Chapter 19: The Awakening of God...
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Even the Seraphim of Heaven heard the monstrous roar....
And all of them felt a colossal amount of energy...
And among all the Gods, Masters, Seraphim - only Archangel Michael trembled....
He had already felt this kind of energy...
when Father had shown it to him in the Chertoge.
- Brother? - Uriel asked, concern on his brother's face as the rest of the Seraphim heard the roar.
All the Seraphim in their long white robes, with their five pairs of wings spread out, turned to look at Michael.
The handsome fellow with pleasant facial features and long blonde hair was unable to raise his gaze to his fellow Seraphim. He was dressed in a white and red sticharion with a golden cross in the middle.
- Brother,' Michael looked up into his green, confused eyes, 'the Father's prophecy is coming true....
You are awakening, the new Lord of the Other. From now on, you are the Black General who devoured all the Lords of Taruna! This is your destiny!!!
Prince of the Other....
He awakens...
Young Prince...
Our Lord...
Lord...
A huge pillar of dark scarlet energy struck the sky of the Underworld...
- She didn't come,' Lelouch whispered in delirium, looking only at Leila's corpse, 'That bitch didn't come...who...who...why...WHY? !!!!!!
The Power of Destruction has become a different colour...
You can't even call the Force of Destruction this monstrous power...
- Serafall... didn't come...
Every part of Lelouch's body was covered in new destructive energy....
- They will pay...will pay...
They will pay...they will pay...they will pay...they will pay...they will pay...they will pay.....
- Leila....LEILA-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A!!! - The force raged around him and didn't want to stop....
Lelouch looked towards the trembling Cockabiel, who was numbed by his Aura...
And in the reflection of his red eyes, he saw...
Gias in each eye...
Lelouch looked towards Cockabiel's army...
- Die! - The Demon's cold tone rang in his ears.
And all the fallen began to grab their hearts, whereupon their wings disappeared and they fell...
The disappearance of wings in angels and fallen means only one thing: death....
- Forget it! Go away! - he looked at Cockabiel.
And he teleported away instantly...
I'll need you later, Fallen Warrior...
Lelouch barely restrained himself from killing him....
Each surge of a different Force consumed every living thing...
His mind was covered in a bloody veil, but Lelouch tried not to succumb to the other's will...
Someone was deliberately entering his head and confusing his thoughts, so he could not make any correct decision....
It was not the time to think about the consequences...
He approached Leila and with dry lips he said:
- Leila...I will save you...from the cold.....
Gias glowed even brighter.
- Resurrect!
Unbearable pain alerted Lelouch that he wouldn't be able to use his eyes for the next couple of years for sure....
All of his eye sockets felt like they were being burnt out from the inside....
Blood was coming in huge streams from his eyes....
But that didn't stop him from looking at Leila....
She shone brighter than the stars themselves, soaring above the ground without wings behind her.
Her transparent white dress was so short that it barely covered all her erotic parts. Her long blonde hair covered her large and soft ass. In her hand formed a long sword that burned with scarlet flames....
Scarlet flames were the second stage in Fenex's mastery of fire...
The bright inhuman blue eyes shone like gorgeous diamonds, but at the same time, they...
They were empty.
- Greetings, My Master,' came a dead voice from the girl.
Lelouch's body trembled again...
He stared wide-eyed at one of his girls...
Or was it no longer her?
Now Lelouch trembled already with hatred...
For himself...
- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! - the other Force was absorbing more and more, destroying everything around him....
And nothing could stop it...
Serafall Sitri, who had come here the very first of her friends, immediately lost her hand after touching that Force...
Was she afraid? Of course...
Afraid not only for her miserable life, which could end in an instant because of Sazex's stupid plan...
but for the whole world...
Lelouch's troops had already withdrawn and were keeping an eye on everything under the many barriers of the armies of Lamperouge's vassal armies that had arrived here...
All of Lelouch's Servants were here...
