Junichiro couldn't help smiling to himself. Ruler was by far the most impressive powers of Excalibur and the most useful. Everyone out there currently thought that the Excalibur Ruler fragment could only control living things but they were very wrong. Excalibur Ruler could 'rule' any phenomena, living beings, inorganic matter, and nonliving items. It could even 'rule' over the attacks of other people. It was the very definition of broken. Though, like everything else, it did have limits. He wouldn't be ruling the minds or attacks of gods or god-like beings anytime soon. Cave walls though? Easy.
The pair froze as the light shone on the next open space they found themselves inside of. It was a second wide open area that was even bigger than the first. That wasn't what brought them up short though. First, there were ruins scattered about the place, destroyed. It was hard to tell what they had been other than maybe buildings and a few surviving columns. Whatever the place had been had long since been completely destroyed. Second, there were corpses everywhere. Some of the corpses were nothing more than skeletons while others looked closer to mummies. They weren't just any corpses either, it was easy to spot that they were the corpses of Devils, Angels, and Fallen Angels. It was the wings, wing bones, and few surviving feathers that gave it away.
Mittelt looked over the field of death and destruction with wide eyes, "What the hell is this place?!"
Junichiro looked over the area as he thought of a hypothesis, "If we're right and this is one of Albion's stashes... Best guess? They ran here after Albion and Ddraig were defeated in order to claim the treasures we found. They obviously fought and there were no survivors."
He walked further into the cave and stopped near a pair of well preserved bodies both angels sporting six wings. One angels wings sported quite a few white feathers, the other was similar but with black feathers. He could easily spot the two gaping fatal wounds on their bodies, "These two killed each other."
Mittelt walked over and looked at the bodies. Her eyes widened in surprise as she managed to recognize what was left of them she gestured to the Fallen Angel first, "That's Harut." She pointed to the white winged Angel, "And that's Sabrael. Harut disappeared around eleven hundred years ago along with his entire platoon." She looked around the cave, "And we just found all of them."
They began walking around the area examining the bodies so Mittelt could try and make a list of anyone she recognized. The place was littered with bodies so it would take some time. While they did so, Junichiro was surreptitiously using his Ring of Minor Telekinesis to collect a lot of small samples from the various bodies. Angel feathers, fallen angel feathers, along with bones and flesh from all three races. It was definitely extremely macabre but those bits and pieces could be used in all sorts of different things, just like the flesh and body parts of any other magical creature could.
It was a few hours later when Mittelt gasped in surprise, "The Devil's were led by one of Lucifer's sons!"
Junichiro walked over and looked at the corpse of the devil Mittelt was studying, "I thought Lucifer only had the one son?"
Mittelt looked at Junichiro and wondered why he thought that. Instead of asking, she scoffed, "No. You think that megalomaniac would settle for just one kid? Rizevim was the first, and strongest, kid he had with Lilith. All the others born after, and weaker, than Rizevim were discarded and became the first Extra Demons. Lucifer only had a half dozen kids and, aside from Rizevim, all are dead. Or at least believed dead."
She pointed at the dead devil, specifically at the crest on the armor it wore, "That's the crest for the House of Lucifer. That alone wouldn't make this one of his kids but..." She gesture the the set of six wings that the devil had, "Only Lucifer and his kids had more than a single set of wings among the Devils. Every other Devil, no matter how strong, only has a single pair."
Junichiro nodded along as Mittelt explained but couldn't help asking, "How do you know that?"
Mittelt scoffed, "It wasn't a secret really. More... a taboo to talk about near Devils. They don't like to think about their 'Supreme Leader Lucifer' having weak kids. So Rizevim got held up and any kids that didn't meet that standard got the boot. They were still easy to spot though due to their multiple wings. Bit of trivia, I think it was the weakest one that founded the house of Lucifuge, the house the current Satan Lucifer's wife is from. Interesting eh?"
Junichiro snickered a bit at that. Then with a wave of his hand he collected the entire corpse of the spawn of Lucifer. It was in relatively good condition. Like all the strongest beings down here, his body was only mummified instead of reduced to a skeleton. That left the corpse with a fairly large amount of flesh and Junichiro had some ideas.
Mittelt arched an eyebrow as she watched him collect and store the corpse, "That's a bit... a lot gross. The hell you want the body for?"
"It's one of the few actual genetic relations to Lucifer and Lilith. I want to study the crap out of it and possibly render it down to potion ingredients."
Mittelt looked a little green at that, "That's so fucking gross. Seriously?"
Junichiro just shrugged his shoulders, "It's something exceedingly rare. Of course I'm going to collect it and see what I can learn from it."
Mittelt gagged a little but didn't say anything else. She'd seen Azazel do worse so...
He gave Mittlet a smile and finished collecting everything near the body. All the pieces of its broken armor and even its sword, some weak demonic sword that likely didn't even have a name but was worth studying.
They spent the next few hours looking around with Mittelt still taking down names of anyone she recognized. Unfortunately, that was limited to only Angels and only those with four or more wings. Considering the majority were all two winged, it wasn't very many names to take back. Junichiro continued to collect a bunch of samples from every corpse they came across. He didn't know what he would use the bits and pieces for right away, but he would study them and come up with something.