Death... and me



Abdiel looked around and couldn't find the man, so he quickly returned to the Temporal Connection Gap. Finally, he saw Franfa staring into the entrance as if he was thinking something. He put a hand on Franfa's shoulder, asking, "What is it? Is something wrong?"

"Ah!" Franfa jolted and jumped back.

Naturally, that caught everyone's attention. "Was there a need to be this distracted? What did you see there?"

Yet, Franfa seemed to be at a loss. "Patrol? What patrol?" He looked around, puzzled about the scene. "Are we on duty to patrol the Temporal Connection Gap?"

Abdiel narrowed his eyes. "What are you talking about? Of course, we are! We got permission from Lady Lara. Did you forget?"

Franfa rubbed his face, feeling some headache. The last thing he remembers was that he was patrolling outside when suddenly, everything went black. Now, out of nowhere, he is on patrol near the Temporal Connection Gap. "So-sorry, it's just too many things happening. I just can't seem to remember getting here at all."

"Could it be you were affected by the Temporal Connection Gap's unstable power?" Someone else asked. As Sesame mentioned before, these gaps are temporary and very unstable. One has to be very careful while going through it. 

Abdiel then remembered how he felt a headache when he woke up. Above all, he remembered how he was taken into someone else's Dimensional Realm when he was captured. 'Could it be...' However, he immediately shook his head. 'This is ridiculous. There is no way a Devil could pass through all the Angels here without being detected, especially with the formations in place.'

Well, it wasn't a Devil...

At the moment, inside the Temporal Connection Gap, there was a figure being pulled by the powers of Space and Spatial Currents at a frightening speed. It surpassed even the speed that Divinity Realm beings achieved through Spatial Gates. The figure had white hair and pupils, using large amounts of Light Element to protect himself and heal any injuries caused by the Spatial Powers. Naturally, this figure was none other than Rean Larks.

"Holy shit! If my cultivation was still in the Void Tempering Realm, I would be dead for sure! Sesame could have given me a better explanation of this place." Rean couldn't help but complain as he kept being torn by the Spatial Powers around him.

As for Sesame, he couldn't get away from his home. The Pixiu Cat stayed outside the Canyon, hiding in a safe enough distance and waiting to see if the twins would need his help. Seeing that a lot of time passed and no changes had happened other than increased defenses, he sighed in relief. "Seems like Rean made it through..." Following that, he opened another Spatial Gate and left the area, returning to the Swamp of No Return.

It turns out that Roan never came out of the Dimensional Realm. After Rean had perfected his Angel Transformation, Roan decided to use Abdiel in his plan. They went out, captured an Angel, in that case, Franfa, and interrogated him while he was in an absent-minded state. That's why he couldn't remember anything, as he was never really awakened during the process.

Rean just pretended to find Abdiel first, which was followed by Joki and soon Lidiun's group. By the time Abdiel woke up, Rean had already meddled with the Angels as one of their own. For him, copying Franfa's Light Element output was extremely easy, so no one noticed anything wrong.

The rest of the story was simple. Roan left a message behind, saying that the Soul Restriction would activate if Abdiel said anything about telling the truth regarding the Temporal Connection Information. That was a blatant lie, though. Even Rean and Sister Orb couldn't figure out how that thing was made. It was too above their abilities at the moment. However... Abdiel didn't know that. He saw how Roan took the Restriction out of his Soul, so how could he doubt Roan couldn't modify it as well?

One thing led to another, Rean threw more wood into the fire during Lara's meeting, and they finally got to guard the Temporal Connection Gap. After they passed near the entrance, Franfa, or Rean, pretended to feel something. They quickly got down to check due to that.

Because of the Unstable Spatial Power of the Temporal Connection Gap, it wasn't possible to watch it with Divine Senses. The huge amount of Light Element coming out of it also made things hard to see. Rean went to a corner and brought Franfa out of the Dimensional Realm, leaving him in his Absent-Minded state, staring at the Gap. As for himself, he just had to jump inside.

Regardless of whether the Angels find out that Franfa was captured or not, just the time they will take to verify Franfa's state should be enough for Rean to travel most of the distance to the Heavens. He just had to survive the transfer, of course.

On the way to the Heavens, Rean's body began to change once again. He now had three pairs of Angel Wings, showing his cultivation as a Space Bending Realm Angel. He also took out an item from the Dimensional Realm. An item that would make the whole difference once he got on the other side.

*Vup!*

Finally, Rean arrived at the other side, being expelled from the Temporal Connection Gap like a bullet. Using his cultivation, he quickly stopped, stabilizing himself before looking around.

Immediately, several Angels surrounded him. 'Sure enough, the guard on this side is also quite high. Well, my Divine Sense Bending Skill doesn't show the presence of any Archangel, at least.'

"Who are you? The next transfer between Realm is only supposed to happen tomorrow. Why did you come now?" The Angel in charge there confirmed that Rean was Angel. Still, it wasn't time for that yet.

Rean smiled before pulling out a Badge. "I'm Abdiel, one of the patrolling guards of the Gufelin Canyon." Yes, the item Rean brought with him was Abdiel's badge. Not only that, but the form Rean took was simply identical to Abdiel himself!