Sunday, April 12, 2015

BUREAU OF LIFE [PART VIII]

Continued...



Elion, via the Bureau of Life, had assigned Luciel to initiate the halal campaign, so that spiritual licence could be availed for that apostolic move but Luciel had usurped the privilege. 

The halal campaign was simple – get pockets of worshippers across the federation to offer up chants of praises to Elion. This praises translated to glory which was stored in Yek’hadar department in the Bureau of Life. This glory would then be metamorphosed into power at the Hapha department and sent back to the Nigeria for the apostolic revival.

Prayer would have been easier to translate, but since the fall of Ad’ahm in the garden, very few humans could pray sincerely without poisoning the prayers with doubt. And poison had no storage in Zion. The only time the greater percentage of humanity reached out to Zion in “unpoisoned”, unadulterated, and sincere yearning was when it "worshiped" or praised.

Luciif had gotten wind of the plan and had sent battalions to disrupt the peace in the nation, stir up chaos and enthrone a despicable president who will sell the soul of the nation to evil, such that rancour and bitterness would reign. Once bitterness had the better hand, praise would be impossible. Balrog, Luciff’s Archangel, was making a brilliant affair out of defeating the angels of light.

Yazael, having witnessed the onslaught that Hades was serving the brazen ones of Zion, had contacted Luciel, the department boss for Barakh’alal, and sought help; the angels fighting in Quadrant 1 needed power. Luciel explained to him that to garner power, they needed to stir up praise, but not to Elion. Elion would distribute the glory that arrived at Yek’hadar evenly within the Bureau of War. He convinced Yazael that if he needed to rise quickly in the ranks and decimate the hordes in the section allotted to him, they had to usurp glory.

They were here to secure grounds for the worship service ensuing in twenty-three earth minutes. The church’s worship leader was on Luciel’s talent-roll.

Yazael convinced several members of his battalion to go along with the plan. Unknown to them, everything worked together for Elion’s purpose.

Yazael sped across the expanse between the two buildings, and arrived on the office complex with Messuel trailing the blaze of glory that followed him. They scanned the whole roof but saw nothing.

“There’s no one here boss,” Messuel spoke.

“I smell lilies-in-the-morning,” Yazael replied.

Under the cloak, Huntoel glared at Sanctiel in exasperation. Even after he had warned Sanctiel not to use his scent, the naïve angel had carried his elixir bottle on a reconnaissance. Mackel would yet have given Huntoel the most difficult mission in his entire carrier. Not the mission of investigating Luciel, but training the nepios on the job.

Sanctiel apologized as best he could without moving or uttering a word.

“Could be one of these humans, exploring the spiritual.” Messuel tried to reason with Yazael

“This is from Zion.” Yazael muttered, gliding across the expanse of the roof. 

“Have you heard about the cloak before?”

“I have never seen one.” Messuel replied.

Under the cloak, Sanctiel’s eyes popped as Yazael hovered over his stomach.

Yazael dipped his hands into the tip of his scimitar sheath and retrieved a gust of powder.

Huntoel realized it was the sneezing elixir used to hunt hidden scums from Hades and quickly covered Sanctiel’s nose. Seasoned angels had been trained to withstand the sting.

Yazael sprayed the elixir and Messuel sneezed uncontrollably. Yazael sprayed it again but only Messuel sneezed. Yazael dusted his hands on his glowing wings and turned to blaze off.  

“Be on the lookout from now on.” He said to Messuel who was still sneezing.  “And confirm that Demiel has retrieved the vial from Mosun’s apartment.”


To be continued

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