Ayame's face instantly shifted into shocked as she was staring at the huge cage they were trapped in, Lilith and Naomi stayed calm and started observing surroundings- "Ah, perfect i get out of cage just to end up way worse one in the next day" Sighed out Naomi- "Well this can't be good, what do we do now? the cage is made with special steel, it nullifies soul current" Said Lilith - "I doubt demons in this era have heard of lasers now have they?"Said Kyo as he took laser from his ring survival kit- "What is that thing?" asked Naomi - "This will cut this steel" Said Kyo- "What will we do? what if we encounter Balthazar again? he will kill us for sure" Said Ayame as tear ran down her cheeks- "Stop being such a crybaby now will you?" said Kyo- "Can we just escape?" Said LilithKyo took his laser and cut the metal cage without any trouble, they swiftly left the cage and started sneaking through the halls as Ayame whispered to Lilith: - "Hey Lilith, can't you turn us invisible like you did back then?"- "I can't in order for me to maintain that technique i must keep my feet still" Said Lilith - "I can take a platform and make it float while you stand on it, wouldn't it work?" Said Naomi- "Huh, that might actually work, go ahead do it" Said Lilith- "Very well" Said Naomi as she used her angelic powers and removed a piece of concrete from the ground as all 4 of them stood on it - "Alright, come close" Said Lilith All of them came close to Lilith as she covered them with her huge wings and used her "Adaptive veil"- "Alright, let's see if it works" Said Naomi as she used her magic to make the platform float- "Hmm, it seems to be working, the platform is invisible too, we can not be seen or heard and we can still move, this is best sneaking strategy" Said Lilith- "Mhm, i am such a genius" Said Ayame- "As if it was not Naomi's idea" Replied Kyo - "Shut up, i came up with it in the first place" Said AyameA few minutes later alarm went off in entire demonic palace- "Ah shit, they noticed" said Kyo- "It's fine, there is no way they can find us" Said Lilith- "I hope so too" Said AyameAs the alarm went off, a solider started speaking in some sort of magical speaker as he started announcing to whole palace:- "We are getting attacked by human army, prepare to fight"- "What? it was not about us after all?" Said Ayame- "This is perfect, we can use the distraction to escape" Said KyoAs they left the palace, they noticed that it has been covered by a barrier made by human army to prevent demons from escaping - "OH COME ON" Said Kyo - "Maybe try breaking it?" Said Ayame- "It's impossible, that barrier has been made by whole army of people, hundreds of thousands of "- "We will just find safest spot and wait till the fight is over so we can escape" Said Lilith- "Ya, good idea" Said Naomi- "Let's go to that hill" Said Kyo- "Alright" Said Naomi as she started flying to the hillAs they descended on the hill Kyo pulled out a weird device out of his ring- "What is that?" Asked Lilith- "This is speaker, i will place microphone outside of your wings and speaker inside so we can hear their conversation" Answered Kyo- "Ah, that is clever" Said Ayame As Kyo placed down microphone and speaker, they could hear voices of Balthazar and Barthamus speaking - "What brings you here today?" Asked Balthazar - "My men want blood" Said Barthamus with a grin- "You want blood but in the end you will end up losing all of it" Said Balthazar - "Who is that guy talking to Balthazar?" Asked Lilith- "That is Barthamus i told you guys about earlier" Said Naomi - "Oh i see" Said Lilith As Balthazar and Barthamus finished talking they immediately started exchanging blows as their armies also started attacking each other, Balthazar used his technique to greatly weaken Barthamus while Barthamus used his mist manipulation technique to create huge mist to distract him as he was creating silhouettes of himself as they would clash their fists huge shockwave would reduce buildings into debris and send solders flying around as Lilith was struggling to maintain her position in order not to lose control over her technique, after a few minutes of clashing a human from Barthamuses army approached them and stared at them with huge grin on his face- "What is with that guy, is he trying to get himself killed?" Said Ayame - "How is this possible, that human has more soul current than everyone else here combined" Said Naomi As Lilith activated her demonic eyes cold sweat ran down her face as she said: - "Oh Fuck, we are doomed"- "What do you mean?" Said Kyo - "That human is Sadan" Said Lilith with dreadful face- "Seems like he possessed one of the dead soldiers" Said Naomi