(Your POV)
"Cao Cao!"

"So the devil shows his true form!"

"Bring it on!"

My targets were currently Siegfried, Jeane, and Heracles, so I called Genbu to me and activated it's gauntlet form. I wanted to use Kuragame Kamikira Genbu, but it wasn't responding. I guess I need to practice more. I used the True Longinus as a glaive to try and cut Heracles in half, but Siegfried used one of his arms to pull Heracles away from the range of my swing, followed by Jeane using her rapier to try and pierce my eye, but in response I used my left eye's power to control fundamental forces to hold her in place.

"Um...Sig, Hera!" Jeane responded to her sudden predicament accordingly, and I followed this up by sending her into a nearby tree.

"I got this, I'm the strongest person here after all!" Heracles boasted as he delivered a blow to my cheek, and the force was so strong that there was a shockwave.

"You know, now I feel like I should stop saying 'Herculean strength'..." I wasn't even phased by the sudden attack. "Because If Heracles strikes this sloppily, I'll end up belittling myself."

Heracles was furious about this insult, and delivered more powerful strikes to my nose, stomach, shoulder, other cheek, and he was about to do one more, but I caught his fist midair. In response to this, I grabbed Heracles' wrist and threw him into the air before launching the True Longinus at him, piercing his shoulder in the process. I covered my arms in lightning before dodging three swords slashed from Siegfried, who was using his gray arms combined with his normal arms to wield six arms at once. I side stepped to avoid the swing before sweeping underneath Siegfried's feet and elbowing his head. I was suddenly met with Jeane using her sacred gear to create several swords from the ground, all of which appeared to be radiating a strong holy energy. I jumped up to avoid the holy swords before noticing Durandal was on the ground, so I picked the holy sword up and steam shot out of my back, sending me towards Jeane at high speeds. I slashed at Jeane, who kept back and attempted to stab my other eye, but I used my Serpent's Breath to send her flying.

"Extend." I saw the True Longinus' pole extend until it was directly in front of me, so I grabbed onto it. "Shrink."The staff shrunk, leaving me with a regular sized spear.

"Hey George, is there any chance that the Kyuubi can help us out?!" Heracles shouted while holding his arm to stop the bleeding.

"Sure!"

The Kyuubi then focused on me and opened her mouth, causing blue fear to shoot out from it. I threw Durandal to the side so it wouldn't get damaged as I took on the flames head on, but as I did, I began to understand what made these flames different from other kinds of fire. I then weaved a couple hand signs before placing my hand on the ground, causing a dark blue magic circle to appear. From the magic circle, a familiar serpent rose up just as the flames dispersed. "So...you finally call upon me..." Jormungandr pointed out. "You must be truly desperate to cause Ragnarok by summoning me..."

"We're in a closed space, meaning that summoning you has no negative consequences on the outside world." I informed my serpentine familiar, and it was only safe to summon him because Dimension Lost is a separate reality. "I need you to take on the Kyuubi, can you do that?"

"The Kyuubi...a worthy foe...not as much as Thor...but worth my attention..." Jormungandr's mouth appeared to be releasing mist like a fog machine. "I'll do my best...child of the sea..."With that said, Jormungandr charged at the Kyuubi as I focused my attention back onto my foes. Jeane and Heracles appeared to use their balance breakers, so I thought it would be fair to summon my own sacred gear.

"Stake Victim Dragoon!"

"Detonation Might Comet!"

"Junkyard Dog: Alpha."

Jeanne's balance breaker appeared to take the form of some kind of European dragon made entirely of swords, which was a cool concept. Heracles'  on the other hand took the form of armor and two missile-like gauntlets on his hands. As for me, Junkyard Dog looked almost exactly the same, but now it had a salamander design encircling the gem in the middle while two glowing strings, one blue and one green, connected the shield to my arm. I readied my spear and shield while Heracles aimed his missiles at me. To deflect all of them, I am Junkyard Dog at them, and to everyone's surprise, the shield was sent flying like a yo-yo. The two strings allowed the shield to stay connected to me as it was flying forwards towards the missiles, it cut one of the missiles in half upon impact. I used the strings to make the shield go through the other missile before making the shield return to my arm.

