Angel Monarch

Chapter 7: Wings of Despair

Sera immediately started looking through her watch and in a minute, she was looking at her status window.

Name: Seraphine

Title: Angel Monarch

1st Kill: Archangel of Despair, Horror of the 3rd Tier

Life Essence Absorbed: 64/1000

Abilities: <Lightbringer>

Passive Abilities: <Angel Sight>

1st Transformation Ability: <Wings of Despair>

1st Transformation Passive Ability: <Indestructible>

Items: -

Looking at her stats she got stumped yet again.

'Two passives on first kill? Well I did get a title as well, so I guess it makes sense.'

She wasn't surprised about the Life Essence counter being already so high. She did kill a 3rd Tier monster of the 4th Class, which means she had gotten 4×4×4(4^3) Life Essence.

Sera just realized that the monster was of the highest Tier.

'No wonder It was so powerful! Wait, but that doesn't make sense. It was supposed to be a 4th Class Gate, a 4th Class creature could come through it technically, but of the 3rd Tier?'

She's already starting to have a headache thinking about it. But she buried these thoughts for now, she still haven't looked at the good part, her abilities.

Sera turned back to the status window, with a stupid grin on her face.

'Let's see the Lightbringer ability first!' She was trembling with excitement.

<Lightbringer>

Description: <You inherited a terrible foe's brilliant light.>

You have a resemblance of control over light and can even make your own if needed.

She was a bit confused by this.

"This seems a bit lack luster compared to other people's first abilities."

But she didn't judge a book by it's cover. Sera held out her hand to try and summon light. She succeeded after a couple of tries, but something looked very weird about it. It lit up everything around her like a lamp in the dark, but it didn't seem bright at all.

"Huh...? This is pretty weird."

She looked around trying to figure out what's going on and then it hit her. It was night already, that's why it lit everything around her. And after that realization she immediately dismissed the light.

"Let's just hope no creature saw that light. But I still don't understand why dismissing the light haven't affected my vision at all?"

Then she looked at her first passive and she finally understood everything.

<Angel Sight>

Description: <The Angels are beings living in the light and fight in the dark, so their eyes adjusted to both blinding light and impenetrable darkness.>

Your eyes are enhanced, you see farther and brightness doesn't affect your vision.

'At least this explains why I can see in the dark. Turns out my eyes are upgraded.'

This ability she liked very much, the possibilities were just endless and it was very convenient to have nightvision.

But she couldn't hold her excitement anymore, she had to check her Transformation Ability.

"Please, be amazingly strong!"

<Wings of Despair>

"Sounds ominous."

Description: <There were 3 Archangels who swore an oath to banish all of Heaven's enemies, but in the end all had succumbed to Madness. The Archangel of Despair was the weakest, but also the most dreadful of the 3.>

You have taken the wings of said Angel. The Wings of Despair has the ability to both awe and inspire allies, but it can also cause dread and despair to foes.

Sera was read through the description a couple of times. She didn't know that the ability's description could hold more information about the monsters slain by humans. No Evolved talked about this, which seemed kind of weird.

'Why hide this feature? Now that she thought about it, how does the Watch even know such things? Does it have some kind of archive with all this information?'

She was trying to figure it out, but couldn't seem to find a reliable answer. The only thing that was clear is that there were a couple things the Evolved hid from the rest of society.

'But why? Everyone was fighting for the same thing, a better future, so why hide things?'

Sera finally dismissed these thoughts.

'It would do no good to try and put together a puzzle with a bunch of pieces missing.'

Finally she looked at her last ability.

<Indestructible>

Description: <Through hardships, pain and suffering the only thing that remained the same, was his wings.>

Your wings are very durable and could withstand attacks from foes with higher Rank or Class.

This ability was pretty self explanatory, but also very useful. There was only one thing bothering Sera.

"...'from foes with higher Rank or Class.' Why would it say Rank, humans don't usually fight each other as far as I know. But for some reason I have a bad feeling about this."

But Sera didn't find out where this feeling was coming from, so she dismissed both the feeling and the description as some weird mistake.

Instead she turned to more important matters, and summoned her wings.

She took a couple of minutes to figure out the summoning process, but she got the hang of it eventually. A pair of huge, beautiful, powerful and perfectly white feathered wings expanded from her back. She expected to be weighed down by them and fall over, but they were light as a feather.

At first she could only move them very awkwardly, but in an hour or so and countless failed attempts, she was ready to try them out on a test flight.

Sera looked around for any signs of possible danger, but there was nothing. Only silence, it was quite peaceful here.

She turned her head up towards the brightening sky, it was close to dawn now. Then with a wide smile she started to beat her wings, all the dust and dirt around her got shaken up and she began to rise.

Judging her wings, they were about 3 meters each, so it only took a couple of snaps, to be in the open air. Sera didn't stop there though, instead she increased her speed. After a couple of minutes she stopped rising and with controlled movements stayed in one place.

She was laughing and giggling with every beat. Moving in the air felt so familiar, as if she was always able to do it, like she finally arrived home. Speaking of home she looked down on her city.

The happiness she felt didn't last long, as she was reminded of the harsh reality of the world.

"Oh... I forgot... Everyone is dead..."

As she looked down on the destruction, tears ran down her cheeks, cleaning of the blood and dirt where they went.