Hello there, Skylinemaster here with a chapter of The Rise of the First Beasts.
"Speech."
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"To seal the Gates of Heaven, we need to complete the Trials."
Freed said.
"Trials?"
Yasaka asked.
"Tests designed by God. Similar to the tasks of Hercules, fewer but probably more dangerous."
Freed said.
"How many are we looking at?"
Loki asked.
"Three of them. To kill the Fish that swallowed Jonah, Purge Heaven of an Unclean Guilty Soul, and to Twist an Angel."
Everyone remained silent at the announcement of the Trials.
"...So, does it matter in which order these tasks are done? And do they need to be done by one or can it be done by all of us to hasten the closing of Heaven?"
Ares questioned.
"Hmm, that is a good question. It doesn't specify the order, but given the way they were written, I'd imagine the big man wants it done that way. Done by one person, as far as I could tell by the way the Prophet worded it."
Freed explained.
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"So, who is going to do it?"
Hera asked.
"Whoever completes the first task will do it. We will all go together to ensure the tasks are completed, but whoever kills the first will say the spell and from there on complete the rest of the tests."
Freed said, to much understanding from the rest of the Leviathan.
"Um, all of this sounds good, but shouldn't we wait until the Humans are close to finishing their Hell Trials?"
Rias asked. Freed tilted his head in confusion.
"Explain."
"If they know that we are completing the Heaven Trials, they know that we somehow spied on them."
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"So?"
Freed asked, wondering what his subordinate was getting at.
"So, they might stop doing the trials. If they know that we are going through with the Trials, they might stop because they figure that we will do the Hell Trials as well, given everything we've done to the Devils."
"I find that highly unlikely, given Cao Cao's reputation and ambitions."
"Still, he might think about it pragmatically. Why would he need to get his hands dirty when he can wait for us to deal with the Angels, then the Devils, and then he can deal with us directly? Enemy of my enemy is my friend, especially if we are going to close the Hell gates anyways and all that stuff."
Freed thought long and hard about Rias' words.
He sighed and then stared at the eager Leviathan before speaking.
"Rias makes a good point. We will wait until the Humans are nearing the end of the Hell Trials. Beside, we won't have to wait long, the Humans are already on the move."
"They've just completed the Second Trial."
Yasaka said to Freed, who is currently reading an old grimoire.
"...Ah, they've rescued a soul from Hell and delivered it to Heaven."
Freed said, closing the book and setting it on the table near to him.
"..Who did they rescue anyways?"
Freed asked, getting up and stretching.
"Asia Argento."
"...Argento, Argento, Argento. Why does name ring a bell?"
Freed tapped his chin as he tried to remember where he heard that name.
"She was a former holy nun, famous for her healing Sacred Gear. Kicked out for healing a Devil. She was actually supposed to join Raynare and her group, but then we happened."
Rias chuckled, turning into Raynare briefly before turning back into Rias.
"Indeed. I was wondering what happened to her. The Fallen Angels died, leaving her with no one. Interesting that she was in Hell. What happened?"
Freed asked Yasaka.
"From everything I gathered, she was turned by a Diodora Astaroth, heir to the Astaroth clan and brother to Ajuka Beelzebub. Devil had a nun fetish it seems, and more than likely raped her. Cao Cao freed her after battling through Diodora's Peerage."
Yasaka explained.
"Diodora? I killed him at the party."
Rias explained turning into Diodora before a look of disgust came onto his face.
"Wow, I am a sick little bastard."
He said with a look of contempt as he turned into Rias.
"It was a good thing that you only killed Diodora and not his Peerage. Made it easy for Cao Cao and his group to find an innocent soul from a group of former nuns I suppose."
Freed shrugged his shoulders.
"Anyways, should we start our Trials now?"
Dracula asked, sipping a cup of tea nearby. Freed nodded.
"Everyone, let's get ready to catch ourselves a big fish."
The Leviathan teleported themselves to the surface before taking flight. Those with wings used their wings, everyone elsed use levitation spells.
They are over the Mediterranean Sea, extremely bored because they've been roaming around for a few hours now.
"Ugh, how long have we been flying around?"
Guan Yu complained as he floated on a small cloud.
"Enough to know that you are still annoying."
Hera mocked as she levitated.
'Why did I get stuck with these two?"
Rias thought in annoyance.
As the Mediterranean Sea is extremely vast, Freed split the Leviathans into four teams, each consisting of three Leviathan.
"Everyone, again."
Freed said. Before splitting up, Freed cast a spell that acted like an open radio frequency, allowing all of the Leviathan to communicate with each other, even over long distances.
Rias sighed as she spoke the words that were supposed to get the magical fish out of the water and in the open.
"Quacumque die invocavero te, sacros abyssi. Unveil te, surge Coelacanth!"
Twelve voices said simaltaneously.
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"Nothing over here."
Dracula said.
"Same here."
Yasaka added.
"Geez God, couldn't you be more specific than the sea between Joffa and Tarshish?"
Loki moaned.
Rias was about to add something before a deep rumbling sound was heard near her. The two other Leviathan also stopped to look at the sea below them. The rumbling became ever louder before a high pitched sound pierced the sky.
