Arc 100 - Prelude to Fallen Angel Uprising (Part 4)

Unknown dimension:

Alice has been through to this place by none other than Michael, the leader of angels.

She appeared in a world where it seems like it is a world from an Isekai light novel or anime. There are different races such as, elves, dwarves, goblins, beasts, dragons and more who live here. There are humans here as well. So, Alice had no trouble blending in.

She walked around and found interesting kind of people.

“Now, where the hell am I?”

She walked around for what seemed like a day or two.

She tried to use her magic and leave this place but…

“Why can I not teleport in this place? And the magic in this place is very weak.”

While she was walking across the city, she saw a place called ‘Adventurer's Guild’. For some reasons, it was written in English?

It surprised Alice but then she remembered something.

“Oh, the language spell. I thought it would not work here since the magic is weak, but… damn, colour me impressed.”

She walked inside that place and found some weird looking people. People with swords, shields, staffs, etc. They were also wearing weird armours and clothes. So, when Alice entered the place, she did not feel out of place.

“Oh, check out that hottie,” one of them said.

Alice gave him a blank look.

“She must be new. Never seen her here before.”

“She could be from another town.”

“But… she does look very weak.”

Alice heard that and just smiled.

She came here to get some information.

She appeared before the person who worked as a ‘receptionist’ in the guild.

“Hello. How may I be of assistance?”

Alice thought for a second.

(Is this place even real? This place looks exactly like the books Nazar used to read.)

Since Aarin knew almost everything about Nazar, she also knew what kind of books and manga he loved the most. He used to read a lot of Isekai light novels and manga. So, when Aarin and Alice met again, they used to talk about Nazar a lot. And Aarin in that time told her about what Nazar did most of the time and what he was interested in.

“What is this place?”

The girl behind the counter gave her a confused look.

“Um… It is the Everwinter town.”

“Never heard of it.”

Alice sighed.

“Um… If you have not joined a guild, it will be better if you do. Carrying a weapon is illegal unless you have joined a guild.”

Alice gave her a confused look.

But then she looked at her hand and somewhen, a sword had appeared in her right hand.

“Ah, yes. I am here to join a guild.”

(What the fuck?)

“Then here. Fill this out,” the guild girl said as she handed her an application form.

“Thanks...”

Alice took the application form and fill it out within a minute.

The guild girl then stood up.

“Now, follow me. We need to test your power level.”

Alice followed her.

“Here,” the guild girl said as she pointed to an object that looked like a screen. “Touch this and we will figure out your power level.”

Alice placed her palm on it.

Once she did, the guild girl’s eyes widened. Everyone else in the place also looked shocked.

“A LEVEL 10?!”

They all shouted in unison.

“L-Level 10 is the highest level and… um… no one has ever reached this level before. And let alone on their first try,” the guild girl explained.

“Oh.”

Alice’s casual reply made everyone shudder.

“Th-there is a possibility that your power level is much high, but this is the highest anyone has ever become on this world.”

“I see.”

“And there are traces of physical power, magical power and intelligence as well. This is very new as well.”

“Interesting.”

Alice smiled and was about to walk out.

“Um… As you are the strongest one, would you please accept this quest?”

“Quest?” Alice looked at her in confusion.

“Y-Yes.”

The guild girl handed her a piece of paper.

Alice took it and read it.

“Demon Lord?”

“Y-Yes. He is back and he will destroy us all.”

“Okay.”

She left the guild and was back in town again.

“This plot seems very similar to a book Aarin was talking about. This… This is weird.”

She walked towards a place that was marked on the map, that was at the back of the quest.

She walked and walked. She tried to teleport but could not.

“Could it be the reality here is manipulated by Michael? I mean is it not impossible.”

She walked for a few hours and then it was the night.

She used the sword in her hand and hunted an animal.

She did not rest. She continued to move until she reached the ‘Demon Lord’. It was after 3 weeks. Time moves differently in this world.

She reached the Demon Lord. He was a massive dark demon with black wings and red, fiery eyes.

