At this point in time, two women are fighting in the air. Akeno was facing off against Yubelluna, and the match was close.
Akeno was having a hard time since her enemy as her attacks were mostly blocked by explosions that were happening nonstop.
"Arara, you really want to blow up everything here, don't you? Shouldn't you be a bit more elegant?" Akeno said while launching a new thunder attack at Yubelluna.
Said purplette simply smiled as she created a magic barrier in front of herself and followed it up by creating explosions near Akeno who hastily created a magic barrier to protect herself.
"I AM elegant, and bustier than you." She said while cupping one of her own breasts who nearly spilled out of her hand due to how big they are, it was likely that the most magical thing she did during her entire time is not flashing her nipples the entire time while having breasts of that size and using such risky clothes. "Than again, you are just some abandoned crow that was caught by Riser-sama's fiancee due to pity."
THAT was a bit way beyond what Akeno could take. She had serious issues due to her race and relation with her father and whenever someone talked about her heritage on her father side the results were rarely any good.
Case in point, Akeno's face got all flustered and thunder started cracking all around herself before she launched herself at Yubelluna without a second thought, putting her all into attacking while forgetting all there was to know about defense or her surroundings.
A BIG mistake as a magic shot that hit her shoulder would prove.
With blood sticking out of her shoulder she backed off while Yubelluna looked somewhat surprised before turning to a building down bellow and said.
"I thought you were supposed to be a professional, is this all a human scum can do?" the sneer and mocking clear in her voice and actions.
In the said building is a dark-skinned North American man with close-cropped hair and five earrings, with three hoops in his left ear and two studs in his right. He was a veteran of the Gulf War, was taught by the best during the military academy where he received all honors as an exceptional talent and is an expert into explosions in general. His name is Willina Nelson but everyone just calls him Wiley.
"Sorry, I don't know what happened. I mean, the weapon's shot was weird no matter how I see it." Wiley answered while looking at his gun. It wasn't the most powerful gun of his team, but it should not be possible for something like that to happen at all.
"Well, it was just bad luck after all." A voice said from behind Wiley, startling the man as he jumped towards the person in reflex with a knife to cut the enemy down, but said enemy apparently had tripped in nothing just before and as a result evaded the deadly strike.
The person, in this case, is Komaeda Nagito, the mutated Bishop of Joseph and the possessor of Telos Karma the Longinus that controls luck.
Said Komaeda was laying in the floor without much worry even as Wiley changed the knife direction and went to stab downward directly towards his heart. The reason as to why he was not worried? It is quite simple really, there was another person there who had something to say about it, someone who was looking at this with a displeased face as she created a magic barrier to stop the knife from reaching Komaeda.
Said barrier only lasted for a moment, but that was enough for Komaeda to get out of the knife's way.
"Sigh, why did you appear like that you vermin?" Narberal said to the smiling Komaeda.
Komaeda continued to smile as he answered.
"Simple, I just wanted to talk to someone who is amazing enough to teach a girl as incredible as Mukuro, someone who can only be called the Ultimate Soldier." He then turned to Wiley and said. "Please, show me how great you can be, how amazing someone who can teach an ultimate talent really is! I want to see and experience the type of hope you carry that could teach other talents to improve."
Suddenly, Komaeda's eyes started turning even more crazy as if it was showing the deep lunaticism and malice he carried inside himself.
Seeing the way Komaeda's eyes were Narberal decided that it would be safer to get as far away from there as possible, it was likely that he was activating his sacred gear in some twisted and weird way. Looking at the state of his eyes Narberal felt even more clearly that he might be one tiny step away from a Balance Breaker and who knows how strong that would be or how terrifying it might be in effect.
A sacred gear is connected to the emotional state of the user and evolves following it, and considering how Komaeda was then his Balance Breaker just might be completely insane and enough to be requlified as top-class Longinus.
