Chapter 115: Khaos Brigade Invades! War In Vesarima!
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Three large battalions of heavily armored soldiers' marches toward the South Gate of Vesarima. Numbers of fully grown Giants are in among the battalions, being controlled and brainwashed by magic. The generals ride in front of the battalions with a large brown horse, leading his men to the capital with confident strides.
"Hehehe, I've been waiting for this day" a man among the army speaks to his companion "Tell me about it! I can't wait to kill all those scummy devils living in the capital... They think so highly of themselves that it makes me sick" "I don't care about you guys' revenge... I'm just here for bloodshed!" a comment thrown in by a man grinning in bloodlust, getting lots of intimidating look from others "Everyone in the army are doing this for their own goals" a wise voice comments "Whatever the goals are! Let's just make sure we are victories!" another shouts and cheers that quickly gets the others to join in.
When the large gates are at view, the General halt his horse which led to the army to stop as well. Hundreds of men look forward and see one person standing in front of the close gate. "General, who is that?" one of the Lieutenant question, riding alongside their leader. "That..." the man pulls his helmet up to reveals his face. The General is a man with brown eyes and a thick black beard, an old and veteran man who's been through countless of battle. He looks closely and see the face of the individual "That is the Kaliyah" he utters, and the men among the army gasps in shock and terror at the news, some immediately start sweating and losing their confidents when hearing the Archdevil's famous nickname.
"What... What should we do, General?" one of the men asks, with hesitation "What do you think? We march on! Turning back know would bring great disgrace to us all! Where's your pride, men!" the General shouts with confidents and courageous that quickly garnered many to in steel their own confidents "Yeah! We got her outnumbered! We can take her on!" one of them yell and others cheers along in agreement.
The General slowly unsheathe his longsword and points it at the Archdevil "On my word, men!" he shouts, and the army gets ready, taking deep breaths, gripping tightly at their weapons and shield. "... Charge! Today Vesarima shall fall!" the General shouts out in booming volume, and with a loud roar, the hundreds of men break in a sprint toward the single individual that is blocking them from the Capital.
Hunter slowly untie her cloak and throws it to the ground. Cocking her neck to the left and right to make a loud popping noise from the joints. "Fighting an army... It's been a while" she whispers monotonously, bringing her left hand to her right shoulder and rubs it "Might as well use this as a warmup before going in the Capital and clear things up in there".
Feeling her body ready, Hunter bring her right hand back to the handle of her sword and click it out from its metal hostel. Hunter grip the handle and wait for the hundreds of soldiers to come closer to the swinging range. Six large and heavily armored men are at the front of the army, all wielding large weapons like hammers, axes, and halberds.
When in range, Hunter bring her massive sword from the right and cleave through the six men like they are butter. Their dismembered upper body falls up and their intestines flies around the air before splattering on the ground while their lower body collapse to the puddle of blood. The whole army halt and gasp in horror at the bloody display, all of them turns and stare at the humongous sword wield by the Archdevil.
"S-she just cut through six heavily armored men like they were nothing!" "T-that s-sword... It's massive!" "Is that even a sword?!" the confidents that the army once hold shatters the moment they saw the terrifying and intimidating blade that Hunter is wielding, and how it was able to easily slaughter their comrades.
Hunter didn't waste time and sprint forward, proceeding to massacre through the battalions. With each swing she gives, a dozen of bodies is cut to pieces and blood and guts fly all around the air before splattering to the ground. "N-no!" a man screams, before getting his head impale by the large blade. Hunter stop and with both hands on the handle, she swings the sword around in a whirlwind movement and demolish through dozens of men and women. The man that was impale on the blade is send flying away and crash into a group of soldiers, knocking all of them down.
"S-she's a monster!" one of them shouts in fear, watching Hunter standing in the center of blood, guts, and corpses of their comrades. The General still hold a look of confident but looking closely, Hunter can see that nervous sweat start forming on his temple and dripping down his face. "Blast her out of existence!" the General orders and the remaining soldiers, now reduce to less than hundred instead of hundreds get to their position, circling around Hunter.
The men and women extend their hands forward, charging up a yellow orb in their palms. Hunter didn't move an inch and instead waiting for the attack. "Haaah!" all the soldier shouts and fire a large yellow blast from all direction, making it impossible for the Archdevil to dodge it. In the last moment, as the blast is a meter away from her, Hunter grip her sword and swing it in a full 360 degree and deflect every single blast away.
The speechless army look at their blast flying in the air and lands a dozen meters away from their location. Numbers of bright yellow explosion erupts outside of Vesarima's walls, rumblings form around the area, but none take notice at it, instead the soldiers are frozen in fear as they stare in silence and fright at Hunter.
Without a word utter, Hunter transfer some of her mana into the blade, making it glow in fade purple. She once again swings a full 360 degree and fire off a magic blast shape of a sword swing from all direction, like a circle. The soldiers are frozen in fear and didn't dodge when the blast faze right past their waists. The blast goes past some trees before dispersing.
Hunter stab the sword to the ground and the trees falls to the ground, creating a thump and small rumble, causing all the soldiers that are standing still to have their upper half body to drop to the ground, all of the guts and blood pour from their lower half before it collapses backwards, to the ground.
The General and the two Lieutenant witness all this, and their expression shows shock and fear, that's setting in their eyes, watching their whole army getting massacred by a single individual. "It is true as the rumors said" the General speaks, looking straight at Hunter's yellow and slit pupils' eyes "She is the one Archdevil you never want to cross paths with... The Kaliyah, the strongest Archdevil" he utters, gripping the rein tightly.
Using his mind, the General send the six Giants that are standing behind them, to the Archdevil. The monsters let out a roar and all charge toward the woman with their clubs lift above their heads. Hunter thrust her right hand forward and fire a massive and medium-range of dense magic blast that vaporize all the Giants into dust.
Through all the smokes, the Lieutenants appears from each side and launch their longsword at the woman. Hunter raise both her hands and block the strikes; her right arm worn a protective arm gauntlet that easily block the attack while the bandaged up left arm glows in faint purple mana and is able to stop the strike.
