I Know the Secret to Surpass Level 100

"Have they been fighting Malice right now?" Trick asked Irus who was beating the life out of Bruno. The latter was already unconsolidated as Irus continued on slamming his fists on his face. "Hey, dude. Stop that."

Barbara sighed as she took Bruno's lifeless body and slammed it to the ground, creating a chain around him. The chains wrapped around Bruno's entire body, leaving only the head to be visible.

"This should keep him from escaping," Barbara said. "By, the way. Where is Glory?"

"Here!"

A faint yellow light sparked and then Glory, in her fairy form, appeared. She grinned and smirked. "While all of you were battling and doing all that, I was busy trying to collect fragments."

"Fragments?" Barbara asked. "What fragments?"

Glory morphed into her human form and took shattered crystals from her pocket. She then took a flask that contained the sap that could bind the crystal shards together.

"But Elliot is not here, we can't reattach these shards together," Barbara said.

Irus then stepped forward and took the materials. He opened his own Crafting Table and placed the materials in their slots. Barbara and Glory was watching him, both in shock.

"What?" Glory gasped. "Why do you have that too?"

"Being trapped in that book for so long gave me ideas," Irus said. "I copied some abilities it had inside just so I could use them too. I took this Crafting Table, some other skills, and some other skills."

"That's honestly a very smart move," Trick chuckled. "You took some of the abilities of the book in exchange for your freedom."

"But why were you trapped inside that book in the first place?" Glory asked. "Did someone trap you inside?"

"Yeah," Irus answered with a short reply. He then shrugged. "That was a very long time ago. I don't like to remember everything."

"Oh, that's fair," Barbara said, side eyeing Glory for being too nosy. "Anyway, what is it inside these shards that you're so interested, Glory? You were suddenly gone for a while and then you returned with these. What are these?"

Glory was smirking. "Another prophecy."

"Malice?" Barbara asked. "She's being dealt with right now. You should've hurried before Elliot and his gang left."

"No, this isn't about Malice," Glory said. "Irus, can you see it?"

"Wait a minute," Irus said. "It's taking its time to reconstruct. There's a heavy flow of information inside the crystal. What is this, anyway?"

Glory only shrugged and waited until the crystal ball was formed again. She instructed that Irus would be the one to take a look inside, to see whatever it is for himself. She forced the Behemoth to look inside the crystal.

Irus glanced at the crystal and his eyes instantly widened. He gasped and pulled away, jaws dropped to the groubd, he looked back and then examined the scene.

It was a bright white landscape with paths of white bricks and columns of white marble. The grass was also white along with the flowers that should have been in all other colors.

But as white as everything looked, it wasn't too bright that it would blind the ones who look. There were different shades of white that were present in the scene, taking over how white the others are and making the others look dirty.

"What's this?" Irus asked. "I think this is Heaven."

"There's a visitor!"

Irus immediately looked at the source of the voice and raised his guard. The people rushed towards him but they went straight through his body. He gasped when he saw that people phased over him, then realizing that he was only in a prophecy.

"This prophecy is so good that I forgot I don't belong here," Irus said to himself with a disappointed sigh. "What am I even saying now?"

He walked to where the others gathered and watched a familiar man. He ran towards him and tried to wrap his hands around him, but he only phased. Irus sighed and shook his head, forgetting that he was in a prophecy again.

The man was tall and has white skin, but he has a long beard that reached up to his chest. He also wore a visor that covered his eyes as well as a cap that extends to his neck. He was covered with clothes as he sang melodies to the other Angels.

He wanted to talk to the person he bond with before, but then he wasn't there with him anymore. He passed and Irus was not sure where he was at the moment. He could've been resurrected or he could've passed through the Afterlife.

Elliot did not just lose a father that day. Irus lost a friend.

"She told me that you'd be here..."

Irus froze when he heard Reginald sing. He glanced back and saw that Reginald was looking at him. It was impossible. How could a person from a prophecy see the one who was being inside.

"She told me to wait, and to sing this song for you to know that I'm here," Reginald continued singing. "I have been here for as long as I can remember. Maybe it's been ten years or twenty, but I haven't forgotten."

Irus nodded as the Adventures he had with Reginald replayed inside his head. How they met, how they first talked to each other, and how they said their farewells. It was a heartbreaking memory for a Behemoth that's supposed to be heartless.

"When the time comes, and the Heavens will open," Reginald sang. "I shall be by your side and you shall be with mine. We'll slay the darkness and slay the night. We shall reunite and we shall be together again."

Irus laughed when he realized that Reginald wasn't talking to him, but to the love of his life. He shook his head and sighed, ready to pull off the prophecy when Reginald continued.

"And to you my friend who's been watching my child of darkness and light," Reginald sang. "How could I forget about all our travels. I want to thank you and say I miss you too, but then I can't because I don't know where you are."

"Idiot." Irus laughed as he exited the prophecy. When he returned, Barbara and Glory were looking at him intently. "What?"

"Did you see it?" Glory asked. "It's one of those prophecies. A rare one, from a prophet who used a lot of energy to manifest such thing. It's amazing."

"You mean to say that you escaped, vanished, and then took this prophecy because it's..." Barbara took a deep breath. "Cool?!"

"No," Glory raised her hands in surrender as she shook her head violently from side to side. "That prophecy pertains to the child born of darkness and light. It pertains to Elliot Max."

Barbara paused, then looked at Irus. "Was that true?"

"It is," Irus nodeed. "It talked about Elliot and one more person."

Barbara, Glory, and Trick listened intently as Irus opened his lips to say. "It talks about the Princess Melissa. The prophecy was her lover from Heaven."

"Oh, my god." Barbara covered her mouth. "Another one of those. Now, there are two prophecies that talked to Elliot, the one he saw and the one you have."

"Shouldn't we give this to him?" Glory asked. "If he's fighting against Malice, he should see this to raise his morale."

"If he sees this right now, then he will die because his head will explode," Barbara said, deadpannint. "When he rebuilt the crystal ball that pertains to him he pulled out immediately from the prophecy."

"The prophecy is still looming at him," Irus turned his head to look at the Black Castle. "The woman is still hovering over that boy, waiting for him to have an open space in his mind, and then she will continue the prophecy again."

"You know how prophecies are," Barbara sighed. "Once you pulled out without having to close the scene, it will continue. And if you see another one, your head will explode."

"The Prophet's Greed," Trick sighed. "It's a curse to block people from viewing two prophecies at the same time. But since the one Elliot saw wasn't just a normal prophecy, it followed him like a bound soul.

"Let's wish him safety," Irus said, keeping the crystal ball in his Inventory. "Right now, we can't mess up and help him or else the prophecy will not come true and Malice will never be stopped."

"Alright," Barbara agreed. "We can only watch."

Meanwhile, Elliot was blown away by a powerful shock from Malice. The was grinning as she hovered over the boy, looking at his injured state.

"You know, you could defeat me if you just die," Malice laughed. "But then you couldn't because I would just revive again. Using your mother's body this time."

"No!" Elliot yelled. He brandished his sword and raised it against Malice. "You are so evil. Why are you like this?"

"If there is good in the world, then evil should balance everything out," Malice said. "If my existence is void, then it will only be harder for everyone."

Elliot was about to attack when he felt a cold hand placed on his shoulder. He jumped and stepped back, looking at the owner but then horror found its way to his eyes.

A tall woman wearing a black veil stood beside him.