Archfiend Epilogue 2 (Xeno-Sorceror) (06-12-2022)

## Geo-7, Arthur’s Bay [06/12/2022 A.D.]

Witch and Wizard relax in their study. After the fight against the Archfiend, they were exhausted and drained. They talked amongst each other about the demon and the aftermath. They also begin talking about the elections coming up soon for Leader of the Lake. They then hear something in the other room. It sounded like magic was being cast and was quickly followed by intense rummaging. The two perk up from their seats. “Who the hell is that?!” Wizard says as he gets up and begins to walk towards the door where the noise is coming from. The rummaging continues and Wizard walks closer towards the door. He begins to conjure a fireball as he puts his other hand on the doorknob. He motions for Witch to stand close by him. She abides and conjures her own spell. They both count on three and open the door. They see someone in green robes throwing around tomes and books. “Hey! Who are you? What the fuck do you think you’re doing?” Witch shouts as she readies her magic. The person doesn’t react and continues to rummage. Wizard increases the intensity of his fireball and threatens, “You better answer before I fucking fry you.” They then hear a beastly voice that fills the room.

“Go back into the other room. If you know what’s good for you,” the voice says. Wizard and Witch jump in surprise at the voice and look around. They couldn’t find the body of the voice and revert their attention back at the man. Witch warns one more time, “If you don’t answer we’ll fucking send you to the afterlife.” The man stops what he’s doing and sighs in annoyance. He says calmly, “I need something from here.” Wizard, not accepting the answer, throws the fireball at the man’s way at full speed. Witch also shoots an arcane blast to follow up. The man quickly turns around and swipes the fireball and arcane blast out of existence with his hand stretched out. The two look surprised and get ready to shoot another volley of magic until they both catch a symbol on his robe, which looks like the Seraphim symbol. Witch asks in confusion, “What are you doing in our office? And I’ve never seen you before. Wait…how did you even *get* in here?”

The man keeps looking around and answers, “I’m looking for something I was asked to pick up. You haven’t seen me before cause I’m on the field all the time. I got in here using a portal.” The man rummages through more until he finds the Heavenly Codex. He picks it up, dusts it off and comments sarcastically, “You sure took care of this well.” Wizard explained, “We couldn’t really find any use for it. There weren't any spells we needed.” the man looks at the Codex and then looks at the two in what seems to be disgust and responds, “There’s literally a spell for *every* situation in this. It’s the *whole point* of the Codex. For *every* situation. There’s even a ***Table of Contents*** at the front.”

Witch asked in defense, “Even one for sealing away a demon?”

The man looked at the Witch with a straight face and says, “This was created by Angels and Holy beings…to defeat demons. Jesus it’s like you guys didn’t even read it. Bunch of novices.” The Witch stands silent, a bit embarrassed. Wizard looks away in defeat then says, “And who exactly are you?” The man reads the codex and begins casting a few spells while answering, “They call me Xeno-Sorceror. I’m a Pioneer of the Nine-Star Army. In direct collaboration with the Seraphim.” Witch asks, “Nine-Star Army? What’s that?”

“A private military that works to keep the peace and prevent demons, monsters, and other Blights from taking over. Not from Seraphim’s universe. It’s another one. A different universe. They called it HUNT-217.”

“Called it?”

“Yeah, the universe is dead now. Has been dead for a while. Levi destroyed it in the Bellow. Now there’s a few million of us living in CRDNCE-218 and working with the Seraphim to stop the Syndicate.”

“That’s all that’s left of your world…?”

“Yep. Just us. Anyways, Pioneers are…mercenaries in a way. I’m one of them. I get hired to do a job, I take it, and I get it done. This is one of them.”

“Why didn’t the Seraphim just ask us for it back?”

“They didn’t give the order. Pollyannus did.”

“Who’s Pollyannus?”

“A Pillar of Reality.”

Wizard and Witch both look at each other in concern as they hear those three words. They remember the time they were chained to their seats by Levi and were powerless before him. Xeno-Sorceror notices their looks and comforts, “They aren’t evil. They’re actually helping the Seraphim in preventing Levi from destroying the rest of the universes that resist him. He watches most of his Wing, which is called the Sleepwalker’s Wing. They are universes coded 200 to 299. He has taken notice of your universe though because of the Seraphim’s presence here. So he pretty much sees and knows everything in here. He also knows, this Codex could be used in other ways. So he commissioned the Nine-Star Army, and then directly me, to get it.”

Wizard looks at Witch again and slowly nods, “Alright then. You can take it.” Xeno-Sorceror chuckles and repeats, “'You can take it'. It’s ours to begin with. We just let you borrow it.” he puts the Codex away in his robe and pulls out his sword from the sheathe on his back. It’s a large single edged Miaodao. He cuts the air vertically and opens a portal. On the other side is the settlement on Jericho. Xeno-Sorceror looks at them before leaving and says, “That Magus book probably will do enough for you. Get better at your magic. It would be nice to have other magic users help me in my missions. For now, hit the books. For the love of everything.” Xeno-Sorceror jumps into the portal and it shortly closes afterwards. Witch looks around and says in an annoyed tone, “He could have at least cleaned up after himself. Fuck. Look at this mess.” Wizard agrees and comments, “He was strong in magic though. Like, grossly strong. We would’ve lost if he was the enemy.”

“We need to study more. That kind of gave me a new goal.”

“Same here. Well. Time to get to cleaning I guess.”