Welcome to the next chapter of The Magic Knight, before starting the story. Let's answer some reviews:
Waka12: I don't think that would be a good idea to add Escanor into his brave saints, but it would fit if he were related to Sir Gawain from Fate.
Hellspam: Thanks. I think that at this point she can only handle so much of her sister being well herself. I think that her spirit was sealed inside of the Sessho Seki.
Guest: I will be updated later.
HanzoHasashi24: It was already updated.
A 'Reincarnated' writer: Thanks. That will be a terrifying technique in DxD; especially for the male characters.
Guest 2: There will be people who will desire to follow the descendant of the First Hero. Being the person he is there will be people like that. It sounds like an interesting idea and it will be a shock to Kiba if Siegfried survived.
Dragon god king: Thanks. You can thank the Guest who suggested her to me. I will find out what to do with Tamamo no Mae. Gilgamesh will have those weapons.
Guest 3: Thanks. Anyone would suspect that creepy smile that he wears most of the time. I think that she would be a great addition.
Guest 4: I don't know whether or not they will be introduced into the story.
Guest 5: I'd rather make her into a brave saint after the incident when Odin accidentally leaves her in Japan. He was able to take attacks from both Issei and Vali at the same time. I think that it's well known around the other factions.
Justin D: Thanks. That does sound like something that Christian will do and you don't want to mess with him. Those are the remaining ones that he has left. I really don't feel like adding another character from other anime.
Guest 6: Thanks. I wanted to do something different for this story; he does have the moments where it's awesome to read or watch but then gets derailed when he mentions breasts. It's good to hear that you like Lance's personality along with that scene about her being chosen as his fiance. As for both Liu Bei and Gilgamesh, I'll make sure that their introductions will be amazing. I think that she would be made into his pact creature.
Guest 7: I think that you're referring to Laevateinn. Individuals like Lint and Freed are a group of Artificial Humans made to wield the Demon Sword Gram. I already have something planned for Tamamo-no-Mae.
Naruto: I already have some people for joining Gilgamesh's side in the Hero Faction, but he sounds like an interesting character to add to his team. I already thought about some of the characters not being able to develop themselves due to the lack of more villains to assist them.
Tohka123: Thanks. Anyone like Lance would enjoy his own lab to the fullest and you're correct that they are trying to get along with one another. A fair battle between Devils and Angels in a Rating Game would be interesting to see. Both those seem to be an interesting idea for Lint to join his Brave Saints and for Tamano-no-Mae as his pact creature.
King0fPowers: No, that won't cause any issues. Throughout most of the light novel Angels only used their light weapons and not fire off beams of light, aside from those who use their own unique holy abilities (Holy Lightning or Holy Flames). Like most people, Lance is considered to be one of their Aces against the Khaos Brigade due to his abilities. In terms of overall attributes, Evil Pieces would be better since they are granted enhancement to their specific traits, while the Queen gains a far balance enhancement; the Brave Saints mainly specialize in teamwork and pulling off powerful attacks whenever they work together. On a later note, after all the things that he has done no one would allow Freed to live.
DraigTrueEmperor9: Thanks. Since she spent most of her time insulting them, of course, she would be a bit suspicious of their motives. That would be the case considering that there have been times when they couldn't spend together. I thought that people would be surprised that she is their club adviser and Serafall is kind of clingy when it concerns either Sona or Lance; her saying that to everyone would be hilarious to read. Xenovia saying that to everyone would possible cause far more hatred to be directed at him. Anyone would be suspicious after this guy just appearing out of nowhere and with that creepy smile on his face. You should at least finish the light novel since you already came this far towards the end; if this was canon then he would attack both of them for doing that; along with Saji being angry after hearing his dream girl being with someone else. As I said before, it kinda makes it difficult to decide who to root for (Sona who wants to build a school for lower class devils. And Sairaorg who trained his life to gain his strength to change the Underworld so devils without talent won't be persecuted and those with talent, but without status can make a name for themselves). Of course, he is a cool character, I mean the guy awakened his Balance Breaker the moment he was born. If I did that then I would have to find someone to replace her in Rias' Team, plus it would be difficult for Gasper to fight against Valerie. You're right those two would be interesting.
Guest 8: I will keep that in mind, but I might end up getting her a different appearance.
Okay. These reviews were placed in the past chapters, but I'll answer them due to their nature:
Zero: That sounds like an interesting idea, but I already have an idea much similar to that one. You know when I saw that image of Zeref in Fairy Tail, I actually thought about using it for his Altered God State. I can work out the part about his form potentially surpassing his father, grandmother and his ancestor, but I don't think that it would be a good idea to make his strength on the same level as Ophis who represents Infinity, let alone his deceased grandfather that would make it less interesting to read about.
Guest 8: I like the idea of adding Mordred into the same faction as Gilgamesh.
Preparation for the Sports Festival
It had been a couple of days since the start of the second semester, currently inside the homeroom class of Lance and the others. Many of the students were picking what they would do for the upcoming sports festival. Every single event and who would do them was being written down by Kiryuu who stood in front of the class.
"Yes Yes! I will do the [Item Borrowing Race]!"
Irina rose up her hand cheerfully, since joining the class, Irina was almost immediately accepted by all the students. Her fellow students mainly enjoy her cheerful demeanor and upbeat attitude, and she even moved into the Du Lac Residence with everyone else. Since moving into the house, she enjoyed her talks with the girls living there, even Yuuma sometimes when she had nothing better to do. Most of the time they would also play on the gaming console in Lance's room or watch movies (that weren't at all picked by Xenovia) in the living room.
Lance could only laugh a bit as Irina chose to do the Item Borrowing Race, and he already chose an event that he would do for the sports festival. Though he noticed that while there were some students who were hyped for the festival, there was another student who only lied their head down on the table in deep thought about the events that had transpired in the days until now.
