Angel Monarch

"Ha...ha...ha...ha...huh..."

Sera laughed until her breath started to run out, and had to stop so she wouldn't pass out.

As she looked down the crater, she found the answer to her previous questions. The first question was who won the Titanic clash in the sky. The answer was quiet obvious neither won.

In the crater in front of her was Beastbane, lying dead on the ground in his human form, and a couple of meters away was a figure who still gave of a lingering, fear-like aura.

The angel was motionless, but what made Sera laugh so hard and the answer to her second question, was the same. The second thing she wanted to know, was if the angel survived the clash or not. The answer couldn't have delighted Sera more.

Because laying in the crater was the fearsome angel. But it wasn't dead, oh no it was only dying from all the injuries on it's body. Which meant that it was helpless and could be killed by any passerby. And Sera happened to pass by.

"Oh, you fucking pigeon. I usually am a very forgiving person, but destroying my city? Killing millions of people? Possibly killing my friends and parents? And if that wouldn't be enough! DROPPING MY OWN FUCKING HOUSE ON MY HEAD?!?

I'm going to enjoy this."

The hatred in hear voice was palpable. She climbed down as fast as she could with her broken body and approached the Horror.

But she noticed a problem fairly quickly.

"What do I kill you with?"

She was looking around trying to find anything to kill the fallen angel, but she came up empty handed. There were a lot of things a person could use to kill mundane humans, but you need a special weapon for killing stronger existences.

She turned back towards the angel, and saw something shining near the creatures left hand. It was a sword. But not just any sword, it was the angel own sword. It shrink down with the angel to a humanly usable size.

Sera started grinning again and said: "It would be poetic, wouldn't it. Getting killed by your own sword."

Approaching the sword Sera hesitated, then with trembling hands touched it. The burning pain that went through her, was like nothing she ever felt. She was a bit scared to touch it again and trying to use it. But then she glanced at the Horrors peaceful face and the hatred overwritten her fear.

"How dare you trying to die peacefully after the destruction you caused. ASSHOLE!"

She went and grabbed the sword before she could rethink her decision. The pain was almost unbearable, but with a renewed hatred Sera could withstand it for a couple of second.

"...AAAAAHHHH..." While screaming with everything she had in her, and feeling her soul beginning to disintegrate, she went in for the kill.

While moving the sword toward the heart of the angel, she felt something starting to awaken deep inside her. It felt new and at the same time, that it was always there slumbering. But something was still missing from the evolution.

Just as this thought passed through her mind, the blade entered the heart of the angel killing it. She immediately released the sword and started gasping for air, it felt like her soul was on fire.

Everything went silent, until suddenly pure essence started to leak from the angels corpse.

'That can't be good.' Was Sera's last thought, before the power exploded from the angel in every direction. Hitting and knocking her out for the fourth time in one day.

"...Y...ve...w...sag..."

Sera was very disoriented, every sense that she grew up with seemed to be not working properly.

"...Yo...ave...ew...sages"

She was trying really hard to regain control over her senses, and it seemed to be working although slowly.

"...You have new messages!..."

She could finally understand what her Watch was blabbering about.

'How did I get messages, the network supposed to be down because of the Gate.'

She looked at her watch and the first thing she saw was the time and date.

"How...How is...How is this possible."

The time wasn't that important but the date.

"It's...It's been a week since the Gate Opening?! How is this possible???"

Sera was starting to have a panic attack, but she began taking deep breaths, and a couple of minutes later she was calm enough to see things more clearly.

'So that's why there are new messages. The network is back online since Gates only stay open for a couple of days at most.'

Taking another deep breath she checked on her messages, but nothing could've prepared her, for what she saw next.

"Congratulations on your Evolvement, Seraphine! You slain your first monster: Archangel of Despair, a Horror of the 3rd Tier! With your Evolved status your MK3 Citizens Watch Has been upgraded to an MK3 Evolved Watch!"

"What?"

"Additional functions has been added including: checking your status window, your abilities, your transformation, your progress toward Rank up, your killing history and many more fun information! Also with the upgrade comes a small storage, from which you can summon your weapons, armor and other items you will earn with your hunting!"

"WHAT?"

"It seems that your first kill was so special that you have earned your title! Congratulations 'Angel Monarch', hopefully your later kills will be just as amazing!"

"...UGH...What the fuck is happening?!? Me an Evolved? And by killing a Horror no less!!! I'm going to pass out."

In the end Sera didn't pass out but she did stare at nothing for a good hour just to regain some resemblance of composure, but then she remembered something else.

"Wait did it say I gained a title? 'Angel Monarch' it does sound cool but also it's kind of narcissistic. Where did it come from? Although now that I think about it, the Watch said the Horrors name was Archangel of Despair, I guess an Archangel is the leader of angels, and by killing the leader of angels I became the 'Angel Monarch'? Yeah that's probably it."

After that Sera turned back to her Watch and smiled. It was time to learn what had she gotten from her avenging murder.