Chapter 4: The Oxial

During the war...

"Father you called for me" Azreal spoke while on his knees

''Azreal, I want to continue my creation, I want to create vast galaxies and worlds, so I want you to take care of the Iblis for me" God said

Filled with terror, I wondered why father would assign such a matter to me, when he is fully aware that the Iblis would crush my whole existence entirely, for it has Father's pure life force, its power is beyond comprehension "ummm...Father, pardon my choice of words, but Father why cant you destroy the Iblis "

"ha ha haa" Father laughed, his voice roaming through the whole castle " I never said destroy the Iblis, Azreal I want you to know that killing and destruction always breed hatred, and hatred breeds chaos, one way or another if I destroy the Iblis it's soul will still linger on for it contains my life force, which is immortallity, and it will later breed more hatred to my creations.....that is why I want you to seal the Iblis, while I continue the creation of a masterpiece"

"Father I understand all that you have said, but still... I am powerless against the Iblis.." I spoke filled with horror with my head bowed infront of Father

"Tell me, what do you need to defeat the Iblis, or rather to seal the Iblis, I can't grant you more power, because I know your methods are quite ruthless, especially your ability to cloth weapons with pure life force, and I do not want you to destroy the Iblis, so son tell me what do you need to seal the Iblis..."

"Father, to be honest I do not know, as I am right now I fear that the Iblis might destroy castle when you are gone...."

Father sighed, "I would have sealed the Iblis myself, but it might steal some out of my life force"

Confused I asked, "But father you have infinite life force so it shouldn't be a big deal, pardon my choice of words, besides the Iblis might kill me by draining all my life force.."

"you see Azreal, the tiniest drop of my life force can destroy all and create all, the Iblis was just darkness filled with void, it came to life after it came in contact with my life force, hence the origin of its ability to suck out life force " Father smiled, "I already have a solution for you my son, I will also grant you a drop of my life force, but this time around I will grant you the power to connect to the past and future, so you can see the past and future, you will be able to alter dimensions, and infact you will be granted all my powers used in the past... "

This was a lot to take in, Father was practically giving me too much power to control, yet it still remains a drop of his life force, "Father...I do not know what to say, this is a lot to take in"

Father walked towards me and placed his hand on my shoulder, then using his thumb on his right hand, he pierced his index finger on the same hand to let a drop of ichor which shimmered through the room fall on my forehead, I felt an insane amount of heat at the top of my head, like millions of stars burning on the top of my head, my ichor was boiling at a an high temperature, I felt the true definition of pian, then I saw different visions of what Father had done, it was like I was seeing the things he did from his point of view, it felt weird because the heat from the top of my head moved all over my body, then my sight changed, all things looked sharper, and clearer, I could see the flame like life force moving round my palm, when I looked up to father I was terrified, for his life force was pure white but shone bright up to the point until I felt like I was getting blind, the Father moved his palm over my head to heal me.

"I can as well assume that you know what to do now Azreal, the power is yours, use the Oxial well.."

"the Oxial.....??" I asked

"yes, the Oxial is the power of revelation use it well, for it has a mind of its own, it follows the will of its master", The Father spoke to the air "Gabriel !!!", and Gabriel appeared at the feet of Father

"Father you called for me" Gabriel said on his knees

"I need you, Ramiel and Chemosh to create a seal for me enforce it with all the life force you can muster, also I need you to reach out to all the angels and tell them to pluck a feather each out of their wings and deliver it to the throne room...."

"... permit my intrusion Father but why do you desire their feathers" Gabriel asked filled with curiosity

"it's about time I increased your numbers, thirty four is quite small a number if you are going against the Darksiders"

"ok Father" Gabriel spoke with assurance for he and Father had a special connection, whatever Father said no matter how incomprehensive it might seem, Gabriel always knew what Father wants, then Gabriel removed four feathers out of his wings, then he threw them to the ground, and they shimmered with a bright glow till four duplicates of himself could be seen, "I will be right back in a moment Father" he said before he and his clones flew off with the speed of light

Father then turned to me "you have a question right", I am still not used to how Father could read my thoughts and emotions, he always finds a way to keep me on my toes, stuttering I spoke "Father what is it that you want to create, I thought we angels are enough for you"

Father scoffed at my question, then he smiled in a different way this time around, he really seemed happy, this made much more curious about this creation of his.

"Tell me Azreal what do you think your flaw is, rather, what do you think are the angels flaws"

Another weird question Father was asking me, I have no answer for that, we are perfect, we were made from him, so what is our so called flaw, puzzled by his question I stared at him blankly for minutes, then Father laughed, it seems he was amused by the look on my face, "Choice !!!, your flaw is choice, or should I say Will, Angels can't make personal choice between good or bad, or personal will, in short they can only take orders from me, I want to create a reason.. "

It was at this moment I actually felt like being Gabriel for I didn't understand what Father said, "Father, here it is" Gabriel said out of breath while holding a tray filled with Angel feathers, speak of the devil, Father then turn his gaze to Gabriel, then suddenly the feathers began to levitate and Father's loud voice was heard in the room, "Leave!!!" without hesitation we all flew out of Father's throne room and the whole castle was covered with a bright light from the throne room which blinded us all, after a brief moment, which wouldn't be up to a minute, our sight began to regain it's normal state, we could see, curious we entered Father's throne room to see what had happened, but to our surprise we only saw Father sitting on his throne with a grin on his face, now this wasn't beginning to make sense, I thought Father wanted to create more angels,

"pardon me Father but what was that bright beam all about" I asked fully flustered

Father laughed, "look around, try to feel your environment"

I then took a deep breathe, and then it hit me, I could feel numerous and different life forces within the castle and the most interesting of all was that I knew to whom those life forces belonged to and I knew their names, Father created thousands of angels in a single moment, he just made me much more terrified of him, his power was incomprehensible.

"now you have enough manpower, besides am sure the castle can get lonely sometimes" Father said with a smile on his face with his legs crossed with his eyes closed, which was our que to leave, taking the note, we flew off to the workshop chamber to tell Chemosh to prepare more weapons for we are going to war.