Welcome to the next chapter.
TheRagFromTheCrag; Perhaps so~
ShadowUzumaki55; It is yeah, things are about to go quite wild. Vali and Haruki will be showcasing their powers this chapter. Serafall does seem to really care for Gabriel, even if she doesn't wish to admit to it.
OechsnerC; Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed it!
Silver crow; Thanks very much. Yeah, it was quite the reunion. Bikou's full of surprises, we'll learn more of what he was doing quite soon. Haruki's still Haruki so he'll have his fun. Maybe in the future we will be getting another one between them. Gabriel did yeah. Baraqiel did yeah, it's going to be hard rebuilding bridges after all the time has passed. Glad you liked Vali's response. Yeah, it seems Isane's all for it~ Baraqiel does tend to get those mistakes sometimes. Gabriel seems quite excited for a possible future wedding, along with Michael, even Sirzechs wishes for Rias~ Maybe their child could be yeah. Haruki did yeah, seems like Bikou's been caught red handed. Baraqiel was trying to help out. Serafall did yeah, she really cares for Gabriel. Yeah, Absolute Demise could have yeah. She'll have the power here.
Guest 1; That sounds like a cool idea. Those are good choices for a harem. Thanks for the suggestions!
Skull Flame; Serafall seemed to yeah~ Serafall cares for Gabriel in her own unique way.
Guest 2; When I wish to yes.
Akeno fan; Quite tense yeah~ Yeah after the fights done we will be. Serafall and Gabriel definitely seem to be in a unique way.
With those reviews out of the way, it's time to start the chapter.
The Factions Meeting continued!
With being transported directly to the place Gasper was, Isane, Xenovia, Irina and Rias all appeared within the club room. Thankfully for the moment nothing had appeared to try and attack them, but they knew that was going to change shortly.
"Okay, now that we've arrived, lets get Gasper, and begin making our way back to the others."
Rias said, so Isane stepped forward, looking for Gasper.
"Gasper! Come out! We've come to bring you back with us!"
Isane's call, caused Gasper to peak his head out from behind the couch.
"...It's scary..."
The meek voice of Gasper's came out, as Irina noticed the barrier going down.
"This place will be swarmed with magicians in a minute or so, Xenovia lets prepare to fight."
"Yes, lets do that."
As she said it, Irina pulled out what seemed to be Excalibur Mimic.
Confusion came over her.
"What do you have that for?"
"Ooh, Gabriel-sama got it for me so I could wield it in case something like this happens! I have the best compatibility with this blade after all!"
"Makes sense."
Rias looked towards the pair of girls, before seeing magicians beginning to block their path back to the others.
"Xenovia, Irina. Though you aren't of my peerage, please can I ask you follow my orders here, and clear the path for us to get Gasper out? The magicians will no doubt come here, but I do have an idea on how to take them all down. But that path needs to be clear in case stronger enemies come."
Irina saluted, as Xenovia nodded.
"Yup, leave it to us~"
"Right, we will go and cause mayhem with the magicians."
Irina and Xenovia left via the window, and came crashing down onto some magicians.
Some fired magical attacks at Xenovia, but she crossed her sword over her body, focusing in on defence from the Rook piece that she had, channeling it though her blade, she managed to block the attacks easily.
Then added with the Rooks strength, she easily swung her blade down, creating a strong holy wave that carved through the magicians.
"Wow Xenovia, it seems that you've gotten even stronger~"
"This Evil Piece within me, it's given me defence and strength I didn't have before. Durandal feels very light in my hands, and I can even add my strength to my swings, creating even more damage than ever before."
"Even as a human still, I wont lose!"
Irina jumped, and spun around, allowing her sword to turn into a whip, and wrapped up two magicians that she brought closer to her, before turning her whip back into a blade, and cut the two magicians down to size.
"And your skills haven't lost their sharpness either, Irina."
"Yup! I've been training even in a depressed state after all!"
Xenovia and Irina nod at one another, before going about their business, and taking down the magicians in the area.
As Irina and Xenovia did that, Isane went over to the worried Gasper as Rias stood on, watching what the magicians were going to do next.
"Gasper, lets go, okay? Before the magicians come and cause us trouble."
Gasper timidly nods his head, and goes to take his hand, when magicians appear within the area.
Using transportation circles, they all appeared as Rias scowls.
"Magicians, I wont allow you to try and use Gasper for your own deeds."
"That Vampire is coming with us. Even if we have to kill you to do it."
One of the magicians spoke up, so Rias steps up as well.
"That boy is apart of my peerage, I will protect him."
Gasper was touched by her words, but one of the magicians didn't care, and fired off a magical shot for her.
Isane went to interact with it, when Rias raised a magical barrier to stop the attack.
"Tch, Gremory known for loving their servants, you make me feel sick you know?"
"Perhaps, but I'm not in the business of allowing those I care for being hurt."
"Maybe you would have gotten more value if you'd quickly brainwashed this Vampire and used him effectively as a tool? If you had made his Sacred Gear run out of control while throwing this child into the territory of the opposing Fallen Angels, he might even have taken out one of their leaders as well. Why haven't you done that? Could it be that you intend to treat a servant as a close friend?"
Rias didn't like the sound of that.
Isane especially didn't like it, and tightened her hand.
"Oi, you can't say something like that..."
Isane began, only for Rias to place her hand out.
"Ise, don't worry about what she said, these magicians have cold hearts."
The magicians didn't like the sound of that, and concentrated their attacks on Rias.
Shooting off all sorts of magical attacks, she raised a barrier to defend against them while Isane went towards Gasper.
But a magician got in the way and fired off a magical attack.
She jumped back, avoiding the attack, while Gasper cringed.
Isane then rushed the magician and got to the right hand side, gathered demonic power in her palm, and even without boosting, slammed it into the magician, and it was strong enough to blast the magician back, through the window on the opposing wall.
But then she got attacked from behind, Isane ducked, but one of the magical attacks a magician sent off scratched her right arm, causing her to wince.
Gasper looked worried, seeing two people he cared for being attacked.
It was too much for him.
He didn't want to be the reason they were being hurt.
"Senpai...Buchou, I'm sorry...this is...this is because of me…!"
Gasper cried, as a magician tried to grab Gasper.
But Rias, blocking the attacks still, managed to summon her Power of Destruction, launching it at the enemy and blasted a hole through the magicians body, taking her down within an instant, while Isane was impressed.
"Gasper, don't cry. This isn't your fault, it is the fault of those that wish to harm you."
"But Buchou...I only cause troub-trouble, and bother you. I can't...I can't do anything by myself! I'm useless! I'm weak! You're my King yet I'm...I'm being protected by you!"
Rias gently smiled.
"That's okay, you can keep bothering me. You are my servant, which is why I wish to protect you. I'll protect you with everything I have."
Gasper was moved by what Rias said.
Even Isane was, and couldn't hold back anymore as she slammed her foot into a magicians chin and blew her backwards.
"Gaspeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer!"
