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Chapter 29

— Emotions are the greatest source of power for a Dovah, Edzard, because with them, we can increase the power of our thu'um. But they are also our weakness. If you don't control them, they will control you and you will fall into the most basic nature that the Dovah possess—

Paarthurnax to Edzard 5E 1

Issei found himself watching helplessly as Kokabiel scoffed at him. Kokabiel was a fallen angel with ten black wings on his back, he has the appearance of a man with long black hair and red eyes with pointed ears. Additionally, he wears a black robe with detailed accessories and purple shoulder pads with gold streaks on the side.

The accursed Fallen had received a direct hit from Rias's «Power of Destruction» boosted by the power of the Boosted Gear, and despite that, he had come out almost completely unscathed. The only evidence of the attack that he had received were a few rips in his clothes.

Surrounding Issei were Rias, Akeno, and Koneko, who were also just as hurt as he was. The cause of the injuries was the fight against two Cerberus and some strange zombie-like beings out of a b-movie. Although the Cerberus had put them on the ropes, Xenovia's arrival changed the course of the battle; however, the arrival of those zombies was a problem, as they were very strong and fast. In the end it had taken a great combined effort between all of them to defeat the five zombies. Which disappeared in purple vortices after falling.

'They were nothing like the zombies in the movies and Resident Evil.' Issei thought as he looked away from Kokabiel, as the sound of clashing swords echoed throughout the area as the three swordsmen participated in a deadly dance.

Kiba and Xenovia were fighting against Freed. Even though Kiba had recently reached Balance Breaker thanks to the soul of his former friends and Xenovia was using Durandal, one of the true holy swords, neither of them had been able to destroy Freed's weapon, which was a twisted fusion of various fragments of the holy sword Excalibur. Also, that idiot had become stronger thanks to a strange bottle filled with a dark blue liquid, which made his eyes change and now they are a bright blue color.

"Wow. That piece of black stone really has done wonders to keep Excalibur's fusion stable." Said a short old man with glasses, gray hair, mustache, black eyes, who was wearing a priest's outfit.

Issei gritted his teeth in anger at the voice of that damn priest named Valper Galilei. That bastard had been the cause of Kiba having an almost inordinate hatred for holy swords, as he had led a church project called the holy sword project where he ended up killing all the practice subjects, who turned out to be Kiba's friends.

"So it seems. I guess that guy was right when he said that it would be useful for the fusion." Kokabiel said looking with slight interest at the battle.

Issei stopped looking at the cadre as two objects flew past him. Looking in that direction, he realized that it was Kiba and Xenovia.

"Kiba! Xenovia!" Issei yelled with concern when he saw them, as both were completely covered with wounds all over their bodies.

"Really disappointing. Despite being the sister of the current Lucifer, you have only been able to give me a few scratches." Kokabiel said looking at the ORC with complete amusement on his face. "Even though your attack was being powered by the power of the Sekiryuutei. And speaking of him, he also disappointed me. Where is the power that he used to defeat a high-class devil? Let's not talk about the spawn of Barakiel, she is also useless."

After saying that, Kokabiel raised his hand and created the light spear as big as a small house.

"The time has come for them to die like the cockroaches they are!" Kokabiel yelled with a sinister smile on his face. "His death will be the perfect prologue to the new great war!"

After shouting, Kokabiel waved his hand and launched the huge spear towards a completely paralyzed group of youths.

As the devils and the exorcist stared in terror at the artifact of their deaths, they paid no attention to the huge spear of fire rapidly approaching towards the spear of light. Both spears collided, lighting up the night sky. The collision generated a large air current that spread throughout the area.

"Ahh!" was the scream of the devils and the exorcist as they struggled to prevent the wind from blowing them away.

When the wind died down, the atmosphere fell silent for a few seconds, a silence that was broken by the sound of footsteps. The owner of the footsteps was a silhouette coming out of the forest. As the silhouette walked under a streetlight, Issei's eyes widened in surprise.

Edzard had just removed his hand from Mittelt's head, since he had read her memories to know what was happening. The little Fallen Angel was resting on a blanket surrounded by her three companions, who were in the same state as her.

His blood had run cold seeing them appear through those portals, which were generated by the Septims that each one had. These septims were enchanted with shadow magic to cause their owners to be teleported to Edzard's current location when injured. The sudden appearance of a fallen angel in the church made the exorcists tense, but they relaxed when they saw her injured. Aika, Mittelt, and Valerie all had injuries caused by cuts and punctures from what appeared to be spears. Marie, for her part, was unharmed, but she had a bit of the girls' blood on her clothes and her face.