The Actors of Hell were not far away...
A bloodshot veil covered Lelouch's eyes...
- I'LL FINALLY HAVE THIS MISERABLE BODY FOR MYSELF!!!! GIAS RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO ME, NOT THIS PATHETIC BOY!!!!
Lelouch opened his eyes...
There was no more pain in his eyes, and his whole body was as light as a piece of fluff....
He only found himself in a different place...
A dark space, and somewhere down there is a city....
Everything was grey... some kind of dead...
But that wasn't what worried Lelouch, it was the voice....
A black shadow covered his body...
- YOU WANT REVENGE...KILL THEM...TEAR THEM APART, DON'T YOU? - A voice echoed in his head.
Lelouch didn't answer immediately, but he didn't need to....
Because his lips, as well as his tongue, began to act out of his will...
But images of the past were appearing in his head...
- Lelouch! You'll do fine...as you always do,' Leila's image with her bright smile appeared right in front of him.
- Brother, you have changed a lot, but...I like it. Know that I will always support you, no matter what happens. I love you, Lelouch Lamperouge,' Venalana smiled warmly. Lelouch remembered that conversation with her after the night before.
- You helped me get rid of Sitri's vassalage. You saved us. You made life better for my subjects and my kind. And my gratitude is a service to you. You have done me...far more than you could ever have imagined, Master,' the image of Khan in a low bow appeared after Venelana....
- You are my new family, Lelouch. As are the others in the castle. Thanks to you, I no longer feel like a lone outcast. I will always be your ally and...friend,' the pink-haired Roigan beauty blushed sweetly, to which Lelouch smiled then.
- You haven't made me a willless puppet, though you could have. You have given me new colours of life, though you could have used me as you wish. In return, I will only serve and not dishonour the Clan Lamperouge,' Kimimaro said after the oath, standing on one knee.
- The Bael would have destroyed us...if not for you. You not only stopped the Bael Demons' attack, but you also protected my sister. Thank you, thank you so much. Someday, I will be able to repay you,' Kairyu jabbed his forehead into the floor of the nekomat Kairyu.
And a myriad of other words of thanks to their saviour, Lelouch Lamperouge. The one who had allowed them to live freely in their lands....
Only a few seconds had passed, but Lelouch could now give an answer to the unknown...
- No... - a quiet voice announced the entire space.
Lelouch began to rise slowly and looked straight at the...creature...
An unusually shaped lump of Darkness where his large and bright golden eyes could be seen.
- WHAT!!! THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN...
Lelouch could feel the Force in his eyes. He felt like he could do anything now. He could also feel the Force from the Shadow as well...
It was powerful...
Terribly powerful...
He had not felt such energy even in the divine pantheons he had been to when he had subdued the Evil Dragons - Ladon and Nidhögg.
But that didn't stop Lelouch from making...
- Obey me!
The Formless Shadow staggered as if from a slap. It screamed, wriggled, shouted something, but Lelouch didn't stop.
- NO! NO! HOW DOES A MAN HAVE SUCH STRENGTH! - screamed at the entire space of the Ono....
With each passing second, the memories of the unknown entity began to surface in Lelouch's mind....
Though not all of them...
- I, the Black General, am now the future Lord of the Other!
***
At the same time. Bael's residence.
Zekram was far away from the main fighting. Very far away. He still to this day is reluctant to show his Power. As well as some toys in the form of Sacred Mechanisms - that he had hidden from everyone for so long - that he had no intention of showing.
Not yet.
If he had wanted to, he would have put both Lelouch and his highly insolent grandson Sazex in their place long ago. But Zekram doesn't. He already knows where to direct Sazex, where he will show himself best.
The seat of the Lord of Hell.
Lucifer's seat.
He showed his Power of Destruction. It was far more powerful than the head of the First Pillar had realised. But that won't stop Zekram...
