Exiled From The Heavens, ARYJIA

Chapter 10

If you can't fight em, join em.

"Shouldn't you just report your failure?" Hazakiel asked the ashed leader. But instead, he received a punch as the squad leader, greedy as his higher-up saw profit in capturing two angels plus a void mana pocket with two otherworldly beings.

"Why don't you see the importance of acting on instinct?" Sapphira questioned Hazakiel as she lifted him.

"Did you kill the man?" Hazakiel worriedly asked as he saw the man sputtering blood. "He has the mark of Iblis!"

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Just some seconds ago, Hazakiel had been slow to defend himself from the squad leader giving the opponent the chance to deliver a mighty hell-pound punch,(from the formidable hell techniques) that ripped his belly apart.

Now a hole ran straight through his abdomen leaking his spiritual power.

"Did you kill the man?" Hazakiel too worried about the situation couldn't stop asking this. At the moment he knew he couldn't help if a fight broke out, his body was now beginning to fade into a ray that will send him back to the 1st heaven infirmary.

"He has the mark of Iblis!"

Hazakiel almost choked on his shock as he saw the unmoving pile of flesh on the earth. The Mark of Iblis now hovering above the corpse, sending a weird signal-like wave across the horizon. Did Sapphira just knock a squad leader dead?

"I told you...you should act on instinct." Sapphira pouted back as she confirmed the death of the squad leader. He was surely dead.

"You have to hide Sapphira. They will be here anytime." Hazakiel managed to warn Sapphira before his Angelic body burst into a silver ray that shot up into the dull sky.

"Goodbye Hazakiel." Sapphira felt relief from Hazakiel. A silver ray? He surely was an archangel.

In her right hand, she held her corundum which had shrunk to the size of a tennis ball while in her left hand she held a small pouch that dazzled with beautiful lights.

The Mana contained in her void mana pocket was slowly fading into nothing, mending her void pocket into an ordinary pouch.

'I have to find somewhere safe first,' Sapphira looked around as she decided to first find a safe place to release her prisoners, her to be friends.

Kana city was huge to say. A well-civilised community that thrilled on the bliss of the Illuminati. Operation from within the heart of the City, the Illuminati ensured the safety and well-being of Kanians. Little did the civilians know, a dark age was slowly, strongly rising into power.

By using her Corundum, Sapphira could travel with a speed almost comparable to light. If only she had cultivated the one swoosh water techniques, as commanded by the high God then, maybe she would have spared the strength to flee to instead practice her martial art on the incoming crusaders.

As she flickered through the streets in search of a safe hideout, her speed became slow and tiring. She also realised Her pouch was growing big and heavier, soon she was out of strength.

'I will just pull you out now.' Sapphira heaved heavily as she made a stop in a cold alley.

The moon was blue bright, over the huge city that was spooky silent.

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Inside Sapphira's Void pocket.

Rachel breathed heavily as huge sweat drops formulated on her forehead. She had just had the worst nightmare of her life, and worse so, a competition for her lover.

"Die!" Rachel yelled as she released a deathly aura exposing her vampire form.

But she was with no one but Mac, who was lost in slumber, snoring his stress out.

The voidness seemed to shake, and the whiteness faded into blue. Something must be wrong.

Rachel dared not let Mac sleep any longer but shake him furiously. He had to wake up now, the walls had started to crumble.

"Mac, wake up!" Rachel screamed as a hole cut through the similar ceiling sucking the still-snoring Mac out. Just what did he take to sleep so deeply? Rachel worriedly shivered as she felt the pull upon her.

Is this freedom or a transfer to another cell? She wondered as she lost balance and got sucked out of the hole too.

The atmosphere turned chilly in a fraction, and her sight adapted to a new blue-lit alley.

Mac lay on the pavement, soundly asleep not disturbed by the change in any way.

"Mac?" Rachel crawled closer to wake her alias up, a couple of slaps too proved impractical until a voice startled her up.

"It's useless."

Just behind her, almost unnoticeable, a slim weird looking girl with bluish eyes and a green gown stood. Her pose behind them, towering over their back was goosey.

