Welcome to the next chapter of The Magic Knight, before starting the story. Let's answer some reviews:
Wako12: I will think about it.
Guest: There will be a lemon this chapter.
Hellspam: A fight between two technique-type fights is an interesting battle to read about since most of the time they're just throwing around powerful attacks. I'm really glad that you like Percy's character.
King0fPowers: Thanks, I tried to make this arc as original as possible. There really wasn't much explained about the Greek Faction in the cannon so I just went on what I read about and came up with the Monster Hunters. I have an idea of what to do about that and it will get hectic if mentioned (I just couldn't pass up the chance of actually making those references). Those two have a complicated relationship.
Guest: Yes, it's mentioned that there are some Youkai who can use Youjutsu, but not all of them are able to use it. Senjutsu is something that anyone is able to use, it was mentioned that even Humans were able to use it first. Yes, that can happen sometimes. But, yes it's possible that they can use both Youjutsu and Senjutsu. There's not really a difference between Senjutsu and Ki Manipulation since they basically have the same principles.
Guest 2: Yep, a number of weapons used by Gilgamesh in Type-Moon are by definition OP. I have something already planned for his Gate of Babylon.
Guest 3: I already have an idea of what to do with some members of the Hero Faction. Their skill level is around the same level as one another, but in DxD it's almost always about their mismatched fighting type. Since in Canon, Issei is a Power-Type who always makes a habit of charging in with full power instead of using strategies causing him to get trapped a lot by a smarter opponent; matching him with Cao Cao a perfect Technique someone who can toy with both Azazel and Vali with speed, technique, and tactics without using much power. In both times they fought against Cao Cao, he looked down on them and let his guard down (or he played around too much). Both Lancelot and Gilgamesh, it'll be difficult to tell since they are of a similar fighting type; but with Gilgamesh's sacred gear he will probably have the edge in their first fight.
Guest 4: Thanks. I don't think Azazel counted Hades as an Evil God since he explained that a God of Death is a necessity. I think that Ares would be counted as an Evil God, but I don't know. I had already considered who I'm going to put with Gilgamesh.
The King and Queen
Located in another part of the town within the Greek Faction there were a number of monster hunters fighting against the anti-monsters brought by the Hero Faction. Each of the monsters was in the shape of humanoids a lot taller than even the grown men. Though each of them was battling against them with the weapons created by Jeanne's Blade Blacksmith and each of them couldn't help but admit that they were a lot tougher than the normal weapons they wielded.
"Kuh, these things are a lot tougher than the monsters we usually fight, but…."
One of the monster hunters mumbled to themselves but were stopped as another stabbed an anti-monster through the chest using their holy weapon.
"It's nothing that we can't handle!"
Just as they were dealing with the monster in front of them, there was a number that began to appear from unfamiliar magic-circles. Before any of them could do anything they were blasted with a sudden ball of lightning, wind, and fire. All of these attacks came from the dragon that Jeanne stood on the back of and is her subspecies balance breaker; Victim Stake Dragon.
"Nice work, Dragon-chan. Now let's attack the monsters appearing on the far left."
Following her command, the dragon turned in the same direction using its wings and began the assault on the anti-monsters.
On another battlefield, there were a number of monster hunters being led by Xenovia. Their target was one of the three devices keeping the dimension intact and was made into a statue in the shape of Zeus' signature Bolt. This a similar mission that both Yumi and Percy were also given.
"Are this, I'm going to talk with him." Xenovia thought as she continued to lead her group to the same location that Lance had given them. "But, before that, we have to finish this."
In front of them were a number of members of the Hero Faction and joined by the black combatants, standing in front was a male dressed in a black coat wielding a unique odd looking saw-like blade that seemed to be segmented in a number of parts. Though Xenovia couldn't tell what kind of sword it was. After he saw them appear before him, the sword-wielding male let out a bit of a laugh escape from his mouth.
"Ah, finally I was getting a bit bored. You must be the Queen of faux hero-descendant."
"I'm the Queen, but my King isn't a fake."
"That's how what I or any of his so-called allies feel." Hearing that from him caused Xenovia to clench the hilt of Durandal. "Oh, did I strike a nerve? Well, if you want to get to this device than you'll have to get past me."
"That was the idea."
Xenovia said making a big swing with Durandal, which caused the air to vibrate. As if signaling for them to attack, both members of the Monster Hunters and Hero Faction soon began their assault on one another. The sounds of battle continued to sound as their collective weapons clashed against one another. From both sides, there were some humans utilizing their own sacred gears.
This was one of the main reasons for Hero Faction's attack on the Greek Faction to fight against the far experienced individuals residing their and awakening the ultimate state of all their sacred gears…this is the Balance Breaker.
"Target the Durandal user!"
"Right!"
There were two of those sacred gear users who directed their attention towards the bluenette, in one of their hands a blue-colored light started to gather around their hands. The second gathered wind around theirs and launched a combined attack in her direction. Anticipating this attack, Xenovia positioned Durandal's flat towards them and blocked their attack.
This caused some dust to be kicked up from off the ground causing her vision to be temporarily blocked. Xenovia started to focus on her ability to feel their presence using her body. Feeling one of them come in her direction, she blocked an attack from the same blade belonging to the first individual who called her out using Durandal.
"Nice defense! Here I thought for sure that you were nothing but a Power Idiot!"
He called out a bit wildly.
"Don't underestimate me!"
Xenovia called out pushing him aside using her superior arm strength, the young man flipped into the air landing expertly on the ground.
"It would be rude if I didn't introduce myself before we start," Smirking to himself, he positioned both his feet with a very mysterious yet familiar aura being gathered at the soles of his feet. "My name is…Hebi!"
He charged at Xenovia with a number of fast yet random zigzagging movements that appeared to be too peculiar. Hebi then delivered a number of fast strikes both using his sword and unique stepping techniques, which also held with them a great deal of physical force. But! To her, these strikes weren't as fast as the slashes from Yumi. Xenovia followed the direction of each of his strikes and blocked all of them.
"Each of his attacks is too erratic, but his steps are well trained."
Xenovia thought while gritting her teeth. Deflecting one of his attacks, Xenovia made a horizontal slash at him and seemed to be close to bisecting him. Smirking widely he bent himself backward allowing her attack to move past him.
"My turn," shouting out loud, Hebi focused his thoughts on his sword and it started to act oddly almost as if it were alive. Clenching its hilt as if it were a whip and launched it forward, the blade's segmented parts extending forward towards her. "Strike her, Orochi."
Xenovia slashed Durandal towards the upcoming blade in an attempt to deflect it, however, with a single motion of Hebi's hand. "Kuh," she placed her hand on her side as one of the saws from the now named Orochi caused blood to flow from her side. The injury didn't appear to be too serious, but blood still seeped from the wound.
"Hahaha! Nice nice, I noticed you moved the moment you noticed my sword change direction!" His annoying laughter reached her ears. "This is why I love fighting swordsmen!"
"Your a former knight, aren't you?"
"Eh, what would make you think that?"
"You sword strikes are too erratic and out of nowhere, but there's one thing that matches with how both Lance-sama, Yumi, and Jeanne." Xenovia said after glancing towards him. "The way that you move your feet. Whenever you attacked or dodged are a lot similar to theirs. And that sword doesn't belong to you."
As a child, Xenovia remember hearing about a magic sword that could alter its shape and length by the expert aura control of its wielder. The original wielder of that magic sword had already died along with his former allies.
