134 Basically, Theyre Strong (1/2)
”…Rather, what happened to you, Arima?” Night broke the silence after he returned to his human form. Arima scratched his head and grunted as he stood up.
”s.h.i.+t, I don't have any mana left. First the gate and now this, of course, I would be dry…” He complained and slowly walked out from the depression on the ground created by the sphere.
”Just opening the gate should be impossible…” Chulainn muttered ”And you even resisted the h.e.l.l's inquisitorial…” He added.
Arima ignored and looked around; at the creva.s.ses that had opened for him earlier, some of the broken chains were also lying here and there, slowly vanis.h.i.+ng ”I don't even know what happened to myself. I just know that when I entered this place, my entire being was shaken. Like everything around me was trying to crush everything I represented” He answered to Night just after.
As he walked by Lanya, he waved his hand and a silver light escaped his hands to directly merge with her eyes. Lanya sighed she swiped the blood ”Thank you” She said and Arima nodded.
”After that, when I was about to faint. Something deep inside my soul came out to fight back that 'invasion' I was suffering” Arima turned toward Chulainn and finished his description.
The h.e.l.lhound just waved his tail and crushed some trees at the same time ”How am I supposed to know why h.e.l.l tried to imprison you?” He retorted before Arima could ask ”I'm just a sort of administrator, but I don't know the details”
”Fine” Arima waved his hand ”Don't mind then. It's just that the 'power' which saved me is something I wished I would never see any more” He replied and cracked his neck ”What should we do now? Do you have an idea?”
”…I don't know” Chulainn said after a brief moment of silence.
”Thanks, admin” Arima jested and Chulainn snorted.
”We have to get information before taking any initiative. First, we need to know what the movements of the prisoners are; the plans of the h.e.l.l's princes and Hades; the strategy of the G.o.ds; and finally, Ojure Karez's next plans” Chulainn listed and suddenly looked over the trees with one of his heads.
”Let's go for now. Your odd aura of death earlier attracted some curious people” Chulainn muttered as stomped on the ground.
The surroundings moved by themselves the earth raised to form a dome around the group. That dome stayed in the middle of the forest for a second before it suddenly crumbled. But no one was under it anymore.
A few seconds after, Hades arrived there and scanned the place ”…Kerberos was here. He came back?” He frowned.
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Arima observed the red sky and red gra.s.s everywhere and whistled ”So that's what you can do as the Gate's Guardian?”
”Basically. But it's just one of my simplest abilities here; a separated s.p.a.ce” Chulainn responded and looked at everyone ”We can go anywhere in h.e.l.l from here. What do you want to do? If you want to help in this war, I will act with you since I can't be roaming around h.e.l.l with the prisoners of the purgatory completely free out there. Some of them were sent in the purgatory because of me after all, I don't want to be a.s.saulted by everyone” He said.
”So, summarized, you're asking for help” Arima spoke and Chulainn opened his mouths before shaking his heads ”Fine, you know that I will help anyway. Tell me what you know first, about those prisoners and the rest of the Devils in h.e.l.l” He then demanded.
Chulainn sighed ”If we're going to talk…” He muttered, and his body turned back into a small pup.
”See, you get used to it. Almost to the point, you like it better” Night exclaimed and Chulainn grunted. Arima snickered and made a table with magic. He sat down with everyone and Chulainn jumped on the table.
Chulainn coughed a little and focused ”Let's talk about the prisoners first. Basically, they're strong” He said with a blank expression and Arima put his arm on the table as he looked at Chulainn with dead eyes.
”Let me finish” Chulainn said ”They're really strong from your perspective. No one among you is at the Heavenly realm. Meanwhile, all of the thousands of prisoners are at least in the first divine” He explained and Arima nodded calmly.
”The crucial point here is that the difference of strength between each divine is enormous. A second divine can easily beat a hundred people who are at the first” Chulainn said and looked at Arima ”Of course, it's really hard to sound convincing when someone like you is just in front of me but that's how things are”
Arima's three companions nodded to those words and the said person just waited ”Anyway, before going any further, you need to at least enter the Heavenly realm” Chulainn gravely declared and Arima exhaled.
”I know. I suppose I have to pa.s.s that d.a.m.n Life Judgment” He responded and Chulainn shrugged ”I think I already know how to start it. I have an idea for the occasion. So just continue” Arima waved his hand.
”Fine, if you insist” Chulainn replied and rolled his eyes to the left. Three projections of light appeared there. Each representing the strongest prisoners that left the purgatory.
”The demon woman with eyes looking like precious stones…I'm not adulating her by the way, I'm just describing her” He remarked and then continued ”She's called Vastra, second divine, and most likely the strongest 'charmer' who ever existed. You can be sure that if you want to fight her, it's an army that you'll go for”
”The beast-man is called Utain, third divine, he's capable of destroying a normal planet with a single punch” He paused ”Physically only. Get that right” He added.
Chulainn looked at the last projection and scowled like he had seen something really annoying ”The last monster you see there is something I'm sure you know about. He's an actual deity, it's quite popular in your world. Try to guess”
Arima stared at the figure of the huge monster with goat legs and squinted his eyes ”…Baphomet?” He frowned and gave away his speculation.
”Bingo” Chulainn smirked and said ”There's not much to say, don't you think? That thing is at the third divine and one of the strongest beings in this plane” He affirmed and Arima nodded.
”Well after that. We have the seven princes, seven sins, or fallen angels, use what you prefer” Chulainn erased the projections of the three prisoners and started listing names with a new figure appearing each time.
”Asmodeus; l.u.s.t. He's a bad guy but he's always in seclusion. Don't worry about him, you'll most likely never meet him”