On another point of the battlefield, Peko was fighting off both members of Kasper's peerage. It was pretty annoying since she couldn't quite get to them due to the heavy fire she was under, and how she got a 'deadweight' to take care of.
Kiba was a somewhat decent fighter for his level, meaning that, for peerages of young devils with no true experience, he was a decent enough fighter. The problem was that he had barely any experience with actual fights to the death and much less against firearms, making him decide to try to do something stupid like run head first against them in hopes of evading all bullets due to his agility.
News flash, not even two seconds later and he had been shot once in the leg and twice in the torso. If not for Peko pulling him away from the line of fire he would be swiss cheese by now.
"That is not the right way to fight! A fight should be an open and direct business with-"
And that was as far as Peko heard since she outright ignored everything else he said as background noise.
She was considering how to better deal with this situation, one idea would be to try and go through the buildings to catch them unprepared, but that was a stupid idea since she had no doubt they had rigged the buildings to blow up if someone were stupid enough to enter.
There were a few other options, the most promising being using Kiba as a meatshield to approach the enemies and deal with both of them, but she knew it would not work, despite how much he wanted to give it a shot. The bullets had too big a penetrative force, the chance of her getting injured now was too big and she had other things to take care of such as helping her master deal with Riser.
She started getting impatient but it was then that help arrived in the form of Joseph coming flying in as a literal thunder. He changed his path to fly towards both pawns, he took a few shots but in the end, he did not care since he tackled the ground where they were as if a meteor. They managed to jump and escape the instant danger, throwing two magic stun grenades to paralyze Joseph for a second, only to it not to work since Joseph already had finished preparing his magic attacks even before he reached there, two big magic circles aiming at both pawns, releasing two blasts of pure energy that launched both of them far.
"Kasper Hekymathier's 2 Pawns, retired."
"Phew, this could have been worse." Joseph commented as he looked around. He had seen the situation Peko was and while he did trust she would win regardless it could take a long time since both pawns from Kasper were strong and experienced fighters and as such could keep her in check for far too long. He wanted her to take care of most of Riser's peerage since they would be much 'easier' to deal with and she was much better prepared to deal with them than with gun users.
Turning to Peko and Kiba the boy was holding onto his leg that was injured while Peko went to her knees to bow.
"I am so sorry for making you spend your time to help me, I sincerely apologize." She said, making Joseph shake his head tiredly. She was always like this, far too worried about 'small stuff', it was a shame that both were headstrong people that refused to accept the words the other said completely.
Joseph would never accept looking at Peko as merely a servant and tool while Peko would never accept looking at Joseph as if an equal.
Sighing Joseph decided to later on after the match to give Peko the 'punishment' she desires.
Walking towards Kiba Joseph cut his wrist and let some blood fall onto him, healing his body of the injuries near instantly.
'Note to self, try to get myself to Balance Breaker because using my blood to heal is disgusting no matter how I see it' Joseph thought in his head.
Turning to the two he gave the next orders.
"You two are to move ahead in the path Lo'lo opened. He is probably finishing his fight by now and you two are to eliminate any stranglers or anyone that manages to escape Lo'lo. If you reach Riser's peerage eliminate them all, but give Ravel the chance to remove herself before attacking her, but if she reacts and tries to attack do not hesitate to defend and counter attack her, she has her regeneration abilities so it should be alright even if she does take damage. If you can attack Riser remember the target you should keep aiming at." Joseph said only for Kiba to look a bit embarrassed and Peko to say the specific target without a shred of remorse or embarrassment.
"Aim for the balls and turn him into a eunuch, I know."
Griming with ferocity Joseph gave her a quick kiss as he answered.
"And that is why I love you."
