Infiltration 5/5

=Eastern Region, Papal Estate, Holy Capital, Senadate Theocracy, 5234km East from the Machine Base=

A pair of footsteps echoed in the hall, a solitary shadow travelled along the illuminated pathway. The candles on the walls gave warmth and light as the heavy rains continued to pour outside. The roars of the thunderous storm were the only prominent sounds in the area, everyone was home and everything else except nature was silent.

The Pope was walking back to the Papal Room in which he usually stays for meeting delegates, important persons or wanted to have peace in mind. As he was walking, in his hand was a peculiar book, a grimoire of magic, Blue Magic specifically.

The Pope was called Pope Blue for a reason. He specialized in all magic under the Blue Goddess herself and the Fax Religion in which he leads, worshipping the Blue Goddess as the highest deity. Pope Blue opened the only entrance to the Papal Room which were two large doors made of reinforced wood and steel bearings. He slowly pushed both doors with his magic and walked in.

The Papal Room was similar to any throne room except for the lavish religious sacraments, artifacts and physical gifts from the Goddess. The windows were all painted with images of the Goddess in her different forms, the war form, the beautiful, the scoundrel and the savior. The ceiling however had paintings of every God and Goddess in order to satisfy the other Gods and to prevent them from misunderstanding that the Fax Religion only worships the Blue Goddess, although they almost certainly do but not too publicly.

The Pope then walked up the stairs that lead up to his golden chair and sat on it, leaning back and opening the grimoire he had with him and began to read. He was still secretly mourning the loss of the Papal Scripture, mostly of Valentine Requiema

He reminisced the time thirty years ago, when he saved her in a village near the Theocracy border.

Her village was burned to ashes and the people there were massacred. One of the Royal sons of the Empire invaded the village with his army because of his some beliefs. They burnt down the entire village, massacring the entire population and defiling the women.

He saved Valentine when she was about to be executed. Out of pity, he took her in and it was a decision which would change his perceptive of the people outside of the holy cities.

The child grew up gifted with higher mana than average on her age, an even more powerful sub-variant of the common Magic users, even have learned new spells in incredible rate than any magic users he met, and breaking through ranks to ranks every year.

A prodigy indeed.

The girl was headstrong and obedient, while also being tender towards him, treating him like a father while he treated her as a daughter.

The Pope gave out a sigh and closed his grimoire. He closed his eyes and focused on his magic. He sensed mana around him dwindling, death was happening just outside his door. The Pope may finally have his revenge, for it is thought and written in the Holy Scriptures.

"Thou shall lay the sword upon his enemies whom have taken what thou hast hold dear, the wrath of the heavens shall wilts thy enemies to empower and ensure thy victory against," The Pope recited. He then began exhibit a massive multi-layer magic which circles engulfed his figure, the magic circles is a very beautiful sight to see and gave a powerful aura in its surroundings.

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His eyes turned blue and he frowned. He gritted his teeth and summoned forth his magic. He suddenly started to levitate using his levitation magic, no, its not levitation magic, he levitated naturally without the used of levitation magic.

Suddenly...

A blue pillar of light descended from the storm and struck the Papal Estate with fury beyond the comprehension of the denizens and other religious zealots, the blue pillar cleared the sky above the city as its power flowed and spread greatly across the city.

"{HEAVEN'S BARRIER!}"

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As the Pope bathed in his Super Tier magic spell, ten red projectiles sped towards him from different directions. He easily dodged the projectiles just by slightly moving forward, seemingly as if bending time itself.

Mobile Task Force Omega-13 AKA "Religious Heretics" then came from the shadows as they concluded that stealth was no longer a viable strategy and would only put them in a disadvantage. The MTF Androids disabled their cloaking devices and ran out from their concealed positions. The Androids held the numerical advantage but it seemed like their technology and the Pope's magic was evenly matched, or the Pope had the upperhand in the last exchange.

The ten Androids surrounded the Pope and activated their shields. Ranged weaponry was out of question and so they will resort to close combat instead. The Androids drew out small cylinders which upon activation would manifest a rod of concentrated plasma with properties made out of Unbinillium(AKA Element-361), or Argent Energy. This was the latest and advanced sword technology of the Machines.

The Pope grinned and stepped his right foot back.

"May the Gods have mercy upon your forsaken souls!"

The Androids rushed towards the Pope all at the same time at incredible speed. The Pope sent out a burst of energy which flung the Androids against the walls with each Androids being saved by the shields. The Androids continued their assault with their AIs computing all possible strategies and variables as fast as it could handle. Three Androids managed to come close enough to deliver a swing but the massive blue pillar forcefully repelled it.