"S-Senpai..."
Gasper spoke as tears slid out of his eyes.
"Don't run away! Don't be afraid! Don't cry! Me! Buchou! Haruki! Akeno-san! Asia! Kiba! Koneko-chan and Xenovia along with Irina as well! Even Ravel, and Kuroka! I'd say even Vali too! We're all your friends! We will absolutely never abandon you! We won't do something like leave you! We wont let you be hurt by these people either!"
As she said it, she equipped the Boosted Gear, and it shined with a bright light.
[Boost!]
"Buchou! I'm promoting to Queen!"
"Okay Ise, do it."
Because she said the okay, Isane received the power of a Queen, and then she stuck out her hand, with the Boosted Gear still shining.
"Ascalon!"
[Blade!]
Along with a new command, the blade of Ascalon appeared on but rather turn the blade on the magicians, she cut her own hand with it. She made sure that the power of holy wasn't so much, but it still was a Holy Sword, and it hurt her, enough for blood to drip down her hand.
"Ise...? what are you doing?"
"Don't worry Buchou, I learned from Haruki about Vampires, my blood will be enough!"
Rias showed a smile.
"It seems that you read my mind. I understand, yes please continue."
Isane nodded, and turned to Gasper.
"Gasper! It's no use if you don't get up on your own, you know? It's time to shine, remember? Haruki said it back when we talked! You'll know when the time is, the time is now! It's time to show it!"
Isane stuck out her left hand and extended out Ascalon that had her blood on it in Gasper's direction. Faster than the Magicians could react, the blood, which had been on Ascalon, clung to Gasper's mouth.
Gasper tasted Isane's blood that had arrived at his mouth with his tongue.
The instant that Gasper swallowed her blood, the atmosphere within the room suddenly changed.
An indescribable chill eerily came about.
When Isane turned her eyes to Gasper...Gasper wasn't there. He had disappeared.
The female Magicians were also shocked that Gasper had suddenly disappeared, and looked around. They spread their gazes over the interior of the room and...
A weird chirping was heard. Countless bats were flying near the ceiling of the room. The group of red-eyed bats swooped down on the female Magicians all at once.
"Kuh! So he transformed, that damn Vampire!"
"Bastard!"
The cursing women pointed their hands at the bats and tried to fire magic bullets, but they were pulled down by something and greatly lost their balance. Countless black hands were extending out from the female Magicians' shadows. The hands from the shadows tried pulling the girls inside the shadows.
"So this is the ability of a Vampire!"
"Take this!"
They fired magic bullets at the shadows, but the shadow hands just dispersed uneventfully. During that, the bats wrapped around the forms of the Magicians and bit at various parts on their bodies.
"You intend to suck our blood!?"
"No, our magic power is also being absorbed!"
The Magicians were having a hard time. They were at the mercy of the bats and the hands extending from the shadows.
"Ise, that's part of the power that Gasper was originally hiding. It was released from drinking your blood. I was hoping to see this, with your Dragon like blood from your Boosted Gear, it seems that Gasper has received a power up."
Isane was astonished, but she also got into the game as well.
"Kuh! In that case, we can only do this!"
The Magicians turned their aim towards Isane and Rias.
The countless magic bullets they fired were shot at them, but...they all stopped in mid-air.
[It's useless. I can see all your movements and attacks.]
Gasper's voice echoed within the interior of the room. The red eyes of the bats glowed brightly.
Then the bats eyes went towards the others in the room, and used the Sacred Gear of Gasper's, freezing them all in time.
[Ise-senpai! Buchou! The finishing blow!]
"Leave it to me!"
Isane placed her hand out, as did Rias.
Summoning their powers, they did a double shot of their energies, which washed through the magicians.
Because they were stopped, they couldn't do a thing against them, and became deceased as a result.
Rias looked relieved at the sight before her, as Isane noticed Gasper turn back to his normal form, looking tired.
Even though he was, because of Gasper, they had an easy time taking out the magicians all together.
Having split up from Vali, Haruki confronted his opponent. Katerea looked at the wounds she had suffered thanks to the attack from Haruki. His eyes shot for her, while she looked between the ice doll, and him, glaring at the pair of them.
"It's two on one! That's not fair!"
Katerea complained as she stared her opponents down.
"Fufu, is that what you say when you have your legion of Devils attack innocent people?"
Haruki retorted, igniting anger within Katerea.
"You're nothing to me!"
Katerea yelled out, as she summoned her demonic power.
Responding to that, he summoned his own Holy Lightning and readied himself.
Katerea watched on for a few moments, before she blasted her demonic power at him in the form of many bullets.
Without Haruki moving, the bullets froze in the air, followed up by Haruki sending off a high bolt of electricity for the young woman.
She raised a barrier to defend herself, but even the barrier froze, so his lightning shot through it like a knife cutting butter, and slammed against her body.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
A mixture of pain and pleasure erupted through her body, causing her to shiver more and more.
She was blasted down to the ground, where she let out a howling sound.
"You bastard!"
"Cattleya, watch your language ufufu~"
Katerea's eyes shot for Haruki who looked on curiously.
"That's not my NAME!"
Katerea then got to her feet, and rushed him with her speed. Coating her fist in demonic power, Haruki pondered if she was going to actually attack head on, but what she did was turn the power in her hand to a spike, attempting to stab him up close.
Absolute Demise flicked her finger forward, causing a particle of ice to come off, land on the spike and freeze instantly, allowing Haruki to smash it as he swung his leg upwards, the kick connected with the woman's body, sending her flying up into the air.
"Summon chimera!"
She snapped, and brought out a chimera. With it breathing fire, Haruki allowed Absolute Demise to shine, who swung out her arms creating a devastating blizzard that caused the area above her to become a whirlwind of ice and snow.
The ice spread out, catching the flames of the chimera, and froze instantly, Katerea's face dropped as she saw Absolute Demise breathe out of her mouth, directing the icy winds to the chimera, wrapping around said creature, and froze it on the spot.
"Hah!"
With a flick of his hand, Haruki sent off a wave of demonic power, which broke the ice, and the chimera inside of it all in a single shot, and Haruki's lightning wrapped around Katerea, causing wounds to appear across her flesh. She used barriers to defend as much as she could, but it wasn't enough and she was damaged a good deal as a result.
Katerea landed on the ground with blood pouring from her, as she saw Haruki staring at her.
"You are nothing to me, you wont be able to win against me!"
"You keep saying that, but while you are indeed strong, you insulted my King, and threatened her life, along with others I care for, so you'll have to be punished."
Katerea gritted her teeth.
She wasn't going to lose to a Devil she thought was inferior to her.
He then saw that she summoned some demonic spears, launching them for the young man.
"You think you've got the power to fight me? Longinus or not, don't trifle with me!"
The magicians arrived at Katerea's yell, and summoned different types of power to attack, Haruki glanced at Absolute Demise, and caused her to wave her hands out.
