Angel Monarch

1st Kill: 'Unknown'

Life Essence Absorbed: 1000/1000

Abilities: <Life Steal>

Passive Abilities: <Soul Sight>

Transformation: <Spirit Form>

Items: <Fiendish Garb>

Sera looked through it quickly, then begin reading the first ability of Vicky.

<Life Steal>

Description: <Once the 'Unknown' were a proud people, they lived in peace and quiet. Then came the Disturbance as they called it. The 'Unknown' tried to fight it, but they weren't fighters and could only succumb to it. Some of them survived and after their destruction, they weren't peaceful anymore.

They used their souls as weapons and managed to control, destroy and invade everyone they fought against.>

You have the ability to eat another being's soul or at least a fragment of it. Every kill made in your proximity increases your Life Essence.

She read all of it out loud for the others to hear as well. They stayed silent a bit, until Lucy spoke.

"How is that even fair! She doesn't even have to fight, all she has to do is stand near while something or someone else kills. Life is unfair."

While Lucy was throwing a hissy fit the others concentrated to the more important part of the description. The 'Unknown' it was rare, but not impossible for the Watch to not know the name of some creature or race. It made Sera very curious especially because how they are described, not like most races it almost seemed reverent, like they were special compared to other races.

Sera quickly pulled up the next one, she hoped to gain more insight relating to the so called 'Unknown'.

<Soul Sight>

Description: <All the 'Unknown' were blind, deaf and mute. They had a different type of communication, through their souls.>

You can see the soul of any being, which makes them impossible to hide from you. Be careful what you see, if a soul is too powerful Madness will soon follow.

Again she read it out loud, then turned to Vicky and asked, "I hope you never used this ability haphazardly! Even though it is a passive you can learn to control it."

She was actually quite scared for her, what if she accidentally looks at something she shouldn't. Vicky just nodded understanding her concerns.

'All the 'Unknown' were blind deaf and mute. They are definitely something special, being able to see a beings souls, but communicate and fight with them. Just how powerful could they have been and what destroyed them. The Disturbance, not Madness.'

She was growing more and more curious, so she opened the last one.

<Spirit Form>

Description: <They killed and controlled all their enemies, and there was none to stand against them, at least that is what they thought. For some reason the Archangel of Destruction appeared in their Realm, and she did what she knew better than anyone. Destroy. When she left, the 'Unknown' were fully extinct, or were they?>

You can assume the form of an ethereal spirit.

"Why is the description so mysterious, shouldn't it be straightforward?" Asked Faith from no one in particular. Sera read the description a lot of times and only she only came out of her thoughts when someone began shaking her.

"What... What is it?" Asked Sera very annoyed, but Bea was looking at her with raised eyebrows.

"What do you mean 'What is it?' we have been basically shouting at you to come out of your reverie! What were you so absorbed in thinking about?"

Sera sighed, then explained, "The Archangel of Despair that I killed had two other partners. They were Archangels as well, but even stronger than Despair. I read about one of them in Faith's description, he was the Archangel of Light. And now I know how the third one is Archangel of Destruction. I was thinking about what happened to them."

The others stayed silent just staring at her, she didn't care though. Sera brought up her own status window to read those descriptions again, but what she saw made her froze. Her window changed and a new line has been added, a line that she had never heard of.

Name: Seraphine

Title: Angel Monarch

1st Kill: Archangel of Despair, Horror of the 3rd Tier

Life Essence Absorbed: 1000/1000

Abilities: <Lightbringer>

Passive Abilities: <Angel Sight>

1st Transformation Ability: <Wings of Despair>

Transformed Passive Ability: <Indestructible>

Heritage: <Archangel of Despair>

Race Change Status: <Angel: 1/3>

Items: <Midnight Crown>

The Heritage changed as well, she had already guessed that she unlocked her third and final one, but she didn't know what that implied. The next window on the other hand was something she never heard of. Her only knowledge about race change came from Bea, but hers was special, this one was straight up impossible.

Not wasting more time she opened it.

<Angel: 1/3>

Description: To change race you need 2 more Angelic being's soul fully incorporated.

'I don't know what I expected, but it certainly wasn't this. So if I use two angelic being's souls on my evolution that means I will be able to change my race? That was my theory as well, but I didn't think it was actually possible!'

She was growing more and more excited so she decided to read the other new description.

<Archangel of Despair>

Description: <The Archangel of Despair was dead, but his legacy lived on. After taking the life of the Archangel, Angel Monarch understood everything about her new found power, and gotten a step closer to unlocking her full potential.>

You know everything about the Archangel of Despair. You unlock his armor which dissipates most blows, it also gives high mental and soul protection. Your aura changes as well, you passively attract the attention of most people and when angry passively causes fear in others.

'That explains why everyone acts so weird around me. Can this be turned off? I don't want to be a religious figurehead!'

The others were still talking about something, but Sera didn't care. She just cut into the middle of their conversation.

"Guys I realized something!" That brought everyone's attention. She quickly read the two descriptions out loud. The silence and awe was heavy in the air.

"So, I know what we have to do before advancing to Ascended. Everyone of us needs to unlock their full Heritage, except for me and Bea of course." They all looked a bit disheveled, but non disagreed.

"Actually, I already unlocked part of it." Lucy said in a very small and sad voice. All of them including Clockwork looked shocked, but she wasn't done. With a big sigh and teary eyes she continued.

"I actually unlocked it after Nightmare died and I held his body, but don't ask me to read the description, it is too painful." She was crying by the end of it and neither of them pried further. Bea went and hugged her, which seemed to calm her a bit.

After getting her emotions back under control they continued with the conversation. They talked about what everyone can and can't do, what could potentially lead to the acquiring of Heritages.

For Will and Clockwork it was pretty straight forward, Will had to better understand his transformation which could only be done in water. Luckily Castleburg has a port on its northwestern side. Clockwork had to better upgrade and also understand his transformation.

Faith had to better acquaint herself with shadows, she just said leave it to her and Hellfire also had one of his Heritage unlocked while in the cell, that was actually his halberd.

The only one they didn't quite know how to help was Vicky. Her ability was just too unique and they didn't even know what was the being she killed. What they eventually figured out was that it has to do something with her possession ability.

"Why can she only possess Faith? What makes her different than us?" Asked Sera from everyone.

"Maybe her weird reverence toward you?" Asked Hellfire with a grin and he got elbowed in the stomach by Faith.

"My title is Devout Shadow remember and my Heritage is actually related to that... Wait my title is related to my Heritage, same for Hellfire, Sera and probably Lucy, but she doesn't have a title yet. So what if..."

Suddenly Sera cut in with a thoughtful expression.

"What if her Heritage has to do with the Soul Keeper title. It could be... Vicky when you try to possess us or Faith do your try to force yourself?"

She shook her head firmly and said, "Never! I don't want to accidentally hurt any of you. Souls are no playthings!"

"That is a good thing, but we need to test what happens when you do force your possession. Not on any of us of course, not even on humans." Bea said and Sera already knew where this was going.

"So the day after tomorrow we go look for some Tainted beast and try to make Vicky possess it?" Asked Sera with a smile on her face, she already felt it. This is the way for unlocking her Heritage!

"Why not tomorrow?" Asked Bea with raised eyebrows.

"Tomorrow is the dinner with the royal siblings." Answered Sera with tiredness in her voice.

"Oh yeah, I already forgot. Do we really have to go?" Sera just shook her head with a fatigued smile.

Soon everyone went their way. Tomorrow is going to be a long day as well, but hopefully there will be less life and death fighting. Sera went to bed hugging Vicky and Bea, in minutes they were already fast asleep.