"I wish that you wouldn't compare me to that fake knight and those two blonde bitches." Xenovia glared at him after hearing how he referred to them, Hebi then returned the sword to its original form. "You are right, this also one of the weapons belonging to the former Paladin, Jin Muto…Orochi, the Phantom Snake. And, how about I take that nifty little blade of yours with me before I leave? I think that I deserve it after all the hell I went through to wield it."
"Over my dead body."
"That's the idea. Strike her, Orochi."
Hebi launched Orochi towards her again almost like a whip, Xenovia prepared for the attack with her dark yellow eyes directed towards the upcoming blade.
"Y-You traitorous bastard."
On another battlefield, there were a number of monster hunters lying down on the ground with a number of injuries on their body. Their injuries seemed to have been dealt both physically and by some kind of explosive attack.
"Hahaha! How rude? It's been so long since we've seen each other and that what you have to say!"
It was Heracles who stood over a number of monster slayers and appears as if he was the only person in the area. He stared down at them with a cocky look on his face.
"Is there really no one who can―?!"
Just as Heracles was shouting that out loud, there was an object thrown in his direction. Throwing his arm in that direction, he blocked the object causing an explosion on contact. Doing this also caused a big cloud of black smoke obscuring his vision. Before he could react, someone then jumped into the cloud of smoke with both their feet making contact with his face. The kicked was revealed to be Percy who retrieved his shield the moment it was sent back.
"Well well, if it isn't the scrawny bastard."
"Well well, if it isn't Goliath."
Making a clicking sound with his mouth, Heracles swiped his arms with a great deal of force knocking and in term clearing away the black smoke. Percy flipped in the air landed on his feet, at the same moment Heracles launched his fist towards him. Reacting to this, Percy held up his shield and at the same moment of impact.
DOOOOON!
A huge explosion occurred, but once the cloud dispersed there wasn't a single nick on the shield as it continued to shine in the light.
"Did you really think that attack would even nick the Mirror Shield?" Percy questioned.
This was indeed the Mirror shield a defensive weapon wielded by the Greek Hero named Perseus, along with the Adamant Sword that rests on his side.
"I'm going to break that shield, then the sword." Heracles declared pushing his first forward in an attempt to move him. "Then, your face."
"Like I hadn't heard that before."
Percy soon unsheathed the Adamant Sword from his sheath and made a stab forward towards the two-meter giant in front of him. Using his free hand, Heracles thrust his palm forward making contact with its point another explosion occurred at point blank range. Doing this kept its blade from piercing through his hand and draw out any blood.
DOOOOON!
Both Lance and Cao Cao continued their clash with one another while wielding their perspective weapons covered in their own auras. Despite the fast strikes being delivered by Cao Cao, he was still able to follow the direction of the spear's blade allowing him to divert its direction. As the two of them continued their clash with one another, Lance suddenly gripped Secace with both his hands causing it to vanish from sight. Cao Cao began to question his motives. He soon noticed another distortion possessing the same shape of the silver blade, then―
"Hah!"
Sensing something in the air, Cao Cao used the True Longinus in preparation to block an attack. At the same time, Lance seemingly slashed the air using Secace mid-summon unleashing an invisible slash that seemed to tear apart space in its path. While blocking this attack, he was sent flying towards another roof causing the top of it to break. Just as there was a cloud of dust made from the rubble there was a disturbance in the cloud of smoke.
Coming in Lance's direction at high-speeds was the True Longinus whose length was extended and was speeding towards him. Following its path he reacted, quickly channeled his aura and mixing it with light focusing it towards his side to brace himself for the assault. At the same moment, he slashed his silver demon sword in the direction of the approaching blade knocking it off its course through its light infused blade still wounded him causing some blood to be spilled. The force of the attack also sent Lance backward into another roof breaking it into pieces due to the impact.
[Lance are you alright?] Avon questioned.
"D-Damn, it took all my aura and a mass of light to just block that one hit," Lance answered with a bit of a smile on his face almost as if he were a bit happy. "You know, it's times like this where I'm proud that there are people who're mastering my grandfather's sacred gears to this degree."
[…You do remember that a good number of those people are out there trying to kill you?]
"Hahaha, I know messed up, right?"
"Looks like I got in the first wound."
Lance soon saw Cao Cao standing back up resting True Longinus on his shoulder as he made a noise from his neck. Seeing him standing back up on his feet, Lance stood up from the rooftop cracking his shoulders and neck before glancing towards the older youth.
"You sure about that? You may want to check your cheek, Cao."
Just as Lance mentioned it, a wound opened up on the right side of his cheek with blood tracing down his face. Smirking to himself, he rested the blunt side of Secace on his shoulder.
"So, did ya find a weakness yet?"
"I think that I found one, well some new members already informed me of this beforehand."
"Mind sharing it with the class?"
"There was a talk from a number of my companions wanted to come up with some kind of method for defeating you, but that's difficult. You were born from the strongest woman in Heaven, unlike any of the other angels and seraph from Heaven aside from Michael. Both were created personally by God of the Bible, which is one of the reasons why either of them is able to utilize the system that he left behind…not to the same degree of course. Not only from your mother, you inherited similar physical prowess from your father, a Knight with such insane physical capabilities and resistance to magic that gives Heracles a run for his money." Cao Cao continued on after taking a slight breath. "Anyone would find it difficult to defeat you, but there was a single thing that you couldn't inherit from your father…you aura-capacity."
Cao Cao directed his attention towards the wound caused by his True Longinus.
"If it were either your father or grandmother, then they would have done a better job at blocking my spear at this level with barely any drop of blood being shed by using their aura. That's because your aura-capacity can't match anyone else of the Du Lac Family even when you fully develop yourself."
Lance stared at Cao Cao examining the expression on his face and how the True Longinus wielder acted as he continued on with his explanation. His fighting style, how he acted in the situation, and his he wielded his sacred gear.
"I hate admitting this, but this guy is a lot similar…no the same technique type as me," Lance came to this conclusion already as they exchanged blows. "He researches his opponents beforehand, utilizing honed techniques and ability to find an opponent's weakness then aim for it. The way he's also mastered his Longinus is a perhaps a great above Vali…there no doubt that Cao Cao has a Balance Breaker, possibly a subspecies. I also realized we both talk too much whenever we're explaining things."
"So, do you understand why?"
"Do, I understand what…I kinda dozed off halfway through."
"Hahaha, I asked why do you think that you have lower aura than the rest of your family?"
"Oh, that?" Lance questioned in a matter-of-fact tone. "Well, you're not wrong. Everyone always did say that I inherited the best qualities from my parents, but a person's aura-capacity isn't exactly something that's inherited from one person to the other. I'm going to be blunt both my grandmother and father are both monsters in terms of pure physical strength…my dad's a Power-Technique Type. Our method for training is different from one another resulting in their monstrous aura. Knights train their bodies to the limit and their aura because they had to fight magic users of both Devils and Evil Magicians. I'm sure you already know this, but amongst all my abilities both my aura and magic are always in conflict with one another. That makes it difficult for me who was born with high-levels of magical reserves."
Lance held his hand out and placed Secace back in its dimensional storage since he could sense that it had its fill for fighting at this point.
