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This chapter is the reason why David's battle in the Scar wasn't overly long. I think this chapter broke my brain. Let me know if you could follow it. It juggles a shitload of balls.

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Daddy D

I always come here with some assortment of “wow” or “badass”, but this chapter… hats off to you. There is A LOT going on here, but I was able to keep track along the way without pause. Superb job, superb storyline, and superb nugget at the end. Well done and never stop doing something you’re good at, this is excellent.

Daddy D

I’ll read this chapter again in a few days to pick up anything I may have missed or just want to soak deeper.

AniNovu

High praise, thanks. I'm glad you could follow the action, because I did 2 top-to-bottom edit passes and I lost my way several times.

Imation

The battle at Angel’s Spine; angels, demons and souls will remember it for ages. And as with all heroic battles it is full of twists and turns, lucky breaks and mistakes. Vin, Kas, Romakus, Julisa and of course Cerberus will be remembered in song. The events and actions follow in a logic sequence, the different characters are described in earlier chapters (i think even Deus Sercano is mentioned before?). So maybe the songs will have the occasional background choir chanting the name of the author.

AniNovu

Alas, Hell doesn't care for songs. And nope, Deus Sercano is brand new. You've seen a sercano twice before, but this mutated one is new. The rider likes using sercanos.

Stuffjunk

I had to stop once or twice to pump my fists into the air 😂

Vuldrog

"You think you can stop the invader with the power of the song?” “Yes, I can. I am Beelzebub.” The Old Ones' dialogue rarely seems to miss; it's always fun to see them pop up and tower over everything. I will say, "a thousand" seemed to be overused in the chapter. A thousand aliens jumped on Beezlebub's back (this happened twice), a thousand aliens and demons died, a thousand 666s rushed Mia, a thousand tunnels in the ravine were exposed. The repetition stuck out and distracted me from the story a bit. This chapter didn't really work for me. I'm just not invested in the tension of the big battles, because it seems like most times, either (a) David/Mia will heroically pluck their strings harder than ever before and cause a calamity or (b) a bigger bad will show up and give the protagonists time to get away. I may be forgetting battles where either outcome didn't happen, but it feels like many of the big confrontations have ended this way. This battle, three bigger bads (Beelzebub, Cain, then Lilith) showed up to defeat the previous big bad. So the arrival of the Deus Sercano was a little Deus Ex Machina (it's even in the name!) for me. That said, it was fun to see the different baddies wail on each other, and the disparate goals of each of the baddies made it an engaging conflict. As far as following the conflict, I had no issues. Everything was differentiated well and I didn't see any kind of ambiguous references to multiple combatants or confusing descriptions of morphology. I guess it's a lot more confusing to keep things straight in your head when writing! I enjoyed the setting with the ravine above, the yawning void below. I almost wish it was described more!