naruto-story Chapter 482: Reinforcements Arrive
Chapter 482: Reinforcements Arrive
Seraph’s reaction to Lucifer was like a startled wildcat. Even though the other party hadn’t done anything yet, she had already bristled, confronting the once familiar, now estranged angel with her full strength.
Lucifer tilted her head slightly, seemingly surprised to meet Seraph in this new world. And a fallen Seraph at that. How interesting. For thousands of years, Lucifer felt a spark of interest once again. A subtle smile appeared on Lucifer’s slightly pale face.
She had long, flowing silver hair as cold as snow, and her blue eyes held a shattered, icy quality. She wore close-fitting light armor, stained with blood and scarred, which added a touch of heartbreaking fragility to the elegant, noble, and supposedly invincible Lucifer. A battle-damaged Lucifer.
But if anyone dared to underestimate her in this state, reality would teach them a harsh lesson. After all, before Lucifer fell, she was the Lord of Heaven’s most perfect creation. There were even rumors that Lucifer was created in the image of the Lord of Heaven at a certain moment, the greatest archangel beneath God.
But this was her, the one who should have been closest and most loyal to the Lord of Heaven, yet she willingly fell, serving that girl, raising the banner of rebellion against the Lord of Heaven with her. What a twist of fate.
“Lucifer...” After many years, Seraph called her name again, just as Lucifer also called out the girl’s name at the same time.
“Seraph, it really has been a long time. You’re more agreeable now than before.”
Seraph, of course, understood what Lucifer meant. She didn’t hate her fall, because it was a necessary means to save Adele... But being pointed out by Lucifer made Seraph feel embarrassed, because it was basically like saying, You used to be so adamant about eliminating us, unable to tolerate fallen angels who betrayed God. But now, look at yourself, haven’t you also become the embodiment of the fallen, Seraph?
She couldn’t refute it, all that Lucifer implied... she couldn’t refute it. Naturally, Seraph didn’t need to refute. Her past self, under her past beliefs, wasn’t wrong. Her present self had new beliefs, and she couldn’t be said to be wrong either. People couldn’t abandon the past, nor could they stop the arrival of the future. No one could stop the passage of time, the changes in people’s hearts, but they could maintain their own hearts, firm and unrepentant.
Therefore, she responded neither humbly nor arrogantly,
“...Thank you for the compliment, Lucifer. You also look much better than before.”
Seraph still remembered the scene of the destruction of Sodom, the city of the fallen. The unstoppable divine fire of punishment smashed down stars, completely breaking through Sodom’s defenses, destroying all life within, erasing all traces of construction. Everything that the Primordial Witch Shirley and her friends had worked so hard to build for so long... the place they called “home.”
At that moment, Lucifer burned her life and soared into the sky, her golden wings withering, her armor peeling off, but she couldn’t even touch the powerful Lord of Heaven, her creator, let alone hurt Him. The Lord watched indifferently and mercilessly as Lucifer fell from the sky, falling into the ocean of flames, the hell born from the wails of all beings. And Jormungandr, the true Lord of Hell, descended at this moment.
She didn’t confront the Lord of Heaven, but chose to save the fallen angels who were willing to die. No one knew what she was thinking at that time. If it was to preserve the power that could resist the Lord of Heaven, then perhaps it made sense. And now, was this the right time in Hell Queen Jormungandr’s opinion?
After thousands of years of recuperation in hell, Lucifer, who had recovered to her peak strength, reappeared in this human world. Then what about the other fallen angels? Had they also...
This situation was completely beyond Seraph’s expectations, but in her current position, she really couldn’t say whether this was right or wrong.
Lucifer stared at Seraph, who looked contemplative, the smile on her lips unwavering. Then, she slowly approached the fallen Seraph. The light armor made a clanking sound on the street as she walked. Seraph instinctively became nervous.
But Lucifer’s unguarded appearance and attitude made her deeply confused. Could it be that after thousands of years, Lucifer... no longer regarded her as an enemy? Or was it that she was so confident in her own strength that she didn’t even take Seraph seriously?
Either way, it puzzled Seraph and made her reaction to counterattack slower.
Unknowingly, Lucifer had already arrived in front of her. At this distance... Seraph had no chance of winning, let alone escaping. Then, Lucifer reached out to Seraph. Seraph tightly closed her eyes, as if she was ready to bear Lucifer’s revenge.
But unexpectedly, Lucifer’s hand just stopped on her shoulder and patted it gently, as if to say, Now Seraph, can you finally understand us?
Seraph’s heart was filled with mixed emotions. Then, Lucifer moved past her, as if she was about to pass by Seraph. Because even though the two could understand each other after being reunited after so many years, they weren’t on the same path.
So Lucifer, after some emotion, prepared to part with Seraph. She never had the intention to fight with Seraph from the beginning to the end. On the contrary, it was Seraph’s reaction that was a little excessive.
Only after Lucifer walked past her for a few steps did Seraph suddenly react. She withdrew her phantom, and her black wings disappeared from behind her, becoming harmless again. She hurriedly called out, “Wait! Lucifer!”
“I have something important... that needs your answer!”
But although Lucifer heard the girl’s call, she didn’t stop. Perhaps because she didn’t want to talk about the past with Seraph anymore.