Seeing the number of injuries, Edzard began to heal Mittelt and Valerie with the help of potions and some restoration magic, while Asia proceeded to heal Aika with her Sacred Gear and also checked on Marie.

What he discovered in Mittelt's mind was that they had been on their way back from the mall when they were attacked by ten mid-ranked fallen angels, who like a b-movie villain, told them everything that was happening. So, in this way, they had found out that they had been sent by Kokabiel to assassinate Mittelt. Also, one let it slip that Kokabiel was planning to kill the Gremory and Sitri heiresses. The battle had been short and they had managed to defeat the Fallen relatively easily. However, everything went to hell when the last fallen summoned a magic circle at Marie's feet. This circle was a trap that caused hundreds of spears of light to form around Marie.

Seeing the little girl in danger, they launched themselves and tried to deflect all the spears, but they did not manage to deflect all of them. That's why they had to be used as meat shields to protect Marie.

Edzard clenched his fists in anger, but he didn't let this rage control him. He knew how dangerous it was for beings like him to be controlled by rage, after all, falling into anger could cause him to destroy everything in his path indiscriminately. Taking several breaths, he managed to calm himself down enough not to go into a state of primal rage.

"Asia. Take care of the girls." Edzard said raising his right hand with its respective shadowkey.

"It's okay, Ed." Asia said as she held Marie in her arms.

The little girl had been crying nonstop since she arrived, as she had seen how her parents' friends were injured protecting her. She cried until she fell asleep in Mariella's arms, who then passed her to Asia.

"Finish them off." Asia said with a hard look on her face. She, like Edzard, was upset, because they had hurt her friends and future sisters in this family.

Edzard nodded and concentrating, used the second ability that enchanted septims had. This ability allowed Edzard to sense where the user was and also allowed him to teleport to a nearby location. So using this ability, he managed to know where Issei was, so he created a portal and without wasting time, crossed it.

As he stepped out of the portal, Edzard saw several trees. Heedless of the scenery, he started walking towards the place where he heard the sounds of battle.

As he walked, Edzard was preparing to take down what he considered a low-ranking threat compared to what he feared was going on behind the scenes. And it is that the appearance of those daedras and the portal had made him feel worried, since it seemed that the daedras had managed to find a way to reach Earth. That shouldn't have happened, but it was happening and from the weapon, and the daedras sent, he knew which prince was behind the attack.

'I cannot allow the three factions to go to an all-out war that will cause all supernatural beings to take sides in the war. That will only make them unable to defend themselves and that bastard is wrong if he thinks I'll let him do what he wants.'

As he walked, he saw a huge spear of light appear in the sky. Having trained with Mittelt, he knew that this was a Cadre-level Fallen Angel technique. So, seeing the spear, he extended both hands and gathering a large amount of magic, he created his own fire spear, which was sent to intercept the light spear.

Both spears explored upon impact with each other. The resulting gust of wind from the impact did little to hold back Edzard, who continued forward as if nothing had happened. He continued walking until he finally came out of the forest. Once outside, he walked over to where Issei and the rest of the ORC were.

'They look as if they had fought for days in a war.' Edzard thought upon seeing the state of the ORC and Xenovia, as they all had wounds and torn clothes. This made the girls bare-breasted. 'I guess if they weren't in a battle where they could die, Issei might be drooling at the sights. But to be honest, they have a nice body.'

"E-E-E-Edzard?" Issei asked between stutters thanks to the surprise of seeing his friend standing there as if nothing had happened.

"Hello, Issei. They are really a mess." Edzard said as he approached the ORC and Xenovia. Sighing, he reached into his bag and pulled out five healing potions. He then extended his hand towards Xenovia and creating an orb of restoration magic, he threw it at the exorcist. Who, upon receiving the orb of magic, saw how her wounds began to heal.

"Take these potions. Drink them and you will be cured." Edzard said as he threw each member of the ORC a bottle. After that, he took out four layers of linen and threw them to the girls to cover themselves. "Cover yourselves with those cloaks."

After that, Edzard walked towards a confused Freed who was looking at him with a look of disdain and a mocking smile.

"Ed. What are you doing?! Get away! Those guys are dangerous!" Issei yelled as he saw his friend go to a battlefield where he couldn't survive, since he was a normal human.

Edzard continued walking without paying attention to his friend. Arriving before Freed, his eyes widened slightly as he could see that he was a male version of Lint. The only difference was the hair color, as Lint had black and white hair and Freed only white. He also looked suspiciously as this one had eyes of a strange bright shade of blue.

