Ascension of the Nephilim

The battle against the army of the Fallen Spawn was at a stalemate.

The Fallen Spawn feared the attacks of Krysta who was moving from one part of the battlefield to the next. She was looking for that crucial moment where she could launch yet another dark devouring stab.

The Fallen Spawn had to order his Silvers to keep guard and protect the mountain.

They moved to shield the Heart from any other attempts for Krysta to make an attack.

Angelian fought and killed a lot for a time and hid back down among the small group of forces who took their position on top of the hill.

The Cardinals were in position and they kept shooting powerful attacks left and right.

Angelian deactivated her transformation and fell behind the crowd.

Krysta instantly gave her a pill that contained massive amounts of blood, compressed using the Space-compression magic of the Devourer Core.

Angelian ate it and an explosion of blood surged out. Her vampiric powers that were aided by the Corruption of Tyrannus allowed her to instantly recover.

Angelian herself was amazed.

"Get ready. The Fallen Spawn will launch an attack now!" Krysta urged.

"I know." Angelian nodded.

"Attack!" The Fallen Spawn took Angelian's weakness as an opportunity and ordered numerous Coins and one Silver to make their attacks.

The Cardinals saw the tide of monsters led by the Coins.

"Brace yourselves!" The Cardinal cursed. They were in no way capable of blocking the attacks of several Cardinal-level beasts along with an army.

But as the horde neared, Angelian spread out her wings again.

BANG!

Her speed shocked everyone again and a Coin was instantly killed.

Angelian pierced through the body of the Coin and shot toward the Silver where she delivered an uppercut.

The head of the Silver blew off and it was instantly killed.

"Impossible!" The Fallen Spawn shouted. He couldn't understand how Angelian was able to recover so fast and release the power that would push her to Crown level!

"How is she doing that?! She isn't a creature of Greed! Her dragonic blood is tainted with something else! There is no way that she can recover just by devouring!

"Retreat!" The Coins called for a retreat as they would die if they remained.

BANG!

Angelian chased another Coin and killed it with a kick that halved the gigantic Coin in two.

The rest continued to retreat and Angelian's form changed back to normal.

She stood in between the two halves of the Coin and took a bite at the corpse of the Coin.

She defiantly had her meal in her normal form and taunted the rest who was in full retreat.

Angelian stood confidently, but the reality was, she was on the verge of dying. Her transformation was already eating her up, and she had to quickly eat the Coin she killed to keep up with the cells her body was devouring. Even the blood she just drank was barely enough to sustain her.

The Fallen Spawn glared at Angelian. But he then glanced at the side. The attacks of Angelian had made powerful marks on the ground. It would have been classified as 'attacking' the Gigantes. But they did not move!

"Those fools!" The Fallen Spawn made eye contact with the Antibody who spoke to him.

The Antibodies sneered at him.

"It didn't hurt. Careful now." The Antibody sneered.

The Fallen Spawn's eyes darkened.

"Coins. Order your Greedlores to hunt. Kill all the other organisms that live in this place! We need more armies!"

The Antibodies frowned as they heard the Fallen's command.

"You brat! Those creatures are vital for the growth of the Gigantes!" The Antibody shouted.

"Well tough luck! We didn't have any agreement that I would never eat them all!" The Fallen Spawn sneered and turned to the Coins.

"Eat them all! Hurry! I can sense more foreigners arriving! Avoid the upper regions and don't clash with those children! But everything else, devour them! They survived! And this means... everyone else is dead!" The Fallen Spawn was ordered.

The Coins and Silvers were stunned. There were several armies back there. It sounded impossible that all would die in such a short period of time.

"My Lord... What of the dragon?"

"Send your armies and keep harassing them! Don't be afraid! That dragon must be living on borrowed time! No power that allows her to cross realms can be done without severe backlash! There is always a price to be paid! Send your forces! We wait for her to die and finish them off!"

At once, several of the Coins moved out and disappeared underground.

Krysta used her dark power to connect with Nightwing through [Dark Link].

"Nightwing!"

"I heard. I still have some of my shadow ghouls there. You guys have to hold. Sherah is close and her spiders will aid you. That Fallen Spawn thinks that only a handful of survivors will arrive and don't expect an army. Sherah will surely give him a nice surprise." Nightwing smiled.

"So we can win this?"

"...No. You can only win this if you and everyone's Fate Challenger will improve. The creatures that live hear up on the upper half of the Gigantes are shocking. It's like there's an entire kingdom of creatures here! If the Coins eat everything, you will face an army of Champions and dozens of Commanders."

"That would kill us in an hour!"

"And with the time we have, I will probably need you to hold on for at least two hours. You guys are Fate Challengers. Learn to challenge Destiny." Nightwing ordered.

The line was disconnected and Krysta could only sigh.

"Two hours?!"

"Relax... Help is on its way. I can feel it. Sherah is coming... And her army is not to be underestimated. I've never seen a Hive Queen as powerful as her." Angelian arrived next to her and sat down. She still pretended to be perfectly well and glanced at the Coins and Silvers watching her.

"Are you alright?"

"I am... dying keep throwing more of those Greedlings so I can eat them..." Angelian answered.

Krysta and the rest immediately followed. She was their hope of surviving the monster horde.

Meanwhile, Nightwing sighed as he reached the higher parts of the Gigantes's body. He was climbing a large mountain and knew that if he kept moving ahead, he would die.

On the craggy cliffs of the mountain, stood numerous Cardinals. There was a strange darkness that covered the area and hid everything from sight. Even Nightwing's eyes could not see through the darkness.

All glanced down and were ready to fight Nightwing.

"Now what do we have here? I expected resistance and antibodies... but you guys aren't creatures that are born inside this Gigantes, are you?" Nightwing was amazed at the sight of the creatures standing.

"Foreigner. You shouldn't be here." A strange rocky creature made of darkness and clay moved closer and revealed his form.

Nightwing saw the creature and recognized it.

"Death and Clay? Interesting. You guys... aren't you also Gigantes?" Nightwing smiled.

The creatures all glanced at each other.

"You know about us?" The creature was surprised.

Nightwing sensed the movements and realized that there was an army of this same creature hidden within the darkness.

"This puts my chances of reaching the brain down to zero." Nightwing frowned.

"Who are you and how did you know of our form? Not many can recognize us!"

Nightwing was silent. He was currently assuming a form of a human with Paladin powers. He knew that assuming his Fallen form would only make give him trouble as the Fallen Spawn was now betraying the Gigantes.

Nightwing turned towards the Gigantes who was speaking to him.

"When the Ancient Gods created man, they took clay and breathed it into their life. The Fallen tried to imitate this. They took clay and breathed death upon it creating the beings known as the Gigantes. To think that this giant Gigantes is more than just one Gigantes! You are all hiding here?" Nightwing asked.

"Who are you?" The Cardinals prepared to attack.

"Before you guys do anything crazy, I think I am related to, or is someone who commands a Gigantes." Nightwing raised his hand and harnessed the power of other elements.

Five golems emerged from the rocky grounds of the mountain.

"True Golems!" Several surprised voices exclaimed as they saw the golem that Nightwing summoned.