Even Lance and Christian was informed that Diodora became an obsessive stalker sending Asia several gifts and letters that were taken care of by Rias who destroyed them using her power of destruction. It turned to the point where Asia could barely focus on her school work and class lessons; so it would be decided that Christian would have a conversation with his older brother later on.
As Kiryuu moved onto the [Three-Legged Race], she looked towards the classroom and noticed that no one raised up their hand. She then stared at Issei who wasn't paying attention.
"Hyoudou."
Issei was suddenly called by Kiryuu and looked up from his desk, staring at her with an almost blank look on his face. After gaining his attention, Kiryuu pointed towards his sleeve.
"There's a tear under your armpit."
"Eh? Seriously?"
Issei asked as he rose his arm up to see the tear, but he couldn't see anything. Before he could realize the situation that he was in before writing down [Hyoudou Issei] near the event.
"Yes! It's decided!"
"Uwah! You tricked me Kiryuu!"
Issei slammed his hand on his desk as he glared towards the spectated female pervert who simply gave off a lecherous laugh. But the box next to Issei's name wasn't filled in.
"You will be doing the three-legged race. Your partner is…."
Hearing that, Asia raised up her hand timidly with her face turning a slight shade of red.
"We will have you and Asia do the three-legged race."
Like that, his partner for the three-legged race was decided.
"It's your own fault for not paying attention."
The next day, everyone in Kuoh Academy was practicing for the upcoming sports festival. Outside on one of the fields was the entire classroom that Lance and the others were in. All of them were dressed in their gym clothing performing a number of workouts and activities.
"I challenge you Xenovia!"
"Bring it on Irina!"
Both Irina and Xenovia stood beside one another on the track field preparing for a race. As both were prepping to take off their fellow classmates begun to cheer both of them on. Taking off with speed that is impossible for humans, but not enough to draw in too much attention. This was to only be expected by two reincarnated angels. Lance could only sit down on the ground and watch as both of the former teammates competed against one another giving off a slight laugh.
Due to the supernatural individual inside their classroom, they would be the most likely to win in the sports festival; the only ones who could compete with them would be the second-year students of the student council along with those inside the same class as Kiba.
"…But if they move that fast, it's hard to see the movement of oppai."
"Yeah."
Hearing the perverted comments that came from both Matsuda and Motohama as the both of them focused on the movement of their breasts, Lance twitched his eyes a bit out of annoyance.
BONK! BONK!
""Ouch! Ise, you bastard!""
Both Matsuda and Motohama punched both of them on the back of their heads, the two of them glared at Issei with an annoyed glare from both their eyes.
"You guys really need to chill out."
Issei said as he reprimanded his two perverted friends.
"Oh, Hyoudou."
"Ah. Saji."
Issei greeted Saji as he turned in his direction, Saji walked in their direction wearing his gym uniform and carrying measuring tools.
"What are you doing?"
"Reprimanding these two."
"Again? You sure don't change."
Saji sighs after hearing the perverted antics from both Issei's friends as the two walked away to go observe the breasts of female students somewhere else. Issei looked towards the bandage that was wrapped around Saji's right arm, these bindings didn't look to be normal.
"What's with that bandage?"
"Hmm? Oh, this."
Taking note of Issei's curiosity, Saji made sure that no one was around before undoing the bandages that were on his arm. Once he did that seemed to be black markings resembling snake wrapped on his arm and a purple jewel that looks similar to the ones on the Boosted Gear and Divine Dividing.
"…What is that?"
"When I asked Azazel-sensei, he told me the cause of this happened when I had a battle with you in the last game. Apparently, connecting myself with you, the Sekiryuutei, who reached Balance Breaker and taking your blood had an influence on my body. It seems like the line which was disconnected from my body also reflected the information of the Sekiryuutei it had taken data of."
Saji explained, which caught Lance's attention as he walked over towards them.
"You serious? Is it bad?"
"No, it seems like it doesn't have a bad influence. It's just that it's appearing on my body. Like this, for example."
What Saji was referring to was the jewel that wasn't originally on the Absorption Line. Taking note of it, Lance stepped in front of him examining his arm.
"…Maybe you got cursed?"
When Issei said that, Saji made a really disturbed face.
"Uwaa….. Don't say something which I was having concerns about…. Did you know that Vritra didn't leave that much of a good legend?"
Lance then looked towards Saji with a questioning look on his face.
"You mind showing me your hand?"
"Uh, sure."
Lance narrowed his eyes at Saji's after directing it towards him, for a second Lance's eyes seemed to glow with a pale white light. As he continued to examine Saji's right arm. Once he was finished, Lance closed his eyes for a second and smirked a bit.
"You don't have to worry about it much there was no adverse effect on your body if anything this should make you even stronger in the future. If those who get involved with either the Sekiryuutei or the Hakuryuukou, then those around them will go through a mysterious development. And considering that the Absorption Line is made from just one piece of Vritra's soul absorbing the blood from the Sekiryuutei must have stirred him awake."
Lance explained to Saji as he stepped away from him.
"You know it always kinds of disturbed me how easily you can read about a person's sacred gear."
"Huh? I've been told that a lot."
Since that part of their conversation had already finished, they decided to change the subject towards their normal school activities.
"So what activities will you be doing Hyoudou?"
"I'm doing the three-legged race. It's been decided that I'm doing it with Asia."
"Ku! You seriously are a lucky bastard! I'm doing the bread-eating race."
Saji said as he glared at Issei with a bit of jealousy shown on his face after hearing what activity that Issei will be doing as compared to him. As Saji was complaining he felt a sudden cold chill going down his spine, just then the spectacled president and vice-president who stared at the only male in their group with their glasses shining dangerously.