"We're dealing with an actual monster here, aren't we?" Heracles pointed out as he cracked his knuckles. "Lucky for us, monsters are no match for me."

I looked at where Jormungandr was, to see him coiled around the kyuubi's giant fox form. The Kyuubi tried biting Jormungandr, but the serpent covered his body in electricity to shock the Fox before putting some distance between himself and the Fox. Yasaka shot fire at the serpent, and in response, Jormungandr shot a jet of water from his mouth to counteract the flames before using those fins of his to fly into the air. The terrain also appeared to change with his very presence as well, storm clouds were gathering and the water from the trees were being pulled to the serpent. The temperature was colder now, and even the Kyuubi was shivering. Yasaka tried biting Jormungandr, and in response, Jormungandr dodged on the way down before constricting his serpentine body around the Fox.

"(Y/N), if you want this woman to live, you will deactivate that spell at once and surrender." Siegfried's voice was behind me, and I turned around to see Siegfried holding an unconscious Rossweisse by her and pressing a blade against her neck.

I tried thinking of something that would save Rossweisse, but I couldn't come up with any solution other than to do what he said. I dropped the True Longinus and held my hands up in a surrender motion while deactivating my spell. I could try making a barrier to protect Rossweisse, but the blade was making contact with her neck, so there would be no space for the barrier to appear. He still didn't let go, so I returned my body back to normal and got on my knees, all while Jeane's dragon raised it's claw above me. I tried using my mask to look around for anything useful, but nothing. I could only watch as the dragon Jeane summoned had it's claw come crashing down on top of me, but before it could make contact, I was suddenly enveloped into a shadow.

Wait? A shadow?

I looked around me and noticed how I was enveloped in a dark abyss, yet it had a sense of familiarity l could not pinpoint. After a couple moments of floating in this abyss, I was suddenly pulled out of the abyss of nothingness, and much to my surprise, I was surrounded by the unconscious bodies of my allies, even Rossweisse, who wasn't even scratched. I also noticed Asia and Kunou were with us, both of whom were uninsured but confused. Asia was healing everyone of their injuries the best she could, all while I looked around more. We appeared to be in a heavy forest part of the garden, surrounded by thick fruit trees and bamboo that provided cover, but close enough to our original position that we could see what our opponents were doing. "Connla, did you do this?" I asked, not sure if the person in question was here.

"Yeah I did, I decided to save you to repay my debt." Connla rose up from the darkness beside me. "You spared my life, so I guess I'm in your debt now. Though I want to know why you spared me, I could have gone after you or committed another crime."

"If I killed you because of that, then I would be what people say I am, a wild dog." I answered. "Besides, if I had killed you, then people would come after me as revenge, but if I chose to become your friend, then maybe we can become allies."

"But they tried to kill you?" Connla seemed genuinely surprised about my way of thinking. "They even hurt your friends, don't you want to kill them?"

"Of course I do, but they didn't kill any of my friends, they're just unconscious." I reminded Connla. "Besides, we're only fighting because their mission goes against some laws. If we were never in this war, I'd like to think we could have become friends."

"Why are you being merciful?" Connla questioned, and I didn't have much of an answer. "You could have killed me, yet you didn't. No one would have come after you in revenge, I'm just a disposable pawn."

"There's no such thing as a disposable pawn in my eyes, all people have value." I flicked Connla's forehead as I began thinking about what Rias told me. "Someone close to me told me that no matter how pathetic I am, I'm still valuable. So guess what? No matter how pathetic you think you are, you're valuable."

"But why did you spare me?"

"Because kids in the underworld see me as a hero, and I don't want to let them down."

"What does being a hero mean to you?"

"Being a hero means protecting those who can't protect themselves and ensuring peace, simple." I summoned Solais in my hands. "So Connla, what are you going to do now? If you are going to disappear, I won't blame you, and I pray that we won't fight each other again."

"Actually, I decided I will fight for you." Connla informed me, which is shocking news because he sounded really dedicated to the hero faction earlier. "In all honesty, I joined the hero faction to become a hero, and what kind of hero kidnaps people and makes children cry?"

