Moses, Adamus, and Kiyohime were locked in a battle of their own
a battle no less vital… and far from over.
Above the chaotic sea of stars, Moses surged through the enemy ranks, his holy sword blazing with light, cutting down thousands of Hellwalker foot soldiers. Each slash echoed with the faith of generations. But amid the fury, he didn't see the danger forming overhead.
A massive flock of Hellwings twisted, corrupted fliers dove from above.
They encircled Moses, wings flaring, blades gleaming. They attacked without mercy slashing, firing energy waves, crashing into him with shielded bodies.
Moses staggered as several blows landed barely standing, still fighting back, striking down a few even as they closed in.
Then
"Watch out!" Kiyohime screamed.
One of the Hellwings lunged, blade poised to cleave off Moses's head
But her Toki no Me, the Eyes of Time, were already glowing bright violet.
The moment froze.
The demon halted in midair, time suspended.
Without hesitating, Kiyohime swept her arm and froze the entire flock in a suspended net of frozen time.
With one elegant motion, she drew her blade The Birth of Death and sliced through them all, a blur of silver arcs.
When the last Hellwing shattered into spiritual mist, she turned.
Moses met her gaze.
"Thank you," he said, breathless.
But before she could reply
Adamus came crashing through the void, pursued by a massive Abyssal Beast a dragon-like demon wrapped in black flame.
"Move!" Adamus roared.
They scattered as he grabbed the beast's jaws with both hands, holding them open with sheer force.
"Get off me!"
With a fierce knee to its throat, Adamus unleashed a burst of golden energy point-blank into its mouth.
The beast exploded.
Smoke and starlight cleared. The three warriors hovered together, back-to-back.
"We need to find the leader," Moses said, gripping his sword. "That's the only way to stop this. They just keep coming… I don't know how much longer the boat can take it."
"I agree," Kiyohime added. "This is a ritual. We have to find whoever's behind it," she continued, eyes narrowing. "Someone is creating this portal summoning these demons on purpose. If we don't stop them, more will come."
Adamus nodded, glancing at the battlefield below.
"I don't know how long the guardian I summoned can keep protecting the ship. The halready tearing apart."
He looked down saw fire and energy tearing across the boat, warriors holding their lines against waves of demonic invaders.
Explosions flashed across the battlefield as both boats drifted across the stars locked in war.
Without another word, the three of them surged forward, blazing through the void flying and running at full speed toward the Demon Ark, determined to find the one casting the summoning spell.
But just as the demon Ark came into view, the space tore open above them.
A deafening screech echoed through the darkness.
They were ambushed.
A whole flock of Fallen Angels descended like a storm.
Hundreds of them twisted, corrupted versions of heaven's host rained from the sky. Their wings were jagged and ash-colored, their eyes ablaze with hatred. They shrieked in a dead tongue, ancient and vile, as they swarmed from all directions.
A brutal aerial clash erupted in the black void.
Moses soared through the chaos, striking with radiant arcs of divine fire. Kiyohime danced between shadows and strikes, her serpentine magic coiling through the air, cutting down winged monstrosities with deadly grace. And Adamus halo shining bright and golden energy burning in his hands fought at the center of the storm.
But then, a cluster of Fallen Angels broke formation and encircled Adamus mid-air. They hissed and lunged, their claws reaching, wings folding inward like a net.
Adamus's eyes glowed fiercely. He extended one hand and hurled a golden energy blast at them pure power laced with divine light.
They absorbed it.
The blast vanished into their bodies like water into sand. They only sneered.
Adamus narrowed his eyes. "If you're truly demons… you can absorb holiness, can you?"
He pulled back his arm and began to charge another orb of energy this one brighter, pulsing with ancient power. The void trembled.
"Om Mani Padme Hum."
The chant echoed like a bell across dimensions.
He released the blast. This time, it wasn't just energy it was sanctified force, holiness distilled into light. It struck the surrounding Fallen Angels, piercing their defenses.
Some tried to absorb it again. Others raised shields.
It didn't matter.