He will guide Sazex and his friends to the places of the Lords of Hell. They'll try to play their game, of course, but they won't succeed. Because he'll be watching them. For years, the scientists at his top-secret lab have been creating something unique.
Something that would be able to track any creature without him noticing. Whether or not such devices are ready or not, Zekram knows where their 'spunk' can be channelled in the form of justice amongst the other Classes.
All it would take is to sever all ties of the Pillars with the Gremory, Sitri, and others. And that may well be enough. For Zekram, it would be a simple matter. The heads of the Pillars already have wiretaps, but not the kind that would work on Sazex.
A wiretap is an object invisible to the demonic eye that absorbs sound and sends it to the base - to Zekram's office.
Unfortunately, such a device that would be installed on the Demon, so far scientists Bael did not make. But they're close to the first test. And when that happens...
Zekram's thoughts were interrupted as he felt an unknown Force behind his back...
It was warm, gentle, something he wanted to touch, but...
Zekram was numb with terror, from this Force...
He...she...it? It was stronger than the Biblical God Zekram had seen on the battlefield...
Unbeknownst to him, white matter encased every part of the body of the...creature that was in the shape of a woman.
Delicate, fair skin, exquisite facial features and a beautiful thin smile. From her golden eyes emanated the warmth that mothers have for their children. Her long green hair fell to the floor and barely touched her bare feet.
From the outside, she might have seemed so fragile that one would want to walk around her from all sides, lest she take an extra step to the side. But the Force that flowed from her - though she was quite depressed - said otherwise...
Without taking his gaze away from her, taking a step back, Zekram asked:
- Q-Who...What W-W-....
- One of the True Lords of the Other. My name is Cece,' the girl introduced herself, bowing slightly.
- A-A-A-A...
- I need your help, Zekram,' Cece clasped her hands to her small chest, 'My brothers, the Masters of the Other, have spent almost all of their power to get me here. Will you listen to me? - Sisi asked with hope in her eyes.
Zekram was about to ask in response, but....
- Yes, of course,' Zekram said against his will. Almost without hesitation...
Cece lowered her gaze down and began her story.
- Once upon a time, there was a separate world, Taruna. After millennia of our existence, new beings called humans appeared. They lived in another dimension, so we didn't know what was out there. The mortals called our world the Other.
Sisi was silent for a moment, but after a second, without raising her eyes, she continued.
- But then our Masters - my mother among them - found out that magic had appeared on this planet where humans lived. True magic. There were beings there who could fight with us. In those days, we fought another enemy that came from beyond Taruna - the Shuri. Abominable creatures capable of devouring our Nodes. It was a war that lasted many millennia, but it never stopped. The Shuri... killed my mother...
Sisi fell silent once more, after which she brushed away a small tear. But even this gesture deeply touched the attentive Demon.
- And the humans learnt of our existence and decided to go to war against us. Then we were going to create a weapon. A weapon that could destroy humans and we would not have to fight two opponents at once. And we couldn't be destroyed in any way. Not just us, but other spaces, other universes - they would be destroyed if we fell! We created this...Weapon, but...we did not realise that it would betray us. It was without Mind, without Will, unable to weave the Knot like we do, but...
Cece was silent for far longer than Zekram thought she would be. He was about to approach this girl when suddenly she continued.
- It was precisely because it didn't have our Will that it betrayed us and defected to the enemy. Or rather, it didn't. It was taken over by our enemies. It was capable of destroying our enemies with a single word. With a single command! The power of those eyes that we created just by touching the Structure of the Universe was unbelievable! And the Shuri turned our former Weapon against the humans. They wanted to destroy not only them, but the other worlds of the Universe for fun! But our Weapon was defeated.
It was sealed in the depths of the planet where the humans lived. After hundreds of years, we were finally able to drive the Shuri out into the Shuri's Otherworld and seal them away. But even after the long-awaited war was over, there was no quiet time. Among our brothers with whom I fought side by side, there were those who disagreed with the rule of the Lords of the Other.
