Luke and the two women couldn't believe their eyes, the woman who stole the egg quickly pointed her finger at Ben and screamed.
"Why have you come here?"
It was a stupid question, both Ben and Luke looked a bit dumb folded at her.
"Anyway, I want my egg back!"
"What makes you think that I will give it back?"
Luke tried to provoke Ben, and it worked. Ben knew that he was outnumbered but he didn't care, in another way, this situation was even good for him. He didn't really have a chance to test out his new skills.
Golden light sparkled around Ben and wings started to grow on his back, his gym clothes changed into a white vestment and a pair of white trousers. The woman who stole the egg saw Ben's transformation and quickly dashed away.
"Where are you going?"
Ben who had finished his transformation dashed after her and overtook her just before she could escape the lab. He pushed her head into the wall and blood splashed on the wall, after that he turned his head around and noticed that Luke wasn't there.
"So he decided to leave, how funny!"
The woman in the lab coat had sweat running down her spine when she saw the devilish smile on Ben's face, it was wrong for an Apostle of an Angel to do such a face, she thought.
"Here, take the egg and go away!"
The woman was commanding him, did Ben hear it wrong? No, she really commanded him to leave, Ben stepped over to her and took the egg. To the woman's surprise, Ben left the lab after getting the egg.
"Luke, you can get out now, he left"
A blonde kid appeared out of one of the many tunnels once used as water tunnels.
"Man, he hit her hard. She will need some time to recover"
Luke picked the woman up and placed her on one of the lab tables in the middle of the lab, there he opened her mouth and poured a recovery potion inside.
"How quickly will she heal with this, Emma?"
"With her damage, I'd say about four days"
Luke rolled his eyes at Emma's answer and was about to say something when the earth started shaking.
"What the fuck, what is this?"
Then the ceiling of the lab crashed down, Luke and Emma could evade the falling top and ground by a hair's breadth but it was too late for the other woman.
When Luke opened his eyes again and pushed the stones lying on his legs away, he saw a man standing on top of the hill of rocks. If he didn't know who that was he would have mistaken him for a devil, the wings spread wide open and the smile on the man's face made Luke question if he really was an Angel.
"Fuck, did you need to do that?"
"Yes, I did it to stop you, so that you can't experiment on rare animals!"
Oh right, the animals Ben and Luke looked in the direction of the cages, luckily the broken-down ceiling didn't hit any of them.
Ben looked back to Luke, something wasn't right with Luke, he was way nicer than he was in the fifth level. Ben walked over to him and asked Luke,
"Why aren't you fighting me?"
Luke looked a bit perplexed at Ben but he still answered.
"I found out, that you weren't the ones who killed my brother. It was someone else, and I don't want to hurt the animals here."
Ben was a bit shocked by the answer, but Luca told him, that he had killed Tim, Luke's brother.
"Ok, then I am sorry for destroying the roof but I still need to punish you for stealing my dragon!"
"Now, you look like a devil"
Ben was taken aback by Luke's comment and the latter used this chance, Luke activated a wind skill and flew up in the air outside the lab, Ben didn't chase after him.
And while escaping, Luke looked at Ben and gave him some advice.
"You can keep the animals, but if I were you, I would also escape that place quickly!"
"Why?"
Luke didn't answer but Ben would find out why very quickly. Ben turned around, Emma was lying unconscious on the ground, he picked her up and placed her on one of the standing lab tables. When he was finished he looked around and a woman was standing there.
It was the woman who had stolen the egg from him, she didn't have any scratches or a wound on her face. The thing that freaked Ben out the most was the dangerous aura coming from her and that he didn't hear or sense her approaching him.
heheheh
It seemed she had gone crazy but who would blame her, she got her head slammed into the wall and many rocks fell onto her too, and all that in such a short time. It is obvious that there are damages to the brain, and what Ben didn't was that she got a "recovery" potion from Luke.
Maybe if Ben knew that, he would be able to see that this all was calculated and planned by Luke. But Ben didn't know it and had to face the other Angel Apostle who had gone crazy.
"Hey, are you ok?"
The woman stopped laughing.
"Are you dumb? You slammed my head into the wall and let a lot of rocks fall on me. Do you think I am ok?"
"Uhhh...no"
The woman seemed to be satisfied with his answer and just like him started to spread her wings, the golden light emitting from her was much brighter than Ben's, it was so bright that Ben could see nothing else and he had to close his eyes.
When he could see something again, he saw her enormous wings, they were each at least 50 centimetres longer than his wings, the woman opened her mouth and introduced herself.
"Ahhh~, I haven't introduced myself, have I? My name is Uriel, and I will fight against you now!"
Right after she finished her introduction, she dashed at Ben, grabbed him, and threw him outside the lab.
*She is strong, I didn't even see her attacking me, she is so much stronger, how should I win against her? Was this what Luke warned me about, but how could he know?*
"You didn't die from that, impressive!"
Ben didn't answer her, instead, he strengthened his body, to prepare for the next attack. Ben felt his muscles getting tighter and his blood flowing faster, his brain was working faster. He analysed everything faster, his opponent's movements and his surroundings, while analysing his surroundings he sensed that there weren't any people in the broken down huts.
