Chapter 25: I hold your past, future, and present

Present time:

Xerath said "Alicia asked us to guard her kingdom the celestial kingdom. She's on her way to save lord Rosario."

Shera said, "that is if she managed to convince the future Rosario."

Xayah said "what? Are you doubting Alicia's ability to negotiate?"

Shera said "is not that, I'm just wondering what if something happened in the future that made Alicia's negotiation fail. She gave us a very heavy task."

Cera said "I agree with her, if something bad happened in the future. It will cost us a lot of trouble, after all. Alicia gives us the task of protecting her kingdom, its people, and the remains of Asmodeus's body."

Xerath said "I get it, you're worried about what will happen to the current time if something bad happened to Alicia, after all. They're up against Asmodeus. Don't worry, Alicia won't die that easily. She will find any way to survive no matter what."

Shera said "that's not what I'm worried about. What I'm worried about is that if all of Alicia's enemies found out she is not here, they might take this opportunity to strike against her kingdom, after all. She's the only one who can fight against Asmodeus's 5 right-hand guardians. Moreover, Satan's subordinates might have created an alliance to help each other on hunting the reincarnation of Xerxis. We all know who and where is the reincarnation of Xerxis and she's not yet strong enough to face them in one on one battle."

Xerxis said "that's why I sent one of Alicia's celestial maiden. I think they're powerful enough to handle them."

Shera said "unless Satan didn't provide any assistance to his subordinates on killing our lord but if he does, we might have to go there and stop them all at once. However, we are not powerful enough to handle all of this and all of us are nowhere near Satan's power. It will be a suicide for us to fight him."

Xayah asked, "so what are you suggesting to do, Shera?"

Shera said, "we should go and guard the dungeon ourselves"

Cera said "let's just set that issue aside, after all. We got a much bigger problem that's right in front of us."

Xerath said, "Cera is right, Asmodeus 5 right-hand guardians are far more powerful than us, not even Satan isn't powerful enough to defeat them."

Xayah said "let's just hope that Xerath successfully managed to make the demonoids believe that Zestiya is the reincarnation of Xerxis.'

Shera said, "I hope so."

Xerath said, "ill contact Alicia for now."

Xerath got curious and said "wait, why I can't contact Alicia? What is going on? Can you guys try to contact her?"

They've all tried to contact her but they've all failed.

Shera asked, "what is going on?

The battle against Asmodeus:

Rosario is turned into a mature woman with flaming hair, flaming pupils, and a halo that is made up of 3 spinning fireballs' Rosario wears a dress that has a flame design as she transforms into a grown-up woman.

Rosario said "I'll show you no mercy, you bastard.

Rosario used skill and said "consecutive fire lance!"

Asmodeus just smiled as thousands of flaming spears are pointed toward him.

All of the spears charge toward him very fast and he just lets himself get hit by the attack.

Rosario said, "is he overestimating himself?"

Rosario's spear charges Asmodeus to stab him. However, Rosario's attack stops from coming.

Rosario's attack ends up floating in a mid-air.

Rosario asked, "oi, how did you do that?"

Xerxis answered, "he uses gravity magic and manipulates the gravity around him to stop your attack, even I can do that as well."

Asmodeus said "as expected of my old for. You still remember this much information about me. However, you will die here and so that woman, Rosario Mourning Star."

Xerxis said, "I'll, make sure that won't happen."

Rosario asked "if he can manipulate the gravity around him, why are we still alive? He can just use gravity to crush us anytime he wants."

Xerxis said "it's because I'm here. I'm making my aura run wild so that he can't use any skill that can instantly kill you."

Asmodeus said "I'm getting bored here. If you're not going to attack, then I will." He added "this woman to know that I was holding back. I intend to buy some time and whatever is that, it's all on me."

Asmodeus grabs his grimoire out of nowhere.

Xerxis said "oh no! Prepare yourselves for the incoming attack!"

Rosario asked, "why, what's wrong?"

Xerxis answered, "every tthe the time he uses his grimoire. He cast out powerful skills that can even kill Gods like me."

Rosario said to herself "this is bad."

Yumi shouted, "let's stop him before he unleashed his skill."

The 3 angels charge toward Asmodeus.

