A cold wind blew crawling on their skin and small specks of dust from the ground flew with it. Rays of light from the setting sun touched the ground and everything before it. Faint warmth came from the bright sun as the heat of tension began to escalate. Cold, as well as severe glare, came from both sides as their bodies began to stiffen in order to prepare to act.

A black blade from a dark angel's hand gleamed from the setting sun's light. None may have been able to see this dark angel's eyes, but one would be able to feel his evil glare and murderous intent. That said, this angel stood looking all calm and unworried as though there was nothing that could threaten him.

Heavy and careful breathing can be heard as the valiant warriors from the order faced a powerful foe but stayed strong in the belief of accomplishment. The belief of winning. Foolish it may seem, but they didn't think of it as such. They believed and confident they will triumph against this one, besides, escape would only be nearly impossible or possibly be already impossible.

Every single one of the Order closely looked at the opponent before them. Some felt determination, some felt willingness, some felt anger, some felt anxiousness, and some felt fear. Sweat popping out of their pores, their forehead beaded with sweat because of the tension of the upcoming fight.

Vincent looked at the dark angel then back to his allies to make sure they are ready to engage on his command. They look all prepared indeed, however, he only observed the one near him – the ones beside him – and not on the ones behind him, that said, he assumed everyone is willing to engage. With that in mind, he gave the order.

"ATTACK!"

Vincent shouted so loud which shook the silence so that the people can clearly hear his words.

After hearing Vincent's orders, everyone immediately took action. The ones beside Vincent charged first including Maya, Zoey, and John.

They all ran towards the dark angel, however, they were not foolish enough to just charge in without a plan.

Everyone which was left behind including Vincent began to open fire to the angel, they left a gap in the middle so it was alright to open fire, and they do not need to worry about hitting an ally. To be precise, there were six men left on the back providing support and covering fire.

Bullets and magic particles came flying towards the angel, however, Vincent was surprised at what happened to those things. The bullets simply fell to the ground just before they could touch his armor and the magic particles disappeared, it's not only him that was surprised in this but also his allies. However, Vincent immediately realized that it must be because of a protective spell, with that fact in mind, it is possibe the spell can be broken. There are two ways to pass through his defenses, one is to let the spell dispel itself because defensive spells have durations, the other is to break it by simply keep firing at him.

Thus, Vincent decided to keep firing, if they're lucky, the angel's defenses might dispel in a short moment, however, they don't know exactly when it will dispel, so all they could do was fire their weapons.

As they fired at the angel, the ones rushing forward began to go cast some spells. First, one of them used his own powers.

"[Earth Wall]!"

A wall made up of earth rose from the ground in front of the angel and it was so close to him that it almost hit his face. This was a way to hold the opponent from attacking, the opponent would need to move away from the wall or destroy the wall in order to engage. However, the angel stood still.

At the same moment, another member of the order cast his own magic upon the angel which was behind the wall and was unable to see the caster.

"[Blazing Sphere]!"

A giant circular body of flames conjured atop the dark angel. The size of the sphere of flames is capable of consuming the angel whole, and a normal person caught by the flames will be turned to ash.

The caster moved his raised hand downward, and with it, the giant sphere of flames descended upon the angel. As expected, the flames consumed the angel whole also including the wall but of course, the wall would not easily be destroyed.

Everyone halted their action to see the effects of their attacks. The flames kept blazing for several seconds, so they expected that could at least done some damage. After several seconds, they saw movement within the blazing sphere. With it, the wall broke into pieces, and as the flames dissipated, they saw the angel standing unharmed, there was not even a single damage on his armor nor a burnt on his wings which shocked everyone.

In contrast, the angel looked like he just casually slammed the wall which was also surprising. The wall was one of the strongest defensive magic they could use, and that strongest magic was destroyed in one hit.

After that, the angel began to take a step. As John saw that, he immediately cast his enchantment magic on his shotgun. When he did, he instantly fired at the angel before he could make his move. He was at the range that could clearly hit the angel, so he needs to shoot now.

When he fired, the several shotgun pellets were leaving trails of electricity, and those trails looked so thick and strong, one could think that even one pellet would be enough to make a person die from electrocution.

When the pellets hit the angel, small electrical explosion popped out from every pellet. However, just like before, the shots were ineffective.

Immediately after that, the angel made his move. And his movements were so fast that everyone barely managed to follow him and this made some exclaimed along the lines of "He's fast!".