"Issei, you ask me what I was doing" Edzard said repeating Issei's question. "That is easy. I'm saving their asses from early death."

After speaking, Edzard looked at Kokabiel and his followers.

"So here we have the fucking crow that dared to attack my family and their dogs."

The way Edzard spoke caused those who had previously spoken with Edzard to be amazed, as they never thought that someone like Edzard could say words like that.

"Hey, hey. You really have a dirty mouth. It's not like that, fucking devil lover." Freed said with a nasty smile on his face. The smile died as Edzard began to see him as if he wasn't worth the time. This disdain on Edzard's part caused anger to cloud Freed's judgment. "You know what. I'm going to kill you now, you piece of Shit!"

After shouting, Freed moved at high speed thanks to Excalibur Rapidy's ability. Positioning himself behind Edzard's back, he raised his sword and shouted madly. "Hahaha! Dies!"

The sword came down swiftly on Edzard, who seemed unaware that his life was in danger.

"Edzard, move!" Issei yelled as he prepared to save his friend. However, he stopped abruptly and his eyes widened in surprise as he watched as Edzard ducked and easily dodged the sword.

"Damn!" Freed shouted seeing that his attack had failed. However, that didn't stop him. So he quickly charged at Edzard again.

Edzard watched as Freed quickly approached him. For a second, he was tempted to summon a bound sword or his shehai, but decided against it. Instead, he decided to dodge the attacks for a few moments to gauge both Freed's and the sword's capabilities.

"Is that all you know how to do?" Edzard asked as he continued to dodge Freed's attacks, who kept using his speed to try to overwhelm him, but seeing that he didn't achieve anything, he decided to also use Excalibur's Transparency ability to become invisible.

"Hahaha!" Freed laughed with derision as he began to use Excalibur Rapidy's ability as well.

Taking advantage of that, Freed tried to kill Edzard by attacking him by surprise, unfortunately his attacks could not deal a single cut on Edzard, since he was using the detect life spell to see where Freed was moving.

"I'm tired of this stupid game." Edzard said letting out a tired sigh, because he had discovered that despite the fact that the sword had given Freed many abilities, he still did not have the ability to kill him, so he stood still.

Freed put on a mocking smile seeing that Edzard seemed to be giving up, so he quickly charged at him.

The blade of the fused Excalibur quickly approached Edzard's bare neck. However, it did not achieve its goal, as Edzard had stopped it with his right hand as if it were nothing. As he stopped the sword, a peculiar smell reached Edzard's nose.

"Drop my Excalibur-chan, you piece of shit!" Freed yelled as he futilely tried to free the sword from Edzard's grip.

Edzard ignored Freed and looked at Valper. "Old man. You used an Arentine shard to make the fusion of the swords stable, right?"

Valper did not answer, since he did not know that it was the Arentine; however, Issei interrupted the conversation by asking.

"Ed, what is the Arentine?"

"It is a very rare black crystal that seems to absorb the light around it. It is a material used for the tempering of high-quality weapons and armor in my homeland. It is only used by high level blacksmiths, as it is a very difficult material to use. If you don't use it right, it leaves a peculiar smell." Edzard replied as he looked at Valper. "And from what I see, this old man is not a blacksmith, so he misused Arentine."

After saying those words, Edzard's right hand began to emit a dark red aura, which was being generated by a destruction spell called disintegrate weapon, which allows damage to a weapon to the point of being able to break it if the spell it is very overloaded. The aura of the spell began to spread throughout Freed's sword, who was looking puzzled at what was happening.

"If you had used the Arentine well, this sword could be nearly indestructible. However, you did not." Edzard said as he slightly increased the strength in his grip.

Crack!

It was the sound that the Excalibur sword emitted when breaking thanks to the force exerted by Edzard.

Everyone's eyes widened in surprise, since no one expected that.

As everyone tried to process what was happening, Edzard quickly moved his left hand and pointed at Valper. A spear of fire erupted from the outstretched hand and sped towards the ex-priest, who was ultimately impaled by the spell.

"Ahh! Ahhh!" were Valper's cries of pain as his body was burned to ashes.

Seconds after killing the former priest, Edzard turned his body and using a Ziz Kurah basic move, he moved his right hand towards Freed's chest. The force of the blow was such that the hand ended up piercing the exorcist's chest, managing to pierce his heart. However, Edzard had been skillful enough to prevent his hand from going all the way through Freed.

Freed tried to insult Edzard, but all he could do was spit out a large amount of blood.

"Disappear." Edzard said as he blew up a sphere of lightning inside Freed's body. The power of the spell caused Freed's body to scatter in pieces all over the place.

