Ch. 32

"How dare you! You're courting deat-" When he was about to yell at the man, he finally took a good look at his face which makes him swallow the rest of his sentence.

"I-I-I'm sorr-"The little shit was about to kneel and beg for forgiveness when suddenly his body stiffened and he cannot move. He was petrified.

"Cultivator trash." The middle-aged man said in a calm tone but those who have known this man for decades knew about this man's hate for the arrogant cultivators.

The middle-aged man stand up and slowly walked towards the cultivator who was already sweating buckets and gulping in fear.

"I heard you guys prided yourselves for having long lifespans." The middle-aged man said while the necklace that he was wearing suddenly opened in the middle and a bright green light shone upon the dimension.

A green magical circle appeared on the man's palm and when he twists his hand, the Cultivator's appearance slowly aged.

"Please, stop, he didn't mean it." Another cultivator tried to bargain for the man or currently old man, but before he could beg for more, his eyes glowed in white before stepping back and standing still.

The cultivator who was being aged was gaining hope when he saw his fellow elder trying to save him but it was crushed immediately without mercy.

Slowly but surely, the cultivator aged and aged until he turned into ashes.

The middle-aged man turns around and walked away before sitting back down in his previous sit.

"Yo, Ancient One-san." Azazel walked towards him while waving his hand in greeting ignoring his earlier feat.

Meanwhile, the middle-aged man who was now Xyrus just waved his hand back in boredom.

Azazel's mouth twitched slightly but ignored Xyrus's bored expression.

"So, how's your Sacred Gear business going." Azazel decided to initiate a conversation.

"..." They continued chatting with Azazel mostly trying to come up with more interesting topics to talk about.

"Everyone's here. Let's start." Xyrus broke his chat with Azazel and stood up and walked in the middle.

"Every participant is here, so I'll not make this longer and start the Faction Wars." Xyrus amplified his voice using magic before speaking.

Everyone including the Gods clapped their hands in respect for the strongest human that ever live.

Soon the huge screen lit up and they saw a planet with similar features to the earth.

"Woah." The new ones were amazed by this while those who have been participating for years just reacted normally.

The screen then showed various participants in different places. Some were close to each other while some were very far away.

(3rd PoV)

"There's my sister!" Sirzechs excitedly said while pointing out Rias who was looking around with Sona while Sairaorg was gathering food for the group while the two mobs were on the lookout.

"Our sister," Serafall said while posing as a certain bunny.

Sirzechs just chuckled at her, typical Sera always the joyful one among the satans.

"I have trained Rias personally myself, so I hope that we can win this current Faction War," Sirzechs informed them when he saw that they were confused about Rias's actions who they expected to throw a tantrum and call out for her brother but instead they saw her leading and commanding the team on what to do and what to not.

Meanwhile, Michael was staring at the screen, focusing on the heaven participants.

As far as he can see, Dulio was just lying on the grass while the rest of his team was working together.

Michael sighed at this, Dulio was strong but he is as lazy as Falbium, one of the satans.

Gabriel saw her brother sigh so she patted her back with care.

Michael felt his back being patted and saw his sister looking at him with worry.

Michael sighed again and said, "I'm not expecting them to win but Dulio should at least put some more effort right?" Gabriel just listened to him.

Gabriel knew her brother was bearing the burden of the whole angel race. Though he is strong, leading his people is not his forte.

Sometimes, she's wondering why would the Sorcerer Supreme not help her father.

Aren't they friends? When she was still innocent, not yet tainted by blood, her father sometimes tells her a story about a courageous ape who saved his kind from evildoers.

While Gabriel being innocent, was amazed by this ape's courage and feat.

So she grew up with a mindset of saving her kind from evildoers if that ever happens, like what the ape did.

To be honest, during the Great War, that was the first time she killed someone, it was her father and brother Michael who helped her overcome her depression from killing for the first time.

Then, it was the Sorcerer Supreme who gave her techniques so the situation will not repeat itself if she kills for the second time.

Then she remembered her brother Lucifer, who didn't faze even one bit when he kills one of his brethren.

(Flashback)

While Gabriel was walking through the halls of her father's home, she saw an angel who was walking toward her with a scared expression, then she saw a splash of red.

The angel was stabbed through the back with light magic, and she saw Lucifer with blood on his hands.

"Join me, sister, let us overthrow father and rule heaven. These sins that he cursed upon us were shackling us away from our true strength." Lucifer said while raising his hand forwards.

Gabriel was traumatized. This was the first time she saw someone being killed.

"B-brother, what are you doing?" Gabriel stuttered while looking at him in horror.

