IN DEFENSE
With the sudden appearance of lower demons every student has been allowed to defend for themselves with their own power, those who can use the earth created a massive wall that surrounds them and serves as both offense and defense, the villagers down the plateau also ended up fighting alongside the student. Aarav stays in his place to defend the school and he is the only Archangel who stayed instead of going with his siblings. The guardian get to show their true power in front of their students, eradicating massive numbers of minions down with ease and showing the power gap between student and teacher.
"HARRY COME ONE!"
"Yeah"
"Lady Eir"
"Boys, now is not the time to chat"
"We know, but is Remi awake?"
"Yes, if you wish to use her power she cannot, she is too terrified to even think of it"
"Oh no"
"Thank you"
"What do we do now?"
Harry and Hans scramble inside the infirmary as they try to find someone with an area of effect that can wipe out a whole country off the map. There is only 2 people they can think of but none of them can be talked into defending. They try to get in the intensive care where Logan also lays rest unconscious, but the maiden does not allow them through even if they force their way in and beg down on their knees nothing work.
"What do we do now?"
"You 2!?"
"Lady Aaron"
"Please, do not try to persuade them go to battle, let them do it"
"But we cannot risk it!"
"Yea- sorry"
"You 2 come with me, we have to do something"
The 2 quickly followed and they walked pass several students fending off the minions, they also try to eliminate some of them as much as possible but none of them die instantly. All minions are strengthened with the authority of Greed, the sin becomes a catalyst for their strength.
"Where is Lady Harriet?"
"She is up against Mammon, and we need to do everything we can to support her"
"How exactly are we going to do that?"
"This place is practically overrun"
"Negative things such as what you are saying are the reasons why we might lose, the other Archangels are nearing the end of their Rekindling and it is only a matter of time they are back at their peak power, and before that we need to defend the world"
"Obviously"
"harry!"
"Sorry"
They got down to one of the underground areas of the school and they see a golden table in the middle with 4 doors to all direction. They check around it and it is just nothing, there is some sort of platform in it that the 2 stepped on but nothing is happening. Aaron explains it that this is part of the World Tree, a powerful wall of defense that will spread throughout the different schools, villages, and cities or human settlements that settled on the roots of the world tree. Aaron puts both of her hand on the table and the gold starts to melt upward, the 2 get close to it as the whole building around them shakes. Light enters in and bounces around the room revealing a golden marbled interior with Greek designs.
"That was new"
"It was, we need to get this up and running?"
"Yeah w-"
"You guys need 1 more or 2?"
"Axar, Audrey"
"Hey guys!"
"Lady Aaron should step into one of the platforms, you shouldn't be the one to activate it"
"Why?"
"This table only activates it, the platforms will use the potency of your imperium and draws the power of the world tree, if the 4 of us were to go there it will not be strong enough"
"Really?"
"Yes Harry, REALLY!"
"Our imperium will be enough to reach the whole world, but some areas will be weak, the power disperses, its like a connection really, it needs to do 1 whole around and when it reconnects back here it is strong"
"But when it comes to you guys, the imperium will thin out and even with the 1 lap"
"It will only take more from us, we're still 1st years after all and some of us"
"Plus, Audrey already had her awakening, that's a bonus"
"Audrey and Already, I get it?"
"....."
"What? He made a pun"
"Just go already"
The 4 steps onto the platforms and they can feel the device already taking their imperium, Axar puts his hand on the golden table and it starts to melt into a floating globe. On top of the globe stands the tree and around it its roots, he pushes down in the table and all of them starts to feel light headed, Axar's imperium is used as a guide for the power as he can see the roots on the globe. From the tree blue light emits, it flows down through. Everything now depends on Axar, being both bridge and guide to defend the whole Underworld, the that are hemispheres generated by the trees covers all places where there is imperium, not just any human civilization. Meaning an abandoned town for as long as there is imperium on it from a living being, except for floras, a hemisphere is erected.
A hemisphere surrounds on top of them and then dissipates, Mammon fires dark imperium towards the structure and it spreads around the whole area and goes back to him.
"Hmmm, its those kids"
"Over here!"
Harriet, now bloodied up from their fight continues her struggle to beat the demon down, but all her efforts are all for nothing. He still has the same pose since their fight and only his surrounding has seen changed, Mammon just stands there also giving some of his imperium down to Raijin, enough to keep him alive but not too much that he can fight back, he is aware of his true nature and he wishes to use it when the time comes but for now he plays with Harriet until the sun reaches its peak in the Overworld.