The ground below the magicians froze, as spires came erupting outwards, piercing the magicians and their magic circles, freezing them up to the point that they wouldn't be used, the ice itself also taking out of the right.
As they did, Haruki didn't back down with Katerea, reeling his fist back once more, as she summoned a barrier. More than one, she summoned multi layered barriers that put distance between the two of them.
Since Absolute Demise was busy dealing with the magicians, Haruki poured more power into his fist. The power shot all around him, to the point that the ground was breaking with the intense waves of power coming out of him.
Turning up the ground with his power, even going into the sky, Katerea noticed the sky was darkening. Thunder clouds were being formed above Haruki, and were giving off very dangerous thundering sounds that even caused her to shiver.
"You made the wrong choice in coming here today and fighting like this. Peace is going to be attained here, your actions will only prove that your ways are of the past. That the current Maou's are the ones that are going to be taking over in the present, and even in the future, there will be more Maou's of different former races. Fallen Angels, Youkai, all Reincarnated Devils or half Devils or what have you."
"That sounds like an actual nightmare, are you mental?"
"Fufu, I could ask you the same thing by coming here with Middle Class magicians as back up."
Katerea scowled, as he swung his fist forward.
Accompanied with a sonic boom sound erupting in her eardrums, she watched as her barriers came crumbing down. More and more, the shattering of the barriers was more than enough to make Katerea charge up her demonic power.
Causing it to swirl before her, the demonic power became fully charged by the time Haruki came before her. With all of her barriers gone, she placed her hands out, and the demonic power ran wild before her.
"You think that the new Devils system is going to work? All of the current Maou's are fools! Especially you and your dumb King Serafall! She is a bitch! I hate her so much, I'm gonna have fun torturing her!"
Insulting Serafall was a thing that you didn't do in front of her Queen.
Haruki wasn't happy with Katerea, and unleashed his Holy Lightning as she fired off her shot of demonic power.
The attacks collided briefly, and the brief time it did, Katerea thought for sure that she'd be able to pull ahead.
But that came crashing down at the attack she released suddenly crumbled and his fist came for her.
"Could you pick out the stuff you shouldn't have said about my King?"
"B-Bitch?"
She meekily said, Haruki grinned sadistically.
"Wrong, it was all of what you said about my King."
Replying coldly, he punched her stomach with enough force to cause her to vomit up blood as the lightning transmitted through her entire body. More than before, she felt the power running through her, and she wasn't able to even think correctly as the power of holy was weakening her body as was the fact that it was a continuous stream of it, not even letting up for a few moments, she wasn't able to hold onto her sense for long, and ended up being blasted away with Haruki's final push of power.
She smashed deep into the ground, bleeding from the intense impact.
She coughed up some more blood, her body erupted with many wounds, and she looked like she was in intense amounts of pain.
Bleeding on the ground, Haruki walked closer, and extended his hand.
"This was brief, but because you insulted my King, I'll have to take you out. Also, by threatening those at the conference, you've gone too far."
Katerea looked up at him, and smirked.
"Is that so?"
"Smirking in your position?"
"I have the right to smirk, because I've got a plan."
He didn't know what she meant by that.
But then he sensed some powers coming through a circle.
So he looked to see that from the magical circle, a huge body of water was coming in together with a few Devils. He counted over ten Devils. They felt High Class, nothing that he wouldn't be able to handle. Even those like Rias would be able to defeat them if she went up against them.
But the huge body of water, he saw that Katerea's body was glowing as she took out a tube between her breasts.
Inside, there was a small black snake that she placed inside of her mouth.
"Eww..."
Katerea scowled while Haruki cringed at the sight.
But as the snake went inside of her, he felt that her power increased a good deal from before, to the point that he was becoming excited to see what she'd be able to do next.
As that went on, Vali was dealing with her own kind of enemy. Fighting against Creuserey, he unleashed a number of demonic bullets towards her, so she elegantly dodged out of the way of each of them, before she placed out her hand, gathering her own demonic energy.
"This shot will be devastating to you."
Vali said in a cold manner, but Creuserey didn't seem to be bothered, in fact he looked as if he was ready to take the shot, and cupped his hands together, before forming several barriers around his body.
Some even that weren't even made from demonic power, and had some magical carvings into them.
But Vali didn't care, shooting out waves of demonic power again and again until the point came with the barriers of Creuserey weren't able to withstand the power, shattering them and the demonic energy bullets continued.
"Aaaah!"
Creuserey tried to dodge out of the way, but the bullets pierced his right thigh and upper left arm as he did his best, and then he managed to summon some more barriers before the attacks could do anymore kind of damage to him.
Vali rushed forward, and punched the barriers that he had made. As she did, the power [Divide!] came, halving the power of the barriers, allowing Vali's strength to shatter them all at once, and contiune on towards him.
Creuserey could see that she hadn't even used her Balance Breaker yet.
"Don't mock me!"
Creuserey focused his hands, summoning what appeared to be light magic.
Vali showed no fear as she shot off several waves of power that caused the young woman to be taken by surprise, Vali didn't stop though, as she placed her hands out, summoning barriers to defend against the light magic attacks.
"Smart, targeting a Devils weakness."
Vali commended the man.
But then showed no fear as she continued.
"But your light isn't that of the Angels, and you're quite strong, but I fight something above you almost everyday in my King, so this power isn't going to do anything to me other than be a nuisance!"
Vali released her incredible powers, shooting it all around her, and caused the light magic to be destroyed near instantly, Creuserey was stunned that she did that, so he summoned more light magic arrows to fire.
However, Vali got in close, causing her power to erupt, and crush the light arrows, as her fist went out towards him, embedding into his face, or so she thought, as at the last moment, he activated a barrier to defend himself.
Vali smirked at the sight.
[Divide!]
Halving the power of the barrier, Vali's fist continued on, smashing into his face, and sent him flying up into the air. While in the air, Vali herself shot off after him.
"Get away!"
Creuserey summoned some circles around Vali, which each released light arrows.
It seemed like a barrier at first, but it was clear to be transportation circles, something that Vali quite enjoyed to see.
Before the arrows hit her, she summoned an omni-directional barrier all the way around herself, defending against the attacks.
Creuserey looked on, seeing how Vali was able to defend the attacks, he gritted his teeth.
"These attacks aren't bad, but you focused so much on creating light that you didn't have the ability to cause them to be strong enough. They'd be enough for High Class Devils to suffer wounds, but it wont be enough for me."
Vali coldly stated, before releasing a wave of demonic power, blasting through all of the attacks.
Grimacing, Creuserey was blinded for a few moments, before unleashing his demonic power.
However, because of the hesitation he had due to being blinded, Vali was able to intercept him before he could unleash an attack, allowing Vali to deliver several punches to the man's upper body, and cut down the power he had thanks to the power of [Divide!] going off, even a single time was enough to cause Creuserey to feel weakened to a point he was shocked by everything going on around him.
Vali then got above him, slamming her foot down and sent him smashing into the earth.
"You didn't have to come here, but you chose to have a fight with the Factions Meeting."
