Kushiel wastes no time as he tries charging at Blair with all of his available speed, only to be bombarded with her “Bloody Sunday” technique. The Archangel stops as prepares for the shower by crosses his arms together for protection. As the fragment came pouring down on him, his facial regions will be protected by his arms and spears as he also dodges most of the incoming fragments. He dodges as much as he can, the blood already beginning to issue a smokescreen effect on the battlefield around him, limiting his sense of vision for the moment. As he tries to get his sight back, he suddenly hears a whip-like sound as Blair issues her “Bloodline” technique, clamping down his the archangel’s arm that holds the Spear of Zalmonah. With a grunt, he tries to get the chain off him, hacking at it with his Spear of Longinus.
Even though the chain didn’t hurt much, despite the barbels, he can feel his blood being slowly drained out of his body. Was the demon general trying to regain energy through his own blood? He was almost certain of this. Not trying to waste anymore time and blood, he issues a powerful whack with his spear and breaks the chain off effortlessly. With that, he follows up by issuing an AT-Blast, spewing the blood-vapor towards Blair’s location, perhaps blinding her for another quick second. He then has no choice but to throw the rival’s spear, even if it meant losing the opportunity to use it to its maximum capability. With a powerful throw, Kushiel throws Zalmonah at the Mundas General, which was supposed to aim for her throat, only for it to hit her right shoulder. Whether or not it would hit, the Archangel comes crashing towards Blair and setting themselves on the ground. He would begin to issue several punches charged with AT-Energy as he attempts to punch the living crap out of Blair.
As she continues to yank on the blood chain, Blair remains alert as she focuses her gaze on Kushiel, to observe his every move. Despite seeing his attempts to remove the chain with his spear fail, Blair’s cold expression didn’t waver an inch. It was clear he was only using the most minimal of force in his efforts to break it. Inwardly, she wondered if she should feel insulted that the archangel thought so little of her “chain” or thankful considering that every moment he fails to remove it, the more blood she manages to recoup from him.
Though, it didn’t take him long to up the ante and decide to put more power into his swing, finally breaking the chain. Though it wasn’t attached long, it didn’t matter, because the amount of blood she received was more than enough to see her through the rest of the fight. He then followed this up by firing off an AT-Blast, causing the blood vapor to spew back towards her location. She wasn’t sure whether this was supposed to be another time grab or whether this was completely coincidental or not, but she was more than happy to recoup her lost blood.
Taking the moment to take back in the blood, she finally noticed a spear zooming towards him. Blair could tell immediately that the spear Kushiel decided to throw was her spear, Zalmonah. Giving it back to me already? Smiling to herself, she could see that the spear was heading right toward her throat, however, Zalmonah changed its trajectory and went after her shoulder instead. Though, the hit never came. Why you might ask? Using her Haemokinetic Construction ability, she solidified her blood on her hands, making makeshift gloves, which she then used to grab the spear, halting its attack. Attacking someone with their own weapon...the nerve. However, despite stopping and recollecting her spear, Kushiel used that time delay to charge towards Blair in a mad dash, crashing into her and sending the both of them to the ground and her spear slipping out of her hands. With him on top, he then began hurling a flurry of blows at her. While he did pin her body down, he didn’t pin down down her arms. Thanks to this, she managed to block his nonstop blows. However, she wouldn’t be able to continue to this effort for much longer as his blows had quite the force behind them, despite having been blocking them.
She needed to counterattack and fast, but to do so, she would be taking a big risk as she would be opening herself up for some punishment the moment she drops her arms. Not having much time left, she quickly went through her options. It was then her eyes fell on her spear, luckily, when the Archangel crashed into her, she had her spear in hand and when she dropped it, it only rolled a bit away. Taking the chance, she let down her guard, taking on the onslaught of blows, she extended her arm and began reaching for Zalmonah. With spear in hand, she then repositioned her hand and then pierced the spear right through Kushiel’s chest.
Kushiel cringed to himself once he saw Blair block the attack on her own spear. He knew he should’ve just thrown it away. If he knew he wouldn’t have succeeded in hitting her, then no one would’ve had a chance to use it. Before he could do anything else however, he and Blair felt a shockwave coming from the battle of Lily, Fenn, and the Angelic Champion’s men. Regardless, he only took notice but didn’t falter in his fight as he was able to successfully ram into her with all of her might and pummel her to the ground. Thankfully, she wasn’t able to grip onto her spear as it rolled away from her. With all of his available strength and AT-Field strength, he began to batter for the general’s face with all the rage in his body. Of course, they would be met by some strong resistance as Blair blocks them with her arms. However, with the power that the archangel is inflicting, it wouldn’t be too long before those defenses will be penetrated.