The holy light surged through them, washing over their twisted bodies. The mark of the beast etched on their skin began to burn then vanish. Their demonic forms unraveled, wings crumbling into feathers, horns dissolving to ash. One by one, they fell unconscious, stripped of corruption, suspended in the void like fallen stars.
Moses, still locked in combat nearby, glanced over. "Impressive," he muttered, dodging a blade and countering with a burst of fire. "I see... That technique of yours it's like Holy Water Vajra."
Kiyohime nodded, landing a vicious strike to her opponent's throat. "Cleansing by impact… poetic."
With renewed strength, the three warriors continued the battle. The tide turned in their favor.
And soon after a flurry of divine strikes, arcane spells, and piercing light the last of the Fallen Angels dropped from the sky, defeated.
They barely had a moment to breathe.
Across the void on the deck of the Demon Vessel stood the towering figure of Behemoth, gazing across the battle.
"There," he growled. "My queen look. The two we've been searching for. Moses… the half-embodied Concept of Faith. And that other Vajra…"
On her throne, Lilith sat cloaked in flame and shadows. She smiled.
"Yes… I can sense them now. Their energy is unlike anything else. Even with omnipresent tracing Lucifer's stolen abilities from Yahweh we couldn't find them. Their energy fights against the narrative itself… It hides beyond the weave of fate."
She rose slowly.
"I'm just glad the hunt is over. Especially for Faith. We've searched eons."
She glanced to her side, where Belial, ever loyal, sat atop his burning steed.
"Remember, My beloveds Lucifer," Lilith said with deadly calm.
"Lucifer wants them alive. He will consume them personally."
Belial bowed low.
"Yes, my Queen. For you, and for our Lord I shall deliver them."
The three demons launched into the stars, black wings tearing space behind them.
Meanwhile, Moses, Adamus, and Kiyohime hovered in the aftermath of the battle.
Adamus pointed ahead, eyes glowing brighter with each passing second. "We're almost there… almost at the Demon Ark. I can feel it now the one casting the spell. Their energy is pulsing at the core."
He narrowed his gaze. "And they're not alone. I'm sensing others… powerful demons surrounding them. Get ready."
Just then, a voice echoed across the void.
"I heard you've been looking for us."
Lilith.
Behemoth.
Belial.
Floating ahead, cloaked in fire and darkness.
Both sides paused, suspended in space, the war raging all around them
And for a moment…
Time stood still.
Adamus stepped forward, golden eyes narrowed, staring down the three demonic figures before him:
Lilith. Behemoth. Belial.
He raised his voice, steady and sharp:
"What do you all want from us?"
Lilith smirked, fire curling at the corners of her eyes.
"I've heard plenty about you, kid."
She leaned forward on her floating throne.
"Why don't you use those golden eyes of yours? What's the matter afraid to see my past?"
Adamus didn't flinch.
"We already told Lucifer: we just want to go home. We're taking everyone to the center of the Hyperverse, saving who we can… and then we're leaving. That's it."
Kiyohime added coldly,
"What happens after that isn't our concern. We're not playing your games."
Lilith's voice turned cruel.
"Too bad. You're not escaping. Not you, Vajra…"
Her eyes turned to Moses.
"And not the one carrying faith."
Kiyohime's blade sparked.
"What do you want with Adamus? And I repeat we are leaving."
Adamus's eyes flared golden. The Tenshi no Me ignited.
He looked straight into Lilith, light piercing her like judgment.
A rush of visions hit him her torment, her rise, the fall, Lucifer's plan…
And something else.
He turned slowly to Moses, gaze burning.
"Why didn't you tell me…?"
Lilith laughed.
"So… you finally awakened those divine eyes. You saw it, didn't you? My life. My chains. But more importantly
Lucifer's desire for you. For your energy, Vajra."
She stood now, her voice echoing across the stars.
"Your compassion… your higher-dimensional essence… it transcends everything in this Hyperverse. You don't even understand how powerful you are."
She licked her lips.
"But Lucifer does. In his hands, your power would make him unstoppable."
She turned to Moses.
"And you… we've searched for you across all realities. For faith. Even a fraction of it. The half that's been hiding in you since birth."
Moses finally spoke, lowering his sword.
"I'm sorry, Adamus. I didn't want to hide it. I only found out recently…"
He sighed.
