her eyes were closed, Nazar said, “Solace, I told you that using everything on the chess board was a good idea.”

Solace was not around, so he was speaking to himself.

“Friends and foes… everything is on my chess board.”

He let out a small laugh as he restored Darkness' energies.

As he was restoring her energies, Nazar heard rustling noise.

He narrowed his eyes and looked around.

"Now, now. This should make up for the seven monst--"

He trailed off and sighed.

"These guys are weak."

Nazar saw as those people rise once more. The same people Darkness had killed.

"Undead," Nazar frowned as he said that. "I don't have time for you weaklings."

His finger twitched and all of them vanished. They were not teleported out of here or anything but instead, the undead were 'killed' forever. Thousands of undead will never return even if Michael tries.

Nazar then vanished into thin air.