Angel Monarch

Blood, death, destruction, despair, chaos, corpses… Corpses everywhere… More! More death!

"Blood… I need more blood… I need to kill more… Kill everything!"

Sera mumbled while she grabbed a Horror. With her silver gauntlets, she tore into the huge beast, and teared its body into two pieces.

Gore rained down on her, and all the other corpses nearby. She continued, smiling wickedly, as she stuck out her tongue and swallowed the blood drops. She then immediately spat it, since it tasted disgusting!

She coughed a few times while glancing around the graveyard she created. The redness nearly disappeared from her eyes, but a few monsters still tried attacking her…

Ten Horrors closed in around her. Anything below Horror Class already ran off terrified, but these creatures either weren't smart or had too much pride.

The beasts were a strange mix of different animal parts. Their heads seemed similar to a lion or tiger, with the nose and tusks of a boar. Their body shined with golden fur and scales, resembling that of a lizard.

They stretched five meters long, with their tails adding another two meters. The tail had some weird cacoon-like protrusion at its end.

The monsters surrounded the Angel, jumping between trees until she had no escape route.

Sera took deep, tried breaths. She fought for hours now, and killed probably a thousand monsters.

Her essence wasn't too low, since she mostly used her physical strength to dismantle every enemy. However, her mind and body felt awful.

"Horrors of the Second Tier?… Of course… Can't make it easy, right?… And I'm guessing you aren't planning on running away?"

The lion-lizard monsters screeched their answer. Half of them jumped towards Sera, while the other half firmly held onto their position, and aimed their tails. The protrusion at the end opened, revealing a glowing eye.

Sera had a bad feeling about those eyes and soon realized why. From five different directions, each beast shot bright yellow lasers, which boiled the air and carved out the ground, while melting everything below.

The moment the lasers shot out, Sera jumped into the air and maneuvered away with her wings. She summoned her full body armor and a pair of curved swords.

By this point, her bloodlust disappeared, leaving only calculated, rational thinking behind.

The five monsters who jumped at her didn't back down. They easily kept up with her flight, and even closed the distance, until she had to stop and hold her ground!

She stopped atop a giant tree branch, a few dozen meters off the ground. Three beasts immediately jumped at her.

Sera raised her sword and parried each monster's claws. She then instantly turned around, as a fourth beast ran towards her.

The two silvery swords caught into the monster's tusks. It pushed Sera for a few meters before she managed to stop it.

However, just as she prepared to kill the beast, the fifth one charge from behind. There was no way for her to defend against it, so she let her armor absorb the impact.

A gasp of pain escaped her mouth as the silver armor distributed the damage across Sera's body.

To the sides, yellow spots of light rapidly approached her position. Sandwiched between the two beasts with boar tusks, she couldn't escape.

All five laser beams struck her body at once, scorching her body below the armor. She screamed in pain, but even in agony, her mind stayed clear.

Without command, she moved. The boar with its tusks stuck in Sera's weapon soon went flying, when Sera tossed it away with her weapons.

She didn't have time to summon new swords, so instead, she used the silvery spikes growing from the branch. It stabbed through the monster behind her, killing it on the spot.

Sera reached out and broke off the long tip of the spike. Her new makeshift spear was barely two and a half meters, the perfect length for her.

Far away, five more yellow beams headed in her direction. They strangely curved between trees, trying to hit her from multiple directions.

There was no place to run, so Sera summoned more silver spikes around herself. They gently curved away from her, creating a beautiful flower-like pattern, which reflected the laser beams.

The giant trees' branched broke, and while the leaves caught on fire. Sera herself began falling as the branch below her evaporated.

In the air, the other four beasts jumped at her. With her wings, Sera turned in the air, and let one monster impale itself on her makeshift spear.

She quickly let go of her weapon and caught the other monster falling towards her. Sera held its salivating mouth barely inches away from her head.

The two gauntleted hands grabbed onto its upper and lower jaw, then with a quick motion she teared the beast's head in two. It fell to the ground in agony, dying on the spot.