It wasn’t until Seraph clenched her small fists, an embarrassed expression appearing on her usually expressionless face, that she pleaded again, with a sincere tone, “Please help me, Lucifer!” Because this was for Adele.
If Chacoco couldn’t be found for a while, then Lucifer was definitely a more reliable choice, or rather, angel choice, who could answer questions about Sodom, the fallen city. That city contained all the efforts of her and the other fallen angels, as well as Shirley. It could be said that it was the child they “gave birth” to together.
“I want to understand... your Sodom!”
“I want to know if it was really destroyed, or... if there is still some kind of spiritual imprint left.”
Hearing Seraph’s words, Lucifer finally stopped.
And at this moment, Seraph felt pressure, the immense pressure of a giant, like a god opening her eyes.
Lucifer turned around and looked at Seraph with her serious and deep eyes. As expected of the archangel known for her combat abilities, such power... was not something that Seraph, who was better at assisting, could compare to.
But she tried her best to withstand the pressure from Lucifer and respond to that ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) gaze.
After a long silence, Lucifer was the first to speak. “Sodom has been destroyed, along with all its imprints.”
“Even in my memory, I can hardly find the shadow of Sodom.”
“That was the Lord of Heaven’s masterpiece. I desperately tried to recall it. It was my home, where we laughed and talked, and spent countless wonderful days that made people wonder if it really existed.”
“I can only keep remembering, keep reminding myself, that Sodom still exists... at least, it exists in my heart.”
“That’s why I haven’t forgotten it.”
Seraph’s pupils constricted. It turned out that Sodom, in the eyes of those who truly cared about it, had become a phantom of the past.
But not everyone’s memory of Sodom was erased; otherwise, Seraph wouldn’t have remembered that fallen city. It should be only those survivors who fell because of Shirley and chose to resist the Lord of Heaven who were given such a cruel punishment.
“How could this be...” Seraph looked disappointed, because she thought that Lucifer’s words meant that whether she found Chacoco or asked Lucifer for help, perhaps there was no one in this world who could clearly judge whether the city that appeared in Adele’s dream was Sodom.
But nothing was absolute. Lucifer said that she kept remembering the concept of Sodom every day, and repeated it for thousands of years, which meant that the punishment from the law could also be resisted. If Lucifer could see the appearance of that city... maybe she would remember it?
And Seraph’s idea was exactly Lucifer’s idea at this moment. This silver-haired archangel in battle-damaged armor took the initiative to speak, “I want to go see that person with you, see the city in her dream.”
Although she didn’t have much hope, even if there was only a sliver of it, Lucifer would go after it without hesitation.
Seraph nodded slightly. It just so happened that Adele had slept enough during the day today. If nothing unexpected happened, she would stay up all night. So it was just the right time to bring Lucifer home to see her.
“Then follow me.”
“Conceal all your aura, Lucifer. I don’t want to cause trouble.”
Lucifer blinked. She didn’t think she was any trouble for this current world. When Hell Queen Jormungandr opened the passage between hell and the human world, the powerful people of the Human Race and the True Ancestors of the Vampire Clan had gathered, and even Lucifer felt pressure in front of them.
Several of them even gave people a sense of despair... “I can’t win, I can’t win at all,” just like facing the Hell Queen Jormungandr. The difference between creations and demigods lay here.
For example, a silver-haired vampire woman, a young human in a wheelchair. It made people wonder, had the development of the human world reached such a level comparable to the age of gods in the past few thousand years that she stayed in hell?
If they joined forces... perhaps even contending against the returning Lord of Heaven might not be impossible? Such ambition arose in Lucifer’s heart.
Fallen angels were allowed to walk the world, observe and familiarize themselves with this era, but they were not allowed to reveal themselves in front of anyone, let alone use power surpassing that of most people. Lucifer and the others agreed, which was why they encountered Seraph after many years of separation.
The two fallen angels converged their auras and sneaked towards Cromwell Academy. There were still men and women wandering the streets at midnight, but even when Seraph and Lucifer passed by them, they didn’t notice the existence of the two angels from the ancient mythical era.
At this time, Adele was not staying up all night playing games in her dormitory as Seraph had imagined. On the contrary, the quieter and more alone she was, the more Adele would not waste any time, devoting it all to exploring the mysterious magic world. But when someone close to her was by her side, she would dedicate all her mind and energy to them.
This didn’t sound strange at all. It was all a manifestation of Adele’s deep love for her girls, and her love for this world and her desire to protect it. Adele closed her eyes and sat upright, in a meditative posture.
She was doing something that few people in the magic world dared to attempt: modifying her own magic circuits. To put it simply, the final power of magic was “magic power” multiplied by the amplification brought by magic circuits.
Of course, this was just a theory that the magic world used to explain things to outsiders. The actual explanation involved more complex calculations, and the amplification method was not as simple as ordinary people imagined.
The highest magic academy in the magic world had related high magic courses, and many mages failed this course every year. And the practice Adele was doing now was a topic that only white-bearded old professors in the magic world dared to explore.
Adele, who had never taken a formal and systematic magic class in the magic world, was actually playing so big...
But given her current extraordinary strength, coupled with the magical talent that the girl naturally discovered after her hard work, she might actually be able to come up with something.