A purple mana form around Hunter's arm and discharge a dense beam that annihilates the Lieutenants to dust. Slowly, bringing her hands down and turn to the General, who have the look of disbelief in his face, staring at the large craters that are at the sides of Hunter where his strongest subordinates once stood.
Hunter grabs the handle of her sword that is still stabbed in the front and pull it from the ground. She places the blade on her shoulder and start walking toward the frozen man. The look in the man's eyes speaks it all to Hunter. He has given up; his hope is shattered by the display he has witnessed. "You are honestly a fool to think that you can be victories... You were whispered with false hopes and you shall die because of it" Hunter state, stopping in front of the man and in a blink of an eye, brings her sword forward, narrowly missing the horse's head and cut the General's head clean off his shoulder.
The horse is frightened by the massive sword and quickly sprint away, causing the corpse to fall from its back and drops to the ground. Hunter swipe her sword to get rid of the blood and click it back in the hostel. "Now," she whispers and look up at the dragon that's floating in the sky "Time to go slay some dragons".
North Gate
"Haaah!" Rias fires a large wave of destruction blast to vaporize a group of enemies. She looks up to see Akeno in the sky and firing thunder bolts at the enemies that are climbing up the walls. "Princess Gremory! There are too many of them!" the guard shout, fighting off the invaders with his sword while his comrades charge past them to deal with the rest.
Rias cock her head to the right to miss a dagger being thrown and launh her fist forward to smash it in the thrower's face, knocking him away. "Then kill more of them! Don't let anymore enter the Capital! We can't let them overwhelm us" Rias shouts back at him and the rest of the devils, before sending a concentrated crimson orb in the swarm of army. A large explosion erupts and wipe out several of the enemies' troops.
Rias quickly ducks when hearing a sword swing from behind, intending to cut her head. She quickly turns around and send a kick to the attacker's stomach, knocking them back. Rias looks up and see a young silver-haired man wielding a sabre and equipped in an agile and protective silver armor. His blue eyes shine with hatred in them, directing it straight to her "Men! Continue the onslaught! I'll deal with the Gremory" he orders "Understood, General!".
The young General swipe the sabre up to fire a silver mana blast that cuts through some devils and heading straight to the Princess. Rias release a short-range blast with her destruction power, easily destroying the General's attack. The army from both side make space for the two to clash, not wanting to get in the crossfire.
"Rias Gremory... A prodigy in the new generation of devils and the next line to rule the great Gremory Clan" the General speaks, having his sword pointed at Rias "I'm going to take pleasure on taking you done" he said in seething tone. "Your family along with the rest of the nobles watch down at people such as I, who lives outside of these walls, looking at us like we are nothing but peasants... We will show just how us peasants can fight back" "You are mistaking my family for other ignorant nobles..." Rias speaks and start powering up, crimson aura explodes around her "So, don't you dare speak such rudely about my clan and more importantly to my family" she said in dark tone, her expression turns serious, her eyes glows crimson.
Akeno burst down to a battalion of soldiers that are ready to climb up the walls. She crashes in the middle and release a powerful electric stream that shock all the men and women to death. "Damn, a lot has already gotten up" she utters, looking at the top of the walls and see battles raging on there.
Akeno was about to set off when a figure speeding through the forest catch her sight. 'T-that!' she sees Raynare zooming through the forest, heading east 'What is she doing here?! Is she with the enemy?' Akeno quickly sprint into the forest, chasing after the vampire.
Vesarima
"Asia, stop" Koneko monotonously request, and the blonde immediately halts "Hmm, why?" she ask, tiling her head in confusion "There's a battalion at the bottom of us with Giants... They can cause a lot of trouble" the Rook state, looking down and seeing the Giants swinging their clubs around to destroy buildings and home, reducing them to rubbles. "Gasper, protect Asia... I'm dropping here" Koneko said and without a chance for the two to reply, she releases her grip from the blood and drops.
In midair, Koneko pulls out the black gloves from her jean's pocket, the glove that Nawin gift her and puts them on. Seeing she's near the earth, Koneko ready both her fist and brings them to the ground. The Rook drops right at the center like a missile and the whole arena explodes from the impact, knocking the Giants to their backs while the soldiers are send flying meters away.
Koneko jumps out of the massive crater and gets to her stance "Time for combat" she whispers and jumps forward to deliver a vicious right hook at the unfortunate individual that was in front of her. He is send blasting away, crashing through the rests, before smashing to the ground on his neck, dead.
A Giant gets up in to feet and swings the club down on Koneko from behind. Koneko lift her right hand and stop the weapon with ease. The ground beneath creak from the force and the booming shockwave sends some soldiers flying away. "Bigger doesn't mean stronger" Koneko state and clench her hand around the club to crush it into tiny pieces and jumps up to deliver a spinning kick aim at the Giant's head, knocking the monster to the ground and loss its consciousness from the hard blow.
Koneko lands on the ground and look forward to seeing three more Giants getting up, all glaring at her with their one eye while the foot soldiers are also back on their feet and have their weapons pointing at her. "Time for a beatdown" Koneko state and charge toward the army without hesitation.
"Gasper-kun, you are going to have to direct me" Asia speaks, flying around the Capital "Check for an area that have the most wounded... I can sense mana signatures, but I can't know if any of them are really injured unless they're in a critical condition" she state. The Dhampir slowly nod, and starts scanning around the Capital, looking at the battles that are spread across Vesarima.
Gasper notice a large crowd of civilians making way to the top of a big hill that is in the back of Vesarima, where all the richest nobles house is built, along with the Satan's castles. The hill is so far secured, and no enemy has come near it, so all the guards are taking them there for safety. Gasper looks closely and see many injured men, women, and children are among the crowd. "There's a large group of civilians heading towards the hills for safety, lots of them are injured and the guards that are defending them are also in a need of medic" Gasper inform the blonde "We have to protect the civilians! Point the direction, Gasper-kun" Asia request, "So I can pinpoint a magic signature and follow it" "South, you can't miss it!" ".... Ah! I found them, there's a lot of civilians there."
Asia smile "Also, good job, Gasper-kun!" she praises "You were able to speak without stuttering" she points out, surprising the Dhampir, who blush quickly "T-thank y-you" he said, his stutter return, causing Asia giggle before speeding toward the hills.