Sera managed to fall on her feet, but the last two monsters quickly followed her. They jumped without self-preservation, screeching with hatred.

The Angel didn't even look at them as two giant silver spikes impaled both. She then glanced in the direction of the yellow lasers, but they never came.

After about a minute, she finally breathed a sigh of relief and began walking away from the gory battlefield…

With her golden-green eyes opened to a slit, she could barely walk. Her silver armor dissolved into specks of light, revealing her bruised, burnt body beneath. The healing already taken effect, however she was far from fine.

Not like her injuries could be seen under the crusted blood and layers of dirty. She even had intestine and bone parts stuck in her long, golden hair.

She yawned from exhaustion, revealing her bloody teeth with fur stuck in between. Her breath smelled horrific and the disgusting taste never left her mouth.

Sera walked slowly through the trees without a destination in mind, like a zombie or a lost spirit.

A few kilometers from the battlefield, she finally reached her destination when she heard whispers coming from the branches above.

Without care, the angelic woman glanced straight at the people watching her. Sera's blurred vision couldn't distinguish them, so she just stared in their general direction.

"Hey, all of you! Bring my unconscious body to my friend!"

The people glanced at each other with confusion and fear, just as Sera fell face first onto the muddy ground. Soon, gentle snoring filled the air, as the Angel passed out…

…

"Amayeta, we don't even know who these people are! They probably came here to murder us, or even worse… They came to eat us!"

Sera heard an anxious male voice somewhere far away while sleeping. Soon, a kinder, feminine voice followed.

"Al, I love you with all my heart, but you're a paranoid fool! This… I don't know what she is, but Lusio called her an Angel! She saved not just your son, but your adopted daughter! Isn't that enough to convince you about their intention?"

The wooden floor croaked beneath someone's heavy feet as they walked back and forth.

"She could've saved them to trick us!… The hunters went to the site where she fought… There were hundreds, maybe thousands of corpses… Each ripped to shreds! Some even had bite marks!"

The woman called Amayeta just snorted and giggled at her lover's panicked voice.

"Oh, I know. When I cleaned her, I had to take out fur from between her teeth… Anyway, she killed only monsters, right? Isn't that a good thing? I think if someone saves my children and destroys anything that can harm the Village is my friend!"

The man grumbled, but couldn't find a valid reasoning against her words.

"Okay, fine, they can stay, but they need to answer a few questions!… Where did they come from? I thought nobody survived outside the Village!"

A strange noise echoed in the room, like wheels rolling on the croaking wooden floorboards. When Amayeta spoke next, it came from much closer to Sera's ears.

"Nobody knows what's outside the Village. Even the Elders don't know if anyone else survived… However, I have high hopes for this woman. She seems special!… Most of her injuries already healed on their own… Except for that strange scar on her face…"

The woman gently hummed while tracing her finger along Sera's facial scar.

The Angel groaned as her eyes fluttered open. Her vision remained blurry, while her ears rang loudly.

"Guards! She's awake! Take arms!" Shouted the same man, named Al.

Through the bed beneath, Sera felt more heavy footsteps approaching quickly. The door burst open nearby, and five men and women appeared, each holding makeshift spears.

They all wore monster pelts and furs for both armor and as clothing. Not a single modern shirt, pants or boots in sight.

The guards trembled while Sera sat up. She stretched her arms while yawning, not even glancing at the potential threat.

"Oi! You brutes! Get out of my clinic! This is a private room, assigned to my patient and the Village's guest! She is harmless to us, right?"

Amayeta turned towards the Angel, desperately waiting for her to answer without causing more trouble.

Sera just yawned once more, while glancing at the terrified soldiers. With no care, she fell back on the bed, pulled the warm covers over her naked body, and turned away from everyone.

"Yeah, sure I'm harmless. Now get out and let me sleep!"

Stunned silence followed her annoyed shout, and they all watched in awe as the Angel's breathing slowed until she was asleep.

"I guess… I guess we should let her rest…"

Mumbled Amayeta, then she quickly ushered everyone out of the room, letting Sera rest in peace.