Vali expressed her thoughts towards the man as she flew down towards him.
But Creuserey didn't care, and aimed his hand towards Vali.
"You turned your back on your own heritage. Even as a half breed, you should have joined our side, and become someone that worked towards our goals. The fact that you joined another half breed, a Fallen Angel at that, is a low point Vali Lucifer."
Vali scoffed in defiance for what he said.
"Perhaps in your eyes, that's how you choose to see it. But for me, I choose to look at it as gaining the opportunities that I was denied as a young child. It might be hard for you to contemplate, but this is the path that I have chosen."
Creuserey, not accepting what Vali had said, gathering a large volume of demonic power before him. Increasing the power more and more, Vali looked on, and then caused her Sacred Gear wings to appear.
"The Sacred Gear Divine Dividing, the proof of your dirty blood."
"My blood is nothing to concern yourself with. My Okaa-san's blood gave me the power to wield one of the strongest Dragons known in this world, and together with my Lucifer blood, I shall crush you underneath that power."
Creuserey wasn't happy about that.
In fact, it drove him more angry than before.
"The fake existence of the current Maou's. It should be blood like us that are in control! Not those pretenders! You aren't going to live a satisfied life under that boy! Come and join my side, you know it is the right thing to do!"
Creuserey snapped at Vali.
But she remained calm and simply stared on curiously.
"You say that, but you're shaking and you're asking me to join, showing that you don't have confidence in your own ability."
"Lies!"
Creuserey yelled at Vali, showing a hateful glare.
But Vali wasn't caring about Creuserey and continued.
"I chose the right path in my life by joining this side, because beside Haruki, I'll be able to fight many opponents and I'll have something you wont ever have."
"And what's that?"
"It's something you couldn't hope to grasp within the hate you live in. Why I wouldn't join you as your goal is meaningless to me. I don't understand your mentality. Devils are Devils, whether that's reincarnated, half breed, or what have you."
"They've brainwashed the daughter of Lucifer. What happened to the ruthless Vali that I have heard of?"
Vali scoffed, and disappeared from sight.
Using speeds that defied meaning to Creuserey, she appeared before him, in a stream of white lights, embedding her fist into his stomach, activating her Sacred Gear at the same time, and stole half of his power, while smashing him deep into the ground.
The ground broke apart with the single fist, and he shook as a result of the attack. Blood came out of his mouth, and the area she punched was also bleeding.
"There she is."
Creuserey looked up towards Vali, seeing cold eyes shooting right back down towards him.
Shaking with slight fear, he knew that this wouldn't be a simple thing at all.
Hunched over from the attack he received, his eyes went up to Vali who extended out her hand.
"I'll take you out and return to my King."
Creuserey began laughing, to Vali's confusion.
"You think that I'm beaten so easily? I don't die so easily."
Creuserey takes out a black snake, Vali becomes suspicious as he quickly shoves it in his mouth and swallows it whole.
As he did, the power that he was outputting began increasing exponentially, to the point Vali thought that this guy would be someone that he'd have to begin getting serious in a fight against, and watched as he stood up, his eyes laser focused on Vali's form.
"You had a chance to fight with us, but now I'm going to have to take you down."
As he said it, he snapped his fingers, and summoned a legion of Devils to his side.
Though Vali could see that there were about thirty strong Devils, she knew that the main threat before her was Creuserey and it was something that she'd have to deal with, so she knew it was about time that she got serious.
Back with Haruki, he watched as the water formed all around her. The sea formed into several large serpents that Haruki looked at. They dripped with a lot of water onto the ground to the point that his ankles were being covered in the drenching water.
The snakes were the size of two story houses, Haruki counted at least five being summoned. Along with the snake that she had swallowed, it was clear that this Katerea was stronger than the one he had been fighting until that point.
"You were able to fight me before, but now with the power of Ophis on my side...I shall drown you and cause my water to turn red with your blood."
"So, you got a power up from Ophis, huh?"
Haruki was intrigued.
It was clear that she did increase her powers a good deal.
However, he also knew that with the power up, he wasn't going to back down. Even with her power going into higher levels than he expected they'd go, Haruki thought about what would be the best thing for him to do.
"That's right, the power of Ophis has given me, is more than enough to end someone like you. This is the power of the true Leviathan, Sea Serpent of the End."
"Yes, I have heard of it before. Gonna turn into a snake shaped Dragon Katerea?"
Katerea scoffed.
"That form would be beneath me."
Though she said it cockily, he did wonder if she would be capable of going into that form.
She didn't show the power of controlling water until she went into her powered up state by Ophis.
He wondered if using the snake awakened the power, or helped her control it more.
"If you say so. Now are you going to attack me?"
"Alright then, die!"
Katerea unleashed all five of her serpents towards him in a flashy movement. They tried to circulate him, going all around him rapidly like a whirlwind, he saw the snakes heads showing fangs, and then coming down towards him to bite down on him.
"Katerea, using water against me huh?"
"What are you saying? Trying to delay your death?"
"No, but the fact that you used water, was a wrong choice."
"Why's that?"
Katerea didn't get it.
So Haruki showed her.
"Because your water will freeze."
As soon as he said it, the ice doll waved out her hands, and caused all five giant serpents of water to freeze in the air. Before they could bite down on him, before they could even reach his body, stationed a few inches away from his form.
Katerea's eyes widened as he released a wave of Holy Lightning from his form, collapsing the powers of Katerea within a flash.
"N-No! I wont accept it!"
She however then growled as Haruki felt something coming up from down below. He shot up into the air as the ground was ripped open, with a giant water serpent coming out, the teeth coming close to puncturing his body, Haruki's hands lit up with Holy Lightning and unleashed it down below before it could get him.
The incredible power was more than enough to dispel the snake, as the ice doll unleashed a heavy barrage of ice shaped blades. All hovering before and behind her, she unleashed them in a large quantity for Katerea.
"Die!"
Katerea allowed all of the water to become a barrier, hoping that the ice wouldn't be able to get through. She even made sure that she caused the water to spin like propellers as the ice went inside so it would be sliced apart.
"Fufu, you are cute Katerea, it isn't a bad plan to do something like this to me. But..."
As he spoke, Katerea noticed something.
The ice she was cutting apart, was freezing the water quickly.
And because there was so many, the ice was able to freeze a good chunk of the water
"...It seems that my ice will still freeze your water."
Katerea growled as she watched her water become frozen in the air, as the ice doll raised her hand up into the sky, and forming in the sky, was a giant form of ice, looking almost like a meteor, as Haruki saw a few more water snakes come for him.
Dodging left, he swung his fist out and broke through the water snake, destroying it with Holy Lightning as another one came from the right, so this time he summoned his demonic power, creating a barrier as the giant snake crashed against it.
"My, it does seem your power has been boosted a good deal. This is exciting!"
However, because of the water form, the lightning Haruki produced was able to run through it, break it down, and ran down to the ground, causing the ground to be shattered in several huge chunks, the ground below Katerea became fractured as a result of the attack.