"But yes it's true. I carry a concept. Faith."
Kiyohime looked stunned.
"Why do you have to go to Heaven? I thought the plan was to gather everyone, reach the center of the Hyperverse, and let your God reset the cosmos. Then we all go back to our own worlds."
Moses shook his head solemnly.
"There's more to it than that."
Before he could continue, Belial cut in, voice like ash and thunder:
"Everything you said is true… but incomplete. For Yahweh to rebuild the Hyperverse, the concept of faith must return to Him. Willingly."
Moses nodded.
"If I don't return my essence if faith doesn't go back then we'll all be trapped. The center will collapse. The reset will fail. The cycle won't complete."
Adamus and Kiyohime stared at him, betrayed and confused.
"Why didn't you tell us before?" Adamus asked quietly.
Moses replied with sad determination.
"Because it's not your burden. It's mine. You two have already saved enough people. You don't owe us anything. Go back to your own reality. You've done enough."
But Adamus shook his head.
"No. We're not leaving you."
Kiyohime joined him, voice fierce.
"If you have to go to Heaven, we're going with you. We'll extend our visit… and make sure jerks like this don't touch your world."
Lilith laughed again wild, venomous.
Her crimson eyes gleamed with madness as she raised a hand toward her generals.
"Behemoth. Belial. Attack."
The void split open as the two demon lords surged forward like falling comets.
Adamus, Moses, and Kiyohime ascended to meet them swords drawn, fist ablaze, their divine energy trailing behind them like burning banners across the stars.
Kiyohime vs Behemoth
Behemoth barreled through the void toward Kiyohime, his colossal body ripping the vacuum apart. With a roar, he swung his spiked tail.
Kiyohime flashed sideways, dodging the blow but the shockwave from his tail obliterated nearby stars and shattered a moon into burning fragments. The sheer force rattled entire constellations.
She narrowed her eyes and slipped inside his guard.
Her blade The Birth of Death gleamed with serpentine magic as it pierced straight into Behemoth's chest.
"You can't kill me."
Behemoth growled, blood oozing but grin widening.
He lunged forward, jaws unhinging like a beast from myth, and clamped them down on Kiyohime's arm biting it clean off.
The bite fractured reality, warping the stars behind her like melting glass.
Kiyohime stumbled back, breathing heavy.
Blood floated in glowing droplets but then her sword began to whisper, rewriting the event itself.
Her arm didn't heal it simply reappeared, whole again, as if it had never been bitten.
"I see... You regenerate too," Behemoth chuckled, as the gaping wound in his chest closed with hellfire sinew.
"I do more than heal," Kiyohime hissed, wings flaring and they both charged, colliding in a storm of divine and demonic fury.
Adamus and Moses vs Belial
Elsewhere in the cosmos, Adamus and Moses streaked toward Belial, who approached astride his obsidian-winged horse. The steed flew with immeasurable speed, cloaked in blade-like wind.
The horse struck first slicing through the void with a maelstrom of slashes, its hooves and wings carving Adamus and Moses with blitzing cuts. They blocked and parried, but still bled under the relentless assault.
Belial smirked.
"This is my moment," he thought.
"If I absorb them both… I'll be greater than Lilith. Greater than Lucifer. Their powers will be mine."
But Adamus's eyes flared golden.
Velocity Sync activated.
His body synced perfectly with the horse's speed mirroring its movement.
He reached forward and grabbed the horse's Life Strings.
Golden threads surged around the beast.
Belial looked down, eyes widening.
"What is this thread? It's connected to… my horse? No… is this what Lucifer warned us about?!"
Before he could act, Adamus jerked the strings swinging the horse and Belial like a meteor through space, launching them.
They flew for miles…
But reappeared instantly, right behind Adamus, reorienting mid-air.
Belial speared Adamus mid-dodge, sending him flying through nebulae before Adamus caught himself mid-spin.
Moses appeared in a flash of white fire, teleporting right in front of Belial and threw a punch.
But he hit an afterimage.
The real Belial blurred past him and countered the horse struck first, then Belial grabbed Moses by the throat, lifting him.