In a separate part of town, another fight had just broken out. One of the sides was composed of two people being one a is a fair-skinned woman with light brown hair and brown eyes, she has tinted rose sunglasses perched on her head and a whole lot of enchanted knives in her person, the other is a slim, fair-skinned man with short dark hair, his most distinguishing features are the two large diagonal scars on the left side of his face. The are Mildo the knight and Lu the pawn, both belonging to Kasper, they used to work for a weapon's dealer that worked only in the most dangerous waters in the entire world and still lived only due to the proficiency of his bodyguards.
These two were currently in a dire pinch since their compatibility against the enemy was downright terrible. That being because the enemy facing them is none other than Haineko. The reason why it was such a bad compatibility?
Because her sacred gear was almost as absurd to deal with by them as Lo'lo's. Her ability to control wind to attack as if blades may not seem all that strong at first since it was a fact that there were many magic out there that could do just the same, but hers was special in that she could create as many as she wanted and protect herself well using them as well. And that was exactly what she was doing since all bullets were being cut down with terrible precision before the two enemies were also attacked by her.
Mildo was dealing with this better since she was using her magic knifes to protect herself but Lu was much worse, he could not protect himself nearly as well and he was already cut more than 20 times by now.
Just as both were thinking that they would definetly lose help came to them in the form of a Chinese woman with blue eyes and an absurdly high specs. It was to the point that she could avoid ALL the wind blades that Haineko was launching at her from sheer instinct as she kept pressing forward, two handguns with blades attached in her hand as she started pressuring Haineko.
CUT
For the first time since she started fighting during this game Haineko was injured as she jumped to avoid a more deadly damage from the gunblade user.
"Not bad old la..." Haineko was saying until she noticed where exactly she was cut, it was right in her face. Thoughts about ruining her beauty and possibly making Joseph dislike her, that she might go back to that scary mansion where people hurt her so much, thoughts about everything of bad that could happen started flooding her mind. It must be said that she was the one amongst Joseph's entire peerage with the second biggest mental damage due to her childhood (only loosing to Komaeda on that front), it could be said that she was never too far away from snapping if given the right incentives, and hurting her face just like her previous 'master' did so many times during her youth?
Yeah, that was a HUGE no, no.
"I WILL KILL YOU BITCH! Balance Breaker: Rage of the Wind Beast!"
With that the handle in her hand exploded around in her hand, her body was covered in a green colored wind and as it covered her the wind started solidifying around herself, turning her from her normal form to a different figure entirely. It was an 8 meters tall monster cat with two tails and looking like he was made of fire despite it being purely concentrated energy and wind.
As the monster cat turned to the new addition it smirked before roaring and launching a torrent of wind that annihilated everything in front of it. Buildings, street, trees, people, everything and anything was blown away instantly as its eyes shined in pure glee as it saw that the enemy that hurt it was still in the game. She had deployed a shield in front of herself, but even the shield barely manage to black enough damage for her not to lose instantly.
Not that it mattered since the monster cat/Haineko just raised its claw before pressuring it on the enemy.
"Kasper 1 Pawn, 2 Knights, retired."
Haineko smirked when she heard this, she knew she was ordered not to reveal her power to this level, something most of Joseph's peerage was ordered as he wanted to make sure that the enemies would evaluate them highly but not high enough that they might avoid the fight. But fuck it, she would NOT allow anyone to hurt her pretty face and get out scot-free.
She did this way too much and for far too long when under the command of her previous master, never again.
Seeing as she already blew her cover she might as well go and destroy the things around, make it seem like she has no control to make her master/boyfriend's future enemies less warry of her. He would obviously retire her but that was fine for her since victory was never in question anyway.
She was a good kittie after all, not like that black haired delusional skank that thinks with her tiny brain that she was the hottest cat around.
In the viewing area the great names of devil society were enjoying the show, commenting on it like if it was a simple game between kids, something bellow them completelly.
"That surprised me, I did not expect that cat-girl to have such transformation."
"I agree, senator Paimon, I also never expected a child to have such an interesting toy like that cat. If trained right she might even become a high-level one day. Perhaps I could see to it that the Barbatus child transfers it to my heir, he did comment on how he liked cats not long ago so he might enjoy playing with this one."