“Welcome, adventurer. Are you ready to die?”

“Hmph. You are nothing,” Alice said as she puffed her cheeks.

The Demon Lord laughed.

“Come on, now, little girl, what can you do against me, the Demon Lord?”

“I am actually a demon myself. A half demon.”

The Demon Lord laughed.

Alice narrowed her eyes.

“I also an angel.”

The Demon Lord did not have facial features to show his confusion.

Alice shot out her two wings. Her right wing was white and her left wing was grey.

The sword in her hand lit up with energy.

And she slashed the ‘Demon Lord’ and he was dead.

Once he was dead, all of the ‘Demon Lord’s’ energies went inside her.

“What?!”

Her mind just went completely blank.

“My magic has gotten stronger?”

She opened a portal and she was going to teleport somewhere else, but she could not. It was as if her teleport ability was blocked.

She flew up and soared above the place.

It was a forest.

In there she saw some goblins and some other beasts.

While she was moving around, she met a dragon.

Once she slew the dragon, her magical energies increased even further.

She went around the whole world and slew powerful creatures like dragons and other beasts. Her magical power increased significantly.

She should have teleported out, but she could not.

It was as if her teleportation was being blocked.

She stayed there for six months and perfected a new teleportation spell. However, it was ineffective.

So, she used her remaining magical power to contact Nazar.

She created an interdimensional telepathy spell and it took her a few months to do so.

Once she was ready, she poured all of her magical energies into the spell.

Once the spell worked, she entered a place known as Mind Space. A place where telepaths can access. It is an empty world, powered by psychic energies. However, only a select few people know about it. One of them is Alice.

Once she was inside it, she sent a message to Nazar.

Once she sent it, Nazar also entered this place.

Nazar had entered this place before during the attack on Earth, but he thought that place existed inside his mind and not a physical dimension.

Once Nazar was in this place, he met Alice ‘face-to-face’.

“Alice? Wh-where am I?”

“A place called Mind Space. I will tell you about it later.”

“...?”

“Would you be able to save me?”

“Where are you?”

Alice waved her hand and the Mind Space imitated the world she lived in for a few months.

Nazar’s mouth was wide open.

“ISEKAI!!!” Nazar shouted in excitement. “IT’S A FUCKING ISEKAI WORLD!!”

“Shut up, you fucking nerd!”

Nazar calmed down.

“Something is wrong. That reality is weird and I can’t teleport out. It took me nearly 10 months to contact you.”

“Damn.”

“So, can you help me?”

Nazar thought about it for a minute.

“I will be there in a few minutes. So, where is it?”

Alice gave him the coordinates. It had taken her many months to find those coordinates.

Nazar left the Mind Space.

He went back to the real world and then appeared in front of Alice after a few days.

Once he appeared, Nazar could not stop smiling as he looked around.

“IT’S A FUCKING ISEKAI WORLD!!”

Alice sighed.

She went closer and hugged him.

“It’s been so long since I have met someone I know.”

“Oh.”

“Can you take me out now?”

“Ah, yes. Of course.”

Nazar looked around and the ‘world’ vanished. The people, the vegetations, beasts, etc. all vanished. And it was replaced by a dark place.

“It was just an illusion.”

“Oh?”

“And it is only blocking magical energies.”

“I see. Thanks.”

Nazar slashed his hand and a massive portal opened. It opened in Nazar’s house.

They both appeared and Alice immediately lied down on the sofa.

“Aaahhhh. It is so nice to be back here.”

“Well, how long were you there for?”

“Like 10 months? I left like halfway through September of 2019?”

“I think time moves differently in that world because it is only the 16th of September 2019 in here.”

“I hope Aarin is okay,” she said under her breath.

No one heard her.

Alice looked a little confused for a second.

“Oh, well. Can I rest here for a little while?”

“Yeah, sure. But do you want to eat something before that?”

“Why is everything about food with you?”

Nazar just shrugged.

And at the moment, Aria entered the room.

“Oh, so you are back,” Aria said.