"Saji what are you doing? We will be checking the setting of each of the tents, so follow us quickly."
"We, the student council, lack manpower anyway so please work."
Both Sona and Tsubaki informed him in an almost too stoic tone, something that sent an even more cold chill down his spine.
"Y-Yes Kaichou! Fuku-Kaichou!"
"Hey, Sona-chan."
Lance called out as he waved towards her, seeing him caused Sona to softened a bit into one belonging to a girl her age and she waved back towards him. Seeing the look on her face caused Saji to inch a bit towards Lance and whispered.
"Hey, Lance since you and Kaichou are close. Do you think that you can ask her to calm down a bit with our―?"
"What was that Saji?"
Sona asked returning to her usual demeanor.
"Nothing, here I come!"
Saji ran in the direction of Sona and Tsubaki while waving his hand towards both of them.
[-Vritra aye.]
Both Lance and Issei could hear Ddraig speaking out loud enough for just them to hear his voice.
"Hmm? Ddraig, what do you mean?"
[The Prison Dragon or at least a piece of his soul had been sealed inside this child's body has begun to awaken. The being known as a Dragon King has begun to awaken even this state…no matter the level it's almost nearly impossible to take out one of those dragons completely.]
Avon answered Ddraig's question from the holster wear Lance kept him placed in.
[Close to you, there are Fafnir and Vritra. And you have met with Tannin. Looks like this host has strong ties with each of the Dragon-Kings.]
Issei couldn't help, but admit that he hated when Ddraig went into his own world and not answering the question that he asked.
"Asia! Did your oppai develop during the summer holiday?"
"Kyaa! Kiryuu-san! Please don't grope them!"
Another conversation caught his attention as Issei turned his head towards Kiryuu who was currently sexually assaulting Asia by groping her still developing breast from behind. Both Issei and Lance stared annoyingly at her spectacled pervert.
"Ise-kun, you sure became friends with perverts."
"*Sigh* Asia! Let's practice!"
Issei said has he got Kiryuu off of her and grasp her hand for a second, causing the cute blonde flush a bit. But, she agreed that the two of them needed to practice for the three-legged race together if they were going to win.
"Y-Yes!"
Asia responded nervously as she bowed her head in the direction of her perverted friend and went over towards Issei who held rope used to tie their legs together in his hand. After joining the others who were practicing for the Three-Legged Race, Issei could immediately tell that their rhythm when they ran was a bit off.
"Okay, let's do it immediately Asia!"
Issei said energetically as he tied their legs together, once that was done she put her hand on his hip and he did the same. Once they together Issei could smell how nice her hair was and how soft she held as he touched her side. Shaking off those thoughts, Issei prepped himself for the race and started to move forward.
"Now, one, two…."
While the two of them moved forward, their legs became tangled and unbalanced before they fell onto the ground. Then―
SLIP!
They slipped onto the ground, not wanting Asia to get hurt due to the fall, Issei fixed his balance and Asia fell down on top of him.
"Uoo!"
"Kyaa!"
"…H-Hmm…Looks like I need to keep my rhythm the same as Asia's."
When Issei looked up to see if she was okay, he noticed that she had a red face almost as if she was trying to endure something. Issei then felt something really stop being transmitted to his right hand and he finally realized that he had groped Asia's breasts.
"S-Sorry! It wasn't on purpose!"
"…I-It's alright. I'm okay. But please tell me you will touch them beforehand…. I also need to get ready for it―"
"Alright, then let's―"
CHILLS!
Issei felt an almost unbearably cold chill going down his spine, but it was almost as if this level of killing intent was only being directed at him since no one around him noticed. When he turned his head towards the source what he saw terrified him. The one who was staring down at him from the top of the school building was Christian wearing an expressionless look, but his eyes seemed to shine dangerously.
"Is there something wrong Ise-san?"
Asia questioned fully unaware that her father was sending killing intent in Issei's direction. Issei only shakily turned towards her.
"L-Let's resume our practice then."
Wanting to get rid of this feeling and onto something else, Issei decided to just continue his practice with Asia.
"Y-Yes. But I'm sorry. I'm not that good with sports."
Asia felt down since she thought that she was just holding Issei back.
"Don't worry. We just need to have the same rhythm. It's teamwork."
"T-Teamwork?"
Asia bends her neck cutely. Seeing that it sent a great feeling through him, but it didn't last as Issei felt Christian increasing his killing intent. At this point, even Ddraig felt a bit unnerved by this killing intent being sent by the current Ambrosius Family Head.
"Y-Yes, teamwork! Let's let our voice out together and move step by step. We will run after we get used to it."
"Yes."
Asia cheerfully agreed with him as Issei could sense that the killing intent directed at him decreasing, which caused him to release a sigh of relief.
"Then let's do it once more!"
"Yes!"
Like this, they started by getting their rhythm right.
After school, that same day inside of the K.O.C Club, the members of the club was lounging around in the club after their current requests were finished. Since joining the club, they were getting requests mainly asking for the assistance of Yumi, Jeanne and Yuuma due to them being new transfer students; Yumi would mainly get requests from the members of the Female Kendo Club, Jeanne would normally get requests from students needing advice when it came to becoming more noticeable and being more opened, while Yuuma had received requests from those who wanted a new look.
Due to the students knowing about intelligence, Lance would get requests from students wanting help with their homework or with fixing some equipment and sometimes he would help them learn how to be better cooks. Xenovia, on the other hand, would get requests from other sports club for her to assist them with training.
The only one who seemed to not get the most requests out of them was Irina, which caused her to be a bit saddened; but the requests that the ones that she would get would be from those wanting someone to talk about.
"I can't wait for the sports festival."
Xenovia said excitedly looking forward to the upcoming sports festival.
