CHAPTER LII: Memories of the FallenHe’s controlling the dead. Astaroth has the power to summon dead people from their grave and use them as he wishes--a necromancer. I and Raid eliminated hundreds of these living corpses but their numbers were not decreasing. They kept on coming. We were being careful because as we went near to them, they spewed a poisonous gas. And the whole arena now is being engulfed with a thick toxic fog, restraining us to move freely without covering our nose and closing our eyes to prevent the noxious air from entering our body. This is insane! Now, we need to rely only on our instinct. I need to concentrate and sense where the next attack will be coming from.“Cerina, behind you,” Mammon told me so I quickly pivoted my body and released a black slash of my weapon. A deep voice grunted followed by a crunchy sound as the dead corpse disintegrated into thin air. I was stunned when I felt an attack coming from above.

CHAPTER LIV: Farewell, My BrotherI laid Raid’s lifeless body on the ground. “You fought a good fight, Raid. Thank you… thank you for everything you did for me. I appreciate you. You may take rest now. Rest in me… my love,” I muttered without any hint of emotion in my voice.I bowed my head and positioned my left hand with my palm facing him. I wrapped his body with black feathers and put him inside my celestial realm along with Archmaster Leonard and Archmistress Demia. Basically, I can’t use my celestial realm in this fight because they will be affected. But that is not a problem because I still have Mammon’s cursed realm and have trained myself to manifest it in the outside world.A tear escaped my left eye as I completely absorbed Raid using Beelzebub’s gluttony. There’s no time for mourning the dead. Vela was right. We are at war. We should not let our emotions get in our way or else our lives might be

CHAPTER LVI: Confusion, Sorrow and Extreme FearMy friends came to me and assisted me to stand up on my feet. I looked at them one by one with a blank expression in my face. The rain is still pouring down from the sky but they didn’t mind if they will be soaked. Their eyes are filled with sorrows. They took me in the shed of the viewing deck of the arena while my mind was so pre-occupied by multitude of thoughts. I don’t know but every time I remember Astaroth saying that there was a traitor among us, there was a voice in my head telling me that I should not trust them.That demon was sincere and serious that time when he warned me so I have this intuition that he was telling the truth. And it frustrates me that I wasn’t able to know that d*mn truth. Though I know I wasn’t ready for it. I might collapse if I learn that one them is going to betray me. But it’s bugging in my head especially that truth is concerned about Mother Ariana’s

CHAPTER LVIII: The Whole TruthSilence reigned between us. It seemed like we were observing who will attack Vela first. Should I move now? Not yet. I should carefully think of a way on how to take her down. She’s a formidable magic knowing that she can gather endless supply of mana from different timelines.“What are you waiting for, Celestial Twelve? She is outnumbered so there’s no doubt you could defeat her. Just believe in yourselves,” Goddess Lumia cheered us.“Wait a minute, Goddess Lumia. Before we start the fight, can someone make a detailed explanation or narration on how Vela ended up as our enemy? And what about Caya? We thought Vela is just an altered ego of her? Besides, you called her as your daughter earlier, Goddess Lumia. So how and why things turned this way? Because no matter how I comprehend the whole situation and how I try to untangle the events, everything is beyond my understanding,” Glade asked out of

CHAPTER LX: Divine Blessing“DON’T die yet, Cerina. I still want you be alive and watch as I make your friends, your family, disappear in front of you.” That voice… that voice characterized by pure wickedness woke me up. My hands were shaking as I groped my stomach. I was surprised when I realized my wounds wasn’t there anymore. What did she do?“I reversed time, Cerina, to heal your wound. I came to realize that it was an easy death for you so I just have let you experience how we are very far different from each other in terms of power and magic. And I just want you to feel how painful to watch your treasured people meet death as how painful it was to watch my sister die. This is just a little piece of advice, Cerina, you can’t defeat me no matter what you do so give up already,” she hissed on my ears. I grunted as my scalp hurts. She’s tweaking my hair that hard, forcing me to look at one direction. My eyes beca