"I am not so sure, senator Abbadom. It seems like she isn't capable of controlling herself in this form, if something were to happen to your heir because some stray cat acted out it would mean a huge loss to the whole of devil society. It is better to let the monster to the Barbatus clan, only those barbarians would ever consider such being as a peerage member."
"I suppose you are right, besides I could always just go to the Shinto Pantheon and take some of the nekomatas there as gifts, not like those ignorant pests would ever think of protesting against our noble race. Hohohoho."
"You are absolutely brilliant, dear senator, hohohoho."
And these kind of talks were playing all over the area, making Alexius Barbatus to get a bit too irritated, something indicated by how his familiar was also starting to react and Alexius was trying less and less to reign him in.
Well, he still held the dog back but the thought of making these 'superior' devils face his doggie was enticing, after all, his familiar was a previously mindless demon that was equal to a mid-class god and by now he only grew stronger. It was to the point that asking who would win between his familiar and something like Fenrir was hard to say.
However, it was then that things changed again, this time by no one else except Lo'lo with his display of what a 'inferior' being could manage.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
The whole field instantly erupted into chaos like two titans colliding, with laser beams, explosions and the like occupying everything and taking away all visibility within. Those sounds filled the air with their presence, utterly dominating the atmosphere like an animal standing victorious over its defeated prey. Not somewhere any normal civilian, nor any normal fighter would last very long in. It would not be all that different from a war zone in some of the more chaotic countries in the world, or in some of the ancient battles past.
Not like the occupants could give a damn when their top priorities were to rip each other a new one.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
'This guy's seriously getting on my nerves...' the scarred man thought, a scowl soon forming on his features as he tilted his body from side to side, almost like he was dancing as he avoided each laser blast.
This machine thingy opponent of his, while definitely one of the 'strong' he loved to fight, now that he had a chance to fight him for real, also fell into the annoying one.
Kibo, the robotic being made by Miu Iruma, had jet-like wings protruding from his back. These Wings continuously spewed out energy like the roaring engines of a jet going at full speed as he circled around the battle zone. He aimed his right arm, which had taken the form of a cylindrical Energy Cannon which constantly let out a barrage of energy blasts in Lol'lo's direction. Though, he didn't just circle around as he flew throughout the entire airspace above the field. His strategy seemed to be to keep Lol'lo at a safe enough distance, using his air superiority advantage to launch ranged shots at him. For the most part, the strategy was working, as Kibo had the upper hand in terms of agility and freedom of movement.
Though, it wasn't like there was nothing on Lol'lo's side though...
"Urgh! How ANNOYING!" Lol'lo yelled as he finally reached the limit of his patience. He soon set about raising his arms to the air, an idea soon forming in his mind regarding how to remedy this situation. "Time to clip those grey wing things of yours, ya tin can!" All the while, Kibo already began the process of circling around the airspace opposite him, prepping to strike him some more with that laser arm Energy Cannon thing of his.
"St-Stop with the robophobic behavior!"
Kibo yelled back as he prepared to fly over him again, aiming his Energy Cannon for another barrage. The weapon's interior soon began to glow as the sound of something charging filled the air. Though, compared to the prior blasts this one sounded like it would be a stronger one due to the elongated timeframe. The look in his eyes didn't have much in the way of organic human facial features, but just from his demeanor, one could tell he did NOT appreciate that remark Lol'lo made about him. Though, a better sign would be the sudden increase in the Wings' thruster output.
Just as he made to fire it when Kibo was just about to pass over him...
"UUUUUURRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO000M!
The instant before the Bazooka fired, Lol'lo howled as he brought his arms down together, smashing them into the ground to release a huge, a seriously HUGE 360-degree shockwave. This shockwave had the strength... and the impact... of something a collapsing building would have made. it literally reduced the fields around him to... one big crater... as well as knocked Kibo straight out of the air.