Nearly slipping, she saw the giant ice berg like attack in the air was coming down, as Haruki pointed his finger out, and released his lightning, allowing it to wrap around the giant ice berg, increasing its destructive power by a good degree.
Even Katerea was shaking at the incredible size of the ice berg, and the power that was being shown before her.
"Shit...it seems that this half breed is something that I am going to have to even contemplate as being strong. I never thought that once I took Ophis' power, that it would be this much of a pain to fight against this enemy. But it doesn't matter, because I'll end this bastard right here and now."
Haruki watched as more of her people summoned huge volumes of water, and caused it to come together, creating a very large snake. The size of six story houses, the giant snake turned up and went after Haruki's attack, clashing together in a devastating but beautiful manner.
Haruki was enjoying it, so much so that he held a happy smile on his face.
The attacks continued colliding for a few moments, before they cancelled one another out.
At least the Holy Lightning and water did.
While the giant ice berg did indeed suffer some damage from Katerea's attack, parts of the ice berg separated from the large main one, and then rained down towards Katerea herself, who had to use her water to block the attacks.
But as she did, Haruki flew in close, summoning his Holy Lightning to his fist, and came at her with high speeds, slamming his fist towards her, but at the last moment she created a large barrier of water, blocking off the attack, but his Holy Lightning released, creating a shockwave between the two of them.
Haruki noticed that his arm had a few cuts on it as Katerea also received a few cuts from the attacks colliding with one another.
Flipping in the air, Haruki returned to a normal standing state, and then faced the young woman who was clutching her arm.
"Ara, it seems that you have some help with your servants. As long as they keep summoning the water, you'll have a good deal of an advantage. However, it still also depends on the amount of power you have to control and maintain the power. Is it going to be enough?"
"We'll see!"
"Yes we will. Because since you powered up, it's time for me to do the same. So watch this...Balance Break."
As soon as he said it, the world around them froze.
The ground, the barrier surrounding the entire school.
Even the heavens themselves began to release snow, raining down to the ground as the air turned chilly. More cold than Katerea anticipated, the waters she had summoned also froze in place, unmoving as Haruki was donned in his armour once more, as was the ice doll, who now became a Queen of ice.
"Lets get this party started, right Cattleya?"
"Don't call me that..."
Katerea felt the chill on her, and stared at her opponent.
Deep inside...she felt worried, even scared...
As that was happening, back with the leaders of the Factions, they looked outside, seeing that it was snowing. Serafall grinned, as she murmured "Looks like Haru-chan decided to get some serious time in~" and knew that because he did, she wouldn't have to worry about him now, even against someone like Katerea.
"Wow, I haven't really seen it up close like this, but the snow and pure white ice running across the area is so beautiful."
Gabriel began, with Michael nodding.
"So this is the power of the current wielder of Absolute Demise, it is quite clear that he's very capable. Actually, he even managed to think of plans against the enemies that could attack. Even you Azazel had your own subordinate caught out."
Azazel showed a small smirk on his lips.
"Yeah, seems that he did. Well, it isn't like Bikou was one of my more loyal members, I did have some question marks. Originally, it was to be Slash Dog that attended, but he became busy with something else, I wonder if Bikou made it so that he'd be chosen since I was limited on options? It is also a reason I chose Baraqiel to come with me, in case something did happen. But I believe that I don't have to worry since it seems the son of Baraqiel is going to handle it very well."
Serafall nodded.
"Yup! Haru-chan did his best, and is managing to kick some butt! Isn't that a good thing~?!"
Hearing the hyperactive ways of Serafall, Sirzechs couldn't agree more.
Baraqiel looked out of the window, and thought about the best thing that he'd be able to do.
"Perhaps I should go..."
Baraqiel began, but Serafall shook her head.
"That wouldn't do any good at all."
"But my children are out there."
"Going out now, when they're handling things themselves perfectly, it is something that wouldn't do you any good. It is up to you what you want to do when regarding them, but I know Haru-chan very intimately, and I know that he has many feelings regarding you, and there are negative ones. You'd have to see it from his perspective, he was alone out there for a year, as a child, and witnessed horrors, no one should have to."
"Yes...you're right, I can't take back the past."
Azazel looked towards Baraqiel, and then towards Serafall.
"Family drama, it should be between parent and child after all."
Azazel laughed it off, Serafall agreed.
But there was something inside of her that she needed to say to Baraqiel directly.
"It is, I'm just saying that something's can't be a quick fix. One big gesture isn't going to always solve everything, and looking at it from their point of view, it looked like you abandoned them. Perhaps you did, perhaps you didn't, that's for you all to discuss. But, I will say that if you hurt Haru-chan anymore, I will freeze you solid. He's been through enough, he doesn't need anymore pain."
Baraqiel felt unnerved.
Serafall, the bubbly cheerful girl, suddenly was saying some dangerous things.
To the point that even Sirzechs began to worry about Serafall, and what she was going to do.
"Wow...my best friend is really mad right now, and I am too."
Despite saying that, Gabriel was smiling happily, though her eyebrows were furrowed ever so slightly to the point that it was very hard to see, but she was doing so, because like Serafall, she also wished to protect Haruki and make sure that he was safe.
Back with Vali, she watched as Creuserey summoned his Devils to his side, and they, rather than attack, began transferring their power towards Creuserey. More than she had thought, the man's power was growing stronger and stronger.
"Did you think that I'd be fighting you alone, Vali Lucifer? Even I'm not a fool and know from your dirty blood that you have a Longinus. So, I've been gathering Devils that will give me their power, the power to end your pathetic existence."
Vali watched as Creuserey summons a large magic circle. From the circle, a number of lances of light appear. It was clearly light magic, as opposed to the natural light abilities of the Fallen Angels and regular Angels, but because it was being enhanced by a good number of Devils that were around weak High Class level, added to the boost of power that Creuserey got when he swallowed the snake, it was something that Vali knew she'd not have time to waste around with.
So she crossed her arms as she channelled her aura.
"Balance Break."
Immediately saying that, the aura of the Dragon inside increased around her. Her body enveloped in a snow white glow, as the form of armour wrapped around her being. Covering her head to toe in the beautiful snow white armour, her light wings grew larger as Creuserey snickered at the sight.
"Even with the power of the Divine Dividing, I have obtained the powers of Ophis."
"So, that was Ophis' snake."
Vali was suspicious about it.
But this just confirmed it for her that was the case.
"That's right, the power obtained through the usage of Ophis. I was able to grow even more with the power of Ophis on my side, and now, this is the power that I'm going to release on you. If you blink, then you'll die!"
Vali rolled her eyes as he shot off the amount of light lances for her body. Extending her wings, she shot off into the air, and shot for him. Travelling at speeds that surpassed most in the area, even Creuserey was having trouble keeping up with her, as she elegantly weaved her way through the attacks.
