Angel Monarch

Sera and David crawled through the undergrowth. They were about one kilometer away from the city wall.

By Lilith's latest report this part of the city was the least defended, which made it the perfect infiltration point. They were in the northern segment of it. The waves of the Black Sea hit the shoreline only a few kilometers behind them.

This area only had bushes and large grass for cover, but they made do with what they had.

The two of them were currently watching the wall, waiting for the moment to infiltrate. A bit further behind them, David's cohort and Sera's own 'group' waited.

Sera turned towards east. The horizon was still dark, but that wouldn't last. They had time until the first rays of sunlight hit the surface.

"Are you sure about this?" Asked David. He sounded calm and even a bit excited. He was always like that. Calm and collected, very different from Sera.

She felt her heart beat more rapidly by the moment. As the time to fight loomed closer, the small buzzing in her mind increased.

If this plan, her plan doesn't work, then all the soldier deaths will rest on her cracked soul... One had to ask the question, how much more can such soul bear before it gets crushed... At this point the question is not IF, but WHEN will she finally lose it...

Sera only hoped that she could last after all this blows over. After the war, when everything turns peaceful, then she will have time to rest...

'What a nice dream...' She thought to herself, ignoring David's previous question.

He stared at her for a few more moments, then sighed and turned back towards the wall.

The patrols were still moving back and forth, with a bunch of them staring out into the darkness. They were watching them for the past half an hour, but it seemed Lilith was late.

Sera was about to write a message and ask what's taking so long, when something changed.

On the wall something very strange happened. At one moment everyone moved normally, in the next they all fell over.

There were hundreds of people on the wall ranging from regular soldiers to evolved. There were no ascended thankfully.

Every single one fell over or began leaning against the wall, like they suddenly fell asleep.

Sera spent another minute scanning the wall, before she finally saw the person she was looking for. In the midst of a bunch of sleeping evolved stood a form. She wore a large black robe with the hood up. Slowly she raised her hand towards Sera and waved once.

David wasted no time. He ran back to the others and soon all of them were at the foot of the wall. There they stopped for a moment. Sera looked at everyone and spoke.

"All of you pay attention! We will infiltrate the city and hide in a specific location. My scout will lead us there, she is currently on top of the wall, you probably saw her while we ran here. After we enter all of you stay as silent as possible, no talking, no stumbling, Don't Make Any Noise!" She spoke in a whisper while staring straight at Percy.

"Why are all of you looking at me? I'm the quietest in the group!" He said in a faked outrage, causing multiple cohort members to giggle. Kathy just gave him a slap to the back of his head, which shut him up.

"Okay. Rob you bring the boxes. We will meet you on the other side!" Said David to one of the man of his cohort.

They weren't wearing their signature armor. It would slow them down and cause a bit too much noise while running.

The man named Rob nodded, then turned towards the ten box pile and lifted one. He then proceeded to walk straight into the wall and through it. His ability made it possible for him to ignore any inanimate material barriers.

While Sera and the rest of them scaled the wall, he proceeded to move back and forth through it.

Those metal boxes weren't for nothing either, they were large explosives Frank had made earlier. When Sera asked about their yield, he giggled with a hint of insanity and said to leave at least a 50 meter radius around it, but 100 would be even better.

They were an integral part of the plan, but it won't be easy to get them to their place.

Sera climbed the 40 meter wall without problem. She couldn't use her wings for obvious reasons, it would be quite inconvenient if the whole city noticed her bright flames.

When she was about to push herself over the edge a hand appeared in her face. It was small and feminine, with a golden tattoo of a seven pointed star on the back of it. She took it without hesitation and with a surprising strength the woman pulled Sera up.

She looked her up and down once, then went down to a knee. Her hood and robe was still one, and it would stay like that. She only took it off, when there was nobody other than her brothers and sisters to see her.

Still, when she looked up Sera saw her face below the hood. She was beautiful and young, 17 years old if Sera remembered correctly. It was strange to think of her as a powerful ascended who was already married.

The marriage wasn't that weird though. Adam was even younger than her by a few months, so the age difference didn't really matter and there were no laws against underage marriage.

There wasn't even really a concept of underage since nothing was age restricted. There was no voting age, alcohol could be bought by anyone. If you had the money you could do whatever you wanted.

Sera looked down into the woman's swirling purple eyes, they were mesmerizing and tiring to stare into. It made her remember Lilith's title, Sleepwalker...

The name didn't sound too scary, but whatever the watch used to judge a person and give them a title worked especially well with Lilith.

Her name had multiple meanings. It referenced the sleep aspect of her power, which she demonstrated perfectly with everyone on this section of the wall, but there was another much, much scarier power she possessed...

Behind Sera the others began to arrive on the wall as well. Lilith quickly stood up and looked towards the ground, hiding her face. Each person nodded towards her, and she nodded back.

Everyone remembered about the no speaking rule... Almost everyone...

Percy opened his mouth in an attempt to speak, but suddenly another slap arrived at the back of his head. He gave Kathy an angry and annoyed look, but stayed silent.

When everyone was ready they moved down from the wall. On the other side the ten metal boxes were put into a nice pile. The stronger members of the Ouroboros Cohort each grabbed one, while Percy lifted four with his purple magic.

He grinned proudly at Morren, the woman he was trying to bang for nearly two weeks now. She didn't even look at him, but Percy didn't get the obvious refusal. When Kathy saw this reaction she snorted in amusement and walked off.

In the front Sera walked next to Lilith. Her height barely reached Sera's shoulder, but her actual presence was actually kind of close to hers.

In power she was pretty close to Sera since Lilith's evolving was done under her guidance. The only real difference between them was that, while Sera was a frontline destructive fighter, Lilith was an assassin mage of sorts.

Her powers worked more like debuffs and killing an opponent while not even seeing them. It was terrifying, but not nearly as destructive as for example Bran, Melinda or even Percy.

She led the group of 16 towards south and a bit to the west. They weaved through the side streets and alleys with ease, missing every patrol that could spot them.

For a moment Sera actually thought that Lilith learnt the city layout so well, but when they were crossing a larger street, she saw a figure jumping on one of the tall roofs.

The other members of the Angelic Order were nearby, and they guided them towards their destination. They also scouted ahead, making sure nothing unexpected happened.

They reached the safehouse in about twenty minutes. The two-story building was made of wood and looked abandoned.

Weirdly enough Lilith didn't approach the front door. Instead she walked to the side, where a double metallic door was hidden below a bit of rubbish.

She opened it quickly, the hinges groaned loudly, which caused multiple people to wince and look around, waiting for a patrol to come running at them. Luckily no patrol was near enough to hear it, and this was the industrial part of the city, which meant all the surrounding buildings were currently empty.

From the opening a low light streamed out. Lilith quickly stood to the side and ushered everyone inside.

The cohort members looked a bit skeptical, but since Sera and David already went downstairs, they had to follow them too.

When everyone was inside Lilith spent a few seconds moving the trash back into place, then she closed off the door and engaged the small lock on the inside. It wouldn't keep even an evolved out, but it was a great alarm if someone tried to break in!