Second Darkness: Against The Heavens

by Torlek

Amara and Chuck made all their celestial changes. The former's intelligent creation, the most powerful created being in existence, has become aware of the growing celestial resistance against her, and responds accordingly. (Set after Second Darkness: Beyond Power-Hungry Designs, during Grand Council of Angels, during Prophet of the Eternal, and before From Darkness To Darkness)

23. Elite Weapons

Elite Weapons

The dark attention of Sefira shifted to heavenly work towards another front, for powerful celestial weapons were either made in full or were in the process of being made.

Non-blade Weapons of Heaven, apart from angel blades, were being produced and stockpiled, with one Virgil leading this effort. Not only were they being produced and stockpiled in the Commonwealth of Heaven, but also in localized pocket dimensions or pocket universes. The Lesser Darkness was more than willing for Radueriel to speed up the process.

Thus did the Primeval Angel focus upon the existing production and perform the appropriate spell to accelerate it. In exceeding the efforts of the one-time keeper of the heavenly weapons, she achieved the quick creation of sufficient numbers of these non-primordial weapons, wherever there had been work in process. Her celestial colleagues were further astonished, despite the proposal that had been offered earlier.

All the while, the dark seal of perfection confirmed the location of eight markedly superior weapons, weapons which were primordial in nature. These primordial implements were inspired by the spears of the Archangels Michael and Lucifer, for they were proven to be effective against her mother, the Darkness herself, once weakened. They were also inspired by archangel blades, for they enabled primordial wielders to deliver an instant kill upon Archangel-level beings and to inflict meaningful damage upon more powerful primordial entities.

She who arose in might had committed to dark memory a dastardly suggestion by one of the angelic beings before her. It was suggested that they all stab her simultaneously with these elite weapons, in a star tetrahedral manner. The combat art form was likened to the stabbing sequence of fictional Daggers of Megiddo, for by this point it was the heavenly consensus that she was the supreme adversary of all free angels. Nonetheless, the choreography was rejected, for it was thought that she could be rendered vulnerable to any stabbing sequence.

Having discerned and noted grave folly in the angelic reasoning, the Lesser Darkness saw no need for either obliterating the eight primordial weapons or apporting them away from their heavenly location.