"Wow, you look really hyped Xeno-chan."
"Of course I am, this is a brand new experience for me. I never thought that of enjoying a festival like this during my time in the church."
"I know right Xenovia, I'm happy that I came back to my hometown. Right, Lance-kun?"
Irina questioned as she looked in his direction, but what she saw was Lance purely focusing on the screen of his personal computer. Based on his screen, he looked to be working on different kinds of projects that held almost his whole attention with different codes running down the screen.
"Wonder what he's working on."
Jeanne wondered.
"Considering the fact this is Lance-kun we're talking about, then it's complicated." Yumi had replied as she stared at him. "You know that he sometimes gets caught in his own little world whenever he works on anything."
"If he's anything like Tou-sama, then nothing there's nothing that can distract him."
Yuuma replied as she reminisced about all the time that Azazel would work on projects concerning sacred gears or anything else related to divine creations. And about all the time that he could be shut off from anything that happened outside his work.
"Then why don't we test that theory?"
Jeanne asked with a bit of a mischievous smile. Picking up her backpack from the ground, Jeanne took out a sheet of white paper from inside. The rest of them looked at Jeanne with a curious look on their face as she began to fold, tear and construct the paper into a familiar shape. Examining it, the piece of paper looked like a ninja star.
"Such splendid crafting skill."
"I didn't know, Jeanne-chan knew how to make origami."
Both Xenovia and Irina commented as they stared at the ninja star in wonder and admiration, while Yumi only smiled wryly at their comments. Since getting to know one another, both Irina and Jeanne immediately hit it off as friends as such neither of them used any serious honorifics.
"You really are childish." Yuuma sighed.
"Just watch this," Jeanne spoke out childishly. Holding it skillfully in her hand, Jeanne directed it in the direction of Lance who still had his attention on his computer screen. With a single swift motion of her wrists, Jeanne launched it in his direction. It sailed perfectly in the air without fail flying in the direction of Lance's forehead.
Arriving in front of him, in a single swift movement, Lance caught the ninja star in the air in-between his index and middle finger. Taking a single glance away from his laptop screen, Lance looked in their direction with a wondering gaze. Without the slightest bit of hesitation, Yuuma, Yumi, Xenovia, and Irina instantly pointed in Jeanne, who then made a look of being betrayed.
"Traitors!"
Neither of them responded to the hurt tone that came from Jeanne, who was currently being stared at by Lance; while he spun the paper-made ninja start in-between his fingers. At the stare being sent at her Jeanne only laughed nervously, while trying to play it off.
"Hahaha, how did you know Lance-kun?"
"I took Elaine's advice, I decided to work on using aura to subtly increase my other traits and learned how to restore my stamina. I've actually been doing this without anyone noticing on the way to school, in the middle of classes, lunch and even during club meetings. Doing this she explained that I could shorten the time needed to do this in combat situations." Lance explained. This was a basic necessity for someone who desired to become a Paladin since they mainly fight against High-Tier Monsters and since most of their battles would last a considerable amount of time. "This is a daily training method the Paladins developed to be prepared for fighting high-tier monsters. Also, Jeanne-chan."
"Y-Yes, Lance-kun."
The tone of her voice sounded as if she were scared of what he might say.
"You're getting better at making these."
He didn't sound mad at all as he spun this ninja star around on the tip of his finger. Seeing the look on his face, Jeanne couldn't help but let out a slight sigh.
"So, Lance-sama about the conversation from the other day."
"What conversation?" Yuuma asked in curiously.
"It's about the missing numbers in my brave saints," Lance answered as he looked away from the screen on his computer. "Well, I heard from about someone from the Greek Faction and will probably head there next week. I heard about someone from the Greek Faction and we will probably be heading there next week. I also received a message from one of the Four Great Seraph, so in a couple days we'll be heading to Heaven."
Those words caused a surprised look to appear on most of their faces.
"W-We're actually going to Heaven."
Xenovia spoke out with a surprised yet ecstatic tone one deserving for a girl her age, there were stars in her eyes. Taking note of the expression on her former partner's face, Irina nodded her head in agreement.
"Ufufu, you're right to be excited Xenovia! When I went to Heaven and examined many pure angels, I almost fainted from the experience!"
"Oooooh, I want to go to Heaven!"
Jeanne spoke out in an excited bubbly tone, her excitement for the oncoming experience was shared with by Yumi who nodded her head in agreement. The only one of them who wasn't as excited as this news was Yuuma who only turned her head. Realizing that Yuuma might not be able to join them there, Yumi looked in her direction.
"Wait, you can't join us can you?"
"I'm pretty sure, as of now neither Devils nor Fallen Angels can enter Heaven," Yuuma answered without a bit of emotion in her voice. "I doubt that a fallen angel-hybrid like myself should go there anywhere. Besides, that might be around the same time that I would have to return to Grigori a bit."
Everyone looked at Yuuma with the same unreadable look on her face, neither of them could tell if she was lying or not. Even Lance who knew her for a longer period had no way of telling whether she was lying. Desiring for the subject to be changed, Yuuma thought of something else that concerned their new lives as Angels.
"Well, on another matter. Aren't you guys starting Angel's jobs?"
"Gabriel-sama mentioned that before we were reincarnated as angels."
Yumi answered.
"Their jobs as angels will start on a later date."
"So, Lance-kun what were you―?"
At that moment, all their phones rang at the same time and they each knew exactly what the meant for them. Sighing a bit to himself, Lance closed his computer and stood up from behind his desk.
"Let's head out."
Leaving from school when the sun started to set, Lance and his fellow club members used a special magic circle to head towards a hideout located in a forest outside the Devil's territory. Just before the left from club activities, all of them received an assignment to exterminate more people who belong to the Old Maou Faction; based on the information that they were given, one of their leaders was also supposed to be there.
