Destroying My Own World

"Come, walk with me," Raphael said as he looked at Sasha with his two wings covering half of his pale face and an apathetic expression.

"No, I don't want to," Sasha answered immediately and stared back at Raphael.

"Don't you want a power that has been bestowed to me from The Lord? If you want that, you have to follow me because I have something to say to you," Raphael explained.

"If that's what I have to do first to get the power, I'm not interested. You can keep it to yourself because I don't need them. I already can't die, what's the worst thing that can happen to me without the new power?" Sasha asked. "But I wonder if The Lord is okay with you not giving me the power since he must have ordered you to give it to me," Sasha said.

They both stared at each other for quite a while and then Raphael closed his eyes as he nodded his head with understanding. He then put his hand on Sasha's head and bestowed her with the power of The Lord without saying a single word.

[You have been gifted with a new skill!]

[You have learned the [Warrior of God] skill!]

Sasha glanced at the notification and she didn't make any expression, and then she checked the description of the skill.

[Warrior of God: As the chosen warrior by The Lord, you are able to summon lesser angels and angels except for Archangels to aid you. The skill also allows you to borrow weapons that belong to all the angels including the weapons of the Archangels. The skill not only allows you to summon angels and their weapons, but it allows you to borrow their powers, including the Archangels. It can only borrow one effect at a time.]

Even after reading the description, she didn't react or have any thoughts or emotions. Raphael was suspicious that something was off about her because he didn't like that when he was bestowed by The Lord with that power. He couldn't tell if Sasha was still a living being or just flesh without a soul.

"Is there anything else?" Sasha asked as she closed the screen in front of her.

Raphael reached out his right hand to the side, and then he pulled something out of thin air. It was a scroll made of gold with a black chain that locked the scroll from getting opened. The chain oozed an evil aura which was weird for something so divine to be sealed with evil power.

Uriel and all the Archangels noticed the power within the chain and the scroll, and when they looked at the scroll, they all looked surprised. Anzel and the others looked at what the Archangels were looking at, and when they saw the scroll they wondered what it was.

Anzel tried to look at the scroll and the only thing he saw was a question mark. He couldn't get any information related to the scroll, but the fact that Gabriel was surprised to see the scroll, and it must have meant something.

"The Lord has entrusted you with this. Keep it safe," Raphael said as he looked at the scroll that floated right above his hand. "I wish you don't have to use this," Raphael added and slowly pushed the scroll into Sasha's chest.

Sasha furrowed her eyebrows and she felt anxious for a moment when the scroll disappeared into her chest. She then looked at Raphael with suspicion and a bit of anger and hatred.

"What did you just do?" Sasha asked.

"You said that you didn't want to hear me, so I don't have a reason to tell you about it. I have done the task that The Lord has given me, and there's nothing that I have for you," Raphael answered as he walked away. "It appears you still have a bit of humanity inside you," Raphael pointed out without looking back at Sasha.

Sasha glanced at Gabriel and Michael, but they didn't show any expression. She then looked at Cassiel and Ramiel, but they also didn't show any expression that could help her understand. Azrael's face was covered with a hood, so nobody knew what kind of expression she was making. When she looked at Uriel, she realized how Uriel stared at her with worried and pitied expressions.

Sasha looked down at her chest and pressed her right hand on it to see if she could feel any difference. She didn't feel anything, not even the ominous aura that the black chain had released. She could tell that she was being used, but asking them about what it was would be pointless since they would keep it a secret from her.

"We have given you the light, now it's your turn to bring the light to get rid of the darkness in your world," Michael said as he looked at each one of them. "The darkness that came out from a single being, Mykel Alester," Michael pointed out.

Anzel and the others gulped nervously, and they wondered if it would be enough to fight Mykel and his team. Seeing how Mykel and his team defeated all the strongest Awakeners, and how Elena self-proclaimed to be the one who killed the three-eyed demon, they had little confidence.

"You will face countless hardships, but we have anticipated and bestowed you our powers. All that matters is how are you going to use the powers to help you through the hardships," Gabriel added.

"We can only watch and observe, but we know each one of you can survive and prevail," Ramiel said.

"We will send you back. This will be the first and the last time you see us, and I hope it's enough to give you hope," Uriel said. "May The Lord's blessing guides you to greatness. We the Archangels can only pray and wish for your victory," Uriel said with her eyes closed and pressed her hands together on her chest.

Sasha and the others suddenly went back into the church, and they felt a huge void in their chests when they realized they wouldn't be able to go there again. They looked around and saw the church was in a totally different state where everything was covered in dust and webs. The sweet scent had gone and turned to the smell of rotten wood and moss that reek the whole church.

"Let's head back," Sasha said as she looked at her new skill and borrowed a portal skill.

Everyone looked at the portal forming in front of Sasha, and they were in disbelief that she could create something like that. They wondered what did Raphael give her, and why it seemed that she got the most powerful ability than others.

"Where are we going?" Gea asked.

"Australia. Let's take a few days' break because I need to learn about my new ability, and I believe you guys think the same thing," Sasha answered as the portal had fully formed.

They all nodded with understanding and then entered the portal.

The moment the portal disappeared, Mykel, Elena, and Amaryllis came into the church. They looked around and found the book that Sasha had read earlier.

"I can faintly feel the divine power, but it's getting weaker and weaker. Looks like this place is no longer able to bring us up there," Mykel said as he checked the book.

"Thankfully, I have registered the place, thanks to Loki who allowed me to enter his body. We can go there anytime, but I believe you still want to find the other Princesses' whereabouts first?" Amaryllis asked as she looked at Mykel with her eyebrows raised.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Mykel nodded his head and threw the book to the ground as he left the church.

"What about her? Do you believe Lucifer is really gone from her body?" Mykel asked as he looked at Amaryllis since he saw everything through Loki's eyes.

"It's possible, but if he knew that one day Sasha would go up there to meet the Archangels, he must have planned something to prevent that from happening. So the chance of him still there is high," Amaryllis answered as she looked at Mykel's wide shoulders from behind. "If he's the one who created me, the old system, he must have gotten himself involved in the creation of the new system. If he somehow have access to the system, no matter if he was being kicked out of her body, he still can access her whenever he wanted," Amaryllis added.

"I was about to say the same thing. He has so many tricks under his sleeves, and it would be weird if he didn't calculate this and didn't have a solution to the problems," Elena said as she walked next to Mykel. "He's not an easy opponent while at the same time, we have to be wary of The Lord. It will be hard to fight both of them at the same time, so we should decide which one we are dealing with first," Elena continued.

"It doesn't matter because he still has his trump card and that's to hide under The Lord's wings. After all, I assume that he's doing all this still under The Lord's order," Mykel answered. "As Loki said, we're not running out of time. We can use all the time to prepare since I'm the bringer of the end of time," Mykel continued.