Then, as they barely did follow him, they saw that the angel has already reached the one who cast the earth spells.

As the caster saw that the angel was already before him, he frantically moved backward away from the angel. In a bit of panic, he cast several spells to at least slow the angel down.

"[Earth Pillar]!"

A pillar instantly rose up right in front of the angel. However, like it's nothing, the angel swept off the pillar and it broke into pieces. At this moment, the caster began to panic even more.

"Stay away! [Earth Spikes]!"

The caster once again frantically cast a spell and three giant spikes rose from the ground pointed at the angel. These spikes were so large that it would be able to impale the entire body of a person and its edges were so sharp like it would simply pass through a person's skin smoothly and without any issue.

These spikes rose and hit the angel, however, before the edges could touch his armor, the edges broke. At the same moment, the angel waved his sword and destroyed the remaining parts of the spikes clearing his way.

The caster's eyes went wide for a moment as he seen something that was not easily be believed, however, now was not the time to contemplate about anything else, what's important at the moment is to save his own life.

This caster's name is Jack Meras, he lived with his family in a single house. In that said house, there lived his Mother, Father, and two siblings. His little brother was still a grade 10 student and the little sister was a grade 7 student. They lived a simple life and lived in a simple house.

His mother was only a housewife, in the past, the mother planned to find a job to help the family but was not able to because the father including Jack didn't allow her to. As for his father, well, his father was ill and was no longer able to do any hard works, if he does do any hard work, it would endanger his life. With all that said, Jack is now the only one to support his siblings' education as well as the daily needs of his family. Jack does have a job and the company was under the Order. However, what he gains from there was barely enough to cover for everything. Fortunately, the company gives support to members of the order and that gives the help to make everything enough for his family's needs.

His family relies on him, his the only they could rely on. That is why, he must try to survive and live through this – no, he must survive, he must live, he must see his family again.

If he knows they have a chance to win this, his thoughts would have been different. However, that was not the case, he felt they have no chance of winning, right from when the angel began his approach.

With other spells in cooldown, and some are not going to be effective against this monster with dark wings, he has no choice but to defend himself. His magic is not focused on offense but on defense, so he doesn't have a lot of offensive spells. As his defenses are the most powerful, then that is all he could use.

"[Earth Wall]!"

He cast that spell again for it has already finished its cooldown.

A wall blocked the angel's way and also blocked both of Jack's and the angel's view from each other.

"This is getting more annoying."

The angel said.

Then the angel slammed his fist on the wall, and in an instant, the strongest defensive spell broke apart like it was nothing. And shortly after that, the angel already has Jack within his reach, and with that, he extended his hand and plunged his blade on his chest.

"Auh.."

Jack released a sound as the blade pass through his chest and pain with it. However, the pain he felt and the blade in his chest was not his primary concern nor did he think about it. Instead, what was inside his mind was the family he so cared about.

As he thought about them and as blood coming out of his chest and mouth. Images of his family that he cared so much flashed through his eyes. With it, tears began to come out of his eyes.

"..I-I'm s-sorry.."

He quietly stated his apologies. Apologies in not seeing them again and them not seeing him again, apologies in not being able to support them anymore, apologies in leaving them behind, apologies on failing their expectations on seeing each other again.

With his last words were his last breath, and then his eyes closed.

"No!"

Zoey from behind shouted.

"Jack!"

John shouted.

"You damn bastard!"

Maya said.

The angel pulled his blade from their dead comrade and his lifeless body fell to the ground.

Then the angel turned to his next target, which is the second caster. The angel began to approach the said caster.

Seeing the angel was approaching him, he frantically took several step backs. As he did that, the angel quickly got close to him which shocked the caster in the sudden event.

"Stay away!"

The caster said and he instantly used his magic in hopes to push away the angel. He pointed both his hands to the angel and with it a continuous wave of large flames came forth from his hands and devoured the angel whole.

However, in the middle of the chaotic flames, a voice sounded out.

"Haha! That will never work on me!"

The caster shrugged in the shocking moment. The angel was entirely consumed by the flames that could be thousands of degrees and could easily turn any living being to ash. However, this angel spoke out like those flames were no bother at all, like he didn't feel any pain at all. Of course, this has already happened previously but that was before everyone else attacked, but now all of them engaged this angel so his defenses should have already be broken right now. But this angel sounded like his unharmed.

Hoping to do more damage, the caster stepped back then he rotated his whole body around. With it, the wave of flames followed the motion leaving a rotating wave of flames. And as he did the 360-degree turn, both the wave of flames hit the angel once again.