His fingers morphed into jagged black blades, and he stabbed Moses through the gut his hands sharp enough to slice through dimensions.
Moses coughed blood, white light beginning to leak from his form.
Belial grinned, savoring it.
"The power of faith... I'll absorb it all. Half of it is going to be mine."
Lilith Intervenes
Back on her floating black throne, Lilith watched the betrayal unfold.
Her eyes narrowed. She stood, furious.
"Belial… What are you doing? We were to bring them alive. Lucifer is meant to absorb their concepts!"
But Belial didn't care.
"I'm done being third. Done taking orders from you. From Lucifer."
His voice burned with ambition.
"Today, I become ruler. The power of faith is real. And Vajra… I'll take his next the concept of compassion and emptiness."
Lilith's sword materialized in her hand black and red, humming with wrath.
Adamus screamed from across the stars, golden light streaming behind him.
"MOSES!!!"
He flew at Belial like thunder itself, his energy building into something terrible, divine.
Belial floated in the stars, clutching Moses, whose body bled divine light. Adamus rushed toward him, golden flames burning from his eyes.
But before Adamus could strike
Belial raised a hand and fired an energy beam directly at him.
Adamus growled and tried to slap the beam aside, but the moment his hand touched it
He vanished.
Teleported.
Gone.
Belial smirked darkly. With Moses still clutched in his grip, the demon whispered,
"My plan is working. Both of them within my grasp."
He vanished too, blinking out of reality just as Lilith lunged forward, her sword almost severing him mid-escape.
She halted in midair, eyes blazing.
"…He took them to his own universe-dimension," she muttered. "A realm only he can access. Unless invited, no one can follow."
She sheathed her blade in frustration.
"Traitor… Fool." Her voice echoed in the vacuum. "There's no way he can handle both of them alone."
Lilith turned her gaze to the cataclysmic battle raging nearby
Kiyohime vs Behemoth.
Her eyes narrowed.
"Who is this woman?" she murmured. "She's a demon… But not one of ours. That energy it's not from our hell. It's from something deeper. Something... boundless. So this must be the one Lucifer spoke of. Maybe... I could use her as a vessel."
Kiyohime vs Behemoth – Final Phase
Behemoth thundered forward, tail whipping.
But surrounding Kiyohime was her toroidal energy field, distorting gravity in concentric loops.
Every swing of Behemoth's tail was redirected by gravitational warping, just missing her by mere inches.
She countered with surgical precision slicing him again and again. One arm severed. It reformed instantly in molten lava.
"Why can't I hit you!?" Behemoth screamed. "It's like the world bends around you!"
He roared and opened his massive jaw.
Inside it a growing orb of annihilation.
Then
He fired.
A beam of unfathomable power tore forward.
But within her gravity-warping field, Kiyohime's shield slowed the energy, reducing its speed as she dodged sideways.
Once it left her field, the blast accelerated again detonating violently across several distant universes, fracturing their skies.
Kiyohime charged, ready to strike
But reality rippled before her, and
The energy blast reappeared in front of her.
She twisted away. Another blast.
Again.
Another.
They were chasing her, warping through dimensional portals responding to her movement.
She looked up surrounded.
A web of energy beams, each slipping through wormholes, tracking her movements.
A spider web of annihilation formed around her.
She had only one escape route left and even that was closing.
Her thoughts began to race.
"I can't keep regenerating forever. My sword rewrites my wounds, but this… this will tear me apart over and over. Spiritually. Dimensionally. I can't fix my body if I'm erased from all sides."
Her breathing became shallow.
She thought of her mother bound in flames, screaming in her final memory.
"I will avenge you."
Her voice trembled.
"I hate doing this... but I have no choice."
Kiyohime: Demon Mode
A surge of purple and black energy erupted from her body.
Two white horns grew from each side of her head.
Her eyes glowed with Toki no Me, brighter than ever.
Her toroidal energy field expanded, becoming an orb of flickering gravitational collapse.
Then her glowing eyes flared.
"Stop."
A pulse of raw purple light exploded from her pupils.
Everything within her field Behemoth, the lasers, the warping gates froze in transcending time state.
