Exiled From The Heavens, ARYJIA

Prologue

Another Angel has fallen!

10,000 years after Iblis' rebellion against the highest order of the gods. A prophecy was foreseen, that a sect of mortal beings will achieve eternity by unholy means and defeat both the dark and holy deities in pursuit of universal parallelism.

This was against all gods' and deities' wishes. If at any point the humans who were gods' creation, achieved the so-called divinity and managed to transcend to the higher dimensions, the equivalent of the ethereal realm may break and lead to the apocalypse prematurity. This will cause the highest God's apocalyptic reign to affect the heavens too.

A disaster that will wipe out both mortals and immortals.

A set of rules was set by the gods under the mountain of Olympus, and a monument was erected with the power of a macrocosm to ensure the balance between the heavens and earth.

This had laid peace for over a thousand years before the heavens were suddenly attacked by the watchers who had emerged on the earth.

The said watchers had synonymous power with the angels who guarded the gates of heaven. And after a fierce battle, the heavenly dimension was at risk of being overthrown till the gods returned from a trek to a distant planet and found the situation embarrassing.

With nothing much he could do, the highest god summoned the God of water to take care of the situation. To him, taking a hand in the fight with the watchers was disgracing as none was on par with him.

And sure, the God of water gladly showered holy water over the watchers who had traits of evil deeds. Once a drop of holy water came in contact with evil, the latter would burst into flames as the souls get trapped in the Elysium.

This had seemed to be the end of the conflict as the trumpets sounded but Iblis had long planned his move. With the presence of so much holy water flooding over the heavens, he used all his energy at that time to cut an opening through the two dimensions, letting the water flow out and onto the earth.

This had not been expected as the heavenly dimension was directly above Mount Olympus, where the macrocosm monument was set.

The situation got out of hand as mending an opening already pouring holy water out of the heavens was a difficult task to do.

The highest God then had no choice but to use his power to control time and immediately warn his few followers on earth to build an ark, with only wood from the rare sacred tree.

By doing so, he saved his followers on Earth at the cost of losing the macrocosm monument.

Now the gods managed to seal the opening but too much had already taken place.

Iblis managed to escape from the heavens and hide in the vast earth as mana flowed out of the higher realms onto the earth. With no macrocosm monument, the few survivors left after the holy floods, got enlightened as Iblis created a secret society.

Iblis controlled the few he had, picking the most diligent and wise into great men. He taught them more spells and introduced mana to them by teaching a few techniques needed for preparing the body for the path of immortality.

The gods and deities could do nothing about it as they too prepared themselves for the future armageddon. Knowing it will be tougher than this, they too sent messengers to earth in the hope of acquiring an earthly army too.

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Current time in the ethereal realm.

(Heavens)

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The rise of watchers was suddenly announced in the palace of prognosis. A huge army of angels immediately answered the call and reported to the palace of prognosis. Such a declaration was not one to be ignored even by the ascended deities.

Iblis was locked in the abyss of torture for years as the army of war reported to the palace.

"Your Highness!" An archangel second to Michael bowed down as he reported.

"Mount Olympus has been discovered!" The archangel announced as the highest god who sat on a floating throne surrounded by a dozen other gods created an eye-burning halo over the throne.

Not even the most mighty angels could set an eye on the high god in fear of burning from the divine glow over Him. None knew what the highest god looked like, not even the other gods except those who had cultivated further and achieved the 1st rank in universal art and successfully established a demi-plane.

"Bring the pieces left of the macrocosm monument back!" The highest god thundered as he commanded. His voice rang everywhere over the whole heavens.

"You command may be done!" The archangel who was still bowed kowtowed as he immediately left to carry out his task.

"Angel Sapphira!" The highest god suddenly turned round, rising from his seat. From the wide army in white to the angels in blue, only one angel wore a green gown with the symbol of nature. Her halo was green too except for her bluish eyes, proof that she was not a natural angel but one that had been enlightened into the path of angels.