As Barthamus and Balthazar felt the soul current they both took a step back as Balthazar said in this mind: - "This guy has someone more powerful than him in his army? he looks very dangerous"But he soon noticed that Barthamus was also confused and he concluded that it was not his soldier- "Who are you? you have outfit of one of my soldiers but your soul current is extreme" Said BarthamusSadan's Grin widened as he said:- "My name is Sadan .????????."As he was about to say his last name a huge explosion overwhelmed the microphone so Kyo and others couldn't hear it- "Impossible, you should have died long ago" Said Balthazar with shocked expression- "Hey you, i know we are enemies till death but something is telling me we have to side together for this one" Said Barthamus - "I feel the same" Said Balthazar - "Enemies till death huh? i guess you won't be enemies for long no more" Said Sadan Balthazar and Barthamus dashed towards Sadan with insane speed, they were invisible to anyones eyes but Sadan's as he was blocking all of their attacks with a single finger- "I know Sadan is the pilot but it's just some random human soldier's body so how is he so strong?" Asked Kyo- "He is enhancing the body with his soul current but i can tell that he is still holding back, with body that fragile if he goes all out it will just melt" Said Naomi As Balthazar and Barthamus relized they could not do anything against Sadan in hand to hand combat they both backed down and started charging up their huge soul current as they combined it's power into one huge attack and released it at the same time, Sadan also started concentrating his soul current in his arm to release his own blast and he did and it, effortlessly overwhelmed Balthazar's And Barthamus's blast but as he used too much soul current the vessel's arm he was possessing melted off as he lost an arm - "How fragile" said Sadan Suddenly Barthamus released huge mist as he approached Balthazar and said:- "Listen over here, we need a plan, that guy is an absolute monster, we can't possibly defeat him like this" - "I will use my imaginary canvas, it allows me to weaken an opponent by almost 99%, when i use it it's your turn to go all out and finish him off with a single blow" Said BalthazarAs the smoke cleared Balthazar could be seen in the air, flying with his wings as he was making hand signs as he chanted at last "Imaginary Canvas: Gaze of the fallen" and summoned giant red eye in the sky that was completely locked on at Sadan as his powers were reduced by almost 99% , at that exact time Barthamus also started preforming hand signs while running circles with insane speed, now overwhelming Sadan's current form due to Balthazar's technique as he chanted "Imaginary canvas: Shadow manifestation", as soon as his chants were complete a huge mist cloud was created as all of his silhouettes now manifested into reality and all of them started attacking Sadan at the same time with insane force, Sadan had no other choice but to focus all of his soul current on pure defense, his vessel melting away as he is forced to pour more and more soul current- "i still need you for something" Said Sadan as he suddenly gazed towards original body of BarthamusSuddenly as minute passed, both Balthazar and Barthamus lost their ultimate techniques as Sadan stood there, his vessel all mangled and destroyed, both of his arms missing and organs exposed as he looked at Balthazar and said:- "You had a good run, almost caused me a trouble" as he unleashed huge amount of soul current from his mouth towards him and incinerated him on the spot, leaving nothing but burnt and mangled corpse- "What the hell are you" Said Barthamus- "I am a human, just like you" Said Sadannot much could be seen in the damaged body he was possessing but a few pieces of skin on his face were obvious sellers of his grin- "no human has ever killed a god, you are nothing but a monster" Replied Barthamus with fear in his face- "easy now, i don't want to damage your body very much, just surrender and i will make it fast" Said Sadan- "Never" Said Barthamus with determination on his face- "Very well then" Said SadanBarthamus suddenly dashed towards Sadan with hopes of killing him in his weakened state but Sadan suddenly unleashed thousands of strings from ground that were made out of pure soul current, they instantly restrained Barthamus and pinned him on the ground as Sadan started walking towards the dead bodies of humans, he looked down on one of them, he made more of those strings that also restrained the human, suddenly Sadan started glowing, the light would overwhelm anyone's eyes but once it cleared Sadan's vessel was on