CLANG!!!
The crimson marking burned hot against Azariah's forehead.
The mana around him trembled as he dug his feet deep into the ground, stopping himself from being propelled back.
"Huff...Huff..."
His ragged breath echoed, the sweet sll of the rain dampening the ground engulfed him.
"...Why are you doing this?"
A tired voice echoed within the heavy rainfall, his blue eyes moving up as he looked at the boy.
"Why are you trying to kill him?" Oliver asked, his body trembling as he tried to suppress his anger.
"Stay out of this," Azariah groaned weakly as he swung his sword in the air.
CLANG!!!
The sword collided with the spear, stopping it mid-air.
The spear shivered before exploding into countless pieces.
"Tch."
Aimar clicked his tongue in frustration as he looked at his broken spear.
His body moved again, engulfing him within a portal before he erged beside Oliver.
Next to the twins stood a girl, behind a layer of mana barrier.
Ashlyn trembled.
Her eyes, swollen from crying too much, looked at Azariah as he slowly walked toward them.
"Stop it, Azariah," she whispered softly, her voice tearing through the heavy rain.
"Move aside," Azariah snarled, glaring at them.
"I said stop it!"
She yelled as thunder crashed, her hand moving.
Azariah stepped back as a sun disk erged in front of him, absorbing the light spear she threw.
The crimson sun disk flipped upside-down before a bolt of light shot through it.
BOOM!!!
It collided with Ashlyn's barrier, shattering it into countless pieces, grazing her body.
The air around Azariah grew heavy as the mark of the crimson sun on his forehead burned brightly, traditional tattoos of chains covering the rest.
A portal erged on either side of him.
But he remained calm.
Instead, Oliver's and Aimar's eyes dilated, and the hair on their heads stood on end.
"Return To Zero."
Azariah whispered.
The sound of a clock ticking echoed within the forest.
Oliver and Aimar, who were just beside him, turned foggy.
Their bodies blurred, showing signs of vanishing before an incomprehensible scene occurred.
The destiny changed.
The twins returned to their original position beside Ashlyn as if they hadn't moved.
Their bodies numb from the sudden shift in reality.
And before they could co to their senses, Azariah was standing in front of them.
"Arghh!"
A kick to Oliver's stomach coiled him up like a cat, and a chop to the back of his neck knocked him unconscious.
Azariah turned to look at Aimar, who glared at him.
"First form: naqsal."
Aimar's twisted body stopped in place as Azariah used Amun-Ra's blessing.
Without wasting any ti, he punched Aimar straight in the jaw, knocking him unconscious.
...Finally, he turned to look at Ashlyn, who slowly stood back up.
Tears stread down her face, blood dripping down her cheeks as she glared at him.
"...Why?" she asked, her voice broken. "...Why are you killing everyone?"
"....."
Azariah didn't reply; he just looked down at her quietly.
...He could clearly see concern in her eyes.
...Concern for him that she tried so hard to remove from her life but couldn't.
"I am sorry," Azariah whispered softly.
But his words seed to have an adverse effect as a cloak of burning light coiled around Ashlyn, light spreading out like a web across the floor.
"Absolute reversal."
Azariah whispered.
His eyes turned pitch black, and a do covered him and Ashlyn.
For just a fleeting mont, he changed Ashlyn's destiny.
Forcing a destiny onto her in which she never awakened, in which she wasn't Gabriel's incarnation but just a normal human.
"Huh?"
He walked towards Ashlyn, whose hair turned from golden to brown, and her mana depleted to nothing.
A quick chop to her neck made her unconscious as he slowly helped her lay on the ground.
"Sigh."
Azariah sighed as he looked at Ashlyn returning to her normal awakened form.
He glanced at them one last ti before creating a sturdy barrier of mana around them.
He turned around and walked further into the forest.
The heavy rain soaked his body, his tired blue eyes looking around.
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Inna's disappointed voice echoed in his head.
And Azariah could clearly sense it.
"...Sabaoth asked to kill Anastasia's Avatar before the first trumpet, but I can't do that."
He replied, anxiety slowly gripping his heart as he rembered his words.
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