However, she noticed one of the attacks managed to pierce her right side. The armour blocked the damage fully transmitting through her, but because of the light aspect of it, as a Devil, she felt it go through her.
"Damn."
Vali murmured, watching as many of the attacks were coming around.
As some attacks came close to her being, the wings of light behind her began to glow more and more.
"All in the space around me, no matter even if it is light, shall be halved."
[Half Dimension!]
Using the ability Half Dimension, space around her began to be halved, the size and power along with it become nothing as the time they reached Vali's form, they simply were reduced to flea like sizes, bouncing off of Vali's armour without much trouble.
Creuserey pulled back as Vali extended her hand, summoning her demonic power, and shot it off in a strong wave of it. Cutting through the air, Vali's attack nearly reached Creuserey who activated several barrier circles to defend against such an attack.
However, Vali anticipated this, and pushed her Divine Dividing further, by extending her wings even more, even though she hadn't touched the barrier physically, because her aura was being sent out, she could divide from a distance, something that she had been working on, though currently it was only an option she'd use when she wished to gain an advantage or if she couldn't get close enough to land an attack.
[Divide! Divide! Divide!]
Halving it three times, the barrier shattered and the demonic power continued until it pierced Creuserey's stomach, making him bleed.
"You bitch! Since when could you do that?! The data didn't say anything about that!"
"Your data is flawed."
Replying coolly, Creuserey looked at his stomach, seeing the blood coming out of him, and his eyes shot for the woman once more, anger on his face.
"Even if it is off a little bit, I know you wouldn't be able to use that technique all of the time."
Vali didn't accept or deny what Creuserey was saying, instead it seemed that Vali wasn't going to answer it, and simply let out another wave of her demonic power, this time it came out as many bullets in the air.
Scowling, Creuserey did the same thing, and unleashed a hailstorm of demonic attacks. Powered by Ophis and the other Devils, allowed his power to shine, and matched the incredible power of Vali, meeting again and again within the air, and cancelling out the others attacks.
Vali huffed, knowing that this wasn't going anywhere, so she poured her power into speed, and crossed the distance. She managed to escape all of the attacks that Creuserey fired off, engaging in hand to hand combat instead.
Reeling her fist back, she sent it off in a strong movement, only for Creuserey to block it with several defensive circles.
But, because she was wearing her armour, Vali was able to use the power she had without limits, and divided the power off of the circles as her fist made contact with them, absorbing the power and increasing her own striking power, igniting worry within Creuserey who began to panic at the sight before him.
"No, you can't do something like this! I wont allow you to get by me!"
The young man revealed his magic, and attempted to bind Vali with a sealing spell.
But Vali shrugged it off by releasing her aura, and using the Divine Dividing power at the same time to half the power of the spell, managing to land several blows upon Creuserey, and her last punch managed to land heavily against his face, sending him flying down to the ground.
Smashing into the earth, Creuserey felt the pain of the assault across his body.
"No...we've already come this far...we can't let it go now...it has to end with this bitches death...even if I can just take her down, then the others...they'd be able to continue on, and I'd have made a difference here."
Creuserey saw that Vali was strong.
Even with the power up from Ophis, it seemed Vali's speed, and technique simply outshined his own.
"Damn you...you are a monster Vali...but I wont die now!"
Turning on Vali, he placed his hand towards his Devil followers, and activated something within them as they shot for Vali.
She wasn't sure what it was, but she did see a dangerous glow to them, so before they could do anything, she allowed her demonic power to shoot off, piercing one of them, but he suddenly exploded, the shockwave being enough to cause even Vali to feel it from the position that she was currently in.
"He turned them into living bombs...he must be desperate. And foolish."
Vali watched as more came for her.
She went to take them down, when Creuserey used his magical powers to summon more light within his hands, and shoot them off towards Vali in an attempt to lock her down with an assault on two fronts.
As he did, Vali summoned demonic power around her hands, increased with the power of the Dragon that she wore, and unleashed it towards her opponents attacks to take them down.
Astonishing Creuserey as the attacks met, Vali's power was even matching up against his own, something that he couldn't accept.
"No, I wont let you!"
Channelling more and more power into his being, he summoned more light lances through magic, and shot them for Vali.
Vali went to take them down, when Creuserey used a transportation spell on his own attack, causing them to disappear in the air, Vali scowled when she saw this, as she saw two of the Devils get in close to her.
Knowing what they could do if exploded, she grabbed their shirts, and tossed them high into the sky, shooting off her demonic power to kill them, exploding them in the air.
But because she did that, she received a light attack from behind, piercing her back and caused her to wince at the feeling.
However, it wasn't enough for Vali to be deterred, and she simply ripped the light out of her, and crushed it under her hand, dispelling it into the air, while the armour fixed itself, as she turned her hand towards Creuserey.
As she shot off some of her power, the Devils got in the way, and took the attacks, causing them to explode, and the shockwave caused Vali to be swept up in it.
Flipping back, she adjusted in the air, only to see that Creuserey had already shot off a strong wave of his aura.
"You come to an end right now Vali!"
Creuserey watched as two of the Devils flanked Vali, as she turned, and pierced them with her fists, added with demonic power.
Because of that, they exploded almost immediately, as a rain of light came from Creuserey.
The explosion, toppled with the light attacks, Creuserey heard Vali let out a cry, as he saw pieces of her armour drop out of the smoke.
He couldn't believe it, that he had actually managed to incapacity her, or even just injure her, she was going to go down.
"Yes…! Yes! This is it! Now die Vali!"
Giddily, Creuserey unleashed all of his power into a single shot through the air.
The sphere was large, larger than himself, and filled to the brim with demonic energy.
However, what shocked him was the power simply cut through the smoke without meeting anything, and continued going into the air, until it smashed into the barrier that was surrounding the area.
"Wait, what..."
Before he could continue, he suddenly felt a hand on his back, and demonic power ripping through his skin.
"You underestimated my ability and because of that, you're done."
The voice was Vali's.
He became more shocked than he had been before.
He couldn't move, Vali wouldn't let him.
"But how...your armour..."
Vali laughed.
"I tore some of it off, and dropped it down to the ground. Using Half Dimension, I caused the explosion to be halved, and therefore didn't bother me as much, focusing on a smaller area, I could boost the defence. While the smoke was there, I simply went across the battlefield, and got behind you, covering my tracks and keeping my demonic power as undetectable as possible. With those that have Senjutsu or incredible sensing ability it probably wouldn't work, but with you, it did. Now this is the end of the fight, goodbye."
Panic came to Creuserey.
He didn't know what he was going to do.
Vali then however unleashed her demonic power, killing off the Devil completely in a single shot.
As she did, she saw from the heavens, snow was beginning to fall, and she laughed.
"Seems like Haruki's released Balance Breaker, he's probably going to be finished soon as well."
Musing to herself aloud, she looked around as ice covered below her feet.
She looked back and wondered what he was going to be doing now.
As that was going on, Kuroka, Koneko, Ravel, Asia, Sona, Yuuto and Akeno were fighting off some magicians together.