Lucifer's warm smile was replaced with a scowl, "Guessing from your face you'll not join me. Sorry, sister, guess I'll need you to keep quiet about this." Lucifer then conjured a light spear and was about to stab Gabriel when they heard an angry shout.

"LUCIFER!!!" It was their father's yell, this was the first time they heard him angry.

Huge amounts of light blinded everyone including Lucifer and Gabriel.

Lucifer immediately sweated at this, so he used his innate ability, [Devour], And absorb every bit of his father's light.

Meanwhile, Gabriel noticed the light dying down and saw Lucifer glowing in golden light, and from what she can see, it was slowly breaking apart.

"Let's leave," Lucifer muttered to his fellow angels who also decided to betray their father.

1\8 of the population of angels vanished in teleporting circle while Lucifer stayed and looked at Gabriel and the newly arrived Yahweh.

"Lucifer! Don't do this!" Yahweh said painfully. He was very hurt when he discovered his son's and daughter's betrayal. Where had he gone wrong?

"Goodbye!" Lucifer said before the light intensifies and engulf the whole sixth floor of heaven.

Yahweh reacted immediately and grabbed Gabriel and disappeared in white light.

In everyone's vision, he looked like he disappeared and appeared but it was different for Yahweh.

(Yahweh PoV)

Lucifer has betrayed me along with 72 angels. I knew that this would happen according to fate. But I tried, I tried to defy fate and save Lucifer from falling.

But defying fate was the hardest thing that I've ever done. It cannot be defied.

If there is one person who defies Fate, the first person that appeared in my mind was my ape friend, Xyrus. Both my friend and Apprentice. This is why he took him as his apprentice. It was as if the Fate was afraid of him.

"Goodbye!" My son Lucifer said before releasing huge amounts of light energy.

Where had he gotten this power? From what I remember I didn't give this ability to him.

Everything slowed down including the light energy that Lucifer released.

This is my most powerful skill, It turns my whole body into light making me as fast or even faster if I want as light. I immediately grabbed Gabriel who was paused. I used my every light energy and mana on this so it was almost akin to stopping time.

After that, I sped up and appeared inside Michael's home. When I saw him, I saw that he was about to rush towards Gabriel's position. So I also grabbed him and carried the two of them on my left shoulder.

After him, was Raphael who was training, as usual, I also grabbed him and carried him on my right shoulder.

When I looked back, I could already see the explosion nearing me, Gabriel's home was already disintegrated.

Then I rushed up and appeared beside Uriel who was training his fellow angels I grabbed them all.

From the outside perspective, one could see an old man, carrying stacks of bodies on both his shoulders. Balanced.

If someone counts, each shoulder has 10 bodies in it.

'This is the last one.' I mentally thought, while looking at my son whose name was Azazel, was peeking at the waterfall where my daughters clean their bodies.

'This little shit.' My eyes squinted while glaring at Azazel, not caring one bit that he just swore.

I just telepathically lifted him and rushed back to the lower floor.

(3rd Person)

On the 5th floor, an old man with stacks of bodies on his shoulders appeared.

Yahweh dropped everyone and fell to his knees. "Father!" Michael immediately reacted and helped Yahweh.

"Father!" The seraphs including the angels who reside on the 5th floor cried out loud.

*BOOOOOMMMMM!*

Then they heard a huge explosion on the sixth floor.

"I-it was Lucifer! He betrayed us." Gabriel immediately speak up when she saw the shock and confusion amongst her kind.

"No wonder I felt Father's anger earlier," Michael muttered but he was still heard by his fellow angels.

When they heard Gabriel, everyone was angry except for Azazel who was staring at Gabriel, mainly her 'assets'.

"We'll bring Father to the 7th floor so he could recuperate." Michael immediately took the lead and instructed everyone on what to do.

Everyone nodded at him and did what he just said to them.

"Michael..." Yahweh muttered, he could already feel his mana and light energy, refilling itself very fast.

"What is it, Father?" When Michael heard him mutter, he immediately asked.

"Will you also leave me as your brother did?" Yahweh muttered, but Michael could feel just how much he is hurt.

"No Father. No matter what happens I'll never leave you. WE'LL never leave you." Michael answered while pressing the word 'We'll'.

"That's good. Could you promise me that?" Yahweh said. No longer was he the 3rd strongest for now, nor the God In The Bible. Right now, he is just a hurt father whose sons and daughters left him for their selfish desires.

"Of course!" This time it was Gabriel who answered him.

"I see. Then thank you." Yahweh muttered before falling asleep for the first time since he was born.

(Flashback End)

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(Longest chapter, I've written so far.)

(Sorry for the flashback again.)

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