Jeanne and the others entered the Mahazael Tower after taking a day's break. They noticed that Sven was different than usual. He was quiet and didn't talk a lot like he always did, and they wondered what had happened to him. Lillith stopped bothering him after she was satisfied to see him sob in front of the gravestone. She had also moved on from it and decided to not bother him anymore because of Mykel.
"You can stay in the back if you're not feeling well, Sven," Jeanne said and she looked worried.
"I'll be fine, I just didn't get enough sleep last night and feel a bit tired. So, don't worry," Sven forced his smile as he followed Jeanne and Aurea from behind.
"Okay. Just tell us if you decided to change your mind. We're not going to force you since you have been doing everything yourself back there in the Abaddon Tower," Jeanne said.
Sven hummed and kept his head down to hide his swollen eyes.
They entered the ninetieth-first floor and were immediately welcomed by the scent of roses. They looked at the roses field in front of them, and they were confused as to why there were roses and wondered how roses could grow in there.
There was nothing else but roses as far as their eyes could see. Roses field that was surrounded by rock mountains. There was one mountain that looked black as charcoal, and they saw something that was waving like a flag at the peak of the mountain. A beautiful dark red flag waved and it grew larger and wider.
"I think I saw that thing before, isn't that similar to Sapphira's wings?" Rozan squinted his eyes as he looked at the peak of the mountain.
"It's Sapphira," Gerrard nodded his head as he looked at Sapphira sitting on the throne on top of the mountain. Gerrard got a chill down his spine when Sapphira stared back at him with a smirk even though he was a few miles away from her. "She's coming," Gerrard said as he grabbed his bow from his back.
They watched Sapphira's cloth-like wings grow wider as Sapphira flew toward them. The cloth-like wings started to cover the sky and it was wide enough to cover a whole colosseum with them. It was rather beautiful than terrifying because it shined under the bright moonlight.
Sapphira landed as her wings were flowy up high in the sky. "Do you want to try and fight me, or do you want me to stay put so you can go straight to kill my father?" Sapphira asked with her eyebrow raised.
Rozan and the others looked at Aurea since she knew more about her sister's power than anyone else. Especially since she had challenged almost all demons that had existed especially her sisters, except Beldathiel and Luciel.
"It's better if you accept the latter. But, if you're curious, then go ahead and accept her challenge," Aurea said without hesitation, and it sounded like a warning.
"Do you think we'll lose?" Vincze asked.
"Dead? No. Maybe you'll be tortured to entertain her. You'll lose because you will be stuck here for as long as Sapphira allowed it, and you won't be able to kill her with this many people. It's better to not waste your time here if you're really curious about what kind of power she has. You can ask for it later, outside the tower," Aurea explained.
Sapphira giggled as she nodded her head in agreement. "Well then, give me your answer," Sapphira said as her wings kept getting larger and larger without them noticing.
"We'll choose the latter," Jeanne answered.
Sapphira smiled and then the massive cloth-like wings that had been flowing in the sky were slowly shrinking. She wrapped herself in her wings like a cocoon, and suddenly blood squirted like a fountain from the gaps. They were shocked when the wings slowly unwrapped Sapphira's crushed body that they could no longer recognize.
A portal appeared right behind Sapphira's dead body, and they all walked past her dead body. They finally understood and could imagine what kind of power she possessed.
"She could manipulate her own wings into any shape and could do anything with them. She could create a maze with them, and trap you inside her wings that seemed endless as she tortured you with those. She has the strongest wings compared to all of us, even Luciel's wing couldn't be compared to hers," Aurea explained as she looked at Sapphira's wings.
Rozan was curious about her wings and decided to touch them. It was so soft like silk as he rubbed them with his bare hands. Suddenly he felt stings from all over his palms, and when he looked at them, the skin had been torn by the wings and blood started dripping.
"Shit... I'm glad that you chose not to fight her, Jeanne. Look at this, her wings are so soft and yet so sharp that you won't feel it until it rubbed off your skin," Rozan said as he showed his bloody palms to Jeanne and the others.
"I told you. It's going to be a pain for humans like you," Aurea replied with her arms crossed. "Even if you want to take and use those wings, you're going to hurt yourself if you turn it into armor or a cape," Aurea continued.
Everyone then left and entered the red portal to the hundred-first floor. It was similar to any other hundred-first floor they had visited. A tower in the middle of nowhere in Gehenna with armies of demons waiting for them.
Rozan took care of all the demons by using his [Geokinesis] skill and made a mess on the ground. He let the ground swallow all the demons and crushed them against each other underneath the ground. It happened in just a matter of minutes, and the legion of demons disappeared without leaving a single trace as if they had never existed.
They entered the tower and climbed as fast as they could since there were no tricks that slowed them down. It took them a whole day until they finally reached the top and saw the giant door in front of them.
"Is there anything that we need to know before we are going to fight Mahazael, Aurea?" Rozan asked.
"He can control evil spirits and summon them endlessly if he wanted to. Not only that, he was the quite opposite of all the Demon Kings. He has no emotion nor feels anything. He can also predict the future, so it's going to be a hard fight for you if you can't outmatch him in all of his powerful aspects," Aurea explained as she stared at the door.
"Evil spirits? We can't fucking kill a spirit with our magic or weapon," Rozan answered as he looked a bit baffled.
"We can. Edith is going to be the only one that can defeat him, so our job is to protect her at all costs," Jeanne answered as she looked at Edith in between Nagy and Lillith. "I think Aurea agrees with me since we know how powerful Edith's guardian spirits are, but she hasn't shown us what her skill's full potential is," Jeanne looked at Aurea.
"I agree, and I think that Edith can defeat him as well," Aurea nodded her head in agreement.
Edith was surprised when Jeanne said she was the only one who could defeat him. Everyone was looking at her and putting their hopes up on her which only made things worse for her. Nobody had ever relied on her the whole time ever since she joined the team. In fact, the only one who relied on her was Mykel, but that was only at work, not inside the tower.
"I guess I could try," Edith said nervously.
"Don't worry, Miss Edith. The best Awakeners in the whole universe are protecting you with all of their might," Jeanne smiled.
Edith chuckled and nodded her head in agreement.
They all entered the room and saw a skinny demon that didn't have flesh under his skin. His head was big with long fangs and horns like a goat and flames that looked like hair. Mahazael then summoned all the evil spirits, the spirits of Demon Lords that they all had killed.
"You must be joking..." Rozan looked at the Demon Lords' different towers in the shape of a spirit. "Miss Edith, do you think you can handle them?" Rozan asked quietly.
Edith pressed her hands together, and suddenly a white giant door appeared behind her. They all turned around and saw the doors were covered in white clouds. As soon as the doors were opened, everyone's eyes and mouths were wide open.
Brunhild, Randgrid, Sigrid, Kara, Hildr, and Skeggold with all the valkyries that came out of the doors with their massive wings attached to their armor flew past them. Gunnar, Sven, and Vincze were dumbfounded when they could see them again.
"Please, help us kill them," Edith said to Brunhild since she was at the front.
"As you wish," Brunhild lowered her head at Edith.
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