Hospital
Akame burst into the building and immediately cuts through the men stationed in the front desk. "What th-" the armored soldier didn't have time to finish his sentence before the black sword is launch through his neck and pin him to the wall. Akame, hearing a footstep from behind brings the sword to the right and cleave through the sneaky attacker's midsection with ease.
Red lightning crack around the black blade that is painted in blood. Akame hastily head up the stairs and cut down everyone that is in her way. Painting the hallways and stairways with blood. She didn't bet an eye at the murdered patients, all that she care is her King's safety. "Who the hell are you?!" a big armored man shouts, guarding the third-floor stairway. He brings the large hammer down, but with the speed that Akame possess, she zooms past the weapon and slice the man's legs off. "Ahhhhhh!" Akame ignores the man's cry of pain and speed up the stairs, her heartbeat starts quickening when she feels a powerful magic signature near Nawin.
"Gahhhh! Ahhh! Help meee!" one of the men touch the purple barrier and he immediately start screaming in pain. The other men scatter away from him and stare at victim's skin slowly turning purple, spreading all over his face like poison. A minute later the man goes limp. "H-he's dead" one of them utters in shock, and quickly all of them move away from the smoggy barrier.
"I got this, move!" the General walks pasts the men and stop in front of the barrier. "Our leader graciously gave me his power to be rid of this kind of thing" he said with a smirk and thrust his right hand to the barrier. The General's arm glows brightly, blindly the whole stairway, and when the light dies down, the barrier is no longer there. "Yeah! Great job, General!" the men cheers and applaud their leader.
Black blur zooms past the men and to the General, who sense it and quickly brings his longsword out to block a sword strike from above. "Oh?!" the man smirk looking at the Akame, who's glaring darkly at him with her red eyes. The men from behind start collapsing one by one from the sword wounds that had precisely strike all their vital organs from hearts, brains, and jugulars.
"Who would you be?" the General question and receive no answer from the stoic knight. "The silent type, ah? You are pretty stupid to dare attack me! Koza Botus!" he exclaims and bring his left hand to fire a yellow magic blast. Akame brings her left hand forward, the white stone that is placed in the center of her silver-plated red glove glows brightly to create a white magic shield that easily discard the magic attack.
Akame spin and extend her right feet to smash at the man's stomach, sending him up and crashing onto the walls of the fifth-floor hallway. Koza didn't have time to get up when the black thunder's blade is stab through his right shoulder. Akame sends a thousand volt of red electricity into the General's body, causing him to shriek out in pain and his body start going into a spaz, twisting and turning around in high speed, his eyes roll to the back of the head and drools start spilling from his mouth.
Seeing the man is already dead, Akame pulls the sword out and swipe it to get rid of the blood before sheathing it back to the wooden back colored scabbard. Akame turn around and runs to the first room, slamming the door open and sees the two bodies laid on the floor. She quickly looks up and her face wash in relief and happiness when seeing Nawin still laying in the bed, sleeping and looking unharmed.
Akame walk toward the bed and stop beside it. A faint smile form on her lip and she softly grasp the Makasha's hand, giving it a soft squeeze "I'm glad you are safe" she whispers, looking at Nawin's sleeping face.
Outside of the Stadium
"MOON FANG!" Xenovia exclaims, swinging her sword down to fire a blue magic blast in a shape of a sharp blade. The blast destroys a group of the cloak fighters, but more keeps coming from somewhere "Damn it!" Xenovia cuss and start powering up for another attack "There's no end to them! Moon Fang!" she shouts, blasting another group into dust.
Yuuto speed past three men, cutting all of them down in blazing speed with his sword of betrayer. "You are certainly correct" Yuuto shouts, side stepping a strike and swing his sword forward to cut the attacker into two. "We need to continue, Xenovia! We can't have them overwhelm the others inside the arena" he informs, summoning a flaming sword on his left hand and swing it forward to release a stream of flames that annihilates a number of enemies.
Xenovia catch a sight of a black cloak man sitting in the distance, almost like meditating and sees a purple seal on the ground, in front of him. The seal glows brightly and more cloak fighters appears out of it. "Yuuto! These guys are just summons! I see the caster! We need to kill him to end this" she shouts and swinging Excalibur destruction forward to cut down six enemy that appears in front of her.
"He's behind the large tree!" Xenovia points forward, and the blonde looks, spotting the man "I see it!" "Good, now dash towards me! I have a plan" she said, grinning broadly, which quickly gets the other knight nervous. "What are you planning exactly?" Yuuto ask ducking down and swiping the attacker's feet to knock them down before finishing them with a sword striking down to their heart.
Xenovia turns to Yuuto "You trust me?" she asks, surprising the blonde, but he quickly smile "Of course I do" he said and dash toward his partner. Xenovia grins and brings her large greatsword back "Jump on the side of the blade!" she instructs. Waiting for the blonde to get closer and silently hoping him to maneuver correctly in the air so she wouldn't accidently cut him in half.
Yuuto jumps when nearing Xenovia and maneuver his feet towards her. "Haaah!" Xenovia let out a mighty roar and swing her sword like a bat, with its side blade used as the launching pad for her companion. Yuuto feet perfectly touch the blade's safe side and he is launch forward in rocket speed. Bringing his sword forward and ducking his head down, since he's going to launch through the tree, but for extra safety, Yuuto release his mana to surrounds his body, adding some protection.
Nearing the tree and still holding the speed, Yuuto burst past the tree with ease and heads toward the caster. The caster is shock by the sudden destruction of the tree and didn't have time to react when Yuuto's sword impale him right through the chest. In the last second, the Kiba move his sword down to stab the blade to the ground and halting his movement while the caster drops to the ground with the blade sticking right at the center of his chest.
Xenovia fires another Moon Fang to get rid of the last few cloak fighters. "That's all of them, I think" she calls out, wiping the sweat from her forward and look up at Yuuto, she gasps when seeing one is standing behind him, bringing their dagger down "YUUTO!". Hearing the scream, Yuuto summons the flaming sword and stab it back with fast reflex, without looking. He slowly turns back and gulps when seeing the dagger is just inches away from his eyes.
