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With tears in his eyes, he swings in an arc crackling with Hell's damnation as well as his tarnished heavenly might. No shield of mine activates. My drones remain inert. The cobbled together mystical practices I have syncretised into an "anti-witchcraft" system allow his blade straight through.

I'm proud of him.

So's Lucifer.

"..j...ohn...eigh...t...s-even..." I force my shattered throat to spit out, turning my own death into a redemptive sacrifice for a very, very special demon lord.

...

"WHAT?!" yelped Mr. Priest as all the demonic energy I'd claimed suddenly reconciled instantly with his angelic energy, As Leviathan showed up with many, many demons unwilling to see their Hell go down without a fight. And as my tumbling almost-corpse scrawled out GENESIS 5:24 on the ground, resulting in a thunderous series of trumpet blasts as the cardinal archangels and the angelic matter implants in my body started resonating-resurrecting me, and filling me up with divine power.

"Y-YOU'RE ALIVE?!"

"Resurrection! Resurrection Mr. Priest, it's a miracle repeated in multiple tellings of Jesus' life! Death is a small thing" I exclaimed. "especially to burn away my own mortality!"

"...I have issues with that statement but I'm glad you're okay" he mumbled.

"I don't" said Lucifer cheerfully. "The fact that this guy independently, without ANY input from me, successfully remade himself into a divine being has got me REALLY pumped up! Even if that means we've got to fight while I hold my hand in place!"

"Boy, remember what I said about holding Revelations in reserve?" I stage-whispered.

"YEAH. One lake of fire, coming right up" he said grimly, as we prepared to face the wrath of the once-highest angel together.

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