Rosario used a skill to back them up and said "meteor shower!"

Hundreds of meteors appeared above Asmodeus to crush him

Asmodeus said "you are all so annoying. Can you all just die already?"

Asmodeus's sword ends up flying so fast that and destroys the meteors and throws the 3 angels away. The sword charges toward Rosario but Xerxis stop it.

Xerxis said to himself "this sword has almost equal power to mine. I can't let this sword touches her." The sword of Asmodeus ends crossing sword with Xerxis."

Asmodeus said, "do you think I wouldn't notice you the g right at my back?"

Rosario saw Asmodeus holding something she couldn't see it.

Rosario was surprised when Keros made his appearance right behind Asmodeus.

Asmodeus throw Keros toward Rosario. Asmodeus said "I'm giving you one last chance Keros. Come back to me, we can be happy again. With me, your brother, and your mother."

Keros asked, "what do you mean?"

Asmodeus said, "I mean what I mean."

Asmodeus flicked his finger and a portal appeared right in front of them.

2 people came out of the portal. One woman with golden hair and long horn and one boy with golden hair, horns, and pupils.

The woman speak up and said, "come back to us my son."

The boy speak up and said "brother our father resurrected our mother. There is no need for you to stray further away from us."

Asmodeus asked "so I asked you again to come back to us. We can bring back the happy moments that we have lost."

Keros said "do you think that I'm a very foolish one? My mom is against your way of fixing things. She doesn't like the way how you make other people just for the sake of obtaining the things that you wanted. Therefore, she's not my mother. On the other hand, you corrupted my brother's mind and made him forget what you have done to mom and destroy any trace of our mother, the mother that we know and grow up with.

I love my mom so I'll never forget the feeling of being with her so you can't fool me even if she does looks like my mom."

The woman and his brother speak up and said, "well then if you won't return to us, we'll just have to kill you."

Cecil said, "as if we're just going to stand by and watch all of you do anything as you please?"

Asmodeus said, "I see so you guys have a death wish?"

Cecil said, "we won't let you do whatever you want right guys?"

Cecil looks for Yue and Yami but she can't find them.

Asmodeus raised his hands like he want his sword to return. However, the sword that has returned to him is just like shattered glass. Moreover, Xerxis and the 2 angels tried to ambush Asmodeus while looking at his broken sword.

The woman said "you guys are a bunch of shameless beings. You try to attack my husband as he tries to grasp his sword's situation ."

The woman sighed and said, "as for your arrogance ill kill you all!"

Cecil said, "sad to say miss, we're not aiming for him, we're aiming for you."

Cecil, Yue, and Yumi turned into a cloud of smoke, and surprisingly, the woman was surrounded by Xerxis, Yue, and Yumi in just a blink of an eye."

The woman took her fan blade and she said "all of you are quite bold to ambush me out of the blue. Let's see if you can survive this."

The woman used skill and said "whirlpool abyss, multiversal black hole!"

The woman spins around with her fan blade open very wide. She gave a psychotic laugh as she spin around and slowly turned her surrounding into a center of a black hole.

Cera and the 2 angels stepped away from the woman and Xerxis said: "I see, so this woman just barely surpasses my power but I can manage to beag her if I use my dragon lord form."

Asmodeus said "it's pointless, no matter how hard you struggle to fight me, I will always win. I hold your past, future, and present no one will escape my grasp. Everything will fall in my hands."

A voice of a woman can be heard saying "let's see if you can prove that to us." After that, a ray of light appeared right behind Rosario and 2 women step out of it.

The woman is Alicia and the other one is a masked demon with black robe, and blue hair.

Y,umi said "it took, you a long time to be with us, Alicia?",

Alicia said "sorry for being late. It just took m lot of time to convince her to join us."

Asmodeus laugh and said it's useless even if you combine all of your power you won't be able to kill me. Also, I've already reached my goal."

Alicia asked, "and what is that?"

The masked girl said, "it was to make us look miserable if we managed to escape from you right?"

Asmodeus said, "oh, so you still remember what is about to happen?"

The masked woman said while shaking in anger "of course I do."

Alicia said, "can you tell us what is going on and what is about to happen?"

The masked woman said, "once you return to your current time. Thousands of dead bodies will be waiting for you so be ready."