"WAAAAAAAAA!"
Kibo screamed in pain, flailing his limbs about like a fish out of the water as he spiraled out of the air like a falling missile. One of his Wings flailed about uselessly, sparks dancing along its frame thanks to it being reduced to scrap metal from the shockwave, before he crashed onto the ground near Lol'lo's right flank, creating a small dust cloud upon impact.
"Uggggghhh... damn... that was excessive..." Kibo painfully moaned as he struggled to his feet, stumbling a little as he glanced towards his destroyed Wing. The wing now looked like it had been severed, with circuits hanging out and sparks dancing across it. A disdainful look crossed onto his face at that. "Ohhhh, Miu sama won't be happy about that..." he mumbled... before he heard the telltale sound of rumbling. His eyes, if they were human, would have widened to the size of dots when he glanced in Lol'lo's direction and saw the bodybuilder-like man already running towards him with his arms open wide. Almost like he was trying to get him to hug the large guy. "Eek!"
Quickly having to react, Kibo aimed his Energy Cannon at the space to his side before firing. That resulted in a burst of motion which propelled him aside, just a small INCH of the distance separating Kibo from his opponent's arms. He quickly cut the power to his weapon, activating the systems within it to reform it into a normal arm just like his opposite one. While in the air he spun around so that he could land safely, sliding to a halt upon impact as he quickly bounced back, entering a mad sprint. "Too slow!"
A howl of his own escaped his mechanical mouth as Kibo jumped once he was close enough and wrapped his arms around the back of Lol'los neck. He heard a surprised exclamation from his opponent but didn't give any time for him to react, quickly putting all his weight into his arms as well as his movement, using both to thoroughly smash the much larger man into the ground. Robotic strength allowed him to do something like that as he quickly jumped back to avoid an attempt at grabbing him made by his adversary.
"Hmph... damn, that almost itched me there..." Lol'lo remarked, growling as dust fell from his face whilst he got to his feet. That attack just now had caught him by surprise, but it wasn't like it actually did anything right then. He did get the feeling that his earlier impression had been right, about how Kibo was one of the 'stronger' foes he had fought. He could only wonder what it would be like if this guy fought the same enemies that the Barbatus Clan fought on a daily basis. Perhaps he could have made a fine foot soldier... or at least a metal shield. He then looked towards his adversary, wiping his nose with his forearms as he let out a small grin, eyes glinting with bloodlust. "Heh, not bad for a piece of scrap metal. You might actually have some worth as a butt scratcher..." he remarked, all the while he actually scratched his backside.
Not something Kibo would appreciate if the way he looked to be cringing was any indication. "I will NOT be a 'butt scratchier'' you anti-robot wannabe!" he yelled, quickly morphing his right arm into his Energy Cannon as he unleashed a single blast in Lol'lo's direction. However, Lol'lo just simply... batted it away with a single swing of his arm.
"Sorry you metal reject, but that's one big fat 'NOPE!' from me." Lol'lo replied, mockingly. Definitely succeeded in irritating the robotic person before him, for sure. Thus, Kibo quickly got into a combat stance, the sounds of robotic circuits filling the air, His stance looked to be like this: his right leg forward, his left leg at his left flank with his left arm tucked in as if going for an under-arching punch and the right arm poised for a straight punch. Electricity arched around him as he glared heatedly towards his opponent, causing Lol'lo to smirk eagerly. The man read his posture, and immediately h got the impression that Kibo would be taking this fight seriously now. If he hadn't been before that is, but Lol'lo did;t really care. He was going down either way so his King could win this little bitch-slapping contest. "Come on then, I'll give you a free shot. See if you can hit me and prove that you're not just worthless garbage."