Xenovia arrives and grabs the attacker's shoulder then throws them away with such force that their body crash through a large tree. She turns back to look at Yuuto, holding a look of concern "You alright?" she asks "Yeah, don't worry" Yuuto smile and waves it off, standing up and pulls his sword from the caster, then dispels both swords away.
"That's the last of them" Yuuto release a sigh of relief, taking deep breathes to steady his heart. "Yeah..." Xenovia stab the large sword down and lean on the handle with her right elbow while looking at the destroyed forest "I didn't expect those cloak fighters to be summons... But I guess with their shadow faces underneath the cloak should have been a sign. I thought it could be some kind of spell to hide their faces" "Same, but it makes sense why there are so many of them, plus they almost looked all the same just with different gender" Yuuto reply and stand straight after catching his breath.
'Yuuto, Xenovia!' the Gremory crest appear in their right hands, glowing brightly as Rias's voice rings in their mind 'Buchou!? Do you need assistance?' Yuuto reply with worry, hearing his King's panting voice 'Yes, the North Gate is getting overwhelmed! I need you two here immediately!' she said before cutting off.
Xenovia stand straight and dispel her sword to the pocket dimension. "Let's go" she asserts, looking at Yuuto "Yeah! Use our full speed to get there" he said, and the two dash away in a blur.
Stadium Arena
"Scream... Blood Queen!" Elise exclaims, activating her blade and fires a crimson blast that incinerate a group of ten cloak fighters. Kokoro summons an earth hand from the ground then clenches her right hand, controlling the earth fist to do the same and squish the three unfortunate enemies that are trap in it, turning them to mincemeat.
"Talk about Brutality!" Issei shouts out, ramming a rotation at an attacker, bursting them away to another group and the rotation erupts in an explosion, erasing all of them to dust. "You never want to be my enemy, I'll tell you that" Kokoro reply, stumping her right feet to the ground to summon a boulder from the earth and swing her left feet at it, sending the boulder crashing at a large enemy group.
Riser duck down and grabs the attacker by the neck, then proceeds to slams him to the ground in vicious speed and force, surely breaking the man's back. "Do me a favor and be a bomb" Riser request with a smirk, bringing the man up and tap his left palm on man's chest. An orange light glows on the enemy's chest before he is toss away to a group and with a flick of Riser's fingers, the man denotates into a large explosion that incinerates him and his comrades to dust.
Irina release a rapid-fire of arrows, hitting all the ten enemies' in the heart. "Yuuto and Xenovia must have completed their task, none are coming in anymore!" she informs the other, firing another arrow to the right without looking, and the arrow hits the enemy square in the head.
"Kokoro, Issei, Riser! Fly!" Elise shouts and the three comply without hesitation. Elise stab her sword to the ground; the blade emits in crimson "Lava Blood Pool!" she exclaims, and the blade explodes in crimson glow and releases a pool of toxic and destructive mana in liquid form. When the liquid touches the enemy, they start melting away like water, fusing with the crimson mana.
Kokoro, Issei, and Riser watch the display with the look of disbelief, seeing the enemy literally being melt away by the boiling crimson mana that fills the whole arena. "I... I think she's more brutal than you" Issei quietly comment, looking at his Knight standing in the center, being shielded by a fade crimson barrier.
The liquid slowly turns into pure mana when its eaten all the enemy and headd back to Elise's blade. When all the mana is swallowed in the blade, she stands up and the barrier around her shatters into sparkles. Issei and Kokoro lands on the ground, both looking stupefied by the display they just witness. Elise tilt her head to the side, seeing the looks she's getting from the two "What?" she asks, innocently "Does my technique scared you?" she question and receive a small nod from the two "My apologies then, but my Blood Queen is a very violent blade, so there's no way around it" she said, sincerely.
Issei quickly shakes his head and smile "No, no! Don't need to apologize, Elise! That was awesome! Just... Be careful with using it when we or our allies are around, alright?" he asks and gets a nod from the Princess "Of course! I did warn you and Kokoro, didn't I?" "You sure did," Kokoro smirk and claps her hand on her friend's shoulder "Just make that a habit when you are about to use that move" Riser clicks his tongue, dropping to the ground "Yeah, don't want to accidently melt your comrades" he asserts "Hahaha, alright" Elise replies.
Issei looks around and notice the contender, Michael has disappeared somewhere, same goes with Rizel, Zeoticus, and Jonathan 'Guess they must have went to battle in the capital' he thinks and look up to see Irina flying toward the barrier that trapped the leaders. "Issei-sama, follow her" Grayfia speaks, hovering in front of the barrier that protects the civilians and nobles "I will handle the rest here, you and your team are needed elsewhere now" she states.
Riser release his flaming wings and turn to Issei "I'll be departing to my home to fetch the girls, then we'll head to the Capital and help there" he informs "Good idea, I'm sure the capital will need all the help it can get. This attack was sudden" Issei reply and Riser nods, then shoots up to the sky and head east. Issei turn to his team "Let's go" he said and release his wings, following Irina.
"Lady Gabriel, Lord Michael!" Irina shouts in concern, stopping in front of the barrier "Irina," Gabriel smile walking toward her student "I'm glad you are alright" "The wounds on my arms are healed, so my skill in bows wasn't in jeopardy" she reply with a smile then turns to Michael, who stop beside his sister and gives her a smile "Well done, Irina" he said and see Issei coming up to stops beside her along with his peerage.
Ajuka perks up when seeing Issei, then walk toward him "Issei, I need you to do me a favor" he speaks, catching the Hyoudou attention "Umm, sure, Sir" he replies, a bit confuse "Vesarima walls holds a defense mechanism that is built by me... To prepare the Capital for an event such as this and it can only be activated in my castle, more specifically in my lab" he informs, and everyone turn to him, intrigue by this new information.
"Wait a second" Azazel speaks up, sited on the chair and lazily look at the Satan with one eye "Knowing you, I'm sure you have made it impossible for one to find your lab and even harder to enter it... Unless you have some kind of secret passage, it's going to be impossible for the children to enter" "Huh," Ajuka smirk "I'm Vesarima's smartest mind, Azazel, of course I was prepared for this and installed a secret passage" he cockily retort, annoying the Fallen Angel a bit.