But if there was one thing Kushiel could’ve done to make the attack more satisfying, was to simply lock her hands to the ground. And by not doing it, will cost him dearly. Being so concentrative on his opponent as she let her guard down for a second, he unleashed several blows onto her beautiful face. At the forces he was punching her, it’s only a miracle that the general had not received a concussion from those punches. But this false sense of victory wouldn’t last for long, for the next thing the Archangel knew…
He finds himself impaled by a spear.
With a pained grunt, his pupils contracting, and his mouth quivering, Kushiel looks down in horror to see himself impaled on the left side of his chest. He wasn’t sure if it hit his organs, be his lung or heart, but regardless it was bloody painful. He coughs up blood in Blair’s face as he grips Longinus tightly in his hand. She’ll pay for such treachery upon the archangel’s holy body. Without further ado, he traps the general’s free hand with his knee and with all of his might, he quickly impales his enemy with his own, right in her stomach. If he’ll die on this very battlefield, may he take his enemy down with him.
Seeing the angel contort in pain caused blair to break out a sadistic grin, especially after seeing him coughing up blood in her face. Even after he replied in kind by sticking his own spear in her, despite the obvious pain, Blair’s grin never wavered. While the blow to the stomach was quite the serious injury, it was even more so in Kushiel’s case, given he had Zalmonah stuck in his chest.
Zalmonah was known for gutting and tearing up the insides of it’s victims upon the removal of the spear from their bodies. It can actually be said that removing from the spear causes more damage to the victim than the actual act of piercing them with it. Regardless of whether he’s an angel, demon or human, removing it definitely wouldn’t tickle.
While there hasn’t been a clear winner in the fight between her and Kushiel, it was quite clear that there was a winner and loser in all of this, and Blair definitely wasn’t among the losers in this case. That was made all the more obvious when a big shock wave went off in the direction from the other battlefield. And that blast definitely wasn’t from some angel.
With her cruel smile growing wider, she spoke up in a mocking voice.
“It looks like the angels over there are no more. You’re called the ‘Angel of Judgement’ but you sure made quite a few bad ones back there, huh? The standards for Archangels must be quite low.” Stopping for a moment, she resumed talking.
“Regardless of the result of this battle, that champion of yours is done for.”It was quite something really, everything seemed to go her way tonight. It all started with the random pair of demons, quite powerful ones at that, she decided to follow. Sure made her mission all the more easier. Even more so now that they got rid of all the trash along with her target. And all she had to do was play with this Archangel.
The barbs began to pierce through the archangel’s chest as he glares into the devilish, unblinking eyes of the Mundas general. Even stabbing his own spear into her body didn’t change the horrifying expression on her face. If anything, it made it even worse. Zalmonah was still sticking inside Kushiel, and fearing the barbs would produce more damage than it already will, he refuses to take it out at that moment. Still leaving his Longinus pinned to Blair, he groans as he gets off her and lands on his side in silent agony. Angelic blood was pouring from his wound, as well as still trickling from his mouth.
He then notices that the entire battlefield was already quiet. Too quiet. Was the battle there over? As Kushiel looks over to see who remained victorious in this battle, all he saw was complete carnage, as he sees corpses of the slain Angels across the battlefield, with Lily and Fenn calmly leaving the battlefield. As well as the corpses of the Ardor units, the archangel also saw the corpse of the Allegiance, cut and sliced all over its body. It was simply slaughtered like a wild animal.
But that wasn’t the worst part… The Angel Champion seemed to have also been brutally killed as well. Kushiel’s eyes began to water. He had failed in protecting Vigrid from this demonic slaughter. He promised an easy victory for the Angelic forces, only to have three demons slap them in the goddamn face. It may have not been his first defeat, but it was surely one of his worse. The demon invaders had completely massacred his entire army, lieutenants and all. He has failed Heaven gloriously.
It was then when Blair mocked him, calling him out on his poor judgement, the low standards of the archangels, and again the death of the Champion himself. Anger began to course through the archangel’s body, beating throughout his body. He wants to continue fighting… to kill this demon scum… to avenge the death of his troops, comrades, and all. He grips tightly on the spear lodged in his chest and begins to pull. As he pulls, he can hear the sound of his insides squealing with disgusting and gruesome noises of flesh being teared by the barbs of Zalmonah. He groans in agony as he makes one last ditch effort in quickly removing the spear right out of his body. As he does so, a flash of white pain courses through his senses as he exhales a pained grunt, throwing it a good distance away from he and the demon.
He slowly gets up, with the pain begging him to sit back down and rest. He covers the wounded gash on his left chest with his left hand and limps towards the downed general, flames burning through his eyes.