So this was an opportunity for them to eliminate one of their leaders and potentially capture them.
Currently, all of them walked deeper into the forest dressed in their combat clothes.
"So, how's Asia-chan?"
The ones who Lance questioned was Xenovia, Irina and Jeanne. These three were the main people aside from Kiryuu who Asia could freely talk without worrying.
"She's still a bit nervous about this Diodora Astaroth."
"It's one thing to be interested in someone, it's another to be a full blown stalker."
"We also heard that they're also facing him next."
Xenovia answered him along with Jeanne and Irina, as they continued to head towards their intended location. It was just found out after school ended that the Gremory Group's next opponent for the Youth Rating Game Tournament was Diodora Astaroth.
"I have no doubt that they can handle him, but I'm more worried about the mental impact that this is having on Asia-chan. I mean, this is essentially the guy who caused her to be kicked out from the Church in the first place and caused her to be known as a witch, to begin with."
"That is something that I wish that I could take back."
Xenovia mumbled to herself still feeling regret about how she treated Asia when they first met, and how Asia treats Xenovia had a friend only adds to those feelings of regret.
Arriving at their location, Lance met with a familiar silver-haired young woman dressed in a set of armor that Lance recognized as belonging only to a Valkyrie. This was Rossweisse who Lance met during the meeting after Kuroka and Bikou arrived in the Underworld during the party held for the youth devils.
"Hey, Rossweisse-san."
Hearing her name being called, she faced Lance with a smile forming on her face. She was generally happy to be able to see Lance again considering how well the two of them go along with one another the first time that they met.
"Ah, hello again. Lance-san."
Rossweisse greeted him with a smile on her face, but she was also greeted with the curious gaze that came from the woman behind him.
"Lance-kun who is this?"
Yumi was the first to ask feeling a bit curious about the woman standing in front of them, mainly due to her not being too familiar with the presence that she felt from her.
"Yes, this is Rossweisse, a Valkyrie who works as a bodyguard for the King of the Norse Gods, Odin-sama. She's also highly talented in using Norse Magic."
"It's a pleasure to meet you all."
Rossweisse said as she looked towards the others with a kind smile.
"Well, this is Xenovia, Yumi, and Jeanne, all of them are reincarnated angels a part of my set of Brave Saints." Lance introduced as he then directed his attention towards Yuuma. "And this is Yuuma, the daughter of the Governor General of the Fallen Angels."
"Oh, you three are apart of the Brave Saints that Lance-san had received. And the daughter of Azazel-sama."
"While I would want to continue to talk with your, there is another issue that I'd like to take care of before that could happen."
Rossweisse nodded in agreement as she turned towards the base being used by the Devils of the Old Maou Faction.
"From the information that we received, there are a number of both mid and high-class devils inside along with one of the descendants of the original Maou. I was sent on this mission to give support to the team being sent by the leaders of the Three Factions, but I didn't think it would be Lance-san. I was also informed to gather whatever information that we could find inside the base."
The silver-haired valkyrie explained the basis of this mission to them with Lance thinking about how to approach this situation.
"Lance-sama how should we proceed?"
Xenovia asked as she begun to proper Durandal to be drawn, along with everyone else.
"It wouldn't be a wise idea to just barge in through the front door like we did before, so we should disrupt them so they won't have the time to strategies."
"How should we do that?"
Jeanne questioned, Lance smirked a bit as he cracked both his knuckles and proceeded to step ahead of them.
"I can handle that with this."
Holding his hand out, Lance gathered a mass of light particles around his hand that soon formed as a ball of light. Just before the end of the summer break, he gained some advice about using his light powers straight from his mother and that allowed him to gain a better understanding of forming light weapons.
"Now, connecting to the Avalon Syntax," Lance mumbled as an emblem formed on the back of his hand. Soon a number of calculations started to circle around the orb of light in different directions. In response to this, the orb of light increased in size. The woman around him looked at the orb in his hand with a look of wonder.
Nodding to himself after it seemed that everything was completed, Lance pulled his hand back before launching the orb in the direction of their hideout. As it flew in that direction, Lance manipulated its direction by making different movements with his hand. Making it towards the entrance, the orb of light phased through the door almost like it wasn't there.
From there they stood they could already sense the people inside making a commotion of what just appeared in front of them.
"Alright, after you hear the BOOM that is when we all attack."
"What BO―?"
DOOOOOON!
Before Rossweisse could finish her question, all loud small-scale explosion could be heard from inside of the building. That was their signal to attack.
"Alright, let's go!"
[Right!]
Without hesitating, they charged the building all at once. Breaking in through the front door, the inside of the hideout didn't look too damaged due to the explosion. This was due to this attack being mainly used for stunning a devil, while not killing them. Entering inside the hideout the first of them to attack was Xenovia who pulled Durandal from its dimensional storage.
"Hah!" Xenovia slashed one of the devils who was stunned immediately eliminating them using her holy sword. After killing that devil, she continued with her malicious assault on the devils who remained stunned feeling that those would need to be eliminated first before they recovered from being stunned.
Charging forward using her god-speed was Yumi wielding Masamune closing the distance at one of the devils who were stunned and precisely cut them down. Though one of the male devils who wasn't stunned due to Lance's attack launched a block of demonic-power one the same level as a high-class devil. Yumi swiftly quickly dodged the attack and charged at the high-class devil who had attacked her before creating a number of afterimages to confuse him.
The devil continued to launch blocks and blocks of demonic-power at Yumi, but each attack only hit the after images she created. Before he could even react, Yumi immediately cut him down with Masamune and continued on with her attack on the rest of them.
"Hah! Hah! Hah!"