They ceased to move, halted in a field of paradox.
Kiyohime broke free, slicing every trapped energy beam with one clean burst of force.
Behemoth, now motionless, tried to move
But only his jaw twitched.
"How…?" he gasped. "I transcend time. This shouldn't affect me!"
But his body slowed further.
Kiyohime rushed him, her first sword glowing.
"Trust me. You cannot move. I didn't stop time. I stopped something... deeper."
Behemoth tried to laugh but failed.
"Even if I'm frozen, you can't kill me. You'll have to let go eventually. You can't stop eternity."
Kiyohime's eyes narrowed.
"He wouldn't be the first immortal I've killed."
Her sword The Birth of Death lit up with higher-dimensional energy.
She brought it down.
One clean cut.
Behemoth's body split not just physically, but existentially.
His soul poured out, screaming, only to be siphoned into her sword.
Behemoth's body floated, bisected in space soulless, empty, dead.
The purple glow faded.
Kiyohime's eyes bled as the time-frozen state collapsed.
She gripped her face, barely standing.
"That… hurt," she said, breath shaking. "I can't keep doing that move. I can barely control it…"
Lilith Approaches
From the dark void, Lilith appeared in front of her, uninvited, floating.
"Impressive," she said.
Kiyohime stepped back, sword raised again.
"Where are my friends? Where's Adamus?"
Lilith gave a mocking smile.
"Trust me," she said,
"They'll be back. But right now…"
She pointed her sword at Kiyohime's throat.
"You should be more worried about your own life."
Lilith's words cut like a curse, her blade hovering above Kiyohime's heart.
Kiyohime clenched her jaw. Even though I absorbed Behemoth's soul… his essence… my body is still damaged from overusing my eyes. Her vision blurred. Her limbs ached. But she could not back down.
Where are you, Adamus? Where are you, Moses?
She raised her voice:
"You're not killing me. My soul powers are still activated!"
Lilith smirked, her cracked lips dripping with black blood.
"I don't have to kill you. Lucifer doesn't care about you. He only desires your friends…"
Her voice curled into temptation.
"You should join us. You're just like me. A demon. Tell me… how was life in the Boundless Hell? My intel says that's where you're from."
Kiyohime's eyes widened. Her voice cracked.
"I'm nothing like you!"
She screamed, staggering to her feet.
"I might be a demon… but that doesn't mean I'm anything like you. I never tortured people. I don't know what the Boundless Hell is like my mother came from there. I wasn't born there."
Lilith's face twisted in disgust.
"Look at you. Ashamed of your roots. Ashamed to be a demon. Embrace what you are. Embrace our culture destroying."
"That's not our culture!" Kiyohime shouted. "Not all demons kill and destroy! My mother was the kindest person I knew! Why don't you embrace who you are"
Lilith snarled, cutting her off.
"You're no demon. You're an angel."
"You're wrong," Kiyohime snapped. "You're corrupted. You're a full angel. Lucifer never told you, did he? That he changed the timeline."
Lilith's pupils shrank.
"I know he did," she said sharply. "I was never born an angel. I'm half and half. A fallen angel!"
Kiyohime stepped forward, defiant.
"He lied to you. He wants to control you. Your entire life is a lie. You were born an angel. And your true husband... is Samael."
The name hit like a bolt of divine lightning.
"Samael?" Lilith gasped.
Suddenly black demonic energy burst around her head like a crown of shadow. Her eyes rolled back. Her body shuddered violently.
"What is happening to me?!" she screamed. "What are these memories?!"
Kiyohime whispered, "He's placed a spell on you. One that makes you forget."
"SHUT UP!" Lilith shrieked. "Lucifer is my all… my beloved!"
The dark aura flared… then flickered.
And Lilith charged.
Clash of Wrath and Will
Swords clashed, igniting the remains of the hyperverse in cascading shockwaves.
Kiyohime's strength was waning her vision fading, her purple glow receding.
Her eyes dimmed to dark brown. Her energy collapsed.
She drifted backward battered, broken, weightless in space.
Lilith hovered above, lips bloodied, armor cracked, sword drawn.
"It's over."
She raised her blade
But it was caught before it could fall.
