Angel Monarch

About fifteen minutes earlier Sera stepped out from an alley and she walked straight into the forming enemy lines.

The buildings were hundreds of meters away from the wall. It was filled with about fifty thousand regular soldiers, and hundreds of evolved.

Some were setting up smaller mortars which they will pepper the approaching army with. Others were running around delivering munitions and other supplies. But most of them were just standing around, waiting for the inevitable.

Each knew that even if they won, there was a high chance of dying. The soldier death ratio in a victorious army was about 10-20 percent. Which meant every fifth person standing here would be dead in a few hours. And that was the best outcome.

Sera in her civilian clothes walked between the soldiers. She watched their despair, their hopelessness, their regret, their sadness. The unit commanders tried to shout encouragements, to bring up their moral, but it was for naught.

They knew the pointlessness of this war more than anyone. They knew that no matter who won today, the city and its citizens would be fine. Their deaths were unnecessary, which brought down their moral.

As she walked the buzzing in her head roared. It would be a lie to say she was doing this for them, but it would also be the truth.

Everyday she woke up asking the question of what's the point, and every single time she reaches a simple question... When will it end?

When will the suffering and war be done? Humanity has tried to destroy itself since its existence, but when will they succeed? When will be too late to stop the fighting?... When will it all end?

The answer usually comes soon after... It will end when we let it!

Every war is a fight between order and chaos. There is no such thing as good or evil, those concepts are for philosophers or historians.

On the field of battle there are people against you and with you, but neither are right or wrong, and they fight for the same thing... Order. Everybody fights for order, but the kind of order differentiates per person.

So when Sera wakes up and asks the question why continue to fight, the answer is simple. She fights for order, but also something else... Revenge!

With this in mind she stopped upon reaching the middle of the army. The people around her started to realize that something was wrong, but she didn't care. Her hearing was mostly gone from the ever increasing buzzing sound, but she did fell the explosions go off a while ago.

On her right hand a golden gauntlet formed. The soldiers next to her instantly panicked, but their shouts were soon drowned out by their screams.

Sera moved faster than any of them could react. Her fist slammed into a soldier's face, which promptly exploded and showered gore on the people around. It also sent a small fiery wave burning a dozen soldier's face.

Without looking at them she grabbed a dropped automatic railgun and opened fire. Her aim wasn't the best, but the soldiers couldn't really get out of the way of her bullets.

By the time the magazine was empty close to a thousand soldiers were dead. The only problem was that the destruction caused the fifty or so ascended to notice her.

They didn't all attack, but seven of them surrounded her. She grinned at them madly and without a word attacked.

There was no amount of preparations that could've stopped what happened next.

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The seven of them each wore different kinds of heavier armor, and they held melee weapons.

Funnily enough the strongest power a human evolved held was their transformation, but that also required a huge amount of synergy if you were with others. If you changed shape without training you will fuck up the formation, which could lead to everyone's death.

This is the exact reason that in a siege or large scale battle, evolved weren't really transforming. That's why these seven tried to fight Sera as humans, but she wanted exactly that.

Their abilities are much weaker in human form, and they had to rely more on their melee fighting capability. They literally became much more predictable.

Knowing this Sera didn't waste a moment. The closest ascended stood about five meters away, which she closed in with two large bounding steps.

Her gauntleted hand was on fire and with it she grabbed onto the soldier's helmeted head. Then she proceeded to toss him straight at two other ascended that were closing in.

The man screamed as his helmet melted onto his face. He tried to dismiss it, but the molten metal stayed attached. Sera didn't know if he was dead or alive, but he definitely wouldn't be an issue anymore.

His body hit and stopped the two other ascended long enough for Sera to run towards another on her left.

The ascended flung her sword, which Sera caught in her gauntlet. She felt her body weaken as someone's debuff hit her, but it only slowed her down a bit.

With a grunt she turned the sword and deflected another blade aimed at her head. Sera pulled the ascended close and headbutted her. A small trickle of blood made its way down Sera's head, but the ascended was worse off. Her nose under her helmet crunched and she fell backward momentarily stunned.

In Sera's hand the sword remained. She kept hold of the blade and used it as if she was holding onto the handle.

The ascended whose sword she deflected attacked again, and next to him another attacked using a spear.

Sera leaned to the side evading the sword, then she used the handle of the sword to push the spear into a third ascended. He was trying to sneak up behind her, but he ended up with a spear in his stomach.

At this point the four ascended surrounded her, but they didn't attack immediately. Sera used this time to grab the handle of the sword with her left hand, and the gauntlet changed into a magnificent golden dagger on her right.

One of the ascended's helmet disappeared as he seemed to shout something at Sera, but the buzzing was too loud for her to hear anything.

She glanced towards the sky where Cassandra fought. She held out for so long, and soon she would receive help, but not yet.

The man's speech turned angrier, and after a few more unanswered sentences he seemed to give up. At that exact moment the walls finally shook, and that's exactly what she was waiting for!

As the four ascended's feet wobbled around her. She stabbed forward with her sword, trying to pierce one of their necks. The armor was stronger than the sword, but she used a bit of her flame to heat it up. The sword slowly slipped inside and killed the ascended.

It also ruined the sword, but she didn't let that stop her. The three recovered quickly, but not quick enough, and soon another fell over with a thrown golden dagger sticking out of his helmet.

The other two looked at one another, then back at Sera. They made the smart choice and ran. Behind them Sera laughed madly as another round hit the walls.

The wallbreakers were gigantic cannons that shot large explosive projectiles from a hundred meters away. The walls of New Constantinople were 40 meter in height and 7 thick, which meant it would last for about 5 minutes under constant barrage.

Around Sera the square cleared. While fighting she hadn't noticed that every soldier left the area. About thirty or forty meters away tanks were aiming right at her, from every directions.

She chuckled again, as more and more insanity crept in. She felt it in her bones. The end was near again... The sweet release of death, the only time when she could truly rest.

While laughing to herself she typed a quick message to the artillery commander, which consisted of coordinates... Her own coordinates.

As the tanks opened fire she knelt on the ground and covered her head. The shells were about to hit her and everything around her, when the beautiful golden armor appeared and her wings closed around her. She was like a turtle hiding in their shell.

The shells hit and were stopped or melted, but those weren't the issue. From the other side of the wall the artilleries changed targets and opened fire.

Everything for a hundred meter around Sera exploded. All those tanks got destroyed and thousands died in one concentrated barrage.

The only person who stood up after the destruction was Sera. Her wings hurt like hell, and she had to put them away to be able to move. Her armor disappeared as well, revealing a bruised body underneath.

Her armor had only one ability. It negated a large portion of an attack and it distributed it equally around her body. This also meant that the barrage could be felt all over herself.

As her body slowly changed to the color purple she stood on unsteady legs.

At that moment she felt it in the air. The buzzing had stopped and only silence remained...

Sera took a deep breath and prepared herself to the inevitable and necessary blow. As she exhaled a hand pierced through her chest. She watched with a small smile as the hand held onto her still beating heart and crushed it.

With her last sane thought Sera jumped and held onto the transcended who killed her.

She laughed madly seeing the surprised face of him. But as her sight darkened she saw the man's expression change to pure horror. He just signed his own death sentence!