However, as both of those waves of flames hit him, the angel was only casually walking paying no heed to the flames that was hitting him. As like before, his armor was not even scratched nor burnt.

As his attacks apparently ineffective, he decided to fall back – or it could be said, to stay away from death even just for a few meters. He jumped back and cast flames from his hands and extended forward, with it he flew backward. He used the flames as boosters to quickly get away from the angel.

And a few seconds he got back on the ground. However, before anything else, the angel made his move.

"You won't get away that easily."

As like before, the angel rushed forward and instantly had the caster in his reach.

The caster is Kevin Wester. He lived a wealthy life. His family ran a big business that was established and worked hard by his parents. In the past when he was still young, Kevin himself, his older sister, and parents lived an average simple life. His parents were running a small business that was just enough to support their daily needs and education. It took several years for their business to drastically improve and became prestigious.

Then as their company developed, they eventually got a partnership with a company that was under the New Dawn Order. Because of his exemplary magical talent, Kevin was noticed by one of the members of the orders, and eventually got invited to join the order.

Even though they have a big company to manage with both his parents managing their main business and his older sister managing another business, they were still close to each other. When they have the time, mostly they all hang out together and go to different places. They all loved each other.

They went through hard times together, they worked hard together, they help each other. Thus, none of them would want one to vanish from this world. If they could, they would live forever in happiness, even if one is to have another family, they still won't leave each other. No one would want anyone to feel pain of grief and sorrow, especially to one's family.

Now, an angel comes to take his life. However, he still wants to see his family, that's why he must fight. But, can he really live through this?

He thought at first, they have a chance against this lone enemy. Now, however, he has seen this angel's invulnerability, even to his fullest potential he has yet to damage the angel. Thus, he has come to the understanding that they will never be able to beat this angel.

As he thought that, he has craved to live through this even more. He would have been willing to die for the sake of the world if they have a chance of triumph. But now he knows they will never win this battle, so all the effort he can give will all come to waste. So now all he could do is hope and pray to survive and get to hang out with his family once again.

The angel readied his hand to swing. Kevin looked at his blade and thought when that touch him it will be his death. He could try to blast the angel with flames, however, he thought and judging from before, his flames will have no effects whatsoever. Even if he could try, the blade would still reach him.

Kevin tried to step back, but it felt so heavy. Perhaps it was because it was fear, still, he forced himself to take a step. However, all he could do was a small step back and the angel still has him in his reach.

Amidst all this, someone approached the angel. It was a woman equipping metal boots whose name is Zoey Autrech.

Zoey leaped towards the dark angel's right arm which was extended to prepare for a swing. With it, the angel's arm's motion seemed to have come to a halt.

"Take this!"

As Zoey's right foot was stepping on the angel's right arm, she jumped with it she forcefully stepped on the angel's face and with it giving her the force to fly to the direction towards Kevin.

She immediately grabbed Kevin when he was at her reach and immediately ran away, she ran so fast, so much more than a normal human being would run. Well, that is because that's her gift. Using magic with her feet.

When Kevin and Zoey finally got away, another held the angel before he could make his move.

Now, another woman stabbed the angel by the neck. This woman was never been then before, but suddenly she just appeared out of nowhere and had already stabbed the angel on the neck.

This woman was Maya Resonov. She strongly stabbed the angel's neck, that's because the neck is always one of the most vulnerable parts when wearing a full plate armor and there will always be a little gap in between the helm and the armor. And Maya got her blade in the gap.

However, there was something that shocked Maya and something she couldn't understand.

"What is this?!"

She pushed the blade harder towards inside the gap, however, the blade wouldn't move any further. It was as though something was blocking her blade, something like a barrier of some sorts.

"If that won't work, then what about this!"

Maya pulled out the knife and pointed her magic powered submachine gun right in the gap on the neck of the angel. And she fired at almost zero distance. Sparks of magic particles shone as magic was spitting out of her weapon. However, even though at almost zero distance and endlessly firing, nothing seems to be happening. Her weapons seemed to have no effects.

What kind of defensive magic does this guy have?!

Maya thought.

Then the angel spoke.

"That won't work. No matter what you do, you won't be able to hurt me."

When she felt the moment was getting dangerous, she immediately fell back. As she did, the angel swung his blade, fortunately, as she jumped back, the blade didn't hit her. When she got her feet back to the ground, she vanished.