the ground as he moved in the other body,he stood up and gripped his hand as he was checking if it was working or not, then he moved it around and after confirming that his hand was in fact working, he started approaching Barthamus, he rised his strings that were restraining him so they are eye to eye and said:- "Sorry about that, i needed a hand you know"Before Barthamus could say anything Sadan put his hand on his forehead as Barthamus started screaming in pain and white light started coming out of his eyes and mouth, a few seconds later Barthamus was no longer struggling or moving as Sadan released his strings, his body fell on the ground lifelessly - "What the hell did he do" Said Lilith with whispering voice- "He overwhelmed his soul with insane amount of soul current and it ended up incinerating" answered Naomi- "Why didn't he explode then?" asked Ayame - "Any physichal damage is also reflected on soul but soul damage is not reflected on physichal body, he just got rid of his soul and kept the body" Said Lilith- "He is about to possess the body, should we try to stop him?" Said Kyo- "Are you crazy? we stand no chance without a plan" Said Ayame- "If you will be scared all the times we will never beat him" Replied Kyo with annoyed look- "I have to agree with Ayame on this one, he effortlesly defeated strongst demon and strongest human of this era" Said Lilith Sadan started the possession ritual, all Kyo, Naomi, Lilith and Ayame could do was watch, they knew that if it wasn't for Lilith's technique that was hiding them, they would already be long dead, a few minutes later Sadan finished the possession ritual - "Ah, nice body, technique nothing special but should work, this is the best i can get in this pathetic era, let's see how well it does" Said Sadan- "What is he planning on doing" Said AyameSadan aimed his hand towards the barrier and said: - "Let's see how much can i output before it starts to melt away" - "Oh shit, we have to get moving" Said Kyo At the last second Naomi chanted: "Imaginary Canvas:Final Destination" as she instantly teleported them a few kilometers away, from distance they could still see the barrier at the castle, in the next second they could see Sadan unleash his soul current as destructive power, he effortlessly took down the barrier and the soul current hit the huge mountain in the way as it was also exploded into huge pieces- "Whoa, you did really save our life" Said Ayame - "I am having second thoughts over here right now, that is pure insanity, he eradicated entire mountain and he is not even using his real body" Said Kyo with fear in his eyes for the first time in front of others- "There are good news too, i was absorbing souls from the fallen in that battle and now i regained my power, i can open the gate to afterlife for us" Said Naomi- "So you can give us those powers you said you would give earlier?" Said Ayame with excited face- "Yes but let's go to safe spot first before Sadan finds us" Answered Naomi a few moments later sadan immediately dashed away with insane speed from the spot as Lilith took down the spell as she sighed from exhaustion and said:- "Ah, that was a long day"- "Let's stay here for the night" Said Kyo as he took out tent from his ring survival kit once againA few minutes later they had completely assembled the tent and gotten inside of it- "Alright, who wants to get their powers first" Said Naomi- "ME ME" said Ayame without any patience in her voice- "Very well, come close" Said Naomi as she approached Ayame and put her hand on her forehead Seconds later Ayame's eyes and veins flashed golden yellow for a moment as she felt her heart skip a beat and fell on the ground breathing heavily- "Well Lilith, did you observe what i did there?" Said Naomi- "Yes i did, i know how to do it now, shall i be the one to grant Kyo his powers?" Said Lilith- "Ya, go for it, what have i got to lose" Said Kyo-Lilith also put her hand on Kyo's forehead as Kyo's eyes and veins also flashed but this time it was purple, he also felt his heart skip a beat but he got just uneasy and did not faint, he snapped back to reality and said:- "Whoa, that was unlike something i have ever felt"Naomi suddenly summoned a weird looking piece of paper with her magic and said- "This paper will tell us what your powers are, you will hold them in your hands, i will use my magic, it will light up on fire and the fire will tell us"Naomi handed over papers to both Kyo and Ayame as she started chanting for the spell, suddenly the papers caught into flames as they formed a weird shape in the air, Naomi took a good look at it and said:- "Ah, i see you guys certainly have an unique powers"