Darsen did his job beautifully, he opened Rose from having to worry about her siblings, while also causing heavy damage to the Ruler's army from entry.
Cassiel losing a wing provided an opportunity. We were able to shock the demons into realizing that we truly were much stronger than we were made out to be.
But it also incurred the Ruler's anger and allowed him to use shady tactics, as we learned when Uriel leapt out of a portal right next to me and attempted to behead me. One of the three aces leapt in the way, getting his head chopped off.
His death gave us the knowledge that Heaven's army was prepared, they had their weapons with Smite enchantments, meaning that we couldn't spare any defense against them.
Uriel launched at me, so I activated my ultimate and gracefully clashed with her.
I slashed at her head, then she got an idea.
As my ultimate wore off, she grabbed me and launched into the air.
Throwing me up, she directed a slash at my core.
I barely righted and blocked before being impaled, causing her blade to stab my right arm.
I roared in pain but held her blade in my arm as she tried to remove it.
"Let go, measly elf!"
"No. If I'm going down, then so are you."
I stabbed her wing, causing her to screech and start falling.
She ripped her sword out of my arm, but then I punched her, causing her to drop the blade.
My blade also fell out of her wings.
So, then we were simply freefalling.
"**** elf. I'll kill you!"
She began to choke me. I grabbed her hands and tried to pull them off, but she was a lot stronger than me.
I grabbed her working wing making her squeak and blush, then I yanked it to redirect us into one of the taller buildings.
We crashed through the window, with the glass flying around the room.
She stood up, shaking. A deep blush on her face.
My leg got mangled by the windows metal framing.
"You… little pervert."
"Uh…"
Wait, didn't Gabriel mention something about wings? Yeah, when Rose asked why some angels went for the wings for an attack.
("An angel's most sensitive part is their wings, so, unless ripping them off, grabbing is seen as an intimate act; however, because it's so sensitive, it's the perfect place for a strike. So, ripping off them or cutting them is both a humiliation and a seriously painful blow.")
"Oh, sorry, I didn't mean… I just redirected our decent in here."
"Likely story!"
She launched at me, her stabbed wing was fully healed and she launched me into the sky once again.
Crap, I just had to infuriate her.
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Luma POV
I don't know when the demons I was midbattle with and I just stopped fighting, but we were just watching Dallel.
"Did he just grab her wing?"
"Ooh, scandalous."
I snickered.
"It gets funnier when you realize he's involved with Rose."
"Ooh~ Love triangle."
Then that demon's head fell to the earth, along with the others.
"Ah, Juedel, you love to ruin my fun, don't you?"
"I consider it my own form of entertainment, now, could you tell your lecherous friend to keep his hands off my sister?"
"Oh, don't worry, he barely had any previous knowledge of the connotations of that action."
"So…"
"Yep, pure survival instinct."
"How is that survival instinct?!"
"Think about it, they were falling at terminal velocity, he, in a snap decision, grabbed and opened her wings, launching them into a tall building."
"… Okay, that does make sense… Tell his lecherous survival instinct to keep it's hands off my sister."
I snickered again.
"Well, have some popcorn, we were watching the battle until you beheaded them."
"I killed them after the love triangle comment."
"Fair."
"You know I was sent to kill you."
"And then you realized how dumb an idea it would be to attempt that?"
"Yes, there was no way I could best you alone."
Then he smirked.
"Of course, you know my ultimate correct?"
I realized just a second too late, as Thessiel's blade entered my back.
"I can cause someone to put their full attention on me, works good in flirting and diversions."
I coughed out my bright blue blood, then Juedel drew his sword.
"Of course, I could try a 2v1."
"Sly. Juedel, you know how to make a girl blush."
I smiled and summoned my own blade.
Then we launched at each other and clashed, sending a shockwave for 10 miles around us.
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Darsen POV
My troop slew a hundred angels instantaneously, Cassiel losing a whole wing caused great shock. The disorder within the ranks allowed us to cut down many angels.
The Ruler seemed to just leave, jumping on the air and running after Rose.
Cassiel launched towards me and roared.
I activated my ultimate and sunk into her shadow before grabbing the other wing and slamming her onto the earth, then I slowly pulled the wing until I began hearing a rip, causing her agony.
"Call off your men, or you lose both wings."
She snarled as a response."
"Your threats are nothing to me."
Then she spun, causing me to fall.
I began to sink into the shadow when she grabbed my leg and yanked me out, slamming me into a bright point.
She slashed in anger and I narrowly rolled out of the way.
Then I saw Dallel being thrown out of the building he and Uriel crash-landed into.
I clashed with Cassiel, then I shifted into shadow and flew through her, before slashing at her wing, but her instinct won out as she blocked my strike and back kicked me into a wall.
I dodged her next jab, then we got caught off guard by a massive shockwave.
Both me and Cassiel turned to see Luma clashing with two archangels.
She tried taking advantage of my distraction, but I blocked.
Then we began our back and forth.
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Gabriel POV
I leapt after Helel, knocking us both out of the sky.
"What are you doing, Gabriel?"
"I won't let you interrupt Lucifer and Rose."
"How annoyingly noble."
We crashed to earth, and he flipped me to land first.
I spun back in a flip.
"Well then, I'll finish what I should have ten million years ago."
"Try me, Helel."