The Arrival of the Archangels
A towering figure had stepped between them dark steel armor overlaid with black crystal, expressionless, terrifying.
There were no symbols on him. No light in his eyes.
Only judgment.
His black wings stretched out like blades of fate.
Even Lilith stepped back.
And then they appeared.
All around them angels. Warriors of light.
Dozens. Hundreds. Some holding banners. Others, swords. From both the remnants of Noah's Ark and the skies.
Kiyohime was gently lifted from the void by one of them.
"Thank you…" she whispered, eyes hazy.
Surrounded by armor-clad angels, she spotted a familiar face rushing toward her
Hunter.
He embraced her tight.
"I'm so glad you're okay. Where's Adamus? Where's Moses?"
"I… I don't know," Kiyohime said, "but who are all these angels?"
The one with the black wings silent, imposing finally spoke.
"We are Archangels."
"My name is Samael. We came from the center of the hyperverse. We've been watching. We came when we felt the commotion. You were close. So we flew."
Another angel appeared beside him radiant silver armor glowing softly.
Gabriel.
He looked at Lilith, sorrow in his timeless eyes.
"Samael… look what Lucifer has done to your wife."
"Yes," Samael said, voice like thunder behind mountains. "What he's done… is evil."
Gabriel stood tall a vision of serenity.
His long silver hair shimmered with divine peace. His translucent wings hummed with celestial tones.
He was the stillness before time. The whisper between worlds.
Another angel landed beside them, fire in his step.
Michael.
Clad in burnished copper and gold, his wings blazed like battle-born swords.
"I brought the Holy Water," Michael said. "We'll need it. Lucifer's corruption is deep."
Samael took the vial, eyes locked on Lilith.
"It's time to remove the Mark of the Beast… and bring my wife back."
The Cleansing of Lilith
Lilith stood in defiance.
"I could take all of you by myself! I am Queen of Hell I fear nothing!"
But then her eyes met Samael's.
Her breath caught.
"Samael…" she whispered.
Black energy flared again violently. Her head split with pain.
"What's happening to me?! What are these memories Samael!"
Reality warped around her.
Time fractured.
The demonic aura burned space itself corrupting the very fabric of creation.
Samael walked forward.
Unshaken.
Even as his armor crumbled, burned away by the storm.
He reached her… and took her arm.
Lilith screamed.
He poured the Holy Water upon her.
A flash of divine brilliance erupted.
The black energy dissolved.
Her skin returned to a radiant glow.
Her horns vanished.
Her bloodied, tattered wings shifted becoming pure white, wide and weeping.
Her body collapsed forward right into Samael's arms.
She looked up at him, trembling.
"I… remember."
Then, gently she passed out, peaceful at last.
Samael descended gently from the stars, Lilith asleep in his arms, her breath light, her aura soft for the first time in eons.
He landed beside Michael, Gabriel, Hunter, and Kiyohime, who stood upright with effort, still drained but resolute.
"I'm sorry for what she's done," Samael said, looking at them his voice calm, but filled with ancient sorrow.
Kiyohime shook her head, blood still clinging to her cheek.
"It's fine. But if you really want to help us…"
She stepped forward.
"Help us find our friends. Adamus and Moses."
Michael turned, eyes sharp.
"Moses… Where is he? He's the reason we came."
Gabriel stepped in beside him, solemn.
"He holds the other half of Faith," he said. "And the other half is safeguarded with us at the center of the Hyperverse."
Michael clenched his fists. "If the halves reunite, the power of faith will awaken fully. That's what Lucifer fears most."
Gabriel looked to the heavens, his silver hair flowing like moonlight.
"But we must hurry. The end-time energy is spreading faster than we predicted. The hyperverse is collapsing. Only a few universes remain intact. Soon, only the Center will be left… and even that won't last."
Kiyohime looked around at the angelic host.
"Then help us. Find them. Please."
As if on cue
A portal split open, right in the center of the group.
Golden lightning surged through its edges, and the wind of unspoken realities blew outward from its core.
As the portal blazed with golden lightning in the angelic circle, reality elsewhere had long since fallen to ruin.
Within Belial's Realm