She turned invisible. That is her gift. Not only she can use invisibility magic, but she is also light on her feet and movement that made her difficult to notice.

When Zoey got a distance away from the angel, she let go of Kevin.

"Thanks, Zoey."

"You're welcome, now get to a position and – "

"You won't escape from me that easily!"

A shout rang out and in instant something happened to Kevin.

As Zoey witnessed this, her eyes widened. Not only that, but she was also shocked.

A giant blade flew out of nowhere and impaled Kevin in the chest. The blade was so large that it was it was able to occupy half of his stomach.

Everything looked so slow as the blade impaled him. Blood splattered on the soil, puzzlement in the sudden occurrence.

Kevin slowly looked at the blade which suddenly pierced his body. He held the blade as though he wanted to push it out, however, he could never do that anymore. The pain and loss of blood and shock caused him to lose his strength – to be short, he was dying.

Weakened, he started to fall on his back, however, he didn't fully fall to the ground. Because of the edge of the blade hitting on the ground, he was still on his feet, and his body leaning above.

As he was losing his life, he thought of his parents and sister. And with his dying moment, their smiles flashed before his eyes. At that moment, he realized he doesn't want to die.

"P-please.. I don't w-want.. to.."

His eyes closed, and his arms dangled. He died, even though he doesn't want to, even though he was trying to live. However, no matter how much willpower he puts into the will of living, he still died.

"W-what? Where did that sword.."

Zoey said as she was shocked in the sudden event. For a moment, she kept staring at the impaled body of her comrade trying to understand what just happened. But, thinking about that for the moment is not important.

She rushed to the impaled man and checked on him.

"Kevin! Hey!"

When she tried to some sort of waking him up, there was no response. At this moment, she had concluded that he is now indeed.

Once again, she pondered about what happened and tried to make an understanding. Shortly, she realized that there was only one man that can do something like this, someone that could kill without hesitation.

Zoey turned to look at the dark angel. She saw that the angel was still holding his sword, in that case, then where did that sword which impaled the man came from?

She carefully observed the angel in order to understand, however, no matter how much she analyzed him, she wasn't able to come to a conclusion.

Amidst her contemplation, a voice came to her ears that gave her the information to help her understand.

"Zoey! He can shoot a sword from his hand!"

Those words came from Maya. However, Zoey couldn't fully believe what she heard. She couldn't see anything from where this giant sword could have come from. If it is not physically possible to keep or hide a sword, then there could only be one word to perhaps give an idea.

Magic?

That word came within Zoey's mind. It could only be the logical explanation in this. However, with that fact, there is still something that couldn't be understood by Zoey – in actuality, it's not only her but also the others. It is the fact that what the angel did was conjuring a physical object.

There is a way to create a physical object using magic. However, that was only limited to small objects and for a big object, the caster must keep the object within his hands. That said, this angel contradicts all of those facts. He created a sword and it stayed in existence and he didn't even keep holding it. If he can do something like that, then how did he managed to use creation magic that way? How did he learn creation magic to that level? How powerful is this angel to be able to cast magic on that level? Those questions appeared on Zoey's mind as well as the other members of the order.

However, no matter how much they question, they will never get the answers to each of their questions.

Even when those questions are within their minds, they will still need to fight.

Zoey drew her dual submachine guns and prepared herself to engage.

"You'll definitely pay you monster."

Zoey pointed all her magic-powered weapons and opened fire at the angel. While doing that, she ran around the angel with great speed that a normal person would not be able to do.

Not only her, but the rest also continued to engage the angel.

Countless magic particles hit the angel, multiple natural elements came forth to eliminate the enemy angel – wind, ice, lightning, water.

The wind moved in great speed and when it hit its target, it could cut like a blade would. And a great deal of wind was crashing upon the dark angel which no matter how much wind he was still unscathed.

An enormous wave of ice came crawling towards the angel, as it got near, razor-sharp spikes grew in an instant and hit the angel. Numerous sizable icicles also came flying to attack the angel. However, all of those were still ineffective, the razor-sharp edges of the wave of ice merely broke before it could touch the angel's armor, and the icicles simply shattered into pieces.

Strikes of lightning came from the caster's hands. Continuous flow of lightning and continuous strikes of lightning came hitting the angel, the amount of energy was so great that it blew off a small part of the land. However, the angel merely stood there nonchalantly, like there was nothing bothering him whatsoever.

