19 Chapter 17: Gabriel
Gabriel walked down the dirt road - the cloudy sky keeping the sun away and bathing the world in a greyish-orange colour.
"That dumbass!" Gabriel yelled stretching an arm out into the distant field, shaping his fingers into a gun shape, with his index and middle finger acting as the barrel of the gun - a violent burst of flames shot out from the tips of his fingers digging a massive hole where the flame touched the soil.
"Who the hell do they think they are?! - they're a regular mortal now!"
"Relax, man - you're making so much noise..." the voice of a woman scolded Gabriel who turned towards the source of the complaints.
"A human?" he asked as his eyes darted around the surrounding fields only to be met with a black-haired woman laying on the floor - seemingly sleeping - it was Emi.
"What is a human doing out here? How did I not notice them?" Gabriel thought.
"Who are you?"
Emi stood up lazily, she stretched for a bit and with a slouched stance answered: "Nevermind that, are you the one who just flew into our world?"
"How does she know this?!" he thought.
"Whatever - it's probably you considering the fire spell you cast earlier..." she replied through a yawn.
"I'm ordered to kill you or take you back to the base - personally I'd rather avoid killing you - so will you cooperate?" she explained.
"...right - well, as much as I'd love to screw around in your world - there are some problems going on outside of your little world, so I'm going to get going..." Gabriel said still confused but not at all concerned.
He sprouted wings - massive yellow wings, each about four meters long.
"Suit yourself..." she replied reaching into her pocket, she pulled out a handful of rocks and started tossing them at Gabriel who lazily dodged them.
"Hmm... right... I'm going to get going - but the people you should be bothering are most probably still in the town back that way." Gabriel said pointing back to the town where Uriel, Adam and I were going about the usual, boring business while this was going on.
Gabriel tried to fly up - but before he could fly too hight he was faced with an invisible wall - "W-what?" he looked back only to see Emi drawing a knife from her pocket.
"Too late - I used those rocks to mark out a perimeter, now you're in my dream field..."
"Dream field?"
"Think of it as a zone where my imagination becomes reality..." he replied as Gabriel felt the gravity become stronger as he crashed into the ground.
Emi walked up to him - "Now then... I guess you don't intend to cooperate?" she asked placing the knife against the side of his face.
"Step back!" Gabriel demanded as Emi looked down she saw that tendril-like runes spread across the surface of the ground - in truth they were less like tendrils and more like the angular lines like those of a circuit board.
A flame erupted from the ground - it burned Emi badly, leaving her arm charred and par hair and clothes partially burning.
Gabriel looked towards her, "Sorry..." he murmured quietly before realising she didn't react to the fire - in seconds the flames disappeared and both her hair and skin were back to normal.
"Neat trick... how about I double the weight of the air?" she asked as Gabriel felt an even heavier force pushing him into the ground - "Honestly most people die a lot earlier - good job..." she shrugged.
"So it's not gravity! It's the air becoming heavier!" Gabriel realised before becoming engulfed in white-hot flames - "I thought you had me there for a second..." he said sitting up - "For a moment I thought you'd kill me, but hot air goes up - and my flames are hotter than your air heavy!" he exclaimed before slowly trudging through the dense, clay-like air towards Emi who let out a sigh as Gabriel found himself now stuck in a ball of water which was suspended in the air - within a fraction of a second Gabriel's flames resulted in a powerful steam explosion - as the water turned to steam and expanded - tearing the earth and Gabriel in the process.
Gabriel opened his eyes - thanks to the fact his body is not that of a regular mortal he was alive - but he felt some of his ribs were cracked, and two of his fingers were blown off.
"Resilient..." Emi said with a wry look before making the entire 'roof' of the invisible box they were stuck in become covered with sharp knives, each one pointing down.
"A hundred? No, a thousand... yes, each blade will be a thousand time heavier..." Emi decided.
Gabriel looked up only to see the blades blink from being suspended in the sky to being impaled in the ground and also in his back and arms.
"Ugh!" he grunted in pain before falling to his knees and blood pooled below him - his mouth became filled up with blood, each gulp of blood he spit out was replaced by another within seconds.
"You must be pretty tough to be able to keep those knives impaled in your back... how about ten thousand time their weight?" she taunted before doing as she though - the knives flew straight through Gabriel landing in the ground.
"Did you change your mind yet?"
"..."
"Hm? are you dead already?" she asked with a sight - "Sorry about that - I really didn't mean to be this cruel, I didn't expect you'd suffer for this long," she said before imagining a large cloth over Gabriel's body.
