Angel Monarch

In the twilight of the setting Sun they arrived near the southern gate of the military encampment.

Sera and David walked in the front with their teams behind. When they were a few dozen meters away two large spotlights illuminated the area around them.

"That's far enough! State your name and business!" Shouted a voice from the top of the wall. They probably saw them approaching from kilometers away, they just let them get close.

Sera and David looked at each other, then she motioned for him to take the stage. With a small laugh he stepped forward about to speak, when another person shouted down.

"I give you five seconds to start speaking before we open fire!" Both person sounded a bit young and inexperienced.

David looked back a bit, then with a smile he pointed his arm towards the gate. Sera understood what he wanted her to do and in the next moment her wings appeared.

With a few quick beats she went to the top of the wall and grabbed one of the spokesperson by the neck. He was panicking and tried to pry Sera's hand away.

"Do you think that's a smart idea? It's a long way down." Her voice sounded menacing, which only increased the fearful aura around her.

The young man glanced to the side and only now did he realize that the ground disappeared from under his feet. Behind her the other soldiers just watched this interaction in pure silence.

They asked for her identity and now they have it!

The man in her hand went taut and began crying. Sera only realized now that he wasn't even an evolved, just a regular soldier. With a sigh she threw him back to his comrades and jumped down to the other side of the gate.

As she flew down another shout resounded.

"Open the gates and inform the commander! The Deathless Phoenix has arrived!"

She waited near the gate for the others to catch up. People stared at her with awe, but she gave them no heed.

Currently she wanted to do nothing more than to have a nice cold shower and go to sleep, but she knew that there was much more to do before the day was fully over.

The others soon arrived. Together they walked towards the inner camp where the leadership had their housing set up.

David was laughing his ass off through the whole walk. It seemed the poor soldier's scream could be heard even down there.

Sera didn't really care about him and instead she observed the campgrounds. The camp was large with nearly a hundred thousand soldiers. Most were of course regulars, plus there was another three hundred evolved and a few dozen ascended.

The only transcended was the commander of the operation, a woman named Cassandra.

They were currently heading to her. They had to report their arrival, before they get their houses assigned.

She took residence in a large mansion. The buildings around them were in quite precarious state, some of them looked like a large wind would dismantle the whole structure, but her mansion seemed clean and spotless.

Sera and David watched it with a bit of dejection. They heard stories about the Succubus Princess previously, but they didn't want to believe the tales. Sadly they seemed to be quite true.

She literally used a soldiers to clean off the whole structure and make it spotless. It looked very out of place in a military encampment, like a flower garden in a scientist's lab.

Eventually they got out of their stupor and walked towards the large building. They were about to reach for the door when a short woman in a maid outfit opened it from the inside.

"Seraphine, David, and the rest of you, my Lady has been waiting. You definitely took your time, the other leader's had already arrived!"

Sera and David looked at each other with confusion. They had no idea who the short woman was, but if she dared talking like that, then she was either really stupid, or someone assured her protection.

After that remark, Sera looked the woman up and down with great interest. Her height was barely 160 cm, which was really small for an evolved. She had black hair that only reached her shoulder, and her eyes were a similar dark color. Her face seemed to be in perpetual boredom, but Sera didn't fail to spot the tiny smirk when she spoke.

She was enjoying having this power, and she would've probably enjoyed it even more if Sera tried to act haughty, but unlike her Sera's expression stayed bored.

One thing she was really good at is making people uncomfortable and when she proceeded to stand there silently for nearly a minute the woman's head started to turn red from either embarrassment or anger.

Behind her David was trying really hard not to laugh at this interaction, which probably further annoyed the woman.

Eventually she had enough and without another word, began walking away. Before she turned the corner though, Kathy out of all people called after her.

"Hey! Where the fuck should we go?" The woman didn't even stop as she called over her shoulder. "Figure it out!" Then she was gone.

When she was finally gone most of the people began laughing really hard. One person Sera spotted who wasn't having fun was Hector. Her eyes narrowed a bit, seeing his expression emotionless was unnatural, and this wasn't the first abnormality she had noticed.

After a bit, when David finally got himself back under control, he called out to one of the female soldiers.

"Relma, where is the location of our commander?" He asked and the without further ado, the woman's eyes went blank for a moment, then she just pointed at a door and said, "Third door on the right. It opens right into a large living room."

Relma was the main scout of the Ouroboros Cohort. Her power is pure utility. She can basically move her sight and every other sense outside of her body. There is no attack that could kill her in that form and it is basically unnoticeable by most creatures. It is also a really good spy ability, one that Kathy was really jealous of.

Without saying another word the groups made their way to the room. They stepped inside and most of them stumbled. They looked at the woman sitting in front of the fireplace with pure awe and desire.

Even Sera couldn't say anything. Cassandra was truly one of the most beautiful human beings to ever exist.

She had very long purple hair, that was placed in an elegant bun on the back of her head. Her pink eyes seemed to glow in the low light, while her face was near perfect, but the few imperfections only added to her allure.

Looking her up and down once there was only one question in Sera's mind...

"Doesn't your back hurt?" She asked without much thought. The people around her began coughing, looking very embarrassed. Most of them were staring at the same place, the large cleavage that gave everyone a fairly good look at Cassandra's breasts.

Unlike them Sera's face stayed straight and Cassandra just laughed. The sound was beautiful as well, it was like everything she done was attractive.

"Oh Sera... How much I wanted to meet you! You are probably the only person below transcended who can resist my charm!... It's so exciting!" She jumped up from her seat, which caused her large breast to bounce.

While everyone next to her was salivating over Cassandra's body, Sera just stepped forward and held out her hand. Cassandra grasped it and shook it firmly, giving just enough of a squeeze to show her dominance.

"It's a pleasure working with you... The famous Deathless Phoenix right in my small encampment! I await seeing you fight on the battlefield!" With that she moved towards David.

He seemed to be holding onto his sanity quite well, but his eyes still held a bit of desire. Cassandra shook his hand as well and after saying a few pleasantries to each other her eyes moved to their teams.

She looked at each of the Ouroboros Cohort members with satisfaction, but when her eyes went to Sera's team of three, a small frown appeared on her face. She lingered a bit on Hector, which caused a bit more suspicion to rise in Sera, but she didn't say anything about it.

"I understand that this siege is probably won't be too hard, but I was given the intel that Central Command requested your full team... And by your latest report that includes five people... Why am I only seeing three?" Asked Cassandra, her previous facade fully dissolved.

Sera looked her up and down again re-evaluating the image she made of her. This wasn't a person that liked to have fun and fuck around. She seemed to be very much like her maid, power hungry and incompetent.

"Well, you only seeing three because I left two of them back in New Athens!" She said with a matter of fact voice, like this answer should've been obvious and she didn't understand why Cassandra haven't figured it out.

The frown deepened on her face, but she didn't say anything else about the two missing captains.

"Okay, your housing should already been set up. All of you can leave, except Sera and David. You should meet the other leaders since we only have a few days before the attack!"

Everyone filed out. Cassandra, Sera and David left the mansion, heading straight to a large building that was possibly the camp's military headquarters.

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