"Well If you wish, then there's space among us villains." I held my hand out to Connla, who smirked and shook my hand.

"If they're heroes, then it would be only fitting if we become the villains."  Connla agreed, and in all seriousness, I still can't understand how he can see despite his sunglasses and it being nighttime.

With that said, I rushed out of the forest and activated my invisibility along with covering the entire area in Mist. The three heroes couldn't comprehend what was going on, so Jeane attempted to cover the ground in holy swords, to help dispose of them, Connla enveloped all of them in darkness before making the swords disappear. From the shadows of the dark forest, all the holy swords shot out like arrows. Jeane, Siegfried recognized this sudden development as a threat and dodged the swords in a confused manner while Heracles attempted to tank all of the swords. Lucky for us, his arms now had two swords sticking through each of them. I appeared behind Siegfried before he could react and cut off his top arms, sending them flying as I summoned my double barrel to shoot the swordsman in the back. Jeane heard the gunshot and dashed over to where Siegfried was, but several of her own holy swords rose from her own shadow and attempted to stab her. Jeane jumped back and tried looking around, but she couldn't see through the mist. There was a gap in the mist in her sightline, and I calmly went through the gap as slowly as possible, all while Jeane watched me. She tried dashing towards me, but the moment I was out of her sight, I went back into full speed to circle around the circle and cut her hamstring muscles with the sword and using my gun to shoot her in the back. Jeane's armor now had some holes in it, but good news was that she received some minor injuries because the armor absorbed most of the impact. I moved out of the way of someone's fist, and it was Heracles, who had those swords removed.

"Come out and fight me like a man!" Heracles shouted as an orange aura covered his body.

"Okay." I agree to this before dispersing the mist. I jumped back away from Heracles to put some distance between us. I then dropped my weapons into the dirt below before walking calmly to Heracles.

"Eh? You can at least use your sword, you know?" Heracles suggested right before I dashed in front of him.

"But then I wouldn't be able to do this." You see, when I absorbed all those talents, I didn't just get magic, I also got their skills. Meaning I mastered Neo Aikido, boxing, wrestling, swordsmanship, street fighting, and general martial arts. I threw a flashbang in front of Heracles, and it went off right in front of his face, allowing me to use my Ult.Imposter magic-

(A/N: Your next line is: 'sus')

-to change myself into an injured looking Jeane. I dashed behind Heracles and put a hand on his shoulder while gripping the seemingly injured parts. Heracles turned around and almost punched me, but he didn't see me, he saw Jeane.

"Jeane, are you okay?!" Heracles appeared to be concerned with his ally, so much so that he dropped his guard, allowing me to summon a needle before stabbing it into a gap in Heracles' armor before injecting the giant with paralysis poison, which will just make movement impossible for a while. "Wha-?"

"Sorry Heracles, but I'm not going to risk triggering your sacred gear." I couldn't change my voice to that of Jeane's, so when I spoke, it was my own voice coming out. "Don't worry, I don't plan on killing you."

"It's done!" Georg shouted, and all of us looked up to see a massive rip in time and space. "The dragon gate is finished!"

"Nice job!" Cao Cao was now getting up, and the True Longinus went back to him. "You're too late (Y/N) (L/N), but Great Red has already been summoned!"

"Are you sure about that?"

From the dragon gate, a massive green dragon appeared, wait a minute. Isn't Great Red supposed be a red dragon, or is this one of those Iceland/Greenland things where the naming is stupid. On top of this green dragon were three people. The first of whom looked to be a boy around Kunou's age with short black hair and red eyes. The boy's attire consisted of gray shorts, a dark blue jacket, some earrings, and sandals with flaming wheels underneath them like roller skates. The second individual was a male college student who had dark skin and hair like Yozakura, but this person had glowing green eyes, an eyepatch over his right eye, and a stubble along his chin. Other than that, he kinda dressed like Indiana Jones. The final person was a monkey person who looked like Hanuman, but way older.

"Yu Long, why is he here?!" Cao Cao shouted in disbelief, and I was just as confused too.