Jeanne let out cheerful breath after breath as she danced through the crowds of devil using her holy sword that had been inscribed with magic symbols. This was a method that Jeanne developed to better combine her magic with her holy swords, but this was still in its development phase. Clenched one of her holy swords in her hands, Jeanne released a holy wave from them making contact with one of the devils. One of the devils who survived to attack back by firing off a blast of flames from their hands, but was stopped after a halo of light wrapped tightly around their wrist.
"You're not laying a hand on my friend!"
This was done by Irina who was flying in the air using her angel wings.
"Thanks, Iri-chan!"
Jeanne called out as she waved her holy sword in the direction of Irina who waved back. The ace of Michael summoned a light spear in her hand and started to cut down the devils around her.
"I'm also apart of this group as well."
Rossweisse called out as she flew into the air using magic and summoned a numerous array of magic circles that originated from the norse faction. As Lance dealt with the devils around him using nothing but his normal combat capabilities combined with his light weapons, he noticed the different symbols used in her magic circle.
"That's an amazing number of norse magics. And also―"
Lance watched as Rossweisse unleashed a number of different elements that ranged from fire, wind, lightning, thunder, light, and ice that fell down light raindrops. Each of these attacks piercing through and cleared out the original number of devils by a large number. With the combined strength or all of them, they continued dropped the number of enemies.
As Lance knocked down another enemy devil, he made a curious look on his face.
"I don't think that these guys are the leader here, then where are―"
Sensing a mass of demonic-power beyond anything produced by any of these devils, Lance glanced over towards Yuuma who was easily dispatched with the crowd of devils around her with nothing, but her light spears.
"These guys aren't much of―"
"Yuuma!"
Hearing Lance's call caught her attention, it was then that she sensed it.
Before she could even react to it, a mass of demonic-power was headed purely in her direction. Even if she could summon her azure dragon spear, she wouldn't have been able to completely block the attack in time. It was then that Lance appeared before her with his hand held outwards towards the attack and activated a strong barrier.
"Tsk."
Making a sound with his mouth, Lance redirected the demonic blast upwards launching it into the air.
"You okay?"
"Y-Yea."
After he made sure that she was alright, Lance glared forward at the person who launched that blast of demonic power at Yuuma. Standing before them was a good-looking black-haired male with his hair tied in a small ponytail, with violet eyes; he was dressed in black clothing worn only by nobles with dark belts and motifs. At a glance, he could tell that this male devil possessed power beyond any of the devils around here.
"So, you mind introducing yourself."
Lance called out, much to the male devil's annoyance.
"I am Creuserey Asmodeus, the blood-relative of the True-Maou Asmodeus." Creuserey started as he surrounded himself in a mass of demonic-power. "And I am here to eliminate the abominations standing in front of me."
The ones who Creuserey referred to were both Lance and Yuuma who were those of higher positions for both the angels and fallen angels. So most would see both of them as an odd existence, this mainly includes those amongst the Old Maou Faction. Both Lance and Yuuma took no regard to the comment made about them, the two of them only stared at him blankly.
"Well, hello to you too. You guys at the Old Maou Faction really don't know much about manners do you?"
Yuuma replied with a blank look on her face.
"So, why exactly did you attack Yuuma?"
"I'm here to enact my vengeance on Azazel by killing his daughter for Cattleya Leviathan, then annihilate you hated angel."
Hearing his comment caused them the reminisce about the dark-skinned devil who that fought during the peace meeting. Though it caused Lance to step forward in front of the fellow hybrid and begun to approach the Maou-Descendant.
"If you have an issue with Azazel, then take it up with Azazel," Lance said as his eyes sharpened as he got in front of Creuserey and glared at him with his eyes shining with a sharp green glow. "But, if you try and take whatever issue you have with her…then as both a Knight and as a person who cares about her. I'll definitely beat you down."
Hearing his response caused Yuuma to blush a bit since she never thought that those words would come out of his mouth. Creuserey stared back at him covering himself in his own demonic power, while Lance covered himself in a green aura.
"Y-You insolent little―"
"I'm pretty sure that you guys are the ones being insolent."
Opening his hand, Creuserey gathered demonic power around his hand and he attempted to fire it off at him point blank. Similar to his last battle with a stray, he activated a barrier that nullified parts of his demonic power, while the rest of it went passed the barrier forming a slight cut on Lance's cheek. But, due to the potency of his demonic attacks, Lance was unable to nullify it completely. Though the wound still closed up. Seeing that his attack being mostly nullified by Lance, he narrowed his eyes and spread his devil wings to gain some distance away from him.
"Tsk, he nullified my attack!" Creuserey shouted out loud with annoyance. "No, I have received a snake directly from Ophis and now my demonic power has risen to that of my great ancestor! I shall not be defeated by an abomination like you!"
Shouting out loud, Creuserey gathered a mass of demonic power around him and began to unleash a barrage of demonic bullets. Responding to the attacks being launched at him, Lance summoned the very same emblem from before and started to cover himself in aura. Forming around him was a total of twenty light orbs around him in the air and each of them was launched directly at him like high-speed arrows. Each of them pierced through the demonic bullets launched at him.
"Home in." As if responding to that unspoken request, the light arrows that maintained their shape changed their direction and aimed at the remaining bullets taking care of all of them. Seeing that his attack was being dealt with Creuserey launched another attack, which Lance immediately dodged using his speed that was beyond that of even Kiba and Van. Creuserey kept his attention on him attempting to locate him, but he had a great deal of difficulty keeping up with him.
Unbeknownst to him, Lance summoned another set of light orbs around him, but instead of moving they stayed completely still. Seeing that he continued to dodge his attacks, Creuserey let out a shout of annoyance.