“Yeah.”

“That was kind of fast.”

“Oh, hi,” Alice said.

“Hi,” Aria replied back.

She has seen her before, but she doesn't know her that well.

“Yeah. It took me a while to find it, but we were out of there in less than a minute.”

“Oh, and Solace came here an hour ago. She said she has something for you.”

“Where is she?”

“She said you will know.”

“And Laura?”

“Hm? Missing your girlfriend already?”

Nazar’s shoulder jerked.

“Wh-what are you saying?”

“GIRLFRIEND?!” Alice shouted in surprise. “Him and girlfriend? Yeah, right.”

“It is Laura, the girl he was in love with.”

“Didn’t he say he was going to kill her?”

“Well, he didn’t. And now they are dating.”

They did not notice that Nazar had already teleported out.

He appeared in his spaceship.

“What is it, Solace?”

“I was monitoring the universal energies to try and look for energies similar to Soar, but there is nothing there anymore.”

Nazar looked a little disappointed.

“But instead, I found something else.”

“Hm?”

“An angel entered this universe. A high-class angel.”

“Okay?”

“And it took care of all those beings from the Void. When I finally found their signatures, they vanished a second later. And that angel’s energy signatures could be found in all those places.”

“...”

“And remember how you told me to monitor the Omega People?”

“Yes?”

“Well, I found them a long time ago. I analysed their energy signatures and they were extremely powerful.”

“I know that much.”

“But that angel’s energy signature ended up on planet Omega too.”

“And?”

“And a second later, all of their energy signatures vanished. I went to check it out personally and there was nothing there.”

Nazar’s body stiffened.

“That angel killed all of Omega People. And after that, its power went up significantly. I could no longer calculate it.”

“............................!?”

Nazar’s mind went blank.

After a little while, he thought about something.

He teleported out after a minute or so and appear in his home.

Aria and Alice were still talking. And when Nazar appeared before them, they were confused.

“Alice, how did you end up in that place?”

Alice was a little confused but she answered it as well.

“Michael threw me into that dimension.”

“Michael? The angel?”

Alice nodded.

“And why are you asking this question?”

“You see, there are beings known as the Omega People. They consider themselves the Gods of this universe. They were wiped out by an angel today.”

Alice’s eyes widened.

“What…?”

“I need to ask Aarin if she knows anything.”

“You can’t!” Alice said immediately.

Nazar gave her a confused look.

“Y-you can’t. She is busy.”

Nazar narrowed his eyes.

“Busy? How do you know?”

“I saw her before I was banished from Heaven.”

“And what was she doing?”

“N-nothing. It was just… she seemed kind of busy with… uh… Oh, I forgot. I need to go somewhere.”

Nazar went closer to her and stared her directly in the eyes.

“Heartbeat spike all of a sudden. Erratic breathing. Sweats came out nowhere. You said earlier ‘I hope Aarin is okay’. And your eye movement suggests you are lying. Now, tell me, what are you trying to hide?”

“N-nothing,” Alice said as she waved her hands in front of her. “I am not hiding anything.”

Nazar frowned when he heard that.

“What happened to her?”

“Why do you think anything happened to her?”

“I can tell when you are lying. And why would lie about anything when it comes to her? You would only lie if something had happened to her. And why would you say ‘I hope Aarin is okay’. So, what happened to her?”

“Nothing, I promise.”

Nazar stood back and closed his eyes. After a second or so, a bright white light appeared in the room.

“Shit,” Alice said slowly.

Aarin appeared before them and she was crying. When she saw Nazar, she wiped the tears off her face.

“What happened to you?”

“...”

Aarin forced a smile on her face.

“S-so, why did you summo--”

“What happened to you? What happened that even she is trying to hide it from me?”

Aarin did not say anything.

So, Nazar placed his index finger on her forehead and found out what happened.

Once he found what happened, he took a step back and they could see the horror in his eyes.

“All… All this because of me?” Nazar said slowly.

“No,” Aarin said immediately. “It was not--ah?”