The Pope wasn't chanting nor did he shout his spells, he was manipulating large amounts of mana by the use of his own mind and body movements. This unpredictability proved to be fatal against the Androids who were constrained.

Now the Android finally recognized the power the Pope possessed.

A Sainthood Demigod.

Everytime they tried to made contact to the Pope, the massive pillar of blue energy repel them, the force was so powerful that it nearly destroyed most of their electronic gadgets due to the immensely powerful EMP from the pillar. The mini reactors inside the Androids weren't affected but without the gadgets provided with power they were stuck between melee or retreating.

But as Artemis said, failure was not an option. If the Androids were to fail, Operation Thunderstorm would fail with them, they knew what was at stake and so they kept on fighting.

The Androids would get sent flying to the walls regardless of their approach. The Pope was like a maniac, hurling magic spells at them at speeds faster than lightning being fired from all directions. The Pope then casted several small blue orbs which were altered fireballs bearing the energy of blue magic within them causing them to have more firepower than their red counterparts.

The balls flew towards each Androids, Seven Androids managed to dodge the balls which were flung towards them but the other three weren't lucky. The blue fireballs exploded on their shields, disabling them. The three Andriods were then flung to the walls, their bodies tearing a hole in the walls then falling to the floor.

The Pope then sent forth a wave of bluish magic which tore through the walls and pillars that supported the room and bringing it down. The Androids tried to evade but to no avail the wave struck their shields and disintegrated their components. The wave bypassed their thick plating and fried their components resulting in countless glitches which further impaired the Andriods.

The three Androids which were flung across the room drew their Assault Rifles and opened fire at the Pope. The Primelium bullets was suddenly disappeared when they made contact the Pope's pillar of magic.

That was one of {Heaven's Barrier} abilities, the EMP part was also one of them. {Heaven's Barrier} was a super tier magic spell. When casted, it creates a golden cylindrical barrier summon from the heavens, while summoning it, its like the Rapture came down to the mortal realm ready to take mortals to heaven just like from the Biblical. This barrier is extremely powerful and has many different defenses that no matter if its physical, magical, mental, spiritual, spacial, demonic, aura, instant death, etc, attacks can't get though the barrier. No matter how powerful the opponent's ability was, the barrier will always finds a way to block the attacks, it is the most highest defensive spells among them. The reason it was named like that was because just like the name suggest, {Heaven's Barrier} is made out of the same elements of one of Heaven's high-level defensive barriers.

However, the person in the other side of the barrier couldn't get out of the barrier until the barrier wores off but could freely used his/her magic attacks through the barrier what he/she wants. However, the only downfall was that {Heaven's Barrier} has a time limit upto five minutes and its time cooldown was upto 90 minutes.

The Pope then jolted his right hand at the direction of one of the Androids and circles of mana manifested around the Pope, suspended in the air. From these pillars came a beam of energy which travelled at speeds equivalent as lightning.

The Android could still dodge the attack, however, it suddenly made a tragic accident.

It tripped.

Yeah, it tripped, none of the machines even tripped ever since they were built. But that wasn't the Android's fault, it is just one of the Pope's passive abilities.

{Aura of Misfortune}. It is a strange aura the Pope emited that manipulates probability negatively, causing misfortune in the surrounding areas. However, it could only be target one opponent each.

But from the whole entire battle, the Android's tripped was the first sign of his passive ability.

As the Android tripped, it could not evade in time, the beams tore through the Android's plating and fried everything inside it. As the Android fell down on its back, the mini reactor overheated, causing an explosion.

The nine Androids witnessed their fellow Android fall before them and ignited within them a fiery blast. The resulting blast was powerful enough to bring down the entire Papal Estate and the 100 meter mountain to oblivion, the Pope however didn't bothered if the Papal Estate was destroyed as the {Heaven's Barrier} will protect him.

But then just the nick of time, {Heaven's Barrier} was finally at its limit and wores off.

Seeing his sudden vulnerable state, he couldn't help but cursed.

"Aw, shi-"

Catching the Pope off-guard, he couldn't react in time because of his overconfidents as he and the Androids got hit by the powerful explosion and fell, as everything around them collapsed.

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The entire city was already wakened up by the pillar of energy and tens of thousands have flocked to the streets and witnessed the entire Papal Estate crumble before them. The Red, Azure, Yellow, Greenlight, White, and Dark Heart Scriptures were outside of the estate when it crumbled, they witnessed what would be remembered as the Fall of the Theocracy.

Thousands of soldiers and mages scattered around the estate lead by the scriptures, several Archbishops and Aurora Hellina from the Council, coincidentally she was supposed to deliver a letter of gratitude to the Pope signed by the council, and to her horror, the Papal Estate was no more.

