The Archangel of Death - Chapter 216

216: The Siege 216: The Siege Chapter 216 I opened my eyes.

Again.

The room this time wasn’t white like before but a dungeon cell.

It wasn’t the normal dungeon cell; it was bigger than others.

Like a two-story house.

However, I still didn’t feel full of power.

This time though, the reason wasn’t because I was in a mental world.

It was because of where I was.

In front of me was a device.

Not a device that ran on mana but a device.

A mechanical one.

They were powered with some sort of stones, but they weren’t mana crystals.

“Fancy,” I said, before I turned to my right where Celandine and John, the high priest who arrested me were standing.

“Wonderful, isn’t it?” Celandine said.

She then walked forward and came to my side as she said, “A gift from the gods.

Found in an ancient dungeon.” “That’s not a gift from the gods,” I said.

That piece of thing was a full-blown hypersonic space emitter, releasing compounds of a neutralizing spatial agent that would neutralize any other power in its vicinity.

Only four things could get past it, nothing else.

Not mana, spiritual power, blood power, or any inherent power.

[Like soul power] ‘Exactly.’ The power of the system was the same.

It wouldn’t work which meant that I was useless right now.

Well, almost useless.

“The great gods gifted us with this structure so that we could contain vile evil like you,” John said from the sidelines.

I wasn’t interested in whatever he had to say.

I was too busy examining the device.

The structure was the same as a pulse emitter that shoots electrons, converting them to positrons, producing enough energy to counter any other sort of energy, scientific or otherwise.

After all, the space power was pretty high up in all kinds of power.

A direct extension of the time element.

“So you found it in a dungeon?” I asked.

“That’s what they say.

I couldn’t believe such a thing existed myself.

But when I witnessed it, I couldn’t help but wonder about the mysterious ways of the gods.” Celandine said.

I chuckled.

I couldn’t contain myself.

I doubt the Supremes of this world would even be able to do factorization let alone build an emitter that would take a mind like mine to build.

Well, a little inferior one but still, a great mind.

Or minds.

So their so-called gods didn’t build this.

Someone else did.

“And which dungeon was it?” I asked.

“Are you curious?

I am too.” Celandine said, turning to John as she said the latter sentence.

“We…” John became awkward as he didn’t know how to reply to that.

I knew what the truth was though.

They weren’t guided.

They stumbled upon it and even if they were guided, they were done so unknowingly and not by their gods.

Something else.

Someone else.

“Don’t mind him.” I said before John could come up with some sort of false explanation that explained their own bravado, “I doubt they even cleared it.” I turned to look at him deep in the eyes and said, “They ran away, throwing the gates of the dungeon in jumbles.

The dungeon is still out there somewhere.” John didn’t say anything.

That meant my answer was true.

I scoffed at him and turned to look back at the device.

I knew about it, that was for sure.

However, I didn’t know what they were powering it with.

It was something I had never seen before.

“What do you power it with?” I asked.

He once again just looked at me.

Once again, he didn’t know.

“So you call something you don’t understand even a little bit a gift from the gods.

I wonder what other lies you have cooked up in the name of the gods and have all the people fooled.” I said.

“Shut up, you vile devil worshipper!” He yelled at me in anger.

“If I am a devil worshipper because of an unknown power.

Then what does that make you?

You also use an unknown power of unknown origins.

For all you know, it could have come from the devil.” I argued which of course was shot down in his anger.

“Because it holds evil like you!

There is no way it could be from the devil!” He said.

“And it holds you down too.

Look at you, all powerless.

What does it make you then?” I said.

He had no answer.

Nor did Celandine but she wasn’t arguing with me either way.

She knew this wasn’t from the gods because, unlike John, she was in direct contact with a Supreme.

I ignored them any further and turned my attention back to the machine.

If anything, I was more and more curious about that stone.

It felt familiar yet I was sure I hadn’t ever seen it in my life.

No.

I had seen it but not like that.

It was just an ordinary stone.

‘You know what it is, don’t you?’ I asked the only other person in the room who really wasn’t there.

Silence.

There was no answer from Allison.

She knew.

But she wasn’t going to tell me for whatever reason.

Well, I guessed that was all I was getting out of all of them.

Time to get out of here.

Just as I was about to get out of the chains, the entire place shook as if a meteor had fallen somewhere near.

Quite literally.

*********** “All preparations have been completed.

We are ready for attack.” A man in silver armor told another man in silver armor, only the latter one wasn’t wearing a helmet like all the other ones in silver armor.

Bayren, the commander of the Silver Knights had himself come for this attack.

He wasn’t alone.

Even the space magician Rafael had come as well.

Although there were offers of assistance from Bellator, the Central Government, and the Ravenknight kingdom, they were told not to interfere because the church could use that as an excuse to attack them as well.

After all, it was in the end, a civil matter.

Any external interference would cause a lot of complications.

And if the church chose to attack those powers, the imperial family, or the Cortum empire wouldn’t be able to interfere.

“Shall we begin?” Rafael asked.

Bayren looked at him and then at the army behind him.

An army of ten thousand strong where the weakest warrior was at the A+ rank.

The silver knights alone consisted of three thousand and their weakest was an S+ rank.

The rest were from the royal army, with their head being the SSS+ rank while the weakest warrior was at the A+ rank, the army was a power not many would be able to fight against.

Their win was assured, Bayren knew that.

However, he didn’t attack.

Although Rafael was higher ranked than him when it came to matters of war, Bayren only listened to one person and that was the emperor.

The emperor had given all responsibility to Bayren and Bayren was in charge.

Although he could have begun just like that, he wanted to leave a long-lasting impact on the church.

Rafael was with them to deal with the barrier on the monastery they were attacking.

But, that wouldn’t be impactful.

He wanted to leave an impact.

And for that, he had brought a certain group of people for this.

“Call the children of flame,” Bayren said.

A silver knight by his side nodded and after fifteen minutes of waiting, a group of people in black and dark red robes with exquisite patterns of golden and yellow on the robes entered the battlefield.

They came to the front and bowed to the two powerhouses, “We, the children of flame, greet the holy magician, the first elder of the holy empire, and the holy and righteous knight, the silver commander of the holy empire.” Rafael was superior in rank so he was greeted first.

They didn’t take their names though; they weren’t qualified to.

Not even the crown prince had the audacity to say their names.

These soldiers, no matter how great, were nothing.

“I am happy to see you dropped everything and came for assistance,” Bayren said, gratitude in his voice.

“How dare we not when your lordship is the one to summon us,” The head magician said.

“Very well.” Bayren said before he turned to the monastery slash fortress and said, “Shall we get this over with.” “As you command,” The group of flame magicians said before they stepped forward and kept walking.

They must have walked for half an hour when they arrived exactly at half point between the monastery and the army of the imperial family.

 “Cast the spell of the Meteor,” The head magician calmly instructed.

The rest of them nodded and began to chant.

“From the sky that is ruled by the sun, we call forth a flame that would shake the entire earth.” “Make it tremble in fear, let it know the might you bear.” “Oh, almighty Sun, grant us the power of the heavenly Meteor.” A giant blazing ball of flame that was as big as a normal-sized house and the intense heat radiating from it was felt by even the soldiers who were a good distance away.

It formed in the middle of the sky and followed the directions of the mages and fell on the barrier of the monastery.

And then… The earth shook.

CREATORS’ THOUGHTS Bad_Wolf_7811 Your gift is the motivation for my creation.

Give me more motivation!

Creation is hard, cheer me up!