*Have they all heard the sounds of our battle and fled?*
"Eyes on the battle boy!"
The voice of Uriel pulled him out of his thoughts, he quickly looked where she was before but all he could see was air and the destroyed hut.
A fist came flying at him, the fist looked beautiful, the golden aura surrounding the fist made her look like an arrow of light. Ben asked himself how long it would take him to reach this level, he concluded that it would be better if he stopped thinking.
This all happened in 1 second|
As soon as his thought acceleration stopped, Ben felt the pain of being heavily punished in his face. He flew back, through the huts and broken walls, the pain of being thrown through multiple walls and huts nearly made him pass out.
Uriel watched him fly through all the huts and followed him, Ben was lying against a wooden wall, a small hole in that wall through which a small light showed. This small light landed on Ben's handsome face and made him look like a baby Angel.
*I have to get up quickly and end this in one attack*
Ben activated all his strong skills and strengthened his body again, thought acceleration was activated and he spread his wings when he did that an Angel crown appeared above his head.
Uriel who saw his transformation from afar stopped and activated a defensive skill, the 'Holy Wall' she didn't continue to follow him and decide to take his attack head-on.
*Now, let's see how strong he is, I mean he is even able to activate 'First Angel descendants' that's quite impressive.*
Right after she thought that Ben came flying at her and used all of his power to break through the Holy Wall. His hand touched the Holy Wall and an explosion happened, the explosion was so bright like a star exploding, the explosion blinded both Uriel and Ben.
Ben quickly dashed back, to separate himself as far from Uriel as he could, he was right in that decision. Uriel didn't sit back and quickly prepared her attack, the ground on which Ben stood a second ago collapsed and a beam of light hit fell down from the sky.
Ben looked in the sky to where the light beam came from, what he saw was breathtaking. Uriel was standing in the sky, looking down at him, her golden aura was filling the sky and she looked like a mythical creature.
Ben didn't dare to take his eyes away from her, the fear of getting hit or even touched by her now was too strong for him.
*I need to keep thought acceleration activated, otherwise I won't be able to defend her next attacks*
Ben didn't use all his powers but he didn't have much left, it would only be enough for one attack.
*If only I had trained my mythic power more! Dammit!!*
He felt Uriel's gaze on him and quickly jumped back, a millisecond later the place on which he once stood was burnt down by the beam of light coming from the sky. The ground was evolving into lava, that's how hot the beam of light was.
*I will lose if I stay on the ground, I need to get up to her in the sky!*
Ben spread his wings open and dashed with unbelievable speed into the sky, to his surprise a beam of light came flying in his direction. The beam of light tore through the sky, for a second Ben thought that the sky was split apart but he thought that, that would be unreal.
The beam of light missed him by a hairs length or so Ben thought, the tip of his left wing turned into ash and a horrible pain moved through his body, it felt like his body was ripped apart. Uriel looked at Ben, it wasn't the playful look from before it was a fearsome look.
Ben who was still holding his stomach and screaming in pain, saw Uriel's face and sweat started to form on the back of his neck, a shiver ran down his back, and his hair started to stand up. These were all signals his body was giving to him, that Uriel had changed and that he should leave this place as quickly as he can.
Ben didn't want to leave, even though his body screamed at him, he wanted to finish his one powerful attack.
*Why isn't she attacking me? I stood around for about three seconds without doing anything*
"It seems you want to finish this off with one big attack, so in return, I will also use a bigger part of my mythic powers!"
*Shit, that isn't good for me*
The situation wasn't looking good for Ben but nevertheless, he continued with his plan of one big attack. His thoughts became faster and his body felt lighter but stronger, he dashed forward and so did Uriel.
They both clashed head-on, a sound like a bomb detonating could be heard and a shockwave followed soon after. The huts and ruins in the poor district vanished at the shockwave and a wasteland was left.
Their fists clashed and Ben broke his right hand but that didn't stop him. He used the power generated from their clash and jumped up high into the sky, Uriel was surprised by his move and prepared her light beam.
*Haha, I've got you*
Ben stretched out his right hand and made a finger sign. His mythic energy started to rise and the output of his mythic power doubled, no it tripled, Uriel noticed this and quickly shoot her beam of light.
It was too late, Blue energy escaped Ben's hand and clashed with the beam of light from Uriel, another shockwave, much stronger than the ones before was coming from the clash. Golden and blue light filled the sky and the blue light swallowed the golden light.
Ben saw Uriel trying to escape his attack but the Blue light hit her and she fell to the ground with a scream. Ben didn't expect his attack to be this strong, it was an attack he trained hard for, without the help of his sponsor.
Ben was happy but only for a second, the Uriel who was about to hit the ground suddenly vanished. He looked around hastily but all he could see was the destroyed and burning district, that was all he saw when his eyes started to close.
It wasn't because of fatigue, he knew that he hadn't overused his body or mythic power but an enormous pressure caused him to collapse. He knew who was responsible for that, it was Uriel. He saw her white hair before passing out and it seemed like she was speaking to him, but he couldn't hear her, all he could see were her red lips moving.