At this, Kibo let out a furious growl from within his throat, his irritation with these constant remarks about him pissing him off beyond his limits. "Alright, fine! I'll show you the power of robots!" he yelled, tucking in both arms before the backs of his shoulders opened as if they were 8-petal flowers. The moment they did, huge thrusters exploded into two balls of orange flames, propelling him forwards just like his Wings would as he made to launch a flying kick at Lol'lo's face.
Said man just stood there with his arms crossed, a smug smirk on his lips as he simply took the attack head-on. In fact, he reared his head back and literally HEAD-BUTTED the kick, both repelling it and knocking Kibo back. He didn't say anything, instead just remained silent as Kibo closed his shoulders and ignited thrusters within his HANDS this time, bouncing into the air and spinning back towards his opponent with a flying roundhouse kick.
As the kick hit him in the side of the head with the force of a Tank shell, what do you think Lol'lo was thinking about right now? Let's take a look, shall we?
'Strats, strats-strats, strats-strats-strats...!'
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... Wow, savage.
In any case, Kibo saw how his attack didn't even faze him, forcing the Robot to growl. 'MORE!' He thought, quickly igniting his thrusters to propel himself backward before he threw his arms downwards to propel himself into the air. At the apex of his ignition, Kibo raised his right leg and supercharged it, electricity and heat burning from the limb as he brought it down on Lol'lo's head...
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
'Yes! A direct hit!' Kibo thought, overjoyed as he launched himself backward to a safe distance, a smirk slowly forming on his lips. 'That'll definitely have caused SOME kind of damaged to that organic's cranium...!' He thought further as he landed and got back into his stance like his creator had programmed him to. His calculations had told him such an onslaught would definitely have left its mark against a member of Joseph's peerage, and his creator was meant to be the ultimate inventor! So, how could she have been wrong?
"Heh, I guess that was a good warm-up..."
"Wha-"
PAWNCH!
"GAH!"
Unfortunately, this seemed like one of those times, as Kibo suddenly felt a massive fist SLAM into the side of his head, forcing him to the ground with enough force to make a crater even larger than the one that had been previously made. If this one had been made first, then it would have been ten times larger than the one present now...
That was all Kibo thought, before he felt something stomp through his chest during his brief moment of disorientation. and then saw nothingness.
"Whelp, that takes care of that..."
Lol'lo commented to himself whilst withdrawing his foot from the remains of his opponent's torso. He'd noticed that most of the whirring came from that section of his body, and while he didn't seem to be anything human, he figured that if he stomped there he would have done something to disable the enemy. Looked like his hunch was spot on... Still, it felt somewhat like a cop-out that this guy couldn't take even a stomp at 40% power. Was Raiser's peerage full of weaklings like this one, or was this one some form of a cripple?
Bah, a bit late to ask now...
What the hell, he'll just ask anyways.
"Uhhh, hey robot head." Lol'lo called out, raising his foot and applying only 20% this time... still managed to squash half of Kibo's face in though, to his irritation and slight disappointment. "Were these so-called 'inventions' made by someone who's as weak as you are or what? What's the deal here?" After a moment of silence, however, Lol'lo shook his head before shrugging his shoulders. "Ah well, at least Boss is one step closer to victory... wonder if there'll be any stronger ones to fight out there. There better be, otherwise this will be extremely boring. Oh, who am I kidding, finding others to fight in equal terms against me here is impossible already, guess I have to go with the second option and make the chicken scream like a little bitch, that ought to be entertaining."
With that said, Lol'lo huffed as he walked on, leaving the destroyed robot corpse there, since it no longer interested him anymore.
"Joseph Barbatus, 1 pawn, retired." A voice said for all the hear. As Lo'lo heard that he could only shrug. It was either the enemy got lucky on getting the drop of one of them or it was one of those strategies the others cared so much about. It, however, didn't matter to Lo'lo.
He would destroy what is in his path, nothing more and nothing less.
Writer's Note:
Thanks for the wait. The next few chapters I will try to release faster.
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