Sera immediately started looking through her watch and in a minute, she was looking at her status window.
Name: Seraphine
Title: Angel Monarch
1st Kill: Archangel of Despair, Horror of the 3rd Tier
Life Essence Absorbed: 64/1000
Abilities: <Lightbringer>
Passive Abilities: <Angel Sight>
1st Transformation Ability: <Wings of Despair>
1st Transformation Passive Ability: <Indestructible>
Items: -
Looking at her stats she got stumped yet again.
'Two passives on first kill? Well I did get a title as well, so I guess it makes sense.'
She wasn't surprised about the Life Essence counter being already so high. She did kill a 3rd Tier monster of the 4th Class, which means she had gotten 4×4×4(4^3) Life Essence.
Sera just realized that the monster was of the highest Tier.
'No wonder It was so powerful! Wait, but that doesn't make sense. It was supposed to be a 4th Class Gate, a 4th Class creature could come through it technically, but of the 3rd Tier?'
She's already starting to have a headache thinking about it. But she buried these thoughts for now, she still haven't looked at the good part, her abilities.
Sera turned back to the status window, with a stupid grin on her face.
'Let's see the Lightbringer ability first!' She was trembling with excitement.
<Lightbringer>
Description: <You inherited a terrible foe's brilliant light.>
She was trying to figure it out, but couldn't seem to find a reliable answer. The only thing that was clear is that there were a couple things the Evolved hid from the rest of society.
'But why? Everyone was fighting for the same thing, a better future, so why hide things?'
Sera finally dismissed these thoughts.
'It would do no good to try and put together a puzzle with a bunch of pieces missing.'
Finally she looked at her last ability.
<Indestructible>
Description: <Through hardships, pain and suffering the only thing that remained the same, was his wings.>
Your wings are very durable and could withstand attacks from foes with higher Rank or Class.
This ability was pretty self explanatory, but also very useful. There was only one thing bothering Sera.
"...'from foes with higher Rank or Class.' Why would it say Rank, humans don't usually fight each other as far as I know. But for some reason I have a bad feeling about this."
But Sera didn't find out where this feeling was coming from, so she dismissed both the feeling and the description as some weird mistake.
Instead she turned to more important matters, and summoned her wings.
She took a couple of minutes to figure out the summoning process, but she got the hang of it eventually. A pair of huge, beautiful, powerful and perfectly white feathered wings expanded from her back. She expected to be weighed down by them and fall over, but they were light as a feather.
At first she could only move them very awkwardly, but in an hour or so and countless failed attempts, she was ready to try them out on a test flight.
Sera looked around for any signs of possible danger, but there was nothing. Only silence, it was quite peaceful here.
She turned her head up towards the brightening sky, it was close to dawn now. Then with a wide smile she started to beat her wings, all the dust and dirt around her got shaken up and she began to rise.
Judging her wings, they were about 3 meters each, so it only took a couple of snaps, to be in the open air. Sera didn't stop there though, instead she increased her speed. After a couple of minutes she stopped rising and with controlled movements stayed in one place.
She was laughing and giggling with every beat. Moving in the air felt so familiar, as if she was always able to do it, like she finally arrived home. Speaking of home she looked down on her city.
The happiness she felt didn't last long, as she was reminded of the harsh reality of the world.
"Oh... I forgot... Everyone is dead..."
As she looked down on the destruction, tears ran down her cheeks, cleaning of the blood and dirt where they went.