New Chapter in Highest Tier (May 2021)

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Archangel Uriel (Flame of God)

First Guardian of the Garden of Four Seasons

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"Is it a wife in the Earthly Realm you refused to sleep with because you are afraid to turn into a Fallen Angel?"

Archangel Uriel's eyebrows almost reached up to his hairline in shock before giving him an irritated glance. "Nothing happened between us, Lucifer."

"Your tone sounded like you wanted something to happen between you two, though."

His lips pressed together in a grim line.

"Stop it. Don't be ridiculous." Archangel Uriel clasped his hands tightly that his knuckles went white. "Don't even suggest such a stupid scenario."

Lucifer must not have valued his life, for he didn't drop the subject as he taunted him, "Are you sure you weren't lovers currently living together without fornication?"

"No." For some reason, Archangel Uriel's intuition refused to tell Lucifer that Merle was there for the fruits of the Four Seasons.

After all, he was unaware of Lucifer's intentions why he was there. " She was just a young Fae who got lost in this Garden."

"Did she tell you where she was headed to?"

Archangel Uriel told him a bald-faced lie. "I didn't ask. I just took her in the gardens, made a makeshift tent for her to stay at until she was ready to return home."

"How long did she stay?"

"Two seasons?" Unsure, Archangel Uriel replied in a question and maintained a straight face. "She stayed to protect herself from demons bound in this earth."

"Hmm. The Garden of the Four Seasons is in the heart of the Faerie Realm. It's hard to find if you don't focus your entire being about your intention to find it."

No.

No.

No.

Why did warning bells kept ringing in his head when it came to revealing information to Lucifer?

"Did she have magic items with here?" Lucifer asked that so casually he might have thought that Uriel didn't know what he was doing, spying on them!

Did his presence have anything to do with Merle and the mission Archangel Ariel had given her?

Would it be safe to tell Lucifer this?

He was his best friend, a fellow Archangel who had had the rank of cherubim in the Angel Hierarchy.

Maybe, Archangel Uriel was just careful after all the rumours he heard about Lucifer while still guarding the Gates of Eden.

In God's eyes, Lucifer wasn't good—he was the best out of all angels.

He was ordained to hold the highest position in the rank of cherubim, and God trusted him enough to give him more power and gifts among the heavenly angels.

It came to the point that Lucifer was head-to-head with the most powerful 'seraphim' when it came to Heavenly Magic.

Mind you. Lucifer was still very much a cherubim—a lesser rank from the 'seraphim' which was the strongest of the Angel Kind.

Nevertheless, the seraphim, Archangel Michael, refused to compete with him because there wasn't any purpose in proving his strength except for braggings. Lucifer taunted the 'seraphim'—that Archangel Michael was afraid to get beaten by someone from the lower rank such as Lucifer.

The seraphim bit the bait and continued ignoring him from starting unnecessary brawls between Archangels.

They should only do things according to the rules in alignment with God's virtue.

All Angels in the Realms strictly followed them except for Lucifer, who tended to get rebellious every time his boredom struck him like lightning.

Overall, Archangel Uriel thought Lucifer was a good and powerful Archangel. Still, someday, his dissatisfaction with his current powers might be his downfall if he kept challenging Archangel Michael for the sake of his pride.

He always wanted more.

"I don't know why you are so invested with her." Archangel Uriel placed a hand on his shoulder and his friend stared at it in amusement.

"She looks beautiful to me. Her skin was as pale as snow. Her hair as red as fresh blood." Lucifer listed Merle's attributes in his fingers as he returned his gaze to the lady.

She walked from the tree by the river bank to her tent. "If I am prepared to turn into a Fallen Angel tonight, I might get her pregnant so that I could have her for myself."

Archangel's grip on Lucifer tightened, but his friend did not indicate that it hurt. "Don't even try."

Lucifer's brows knitted in confusion before he replaced it with a knowing smile. "Uriel, are you jealous of me because of her?"

"Not at all. What you just told me is fucking twisted."Archangel Uriel could barely hide his snarl when he snapped at him. "Did you just agree with accepting the consequences and become a 'grigori' after raping a woman who belonged in this Realm? Are you out of your damn mind?"

The bastard had the nerve to chuckle."This is the first time I see you get worked up by a lady, Uriel when I only asked me a hypothetical question, I gave you a hypothetical answer. It didn't mean that I would follow through with it."

"I'm doubting that." Archangel Uriel's hand on his shoulders shifted to the side of Lucifer's neck. One wrong move, and he would snap him into two right then and there. "I don't like the way you look at her body. She isn't a piece of meat for your sole consumption."

Lucifer didn't seem to care.

"And she's yours?" He raised an eyebrow. "Staking a claim, aren't you, Uriel?"

"Let's just stop looking at her." He said as he gave Merle a sweeping glance, unconsciously pausing on her pale legs every time she took a step forward. "It's her body and she doesn't need our lascivious gazes on her."

"You are telling me that when you were the one who can't take your eyes off her, Archangel Uriel." He cleared his throat and averted his gaze abruptly when Lucifer regarded him with suspicion. "I am not the lascivious one."

Gritting his teeth in anger, Archangel Uriel decided to remove his hand on Lucifer's neck and turn his back from the edge of the plateau. "Let' s leave her alone."

"I can see that you love her, Uriel." Lucifer said, and Archangel Uriel never looked his way so he wouldn't reveal his secret.

Taking a deep breath, he denied. "No."

"This is the first time I have seen you act like this." Lucifer insisted. "I think you love her very much."

"No." Uriel repeated with clenched fists.

"There is no point in denying it.

There are ways to be with her without being corrupted by evil and turning into Fallen Angel like the rest of the Watchers.

"What are you suggesting me, Lucifer? Do you want me to break my loyalty to our God?" Turning towards him, Archangel Uriel demanded as he stabbed an accusing finger on his chest. "I don't understand you. You should have been the one to tell me to get back to my senses!"

"You can be with her and elope to another Realm where the rest of the Archangels couldn't find you." Lucifer proposed. "I will help both of you live happily ever after."

"There is something wrong—"

" In turn, I can be the Guardian of this Garden and replace your angelic post."