"Speedy little bastard!" Creuserey shouted before turning his attention towards Xenovia and the others who were still attacking the rest of the remaining devils. "Fine, then I'll attacks your little friends."
He directed his next attack in their direction, then launched a barrage of attacks towards them. Looking towards them, Lance reached towards his holster pulling out the Avalon Drakon.
"I'm leaving the rest to you, Avon!"
[Right!]
Lance threw him in the direction of the blasts of demonic power while glowing with a silver-white light and soon he transformed into his true form. Standing in front of the attack, the blue jewel embedded in his forehead started to glow with a bright light. Soon enough a large energy shield was formed covering the others in it. Once Creuserey's demonic attacks made contact with it, the attack's aftershock pushed Avon back a bit. He seemed to be struggling a bit with defending them from this attack from the look on his face.
[Lance, this level of attack is a bit out of my current level.]
Avon said in a bit of a strained voice.
"Your complaint has been noted."
Creuserey glanced and noticed Lance in front of him with his fist pulled back as if responding to a certain command the light spheres around him started to spiral his arm towards his fist. Seeing his attack preparing to be aimed at him, Creuserey activated a defensive barrier to block the attack.
Making contact with the barrier, Lance's fist was momentarily stopped, but he continued to force his fist forward in the direction of its target.
A cracking noise could be heard from the barrier formed by Creuserey and Lance planted his fist in the face of the Maou descendant. Due to the not only the force of Lance's fist but also due to his light being added to it; he felt pain transmitted throughout his entire body. As he fell down towards the ground, Creuserey coughed out blood from his mouth.
"D-Dammit!"
Noticing that he was caught in a bind since most of the devils there had already been taken care of and caught by the girls already. Creuserey glanced towards a room located at the corner of the room and unleashed a fireball that destroyed the door along with whatever was in it. This action caught the attention of those inside the room, as they questioned to themselves why he could even go through the trouble.
"Creuserey-sama escape quickly!"
Another devil who wasn't yet caught launched a barrage of ice attacks made from demonic power in his direction. Jumping back from the attack letting the ice to pierce the wall, in that instance, Creuserey used the opportunity to get away using a teleportation circle.
"Tch, he got away."
"Lance-sama everything on this end is almost done."
"Alright, bind all of them using your powers and…." Lance started but stopped after he noticed that one of the remaining devils stood back up and launched a blast of fire magic towards Xenovia. "Xenovia watch out!"
Xenovia turned around to block the attack with Durandal, which she succeeded in accomplishing, however, in that moment the flames continued to spread out burning her hands in the process. "Kuh!" Xenovia let out a grunt of pain as her hands were burned from the attack forcing her to drop Durandal on the ground. She made an attempt to pick it up but was unable to hold it correctly.
Taking this opportunity, the remaining devils stood back up and launched a combined assault at Xenovia who still couldn't pick up Durandal. Yumi, on the other hand, charged in her direction picking Durandal up from the ground and gripped it by its hilt. Picking it up, Durandal did not unleash the same violent and rampaging surge of power that it did when Xenovia used it. Instead, it emitted a quiet and peaceful surge of power.
This was something that its actual wielder took notice of.
"You're not laying a hand on our queen."
Yumi called out as she slashed Durandal using its momentum to unleash a wave that sliced apart the devils who tried to attack her, but also cutting off a part of the building in two. Seeing that they had been dealt with, Yumi calmed her stance and turned towards Xenovia with her hands held out.
"Are you alright, Xenovia?"
Despite hearing her question, it took Xenovia a while to respond to her.
She only nodded her hand not taking Yumi's gesture and instead stood back up on her own. Even knowing that Yumi was only being nice, her mind only went back towards how she wielded Durandal better than herself who's its actual wielder. Yumi could only stare at her with a bit of a confused look on her face.
"Xenovia all you alright?"
Lance questioned as he immediately headed in her direction, then he saw the slight burns that were on her hands.
"Let me see your hands."
Without answering him, she motioned his hand towards him and he took her hand into his. Lance then started to his aura to treat her injuries, though this was far from being proper treatment.
"This should take care of it, but I suggest asking Asia to heal the rest of it."
"Thanks."
She replied in a low-tone, before glancing towards Yumi who wordlessly handed Durandal over to her.
Xenovia reached her hand out to take Durandal back but momentarily stopped before taking it in her hands and putting it back in its dimensional storage. Lance could only stare wordlessly at the out of character look on her face, but before he could ask it.
"Lance-san, we may have an issue."
It was Rossweisse who started to approach him with a worried look on her face.
"What's wrong."
"I checked the room that devil took the time to destroy before leaving and it took to have been filled with a bunch of files, but there is nothing that salvageable. Most of everything here is too burned to even attempt to normally decipher."
"Damn, it must have been something important if he took the time to even destroy it…it must have had something to do with their future plans. We might as well send whatever we can to the researchers back at Grigori to see if they can find something out."
Lance said as he started to walk towards the files that they could at least attempt to read.
They sent whatever files that they could salvage and sent them back to Grigori to see if any of them could get any information from them. Once their assignment was finished, they walked back to the Du Lac Residence. Lance had even informed Azazel of what happened with Creseyrus and even thanked him for protecting his daughter, which was something that he didn't think that he would hear from him due to their relationship. Yet, it only proved that his daughter was far more important than his own pride.
"Hehehe, I wonder how I should thank my Hero-kun."
Yuuma said cheerfully as she hugged onto his arm, while they continued to walk home. No one even bothered to say anything about it, even Xenovia who remained a bit unnerved about what happened. It damaged her pride as the wielder of Durandal after seeing that Yumi used it a lot better than herself.
"Are you alright, Xeno-chan?"
Jeanne questioned with a bit of worry in her voice.