When Aarin was talking, Nazar hugged her.

“I am sorry,” Nazar said to her slowly.

Aarin did not know what to say.

“I am sorry,” Nazar said again.

Aarin started to cry again.

“Please… stop apologising,” Aarin said.

Aria was confused but she did not want to ask.

He waited for Aarin to stop crying and then he stopped hugging her.

“I am going to find him.”

Both Aarin and Alice looked at him in confusion.

“Who?”

“Lucifer.”

Aarin’s eyes widened.

“No. No, please don’t do this. He could kill you.”

“So? Either he kills me or I kill him. But one of them will happen soon enough.”

“Ah?”

“Stay with me in here. I will find him soon.”

“Why…”

Aarin gave Nazar a confused look.

“Why are you doing this for me?

“...”

“Why are you willing to die for me?”

“This happened to you because of me. You lost so much because of me. I always thought I hated you for returning my powers for me, but I never thought about how grateful I am for it.”

Of course, it was not Aarin who returned his powers to him, but he said this anyway.

“So, let me pay you back. Please?”

Aarin just hurried her face in his chest and cried.

Universe Prime:

In the place where planet Omega used to be, Lucifer was floating.

“My, my. Michael, you really are getting ready, are you not?”

He then sighed.

“And damn it. He met that angel before the right time and place. Why do you always mess with my plans, you pathetic human?!?!”

Lucifer took a deep breath and calmed down.

He waved his hand Azrael, the Angel of Destruction appeared before him.

“Azrael, have you thought about my proposal?”

“Yes. I am in.”

Lucifer smiled.

And Azazel, the Angel of Death appeared next to Lucifer.

Azrael looked a little surprised.

“I will make you invisible. Let’s see who else will join us.”

He turned both Azrael and Azazel invisible and Anaiel, the Angel of Pride appeared.

“Hello there, Anaiel,” Lucifer smiled.

“...”

“Are you not angry about what I did to your friend?”

Anaiel smiled.

“She might have been like my sister, but we haven’t been close for thousands of years. Plus, you are better than Michael.”

Lucifer smiled.

“Just know this, it was nothing personal. She holds information on a powerful being. A being who could do almost everything. And I might have learned something interesting.”

He then made her invisible.

He waved his hand and another angel appeared.

“Gabriel, the protector of weak. Tell me, something. Have you protected anyone who needed your protection in the last 20,000 years or so.”

Gabriel shook her head.

“Then do you want to join me?”

She nodded.

Lucifer did this to a few angels.

After some time, he made all of them visible. They saw all of the other angels who have joined Lucifer.

Once they saw one another, they looked at each other in surprise but they were expecting it somehow.

Lucifer looked at them and then closed his eyes.

Once he opened it, his eyes were pitch black.

He then created an energy ball in his hand and handed it over to all of the angels.

Once they touched it, their wings turned from white to black. They had new powers. There was no angel of this or angel of that. They were all fallen angels now.

“We need more angels. Powerful angels. And then we will attack Heaven.”

They all vanished into thin air.

Planet Xiem - Vanaha Empire:

Kiet, Reaper, Weq, Hial, Lian and Meltdowner were inside a dome-shaped lab. It belonged to Kiet.

They recently found out about the Omega People. They registered the energy when they were on Earth.

“” Kiet said.

Everyone else just gave him a blank look, except for Reaper.

He has known about the Omega People but never told anyone about it.

“” Kiet said. “”

Reaper finally reacted.

And everyone else looked shocked.

“”

“” Lian asked.

“”

“”

“”

“” Reaper said.

Everyone gave him a confused look.

“”

“”

“” Kiet asked a question.

When he asked a question, they were taken back. Almost all the time, he is the guy with answers. And as he is the older one, they expect all answers from him, even though Weq is the smartest person around.

“” Lian was not even sure what she was saying.

“” Kiet sounded disinterested.

“”

“” Hial said. “”

“” Weq asked.

They both nodded.

“”

“”

“”

Reaper hesitated to answer.