Ajuka turn to Issei and form a communication link with him, mentally 'Can you hear me?' Ajuka's voice brings around Issei's mind, startling the young devil for a second before he nods 'Yeah...' 'Good, so it seems the barrier doesn't block a communication like, just solid objects or techniques that require a large amount of mana. Anyway, getting back to the topic at hands, there is a secret passage way behind my castle 'More precise, please' 'I'm getting to that' Ajuka sternly said and gets a sheepish chuckle from the Hyoudou and an apology 'Behind the castle, there will be a small pond... You will have to dive in and you'll see a large boulder that acts as a seal to the entrance pipe that leads in to my lab. So, use your rotation to destroy the boulder, then you'll have to swim in the pipes to enter my lab' 'Sounds simple enough!' 'Wait, what exactly are we looking for to activate this defense mechanism?' Ddraig questions 'In my lab there's a large computer in there, it's modern like your world, so it shouldn't be much trouble for you to navigate through it. All you have to do is get past the clearance, there's two clearances, one is for logging in and other is to activate the defense mechanism by typing a specific password' 'Which is?" Issei ask 'Quite simple really, the password involves the favorite colors of us Satans and Grayfia, but it's in specific order, so listen carefully. Yellow, Red, Blue, Pink, and Green... Got it?' '...Yeah' Issei reply, unconvincingly 'Huh, you have the worst memory ever!' Ddraig sigh in exasperating 'Satan, go brief his Queen on this. She's much more qualify to remembering these things' he advises.
Ajuka sweat drop at the two, then turns to Kokoro 'Young Lady, I'll need you to remember these colors in order, since your king clearly has a short term memory, it's wise I give you this' 'He certainly has a bad memory, alright I'll remember this password' 'It goes like this, Yellow, Red, Blue, Pink, then Green... Got that?' 'Yellow, Red, Blue, Pink, Green, yes' Kokoro resides back with ease, making the Satan smile 'Very good, keep that in mind, Issei will fill you in on the way to my Castle 'Understood'.
Kokoro turn to her King, giving him a dull stare "I got it" she states and Issei chuckle sheepishly "I can always count on you, Kokoro! That's why you are my Queen" he praises and the orange-haired girl just sigh, knowing he was trying to butter her up "Yeah, yeah, we should move" "That would be wise" Elise agrees. Gabriel turn to her student "Go with them, Irina. I have no doubt you all will be running to many enemies on the way there" "Understood" Irina nod and turn to Issei, who nods back at her.
"Gah!" Issei and the rest turn around to see Lucy falling from the sky and crashes onto the arena ground. "Issei Hyoudou!" Vali shouts from above, grinning wildly and activates his balance breaker armor then burst toward the group. "Damn it!" Issei activate the boosted gear and about to attack when Lucy zooms past him and send a booming punch to Vali's face, shattering the armor's helmet and send him flying away.
Lucy turn to the group "I don't know what you four are planning but move it!" she shouts and blast toward the Lucifer. "She's right, let's move" Issei said and take off to the hills, with the girls following closely behind.
"Damn it, Lucy!" Vali shouts, firing a blue magic blast with his right hand, which the Makasha flies around it to avoid "You are starting to annoy me!" he shouts, but gets ignored when Lucy appears beside him and deliver a jab to his expose face, knocking him away.
"Fortunately for you! The feeling is mutual!" Lucy blast toward him with her flaming wings flapping wildly from behind "I'm going to pulverize your face!" "Is that so?!" Vali moves to the right to dodge a knee aim to his face and send an elbow to the blonde's stomach, sending her flying back "Why do you hate me so much?!" he questions, seeing the rage and anger in the blonde's mismatch color eyes "Because you're a traitor... I hate traitors!" Lucy reply, loudly.
Vali's cold composure crack slightly, but he quickly retains himself and start powering up. His wings made of pure mana glows brightly "You can be blind at times, Lucy... Just like Nawin said" he utters and gets a reaction from the blonde, when flaming mana explodes around her, burning away the clouds by its heat, her expression hardens "Don't you dare speak of him, Vali! You betrayed him! I may not know much about you two's relationship, but I see in my brother's eyes... I see that he trusted you! And you betrayed him!" she exclaims, blasting towards the Lucifer.
Vali close his eyes and release a soft sigh, then open his eyes and slowly, the scale mail start reforming, once again covering his face with its helmet. Vali speed toward the Makasha with light-speed, surprising her and didn't give her enough time to see the vicious gut punch delivered by Vali's right hand. Lucy is blast away in sound speed and Vali follows her with ease, thanks to his wings that is capable of reaching light speed.
'Lucy! You are losing power' Nootau informs from the mindscape. Lucy opens her eyes and see Vali above her and sends down a right kick that smash to her stomach, blasting her to the ground. The Makasha impact and a cloud of dust explodes around the area, the sound of earth shattering echoes around loud air.
The helmet slowly rolls down to show Vali's face, who looks down at the smoke with unreadable expression, his eyes soften slightly when he sees Lucy laid in the crater, back to her normal form and her eyes are close, possibly loss consciousness from the hard blow and the amount of mana he has divide from her.
"Sorry... Lucy" Vali whispers and turns around, ready to head out 'Wait, Vali!' Albion speak up, causing the Lucifer to halt 'What is it?' 'She's not down' he informs. Vali's expression turns to shock and snaps his head down to see Lucy slowly getting up to her feet, clenching painfully at her stomach while she is hunch forward.
Vali grit his teeth "STAY DOWN!" he shouts "My sacred gear's ability is to divide its opponent power by every ten seconds by physical contact! You have lost considerable amount of mana, Lucy! So, stay down!". Lucy chuckle and looks up at Vali with her right eyes glowing brightly in golden "You going to have to take every ounce of my mana away before I stay down!" she shouts and start powering up.
Lucy grins like a wolf, her pupils turn sharp like a wolf "NOOTAU!" she roars to the sky and transform to her blue form. She blasts upwards to the Lucifer "Fire Sphere!" she exclaims, bringing her right hand up and discharge a humongous fire ball. The sheer size of the ball is so big that Vali didn't have time to dodge and instead reequip his helmet and extend his hands forward to try and stop the ball.