Issei's eyes, like those of the rest of those watching the battle, were wide open, since Edzard had taken care of both Freed and Valper quickly.

[So he has finally bared his fangs.]

Issei, the rest of the ORC members and Xenovia looked at the gem on the gauntlet not understanding what Draig was saying.

"What do you mean Draig?" Issei asked.

[Remember how I mentioned that I woke up early thanks to coming into contact with a very powerful dragon.]

Issei nodded.

[It seems I was wrong and the one who forced my awakening was your friend Edzard. And before you say anything, answer me. Who gave you the scrolls you used in your battle against Riser?]

"If that's true, why didn't he tell Issei his true identity?" Rias asked worried that maybe she had mis measured Edzard and he wasn't the person he seemed to be.

[I wouldn't know how to answer it. But maybe he did it to not involve Issei in the supernatural world.]

"I think that is the truth. After all, when I met him, he helped me and Irina without asking for anything in return." Xenovia said joining the conversation.

[That may be true. But now, you'd better look ahead, since it looks like he wants to take on Kokabiel.]

The ORC and Xenovia looked ahead and saw Edzard conversing with Kokabiel.

"I was really surprised that you were able to break that sword. While it wasn't perfect, it was very sturdy, especially with the addition of that crystal. Though I couldn't expect much from it, since holy-swords have lost power since that day."

Edzard looked at Kokabiel without paying attention to his words, since he was trying to discern the power that Kokabiel had. In the end, he realized that Kokabiel's power level was not as high as Rizevim's, but he was a bit closer to Euclid's.

'Looks like I won't have to use my dragon aspect.' Edzard thought as he started to spread his hands slightly. 'Maybe using some thu'um like drain vitality or slow time can shorten the battle.'

"Tell me, why do you help them?" Kokabiel asked curiously as he looked at Edzard.

Edzard replied as he looked at Kokabiel. "I don't have to answer that to someone who will be dead in a few minutes."

After saying that, Edzard's eyes turned gold and he disappeared in a burst of speed that astonished everyone.

Kokabiel moved to the right when he felt something approaching. That move allowed him to dodge a blow from Edzard, who had jumped up and tried to land a punch reinforced with destruction magic at the Cadre. Seeing that his attack had missed, Edzard maneuvered in the air and created a magic circle on which he leaned. Using this circle as a platform, he lunged at Kokabiel, who had to cross his arms to protect himself from Edzard's blow.

The force of the blow made Kokabiel fall towards the ground, but he managed to stabilize himself in the sky by flapping his wings. Raising his head, he saw Edzard falling towards him, so, stretching out his hands, he created two swords of light. With a smile, he swung both weapons to try to cut Edzard down. However, when he came within inches of hitting him, two swords stopped his swords and forced him to fall to the ground.

The impact created a large cloud of dust. When it dissipated, Kokabiel was seen kneeling on a crater using his swords to parry Edzard's weapons. Edzard's swords were his shehai in his right hand and a bound sword in his left.

"What are those weapons?" Kokabiel asked seeing the swords, because it was the first time he saw weapons like those.

"They are the swords with which I will end your life." Edzard said as he increased the force with which he grappled with Kokabiel.

Seeing that little by little his swords were losing ground, Kokabiel moved his wings and created a gust of wind that sent Edzard flying a few meters. Edzard maneuvered in the air and managed to land on his feet without any damage. To then launch again against his enemy.

"You are really someone strong. Why don't you join me?" Kokabiel asked as he dodged a slash from Edzard.

"And why would I join a maniac who wants to start a war?" Edzard asked as he jumped away from the Cadre to avoid a thrust.

"You would have many benefits." Kokabiel said with a smile.

"Sorry, but I'm not interested."

"Well that's too bad." Kokabiel said shaking his shoulders.

After that, the fallen angel took flight and created a great spear of light, which he launched against Edzard.

Edzard saw the spear of light fall towards him, so he made his swords disappear and bringing both hands together he launched a spear of ice. Both spears collided, generating a huge explosion that caused strong air currents that made the devils and Xenovia have to cover themselves so as not to be blown away.

As the blast dissipated, Edzard summoned his swords and quickly leapt at Kokabiel. His swords met Kokabiel's swords, who had decided to lunge at Edzard. Both enemies met in the sky, and exchanged a few quick blows. In the middle of that exchange, Kokabiel swung both swords and tried to make an X cut, but this was dodged by Edzard, who managed to maneuver enough to use a circle as a platform to land an ax kick at Kokabiel, who ended up falling to the ground.

