Nephalem Sabers dive into the Geomancer's Lair

"A wanderer isn't always lost."

"Oh my..." were the only words that came out of Deniel's mouth as he gazed upon the army of this Deity that lived perhaps deep within the temple. A large number of elementals, for each kind, all gathered in one room did make the weather and temperature of it to be very unusual. Deniel would have perhaps found this to be a challenging if...it were a challenge. Thus far he had not found the elementals anything of the sort. Disappointing, really, but he figured that the lot of these were much weaker or lesser ones. Ardere proposed the idea of splitting it, which Deniel would give a not to. However, he would not make his move right away. Instead, he would think it out carefully. Ardere seemed perfectly capable of holding his own given the moment, so that gave room for Deniel to think and run things through his head. He wanted to finish this off as fast as possible, while also showing Kiersa and Ardere just how strong he could truly be. His little episode in which he dropped down on his knees from the intoxication from the Etherno was pathetic to say the least, and the way he wanted to leave these two would be a state of absolute fear or awe. Regardless of the image that Kiersa had for him as an angel, he didn't want to keep it so friendly for long.

Removing his helmet once more, Deniel felt he had no use for it anymore, and merely dropped it down on to the ground. He wanted anyone who was looking at him to see the expression on his face, and the look in his eye. Bending his knees and getting in a stance, Deniel faced the right side of his body over at the elementals, and then began to radiate an enormous amount of Magic Power from himself. His armor became outlined with a very deep blue dark glow surrounding his entire armor. His eyes stared this same glow, for their sky blue color was lost and now they were emitting a very dark blue color from themselves. The entire temple trembled for a second or two with the massive amount of Magic Power he conjured up, and then he put it all to work. "My power shall be absolute!"

There would be two perspectives on what happened after that. The first would be Deniel's perspective. And the second would be Ardere and Kiersa's.

The more complicated one would be Deniel's. For after releasing that Magic Power, almost everything seemed to freeze. That was not the reality, however: what was really happened is he was moving so fast everything appeared to be in slow motion. Drawing both of his blades from where he stood, he swiftly went to work. Even with the speed he was going at, he did not waste time, for this spell could only last for a limited amount. With whatever elementals remained, Deniel made very short work of them. No longer caring to eliminate them in a much more stylish way, he cut each of them two or three times in random directions before very swiftly moving on to the next one. And in a very short amount of time, he was satisfied with how much he had done. So he returned to his initial position and stance just in time for the spell to end.

In Kiersa and Ardere's view, it would be much more simple. Deniel would vanish from his spot in an instant, and in that instant the sound of his blades swinging a thousand times could be echoed throughout the room, and cutting straight through all of the elementals at once. And then when that instant was over, he was standing where he previously was again, before all of the elementals were eliminated for good at his might.  

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"A wanderer isn't always lost."

The White Angel had done a small miscalculation, it seemed. For not all of the Elementals in the room had perished at his immense power. There were still several left standing even after the events of him using the near-extent of his might. Perhaps mercy was his mistake that he made in regards to this being possible, but that was not much of a problem. Kiersa seemed especially eager to finish off the rest of the lot, so he allowed her to do so. With both of his katanas sheathed inside of their respective scabbards once more, he approached one of the nearby walls very slowly and crossed his armored arms over his plated chest and observed.

Seeing Celestial Spirits summoned, he was quite intrigued by their presence. He had heard of the magic before, and studied of it in any way that he could using Zeno's books and Vergil's advice, but had never seen it in action himself. It was not anything that he would consider spectacular or extremely powerful, at least from what he could see, but it was quite an interesting sight to behold.

Very shortly were the rest of the elementals finished off by the Celestial Spirits, with Kiersa seeming to be much more in need of attention than anything else right now. Turning his head away from her and perhaps ridiculing her for being weak would have been an action he would initially take, but so far she took a much bigger toll than himself or Ardere. And he felt a little bit bad about it. Just a little bit. Approaching her and staring down at the nun on her knee, he gave very brief and simple statements: "You should rest. I'm certain Ardere and I can handle the rest. If you feel like you need to, you may step in. Just don't do anything brash."

Turning away from her and quickly catching up with Ardere to follow him up to the stairs, the White Angel stared straight up to the very top of the temple, with almost the same level of excitement Ardere had. Almost. He probably would have been more excited about this if he consider it a challenge, but it was not so. This seemed to be more of a way for him to temporarily let loose on a few things.

