Arriving at the massive gate, Raven, with his wound fully healed, quickly opens it and enters it, wasting no time stepping inside the entrance.
Inside is a massive laboratory, with the centre of the room being an enormous hole in the ground filled with nothing but pure Zether. All of the Zether is kept from leaking outside by all the devices surrounding the hole.
Despite all of the machines keeping Zether from leaking, Raven can still the massive amount of Zether in the air, not to mention...
'The Crown is acting up again…' Raven thought, looking at his right arm that is subtlety glowing green light, 'Unlike last time, it felt exciting. It never acted like this before when it was close to the previous Heaven's Gate. Why the hell is it acting like this now? Is it because of the Zether it fed on from the last two fights, causing it to evolve even more?'
Dismissing his thought, Raven made his way toward the centre of the massive room. At the same time, his eyes start roaming the room before landing on Heaven's Gate, which is not a gate but looks more like a massive hole.
However, what truly stands out the most is what is hanging above the hole filled with Zether itself, which is the massive crystallisation of Zether decorated with all sorts of devices that seem to be holding it up in the air while also seemingly scanning it at the same time.
What makes the hole stand out is what seems to be a grey iron coffin floating in the air in front of the Zether crystal. On the coffin lid appears to be a magic circle.
Raven did not even waste his time; he made his way to the centre of the room where the hole filled with Zether is at; however, before Raven even reached the location, the coffin hanging above, in front of the crystal, suddenly opened up.
"Already?" Raven says while looking at the opening coffin.
With cold air coming out of the coffin, the sound of metal moving is the only thing Raven can hear. Out of the smoke is a figure of what seems to be a girl.
A girl with long blonde hair tied into a very long ponytail, the end of which is attached to a spike-shaped metal object that is hanging freely behind her. She has pale white skin that is as white as snow. She is wearing what appears to be a one-piece jumpsuit with long leggings and long sleeves which wrap around her middle fingers in a way similar to bridal gloves.
Over her jumpsuit is a white cloak covering most of her body.
While floating down toward the ground, the girl seems to speak in a very soft yet robotic voice.
"Systems loading… Systems loading… All systems are activated and normal. No error was detected. Current power at 87%. Activating Seraphim unit, codename Gabriel."
Opening her eyes, the Seraphim unit looks around the room with her blue eyes that are as clear as the empty blue sky. With her bare feet touching the ground, the Seraphim unit eyes quickly land on the single figure inside the room, Raven.
"Unknow individual detected. Scanning the database for all SOM personnel… Scanning failed. No personnel was found with the same facial features. Identify yourself." The Seraphim unit says in a cold, emotionless voice while looking straight at Raven, who is also looking back at the robotic girl with his expression.
"Identify me?" Raven says before pulling out his hand and aiming straight at Seraphim's unit, pulling the trigger immediately. The energy bullet immediately got stopped by an invisible energy shield blocking the shot from hitting the Seraphim unit entirely. "I am your fucking that death, that who I am."
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The Seraphim unit tilts her head slightly as if looking at something she did not know. Before her head, set straight back up.
"Thread identify… Deploying weapon system. Combat mode activated." The moment Gabriel finish her sentence, her entire body immediately got envelop in white light that causes Raven to cover his eyes due to how bright it is.
After the light disappears, standing there is the Seraphim unit. However, her appearance has now entirely changed. She has the same pale white skin and a long ponytail with that spike-shaped metal object hanging freely behind her. However, everything else is now totally different.
Her cloak had entirely disappeared, leaving only her jumpsuit behind. She wears a pair of gold and white shoulder guards connected to her arm guards with a similar colour scheme. Both of her hands are now metallic gloves with very sharp claws on both hands.
What even more stands out is that her entire leg is now covered in armours, with blades mounted on both legs. Over her face, she is now wearing a visor with horn-like antennae and a pair of brilliant blue eyes. Over her chest is also a plate of armour with a glowing green gem at the centre of the armour.
But what truly stands out the most is a pair of metallic wings behind Gabriel that doesn't connect to Gabriel's back but instead connects to floating green crystals flying behind her. The light coming from the pit of Zether reflects on her metallic wings, that combination of numerous blades and feathers.
"Combat gear deployed. Metallicum Alis: Puritas deployed. Mission: Eliminate the intruder." The Seraphim unit says, her voice still as robotic as ever.
"Oh great, you also have an Arch Magia?" Raven says while raising his eyebrow, "Why am I even surprised at this point?"
However, before both of them start fighting, the Seraphim unit suddenly has electricity coming out of it, causing Raven to halt in the mid of his track due to the sudden electricity coming out of Gabriel, seemingly shocking her.
The shock lasted for a few seconds, causing Gabriel to look down for a second after the shock stopped before snapping her head back toward Raven, who stepped back due to the expression that was not Gabriel's face right now.
"Oi, what the hell just happened?" Raven says while looking at the Seraphim Unit in front of him.
Instead of the usual expressionless face, what is on her face is now a smile, a sadistic-looking smile that seems to send a chill straight down Raven's spine. Despite having her face covered by a visor, Raven can feel that there are now certain emotions running along those beautiful glowing blue eyes.
"Hey, swearing is not good, you know? You should be careful about what you said, worthless piece of shit." Gabriel says with a smile, her over-the-top weak, soft voice contrasting with what she honestly said.
This immediately sends an alarm into Raven's mind, causing him to point his gun straight at Gabriel.
"Who the fuck are you?" Raven says while glaring straight at Gabriel with confusion and caution in his heterochromatic eyes.
"Ah, already threatening me? But I guess that is expected, coming from a dumbass like you, who has nothing in that little head of yours." Gabriel(?) said, pointing at her head and saying, "Who am I? It doesn't fucking matter. All that matter is that I am finally free. And you will be my first target, and your corpse will be perfect for my celebration."
Gabriel(?) says all of this with her sweet voice, which very much contrasts with what her saying.
Raven, of course, looks at the Seraphim unit in front of him with confusion, still as confused as ever; however, one thing becomes quite apparent for him, and that is the Seraphim Unit in front of him is seemingly being posses by someone, or possibly something.
However, before they can begin their fight, the Seraphim blue eyes move toward Raven's right arm before it visibly widens, clearly in shock, before that sadistic smile turns into a full-blown maniac grin.
"Is that one of the fucking Crowns?" Gabriel(?) says, her blue eyes on Raven's right arm, "No, there is more to it..." Gabriel says before blowing out into full maniacal laughter that echoes throughout the room.
"What a fucking luck! The moment I awake, the first thing I see is one of the fucking Crowns! What kind of chance is that!!" Gabriel says between her insane laughter, "If you don't mind. I will be taking that for myself."
"Go ahead and try it, bitch. You are not the first to want it, and you will certainly not be the last." Raven says, his glare intensifying, looking at Gabriel before him, "But one thing that is for sure, and that is you will end up like the rest."
"HAHAHAHAHA, now that is what I like to hear." Gabriel(?) says before flapping her metallic wings, blowing wind at Raven, who took it to head on without a problem, "It would not be fun if you don't struggle while I am taking it from you! Now, shall we begin this dance of death!!"