"Long time ago, I was told that everyone is born with their own style of fighting and they can never go against that unless they want to harm themselves. During the summer when I was almost killed by my grandmother that couldn't statement couldn't have become any truer." Lance reached towards his holster, then pulled out Avalon Drakon gripping it by its hilt causing it to open it up and transformed into its sword form. "I'm well-rounded in physical attributes while leaning more towards speed rather than brute force and specializing in magic combat. The only reason I even continued to pursue aura till this point was because it was the only card that I had left to play against my bastard of a grandfather since magic didn't seem to work on him."
"At the time? Interesting, you don't seem like the person who bluffs."
"I'm still working out the kinks for this move, but I think it'll be perfect for this little squabble," Lance answered as he started to channel magical-power into the sword within his hand. To make sure that the power of the sword wouldn't offset Lance, Avon made sure to keep the power of the Avalon Heroic Sword down to a minimum. "Connecting to the Avalon Syntax."
The mark representing the Avalon Syntax formed on the back of his hand. In response to this, a number of equations started to encircle his hand forming formulas causing the magical-power around his sword to shift into a black purplish aura. Sensing this power, Cao Cao felt a dangerous presence from that technique.
"Though, this technique is incomplete," Lance said preparing to slash his sword. "But, here have the first taste!"
Lance slashed his sword horizontally using the muscles in his arms unleashing a black energy wave in his direction. As he flew in his direction, Cao Cao was well aware that even if he blocked using his spear he wouldn't remain unscathed. Preparing himself, he jumped up into the air dodging the black energy waved aimed at him, but he felt as if he was being pulled in by it.
Turning his head towards where the direction of the attack was heading. Once it made contact with a faraway building, not only did it cut through it, but it pulverized it leaving nothing remaining. It was a phenomenon that Cao Cao was familiar with.
"A gravity-infused slashed," Cao Cao let out a bit of a laugh. "Hahahaha, this is certainly a technique someone known as the Magic Knight would come up with!"
"You haven't anything yet."
Lance said as he started to prep for his next attack, at the same moment there was someone making an attempt to contact him.
{Lance-kun, my group and I took care of the device.}
{That's great Yumi, join of with the group fighting against the other anti-monsters.}
{You don't want me to join with Xenovia or Percy?}
{I believe that they can handle themselves and take care of the device…you should to.}
{Alright, I'll join up with Jeanne-chan and the others.}
Once he finished his conversation with Yumi, Lance returned his focus back towards Cao Cao who seemed to have been waiting for him to finish.
"Done with your preparations?"
"Just about."
All around Lance dozen of different bright light sphere started to form all around him, a number of them had a number of different elemental properties added to them. From the area that two of them were wind, lightning, ice, flames among other assortments of elemental attacks started to be launched and strayed around the skies.
"Hahahaha, dance, dance, dance," Hebi continued to shout out manically as he continued to slash at Xenovia using Orochi in its whip form expanding more and more of his aura to expertly control it. She continued dodging each of its saw-like blades, while she was dodging it, one of the blades of Orochi had knocked Durandal out of her hands. "Hahaha, got it!"
Gripping Orochi by its hilt, Hebi swung his sword towards Xenovia with all its saw-like blades directed at her. Unfolding her four angel wings, she dodged the attack by flying into the air the attack, however, did wound a number of hero faction members who were caught off guard by this attack. Though, Hebi didn't even seem to care about any of them.
"You don't care about even your own allies."
Xenovia said landed on the ground with her wings retracted back in her back vanishing completely, as she saw Durandal being stabbed into the ground near Hebi.
"Why should I," Hebi asked back as he started to walk towards Durandal with it in his sights. "Both our allies and weapons such as these are nothing more than tools used to achieve your goals. We knight ever wanted is to fight and take our revenge out on devil and monsters, which is why weapons such as these are a necessity. …I'll show you how to wield this holy sword."
Remembering what he said before, Xenovia thought that he went through a similar treatment as Freed when he wielded Excalibur. Hebi reached his hand out grasping Durandal by its hilt and unstuck it from the ground. Xenovia saw this occurrence with uneven eyes but stopped after noticing Hebi starting to struggle to hold Durandal.
"Wh-What the hell," Hebi questioned temporarily dropping Orochi and tried holding Durandal up using both his hands. "He said that the treatment made it so that I could wield holy swords so why isn't this thing responding to my will?!"
"I'm not missing this chance," Xenovia stood back up and prepared to move. Using her trained speed, she charged forward at Hebi who was still attempting to wield Durandal. She first kneed Hebi in the stomach causing him to spit bile out from his mouth due to the force, then drove her fist into his face causing blood to spill out from his nose. "I'm taking back Durandal!"
Placing both her hands on Durandal's hilt, Xenovia unleashed its destructive aura causing Hebi to be pushed backward. Hebi shakily stood back up with an annoyed look on his face.
"You bitch," Hebi shouted as he charged towards her too enraged to think straight, picking up Orochi from off the ground he returned it to its sword form and made a slash at Xenovia.
{Xenovia-chan, you have a habit of charging at your opponent with pure strength alone. While those methods can work against a weaker opponent against another [Technique] who especially specializes in using a [counter]-type move can be dangerous. Since you're Lance-kun's important Queen, then it can also put him in a dangerous position.}
"Is this how I look charging into a situation," Xenovia questioned as she watched Hebi charging at her with no thought in mind. His first strike with Orochi was sloppy so she barely needed to put much force in blocking it with Durandal. He continued to launch a number of slashes at Xenovia who continued to block each of his attacks during her sword. Pulling his sword back Hebi transformed it into a while and aimed it at her, slashing Durandal upwards she knocked it off course. "I realized that against opponents like Yumi methods such as that won't work on them. So, I'll work to overcome that barrier and―"
Holding her hand out, Xenovia formed a dense sword of light in her hand, then stabbed it forward and a wound open on his shoulder with blood spilling out from it. The pain from this wound caused Hebi to drop Orochi and focus more on his wound.
"Become a queen who can fight alongside her king."
Xenovia said as she turned in the direction where the other monster hunters were fighting with the members of the Hero Faction. She noticed that a number of them started to act oddly as they were beaten by the far experienced opponents. For most of them, the wind started to bend and shift around them; others had light being unleashed from their bodies; and among other effects. Before any of them could do a thing about them, a magic-circle formed under them and they vanished from sight.
"What just happened," Xenovia questioned after seeing them disappear like that.
"Seems that they've reached "it" the final phase for all balance breakers," Hebi said standing up from off the ground reaching his hand towards the inside of his jacket and causing Xenovia to tense up a bit since it was what she thought as a pistol. It was instead an injection gun with a darkish liquid inside of it and Hebi pointed the needle point at his neck. "This was invented by that sociopathic magician, this is just something that he's working in for the past ten years. …Look, if I don't make it out of this alive deliver this message to your faux king."
Hebi stabbed the needle into his neck wincing a bit, then made a maniacal smile.
"He'd better hurry and kill him before it's too late~"
He pulled the trigger and injected himself with the black liquid, from the point where the needle was stuck black veins started to pop up and extend all over his body. His body then started to convulse and react to the injection, while his body started to make a number of weird sounds. This caused Hebi to bend forward as his bodies' muscles started to go through a number of changes before expanding and the uniform that he wore started to turn as his skin turned black. The hand where he was holding Orochi started to shift as the same black flesh started to encompass and absorb it into himself.