At the very top of the temple they were greeted with quite a grand scene inside of the next room, with pillars of each of the four elements generating some kind of empty portal with their power. Not bothering too much on its details, since at this point it did not matter to him, he focused on the more important task at hand: more elementals. Sighing very briefly and drawing both of his katanas again, Deniel jumped straight into the fight. Rather than wiping most of them out in one attack like the last time, he wanted to drag this one on a lot more so he could let loose a little bit. The very first thing he did was wipe out two Fire Elementals, by flinging one of his katanas straight into the head of one, before charging at it and cutting it with the other. As its body vanished from existence, he pulled out his second katana from its currently disappearing body. The other one sent a fireball straight to the angel, in which he jumped over with a stylish flip to cut this one into four pieces in an X shape. It was two down, but still many more remaining.

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"A wanderer isn't always lost."

Damn, there's so many of them! Thoughts rushing into Deniel's mind as he dodged the attack of one of the Fire Elementals, only to be shortly hit with one from a water one, he was smashed straight into a wall from the force to bring some bricks of the temple down. It did not seem like he was hurt, but he obviously could not dodge these beasts forever. At some point or another he would make more mistakes before they overpowered him and Ardere. Splitting another one of them in half shortly after pushing himself off of the wall...more of them poured in. Where exactly was that Deity? He soon found his answer as the monstrous creature came through to the room, at long last revealing itself. The moment he did Deniel could feel an immense power in the room, not just coming from him...but Ardere? Glancing over at the Sabertooth mage, he witnessed him consuming an enormous quantity of fire. Never before had he actually witnessed a Slayer in action, but he had heard plenty about it and researched it himself like everything. Initially he was never really interested in it, and thought it might be underwhelming. However, with Ardere's display that he gave Deniel, a new perspective on Slayers was created for him. He was not necessarily in awe or surprised about it, more so...interested suddenly. Interested to see what other Slayers could do.

Not bothering to get in his way, Deniel attempted to get to a safe part of the room by jumping up and using his wings to fly himself over to a corner which he was safe. And even there, he was not safe from Ardere's wrath. The temple around them had started to come down, and from where he was he could feel the intense heat of the flames. Some of them had even hit him, and they stung unlike anything else he had felt before. It must have been because he was a God Slayer...from then on he made it a mental note to try and not cross opposite slayers. At first he thought that Ardere would finish it all, but rather he seemed to run out of strength fairly fast. It was not like Deniel could blame him...for someone of this rank that was an extraordinary amount of power displayed. He grabbed Kiersa and ran out of the temple, leaving Deniel to deal with the heavily weakened deity and the rest of the elementals.

Descending down to the center of the room, the White Angel sheathed both of his katanas and looked straight at the Deity from where he was standing. A shadow began to overlook the White Angel, making his once glorious white armor jet black. And then, a mysterious glow of Holy Energy went around his shoulders and head, except that this glow seemed to be a deep ocean blue rather than a bright sky blue. "I...the White Angel of Supremacy, am the beginning of the end." The arms section of his armor shattered like glass, giving way to a new set of armor underneath. It was a glorious white color just like the rest of it, except the ends of it appeared to be much more claw-like than before. And rather than being completely white, this armor had blue designs on it and gold plating in several areas. "I silence the heretics. I laugh at the strong..." From his thighs burst fourth armor that seemed to resemble draconian skin mixed in with that of a human's. Scales, but not entirely scales. For the rest of it, it followed the same plated white armor--differently crated than the previous set--with blue lines running in several areas. And from his backside came a tail made of the same material that his thighs were now at, with a large bit of armor at the very end of it. "I purify the weak..." The elementals began to approach him, very slowly and cautiously, however, while the deity remained in place for what was about to occur. His entire torso this time was revealed to have the same set of matching white armor over its entirety, with the blue orbs gone and replaced now. On his back his wings became entire pieces of armor, but still appeared to be fully able to function. "I shall awaken and bathe you all in the Light of Holy Destruction! Alpha White Angel!" His helmet now appeared to be that of a dragon, but his formal face was now underneath.

The glow surrounding him did not fade one bit, and in fact, as he held out both of his arms, his Holy Energy in its entirety had transformed into a dark ocean blue color. Two small orbs of Holy Energy formed on his hands, each containing an enormous amount. And just as the deity and his remaining elementals went for him...he dropped them both.


From the outside of the temple, almost an entire minute until Ardere and Kiersa had left, which gave them plenty of time to get away...there was a flash of dark blue light. A massive explosion of dark blue Holy Energy consumed the entire temple in almost an instant, and sent an enormous force of pressure and wind from its current location. The explosion lasted for several moments, until it revealed that the temple was no longer there. Reduced to rubble and completely collapsed, the deity and his temple was no more. As for the White Angel? He made it out alive. Flying high in the sky and away, he had done a reckless move. But above all the job was complete, and now he could go away.

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