Not only that, but there were also numerous lightning enchanted bullets flying towards the angel. The electricity was so clear to see even though the bullets were moving at considerable speed. However, all of those were ineffective.

Loads amount of water turned to wave with sharp edges and were flying towards the angel in great speed which although water it could easily cut flesh with ease. Then a ray of boiling water came forth towards the angel. However, none were effective. As the remains of the water splashed towards the ground, they disappeared before they could touch the ground, that is because those water were made from magic. Just for the record, some people could also take control of any existing water around the person to a limited amount, depending on the level of the caster.

Every attack went so well. However, amidst the attacks, blades flew from where the angel stood – well, to be precise, the blades did come from the angel.

The caster of wind magic was shocked, so shocked as he saw a sword coming towards him. He wanted to move but it was so sudden and he was so shocked to react in time in order to evade the blade. He could use his magic, but it was so obvious that he won't make it in time for the sword flew in fast speed. Unable to react and move in time, the blade pierced his body. For a few seconds, he fell to the ground and died.

Following that, the caster of the lightning element saw a sword coming to him. In response to that, he used both his hands as cover and at the same time he released a blast of lightning, and the blast blew off the sword stopping its approach. The caster felt relieved as he saw the blade fall to the ground, however that feeling was taken away in an instant.

As the fallen sword touched the ground, another sword was already approaching the caster and he failed to notice it. As a result, the sword pierced his body even though he has lightning protecting him, it would seem his defense was not enough to stop the sword. However, it was not over yet, another sword pierced his body again. At this moment, he now felt the pain caused by two swords that pierced his body. With the swords pierced through his body and loss of blood as well as pain, he fell to the ground and died.

Immediately after that, the caster of water magic quickly saw a sword flying towards her. In an instant, she sprouted a ton of water right below the moving sword, the force of the water was enough to stop the sword. And the sprouted water stayed into existence and it turned into a large wall-like form. This was a form of defense from the caster's magic, the wall of water is enough to block a powerful fire attack from one of her comrades, thus she expected the wall to stop any approaching swords.

Amidst her comfort, however, a blade suddenly got through the wall and shocked her. The blade was fast, so fast, she could never react in time to block that or anything. Also, the fact that the blade easily got through the wall added her feeling of shock and the slowness of her reaction.

The blade got through her wall of water because the blade flew in considerable speed, and the sharp edge greatly helped in getting through the wall. After all, the wall is not that strong compared to the angel, also the wall is only water, so it's not solid enough to block a sword shot by this angel.

Unable to defend herself, the sword struck her. In an instant, another sword passed through the wall and again struck her. With the blades pierced her body, she fell to the ground and died.

It didn't end there.

The dark angel has yet to stop his shooting swords attacks. The angel may have only casually standing there and waved his arms around shooting swords, he was still so dangerous even though he was only shooting swords around. And every dead person only escalated the danger everyone felt. Especially when everyone witnessed that the other's defenses were rendered useless, worthless.

Zoey witnessed three of her comrades slaughtered. She may have felt rage within her heart as she can only watch them die, she didn't let her emotions get the best of her and calmly watched out for anything.

Then, she immediately noticed a blade shot towards her – to be precise, the blade was ahead of her as she was running it was as though the blade was calculated exactly on where it should be pointed and headed. Fortunately, she noticed the sword.

She immediately stopped both her feet and because she was running at fast speed, she slid with both her feet moving against the soil and stopping her movement. However, she would still get hit if that was just all the force of her halt. Thus, she fell her body and with it, she laid her hand on the ground and tried to get all the force she needed to stop. Her hand may be hurting as she did that, survival is still the first priority in this situation, so the pain does not matter.

Even though her body is almost on the ground, the flying sword may just still hit her, that's because the swords were large almost look like a large greatsword – no, it is exactly that. Thus, the only option she has is to stop.

In a few seconds, she has finally stopped, however, she held her breath. When she managed to stop, the blade almost touched a bit of her feet, it was looked like an inch off. When the large sword has finally passed by, she let out a sigh of relief.

However, she instantly realized she shouldn't relax just yet. She immediately stood up, and instantly she looked at the direction where the angel is, and as she did, she saw another sword – this time a normal sword. And the flat side of the sword was facing the ground and the sharp corners facing the sides.

She quickly dashed forward, however, that was just a normal sword, and that means the sword is faster than the previous one and she noticed it as the blade cut the right side of her body.

"–Agh.."

Fortunately, because she evaded, the cut was not deep, alt-->>

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