Chapter 159
Uaah – uiiih!
'But everything collapsed in the First Heavenly Betrayal.'
Hiiih – haaah!
'Quil-Hasa lowered his position. From the controller of all realms, he became the guardian of the subconscious realm.
The dream realm.
The place where mortals lay fragments of their souls each night.'
In a higher hierarchy stood the Highest Angel Regord, known also as Camael.
At first, the mandate he carried was vast and overwhelming, encompassing total control over every kind of realm.
He was the overseer of balance for the mortal and the eternal, for the territories that housed Heaven and Hell, absolute void, anti-void, and dimensions so alien that they could no longer be described as "space" in any conventional sense.
His authority reached the furthest edges of reality, making him the gatekeeper of all forms of existence.
However, the dark history of the First Heavenly Betrayal changed everything.
Regord, together with his brethren, was ensnared in the current of grim events. It was said that his reason at the time did not fully function, clouded by a mysterious hypnotic influence that also engulfed Equinox.
Regardless of his original intentions, his involvement in the upheaval was considered a severe violation of divine trust.
As a consequence, Quil-Hasa revoked his vast mandate and granted him a new task—more specific and limiting.
Now, Regord serves only as the guardian and controller of the subconscious mortal realm, specifically the dream realm of every mortal created by His Goddess.
From the distance he maintained, Theo Vkytor might have sensed a certain resonance with the fate of this fallen angel.
How destiny can be diverted so drastically by a single event, how a grand role can be reduced to the guardian of a realm often dismissed as mere illusion.
Dreams, the realm Regord now protects, are not a trivial place.
There lie all fears, hopes, buried memories, and even prophecies.
By controlling the dream realm, Regord actually holds the key to the deepest soul of every living being—a subtle yet profoundly powerful responsibility in its own way.
'The Highest Angel Deltusia—or often called Uriel—is the oldest gatekeeper to ever exist.
Since the beginning of creation, He was the one who stood between two extremes.
The Gate of Heaven and the gate of Hell.
Two thresholds that only beings as ancient as He could touch.'
Among the Highest Angels, Deltusia, also known as Uriel, stood with a task that was both noble and sorrowful.
From his creation, he was designated as the keeper of Heaven's and Hell's gates, a guardianship once carried out in harmony with Equinox.
In the age of their golden era, their responsibility was a divine duet—Deltusia managed the mechanisms of opening and closing the gates, while Equinox created and maintained the atmosphere and essence within those two extreme realms.
However, that harmony shattered completely after the dark event of the First Heavenly Betrayal.
Equinox fell and was punished, chained within the depth of Hell he once kept in balance.
Abandoned by his partner, Deltusia now bore his mandate alone, with an unspoken weight: he must endure the constant echo of Equinox's anguished screams from behind the hellish gate he guarded.
Deltusia's physical features were a literal and metaphorical reflection of his eternal task.
His angelic form embodied the characteristics of a grand gatekeeper, a personification of the concept of a "door" itself.
His stature stood firm and unmoving like a colossal door panel, giving the impression of hardness, stability, and undeniable presence—like precious wood carved into the divine gates of dimensions.
Yet behind the impression of immovability lay an unexpected elegance.
The surface of his aura and form bore a smoothness and refinement like wood polished for thousands of years, symbolizing the function of a door that must open and close flawlessly, without friction, for those worthy to pass through.
The door Deltusia guarded was not merely a physical barrier but a symbol of transition, judgement, and final fate.
Every opening and closing marked the passage of a soul toward eternal bliss or endless torment.
In the silence of his duty, Deltusia became a silent witness to the climax of every life story, a role that placed him at the most crucial crossroads of all creation—standing firm between two poles of existence, reminding that every ending has a door, and every door needs a guardian strong yet gentle enough to govern it.
'Emhtartako, or Samael, is the Angel who, even from the beginning, was already a perfect paradox.'
Suuuuuh!
'He is the center of every prayer and hope, even before the concept of prayer was known to any being.
Prayers had not yet been born, but he already received them.
Hope had not yet been recorded, yet he had already aligned its flow.'
Fwuaaaah!
'His initial task was to oversee possibilities.
Every choice, potential, final outcome, every spark of possibility no matter how small, all lay within his reach.
He arranged every stream like an ancient musician who understood melody before instruments were ever invented.
And sadly, the First Heavenly Betrayal changed everything.'
Fuu – faahh!
'Quil-Hasa diminished his role. From the arranger of possibilities that shaped scenarios and plots, he became merely the fulfiller of prayers and the creator of hope.
A subtle restraint.
A task still sacred, yet far narrower than the true essence of his existence.'
Huuuuh!
'He is the center of all prayers and hopes, yet also the antithesis of prayer itself.
Two poles that should be impossible to merge, yet embedded within a single angel.'
Fhhhh!
'He carries love, affection, and hope for all beings.
Yet at the same time, he carries the empty space where all hope will never come to pass.'
Following among the Highest Angels was Emhtartako, known also as Samael, an entity burdened from birth with a profound paradox.
His original task was to guard, observe, and harmonize the most primordial flow of possibilities—the unseen seeds that would grow into choices, potential, and outcomes for every creature.
He was the mechanism behind possibility itself, functioning even before the concepts of "hope" or "prayer" formed in any consciousness.
Ironically, in Quil-Hasa's design of creation, Emhtartako was appointed as "the center of all prayers and hopes," the cosmic vessel where all desires and supplications from the unborn future should converge.
Yet his mysterious identity made him appear as the antithesis of that center—a contradiction embedded like a shadow accompanying the light.
His fate veered tragically in the First Heavenly Betrayal.
Like Regord, Samael's clarity was clouded by a dark hypnotic influence that also ensnared Equinox, drawing him into a rebellion not entirely of his own free will.
The punishment Quil-Hasa gave him was a revision of mandate filled with quiet irony.
His once-vast authority over the flow of possibilities was stripped away, replaced with a task limited to manifesting prayers and creating hope, love, and affection for all of His creations.
From the neutral overseer of possibilities, he was reduced to a machine of wish-fulfillment and a distributor of gentleness.
Yet the divine punishment did not erase the fundamental paradox woven into his being.
Emhtartako remained both opposites at once—the center of prayer and its contradiction.
Within every answered prayer lay a seed of doubt or an unforeseen consequence.
Within every act of affection he bestowed might linger the understanding of loss.
He was the angel who granted blessings with one hand, while the shadow of the other reminded that every fulfilled hope closes the door to thousands of other possibilities that wither.
To be continued…