MICHI-MICHI
Xenovia almost felt sick by what she was witnessing such a transformation wasn't something no sane human would ever agree to. Once Hebi stood back up on his two feet, he turned into a black humanoid twice his normal size, thick armor like arms with snake designs carved on the back of its wrists and not even his face looked like what it was before. Standing before Xenovia was something that could no longer be regarded as a human.
"What kind of monster did―?"
[Why don't we try this again?]
Xenovia couldn't tell where his voice was coming from, but it was deep enough to cause a slight chill to run down her spine. The very moment Hebi took a single step towards Xenovia, she started to tense up as a chilling sensation almost overcame her body causing her to prep both her swords.
SWOOSH!
As soon as Hebi moved in the direction of Xenovia, it was almost as if the wind started to shake with his high-speed. Due to him not being as fast as he was before she could follow his movements and slashed Durandal in the same direction where he would appear, but―
The moment, Durandal made contact with his skin a loud noise resounded across the area almost as if it came in contact with metal. Its edge barely cut through him.
[Ohhh~ What's wrong? Sword not working anymore?]
Hearing his voice again, Xenovia took her light sword and aimed its edge towards his stomach, but her light sword broke after coming in contact with his hardened skin. Seeing that both her swords failed to make so much as a dent in his skin, from his back two long snakeheads came out from his back making Xenovia their target.
"Tch," Sensing both of the snakeheads coming towards her, Xenovia stepped back away from Hebi just in time, but parts of her shirt was torn revealing her stomach. She stared at Hebi with an annoyed look on her face after feeling the sickening aura being released from him. "How exactly am I supposed to take down this monster?"
DOOOOOOON!
At where Percy and Heracles were still fighting against one another, Percy was currently dodging many explosive projectiles while blocking most of them using his mirror shield. This was the typical Balance Breaker of Heracles' Sacred Gear, Variant Detonation, which formed a number of missiles around him allowing him to aim every one of them at his opponent. There were a number of burn marks on Percy's clothes signifying that he must have taken a number of attacks before.
"Hahahaha, are you really just going to keep dodging?!"
Heracles questioned as he fired off a number of missiles towards him, while said monster hunter had started to charge towards him.
"Are you just going to keep acting like a pyromaniac?!"
Percy countered as he dodged missile after missile being aimed at him. As one of them was flying in his direction he held up his Adamant sword with his hand being placed on its flat. Coming in contact with the missile, a large explosion occurred creating a cloud of smoke that obscured Heracles' vision. In front of him, Heracles could see an object being launched towards him, seeing that it was the Adamant Sword Heracles moved his head aside.
"Did you really think that a cheat move like that would―," Heracles questioned before hearing it come into contact with something. "What the hell?"
"*Whistle* Goliath."
Hearing Percy calling him by that name, Heracles turned towards him with an angered look on his face. He turned towards him with a tick mark forming on his forehead, but what he found was Percy holding the Mirror Shield in front of him directing the sunlight on its surface.
SHINE!
"Argh, you rat bastard," Heracles shouted after being blinded by the light being reflected onto him. He could hear Percy's footsteps moving around him before vanishing, but he could tell that the monster hunter was standing behind him. "There!"
DOOOOOOON!
Heracles unleashed a missile behind him creating a massive amount of pressure, once he could open his eyes again. His eyes widened in shock at what he saw. The object that Percy had pierced using his sword was the second device keeping this dimension together, but it still didn't shatter it until Heracles' missile pushed it through causing it to shatter.
"Monster Hunter 101, always use your opponent's strength against them."
"You little shit!"
{Heracles, we're pulling out.}
"Not now! I'm just getting started!"
It was Georg who connected Heracles using a communication magic-circle, hearing that they were being pulled back caused him to roar out in anger.
{Two of the three devices have been broken. And, the Greek Gods and other senior Monster Hunters are gathered around the scene. If that final device breaks, will you be able to deal with them on your own?}
Georg's question caused Heracles to become silent, then a magic-circle formed under him created for the purpose of teleportation. As he was washed in a bright light, Heracles glared towards him.
"The next time we meet, you won't be so lucky!"
Those were the last words that he said to him before vanishing. Seeing that things on his end had been taken care of, Percy went to retrieve the Adamant Sword.
"Well, seems like things have been taken care of on my side," Percy had said after making noises from his neck and arms before turning towards his fallen comrades. "I'll help these guys before heading out to help the others."
In another part of the city where both Lance and Cao Cao were still fighting against each other further away from the barrier he formed. Though in this area, there were many buildings that were broken due to their battle along with parts of them being frozen solid. Standing in front of them was Lance who held up the Avalon Heroic Sword covered in an icy aura with parts of his clothing torn apart due to their battle and some cuts on his body.
"Haah," Lance let out a breath of relief. "I think this is the first time I extended this much magic-power in a while during a fight."
Further away from him laughing and parts of his uniform torn were Cao Cao whose right arm seemed to be covered in ice along with some injuries on his body. Using his True Longinus, he shattered the ice covering his arm and faced Lance with a smile on his face.
"This is the third time that I exerted myself this much," Cao Cao declared. "The first time was when I last fought against Vali and second was against Gil. It seems as if you're holding back your War God Mode."
"I normally only decide to use that against someone physically superior to me like either Sairaorg when he's not fully going all out, my grandmother or my dad," Lance answered letting out another breath. "If we're talking about speed and reflexes alone, then both of us are already at the same level. And, like you're one to talk it seems like your holding back you Balance Breaker."
"I guess so. Would you like to see it," Cao Cao asked pointing the True Longinus towards Lance as it began to release a bright white light. "Balance Brea―"
Just as Cao Cao was about to finish calling out his balance breaker there was a magic-circle appearing next to his ear. He relaxed his stance and answered it.
"Is there something wrong Georg?"
{Cao Cao, there's a disturbance occurring where the second device was placed that Hebi was in-charge of.}
"Now that you mention it," As Georg answered him, Cao Cao could sense a malicious aura coming from the direction Georg told him about. It was something that caused him to let out a sigh. "He used "it" didn't he?"
{Yes, and it seems as if he injured a number of Hero Faction members during his fight.} Georg had told him about what happened. {For the members who returned, a number of those members achieved Balance Breaker beforehand.}
"That's good," Cao Cao was at least happy about that. "Alright, it seems as if he'll go berserk in a while…call everyone back along with the anti-monsters. We gathered enough data for today."
{Alright.}
The same time that their conversation ended, the magic-circle vanished and Cao Cao glanced towards Lance with a normal expression on his face.
"It appears as if one of our new members are causing issues for both sides," Cao Cao informed him. "I think you should take care of him before exiting this dimension."
"Seriously," Lance questioned swiping the Avalon Heroic Sword in the air in front of him. "You're just going to leave on such a high note."
"Lancelot, though incomplete you have proven to be powerful against my spear at this level, but both it and I can still go up even higher. When you truly reach your full potential that is when you can truly see this spear's true power." Cao Cao declared as he activated a magic-circle under him, which bathed him in a bright light. "As a gift, I'll give you this warning. Gil is someone on the same level as I am…and he is the second leader of the Hero Faction. He also wields a sacred gear that could potentially be the next Longinus."
Hearing that from Cao Cao caused Lance to become interested in this "Gil", but before he could ask him anything else he vanished. Seeing that he was gone, Lance let out a sigh.
"Just when I was about to see what this generation True Longinus' Subspecies Balance Breaker was like," Lance had turned around with a look of disappointment. "What a letdown."
{{Lance-kun!}}
"Ahhh! Don't scream in my head!"