"I'll make the first move."
Yuuto gripped his sword tightly as he ran rings around the magicians, and cut them down again and again. Because they were human and weren't trained to fight up close, they didn't have the reaction speed to get around the attacks Yuuto gave and they ended up downed.
"Ara, if my Otouto is doing it, then I will as well!"
Akeno, showing her S side, summoned some lightning, and aimed it at the enemy magicians, before shooting it off in a dense blast of it, the magicians tried to raise a barrier, and while blocking the first round of electricity, the second round Akeno gave off caused the barriers to shatter, and they in turn got electrocuted.
"Well, when in Rome Ravel-chan, right?"
Kuroka grinned, moving her hands on the ground, and caused it to begin sinking in on them. The control over the ground was so excellent that even Koneko was surprised at how the magicians got stuck under the ground.
"Then let me finish these ones off."
Ravel's hand lit up with her clans fire, and like a flamethrower, she directed it for the enemies, unleashing a wave of fire that burned through the magicians, taking them out of the fight with ease, as she whirled her head around, seeing some magicians coming in for her.
"...I've got it."
Koneko jumped up, and slammed her small fist deep into their bodies, adding their Senjutsu onto it, causing their bodies to be disrupted and brought down to the ground.
"Everyone, if you get hurt, please come to see me!"
Asia added her own thoughts, hoping she wouldn't have to heal anyone as she didn't want to see anyone be injured, but was fully prepared to in case that it would happen.
"It seems that the groups of Rias and Haruki are pretty strong. Then I'll also get involved."
Sona raised her hand, and summoned water. Gathering it from all around her, she summoned several wolves and caused them to shoot for her opponents. Tracking them down, the magicians fired off flames for the water to dispel it, but Sona controlled the water so finely that they dodged the attacks, and bit into their flesh, taking them down in a single attack.
While taking out the magicians, they suddenly felt cold.
But not at the same time.
They also saw the magicians on the ground were freezing while they themselves didn't feel the cold at all.
"Huh, this ice is..."
Sona began, as Akeno smirked.
"Seems like Haruki has unleashed the power of his Balance Breaker. Ufufu, I wonder what opponent it was that he did that with? Katerea perhaps? Maybe he wanted to teach that naughty Old Satan girl a little lesson~"
Seeing Akeno giggling, caused Asia to smile weakly, while Kuroka stretched her arms.
"This fight should be over with..."
As she spoke, she suddenly paused, and the hair on the back of her neck began standing.
"What is it?"
Ravel asked, noticing that Koneko followed what Kuroka did.
"I sense something nyaa..."
"...Something dark."
Koneko added.
Each of them looked on, curious as to what was going on with them…
As that happened, Rias, Isane, Gasper who was wearing the ring Azazel gave out to control the power that he had, Xenovia and Irina were making their way towards the Old School building once more.
Some magicians came to attack, when Xenovia brought out Durandal, raised it high and then swung it down, releasing a powerful holy wave, intercepting the attack. They tried to run, but Irina wrapped them up with her changing Excalibur Mimic into a rope.
Because of that, they couldn't escape, and were finished off by the duos combo attack.
"Damn, you two are so in time with one another."
Isane had to admit that seeing how they worked together was fantastic, and they didn't even have to look at one another for their attacks to be executed together.
"Yes, it does seem like that."
Rias agreed, Gasper looked on and saw the duo taking down more and more magicians together.
"It seems that the magicians have been cleared from here."
Xenovia reported, as Irina saluted.
"Yup, you'll be safe coming this way! Lets get to it!"
Rias bowed her head.
"Thanks both of you, this will help us out greatly."
Isane looked around as she saw something happening to the ground.
It was beginning to freeze, and the ice was heading for them.
"H-Hey, the ice...should we be worried about that?"
Irina looked and smiled.
"I don't think so~"
"Yeah, it's just Haruki releasing Balance Breaker. It seems he's found an opponent to do just that with. It will be fine Ise."
Rias assured Isane who nodded slowly.
As the ice ran over their bodies, they felt the cold but it didn't feel extremely cold. It was cold for a few moments, before the temperature became normal once more. Even the ice below their feet that had frozen the ground didn't feel odd to them at all.
"I haven't seen his Balance Breaker fully up close before, I wonder what it is like?"
Xenovia pondered, Isane inclined her neck.
"I've seen it once, and it looks really beautiful. But I didn't get to see it up close, I watched a video about it."
Irina bent down and placed her hand on the ice.
"Weird, even though it is ice, I don't feel the cold from it at all."
"Yes...that's right, because it is Haruki's ice, it will only affect those that are against him. And since none of us are..."
As Rias spoke, from the sky, snow began to fall, Gasper reached out and felt the snow fall onto his hand.
"Senpai's snow, it's so nice...and pretty."
Rias was glad that Gasper was feeling better than before.
"We should keep moving, who knows what opponents will be out here."
Xenovia said, with Irina agreeing.
"She's right, I don't like the feeling that I have, that something could happen. We should get this done quickly."
Rias nodded.
"Yes, lets go."
Deciding that together, they took off running so they could get back to the others.
As they walked however, Bikou's eyes fell on them as he managed to stop the ice fully freezing him, and looked with wild eyes.
Smirking to himself...he was about to have a little fun.
Back with Haruki, the ice doll and he came together, as Katerea looked on. The frozen world around them had caused all of her water to become ice. Though the nights light caught the ice and looked very beautiful…
To Katerea, it looked frightening.
She looked at Haruki, and felt the cold from where she was, despite him being a good distance away from her.
"You...You wont beat me! You can't!"
Katerea rejected it.
She wouldn't be killed so easily.
But Haruki took a step forward.
"You wanted to kill me, right? Come and try it now. You had your power up, now it's time to show you mine."
Katerea's breathing became rapid in her chest.
Near uncontrollable, she wasn't able to even think straight because of it.
"You might have that Longinus, but I have the power of Ophis."
"Correction, you have a snake of Ophis. If you had Ophis' actual power, then I'd be in for a world of trouble. But because you don't have that power, and your power itself is still something that I can manage, it is something that I am going to have to shut down right here and now."
Panic came over the young woman.
Even more than before, she looked at possible ways to fight the cold.
Even now, she could feel it growing on her skin, it took her demonic power to simply stay from freezing directly. He wasn't even doing anything as far as she was aware, all he was doing was standing there, his armour was that intensely cold that she could see that everything before him would freeze.
"Fine...you might command the cold, but I command the oceans! And because of that, you will rue the day that you ever thought of crossing me!"
Summoning a round of demonic power, she shot it off at high speeds.
But as it came close to Haruki, the power froze in the air.
Not because Haruki did anything, but because the ice armour naturally froze all harmful things, and the demonic power qualified.
Katerea took a step back, as Haruki moved closer.
"You had your power up, now you get to experience my own."
Swinging out his hand, a field of ice erupted into many spires, electrified by Holy Lightning, and headed for Katerea.
