Angel Monarch

From there they learnt a lot of important information, which would determine the movement of their own army.

For example there were three main artillery stations at the east side of the wall. During the night these were places where they put one of Frank's bombs.

Outside the alarm still screamed and people's shouting echoed down the street. The ceiling rumbled as large vehicles moved along the road. These were the self-propelled artilleries and tanks. Taking them out will be the Ouroboros Cohort's first objective.

Lilith had already left with the Angelic Order members. Their objective will be to stop enemy reinforcement movement along the southern main avenue.

Percy and Kathy will be on their own in the northern reinforcement route. Their job was to cause general mayhem in larger crowds of soldiers, killing as many as they could.

Then there was Sera. She stood in the large empty basement watching the city map. There were a lot more markings on it than a few hours ago.

Her hand was shaking and the buzzing in her mind just kept growing, the pain returned as well. She sighed with exhaustion that shouldn't be possible to bear for someone so young.

She stared at the map a while longer, thinking of every possible outcome that she could've missed. Above her something large went down the road.

For a moment she glanced at the dust falling off of the wooden ceiling. She held out a cupped hand and let the dust settle on top.

"I will rest after the siege..." She whispered to herself.

Somewhere in the city something exploded, this was her queue. She took a staggering step towards the exit of the basement, then an other and kept repeating it until her movements reflected confidence.

Her hands still shook a bit. She knew exactly what's going to happen. The worst part was knowing beforehand, its much easier to die without expecting it.

With a quick push she slammed open the door and walked out into the cacophony of sounds. Soldiers ran past the street where large abandoned house stood. Non of them even looked at towards her.

Sera wore civilian clothes and her hair was changed to a blood-red color using her item. It was necessary for the plan to work that nobody knew her real identity.

Turning around she moved into the alley where the basement door laid and she ran towards the the area between the two gates. There the fighting will be at its apex from start to finish, but only after the Federal Alliance army had broken through the wall.

Until then Sera will entertain the soldiers there. Her main mission was to lure out the third transcended.

The first two were already in place, at least that's what Cassandra wrote a few minutes ago. She will possibly have the hardest job out of everyone. Until Sera could help, she will have to hold both transcended's attention.

If she dies while fighting the whole siege will be over, and everyone in the army will either die or get captured... If they take prisoners. It wouldn't be the first time that one army slaughtered the other indiscriminately.

With this in mind Sera prayed that she and David prepared Cassandra enough. Her power was much stronger than a normal transcended, but it was still two on one.

She only let herself think about Cassandra for a brief minute, then her mind focused again. The buzzing started to drown out the noises around her...

...

While Sera was running towards her point of attack, the others were already working hard, sowing chaos.

Percy was having quite a lot of fun. He flew through the air in his magical form and summoned purple spears raining them down on unsuspecting soldiers.

He also made sure to explode a few vehicles in specific streets, which caused roadblocks for the tanks and other military vehicle. Some of the were so extensive and thorough that even humans couldn't get past them.

He was a special kind of nuisance since nobody could really see him. He had killed a few hundred soldiers by the time an ascended arrived and attacked him.

The ascended was nothing too special, but he had an energy saber that could hurt Percy in his transformed form, and the individual could levitate too, which was another kind of annoying.

In the sky he stopped, standing a few dozen meters away from the other ascended. The purple energy that made up his body slowly changed form, turning into something more corporeal.

After a few seconds Percy stood in the sky, but he wasn't in his human form. Instead it was a copy of his actual body made out of his purple energy. In his hand his staff appeared. This was the actual weapon not something made out of his magic.

The ascended waited politely for all this to happen. Percy didn't quite understand why, his working theory was that the ascended was stupid.

He couldn't judge the ascended's gender or looks. He wore an armor that was probably acquired from some monster as an item. It was nothing special, which didn't surprise Percy.

It was really hard to make actual items that could be summoned or dismissed. He still had no idea why those Angelic Order weirdos had so high quality equipment, but they definitely piqued his interest. And since that girl had invited them to check it out, he will definitely take her up on that offer.

Unlike the ascended, Percy didn't wait a moment after summoning his staff. Behind him a dozen magic spears appeared and he sent them straight at the floating soldier.

Since the person's face was hidden Percy didn't see their expression, but if he had to guess, then the ascended was quite surprised.

The ascended dodged most of the spears, and easily cut through the last of them, but it was all a distraction. He used their obscured vision, to fly towards the ascended.

Using his staff he pushed it right against the ascended's armor and with a large blast of energy he exploded the person's chest.

Gore rained down on the soldiers below him, and to add salt to injury Percy cackled jovially, then continued the killing.

...

At another part close to where Percy was causing mayhem, Kathy was doing something similar.

In the middle of an enemy formation something very strange happened. One of the soldiers attacked another for no apparent reason.

The man cut another one's throat, then proceeded to kill ten more people before someone shot him.

The whole formation started to disintegrate into chaos as more and more fights broke out.

People started shooting into the crowd, they got killed left and right. It only took a small seed and the terrified soldiers were instantly plunged into self-destruction.

Kathy only changed her form about half a dozen times, and started fights at different places. The few thousand regular soldiers started killing each other instantly.

They thought that some enemy soldiers had infiltrated their group, but in reality they were only killing their fellow soldiers.

Kathy watched them from the roof for a few minutes. Eventually they calmed down, but at that point more than half of the group was killed.

After that she moved onto another group and did the same. Then onto the next. Only after the fifth one did an ascended caught her.

She was about to leave the self-killing group, when a sword nearly decapitated her.

Kathy was fully prepared since there were literal eyes on the back of her head. They were hidden behind her hair, but there was just enough gap left to be able to see.

Usual she would've turned into some large beast, but she had to stay low profile. The skin on her empty hands changed, turning metallic. Her fingers also changed, they elongated and turned into large claws.

With that done she blocked the ascended's sword, stopping it with her left hand.

She looked the man up and down once, but it wasn't easy because the guy was huge. At least three meter in height, with muscles that bulged out unnaturally. The man wore no armor and he only had a large, plain, 2 meter long greatsword, which looked like a regular sized sword in his hands.

On his head above his nose one large eye stared down at Kathy. There was only anger on his face as he gritted his teeth.

This whole observation lasted less than a second, and after that moment she had to dodge to the side and escape the cyclops's sword.

His strength was much higher than Kathy's, and he was way too fast for his size. She ducked under a swipe, then rolled to the side avoiding getting hit.

Around them the chaos continued and some bullets accidentally hit the ascended's large body... He didn't care and just swiped again.

This time Kathy remembered her training in the past week. She spent a lot of time with Conrad, especially at his favorite place... The training area of the camp.

They worked a lot on making Kathy more versatile. She had learnt to change small things about her body in a matter of moments. Her hands were one of these changes, but she used something else this time.

The sword was headed her way about to cut her in two at the shoulders horizontally. But just before it connected, Kathy's size drastically changed, nearly halving her.

As the cyclops's eyes went wide, it was already too late. Kathy travelled towards his head like a bullet. Her size only a little bit larger than the ascended's head.

Her two claw-like hands were still regular sized and they went straight into the cyclops's throat. With a bit of effort she moved her hands to the side, decapitating the ascended.

She landed on the ground at the same time as the head. Her whole body was covered in blood, but after a quick transformation it was gone.

She was about to head to find another group when her eyes snapped behind her.

All over the city the stationary artilleries began to open fire on the approaching Federal Alliance army. They managed to fire one barrage of their salvo before three giant explosions went off...