Chapter 5: Purification of Holocaust Scripture

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Overlord: Celestial Crusade

"You dumb beast, what did you throw?"

The priests and the female Bafolk were suprised for a moment from the orb's colorful explosion, but the priest above her was ready to strike at her this time, only for the appearance of a portal to cease any action and from there came forth Themis, much to the happiness and upcoming relief of the rest of the villagers that were still concious.

"W-Who are you?" asked one of them Themis who was her usual and calm self.

"I'm the Lorelei Themis, one of the servants in the service of the Great Celestial One, Lord Aethaion." she said introducing herself while lightly bowing, causing confusion with both her appearance and explanation.

"I don't care who you are, Lorelei, but you will be destroyed!" shouted one of them while pointing at her.

"All non-humans will die, but you earned a gruesome death for declaring someone as the absolute holiest when the Six Great Gods exist!" shouted another at her in anger, but Themis was walking away in the meantime and got a few steps away from them, looking at the villagers that were on the ground.

"Lord Aethaion saved this village out of his infinite compassion and goodness. Now that we are here, even one dead would be insulting. **Widen Magic: Mass Healing Word**" she said as she began singing, with all the fallen villagers being surrounded by a glow that completely healed their wounds "Please take your children and leave things here to me." she instructed, with the Bafolk grabbing their kids and running away panicked.

"Where do you think you are-" tried to say one of the men while he and the rest were about to unleash fire spells, only for a shock to damage them and shatter their staffs "I-Impossible, 2nd tier **Shatter**?" wondered one of them while getting up.

"Our staffs shattered, does this mean she is stronger?" wondered another only to be pushed by another.

"Bullshit, let's get her guys!" shouted the man, with the others roaring in excitement and Themis simply smiled.

At the plains

The elder along with a handful of others had burned faces and chainmails and were breathing heavily "damn it....if we only had enchanted weapons...." said the elder in frustration as he was watching the two elemental spirits that were awaiting orders in order to act, all while the flame masked priest along with the others were chuckling from the Bafolks' state.

"Before you die, I have to tell you that everyone at your village is dead by now!" claimed the masked man cocky to the Bafolk's shock and anger.

"That's not true. My servant, Themis, has already taken care of your men." said a voice from a portal that was formed between the priests and the exhausted Bafolk, with the voice belonging to Aethaion whose appearance brought relief and happiness to the Bafolk and confusion to the priests.

"Who and *what* are you?" asked the masked man alerted.

"I'm Aethaion, Empyrean Overseer and leader of Seraphim." he causally said and extended his hand at the injured Bafolk "Mass Cure Wounds!" he shouted, with all the Bafolk being surrounded by a green glow that healed their wounds and burns to their surprise.

"I see...you are someone that dares to pretend to be an angel...blasphemy! Burn him!" he shouted as he and the others unleashed a handful of fire balls at Aethaion who simply batted them away and they dissolved "W-What?!", the masked man couldn't believe what he was seeing and was now even angrier.

"You still don't believe me?" he asked while widening his hands as in to marvel at him, only for his attention to be restored by the man tapping with force his staff on the ground.

"You will pay...fire elementals, burn him alive!" he commanded and the four elementals lunged at Aethaion who was calm.

"I will play like this too then, **Summon Elemental 4th.**" he calmly said and four water elementals appeared that clashed with the fire elementals and the pairs extinguished each other.

"I-Impossible!" shouted the man enraged "I'm the leader of Holocaust Scripture, Maxwell Zin Rolbok. I will not be defeated by a blasphemous angel pretender!" he shouted and then destroyed his staff "**Summon Angel 5th!**" he shouted, with a circle of blue color being formed and an angel with a blue and white armor holding a broadsword of light appeared to the amazement of everyone.

"Behold! *This* is a true angel! The strongest possible angel we lowly humans can summon without any ritual!" shouted Maxwell cocky "**Battleforce Angel**, purify this filth!" he shouted and the angel was about to strike Aethaion who wasn't moving.

"Stop attacking" said Aethaion in a low but imposing tone and the angel ceased its attack, much to everyone's confusion.

"What are you doing? Attack him!" shouted Maxwell but the angel was not responding.

"Now, kill yourself" ordered Aethaion and the angel stabbed itself with its sword, bursting into numerous wisps of light.

Maxwell and the others fell down from shock as they saw their trump card being lost so easily and as they were overwhelmed by shock, Maxwell saw Themis jumping from the village and landing near Aethaion "D-does this mean my men were defeated?" he wondered, with Themis simply smiling as an answer.

"Now then, you lot cursed this village and then attacked it and its residents, children and women included, because they are demi-humans, right?" he asked while walking towards them "I could have ordered the angel to kill you all, but such punishment wouldn't be enough!" he explained with anger in his voice as he then was in front of Maxwell who still couldn't process the whole situation.

"You are...a real angel?" he wondered confused while sweating from the possibility of it being true.

"You lot no longer deserve to know the truth." he said and then he realized something "Oh, yes, you talked about purification. In that case..." he said and began glowing "...be purified! **Holy Aura V**!" he shouted as an intense glow covered him and engulfed the area and when it dissipated, the Bafolk saw stupefied Maxwell and his men having turned into horrified statues of stone.

"*The Holy Aura ability has the five stages of Charm,Paralyzation, Exhaustion, Prone and then Petrification. While it's not the first time I have petrified targets, there were always restoration measures and when there were not, it never worked to such extend.*" he thought suprised "Justice has been served!" he said in an imposing tone while the Bafolk got over their shock and roared in triumph.

However, while watching the statues, Aethaion began feeling great uneasiness.