"Guess I'll apologise too... because I may have tricked you too..." Gabriel announced.
"So you are alive..."
"Your spell's permitted is a cube right?"
"That's right..."
"Tell me, do you know anything about the arch-angel Moiel?" Gabriel asked.
"Nope..."
"Well - they're my boss... or rather were... and let's just say they were really into symmetry and straight angles..."
Emi's eyes widened as she looked around only to see her perimeter's corners becoming engulfed in bright yellow flames - "You can mess with the temperature in here all you want - but these flames will just keep getting hotter!" Gabriel laughed as the fire spread from the corners to the walls making a glowing cube of fire (except for the ground which was too uneven for the flames to spread).
"I see..." Emi replied.
Gabriel sat up - "Well - I am a part of God's eraser! - think of us God's assassins!" He replied as a white flame covered his body - then disappeared leaving him completely unharmed, his fingers were back and even his clothes were back to perfect condition.
"Heh..." Emi laughed weakly - "It's good that you told me that - when the boss felt a presence enter this world - he described it as a powerful soul, and I planned to just hand you over to the boss to make you into more mana - but we might have a better use for you..."
"What are you saying? Leave before you get burned alive!" Gabriel exclaimed angerly.
"What part of 'I control this perimeter with my imagination' don't you get?" she asked with an annoyed yet tired look - she snapped her fingers and the flames disappeared - the very ground itself became metal which rose up taking the form of a guillotine.
"I'll take your soul - and your head to make sure you don't regenerate..." she replied as a blade came down onto Gabriel's head slashing it off cleanly - next his soul flew out of his body and into a bottle Emi created - "The trick is - I don't alter this world - I create it - no matter what spell you cast I could have replaced it with empty space," Emi shrugged.
Gabriel's head became pale as she wrapped it up in cloth and placed it in her pocket - as she dismissed the cubic perimeter she heard the sound of glass breaking, she looked down only to see that Gabriel's soul has itself become engulfed in flames as it shot out into the fields.
"Uhhh... I'm not bothered to chase it down... whatever... we have an overpowered body with no soul... it'll do... "
Emi looked down at the corpse with the blank expression - ".... did he piss himself?"
Meanwhile, Gabriel's should shot through the fields - "SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT! SHE'S SCARY AS HELL!" he cried as his soul started to run low on energy and had to resort to bounding around on the ground.
"What if she follows me!? What is there's more of them?! WHAT IS SHE HAS A CLONING MACHINE!"
Suddenly Gabriel's soul bumped into something, in fact, it did more than that - it flew into it and got stuck.
"Woah - did you guys feel that?!" Al asked looking around - "Feel what?" asked Darthold - he was walking a bit behind them, "I don't know - like a really strong gust of wind?" he asked uncertainly.
"It's really windy out today," Cloe replied - she was dressed in new clothes - this time skirt and hoodie, both brown - Al was wearing his usual clothes.
"Guess I was imagining things..." Al said with a shrug - "I bet you're just tired from all this walking - we can stop at the next town..." he replied.
"Alright," Al replied uncertainly.
"I know that place, boss - It's a village full of mostly beastfolk." said one of the monster hunters - he was holding a rolled-up tend over his shoulder -, not just a cloth one - I mean like a full, room-sized tent, the big wooden pole and wooden floor included.
"That's fine - we didn't get a chance to ask around down here, let's hope we find him... or Adam and the bunch at the very least."
"It's rare for abe to just disappear like that..." Darthold said scratching his beard.
"Maybe he went to look for Adam?" Suggested Cloe,
"Or that guy that looks like a little girl?" Suggested another monster hunter.
"In any case - he'd surely tell me beforehand!" Darthold complained - "Speaking of telling me things beforehand - why didn't you tell me you two were useless from the start?!" he demanded looking back and seeing Arthur and the girl from the festival dragging a large sack - inside of the bulging sack was a mountain of stuffed toys and clothes belonging to the dryads.
"We really didn't have to take them all!" Cloe said feeling bad for the two carrying their things.
"No, no, we did - what if you get dirty seventy-eight times in a row?" Asked one monster hunter.
"Mmm, or what if someone attacked you and you'd get dirt?" asked another.
"Nonsense - I'll snap the neck of whoever would dare to attack my grandkids!" Darthold announced.
"R-right, forgot... what if it rained though?"
"I'D SLAY THE CLOUDS!" Darthold announced.
"What if they fell into a puddle?"
"I'd kill the earth which became mud for standing in the way of my grandkids," Darthold replied nonchalantly.
"A- ... of course you would..." the man gave up.
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