The Beginning of Fire and Death

"Let us love death! It will free us from pain and suffering."

- Azazel Goldheart

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-Year 838, 6 Month, Era of Unity-

(Next Day of Morning)

[At the Great Gate]

During the evening, the Third and Fourth Blackheart Personal Guard was mobilized and had to be relocated to the suburb of Angelicum due to its size.

Cassian, heading for the main gate, sees Prime Minister Azmeth waiting there with his crew and his son Sebastian Whiteheart.

Cassian notices the nervous look on the face of Azmeth, who is known to have had his wife massacred during the revolution. Therefore, when he heard about the revolution yesterday, he was struck with great shock and therefore acts even more radically.

Next to Azmeth, there stood Cassian's good friend, Sebastian, who Cassian says is the most normal among Whitehearts. Of course, he wondered why Sebastian would come to say goodbye. He knew there was a deeper meaning behind it.

"Highness Prime Minister... Sebastian."

"My sister's a fucker." Sebastian says, which catches both Azmeth and Cassian off guard, and he laughs it off himself.

Azmeth gives him a true fatherly slap and then bows his head slightly

"I'm sorry, Cassian." With a slight smirk.

"Please Your Highness Prime Minister, if you didn't have such an idiot in the family, the world would be a better place after all." He says sarcastically, and with a final chuckle.

"So idiot you Fu... I already said that. Shit." Sebastian gets slightly angry, which amuses both Azmeth and Cassian.

"What brings you here anyway Highness Prime Minister?" He asks the question he's been asking himself ever since he saw the two.

Sebastian moves his eyes away in annoyance and Azmeth sighs and pats Sebastian on the back.

"I need you to take Sebastian with you," Azmeth says, quite seriously.

"Truthfully, His Highness Prime Minister. The place you are sending him to will be a war zone. Truth be told, I won't have time to be a nanny and a general at the same time at that point with all due respect." Cassian smiles

"You wouldn't have to... just watch him." He sighs even more visibly and loudly.

"I need him to learn something," Azmeth says dejectedly

"He does nothing for days. Sometimes he goes out and that's it. Does he just throw away the great potential of the Holy and Pure Realms? I can't allow that, Cassian." He'll fill in the details.

Cassian looks at Sebastian, who shows visible disinterest and reluctance to go. But he also sees there, as if Sebastian knows I won't agree.

Truthfully, I'm in the mood for teasing today.

"I'll take him with me, Prime Minister." Cassian agrees with a smile, then looks at Sebastian's reaction.

He experiences a shock and then begins to look at both of them like they're crazy.

"Cassian, I apologize to you. You're not a fucker. You're a great Angel. I'll get you a great White Chocolat-"

"Don't care. Wait outside the city."

"And take the chocolate with you." Cassian smiles

"Oh, my Gods! He shouts

And then Sebastian kicks a rock that accidentally hits a window of one of the houses.

He freezes a little, looking at a shocked Azmeth looking at the broken window and Cassian who just stares, wide-eyed.

"Oh jeez." Says a slightly scared Sebastian.

"You little-"

"Lux Obsessio," Says a hasty Sebastian, who turns into the light to quickly get to the front of the city.

They then look at each other, say their goodbyes, and each head off in a different direction.

Cassian heads for the gate.

"THE MARSHAL IS COMING THROUGH. OPEN THE GATE NOW."

The gate opens, and as it slowly opens, Cassian sees a huge crowd of soldiers waiting for his arrival.

To dramatize his arrival, Cassian shifts a large amount of Spherical Energy to his feet so that with each step, the ground shakes.

BOOM, BOOM

The soldiers, slightly nervous, watch the arrival of their newly appointed Marshal and Supreme General.

BOOM, BOOM

Cassian seeing the slight trembling of the soldiers

"Leviticus" Spherical Spell that forces Cassian to levitate. With every meter he flies up, he sees a huge army of 250,000 thousand soldiers.