The Leviathans' eyes shot wide open as a massive black Coelacanth, easily over 400 meters and covered in Enochian symbols, leapt out of the water.
"It's Moby Dick!"
Guan Yu shouted.
"Roger that. All units, head to where Alpha group is."
"Understood!"
"Roger!"
"Got it!"
Rias frowned as the big fish jumped out of the ocean, it roaring as broke the surface.
"Ah!"
The three Leviathan yelled, annoyed by the high pitch wail the Coelacanth emitted.
"Let's shut it up!"
Rias said, launching a stream of Power of Destruction at the beast. Guan Yu launched several blades of wind at the thrashing beast while Hera laughed as she turned the water around the beast into acid.
All of these attacks, while making the beast cry out in pain, did not stop it as the Coelacanth started to gather energy to launch in an energy beam from its mouth.
The three Leviathan circled the beast from various angles before the beast suddenly shut its mouth and dived into the ocean. The three Leviathan followed, turning into the fearsome sea beasts that God originally made them as.
They rushed at the Coelcanth as masses of black goo, devouring any unfortunate fish in their path as they followed the Coelcanth to the depths of the ocean.
The Leviathan neared the Coelcanth, while suddenly jerked its head in an unnatural position before opening its mouth and firing an ball of pure power at the pursuing Leviathan.
Guan Yu and Rias managed to dodge, but Hera was nto as fortunate and got directly hit by the ball, causing her explode.
The force of the blast launched all three of the Leviathan back to the surface.
Rias slowed her speed down before she hit any of their reinforcements, which had just arrived on scene.
"Ah, that the work of the fish?"
Freed said, not caring that Guan Yu rammed into him at full speed.
"Yes! All of our attacks didn't kill the thing!"
Hera exclaimed just as the Coelcanth broke the surface again.
"Wait, I've seen those before."
Freed muttered as he briefly glanced at the fish which fell back into the sea. He turned into Kokabiel.
"I knew I saw those Enochian protection sigils before in his memories."
Kokabiel exclaimed as he furrowed his brow.
"Raphael carved those sigils into the Fish. It protects it from all attacks."
He finished as Yasaka scorched the fish with blue fire, causing it to roar in anger.
"No, there must be a way to kill it."
Guan Yu said as he launched a beam of energy from his spear at the fish, causing the water around it to explode.
"Yes, maybe it just protects the outside. We can try killing it from the inside."
Rias said as Kokabiel nodded.
"It is worth a try."
Kokabiel said as he turned his attention to the other Leviathan, who are attacking the Fish by various magical attacks.
"Everyone! Stun the bastard. Buy Rias time to get inside of it."
Everyone yelled in response.
Loki and Shalba Beelzebub used Lightning on the Fish, electrocuting it, which caused it to thrash about wildly.
Indra used a sleeping spell to subdue the fish and Rias flew into the Fish.
The Fish awoke in a fury, thrashing about wildly before diving back down to the sea floor.
"Should we go after it?"
Tsukuyomi questioned, breaking the silence of the Leviathan.
"No, it is up to Rias now."
"Ugh, me and my bright ideas."
Rias muttered in disgust, wiping off slime from her clothes as she surveyed the area inside of the fish.
It was smaller than expected. The skeleton of the fish was surrounded by flesh from all sides, but occasionally popped out in the most unexpected of places. A thick fog was inside of the fish, casuing Rias to cover her nose from the toxic fumes, even though they wouldn't kill her.
She glanced at the bulging veins, criss-crossing within this fish and traced them back to the source.
"No way."
She muttered, staring at the three giant beating hearts in front of her. They are all connected to each other through veins, which gave Rias an idea.
Rias licked her lips as she walked up to the middle heart, and plunged her right arm into it. She twisted it and released some of her black blood into the bloodstream.
She then watched as the blood spread to the other hearts as she retracted her arm out. She became surprised as the blood spread outwards, but the fish was still alive.
"Hm, that usually does the trick. Alright, let's do this the old fashion way."
Rias said before blasting the thre hearts with a stream of Power of Destruction.
"You think she did it?"
Loki asked Hera as the Leviathan waited around for Rias to return.
A bloodcurdling scream erupted from the oceans as the fish surfaced, thrashing about as its veins glowed, illuminating the black fish. It continued screaming as blood started to erupt from its mouth and eyes. Rias flew out of the mouth just as a torrent of blood shot out of the dying fish's mouth.
"Well, she did it."
Hera chuckled as Rias flew back to Kokabiel.
"Alright, reciting the spell. Kah Nah Om Dar."
Rias said the words as a brief pain came over her body. She coughed violently as the Leviathan gathered around her.
"Rias, are you ok?"
Loki asked, a hint of concern in his voice.
"Yes, I'm fine. If I were Human, it'd probably hurt a lot more."
She joked as she recovered from her coughing fit.
"Alright, one trial down, two more to go."
Well, I hope you enjoyed that.
I know this took a longer time to come out than it normally does, but I've just been really lazy for the last few weeks.
For the Trials, I just did what I thought the opposite of the Hell Trials would be.
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