"Oh please, Dragon Gate is an ancient magic, my magic." The one dressed like Indiana Jones pointed out as he looked around, finally his eyes landed on where Yozakura should be. "Oh, so which one of you guys knocked out my little sister and her girlfriend?"

"Um, that would be her." I pointed my finger at Jeane, who was confused as to what was going on.

"Ah, thank you Mr.King of Hope." The Indiana Jones fellow jumped down with the old man and small child. "So Nezha, Wukong, how about I take that blonde girl and you guys take whoever."

"No need, only Cao Cao and George are the only people who seem to be active, Nemo." The young boy, who was most likely Nezha, pointed out. "You take on Georg instead."

"That Dimension Lost user?" The Indiana Jones Guy was the Nemo guy I keep hearing about. "Wait, this is the hero faction? I already killed one of you guys back in Europe, that healer guy."

"The healer...?"

"Yeah him, total douche that guy." Nemo then smiled. "Oh don't worry, his spirit won't be reincarnating anytime soon, because I devoured it. You see, I'm the Ultimate Archeologist, So devouring the souls of heroes, absorbing their strength, learning ancient magic, all that Jazz is right up my alley."

"You seem confident in your abilities kid." Sun Wukon laughed as he smoked a pipe. "Explaining your powers like that."

"Please, no one can withstand my rituals." Nemo cracked his neck confidently as he outstretched his hand. "How about we go with a classic..." Nemo's hand suddenly started glowing. "Come and see..."

A bow emerged in Nemo's hands, along with an arrow he used to draw the bow back, aiming at George. As Wukong stood next to him confidently, Nemo let the arrow fly to George, who tried enveloping the arrow in the purple mist, but the winds blew the mist away. The arrow landed between George and Cao Cao, making Cao Cao laugh. "Man, you're a terrible shot!"

"Wait, Cao Cao, don't breathe-!" Georg appeared to know what this arrow was, but it was too late, Cao Cao suddenly started coughing up blood.

"Four Horsemen, it's a classic." Nemo confidently boasted as he aimed the arrow once more. Cao Cao was pissed and aimed the True Longinus at Nemo, followed by him extending the spear at Nemo's heart, but it was blocked by a Wukong, holding up a single finger. Wukong smirke confidently, and that's when I noticed he's doing this all while he's blindfolded.

"Not bad, but given how I stopped this attack of yours using nothing but my finger, it's going to be impossible for you to kill other gods or buddhas." Wukong informed our enemies. "Still, neither you nor the mist user gave me a serious attack, don't underestimate me because I'm old."

"I'm glad to see Sun Wukong's monstrous strength wasn't just a myth." Cao Cao sounded like he was getting excited by this sudden development.

"Cao Cao, are you crazy?" Georg asked his leader. "Leonardo is also at his limit fighting off everyone outside, our plan failed, and Sun Wukong is here. Let's face it, we need to retreat to prevent the loss of valuable talent."

"You're right, I guess we have no choice but to retreat." Cao Cao tapped his staff on the ground, and Siegfried picked up Heracles to join Cao Cao's side, followed by Jeane joining them. Georg joined them soon enough, and his arrival caused a magic circle to appear at their feet.

"Don't think you're getting away." I outstretched my right hand, causing glowing cuneiform writing to start appearing on my arm, and like my other parts, the writing glowed dark blue. However, no spell was coming out?

"It appears your body is burnt out using too much magic in one go, most of which I'm sure is caused by you summoning that serpent of yours." Wukong pointed out as the magic circle began glowing. "You know, since you remind me of myself, I'll raise your power just enough to use one more spell."

"Thank you Lord Sun Wukong." I thanked the elderly monkey, and he tapped his staff on me. For a moment, I felt my power get amplified by a lot, and my magic power was even visible now. I pointed a single finger at Cao Cao's left eye, confusing the man. "Black Hole Moment." For less than a moment, I summoned a microscopic black hole right in front of Cao Cao's eyes, I had to be careful with the size or it would cause too much damage to everything, but given my precision, it caused the exact amount of damage I desired, the microscopic black hole absorbed Cao Cao's left eye, deleting it before I dispersed the spell by pointing upwards. "That was for making Kunou cry and kidnapping Lady Yasaka."