{Sorry, but those monsters just vanished out of nowhere.}
"Yea, I know. Their leader called them back…look we need to head towards where Xenovia is."
{We'll be able to head over there faster on Jeanne's pet dragon.}
Yumi had informed him of their situation causing him to nod his head in agreement.
{I'll probably arrive their first. Until we see one another there.}
After cutting communication with them, Lance turned his attention towards the direction where he had known Xenovia and her group headed. With a single movement, he seemed to have vanished from sight jumping from building to building.
In the same direction where he was heading, there was a number of senior monster hunters watching the young girl not even half their age swinging around a massive blade with destructive power trying to overpower a former human now turned into a monster. Xenovia had some injuries on her body along with a couple of more tears in her clothing.
"Is she actually damaging that thing, while taking its attacks."
"I can't tell, which one of them is the monster anymore."
"Hah!"
The same moment that Hebi launched his fist towards him, Xenovia slashed Durandal while covered in his holy aura at the same time using all the strength in her arms to negate both attacks. Based on the current appearance of Hebi, there were a number of scratches and made on his monstrous body that soon started to slowly heal.
[Hahahaha, you're doing surprisingly well. Just a moment ago you were having a hard time.]
"Hehehe," Xenovia laughed a bit. "That's because before you continued avoiding my attack, I'm not the great at technique. But, since you turned into this form all of your movements are far easier to read and at this point, you've just been charging…this is the kind of fight that I'm best at."
Xenovia again charged using her trained speed at Hebi who continued to stare at her with a cocky look on his face. Channeling Durandal's destructive power, she started to launch a number of slashes aimed at him each attack was blocked using his arm.
CRACK! CRACK! BREAK!
A number of cracks started to form on his arm as pieces started to fall on the ground, but like before all of them started to slowly heal. Seeing him healing, Hebi let out a maniacal laugh.
[Hahaha! Do you see, you can't stop me and you can't kill me. I'm invinci….]
Just as he was proclaiming his power, Xenovia made a slash at his chest where a jewel-like object was embedded and shook slightly. For the first time, Hebi stepped backward with Durandal just slightly grazing the jewel. Taking note of this odd change, Xenovia's eyes widened a bit not out of fear, but out of realization.
[Not good enough,] Hebi shouted directing both snake heads towards Xenovia with both their mouths opened wide. [Now, Die!]
As both of them were close to biting Xenovia in half, she suddenly vanished from sight causing Hebi to direct his eyes around the area in an attempt to find her.
"I almost didn't make it in time," a familiar voice called out letting out a bit of a sigh and caused Hebi to direct his attention towards him. "Seems like you've been taking good care of me, queen."
It was Lance who entered his War God state to increase his speed just in time to rescue Xenovia, who is currently resting in his arms still holding onto Durandal.
"So, how's your new friend?"
"He's a former knight named Hebi."
"I see…," Lance said as if understanding the situation before turning back towards Xenovia with a look of complete shock on his face. "What?! That's Hebi?!"
[That's so cruel, I thought that we knights would remember one another no matter what.]
Hebi spoke and he directed his attention towards Lance as he oozed out killing intent directly at him, but got no reaction from either of them.
"Hmmm, you look different," Lance stated in a joking manner. "Did you get a new haircut? Wait wait, don't tell me…have you been juicing."
[For once, you're stupid jokes made a point. This is the next stage of evolution for humans.]
"I'm sorry, I think you mean devolution. I don't think humans are related to snakes, but I'll have to―"
"Kuh."
Lance stopped making jokes after his hand touched the part of Xenovia that was wounded by the blade Hebi's magic sword, Orochi. He stared at his hand noticing that it was stained with the blood that had seeped from her wound. Seeing the blood caused his expression to tense up a bit.
"Sorry," Lance said in a different kind of tone from the worry that he felt. "Can you still fight? Xenovia, I don't want you to say "Yes" for my sake…can you still fight with that wound."
"Yes," Xenovia answered in a straight tone. "I can still fight, I pretty much got the feeling of each of his attacks and I think I got a hold of his weakness. I want to see this fight to the end and pay him back for what he did."
"Alright, then let's all finish this guy off."
"Us all?"
Xenovia questioned, at the same moment as when Hebi started to charge at the two of them. A blast of pure holy energy sending backward even after blocking the attack with crossed arms. Jumping out of the skies were both Yumi and Jeanne who used their angel wings to land gently on the ground.
"We're here, Lance-kun."
"Whoa! What kind of monster is this?"
"I'll explain that later."
"Based on what I've seen, he's been healing from every attack that I launched at him. You guys see that jewel on his chest," Xenovia questioned all three of them nodded their heads in agreement. "The moment Durandal came close to hitting it, he immediately stepped back. So, that means…."
"…we break it, we'll be able to take em' out."
The four of them came to the same conclusion as one another with all of them preparing their own unique weapons. With Hebi looking at the four of them letting out a deep laughter that echoed across the battlefield.
[Hahahaha! I think that this is fate meeting you all here at the same time…so, I can rip every last one of you apart!]
After declaring that out loud, Hebi let out a very malicious presence that took the form of a pitch black aura covering his body. It sent a chilling sensation down their spines as this was the first time they've ever experienced something like this.
"What the hell did Hebi inject in himself?" Lance questioned himself, before turning his attention towards the Avalon Heroic Sword and smirked slightly. "Can you girls head out first? I got something planned."
[Right!]
The three of them agreed with Lance as they all charged at Hebi with their weapons in hand, the first to make their move was Jeanne. Holding two holy swords in her hands, Jeanne slashed at him causing her holy swords to crack after coming into contact with his skin. Seeing where she was, Hebi launched his arm towards Jeanne. Just before he could hit her, Jeanne ducked down narrowly dodging his attack. As she regained her position, Hebi used one of his snakeheads to arm at her again. But―
DOOOOOOON!
A ball of holy-lightning was soon aimed at Hebi's snakeheads knocking it away from Jeanne, protecting her from him.
"Thank you," Jeanne thanked her dragon after regaining her footing. "Looks like I'll have to strengthen my sword more if I want to harm him."
Focusing her thoughts into her swords, Jeanne altered her swords into ice and fire-type weapons. She charged at Hebi using incredible speed and footwork slashing at him in a number of spots on his body freezing his armored skin, then striking him with the flame sword and continued this process. Hebi had continued to aim at Jeanne using a number of sharp swings, but she narrowly avoided his strikes using very nimble movements.
[Speedy little blonde bitch!]
"You're cursing an awful lot," Jeanne responded after Hebi strike an afterimage of herself. "You remind me a lot of this rude former knight who used to curse us a lot. By the way, Yumi-chan are you about ready?"
"Yep."
Yumi had Masamune sheathed in its scabbard, while Hebi noticed an odd occurrence on his brand new body. A number of cracks started to form on his body due to Jeanne constantly freezing parts of Hebi's body using his ice holy sword, then melting it using her fire holy sword and so on. Yumi unsheathed her sword at high-speeds unleashing a sharp holy wind-attributed shock wave in his direction.
CRACK CRACK BREAK BREAK
Once it made contact with his body before black shards started falling on the ground creating a very notable sound as they fell on the ground. Revealing purplish flesh under behind the armor-like skin and causing Hebi to grip his teeth angrily.
[As I told that blue-haired bitch, I am…gah!]
