In the middle of the road stood Lilith. Her arms were still stretched out. She was standing like that for the past minute.


    Suddenly she took a deep breath. Below the hood her eyes opened. Slowly her hands lowered and she quickly started typing on her watch.


    Lilith:


    Convoy stopped! Blow the bomb!


    She sent it to David, who would forward it to Frank.


    While waiting for the explosion her eyes turned towards the front of the convoy. All the vehicles were stuck since every person in the front was dead.


    Her powers were really scary, mostly because there was no real defense against it. One ability provided her the power to make people fall asleep, but the second ability and her transformation was the true terror.


    After making someone fall asleep, she gains the ability to enter their Dream Island, which was a name she made up.


    Every time she entered someone''s mind, she appeared on an island, which represented one person. Around her multiple similar islands would appeared, filling in the empty space. She could affect all of them if she was in range, but only sleeping people''s islands appeared.


    This is where the name Dream Island came from, because people dream the island.


    On this island she had control over what to show the individual. She would also gain access to the person''s desires and fears, making it easier to snatch people''s soul.


    In her other form she could consume other people''s souls, which gave her a little more power.


    The only problem was that they had to give up their souls for it to work. That''s why she had to pretended to be a loved one from their dreams, or some horror from their nightmares.


    After she causes enough longing or fear, she would ask them if they want this to be true or if they want her to go away, if they say yes, then she would snatch their souls. Enjoy exclusive chapters from empire


    The only real way to defeat her was with mental fortitude. If a person possessed a strong will, then they could say no and she would be banished from their Dream Island. But this was very rare, and happened only a handful of times.


    It was actually part of the Angelic Order''s training to be able to banish her from their island once. This was one of the hardest part of the training.


    The power increase from the souls weren''t that potent either. These thousands of souls caused her power to increase by about one percent, and mostly because of the three ascended she had killed.


    She looked at the sky where the evolved and ascended from the back began flying towards the front of the convoy. Some were using items, others had transformed, but all were going to die!


    At the back of the convoy a large explosion shook the ground. Those idiots haven''t even noticed that in one of the ammunition trucks there was one more metal box... One of Frank''s bombs!


    It was placed at a specific truck, that they knew would be at the back of the convoy.


    Lilith immobilized the front and the bomb immobilized the back. The middle of the convoy had nowhere to run. There were side streets along the road, but each time a vehicle tried to go that way, another small explosion went off.


    They boobytrapped each of the alleys and roads. The whole convoy was boxed in and waiting to be slaughtered.


    Next to Lilith 5 people stood. Each were hidden behind her by one of their ability, which could make them invisible. The shield that turned away the bullets was another one''s ability.


    The six of them ran towards the convoy, while heavy machinegun fire assaulted the people in the skies. There were turrets placed on the roofs, and inside the houses.


    When their blades touched enemy soldiers they withered and died.


    The Black Crusaders ran into the stunned enemy army in a wedge shape, cutting them down like weed.


    When a large ascended force appeared and tried to stop them, they had to slow and fight.


    The 2.5 meter tall giant, lifted his warhammer and slammed it down in the middle of the enemy formation. It killed non of them, but he split the group in two.


    On his right a woman laughed with insanity. She brandished two black handguns, each bullet she shot had a different effect, and they always seemed to find their target.


    On his left stood another woman, but her attitude was much more rational. She had no weapon, but her fists broke through armor with ease.


    Behind the three stood the others. They were either buffing them, or using some magic to wreak havoc in the enemy soldiers.


    The smallest man gave the crazy female''s bullets extra accuracy, and increased all three''s speed.


    Another man –much more serious than the others– had one hand on the ground, causing the stone to change to liquid under the enemies'' feet, stopping their movements momentarily.


    Next to the two stood another woman. She had a golden seven pointed star painted on the left side of her chest. She seemed to be in deep concentration, with her hands raised. The gauntlets of her black armor glowed with a crimson energy.


    On the battlefield people began coughing up blood or straight up die from brain aneurysm.


    Behind the six stood a lone female. Her armor was clean, her sword bloodless. She was somehow the scariest of the seven, but she didn''t engage in the fight at all. What was even stranger when someone targeted her with any kind of attack, the others would jump in front of the blows.


    The crazy woman even died once, but as her lifeless corpse hit the ground a black energy appeared around her, and after a few seconds she was back on her feet, resurrected.


    Jill gasped as one of her wives was brought back to life. This was her family''s greatest strength and weakness. Until she lived they couldn''t die, but when she died all of them would as well.


    But even the resurrection wasn''t foolproof. Each time someone died and was brought back to life her essence got drained further. They could do this until all her essence ran out. Plus it won''t work if their soul or their whole body gets destroyed in the process.


    Jill took a deep breath and looked at a point in the sky.


    High above the field of battle, the real war happened. From down there it wasn''t easy to make out, but in the sky Cassandra was desperately fighting the two transcended, she had held out for this long, but will it be enough?


    The answer came in a gigantic whitish-gold explosion. The ball of fire happened in the middle of the enemy formation, and soon she saw a sight that momentarily stopped the fighting in the whole city.


    From the ball of fire Sera flew out. Her wings that were previously about three meter in length, changed to twenty or even more. Her whole form was glowing, radiating with her holy flames.


    She raised the few meter long glaive in her hand and shouted. Her voice cut through the battlefield, reaching every single person''s ears.


    "FROM THE ASHES!" The army screamed their answer. "WE WILL RISE!"


    With that she flew towards the fight high in the sky...


    The Deathless Phoenix has finally joined the battle and she brought the holiness of heaven with her...


    Which means hell shall soon follow...