"Hohohoho! Cocky bastard got my eye!" Cao Cao didn't sound mad, he sounded bloody livid, and now I feel like I made a mistake. That feeling was only amplified when Cao Cao began chanting. "Oh Great spear! The True holy spear that pierces god! Absorb the tyrant's a,nation sleeping within myself, blessing and destruction will be-"

"Cao Cao, stop chanting, (Y/N) is capable of using the True Longinus like you are, if he learns what the Truth Idea is, then he could probably use it against us!" Siegfried covered Cao Cao's mouth, and Cao Cao had no choice but to stop chanting.

"Fine then." Cao Cao pointed his spear at me. "(Y/N) (L/N), become stronger than the gods above, then I can show you the true power of this spear."

With that said, the magic circle glowed brighter before finally allowing the terrorists to escape. I wanted to chase after them, but I did my mission, which was to fight them. As for Jormungandr, he was slithering to my current position with Nezha on his head while the serpent carried Yasaka's unconscious body in his mouth. She was still in her Fox form, and wasn't changing back to normal, which did cause a small girl to rush out from the tree line. "Mother!" Kunou shouted with tears leaking out of her eyes. "Mother!"

"What should we do now?" Nezha asked as he hovered next to me. "Wukong can use senjutsu to remove the evil Ki from her body, and Nemo can use some spinning balls to wake her up."

"It's called the infinite rotation you uncultured swine."

"I can use some dream magic in my right arm, she appears to be sleeping, so I'll see what I can do." I walked towards Yasaka's Fox form, who had a crying Kunou attempting to hug the head. I had my right arm glow as I placed it on Yasaka's forehead, and then I connected the magic to my right eye and ears, allowing Yasaka to dream up whatever I see and hear.

"Mother...can you hear me?" Kunou cried out for her mother to wake up, and I noticed that Yasaka 's body was starting to twitch, meaning that my magic was working. "Mother...please return to normal...I will eat all the fish I hate just like you said...I won't fly out of Kyoto anymore. Please...just wake up..."

"Ku....nou...?" Yasaka's voice slipped between her lips, meaning that my plan was working, but I had to focus on Kunou in order for this to work. You see, it was my intention to drag Yasaka into the real world by showing her images of what's waiting for her. Stupid plan I know, but I couldn't think of anything better in the heat of the moment.

"Yes mother, I'm right here!" Kunou sounded happy as her mother was waking up. Yasaka was starting to become enveloped in a golden light that acted as a silhouette before she began slowly shrinking down to a normal size. By the time the light dispersed, Yasaka was back to normal, and my hand was still on her forehead as she was lying down. I removed my hand as Yasaka sat up.

"Ugh...where am I?" Yasaka appeared to have a headache, given how she was massaging her forehead.

"Mother!" Kunou was practically bawling at this point as she embraced her mother into a hug, in response to this, Yasaka tenderly embraced Kunou.

"There there Kunou, I'm here now." Yasaka began stroking the small kitsune's hair before she focused on me. "Excuse me Mr..."

"Oh, you can just call me (Y/N), Lady Yasaka."

"Thank you (Y/N), and I apologize for troubling you, but can you tell me what's going on?"

"Allow me to catch you up."

(A/N: For the record, Nemo is the last OC we're introducing before the whole Azazel Cup ordeal. A bunch of other names will be mentioned, but they won't be relevant until later. Also, does Nezha count as an OC? I mean he exists in the DxD universe, but he's a background character, even less important than Falbium, the member of the four Satan's who got the shortest amount of screentime. Once again reminding you guys; don't worry about keeping track of the characters, I'll provide a list two chapters from now to make things easier. Not that any members of the MC's peerage is sticking around, well, except the students and Connla. Oh yeah, Connla is on our side now. Why? Because the hero faction pretty much forgets he exists and I think his powers could help the MC. Also, Connla (the mythical hero) is Cuchulainn's son, and given how the MC has trained under Scathach and is often associated with dogs like Cuchulainn, I found this a beautiful coincidence I accidentally made.