"Ma'am! I'm here to report. He's been spotted, killed eight of our men, one luckily didn't get killed. He says our Target stopped and let him go." A man in his middle ages said as he stood outside the tent.
Sheena, who was pinpointing where Kazein might go, stopped and replied "Don't engage. If agitating the demon is what caused them to be killed, doing so would result unto more death's. I want a squad of abled body men who are at least at the enlightened road. I'm going."
"Yes!" The man quickly replied "By your leave." And left.
[Husband, I want to see you one last time. Before I grant your wish.] Drops of water fell down the map, and she cried once again, trying hard to contain it so as no one will hear.
That morning, by dawn, at least thirty experts of the enlightened path were gathered, so did Anna and the others.
"I'm sure you know why you're all gathered here today. Kazein the devil has been spotted by a small group of scouts. Killed eight, only one returned, and he is said to be less hostile than he was at the arena. I want no one to agitate the demon inside him, we will try a proper exorcism." She said while everyone listened carefully.
Two hours later, the squad moved out. Sheena herself managed the navigation of the forest.
[Kazein, forgive me. I can't do it, but if there really is, no other choice. Then I just hope in our next life, we meet again.] Sheena had deep thoughts while tracking the last place Kazein was seen.
Ten kilometers away, Kazein sat by a tree. He touched his forehead, then looked at the Azrael's sword, it was beautiful in its own way. It's black sheath contrasts with the Slayer sword's white scabbard, it had a skull carved in the hilt, a circular guard and a beautiful curved edge. As he saw it, there were no blunts nor scratches. Normally, a sword would always have scratches due to hitting bone and steel, but this one didn't have any of both. When he suddenly felt something within his field.
[They're here? About 40? All above enlightened road. I better leave now.]
He then stood up and ran further east, when suddenly "whiz!" "Whiz!" "Whiz!" Three arrows stucked up to his back.
"Now! Restrain him! Prepare exorcism and exercise the demon within him!"
And following after the arrows, were chains of light that emerged from the ground, binding him and causing him unable to move.
[Shit, my field was fooled. I thought they were 2 kilometers away.]
"Calculo Seraphim impurum, et quomodocunque exorcizari potes, per gratiam Dei domine, miserere, ut cum ostendam tibi perdiderit animam meam. Et animam tuam offerre pecus, tu omnia peccata relinquo mundum, et vado ad terram usque ad mortalis huius mundi castitatis et origins. Omnipotentis Dei, caelesti patri, quod animus pura lux in domino, ut tuam rogamus amissae animabus potentiam tuam custodire eum, et revertere in viam justorum. Fons omnis sanctitatis et castitatis, ut vos redire a quo damnato, Deus omnipotens!"
Kazein felt the burning feeling in him, Azrael was being purged, if he was exercised, he would have lost all means of getting stronger.
"Once more! Purged and purify this soul that was taken by a fallen seraph!" Arthur came out from the trees, and began another chant.
As Kazein was looking down the ground, when Sheena also went out from the trees, he looked up and opened his eyes, his eyes bled blood from the pressure of 3 exorcism attempts. When everyone came out from the trees and showed their selves, the look on Kazein's face changed.
"Arthur Lightbringer! Get back!" Sheena warned Arthur of what is to come. But it was too late, he was only 5 meters away from Kazein.
When he looked back, "Mortem!!!"(literally means Death)
And then, a dark shroud surrounded his body and, "Bang!!!" It exploded while Arthur was just in front of it.
As smoke and dust cleared, Arthur was on the ground, singed with the explosion and Kazein, who was supposed to be chained and restrained, was free from the binds.
"Humanas, Mortem!"(literally means Death of Humans)
With just one word, 28 enlightened road experts fell to the ground dying in suffocation.
"Post Mortem!"(literally means After Death)
As he said those words from the ancient language, those who died from suffocation, rose up as undead beings.
When suddenly, Anna went rushing towards Kazein. The undead beings still weren't complete, so these ignored her. When she got to Kazein's, she hugged him, and had watery eyes.
This hug brought a piece of Kazein's sanity back, it was just enough for him to talk. Azrael allowed it, since if he were to obstruct what the host soul wants, he would have to fight a soul that has wants and needs. These enough were there to give him the resolve to beat him.
"Kazein, will this really be goodbye?" Anna asked him, while holding him tight.
Kazein just nodded, "Yeah, this is it."
"Then, for the last time, I want to feel your touch."
Kazein touched her face in response to her request. When in the spur of the moment "Soul destruction array!!!"
And on the ground, were symbols from old times, and they glowed with gold. And Anna, who was still holding Kazein, was separated with a earthen pillar.
"Kazein!" She yelled, but it was all too fast.
Kazein himself wasn't able to react in time. The array below activated, and it enveloped the whole of the ground it was on.
Everyone saw that it was Arthur, Amari and Iruka themselves helped in putting up the array, Anna ran towards Arthur, and slapped him. "Why?! He was still able to talk to me! He was still sane! Why did you have to destroy both his body and soul?!" She fell to the ground while she cried.
"Hmph, no mercy will be given to those who contract a demon." Arthur said while looking down on Anna.
"It is forbidden to ever be in contract to a demon. He has the crime of mass massacring people who did him no wrong. Even if he was saved, he would no longer be able to go back." Amari gently said towards the crying Anna.
Iruka just looked at her with pity.
Sheena went to Anna, crouched so as to level with her, and said "I know Kazein, he still has that much power to hold on to his sanity. He will live, we just have to find him."
Anna was shocked to hear this, and she looked behind, and saw Sheena who had a shroud of fear and anxiety. "You, who are you to him?"
"His wife, and you might be too. I already knew he was going to be a great man, so I was prepared if he were to have more women by his side."
Qin Fei saw what Sheena did, and had some thoughts.