"The Promised Time?!"
"Has this day finally come?"
There was a third angel in the conference room. She wore a white veil, a white hood, and golden armor. The flowing curves of the golden armor and her slender figure made it obvious that she was female—though, like the other three angels, nothing could be seen beneath her hood.
The Angel of Hope: Auriel.
Other than the Angel of Wisdom, whose whereabouts were unknown, all four archangels of the High Heavens' Angiris Council had gathered.
The Angel of Justice, Tyrael; the Angel of Valor, Imperius; the Angel of Hope, Auriel; and the Angel of Fate, Itherael, who had arrived carrying a scroll.
"Yes."
Unfurling the scroll in her hands, Itherael revealed Talus'ar. This scroll was both the Angel of Fate's weapon and the High Heavens' most precious treasure.
It was said to contain Anu's knowledge. Countless words had been scrawled across the divine scroll, and in response to the Angel of Fate Itherael's questions, they would project images through the crystals within the Library of Fate—images of the future.
Those crystals were fragments of Anu's spine.
"The time for the final battle has come."
As the scroll was spread open, the ever-changing words upon it—words no one but the Angel of Fate had ever been able to decipher—had now frozen into an image.
"A seven-headed evil dragon?!"
The savage, clawing figure in the image, overflowing with sinister energy, made all three archangels tense.
"Diablo has devoured his brothers and subordinates, reforming into the Seven-Headed Evil Dragon. Once he fully digests that power—"
What would it matter even if the angels destroyed the Burning Hells? So long as they could not defeat Diablo, the Seven-Headed Evil Dragon, the Eternal Conflict would ultimately end in defeat!
"Then we destroy him!"
The Angel of