"Your act of ignorance has led to the fall of man! And endangered the unity of the heavens!" The highest god spoke as Angel Sapphira was brought front, to answer the gods and divinities.

"You are no longer termed as an ethereal denizen, your title as the Angel of ALL is now stripped off you!" As the thunderous voice of the high god spoke, Angel Sapphira's gown tore in two and dissipated into millions of shining lotus flowers.

"Oh lord. Have mercy on me..." Angel Sapphira broke down as the high god closed the conference.

"You will no longer dwell amongst your sisters! But live in the land of mortals! Your new responsibility will be handed over to you by the mother of earthly immortals!" The highest god closed his speech as he now left the palace of prognosis.

"Oh lord have mercy." Angel Sapphira begged as the sudden meeting was dismissed. What had been decided was her punishment for breaking into the room of one of the newly ascended deities, Banishment!

"Little sister Sapphira?" Two of her only close Angel friends came by to wish her good luck.

"Mother of earthly immortals is not a bad goddess, I'm sure she won't overburden you." They sympathized as a saint responsible for protecting angels transcending across the two worlds came in.

"Sapphira, Mother knows of your good deeds. She asked me to lead you to her, back to the Kunlun mountains." The saint's voice was quite low as he asked for Sapphira's obedience.

"So be it." Sapphira cried as she took the Saint's hand and faded with him into nothingness.

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The highest god was just a mile away when he suddenly stopped.

"Your excellence, " The other gods too had to stop as the highest god suddenly roared. He looked back at his companions with eyes that could see into the future.

"I must not have let the mother of earthly immortals take care of my daughter!" He roared again as he sent a signal back to the palace to stop Angel Sapphira's banishment.

"My Highness, Angel Sapphira has long left." The report from the Palace of Prognosis was submitted on the dot. This made the high god think deeply as he stroked his beard, combing his fingers through the thick grey hair that almost completely hid his mouth.

"I want the two watchers Angel Sapphira saved trapped in the void locked! " He commanded eventually as he sighed," The prophecy might not be avoidable."

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Angel Sapphira cried as the Saint ensured her safety at the Kunlun. The mountain was covered in a huge red sphere that shed mortal sight from seeing the mighty palace on the mountain.

This was Mother's immortals' residence. Her duty was to ensure that no earth habitant came in contact with an ethereal denizen without the god's authorization.

"Welcome to Kunlun Angel Sapphira!" Mother earthly immortal walked down the spiral stairs in her palace.

She was glorious in look and words, not to mention the power she had that could shake a continent.

"Angel Sapphira, talk! Why did you save a mere mortal!" The mother of earthly immortals commanded to know. Her presence brought domineering pressure on Angel Sapphira who could not withstand it and found herself forced to her knees by just Mother's presence.

"My apologies Mother. I sneaked into one of the new deity's rooms and found a spyglass that showed me the life of two earthly beings in trouble. I just wanted to help them. " Angel Sapphira confessed.

Now the mother of earthly immortals released the pressure on her as she stood by Sapphira's shoulder. "Raise my daughter. You shouldn't have fallen in love with a mortal. "

No one could hide a thing from a god. Mother Immortal just needed to touch Sapphira on the shoulder and read all her thoughts and scroll through her memories.

"I didn't fall in love with him mother." Angel Sapphira denied but Mother Immortal just smiled.

"You can't understand the feelings of earth. What you felt was love. That's why you opened a void mana pocket to hide the two from being attacked." Mother Immortal explained.

History was regurgitating, and Mother Immortal knew only one thing could save them from extermination. She had to have faith and hope that Angel Sapphira won't succumb to Iblis' system but make a change against the prophecy.

"Angel Sapphira, I'm going to send you to a city known as Kana, you should search for the boy you saw in the spyglass and guide him into righteousness." Mother Immortal placed her trust in this angel. She knew Sapphira had committed an undying sin by admiring a man but it made no change since she was now a fallen angel.