“”

“”

Reaper took a deep breath.

“”

Everyone listened carefully.

“”

Weq sighed.

“”

“”

They all thought to themselves.

“” Kiet said.

“” Hial said.

They all became silent. They thought and thought and nothing came to their minds.

Heaven - one week later:

Michael was sitting in his quarters. He was full of power. More power than he ever had before.

He was just sitting down.

“Finally healed.”

He vanished into thin air and appeared after a minute.

“That human... He has so much power and yet my energy orb could not steal any of his energies.”

Michael sent Alice to another dimension and allowed her to contact Nazar. He saw up close just how much power he had.

That dimension was created by Michael and he made it almost impossible for anyone to get out of there unless they were very powerful. However, Nazar entered and got out fairly easily.

So, now he went to Earth’s moon, where Nazar was sitting, he tried to absorb his energies but it was useless.

He tried to measure his power levels but he couldn’t.

So, when Nazar returned, he tried to steal his energies with the orb, but he couldn’t do it, but he saw him summon Aarin.

“He really is interesting.”

Michael took a deep breath.

“But he did not notice me behind him, so it means I can be invisible to him. Good, good.”

Michael waved his hand and a massive portal opened.

He went to hell. More specifically, he appeared before the Council of Demons.

“Michael?” Ar'okoth said. “What brings you here?”

“I have a feeling. I have a feeling that Lucifer might be planning something for both Heaven and Hell.”

The leader of each demon clan seemed surprised.

“So, I think I would need your might if it comes to that.”

“And how do you this?”

Michael sighed.

“My increased power. I got the dragon’s powers and I can see glimpses of future. With our nigh-omnipresence, we can only see the past and future of the 3rd dimensional plane of existence. But with the power up I can see the different futures and possibilities for both hell and heaven. And as we are talking about Lucifer, nothing is ever certain when relying on nigh-omnipresence. I cannot ‘see’ him with my nigh-omnipresence.”

The leaders of the demon clans looked confused.

“In those visions, Lucifer attacks hell. He kills demons.”

“We can revive after a --”

“That is true. But Lucifer knows this too. So, why is he trying to do this? I will prepare a spell, so I will try and help you when the time comes.”

Angels and demons have built good relationships over the years. The lower levels might not know it, but it is something that exists.

A long time ago, Zerathos wanted to capture an angel. An angel would not come to the 3rd dimensional plane of existence but she did. The reason was simple; Michael and the Council of Demons wanted to experiment something. So, they sent that low-class angel to Earth and made it seem like Zerathos had captured her. And they got their results and their weapon; Alice.

She was meant to be their weapon, but she became way too powerful for either of them to handle. So, they let her be.

And that low-class angel died by the hand of Michael.

Now, why did they not use a high-class angel and a high-class demon? Well, it is because they were not sure it would work. And if they used high-class angel and demon, people would want to question them.

And now, Michael wants another alliance. He wants their might.

The leader of each clan looked at one another and then looked at Michael.

“Very well, Michael,” Ar'okoth. “We will help you.”

Michael nodded and got out.

He teleported back to Heaven and sat on a chair.

He laughed.

Two brothers are going to war and they will bring hell with them. Everyone else will feel the pain of their war.

Hell:

The Council of Demons is made of 12 different people. Each demon is the leader of their clan. And now they exchanged glances.

“Should we really be helping him?”

“He did help us when one of the powerful beings killed a few demons.”

“And he also created that place known as the Void.”

“He has helped the demon kind a lot.”

“And if Lucifer is coming back, we will need him.”

“He might be the only one capable of defeating him.”

“What about that human?”

Everyone went silent.

“He might help against Lucifer, but Michael told us about how the human and Lucifer defeated the being known as the Nameless One.”

When Nazar told Aarin about what happened between them and the Nameless One, he did not leave out any details. However, when Michael confronted her, she left out one part. She left out the part about the 6th dimensional plane of existence and how Nazar is a being of the 8th dimensional plane of existence.

“Forget the human, he is too unpredictable.”