"Who are you!" Rachel instantly defended Mac as she turned to stand and face the girl. The moment she did look straight into those bluish eyes, anger rose in her. "It's you!"

This was her nightmare.

Rachel looked around and scanned the area before releasing her threatening ability. They stood just a meter away from where Mac had miraculously found a door and escaped the crusaders.

All this while, Sapphira who was new to the city, had unknowingly run around the streets and ended up in the same spot she had been.

While Rachel who had earlier woke from a nightmare, instantly realised she had been asleep all along. Her mind convinced her that there had been no door or pursuers earlier, this girl must have cast a spell or caused some hallucination thing on them.

"Go away from us!" Rachel warned as she hissed, she was not going to take any chance here. Sapphira stood still, ignoring her curses but sending glares at Mac, who was still snoring loudly disturbing the peace of the night.

They had to get away now, but a misunderstanding had arisen as Rachel leapt upon Sapphira, aiming for her neck but missing the target.

To Rachel, Sapphira was evil. Although Sapphira knew Rachel, she was not in the mood to talk any sense into a mad vampire. She hoped that Mac would wake up any moment and lead them through the streets.

"Stop fighting!" Sapphira who had to keep dodging and swiving shouted as she realised the struggle was not going to stop. A wave had begun to grow too as Rachel suddenly saw a dishaped corpse hit badly by the corner.

"We have to get out of here," Sapphira informed Rachel as the mark on the corpse's dead head glowed out of lustre and the last wave dissipated.

A fight won't help either. None of them was strong enough to fight a 5th-tier crusader, even by combining their strength, a victory would still be less than 1 over ten.

"I know who you are!" Rachel raged as Sapphira tried to reach out for Mac.

All this while, Rachel had been drowned in Sapphira's memory. Everything that had happened had been illusional

Or so she thought.

In the silent night, a wind picked up. Sure, the crusaders were quickly closing in. The death of a squad leader will always rise the alarm.

But Mac won't wake up.

"Stop attacking me! You are suffering from a backlash. You bit my finger while I was pulling you out of my pouch!" Sapphira tried to calm the mad girl.

She had learned that some species have the power to read minds and unlock memories. Sapphira had not thought that locking Rachel in her void pocket would insanely increase her vampiric abilities.

This was better, at least Rachel had a self-cultivator, she does not need to practise martial arts often but meditate.

"I said stop!" Sapphira lost her temper as Rachel managed to kick her ass and grab Mac away from her.

A dazzling Blue green corundum floated above Rachel before an irritating abrasive shower fell in. These were tiny drops formulated by the evilness shed away each time Sapphira took a life.

There was nothing Rachel could do as Sapphira controlled her corundum into a cage and locked them both.

"I'm going easy on you!" Sapphira warned Rachel before checking her void pocket. The best way to get going was to throw them back inside the void pocket. "I'm sorry but you gave me no choice."

Sapphira then hurled her void pocket using her mind power to swap her competent mission but failed.

This void pocket was broken. Corrupted by evilness and torn at the mouth. "Lilith!" Sapphira cursed under her breath as she realised it was going to be useless.

In front of her, Rachel glared back with fangs ready to suck.

"I'm not your enemy. I'm Sapphira."

The vampire just stared back, taking the pain of the corundum as nothing but merit.

"Shut up! I saw everything! You don't have to explain." Rachel suddenly raged as the cage faded and the shower stopped. (But only after Rachel had relaxed her mind and reformed back into her beautiful shape.)

"Allow me to wake him." Sapphira who could sense the mixture of power flowing in Mac's essence knew what need be done. Being the ALL angel meant she had blessed powers, blue and green. The elementals, she possessed the water and wood elements, healing was not an issue for her.

But something else had already blocked her concentration, a wicked spirit and evil auras.

Time wasted will never be recovered. All the misunderstanding and rampage had cost them a precious deal, now Lilith was back, with a dozen of crusaders and an army from the Ambro Force.

"If I were you, I won't do that."

Lilith who now had possessed yet another squad leader, stepped forward grinning.

"A parallel or unparalleled?"

"Parallel, you give me the boy, you live. Unparalleled, you resist you die."