Everyone there looks up the sky as the dark clouds loom over it slowly, those who can see the sun all experience chills despite it supposed to be a bright and sunny day, and for those who see the moon, they are experiencing the worst. A Legion of lower-demons has appeared and all Angel's of Death protects all of those who cannot fight but not showing themselves, they fight in the sky as the lower-demons try to possess the living and become pillars for the kingdom that will be under the demons. A sudden increase of lower-minions and Altered once appear and wreak havoc, they passed the lines of Angels and all they can do is brace for it, the countries that are affected started a state of evacuation for their whole country as it starts to be chipped away by something they are afraid of. Those who took the opportunity to fulfill their wants easily attracted lower-demons and get possessed, the minions try their best to bring as much soul down and for those who live in hell, they are enjoying the beginning of their return. They feast on the souls that fell to the sin of Greed and they made them suffer.
"Why... do you do this?"
"This sword does not seem to obey me"
"Why... do you... wish to destroy everything?"
"Why not, we hate our creator, and we wish to destroy her, this worlds are supposed to be for us, but she dare ask us to be the same as you people.. that we cannot allow, we are too powerful to be your equal, and you are too weak to even stand up"
Harriet grips her sword and turns it into a spear, the ground starts to shake with her emotions as the water beside the village that they are in starts to enter. A massive tsunami rises from their side but the hemisphere won't break.
"Heed commandment"
The 4 of them are in shock upon what Axar said, but mostly to the fact that he is adding incredible amounts of imperium to the table.
"Heed my control and authority over the people whose selflessness manifests because of their love, care, and worry for the people dear to them, grant them the strength and might in order to fend off the darkness that ensues. As the vessel of the 10th Commandment, awaken their real strength and cast a bright light upon this darkness!"
Both Axar and Fadil resonates as their imperium is sent down by the World Tree throughout both worlds. The globe starts to detach itself and turns into 2 and the roots of the world tree connects with it, the tree bridge the Overworld and the Underworld and those with imperium on both worlds starts to become drastically powerful.
They start fighting off the legions of demons that came pouring and everyone starts to find hope once more. The military in the Overworld joined in their defense and the army of the 5 Kings joined in defense of the Underworld. Mammon feels the incredible power and starts to feel afraid as he feels his sister's power flowing through the hemisphere and into Harriet.
"There is 1 thing I find weird for the past month after the Grand Selection"
"What is it?"
"When Mephistopheles, 'died'... why was there no eclipse?"
"because he does not belong to one of us"
"Really? Or is that your own SELFISH view of him"
Harriet starts to glow with imperium and he fights the demon and this time he moves, her speed along with her strength does not allow the demon to even make a move on her.
"RAAAA-"
"SHUT IT!"
She stabbed the spear through his head and broke it in half, the other half turned into a sword and she manages to slice off half of his face but this time she absorbs it. His head grew back and his eyes pitch black and angrier than before, she scoffs at him and continued her assault to the demon. He starts to receive imperium and this feeling was sent all of the way to Axar and then to Diara.
"You feel him elder sister?"
"He is starting his attack, you must go, with your authority his power will be weaken"
"I will go now, take care all of you"
Aarav continues to fight on without the effect of spell as his own kind does not need it. He still easily clears massive portions of the Legions, he wants to to where Harriet and Mammon is but he is the reason why the school is has not fallen.
"YOUR GRACE!"
"Merlin!"
"She has returned!"
"Right about time"
Aarav summons his phoenix and destroys the legions in his place, he jumps down through the building and down on the roots of the World Tree, the golden gate starts to shine bright as a being walks through it.
"Good to see you sister"
"Elder brother"
"Are you sure you can take him on?"
"Easily, and its not just me who will be there"
"Do not get your hopes up"
"I'll take your place now"
The siblings hug it out and Aarav lays a kiss on his sister's forehead, he smiles and walks into the golden gate and sees his sibling and a open spot for him by the original world tree. Fadil looks back to him as he enters it, she grew 2 pairs of wings with her new golden armor appearing around her body.
"Brother"
She flies and her presence alone weakens the people corrupted with greed, they fall down like flies as she continues to walk among them and the legion halted in front of her. The students cheered upon their presence and those students who are wounded healed up and reawakened, except for 1 who still lies asleep. She raises her hand and a sword manifests on it.