They wished for the complete destruction of the humans as they destroyed our precious tool. They wish to take our place! They revolted, and went after their commander, the Black General. He was our strongest warrior, possessing the Two Nodes and the Shroud of the Other. Probably, in some hundred or so years, he would have been able to become on the same level as the Masters of the Other, but...he went beyond the Structure of the Universe and found...It! It absorbed him...absorbed Gias.....
And from then on, a new confrontation began. Between the Black General - who wanted to become Lord of the Other - and the True Lords of the Other - me and my brothers. While we were dealing with each other, a new world was created. It wasn't like the one before. It was also inhabited by humans, but they were...backward. But over time, they evolved and became more progressive, smarter, stronger. It was created by one of the Benefactors, the protectors of the last planet. And he called it Earth. He is now called the Biblical God. And with him, a new magic was born...
Zekram listened to the girl with eyes full of shock that he was the Lord of some Other Space. World? The Biblical God - the Benefactor?! Zekram was ready to fall to the floor from the weight of the knowledge he had just received.
- Neither we nor the Black General could enter the mortal world because we were sealed. And it takes time to unseal the space of the Other. A lot of time. And we could not allow Earth to be destroyed. As we learnt later, Earth is the seal for the Shuri. If Earth is destroyed or badly damaged, the vile Shuri will break free! The Black General wanted to let them out because he thought he could subdue them with the Power of the Eye, whose name is Gias.
Perhaps he could. But we were unwilling to test that. So we defended the land. So every time the Black General sent some of the Gias Force to Earth, we sent some of our own Force in return. The Black General wanted man to use part of his Force to destroy or take over the world. But we wouldn't let him do it.
There was an awkward pause. But Cece spoke again, gathering her wits.
- And now the Black General was consumed. His own Chosen One. His own Incarnate. The Chosen One has absorbed the Force and has come to your world to bring destruction and chaos. He has not yet fully awakened, but he grows stronger every day. And when he completely absorbs the Black General's Force, no one will be able to stop him. Not even the Red Divine Dragon we created will be able to do so. Oh, and the other Infinity Divine Dragon Office that the Black General created won't be able to ....
Only now did Cece raise her bright hopeful eyes to Zekram.
- But you can. We will give you the Power to stop the Rebel. Only you, my dear Zekram, can do it. Do you accept...my contract? - She asked with a bright smile, holding out her hand.
And Zekram, whose eyes became blank for a moment, smiled politely.
- Of course, My Mistress. I will destroy your enemy. Give me only his name, and you will not regret asking me specifically....
And Sisi, with a satisfied smile, lightly touched Zekram's earlobe to reinforce the mental control, said:
I'm sorry, but I have to send you back to where you should be now. It's a mistake that you ended up here, but I'll make it right. And then...we will meet again, Lelouch....
- Your target is Lelouch Lamperouge...
***
Zekram opened his eyes abruptly and breathed heavily.
- A dream...was it a dream? - Zekram anxiously reasoned aloud.
The Overlords of the Other, the Black General, killing the Rebel who turned out to be Lelouch - it all seemed delusional.
- A dream,' Zekram summed up his musings as he stood up from his large, perfectly golden bed.
His room was the only one of them all that consisted of gold tones. Of course, it wasn't real gold. But the engraving and the surface part of all the things in the room were real gold.
- It was strange. I don't remember going to bed,' Zekram reasoned to himself as he got out of bed.
It was only when he walked over to the mirror that he saw the fleeting silhouette from the dream.
Zekram immediately grabbed his head, thinking it would help take away the horrible pain. He channelled his energy, tried to clear his mind with the Force of Destruction when he wished to calm down, but nothing...
Nothing helped...
The pain continued until he felt a change...
It was like something exploded in his head, but he felt no pain at all.
- I remember, Mistress. I remember everything...
Zekram approached Zekram again and saw the new Power that had been bestowed upon him...
Gias burned bright red in his right eye...