Lucy smirk, wanting Vali to do that exact thing. She halts her movement, stopping a safe distance away, watching the Lucifer holding back the large fire ball. Lucy produce a smaller version of a fire ball in her fingertip and sends it into larger one, causing it to detonate into a booming and massive explosion that cause the clouds to disburse and produce a rumble that can be felt miles away.
Elsewhere
"My, my, that girl isn't bad" Rizevim comment, staring at the distance and watching the storm of smoke covering a large portion of the sky, created by Lucy's attack. "You weren't intending on fighting at all, were you?" Sirzech question and the Lucifer chuckles "We could, but sadly your precious Capital will be destroyed if we were to go full power" he remarks, tauntingly brings both his hands to the side to offer an opening "I have no problem at all for that result, but are you, Sirzech?"
'Damn him' Sirzech curses mentally 'If I released my full power, then the civilian will surely suffer and collapse by the pressure... Which will lead to immense casualty with the enemies running amok in the Capital. The only way to go around this if I teleport us away, but the teleportation is cut off. Fighting him with restrictions is pointless and would only end badly for me... He planned everything perfectly and I've fallen right into his scheme!'.
Sirzech stare at his home, seeing the battles ranging on in there 'I can't leave here to help the rest with the invasion... There's no guarantee what Rizevim will do, and if he really wants to, he can blow up Vesarima, so I need to remain here to stop it.' Sirzech clench his teeth angrily and lowers his mana, causing the crimson balls around him to disappear. Rizevim smirk darkly with satisfaction "There we go... Wasn't that easy" he said and laughs mockingly before turning around to look at the Capital "Why don't we enjoy the show? Let's see what the result will yield!"
Vesarima
"There... You are all healed up" Asia said, giving the sniffling young girl a warm smile "T-thank you very much, young lady" the mother said, hugging her daughter, who suffered a bad injury from the flames that heavily burnt half her body. Asia nod and stand up, she extends her hand and Gasper softly grasps it. "Is that everyone, Gasper-kun?" she asks "U-um... Yeah, I think so" he reply, looking at the group of civilians and see all the wounded are healed.
"Miss!" a guard hurry towards the two, his face shows anxious "We have to move now, I've got word that large group of black armored soldiers are heading this way! We need to get the civilians up those stairs!" he said, looking up at the cement stairs that's built beside the large hill to create a safe passage to the top. Asia gives a nod "Understood, then please proceed. I and my friend shall cover the rear for any attackers, just please get the civilians to safety" she urges and the guard nod.
"This way, everyone! Please follow us!" the guards speak in front of the group and slowly the refresh civilians start moving again, getting some of their energy back after a few minutes of rest and healing they got from the Makasha. Gasper leads Asia behind the group, carefully guiding her so she wouldn't trip or hit anything "Thank you for the help, Gasper-kun" she said, smiling in gratitude "I am sorry if I'm causing you trouble with my blindness" "N-no! Really, it's f-fine... I'm glad to be helping you, Asia-chan" the Dhampir quickly reply in reassurance, blushing slightly at the blonde's smile.
Asia halt when feeling large quantity of magic signatures behind her. Gasper too halt and hears dozens of running footsteps coming toward them, causing him to start getting anxious, gripping the blonde's hand tightly. Asia turns to Gasper and gives him a reassure smile "Don't worry, Gasper-kun... I'll take care of them" she said, surprising the boy, never seeing the peaceful and pacifist blonde battle before.
"There they are! Full speed, men! Take all of those devils down!" the leader of the battalion shouts, guiding the group with haste, charging toward the two. "Kill those two children that are getting in the way!" one of them shouts, seeing Asia and Gasper. And the other men didn't even hesitant and instead roar out in bloodlust.
Asia's expression darkens slightly when hearing how casually the enemy said that horrid sentence. "You all are... Monsters" she whispers, releasing Gasper's hand and takes a few steps forward. Asia claps her hands together and slowly, green aura starts surrounding her hands, generating something in it. In a swift motion, Asia extend her hands away from each other to create a green javelin with her mana, hovering in front of her.
Gasper gasp in awe at the unique technique, never seeing anything like it 'I-I can feel the raw power i-inside that javelin-like weapons! Such high amount of mana!'. Asia grasp the javelin with her right hand and takes a deep breath 'It's been a long time since I've used this... I can't see, but I can locate their magic signature... I need to aim in the center to have the best chance to take all of them out.'
Asia concentrates hard, trying to pinpoint an individual that's in the center of the group. '... There! It's as close to the center as possible' she notes, looking at the many bright dots in her mind, that shows a live image of magic signatures of the enemies, like a sonar. Asia bring her right arm back, clenching the javelin tightly before tossing it forward to the group.
Gasper sees the leader of the battalion brings out his sword, intending to deflect Asia's attack. 'I-I-I won't allow THAT!' he shouts mentally, with an immense urge to help his friend, Gasper activates his sacred gear, causing his eyes to glow in bright red and his pupils reform into a shape of a crystal. "W-what?!" the man shouts, feeling his whole body frozen, suddenly and his expression change to fear when seeing the javelin goes past him and heads into the swarm of men.
The moment the javelin touches the ground, it detonates in a massive and destructive green explosion that completely envelopes the whole battalion, all of them consume by the blinding green dome. Gasper's eyes return to normal and immediately, he grips his head, feeling a splitting headache. Asia turn to her friend, worry when sensing his sudden movement and hear his discomfort groan "Are you ok, Gasper-kun?" "Y-yeah, b-but my head hurts" he utters back in pain.
Asia brings her right hand up and press it on the Dhampir's forehead. The headache slowly disappears when Asia's hand glows in green, ridding the pain just as quickly as it appears. "... Better?" she asks and Gasper smile, nodding "Y-yeah, thank you, Asia-chan" "No problem! Also, I got to thank you! You did something didn't you?" she ask with a grin, making Gasper blush a bit "Yeah, I-I saw a guy t-trying to deflect your attack, s-so I used my sacred gear t-to stop him" he admits and gets a bright smile from the blonde "Thanks for that... I can only preform that technique three times before I collapse from exhaustion, it requires a tremendous amount of mana reserve".