Just as Hebi was proclaiming his strength, a familiar uniquely shaped blue broadsword and a golden edge had slashed him in the same uncovered spot. It was Xenovia who took this opportunity to slash Durandal into this weak point, but before she could cut deeper into him―
[Ngggh!]
Hebi used his brand new muscle control to stop Xenovia's blade midway through, she made a number of attempts to pull it out of him. Seeing that she was trapped, he launched one the large snakeheads at her with its fangs bared.
[Now, just die already!]
The snakes headed towards her being close to biting her, but before it could do anything. A thin energy wave was launched at the snakehead slicing it off causing black blood to spill out from the wound and causing Hebi let out a painful scream.
"I just made it again," Lance said holding the Avalon Heroic Sword within both hands with a magical symbol drawn on his hilt and a number of magical characters drawn along the blade. This was another technique that he made over the summer break and used its prototype against Elaine during their training. Its official name is "Bellax Enchant", which can greatly enhance their own strength or their weapons by drawing a series of magical characters imbued with their own magic powers on themselves. "Exorcising Slash."
[You son of a―]
Before Hebi could even finish, he was sent flying backward by a massive energy wave released by the Avalon Heroic Sword. The energy wave had a negative effect on his new body as parts of its started to fall and break apart. After the attack ceased, Hebi started to breathe heavily.
[Haah! Why the hell is this affecting me?!]
"I don't know what you did to yourself," Lance said as he joined the others. "But, this new friend of mine has been fighting against demonic creatures for a number of centuries and as such, he made a nifty little energy wave that specifically exorcises demonic entities…or whatever you are."
After hearing that tone from Lance, that armor that covered his face started to crack apart due to how hard he was gripping his teeth and shouted.
[DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! I'LL KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF YOOOOU!]
Responding to his anger, a massive amount of malicious aura started to be released from his body as a number of his injuries started to heal themselves and the jewel started to shine darkly. Not wanting to let this chance go, Xenovia charged at him letting Durandal's destructive aura being released and then swung down her holy sword using all her strength. Her target was the jewel that Hebi protected before Lance and the others arrived. The destructive aura being released by Durandal was being temporarily suppressed by his malicious aura.
[I TOLD YOU! I'M INVINCIBLE!]
Xenovia ignored him gritting her teeth as she continued to push forward with Durandal.
"There's no monster such as yourself that's invincible," Xenovia declared as she fortified both her will and grip. "Especially in the face of my Durandal."
"Good line, Xenovia!"
Lance declared as he got behind her and grasp the handle of Durandal along with Xenovia.
"Lance-sama?"
"Pull out all of the strength that you can from Durandal, I'll back up your play. That's one of my duties as a king and fiance!"
"Okay," Xenovia responded with flushed cheeks her focus then went directly towards the legendary holy sword resting in her hands. "Respond to me, Durandal!"
An intense aura started far greater than anything that she released before started to be released from Durandal and started to weaken Hebi's malicious aura. A number of cracks started forming on the jewel that was embedded in his chest. Seeing this occurrence, he launched both the enormous snakes towards Lance and Xenovia. However―
"I don't think so!"
Jeanne created a uniquely shaped holy sword in her hands and stabbed downwards onto the head of one of the snakes stopping it from moving. Just as the other was about to slap away both of them, Yumi had appeared over it with both her hands clenched around Masamune's hilt and with its blade directed at its head.
"This is the first of the Five-Star Sword," Yumi declared as she increased and refined her holy sword's aura using her own while being clad in a nigh-invisible vacuum blade around Masamune. "Shinkuuha."
Shinkuuha [Vacuum Wave] is was another technique that Yumi copied from Naomi, which is known for possessing the strongest piercing power. Masamune stabbed through the snake's head stopping it from moving the same as the first snake's head and digging into the ground. With a final last ditch effort, Hebi opened his mouth wide showing off his monstrous fangs and attempted to bite into their heads―
THROW! STAB!
Before Hebi could, the Adamant Sword was suddenly thrown stabbed through his mouth and he soon glanced towards the culprit.
"Their heads aren't tootsie pops and your not that asshole owl."
""Let's go!""
With that final call from both Xenovia and Lance, there was an enormous flash of blinding light that caused a number of people to cover their eyes.
Outside of the barrier, Apollon who had already dealt with the anti-monsters that had attacked them again together with two older males with mustaches wearing togas. The one who wore a crown on their head was known as Zeus the leader of the Greek Faction and one of the Trinity Gods; the second wielding an ornate trident in his hand was Poseidon another one of the Trinity Gods.
"Gahahahaha! I return to Mount Olympus after a month and find that brat Heracles and his little bratty friends is causing trouble again!"
Poseidon let out a loud laughter of amusement, after arriving at the scene with Zeus he easily dealt with the anti-monsters that invaded. Together with the three of them, it was over in almost an instant.
"Aren't we going to deal with the barrier that everyone was trapped in?"
"If I remember correctly Azazel-Boy spoke highly about that Lancelot kid when he got drunk with us last time," Zeus declared merrily. At the same time that he declared that a crack suddenly formed in front of them. "Hmmm, what is this?"
The crack soon enlarged and being flung towards them was a monsterized Hebi. Seeing him coming in his direction, Zeus stepped aside allowing him to fall to the ground. Appearing all around them was the number of people trapped inside of the barrier. Along with them were Lance and the others.
"See, what did I tell you?"
Apollon was happy to see that everyone were alright but stopped after seeing Lance walking over to the motionless Hebi who jewel already broke.
"Alright, you've got some explaining to do Hebi," Lance said reaching out towards him in an attempt to pick him up. The second that he touched him, Hebi's body started to break apart and soon enough he disintegrated in the wind. "Wh-What the hell?"
In his hands was the last black piece from Hebi, which like the rest of him vanished. Within the rubble of where Hebi remained Orochi.
"It seems as if you kids dealt with our issue," Zeus said after giving Lance a pat on his back causing a jolt of pain to travel all over his body due to his fight with Cao Cao. "I thank you for doing us that favor, and so why don't I repay this favor."
Located on Mount Olympus there was a small celebration, which in the translation of Mount Olympus meant a large party. In the middle of the lively crowd of people were both Lance and Percy who had each other's arms wrapped around their shoulders. Both of them were dressed in the similar wear as the Greek Faction members and wearing wide grins on their face. All of them had their injuries dealt with beforehand using one of their god's healing techniques.
"Hahaha! I never thought I'd come to the Greek Faction and meet someone a lot like me!"
"Same here, buddy."
Both Lance and Percy continued to get along with old friends.
"I can't believe these little kids saved the day, and this one lets an entire group of monster hunters."
"You can't tell what kids will do these days."
"By the way, I didn't quite get your last name."
"Oh, it Mycenae," Percy answered pointed his thumb toward himself. "Percy Mycenae. I'm the hero-descendant of the Monster Hunter…Perseus."
"I didn't think that I wouldn't meet another hero-descendant today who wasn't trying to kill me."
Further away from them Xenovia, Yumi, and Jeanne dressed in the Greek clothing worn by the woman. All of them stood next to one each other watching both Lance and Percy as they got along with the other men in the party. Silently letting out a bit of a sigh.
"Just look at those two," Yumi said letting out a sigh. "We certainly went through a lot today. Having to fight against monsters, hero faction members, and Hebi who turned into a snake monster."
"But, everything worked out just fine," Jeanne responded glancing towards Yumi. "We even got a party thrown for us for all the hard work that we put into today."