Cassian has already found a suitable altitude and then prepares for his first speech as Marshal and Supreme General.

"I DON'T THINK I NEED TO INTRODUCE MYSELF. BUT FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T HAPPEN TO KNOW. I AM, CASSIAN BLACKHEART, NEWLY ELECTED MARSHAL AND SUPREME GENERAL OF THE UNITED ANGELIC ARMIES."

The military, unaware of the reason for their unit's call-up, are listening carefully to Cassian.

"THE REASON I'M CALLING YOU. YOU WHO HOLD THE SWORD, THE SHIELD, AND THE SAFETY OF EVERY ANGEL IN THIS KINGDOM, IS THAT WE GO TO WAR AGAINST THE UNBELIEVERS AND OPPONENTS OF THE HOLY KING."

The soldiers start looking at each other in shock.

"SHUT UPP!" shouts Cassian loudly, who immediately puts the soldiers back on guard.

"YOU ARE THE MILITARY MIGHT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE MILITARY MIGHT OF THE HOLY KING. EACH OF YOU CARRIES A BURDEN WORTHY OF THE GREATEST COURAGE. WORTHY OF THE GREAT COURAGE THAT IS IN YOU.

"YOU BECAME SOLDIERS TO PROTECT YOURSELVES FROM EVIL?"

"OR TO FIGHT EVIL?"

"FIGHT EVIL!!!!" will be heard from the entire army. From every individual so loud it shook the city.

"EXACTLY."

"THE EVIL THAT THREATENS US CONSTANTLY AND DAILY. THE EVIL THAT MAKES US FEAR, AND SURVIVE EVERY DAY. AN EVIL THAT WANTS TO FORCE US TO SURRENDER TO THEM."

"SHALL WE SURRENDER TO EVIL?!"

"NOOOO!!!!" It's even louder than it was before.

"WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS EVIL?" Cassian smiles.

"WE WILL DESTROY IT! WE WILL DESTROY IT! WE WILL DESTROY IT!" Repeats the army, and Cassian brightens even more

Cassian watched in amazement at the sight of the energized soldiers.

"DAMN THAT'S RIGHT. LET'S GO SOLDIERS OF THE HOLY GODS, SOLDIERS OF THE HOLY KING, AND THE HOLY KINGDOM. LET US DESTROY THE EVIL THAT THREATENS YOUR FAMILIES. THAT THREATENS YOUR LIVES. THAT THREATENS THE FUTURE OF US ALL!" Says a final and quite ambitious Cassian

The soldiers, who were immensely encouraged by Cassian's words, kept chanting the name of Cassian, who was at that moment looking up to heaven.

He knew it was going to be a sunny day today, which was why he needed permission to take off one of his rings.

The sunny day was what was giving Cassian trouble.

Of course, he had counted on it yesterday, and that's why he asked for one ring to be released.

Why did it bother him?

In order to reach the city quickly, he had to travel through the shadows.

Shadows that would help him get him and his army where they needed to go.

Cassian removes his first spherical force-limiting ring. A faint pressure wave ripples through the area. Cassian is surrounded by a black aura that slightly obscures the ambient light.

Cassian stretched his arms to the heavens and just said promptly

"Nubes... Obscurae" A big black wave comes out of Cassian's hands heading towards the heavens of Era.

The heavens turned a dark color. Artificial dark clouds formed shadows along a straight path straight to the Black Pass.

The clouds covering the star that made it impossible for light to reach the ground created the ideal conditions for the shadow to pass through. It also begins to rain, adding to the atmosphere, and Cassian delivers one last Spherical Spell.

His hands are reaching out to the soldiers this time.

"Umbra Mittentes."

He transports the troops, and himself, into the shadows and they start to travel quickly toward the Black Pass.

The fire has been lit.

Death is slowly coming out of its realm.

To claim the souls and the minds of the dead.

To be continued...