Heavenly Kingdom: The Kingdom among the clouds

Chapter 142: Departure X Alliance

[City of Avalon]

A day has passed since the incident with the Cryophoenix, the supposed to be guardian beast of the northern continent, had attacked the city of mages. So after taking a long break from this incident and tending to their wounds, the people of the city then begun cleaning up the battlefield, as they shoved away piles of snow one after the other.

While taking out the snow, they then retrieved the dead bodies of their comrade, as they set it aside and plan for a group burial of brave souls who faced the danger of destruction. Naturally, there were mourns and grieves of the bereaved happening all over the city, but those left behind all knew the reason for their death, and hoped for a honorable burial. Of course such request was approved by the council itself and were now scheduled at a later date when everything is returned to the way it was.

Alongside the clean up of all the snow and dead bodies, some alchemist then begun to chip away the body of the humongous Cryophoenix, as they believed that its materials would be beneficial for the advancement of magic they have. Even though it may sound wrong since they seemed like desecrating the dead, but they need to do this, in order to avoid any problem in the future.

According to their recorded history, even though it only consist of few papers and really old document, whenever a creature of nature dies, one must do everything they have to dispose of the body. One can use magic to disintegrate it into dust, use melting poison, or even burning it in the span of 30 days. The reason for this is because it is stated in their record, that once a nature of beast dies and left alone, its body would either transform into two things throughout the course of nature.

Its corpse could either turn its burial area into a sacred ground, which is filled with high density of mana, or it could turn into a cursed land which could lead to a pandemic and plague that threatens the world. Even though such possibility is only has about 50% chance of happening, one can't just rely on luck in order to get the good part of a death of such a creature. Since there is also a 50% probability of turning the area around the city as a cursed land, the council itself then decided to dispose of the Cryophoenix body and turn it into materials, instead of waiting for that grim probability.

Everything was turned over and nothing was left out. Since the mages and alchemist of the city received its order to completely dispose of the Cryophoenix body, they then decided to instead use its dead body to  turn into materials which could lead to advancement in magic. After all the Cryophoenix body has a high conductibility to mana and somewhat could withstand immense pressure from destructive magic. With such durable material, not one of them wants to miss out of getting apiece of the Cryophoenix and use it for their own research.

However there was one object that was left out and has been decided to be voluntarily given to Albion, such object was none other than the heart of the Cryophoenix that was now displayed on Albion's living room. The reason why this was given to Albion is because such an object was producing heat and has signs of life from the loud beating of its heart, which confused those who found it and somewhat scared to death.

Thus such object is now currently being displayed right in front of Albion, as he entertains Asagi who is currently sitting  opposite of him and is drinking the warm tea, with Ariel on toe.

After the incident with the Cryophoenix, Asagi then instructed all the archangels and surviving angels to return to their post in her kingdom, while leaving out Ariel in order to serve as his guard. In the angel's departure, Amos also voluntarily went back with the group as he needed more time to recuperate since he is a human in comparison to his winged colleagues, together with Leon.

With that only Asagi and Ariel was left in the city, and is currently meeting up with Albion for one last time.

As for army of angels which has been reduced greatly, she was planning to make some more once she get back and raise its number to around 8,000, while assigning some men under their respective archangel. With that done, it was then time for Asagi to talk business with Albion.