None of them was used to seeing her like this, Xenovia would normally be more lively than this; it was even like her anticipation for the upcoming sports festival had also diminished. Xenovia only waved off their concern with her now healed hand thanks with Asia.
"I'm alright, it isn't something to be concerned about."
She spoke in an unconvincing tone.
"So, what was that unique formula that you used?"
Rossweisse who hadn't returned to Asgard yet continued to follow them due to her own curiosity, Lance then turned towards him with a smirk on his face.
"Oh, that was a new technique that I developed. I call it the Avalon Syntax. When I use it can basically freely program my light power to do a certain task, I can also modify, control them or add a different attribute to them, like adding either lightning or whatever element to them."
"But, it's more than that right."
From the tone that came from Rossweisse was a bit more excitable than it was before as if she found someone who she could have a 'normal' conversation with.
"From the magic circle that you used before, I could tell that there were a number of intricate formulas and other calculations originating from our norse system of sorcery. I could tell from them that it properly channels the flow of your magic power so that too much power won't be wasted. Your magic technique is highly well-made, but there are some symbols that he didn't recognize."
"Those were high-level angel-styled symbols from out system of magic, using it I can further stabilize my light powers and allows me better over control them. And you're right based on the different formulas and calculations that I had added to it, there are also more versatile ways for me to use it whether it's in combat or for anything else. I may also be able to invent my own unique spells or techniques."
Everyone could only stare at the two of them as they continued to talk about magic, neither of them could even come up with a way to approach them. Lance only continued on explaining how amazing he thought her magic technique was.
"Mine isn't as amazing as yours, I can tell that you put a lot of hard work and dedication in your magic formula so that it restrains the amount of magical power that you would normally require for your spells to the limit. I can also tell that it strengthens them both offensively and defensively at the same time. I haven't even gotten my technique finished yet, plus since there are still some formulas and symbols that I need to add into it before I can fully utilize it."
"I'm sure that you can fully complete it, I never met another magician as talent as you when it comes to using utilizing magic originating from our faction and I never met someone who could accurately tell what my magic technique was made up of. If you don't mind could I take a look at the formulas that you used."
"Only if you promise to let me examine yours."
Taking this chance, Yumi leaned towards Yuuma and whispered.
"I can't tell if they're flirting or not."
"Me neither."
Both of the magic specialists continued their conversation with one another, Jeanne who got interested in it inched close towards Rossweisse.
"Since you're knowledgeable about magic, do you think that you can help me with mine?"
"Hey, I thought I was your magic teacher."
"I'm not saying that you're not a bad teacher, it's just that you can sometimes go into different subjects that I can understand."
"I will do as much as I can, Jeanne-san."
Her comment struck Lance a bit, with Rossweisse agreeing to teacher Jeanne as much as she could about magic.
Though sensing an odd presence coming from behind them, Lance moved his hand in a single instant along with a sudden flash of light. As he moved his hand back, it looked almost as if he was attempting to brush Jeanne's hair behind her ear. Seeing this caused Jeanne to be a bit confused so the two of them stopped moving and she just stared at him with a wondering look on her face.
"Uh, what're doing Lance-kun?"
"Just getting a good look at your cute face."
Lance played it off just like that, not that he was lying about the fact that he thought that she was not only beautiful but also cute. Hearing him caused her cheeks to turn a shade of pink and she became bashful placing both hands on her cheek.
"Oh, Lance-kun you're such a flirt."
"Hahaha, yes…I am."
Lance continued to walk forward with the rest of them, while he carried an unknown object in his hand and took a short glance behind him. He still was unable to see anything, but he still could feel as if he were being glared at from a far away distance.
On a building further away from them there was a light spear that Lance threw in that single instant impaled on the side of an individual who remained hidden in darkness, but they formed an almost sickening smile on their face. Placing their hand on their cheek near the wound caused by the light spear, he wiped away the blood that had seeped from the wound with an annoyed glare.
"That filthy bastard, but don't worry both of them will soon be mine. A blonde nun and a blonde saint."
Saying those words to themselves they let out a slight laugh.
A/N: And there goes the thirty-first chapter of The Magic Knight, their preparation for their upcoming Sports Festival with some changes to it. The same as always Issei and Asia training for the [Three-Legged Race], like always Issei accidentally groped Asia and then sensed the killing intent being sent by her overprotective father. Lancelot and others will be going to Heaven possibly after the mess with the Gremory and Astaroth is finished. His own unique magic technique was also introduced in the story and it shall be used further in the other chapter.
All of them then had a mission along with Rossweisse concerning the Old Maou Faction and they met up with Creuserey Asmodeus, with Lancelot also showcasing his new technique. At the end of the chapter, someone attempted to attack Jeanne with whatever that device was. Wonder who that person was. Since there are a lot of people who want Tamamo-no-Mae as his contracted creature and since the idea sounds appealing, then I shall make it happen. I also decided to add Lint into his Brave Saints, but I don't know what card to give her.
Lancelot's Harem: Yumi, Jeanne, Irina, Xenovia, Le Fay, Sona, Serafall, Rossweisse, Valarie, Seekvaira, Kuroka, Yuuma, Griselda, Yasaka, Lavinia, Liu Bei, Tiamat, Kiyome.
Issei's Harem: Rias, Akeno, Koneko, Asia, Ravel, Tsubasa, Aika, Isabel, Katase, Murayama, Mira, Kunou, Elmenhilde, Bennia, Reya, Karlamine.
Lancelot's Brave Saints:
King: Lancelot
Queen: Xenovia
Jack:
Ten: Chrono
Nine: Akame Kirigakure
Eight: Alex Iskandar
Seven: Rossweisse
Six: Ariel Light
Five: Chelia Mathers
Four: Percy Mycenae
Three:
Two: Jeanne
Ace: Yumi
Joker: