Angel Monarch

In a bed a beautiful girl was lying. She was looking at the ceiling in melancholy, it felt like her mind broke on that hateful roof. She couldn't even properly recall those events. It's like her brain didn't let her remember those memories.

The girl was of course Seraphine. She didn't care about what happened to her, until no one threatens her with rape she would be fine with anything.

While she was having these depressing thoughts, someone came into the infirmary. Hearing the noise she got out of bed. They gave her some clothes to wear so at least she wasn't naked anymore.

'It's probably that beautiful, brown haired woman with the big tits. What was her name again, Bea?'

After waking up last time she was sitting next to her, but before they could speak she had been called away. She seems like the leader of this group or something.

"Good afternoon Seraphine! We can finally speak without you trying to kill me!" Said Bea with mischief.

"You deserved it!" Sera answered with a hint of anger.

"Yeah... Sorry about it again..." Bea's voice sounded sad for some reason.

"Don't worry about it. So ask away, you probably have a lot of questions."

"You have loads as well if I had to guess. So why don't we play a game. You ask a question and I answer, then I ask a question and you answer."

"That's very cliche. Let's just ask each other what we want to know. I have nothing to hide."

Bea looked very stumped by this. She probably didn't expect her refusal. Sera tried her hardest to hold back her laughter.

"O-Okay, I guess that works too. So, how and when did you become Evolved?"

"Straight to the point, I like it. The first answer is kind of obvious, I became Evolved when Newber was destroyed and how? You sure you wanna know?" Sera asked with a scary grin.

Bea was taken aback yet again but regained her composure fast.

"Sure."

So Sera told her everything how she was walking down the street when shit hit the fan. How she ran to her home's basement. The fight between titans. She ended it with the Archangels death.

Bea needed a bit longer to regain her composure, actually a lot longer, around 10 minutes. After that she only said one word.

"What?"

"I told you I became an Evolved when I killed a being called Archangel of Despair, a Horror of the 3rd Tier." Sera said with a very smug smile.

"WHAT?"

"You don't believe me?" With that she summoned her wings and spread them.

Bea nearly fell to her knees, she could accuse her of lying before, but now the proof was right behind her.

"You actually killed a 3rd Tier Horror as your first monster? What came next a Corrupted of the 3rd Tier?"

"No actually it was a Feral Hellhound, a Rotten of the 2nd Tier."

At this point she couldn't hold back the laughter.

"HA-HA-HA I knew you would have a reaction like that. It's so fucking hilarious."

She just couldn't stop her laughter and at some point Bea started laughing as well. After several minutes they finally stopped to catch their breath.

"Fuck me, my first kill was a monster plant named World Tree which is a weird name to give to something that was a bit bigger than an actual tree. But it was only a 1st Tier Horror. And here I thought that my first kill was the best in the city."

It was Sera's turn to be stumped.

"What do you mean only a 1st Tier Horror? My kill was only 2 Tiers above yours, that's basically nothing."

Bea looked at her weirdly. "You really are new! You don't even know how amazing your own achievement is? There wasn't a single person in recorded history who achieved what you did! Yeah there were people who killed 1st and even 2nd Tier Horrors, as their first. But no person managed to kill a 3rd Tier.

You know why?"

"No, I can't access any data on my Watch until I reach Castleburg."

"Ah, that explains it! Well, let me tell you then. When a monster becomes a 3rd Tier Horror they get their title and a qualitative boost to their strength. That's the same reason Beastbane couldn't defeat him. He was simply too weak."

Sera didn't know how to feel about that. This revelation made her achievement even more unique, but on the other hand, she couldn't have done what she did without it being in death's door already. She was confused and in the end decided to forget about it for now.

"Well, that explains a lot... But enough about me. Let me ask you, who are you and those people that tried to... Hurt me...?"

Noticing her pain Bea's eyes became sad again.

"We are the survivors of Copen and they are them as well. We were heading to Newber but it was already destroyed by then. So we changed direction and ended up here just like you."

She took a deep, shaky breath and continued.

"Our leader was a person named Nightmare, he is very strong and a good leader. But when we reached Havel he started to change. He began to think that we shouldn't move on to Castleburg. A lot of us disagreed, but most Evolved supported him."

At this point a couple tears fell from her eye.

"We had thousands of civilians with us, not even nearly enough combat gear to support everyone. And the people with combat gear supported his idea as well. So we, the people who opposed him snuck out of our camp bringing everyone we could."

She was now crying in earnest and Sera decided to go and hug her like she did last time.

"We tried to take as many people as possible I swear, but there just weren't enough of us and still, many died. The civilian women either became whores by choice or by 'breaking in' as they call it. The men are whatever they want them to be, bait for monster, entertainment you name it. I tried, I swear I did..."

"You did a great job saving as many people as you could Bea."

She didn't seemed to hear Sera.

"Look at me! Bea, look at me!"

She looked into Sera's eye, her eyes were a magnificent green color, like a beautiful forest.

"We will save them and kill all those fucking rapists! I swear it!"