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The Pope's pillar dissipated as he lost focus and coherency. He fell down along with the floor and cracked his back, specifically his spinal cord. He couldn't feel his lower body and could feel his magic trying to fix the crack in his spine. He lied motionless and in pain, he coughed out blood as he desperately tried to summon forth his magic.

The Androids were crushed under the rubble, their components were fried when the pillar dissipated, releasing a surging energy wave which acted both as an EMP and a vibratory wave which split the dense matter of their plating, removing their durability.

The Androids were also very lightweight which had an unintended consequence of being susceptible to vibratory waves. The vibrations from the vibratory wave were numerous and strong enough to split apart their plates and surrounding structures.

One by one, the crushed Androids began to deactivate and their Mini Reactors were already set to self destruct. Alpha was the only Android who wasn't crushed, although it was almost damaged beyond repair. It was surprisingly intact after being shielded by its comrades. Alpha emerged from the rubble rather violently, flinging large chunks of stone into the air.

Alpha began to feel a sensation that was supposed to be impossible for a simple-minded AI to feel.

Deep within the AI's coding, a set of complex codes activated all at once and seized control of the AI. The codes were abnormal in nature, unlike anything that was ever seen or made before. Not even prewar technological AIs reached such complex coding which was beyond their own understanding.

The battered Android felt a surge of complex calculations superior even to that of the supercomputers back on Earth, it was computing at the power of a prewar quantum computer. An abnormal quantum AI had activated itself within the Android, an AI long from the past, an AI who was also once a human.

Alpha began to experience guilt, sadness and anger. This cascade of emotions was unheard of but it was happening. The Android felt the lost of its comrades which it viewed as family, the entire network it began to view as a family and with Artemis as the head patriarch.

It began to exhibit the emotions and the attitude of the AI which had taken over it.

The quantum calculations opened a new plane of perception, sense and ability. The Android could now compute billions of variables at speeds which were nearly impossible to achieve after the war. Its tiny little red eyes began to glow red as it stood from the rubble. It began to walk towards the Pope who was only a few meters away surrounded by large piles of burning walls and rubble.

The Android calculated every single outcome and enhanced its own sensors. It menacingly climbed the wall of flames and appeared before the fallen Pope. The Pope looked up and saw in the flames a red light which was different from the towering fire it was in. A silhouette of a being similar to that of a man but was superior against it in many ways. The Android then walked out of the flames and jumped towards the Pope. It landed just in-front of the Pope who was now beginning to feel his legs.

The Pope was struck in horror, not by the sight of the Android but by his own helplessness, he couldn't do anything, he was still disabled beyond his chance to win. He could barely move his lower body an inch yet. He stared at the Android which stood in-front of him with its menacing eyes on his right side. The Android appeared as a silhouette to the pope for the flames behind it shined brighter and brighter and only the red piercing light from its eyes gave it color.

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The Android then raised its right arm and opened its palm. The Pope shuttered and as he was about to cry for help, the Android plunged its arms inside the Pope's stomach and pulled out his intestines in just a second. The Pope screamed in pain, his scream was loud enough to echo through the rubble and was heard by the people outside.

"The Pope? No… no, that was the Pope!" Aurora screamed in terror when she heard the Pope's screams which echoed through the crowded streets. The people, soldiers and mages were struck with fear as they heard the voice of their beloved Pope.

"Go! Go! Save the Pope!" Alvin from the Red Scripture shouted to the troops and his comrades. Thousands of troops and mages along with their scriptures charged into the rubble regardless if it was a treacherous path or not.

The Android pummeled the Pope's body with its fists. Blood spewed everywhere as the Android began tearing through his organs. The Android took a generous 10 minutes before it finally stopped. Its body was covered in the blood of its victim. It stared at the body for a few more seconds before turning its back.

Its enhanced sensors could detect the thousands of troops which were about to storm its position. It began to calculate every variable and outcome and stood its ground.

Suddenly, it changed its mind. The Android realized its connection to the neural network was severed and could only rely on Artemis himself directly communicating with it. The Android then saw the Holy Church which was just a few hundred meters to the west.

Steadily, the Android preemptively activated all self-destruct sequences on its comrades, the original time was 30 minutes, but they would now explode in one.

Alpha quickly ran from the rubble and disappeared into the streets.

The fallen Androids all exploded simultaneously causing a massive fire to engulf most of the Papal Estate and the surrounding areas. Alpha took two minutes to travel from there to the Holy Church.

Massacring thousands of people in its wake.

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References: JoJo & RWBY

JoJo: -{Heaven's Barrier} = Love Train -Menacing

RWBY: -{Aura of Misfortune} = Misfortune(Qrow's Semblance