El fell for Gabriel’s taunting. She dashed to snap Gabriel’s neck with everything she had, but several spears that appeared out of nowhere blocked her.

Clunk!

Thankfully, El’s wings protected her, and she remained unharmed. She glared at the angels who had stopped her.

The Seraphim, the Ophanim, and the rest of the archangels stood tall to protect Gabriel, who had betrayed her in the past.

“Step aside.” El stepped back, seemingly unwilling to kill them.

One of the angels, Zaphkiel, replied, “We can’t do that.”

Looking at his face, Gi-Gyu recalled the details about him from El’s data. He was the head of an army, and in terms of strength, he was somewhere between the Ophanim—El used to belong to this group—and the Cherubs.

Originally, the Ophanim had two leaders, but one of them wasn’t present here.

‘Raphael.’ He was the only one who hadn’t betrayed El; he had even sacrificed himself to help El. Gi-Gyu abruptly realized that Raphael had done...