"Yumi," Hearing Xenovia call her voice, Yumi turned towards the bluenette who stared at her directly and decided to apologize. "I apologize for how I've been acting towards you for the past week."
"N-No, you don't to apologize for anything Xenovia."
Yumi responded slightly waving her hands in front of herself almost in embarrassment due to the very sudden apology.
"We're all apart of Lance-kun's brave saint so we have to not only be there whenever he needs us, but we also need to be there for each other. So, whenever there's anything wrong we come to each other and talk it through."
Yumi held her hand out with a generous smile on her face. Seeing this, Xenovia returned the smile and grasp her hand. Seeing the two of them like this caused to let out a cheerful laugh.
"I'm so happy to hear that you guys are getting along again," Jeanne said out loud wrapping her arms around both her fellow brave saint comrades. "Why don't we all do something over the weekend?"
"Yes, that sounds fun."
They agreed with their plans for their upcoming weekend even deciding on asking the other female of the Du Lac Residence to join them.
In the middle of the party, Percy went towards Zeus who on the side chugging down a drink from his cup along with Poseidon. Seeing him walk towards them, the chief of the Olympians waved towards him.
"Hey, who are you enjoying yourself Percy-Boy?"
"Same as always our faction's parties are always a riot."
"So, have you made your decision yet?"
Hearing Zeus' question, Percy reached into his pocket and held one of the brave saint cards that were given to Lance. This one, in particular, represents the Four of Hearts.
"Yea, I never thought I like some people I just met," Percy answered placing the card back in his pocket and looked towards both the gods in front of him. "I sometimes wonder why those two idiots turned into traitors and joined the Hero Faction."
"I sometimes wonder whether or not its natural for my kids' descendants to leave from here. The only difference is that you're leaving for the right reasons…following someone like that Knight-Kid is a great choice for you."
"By the what did he ask for?"
"For some metals and just some basic information. Specifically adamant and mithril," Zeus answered chugging down the contents of his cup and looked towards him. "I had no reasons to say no after all he did to help, so I just asked Hephaestus to send him some. I should ask this kid for another favor once in a while, but that can wait later…this is also a goodbye party for Percy-Boy."
"Though, someone would probably want to assist you once in a while."
Upon hearing Poseidon mention that, Percy felt someone bumping into him after turning around he took note of a female horse with pure white coat though that wasn't all. This white horse, in particular, was one with unfolded wings. This was the divine stallion…or in this case mare, a pegasus. He smiled with his hand held out and started to pet this horse on its head.
"So, you want to help me out once in a while, Arion?"
Percy questioned with a smile on his face as he said the pegasus' name. Arion answered him by gently nuzzling his face.
"You know if you need any Arion's help, all you need to do is call out her and she'll be there at god-speed. The two of you have been close since you were a trainee when you made the choice of trying to break into Hades' lair and she got you out of where before his grim reapers found you."
"Which reminds me can you return Skeletor's helmet for me. Along with giving back both the Adamant Sword and Mirror Shield."
"How exactly did you get Hades' helmet?"
"I-I borrowed it."
Percy glanced away from them letting out a nervous laugh as Arion continued to nuzzle the side of his face, while the party continued to go on.
[I'm glad to hear everything went alright at the end. I wouldn't have thought that the leader of the Hero Faction would arrive as well. Among that you even managed to recruit a descendant of Perseus.]
Lance and the others soon returned to the Du Lac residence after their party ended. It was nighttime at the moment with Yumi and Jeanne were downstairs together. He decided to contact Azazel in order to inform him about the situation that happened.
"In terms of technique alone that guys already on a completely different level, is you mix that in with his mastery of the True Longinus…it wouldn't be strange to say that he's the Strongest Human. Though what he said to me did catch my attention." Lance replied. "Percy said that he'll be moving into an apartment in town after taking care of some business."
[The second leader of the Hero Faction. Apparently, his sacred gear is possibly close to becoming the next Longinus, but I don't know which one it would be.] Azazel said over the end of the phone. [But, it seems that thanks to you and your team the entire Three Faction received a great rating from the Greek Faction. We also have to prepare for the Rating Game with Diodora Astaroth who seemed to have aligned himself with the Old-Maou Faction. So, I don't know if Yuuma will be able to return since she's assisting Grigori in preparing for the upcoming battle.]
"I just can't wait until this is over. Asia-chan has already been through enough with this creepy green-haired kid," Lance said as he stopped in front of Xenovia's bedroom as he remembered that there was something that she wanted to talk with him about. "Gotta go there's something that I need to take care of."
[Alright, later.] Azazel said but stopped after remembering something important. [And about that other business with concerning what happened with that Knight, the scientists of Grigori are working on examining the injection gun that he used. Whatever Xander had invented it's something, not even I have ever heard of before.]
After Azazel hung up after saying that, Lance placed his phone back in his pocket and knocked on Xenovia's bedroom and waited for a response.
"Xenovia it's me."
[You can come in, Lance-sama.]
After getting her okay, he opened the door and found himself inside of Xenovia's bedroom. Lance let out a bit of a laugh after seeing workout equipment placed all around on the floor. It didn't really surprise him to see that she still had her belongings laid around on the floor. He looked and noticed her sitting down on her bed wearing simple shorts and a tank top that showed her midriff.
"Is it okay if I sat down?"
"Of course," After getting the okay from the room's owner he took a seat on the bed next to her. Even after saying that she wanted to talk to him about what was bothering her for some time. "I've always been wondering this for a while, but I never knew how to ask this. Why did you make me your Queen?"
It wasn't as if she was unhappy about being his queen, but Xenovia felt as if there were more people who were better qualified for that position than herself. Lance took note of her tightening her hands.
"During my time and training in order to become an Exorcist, I was made fun a lot by my allies due to how I fought and acted…I soon became known as the Slashing Princess. Despite all the times that I was made fun of, if I was doing it in the name of God I could endure it and continue to do my duty." As she continued to talk further some stray tears started to form at the corner of her eyes. "I didn't know how to do anything that a normal girl did before meeting Irina. Before that, I acted cold towards everyone I was originally partnered with and they picked someone else to work with."
Lance continued to listen as Xenovia spill out how she felt.
"I always seem to be the only person left behind or the first person to be fall in a fight," Xenovia said as she remembered their battle with the Old-Maou Faction. "I always thought that because I could wield a holy sword like Durandal I could do anything, but after seeing Yumi wield it better than me, the person originally chose to wield it. I realized that Yumi held more talent than I did…and so I decided to train harder so I could catch up. But, after training with her it seemed as if I still couldn't catch up and I was jealous. I feel as if I don't do something I'll be left behind and I want to fight alongside everyone if I―"
Before Xenovia could go any further, Lance stopped her from talking anymore by placing a comforting hand softly on both sides of her cheek. Causing her to stare directly at him with cloudy eyes.
"The first time that we met, I noticed that you held potential to become something more. Not only as a swordswoman but as a person. Whenever you saw something you hadn't seen before you always look at it with interested eyes and attempt to learn from it." Lance said straight in her face. "I don't care what anyone else says, you just as a talent with a sword as Yumi…the only difference is how the two of you approach a situation. In a fight, the most important thing is compatibility, the opponents that your weakest against are a [Technique] and [Wizard]-type. And, I'll always be there to support you no matter what. Don't forget you don't have to deal with anything alone there are people willing to help you…like an awesome fiance."