Seeing that his enemy was falling to the ground, Edzard again used a magic circle as a platform to launch himself at Kokabiel.

Kokabiel maneuvered before hitting the ground and managed to land on his feet. Looking up, he could see that Edzard was heading towards him, so he flapped his wings and launched his feathers like projectiles.

Edzard seeing the projectiles coming towards him, quickly used his swords to deflect them all, making the ORC members look at him in amazement. After that, Edzard swung his swords again and tried to cut Kokabiel from the shoulder to the waist, but Kokabiel defended himself with his swords.

"You really are amazing!" Kokabiel yelled happily as he exchanged blows with Edzard.

Edzard didn't reply and kept attacking the Cadre with speed.

The battle dragged on for a few more minutes, in which both Edzard and Kokabiel hadn't managed to hit each other.

"You really are someone strong. So your reward for entertaining me will be that I will seriously fight you."

Issei, the rest of the ORC members, and Xenovia were shocked when they heard that.

"You're telling me that's not his full power." Issei said looking a little fearfully at Kokabiel.

[Of course, partner. You are talking about a fallen angel who survived the great war, so he is more powerful than this. Now the real question, is… How strong is your friend?]

"W-w-we must…. To help him." Xenovia said standing up, but before she could do anything, Edzard's voice interrupted her.

"Don't move if you want to continue living! This guy is much more powerful than all of you put together!"

After yelling that, Edzard put a serious look on his face.

"If you are going to fight seriously. I guess I'll have to do it too." Edzard said as he closed his eyes for a second and took a deep breath.

Kokabiel just laughed maniacally as he conjured two swords of light and moved at high speeds, managing to appear behind Edzard's back. With one movement he tried to stab Edzard in the back. The swords were about to touch Edzard, but they did not achieve anything, as they were stopped by Edzard's swords.

"You're fast, but not fast enough to beat my reflexes." Edzard said and then began to attack Kokabiel with great speed.

Both began to attack each other at high speed. His speed was such that the attacks seemed like blurs.

Edzard avoided an attack aimed at his head and moving his hand quickly, his sword managed to cut Kokabiel's cheek, who smiled more widely when he saw the cut, but for no reason did he stop attacking.

Edzard kept deflecting and parrying Kokabiel's attacks almost without moving from his spot.

Kokabiel jumped back and flicking his wings he flung his feathers at Edzard several times. Edzard deflected the feathers with both swords with hardly any damage, as the only injuries he had were a few small cuts on his body.

Kokabiel stopped attacking and looked at Edzard with a grin from ear to ear.

"You really should join me. Imagine the great battles we would fight in the new great war, no one could stop us." Kokabiel said with an insane look. "It would be great and a lot of fun."

"I will never fight alongside a being who is willing to sacrifice the lives of his soldiers just for fun." Edzard replied starting to get angry at how Kokabiel said that war was fun. "There is nothing fun in a war."

Edzard's answer made Kokabiel's smile die and he started to get angry.

"You speak like Azazel. That bastard made us retreat when we had already cornered the Angels and Devils! We could have won the great war, but no! That coward chose for us to retreat!" Kokabiel yelled furiously as his face contorted with anger. "But this time it will be different! I will show Sirzechs and Michael that we, the Fallen Angels, are the supreme beings! And by the time it's all over, I will personally go and destroy the system that God created before he died!"

Edzard, who was already completely angry, was now furious. This idiot not only dared to harm his family, but also declared that he wants to start a war just to prove that his race is the strongest without caring about the lives of his own race or those who would be caught in the middle of war.

Edzard was so deep in thought that he didn't realize that Kokabiel had indirectly dropped the bomb that God was dead.

"What are you talking about, Kokabiel?" Rias asked in shock as she hoped she had heard wrong.

"Yes! What do you mean?" Xenovia yelled.

"Oh. It seems like I blurted out something out of excitement." Kokabiel said, but then put a ghoulish smile on his face as he started to laugh as he realized something. "Hahaha! I don't know why I care about this. After all, I'm trying to start a war. Listen well. During the great war not only the four Maous died, but God also perished!"

Kokabiel's response amazed everyone, because no one expected that news.

"G-God i-i-is d-dead." Xenovia said in disbelief as she fell to her knees and leaned on her sword.

"G-God is dead?" Rias said in total shock; however, she then realized something. "That can't be true, because if it were, I would have heard about it."

"Of course it's true. I have no need to lie about that." Kokabiel said with a smile on his face. "All the top brass of the three factions were sworn to keep that a secret. After all, Angels, Fallen Angels, and Devils all needed subjugated humans."