Gasper look to the left and see the green dome is gone. What's left is a massive and empty crater. The houses that touched the green dome are destroyed and other houses are left half destroyed. "Yeah... I can see that. W-we should go" he said, grabbing Asia's hand and start guiding her to the stairs "Al—" Asia stop when sensing a large magic signature appear in front of them "Ahh!" "Gasper-kun!" Asia shouts when hearing Gasper shouts in pain and feel him letting go of her hands as he flies past her and crashes into a carriage.
"Hahaha!" a large and heavily armored man stand in front of Asia, towering her whole form with his height. "Some of my good friends was in that battalion... I'm going to crush you with my hammer, you stupid blind girl!" the man shouts, lifting the large iron metal in the air and brings it down to the frozen blonde. A whip flies past Asia's shoulder and wraps around the hammer, then with a swift pull the thong snatches the heavy weapon out of the man's hands. "Trying to kill children... You Khaos Brigade guys are more of a savage than I thought" Kailo comments, catching the hammer with his other hand and drops it to the ground.
The Ex-General looks at the large man with disapproval gaze "You kind of people are just the worse" he said, and in blinding speed snap the whip forward and thong wraps around the man's neck. Kailo transfer some mana into the thong, making it glow in red and with a swift pull, he whips the man's head off clean from his body. The heatless corpse fall back to the ground and the head drops beside it.
Kailo brings the thongs back and wrap it back in place and hook the whip onto the belt. "You ok?" he questions Asia "Y-yeah, thank you, Sir" she replies politely and gives a bow, making the man chuckle in amusement and waves it off "It's fine" he said and turn to the carriage to see Gasper slowly getting out of it and stand up. "Oow" he utters, rubbing his head from the impact "Guess I'll have to heal that up" Asia shakes her head but smile and walk toward her friend.
Kailo watch Asia tends to Gasper's injuring, seeing her fascinating and unique healing ability. 'Impressive, her healing ability is definitely something to beware off. It's faster and more effective than the simple healing spell that is taught to everyone' he notes and turns around, ready to head off. "Umm, where will you be going?" Asia ask, finishing healing Gasper and turn around to face the man "I'll go help the civilians..." "You would help devils?" Asia question with a smile "Huh, don't get the wrong idea, little girl" Kailo said, walking away "I just don't enjoy seeing innocents getting hurt" he states, and flies away.
Outside Vesarima
'There... I can sense his magic signature. He's safe... I sensed that knight's magic signature staying close to him. I guess I can tend to my little spy then' Raynare smirk, forming a light lance and turns around to throw it a tree. Akeno jumps to the side to miss being impaled in the head, and lands on a spacious field in the forest. "Following me instead of helping your people in this invasion... You are rather selfish, Himejima" Raynare state, smirking darkly "I will help them... When I eliminate you" Akeno retorts sharply, powering up, causing electric yellow mana to explode around her "If you are here... I know that Nawin-kun is involve in some way... Your obsession with him will end here, Raynare!".
Raynare lets out a laugh of amusement "My obsession?! Talk about hypocrite! You hold your own obsession towards him, Himejima" she counters, smirking "It's funny, honestly... I look at you and I can see that you will hurt him one day. You don't know him as much as you think you do" she states and sets Akeno off.
"RAYNARE!" Akeno shouts, blasting toward the vampire with intend to kill. Raynare smirk and gets to her stance, ready for the enrage Nephilim.
Vesarima
"Hey! I see the castle!" Issei shouts, pointing at the dark castle built on top of a hill "Wow... That's one ominous looking place" Kokoro comments, seeing the stormy clouds hovering above the castle "Hehehe, that's what I thought as well at first, but don't worry about that" Issei chuckles.
Irina looks down and notice a huge shadow looming over them, making her look up and her heart freeze in shock and fear when seeing a huge brown dragon explodes from the clouds and heading toward them, with its huge mouth open. "EVERYONE SCATTER!" she shouts and flaps her right wings to be blast to the side with the others quickly following suit. The dragon narrowly fly past the four, but the wind current that it created by passing sends them spiraling around the air.
Irina, Kokoro, and Elise are able to regain their balance, but they see Issei, in his rough state is struggling and all of them scream in horror when seeing the dragon shoots up, its mouth open and ready to shallow the Hyoudou.
"This is the second time now" a familiar voice comment, and Issei feel hand grabbing the collar of his shirt and toss him away to a safe distance. Hunter looks up at the dragon and moves to the side then, in a swift movement, she clutch the handle of her sword and swing it up with so much force that the massive blade cleave right through the dragon's scale and cuts off its whole head. The cloud above burst to pieces from the forces create from the swing. The dragon corpse falls past Hunter and crash to an empty space by the edge of the hills.
Issei, along with the girls stare in awe and speechless at the display, seeing one of the most dangerous creatures in the supernatural world getting slain by just one swing. Hunter drops the blade on her right shoulder and turn to Issei "Get a move on and activate the defense mechanism... The north gate is overwhelmed and there's more forces heading toward the other gates" she states.
Instead of listening, Issei just stare at his teacher with stars in his eyes "That was awesome, Hunter-sensei! You got to teach me that!" he shouts and gets a whack in the head by Hunter's left fist. "Gahhh!" Issei hold his head and rubs it in pain "Ouch! Your hands are like a titanium!" he grunts in pain while Hunter sigh "Focus, Issei. Now, go complete your mission. Be honored that it was given by a Satan, so do your best and complete it. Don't disappoint me" she said, making Issei look up at her with surprise expression, before he smiles and nod "I will complete it, Hunter-sensei! I promise" he said and resume his way to the castle with the slowly following him after staring at the Archdevil for a few more second.