”The Champion may be defeated,” he announces ominously as he looms over her,
”But don’t think you’ll get out of here alive... Judgement declares your punishment… PUNISHMENT BY DEATH!”He then grips Longinus as tight as he can and attempts to cut Blair into two parts by moving it up to her head, slowly and excruciatingly.
Well, isn’t this something… Blair looked on, clearly amused with the sight before her, as she herself was getting up. Were all Archangels this entertaining? Either way, Blair was definitely enjoying herself more than originally intended. Sure getting to fight an Archangel was surely something but she never would've thought she’d one act in such a way. It was rare for her, when you consider how she normally is.
“Is that so? Scarrrrrrrrrry. What ever will I do now…” she mocked as she pretended to be scared. Going off the expression on Kushiel’s face, it’s safe to assume that he didn’t particularly care for her comment. Punctuating that fact was his latest attempt to cut her down. But it clearly lacked the vigor of his previous attacks, that much was made clear by the way he moved, he was definitely in great pain.
Not like she was in perfect health herself, but enough to be able to block it and avoid a fatal blow. Given the fact that her target has been eliminated, regardless of how it was done, and the fact that she fought and severely wounded an Archangel, she can definitely consider this a success. Which means she was done here, now she just had to get out here. While she’d love to stay and execute an Archangel, she wasn’t interested in overtime work.
Pooling in the last bits of her strength, she readied Zalmonah and counterattacked with her Rag Doll technique. Striking him with her spear, she tosses him high into the air, sending his body flying towards the champion’s direction with all of her remaining strength. Taking advantage of the dirt/debris build up from her attack, she retreated.
As Kushiel tries to rip the demon up the middle with his spear, he had underestimated the wounds that Blair sustained. As he slowly uses all of the available strength he has, plus a faint adrenaline push, the Demon General would then unleash a counterattack on the archangel by attempting to gore him with Zalmonah. He did not want to get gored by that spear again, not after what he just experienced. While still holding Longinus with his left, he was just barely able to block the spear as it raced towards him. However, the impact was so great that it sent the archangel flying a good distance away, also freeing Blair from impalement.
As the archangel finally lands on the ground, he looks up with a groan to see the general retreating from the battlefield. Coward. Sure it may be a victory for her today, but that’s simply defeating him, not actually killing him, despite the wounds he suffers from. She’ll surely regret the day he didn’t kill the archangel of judgement. As Kushiel slowly gets up, shaking and bleeding, he then realizes that just a few feet away from him was the Champion himself… And he was still alive! Or barely anyways, his breathing seems to be very weak.
”Champion!” he cries out as he crawls towards him with all the remaining strength he has. As he finally reaches him, he kneels as he cradles the fallen warrior in his arms.
“I have fallen today, and failed my charge…” the Champion mutters weakly, “I… Accept this defeat…”
”No,” answers the archangel as tears began to form,
”No, don’t say that. You’ll be OK. C’mon wake up!”“But it does not mean I do not regret it. This has only been a minor setback… As the vanguard I… I expected death, and it has come as expected.”
”B-But… it shouldn’t be like this…” Kushiel groans as he tries to hold back the sadness and grief,
”I failed Heaven… Hell’s advance is~”“Commander Kushiel… Worry not… This will only mean the advance of Heaven’s armies will be slowed… But not stopped... Farewell”, and so it was that the Champion breathed his last, and like his fallen brethren, turned to particles of light.
The archangel can feel the last bits of light trickling from his fingers until they too disappeared into thin air. The Champion was gone. What remained are the salty tears that crept down from Kushiel’s eyes. Heaven no longer had a foothold here, but that was only for a time. The wall between the human realm and Paradiso were quite thin in Vigrid after all.
As the demon general goes in for the swipe, he sees that Kosara had upped her defenses, her armor already going into some form of Blade Armor. Quickly he tries to swipe at her, only for her to turn around and begin to dodge the attack. Even as Gideon hit her, even he noticed that his buff wasn't all that powerful when it came to hitting her. Looks like she too was really upping her game. He and Gorgon need to leave soon. As long as she can distract the enemy for just a little longer, the two can safely and quickly get out of the battlefield. But time was running out... he needs to do it soon or either they both die or the Gorgon dies.
As the general tries to go for another swipe, he was met by a powerful punch that felt like it matched his own strength, sending him flying back to a wall. With a grunt, he regains his footing as he prepares his blades. Forming two spears he quickly unleashes his Crucify move, attempting to trap and disable her for a quick second so he can regain his footing on the situation. Weather it will hit or not, Gideon quickly follows up by creating two axes that attempt an X-Slash on Kosara. He wasn't going to let her off the hook so easily...
