Chapter 173: A Country at War

Pandemonium.

That was the only word that could possibly be used to describe the scene outside of a naval base in Miami Florida.

Fires were raging in the streets, cars were left abandoned, and buildings were either already destroyed or on the verge of coming down within a few seconds.

Two groups were engaged in a heated struggle that had been going on for hours already.

On one side, Arias and his followers were adorned in white robes and masks that concealed their identities.

Except for the convicts who were uninterested in hiding themselves, and left their faces exposed in an effort to make a statement.

They flung their powers with reckless abandon, all at the heavily armed military that currently had them under siege.

The military was not alone in this battle, as there were a small number of blessed sprinkled into their numbers who were evening the odds with their own dramatic firepower.

Some were engaging in hand to hand combat while others were seemingly competing to see who was in possession of the most destructive powers.

Since firearms could not be used at the risk of collateral damage to the blessed fighting alongside them, the army unveiled their newest project.

To combat Arias and his faction, each soldier in the army had been given newly designed camouflaged tactical armor and energy weapons powered by broken shards of mana stones.

These weapons were more than enough to cut through the flesh of the blessed without much difficulty; and it raised some questions about just how long the government had been keeping these weapons hidden.

Among the battlefield, there were a few individuals who truly stood out from the rest.

One was a pink haired girl with matching eyes who wore a black tactical gear with long sleeves and a moon symbol across her back.

To hide her identity, she wore a black and silver mask that covered her nose and mouth.

Her powers worked rather strangely and left many not understanding what she was doing.

She would make simple gestures with her hands and 4-5 of the enemy opposition would go down screaming before she shot them with the stun guns she'd grabbed from the armory.

Beside her, there was a woman wearing a similar outfit only her mask was black and gold instead of silver.

Even with her voluptuous and curvy frame, she did not look out of place here on this battlefield and was even doing a rather splendid job of making herself useful while still keeping an eye out for her daughter.

"You're doing amazing, sweetie!"

"Mom, you're embarrassing me!"

"That is one of my divine privileges as your birth giver."

"Focus on the bad guys!!"

"Hm? Alright , alright but I want to take pictures later."

"Mama!"

"Watch carefully!"

Sei put on a determined expression beneath her mask and started picking out targets one by one so as not to affect nearby friendlies with her powers.

Her eyes became a bright silver color and she snapped her fingers discreetly.

At her command, the bodies of members of the opposition started to drop like flies, and they lie on the ground awkwardly as they snored peacefully.

Serana raised her guns to paralyze the men and ensure that they stayed down, but her mother quickly raised a hand to stop her.

Anna's eyes glowed red before two beams of destructive energy cut down a man who was rushing at the young lady from behind.

"That's two for me."

"Fuck!!"

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Amongst the ruin of the naval base, there were only two blessed on the side of humanity who were fighting against the new day faction.

However, these two were arguably the most dangerous on the battlefield.

One was an unrecognizable girl with chocolate skin and thick and curly gray hair paired with deep black eyes.

Like a few other women here today, her face was covered by a mask to conceal her identity and gave her an alluring sense of mystique.

In her hands she wielded no weapons, and instead attacked her opponents with the devastating power of wind that seemed inexhaustible.

The man opposite her was a significantly more well known figure, even with his mask.

Malachi Saint twirled the two handheld spears in his grasp as he cut down opponents left and right as they came for his sister.

Though this was a battlefield, the two of them were having a normal conversation amidst the chaos as if they were seated at a coffee shop.

"So you like Rose? Are shredded chicks your type now?" Mal asked with a laugh.

"I-I don't know, our mom's got my head all messed up!" She cried.

Using her blessing from Isis, Aubrey tossed a ball of golden power at a concrete pillar lying a few feet away from her, and watched as it turned into a living breathing snake that could swallow a man whole.

"You should go for it. She's fine and I don't really think Aisha would mind that much, hell she might be more excited than you."

One of Malachi's arm's started to course with black lightning, and the other a golden flame.

He stabbed both weapons into the ground and a loud explosion like that of a car bomb rang out; flinging his white robed enemies into the air.

"I-it's not about that, Malachi! You should definitely know that seeing as how you also have girls you're slightly interested in who you aren't dating."

Malachi said nothing but Aubrey knew by the way that he flinched momentarily that she'd hit the nail on the head.

"That's what I thought! Our loyalty is all we have in this life, we can't just run off chasing every pretty face that we see whenever we feel like it. It would make our love and our vows meaningless."

Malachi smiled wryly under his mask as he continued fighting.

It was a strange feeling to hear your sister suddenly become so mature out of the blue, especially when she had spent the past few years in such a vulnerable place.

However... he did not dislike it at all.

All that he wished for was for her to keep growing and learning until she became the wonderful human being he knew she was destined to become.

Distracted by happy thoughts, he kissed the moment where a hand suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and gave him a hard smack that sent him flying.

Bang!

"Malachi!"

Aubrey watched as her brother crashed through a ruined cement wall and was buried underneath a mountain of rubble.

She turned around to attack the culprit, and yet her blood ran cold when she saw who it was.

"It was noisy out here so I came to take a look... that was the biggest fly I've ever seen in my life though."