"That's your teacher, huh?" Kokoro is the first to speak and Issei nod "She's awesome! You got a great teacher, Issei!" Irina praise with a smile "I know right! She's a badass!" Issei said gleefully, showing his respect and admiration towards his teacher. "That sword she wields though" Elise said with excitement "That massive sword! I've never seen such things before! It cut right through that dragon with such ease!" "Alright," Kokoro cuts in, seeing Issei is about to comment "Let's focus on the mission at hands, shall we?" she suggests, and everyone chuckle sheepishly and nod. "Kokoro's right! Let's head there in full speed!" Issei exclaims and resumes flying toward the castle, going as fast as his wings allows, and the girls follows closely beside.
Hospital
Akame stare out of the window, watching the chaos that's raging around the Capital. It's an all-out battle between the Vesarima's soldiers and Khaos Brigades forces. Fortunately, there isn't many civilians getting in the way, with most being escorted to a safe location or others surely hiding in their home, which could prove either a good idea or bad with the large black dragon soaring in the sky.
Akame looks up and sees the dragon hasn't attack for a while. It's been hovering high up in the air, almost like its scouting for something or someone. Akame instantly turns around when hearing a quiet groan. Her face brightens, seeing Nawin's face slowly twitches and a soft groan release from his mouth.
The Makasha slowly sits up and open his eyes, blinking a couple of time to adjust his vision. He pauses when feeling a presence beside him "Akame?" he utters, looking through the blurry vision "Yes, Nawin-kun" Akame reply with a smile of relief "I'm glad you're finally away" she asserts.
Nawin smile, but that quickly disappear when his vision clears, and witness the destruction going on in Vesarima through the windows. "What's going on?" he questions, turning serious and looks to his knight "An invasion from a group called Khaos Brigade" Akame answers, straightly. "A full-scale invasion?" Nawin drops his legs from the side of the bed and slowly standup "Why?" he asks and receive no answer from Akame, instead she shakes her head in negative manner "I don't know, Nawin-kun".
Nawin nod and kneel down to pick up his shoes then stand back up. He pauses when noticing two dead bodies in the room "You did that?" he questions, sitting back on the bed and puts on the shoes "It wasn't be that dealt with them" Akame answers firmly, her expression twist to curious like the Makasha, who pause before resuming tying the lace "Someone was here before you and... Protect me?" Nawin question, finishing tying his shoes and look up at Akame, seeing her give a slow nod "Yes... Those men were going to either kill you or kidnap you, but someone stopped them. I searched around the room and didn't uncover any clues, sadly" "It's alright... Guess I have a mysterious guardian angel... Hopefully I can thank them one day".
Nawin stands up and flick his fingers to summon his jacket. Akame smile, watching her King swiftly puts on his jackets, his eyes glow bright red "Guess it's time for me to join in the battle" he states and extend a right hand to her "Let's go, Akame" "Yes" the Knight grabs Nawin's hand and the two disappear in black flash.
The King and Knight appear on the roof of the hospital. Nawin release Akame's hand and step forward to scout Vesarima, seeing numerous battles spread across his vision. Akame stare at her King's back with confusion in her eyes 'His Speeding Shadow God works? So Khaos Brigade only blocked the standard teleportation, but can't block Nawin-kun's ones... It may have something to do with it being his own sacred gear technique' she notes, mentally. "Akame," Nawin calls out and gets the Knight's immediate attention "Yes?" "At the east there's a group of civilian traps near the walls... The guards are on their last defense line and can't keep up. Go there and assist" he states, his red eyes looking at the struggling and desperate man, woman, and children crying for help.
Akame nod and was about to reply when she is interrupt by a booming roar erupting from the skies. The two looks up and see the black dragon looking straight down at them, more specifically at Nawin, with its red slit eyes. The dragon spreads its wings out and flaps, sending it down to the hospital. "Nawin-kun! We must move!" Akame shouts in hurry, grabbing his shirt and pull, but she is met with no movement, causing her to look at the Makasha with a shock expression "Nawin-kun!" she shouts again, and is surprise to get a faint smile "I gave you an order, Akame... Go save the civilians" he softly replies; his sight stays at the roaring dragon.
Akame slowly release the shirt, staring at Nawin with worry, but when seeing his calm composure, she knows he has a plan and trust he will be alright "Understood, I shall complete your order" she said in her knightly role and disappears away in a burst of speed.
The dragon starts getting closer and closer to the hospital, its eyes glows brightly in menace. A smirk slowly forms on Nawin's face "Let's even the playing field... Shall we?" he asks and bring his right hand up, turning his arm to reveal the glowing hydra symbol "HANA!" A gigantic smoke cloud explodes in front of the hospital and eight hydra heads shoot out from it and chomp at the dragon with its razor sharp teethes and thousands of pounds grip in its jaws, easily halting the large creature in midair.
The dragon let out a roar of agonizing pain, feeling the hydra's sharp teethes penetrating through its scale from the front of its body to all the way to the end, from its neck all the way to its tail, completely immobilizing the creature. The last hydra head shoots up from the smoke and stop in front of the dragon's head. The dragon opens its mouth to breath fire, but the hydra snaps its mouth open and fires a toxic poison spit in the dragon's mouth. The creature howl out in pain and its body starts turning, twitching, and jerking in uncontrollable movement. After a minute the dragon goes limp, his heads drop and hang in the air.
The hydra tosses the now dead dragon to the ground and all nine heads let out a booming roar to the sky. The whole army from both sides witness the display and are frozen in shock and fear, seeing the very monster that has terrorize all the races, the infamous monster that has killed countless of Devils, Angels, and Fallen Angels.
"I-impossible! A hydra here?!" Rizevim shouts out, his face shows a look of shock, while on the other side Sirzech release a chuckle and a smirk form on his lip "You forgot one person" he speaks, making the older devil turn around, glaring at him with irritation and anger "What one person!?" Rizevim growls out "The Black Flash of Vesarima... Nawin Makasha!".
Nawin appears on one of the hydra's heads and looks up to the sky, watching more portals opens and three dragons fly out of it. All their red eyes are immediately set on them and speed down with intend to kill. A smirk form on Nawin's lips, his red eyes glares back at the dragons "Ready, Hana?" he questions and receive a roar from one of the heads as a response, making him chuckle "Good," he replies and turns to the dragons "Let's rain some hell on Khaos Brigade!"
Next Chapter: All-Out Battle! Makasha's vs Lucifer's!
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