She screamed, conjuring barriers to defend against the wild attacks.
But even doing that, they were hit and froze instantly, shattering and continued on for her.
"No! I can't accept it! I wont accept it! Hey, idiots! Summon even more water! I can't lose to this disgusting half breed!"
Having called her servants, they did as they were tasked, creating a huge wave of water, that Katerea turned into several serpents. Haruki saw that she had created ten, that all went towards Haruki and his ice attacks.
Meeting one another, the ice pierced through the snakes, and the lightning destroyed it within a matter of a second or so, and continued on for Katerea, who wasn't going to stop, and sent more and more of her water serpents out.
The water serpents stopped one wave of the ice, but the ice doll had her own attack coming, and they all headed for Katerea, who couldn't summon the water in time, and received blunt force damage, injuring her greatly.
Smashing into the ground, she coughed up bile, while Haruki noticed that she was bleeding a good bit.
"It seems that you've got some wounds. I'm not sure how long you'll be able to continue on."
Katerea panted, her eyes going back towards Haruki who looked on with a cold expression on his face.
"You don't know me...you know nothing about me...and I am going to be the one that ends you!"
Katerea slammed her hands on the ground, as several summoning circles appeared.
Coming out of them were some Devils. Haruki counted over fifty Devils that had a good amount of power. Together with them was some magicians that he counted to be over twenty, and they began using their magic, increasing the powers of the Devils.
"Now it's time to die Queen of Serafall."
"Yeah, with the humans power, we shall kill you!"
"Then we'll go for your King!"
Because they got a boost in power, they arrogantly threatened Haruki.
However, Haruki knew it wouldn't be enough.
"They have indeed increased their powers. But they've gone from Middle Class power, to High Class power. And I'm used to fighting threats of this level. In fact, I fight my adorable Vali-chan almost everyday and she's got insane levels of power!"
Haruki moved over to the side of his ice doll.
Katerea managed to stand tall, and summoned her water serpents, as the Devils charged their demonic powers, and aimed them for Haruki.
"It seems we should do a sweep of cold, don't you think so my adorable Queen?"
The ice doll looked down at Haruki, and tilted her head.
"My King, we have more to do than these people, let us make sure they've been stopped. Lets unleash a storm of ice, and lightning."
"Fufu, it is like you read my mind."
Katerea watched as the ice doll, and Haruki placed their hands together.
As soon as they did, a whirlwind of snow and ice erupted around them. Combining their abilities together, Holy Lightning was added into the mix, and the area soon became a mixture of the two of them.
Because of the intense power surrounding them, the Devils and Katerea were stunned.
Then the power was released in a strong burst.
The Devils gasped, and fired off their attacks.
But like Katerea suspected, the ice froze them and the Holy Lightning destroyed them at the same time.
"No way..."
"This is the power...of Absolute Demise?"
"It can't end like this!"
They couldn't stand up to the might of the ice and lightning.
They watched in despair as the ice came over them, freezing them in place, while Haruki's lightning shattered their entire existences.
The magicians also tried to activate transportation type circles, but they were also frozen and then shattered.
Katerea sent out her attacks, and water serpents came fast and hard.
But at the might of the ice and lightning storm, no attack of water was able to get through and a huge explosion erupted out, catching Katerea in it, who went flying back until her body smashed into the side of a barrier.
Bloody, bruised and in pain, Haruki watched as Katerea grabbed the dirt below you.
"It seems that this is over, I'll end it here."
Katerea looked down in deep regret.
The fact that she lost to Haruki…
She couldn't accept it.
She didn't want to accept it.
Her eyes shot for the young man who looked back at her, his eyes not wavering for even a moment.
"You think...this is enough for me? You think…I will die to a lowly Reincarnated Devil? I am the blood of Leviathan! I am the true successor of Leviathan! You are nothing to me!"
"Even with the power of Ophis giving you more than you had before, it wasn't enough. You were blessed thanks to your genes, but you never trained your powers. I can see it for myself. You might have been blessed by Leviathan, but you wasted the power you had. And what's more, you tried to harm my King, one of the women I love. So, you've chosen your own fate."
Katerea shook as she felt a wave of killing intent come over her.
Directed from Haruki, Katerea wasn't sure what she'd be able to do now.
Her powers would be frozen.
Her attacks couldn't reach him now.
Even with the power of Ophis...she knew she only had one way left now.
"...You don't know anything, you know nothing of me! And I'll show you how you're going to die! Even if I'm going to be taken with you!"
In a last ditch effort, Katerea activated a spell.
It was a spell that caused magical symbols to appear across her flesh.
Haruki looked upon them, studying them for a few moments before coming to a conclusion.
"So you're going to self destruct?"
"That's right!"
"Are you really that filled with hate that you want to kill yourself, just to kill me?"
"I'd rather die my way than any other way!"
In an odd way, Haruki could respect that.
He would want the same thing, if he was to die.
But, he also knew that Katerea's mind was twisted, and her anger had taken over her.
Haruki disappeared from her sight.
She looked desperately for him…
But then suddenly felt something piercing her chest from behind.
She looked down to see a blade of ice coated in Holy Lightning had been sliced across her body.
Her eyes went back to see Haruki looking towards her.
"Goodbye Katerea."
Katerea's eyes froze as did her body, she was taken out of the fight...
Once confirming what had happened with her, Haruki looked around and thought about which place would be best for him to go.
However, that decision was about to be made for him, as out of the shadows...a creature was beginning to emerge...
End chapter!
So this chapter dealt with three different parts, rescuing and encouraging Gasper, Haruki vs Katerea, and Vali vs Creuserey.
Haruki fought Katerea, who had some assistance to fight him, even revealing her clans power, though not to the extent as someone like Ingvild could use, I thought it would be cool to show it here. Creuserey also fought Vali with some assistance for him as well, trying Light Magic and other kind of tactics. But King and Queen came back swinging and took them down without much issues once showcasing their own true powers.
Isane, Rias, Xenovia and Irina also managed to get Gasper, and helped overcome some worries the Vampire had, and unleash his power, enough for the trio to defeat a good deal of magicians.
As they did that, Sona and the rest of them also fought off the other remaining magicians and Devils that were around, as Baraqiel spoke to Serafall who told him that she wouldn't let anything happen to Haruki, the same for Gabriel.
But it seems that something has come out to go after Haruki, while Bikou's set his eyes on Isane's group.
Well, until next time, thanks for reading.
Haruki's peerage
Queen; Vali.
Rooks; Koneko, Xenovia.
Bishops; Ravel, Asia.
Knights; Lint, Meredith.
Pawns; Elmenhilde (two pieces), Kuroka (three pieces), Le Fay (three pieces).
Haruki; Serafall, Sona, Ravel, Koneko, Kuroka, Gabriel, Akeno, Vali (fem), Isane, Xenovia, Rias, Irina, Asia, Rossweisse, Le Fay, Meredith, Elmenhilde, Lint, Ophis, Yasaka, Kunou,