"Be gone"
A beam of light pierce through all of them and into the darken cloud on which they appeared from and it is destroyed. The lower-demons fall down as their bodies burned down to nothingness.
"Heed my control and authority for those who have fallen to greed, allow yourself to walk back the path of harmony among everyone else, your greed shall be dispelled by my words"
"FADIL!!!!!!!!!"
Mammon's anger soar through and he destroys the sphere that they are in, his power spreads around the whole world and all it did is gave away his position to Fadil. Her sword turns into a spear and she hurls it towards Mammon and it stabs his leg.
"YOU DEVIL!"
"I got you!"
A tendril from his back stabs through her heart, he throws her away like some rock and Raijin sees this but he cannot do anything, he feels Fadil's presence appear before them and the siblings fight begins.
"You dare carry that sword as if you are worthy of it"
"I am not, but I can corrupt it"
He grabs the Excalibur and wraps it around with his own power, he easily swings the sword and he engages his sister ferociously. With every swing he threw towards her it destroys everything around them. Fadil controls her spear with her mind and it acts as her partner during this battle, despite this no one seems to drop their guard nor underestimates the other.
"The souls stopped coming down... why did it stop?"
"I guess out little sister has grown up to be a woman!"
With her power now matching Mammon's both can give the same power as the other as they will. Their fight destroys everything around them, the village, the forest and even dries up all the waters that flow down from the nearby ocean. As the 2 god-like beings bring the most powerful out the other, 2 humans try to say farewell with each other.
"Har...riet... I'm sor... I killed you this time"
Raijin crawls near to Harriet's head.
"You have.... your heart... you can live"
He slowly moves his right hand towards her head but it takes all of his strength, he starts to tear up with regret as he sees her like this. He wants her to live, he does not want her to die because of him. He palm finally grabs a hold of her head and he soft hair, it was heaven and hell at the same time as his hands get severed off. Despite this he continued, he ignored the pain around his body in only 1 way he can think of. There is still flowing imperium down on his legs and it is the reason why he can still feel it, like he did to the demon earlier he creates a way to give imperium to her. Small thin lines go from his face to hers, he slowly feels the feeling disappear from his feet and he starts to lose all sensation down to his face. The puncture in her chest closes off, but it was not enough to save her.
*Logan.... save her..*
"Why can't I, you can"
Fadil pants heavily as she stands in front of a heavily wounded Mammon.
"No souls?"
"I learned a thing or 2 from you, we can heal like you, we're the same"
"You know what I meant"
"RAAAH!"
A bolt of lightning strikes suddenly strikes him down.
"Hey, you demonic piece of shit"
"what, a heart"
"You made me do this"
Raijin now entered his awakening, with his expert control over imperium handling his awakening will be easier even at the brink of a death. This control is a testament for his greatness and power, he recreates his own heart first as imperium starts to build up in him. He looks at the demon as if he is supposed to be feared.
"COME TO ME!"
Raijin deals a massive strike to the demon blowing his torso away it one punch, it exposes his heart immediately but he saves it by easily. With every hit Raijin deals to Mammon massive amounts of lightning bursts through the demon, Fadil smiles and follows on Raijin's footsteps.
"Do not kill him child"
"I KNOW, BUT WE CAN DESTROY EVERYTHING ELSE RIGHT?"
"Yes"
"We're after your heart"
Mammon laughs and provokes them. The 3 went into an all out battle creating a massive crater in the wake of their battle. Mammon starts to have the lower hand as he sees something near impossible, Raijinn grabs Fadil's divine weapon.
"IMPOSSIBLE! YOU SHOULD BE DYING!"
"NO, YOU SHOULD BE!"
Raijin imbues the spear with his lightning and carries it on his back, the spear gained weight as does so. He swings the spear around and his speed was as if he has clones, Fadil can only watch in awe as a mere human matches their strength. She puts Harriet in a sphere and warps her back to the school, with no more obstacles in their way she can go all out. She took deep and long breathes and charges ahead.
"Is she okay?"
"Lady Harriet"
"See guys, she is the reason why the 3 of us are still, we at least need to repay in some way"
"and saving the world be enough payment?"
"More than enough... trust me, we have an Angel on our side!"
Remi, Ruth, and Logan awakes in their slumber, and they exactly know where to go and show their power.