"You lie." Xenovia said as she fell to her knees as she started to go into denial. "If God died, how come his blessings still work?"

"Michael is taking over the system, which is why they haven't lost much power. However, the death of God has allowed aberrations such as a holy-demonic sword to exist." Kokabiel said with a smile of satisfaction seeing the disbelief on the faces of almost everyone, since that smile died when he saw that Edzard did not have that expression, but seemed apathetic at the news. "There is someone here who is unfazed by this. So boy tell me. You already knew it?"

All eyes fell on Edzard, who was still undeterred.

"Ed?" Issei asked.

"Yes, I already knew." Edzard responded as if nothing had happened. "I've known for months. I discovered it by pure chance."

"Oh. Amazing. Even knowing this, you do not show any emotion of disbelief for the death of God."

"Why should I show disbelief at the death of a God I don't worship?" Edzard asked looking at Kokabiel. "Besides, it's not the first time in my life that I've heard that a God has died."

The ORC and Xenovia looked at Edzard in shock, as they never expected him to say that he already knew about God's death. Furthermore, they were greatly amazed at the total indifference he showed on that subject.

"This talk has already bored me beyond measure." Edzard said in a cold voice. "I will end your plan to start a war right now."

Saying that, Edzard extended his right hand and summoned a bound sword, as his shehai had recently vanished.

'I spent a long time in this conversation. But I needed to know how the death of God affected the three biblical factions. And just as I thought, that death made a huge impact to the point where they decided that only the top brass of each faction had the right to know.' Edzard thought as he reached his left hand to a pouch he had on the back of his belt. Slowly, he pulled out an object. When the object was halfway out, he opened his mouth and shouted.

"TIID! KLO!"

After that, Edzard disappeared from where he was standing and reappeared a meter away from Kokabiel's back. The speed at which he had moved had amazed everyone, including Kokabiel himself, who was amazed at this display of skill.

"What happened?" Rias asked in disbelief.

"I do not know. I-I couldn't see well." Kiba said in shock looking at Edzard.

"Were you always this strong, Ed?" Issei asked looking in complete disbelief as his friend had managed to move so fast that it seemed that he had teleported.

"H-h-how do you get-"

What Kokabiel was about to say was cut short when his head fell unceremoniously to the ground as disbelief was forever etched on his face. Before his body fell, a purple aura came out of his body and went towards Edzard's left hand.

Edzard frowned as he looked at the soul gem.

'One second per word. That is the amount of time I can now hold this thu'um.' Edzard thought worriedly. Initially, he could hold this thu'um longer, but after his ascension as Dovah, he was now fully in sync with the currents of time, which made forcing time to stop was a bit tricky, as it threatened against his own nature now. This being the reason why he now he could not master much of this thu'um. 'I guess with training I can get to two and a half seconds per word. Or maybe a little longer.'

Kokabiel's head rolled until he finally ended up at Issei's feet.

"Ahh!" Issei shouted in fear when he saw the head of the one who had tried to kill them a few minutes ago.

Edzard turned and saw Issei shuffling his foot as he tried to get the fallen Angel's blood off his shoe. Walking towards them, he spoke.

"It's useless, Issei." Edzard said getting everyone's attention. "The best thing you can do is take off your shoe and walk barefoot."

All the members of the ORC except for Issei were put on guard seeing Edzard so close to them.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you." Edzard said seeing that they were on the defensive. However, before he could continue speaking, the dome that formed the barrier exploded into thousands of pieces.

They all looked up to see a subject clad in white armor studded with blue gems that gave its wearer a draconic appearance. Although the armor was striking, what was most striking were the wings that said armor possessed, as they radiated a similar power, but opposite to Issei's gauntlet.

"The Hakuryuukou!" Xenovia yelled upon seeing the armor.

Edzard looked at Xenovia in confusion, but before he could say anything, his ears caught the caw of a crow. Turning his head, he saw something that made his blood run cold, for the crow that just cawed was not a normal one. This crow was black like a normal crow, the only difference was that his eyes glowed an unnatural violet color. Sensing the danger, Edzard quickly extended his hand towards the ORC and Xenovia. A golden sphere formed in his hand, generating a shock wave of kinetic energy that sent those in front of him flying several meters away.

The moment he made that movement, a purple portal opened behind Edzard's back and several black chains came out and wrapped around Edzard's body. Edzard attempted to escape, but to no avail as the chains dragged him towards the portal.

"Edzard!" Issei yelled as he watched helplessly as his friend was dragged by chains towards a dark-looking portal.

Edzard's vision darkened as he was dragged and forced against his will into the portal that had opened behind him. The darkness that covered his eyes was present for a few seconds until he was finally gone.

Blinking, Edzard looked around and was amazed at what he saw. Since he discovered that he was not in Kuoh, but was in a forest full of trees that cast long shadows. The sky of the place was completely purple. Aside from the forest there were also several ruined buildings along with some sunken crypts.

"Where the fuck am I?" Edzard wondered as he took in the scenery. Not recognizing anything about the place, he decided to walk along the path that crossed the forest.

As he walked, he felt someone watching him, so he increased his pace and started running through the trees. He was doing this for a few moments until he managed to momentarily lose his pursuer. Hiding in the roots of a tree, he waited. When he saw his pursuer, he cast a lightning spell on him with enough force to temporarily paralyze him.

When the being fell to the ground, Edzard approached it and blinked in confusion when he saw what it was. His pursuer was a crow with glowing purple eyes.

"So a Daedric Crow. I guess that makes my current position a place in the plane of Evergloam." Edzard said as he grabbed the paralyzed crow and held it. Seeing that the crow was already cured of paralysis, he asked him. "Why are you chasing me, crow?"

The crow looked up and its eyes widened in fear at the sight of Edzard. "Cro-Cro!

Edzard's eyebrow twitched as he saw that the crow wanted to be clever by trying to pass himself off as a normal crow. "Speak, crow. Otherwise I will make you my dinner."

The crow turned white with fear and screamed. "It's okay! I'll talk! Just don't eat me!"

"Did you see. It wasn't very difficult, was it?"

The crow nodded as his eyes continued to show fear.

"So, crow. Why were you following me?"

"Lady Nocturnal's orders."

Edzard looked at the crow and sighed, as this confirmed his suspicion that Nocturnal had teleported him to this world for some reason.

"What are those orders?"

"Take the Dovahkiin to the lake up ahead."

"I see. I guess I'll set you free to guide me." Edzard said as he released the crow, which wasted no time and flew away.

"Here. follow me." The crow said as he began to fly west.

Edzard followed the crow for what seemed like hours, until at last he saw the lake. However, before reaching it, the crow stopped abruptly.

"What's happening?" Edzard asked as he saw the crow stop.

"So far I come. I have already done my duty, so I am retiring." said the crow as he began to fly east. "Good luck, Dovahkiin:"

Edzard watched the crow disappear into the forest trees. Finding himself alone, he decided to continue on his way. When he reached the shore of the lake, out of nowhere the shadows gathered and formed a silhouette. First a completely naked woman appeared. Edzard blushed at the sight of her, for she was one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen. As the woman walked, the shadows began to cover her, forming a blanket as dark as the starless night.

"Dovahkiin." Nocturnal said when seeing Edzard.

"Lady Nocturnal." Edzard said as he lowered his head, because although he respected the Daedra, his pride as a dragon prevented him from kneeling before anyone other than his father.

If Nocturnal was offended that Edzard wouldn't kneel, she didn't show it. In fact, a smile had appeared on her face. Approaching Edzard, she reached out her hand and touched the face of her former Nightingale. Slowly, she brought her face closer to Edzard's and brushed her lips with his own; however, before she could kiss him, he abruptly pulled away from her.

"Know. I could regard such an act as an affront and destroy you, Dovahkiin." Nocturnal said with an amused smile.

"Maybe, but I don't plan to betray my wife." Edzard answered seriously.

The smile on Nocturnal's face widened upon hearing that. "You really are a very strange person, Edzard."

Edzard raised his eyebrow, since Nocturnal had never called him by his name.

"Many would kill for the chance to kiss me. However, you reject me without hesitation." Nocturnal said as she began to float around Edzard as she traced her fingers down Edzard's body. "Although your rejection only makes me want you more and more."

Edzard felt a little uncomfortable with the conversation, but he showed great self-control to remain as calm and serious as possible.

"You really flatter me. But I don't think that's the reason you called me, right?"

"Certain. We cannot mix pleasure with business." Nocturnal replied as she looked at Edzard. "And you're not wrong. Since I didn't call you to try to seduce you. Rather, I did it to warn you. Tell me, Dovahkiin. What have you recently seen in that new world?"

"Daedras in the service of Mehrunes Dagon." Edzard replied.

"So is. Why do you think Dagon is sending his troops to Earth?"

"He plans to invade Earth."

"So is. Although he is not the only one." Nocturnal said as he looked up at the sky from his plane.

"What do you mean?" asked Edzard concerned, because if having Dagon was a bad thing, having another prince behind Earth was something worse.

"There is another prince who also wishes for Earth." Nocturnal replied.

"Other? Who is the other prince?"

"Oh. Because I would tell you, Dovahkiin." Nocturnal answered with a smile. "Where's the fun in that?"

Edzard gritted his teeth, but had to calm down. Fighting Nocturnal was not something that favored him. After all, she was one of the most powerful Daedric princes around.

Nocturnal's smile grew as she felt Edzard's anger.

"Our talk is over, Dovhakiin." Nocturnal said as she extended her hand forward creating a portal.

Edzard saw the portal and decided to get out of there before Nocturnal changed her mind and ends up locking him in the Evergloam for all eternity. As he crossed, he felt someone grab his arm and pull him. Then he felt lips on his. His eyes widened when he saw that it was Nocturnal kissing him. When they parted, Nocturnal had a grin from ear to ear.

"Until next time, Dovahkiin." Nocturnal said as she pushed Edzard through the portal.

As the portal closed, Nocturnal felt a presence at her back. Sighing, she turned to see her dearest sister looking at her disapprovingly.

"Hello Azura. What brings you to my home on this dark day?"

"You really ask me that, Nocturnal." Azura replied with a frown.

"Of course I do. After all, I don't know what you're doing around here." Nocturnal replied as she began to walk away from her sister.

"Nocturnal. Jyggalag knows that you called the Dovahkiin into your realm."

Azura's words made Nocturnal stop in his tracks. Turning, Nocturnal frowned before speaking.

"And with that? This is my plane and I can do whatever I want here."

"That's true. But you almost got us in trouble." Azura said. "What would have happened if you had brought someone else with the Dovahkiin."

"Nothing serious. If that had happened, I would have killed the intruder." Nocturnal said like it was nothing. "If that's all you wanted to tell me. So, we say goodbye."

Azura nodded and left Evergloam leaving her sister alone.

While the meeting of the sisters was taking place, a big party was taking place in a building in some city on Earth. The sounds of the moans of couples having sex, the sounds of the screams of drunks drinking alcohol, the sounds of music completely filled the room while a being very similar to a dremora was sitting in a chair watching the whole show around him.

"Ha, ha, ha! This world really is the best." Sanguine said happily as he looked out of the corner of his eye at the orgy in a corner of the room. "I never expected these humans to be so depraved."

The joy of the Daedric Prince was due to the fact that currently the group of followers that he had managed to create on Earth was a very interesting group. Especially when it came to parties, because unlike Nirm, here on Earth at parties there were not only alcohol and sex, but also drugs and more.

"This world is great. Especially the internet."

The internet was something the Prince of Excess had never expected. And it is that he had never in his life seen a place with so much information about all kinds of things. Especially in the matter to which sex refers.

"Okay. I'm done with this book." Sanguine said closing the cover of the Kama Sutra book. "They really know how to have fun in this world."

Saying that, Sanguine snapped his fingers and the entire party ended completely. All of his followers stopped what they were doing and paid attention to his patron.

"Very well my dear followers." Sanguine said getting up and summoning an image of Edzard. "I want you to look for information about the place where this person is. And when they do, I want them to transmit it to me as quickly as possible."

All of the Sanguine worshipers nodded.

"Well. I repeat, I just want you to find out where he is. Nothing more. I don't want him to be kidnapped or anything like that. Have I been clear?"

The worshipers nodded, making it clear that they understood Sanguine's orders.

Sanguine's smile widened and he left the place, but not before leaving the room completely full of aphrodisiac so that his followers continue to entertain themselves while he was gone.

Author's note:

To those who have made it this far, Thanks for reading. Because being honest, I don't know how to write much in English and I'm relying on Google translators and the dictionaries that come with office 2019.

And finally, the battle against Kokabiel. I'm going to be honest, I didn't know if I would get this chapter out this week or the next, as I've had several very sensitive personal issues since the last chapter was posted. But in the end, I managed to get out of all that, so now I'm better and I can continue writing.

I thought for several days whether to make Xenovia turn into a devil or an angel, but in the end I decided to continue with her canon story. Now, as you can see, the Daedric princes have no problem getting in and out of Earth. As for Nocturnal's relationship with Edzard, well she's a Daedric prince, and they don't know love like a human, so she'll have an obsession with the last Dragonborn. And the good Sanguine reappears, so more or less they already know what's coming. XD

Shadow55: thanks for the review.

Now, before I go, a question.

What do you think would be a good unique ability for the Nerevarine?

Well, I apologize for any misspelling. Do not forget to leave a review if you liked the chapter or if there is something that needs to be improved or if you have any questions about the story. With nothing more to say, until the next chapter.