Hearing his words caused tears to fall from her eyes, while a beautiful smile formed on her face and she placed her hand on top of one of his.
"Thank you, talking to you made the nervousness inside me disappear completely," Xenovia declared as she wiped away the stray tears falling from her eyes before looking directly at him. "Lance-sama, I can to a realization the moment that I met you and after I got to know you."
"What is…mmph."
Chu.
Xenovia pressed her soft inviting lips against Lance's causing them to overlap. Though this kiss was unexpected and it was the first time that the two of them had ever kissed, he didn't hate. It didn't turn into anything too lustful it was just an exchange between two people who loved one another. After separating from one another, Xenovia smiled at him against with a beautiful smile that no one would have ever expected from her.
"I love you," Those words almost caused Lance's heart to skip a beat. "I never felt this way about anyone before and I never thought that I could ever love anyone this much. When I was at the lowest part of my life, you helped me out of that despair and gave me the happiest life that I ever thought was possible. Even if you weren't Gabriel-sama's son or even God's grandchild, I would have still fallen in love with you. That is why I don't want to be with anyone else but you…I want you to be my first and only."
Lance looked directly into Xenovia's dark yellow eyes that shone almost as brilliant as the sun and he had felt the same way as her.
"Okay," Xenovia smiled after hearing his answer and leaned in for another kiss, but was stopped after Lance placed a single finger in front of her stopping Xenovia. "Under one condition."
"If it's about the position, you can…owwww," Xenovia had let out a pained moan as Lance pinched both sides of her cheek with slight tears forming in the corner of her eyes. "Please don't do that, it's bad enough that Sister Griselda does that Lance-sama!"
"Call me Lancelot that's my one condition."
"Eh? But, that's…."
"Your both my Queen and my fiancee," Lance said with a smile on his face. "So I want the two of us to have a more personal and friendly relationship with one another…especially since we're kind of already a family along with the rest of…."
"Your harem?"
"Yea," Lance answered with a smile. "I never thought that I'd admit that. So, what do you say Xenovia?"
It was difficult for Xenovia not to add -sama to his name, but she could see why he wanted to have a more personal relationship with her.
"Okay," Xenovia replied. "Lancelot."
"Alright, then…wait before that."
There was a slight silence before Xenovia sensed a sudden change in the room and noticed the angel-styled magic symbols aligning the room. It was a familiar presence that Xenovia felt during her days as an exorcist…a barrier.
"I formed a barrier around the room so no sound can escape nor can anyone enter the room."
Lance informed her, as Xenovia stood up from off of her bed and straddled his waist. The two of them then overlapped their lips with one another at first started off at a slow pace. Soon progressing to the point where the two of them started to explore one another warm mouths with their tongues wrapped and entangled around one another. Xenovia soon started to run her nimble fingers gently through his brown unkempt hair as she moaned into their kiss.
Due to both their natural competitive nature their tongues continued to wrestle against each other. Lance reached his hand into her shirt dragging his finger along her stomach before pushing up her bra and started to fondle her ample right mound.
"Mmmmmm~"
Xenovia moaned as Lance continued to knead her breasts in anyway that he could, massaging them clockwise. The moment that the two of them separated from one another due to the need for air and with a trail of saliva being the only thing that connected their tongues. The bluenette soon took off her tank top revealing her semi-off bra, Xenovia soon took that off releasing her large mounds from their prison.
"Lancelot," Xenovia looked directly at him with her hands inching to the hem of his black t-shirt. "Can I take off your shirt?"
"Of course."
Following his response, Xenovia took off his shirt revealing his developed chest and body. She reached her hands forward and started to run her hands all over his body. She then moved forward pressing her breasts against his chest and resumed their passionate make-out session. Xenovia was caught off guard as Lance reached both his hands out and firmly grasp her rear causing the bluenette to let out a moan. He picked her up and gently placed her on her bed and not pulling away from her for even a moment.
"Huh?"
Xenovia mentally questioned after Lance pulled away suddenly, but stopped after she felt him wrap his mouth around her right mound with his tongue circling around her areola.
"Aaah, Lancelot~!"
Xenovia let out a melodious sound, while his other hand was preoccupied kneading the other. As she continued to be pleasured by her king, an unfamiliar warm feeling started to almost overcome her. His hands soon left from her left breast proceeding to trace his finger down her smooth stomach, then proceeded to slip his fingers into her unbuttoned shorts. Until―
"Haaah…mmhmm…ngh!"
Lance could feel how soaked her panties were as he started to run his finger across her slit a number of times as more of her juices started to flow out. Hearing the moans from her mouth caused his pants to become tighter from his erection. Due to their position, Xenovia could feel his erection still being contained by his pants.
"L-Lancelot," Xenovia's voice caught his attention. "It isn't fair that I'm the only one being pleasured like this…I want to…."
"I understand."
Responding to her request, Lance reached his hand towards his pants to take them off. Undoing his belt and proceeded to take off his pants along with his underwear. Xenovia stared at his erections with a look of both wonder and excitement.
"You sure at big, Lancelot."
Xenovia leaned forward pushing Lance down on his back leaving her to deal with his erection. She had leaned in towards it and started to remember what she was supposed to do.
"The book that Aika gave me said that I was supposed to do…this," Xenovia extended out her tongue giving his manhood a shy lick. Doing this caused Lane to let out a slight moan causing Xenovia to become far more adventurous and started to drag her tongue all over his length. "I guess he likes what I'm doing."
"X-Xenovia."
Lance continued to moan as Xenovia started to leave no inch of him not covered in her saliva from her soft tongue. Going up his length, she started to swirl her tongue around his shaft's tip with a lustful look being shown on her face as she continued to let out a hot breath on his shaft. Being pleasured by his queen like this caused his manhood to twitch with every contact.
"Lancelot's not even touching me anymore," Xenovia said as she became more bolt and wrapped her soft lips around his soft causing him to let out a louder groan as he felt his shaft being warmed by her moist cavern. "Why is it that I'm becoming wetter the more his dick slips into my mouth?"
Xenovia bobbed her head up and down his manhood making sure not to go down so that she wouldn't gag. She didn't know what it was; the smell, the taste, or how it felt in her mouth whenever it twitched, but she continued to become wetter the most she gave her king a blowjob.
"Kuuuh, Xenovia, I don't know if its due to this being my first time. But, you too good at this."
Letting his cock out of her mouth letting out a wet pop, then wrapped her hand around his length and provided to give him a handjob. Staring at him with lust still lingering in her eyes.
"I did my research," Xenovia answered him. "I wanted to give my fiance the best experience."
"Then I think that I know a position that can provide that for both of us."
Xenovia stared at him wonderingly, then Lance whispered what he had in mind into her ear. After she heard what he had in mind, Xenovia nodded her head. Reaching towards her shorts, Lance reached his hands towards her shorts to pull them off along with her soaked panties. Without much care to where they landed on the floor and showing off her shaven maidenhood. Xenovia smiled after she saw Lance staring at her and pushed him gently onto her bed.
While her attention went back to pleasuring Lance's erection with a blowjob, Xenovia faced her plump rear with her maidenhood literally crying above him. Lance leaned his head forward and started to lick her slit before darting his tongue inside her folds.
"Mmmmmm~" Xenovia moaned around his erection as she bobbed her head up and down making a number of slurping noises as she continued on.
Lance continued to eat Xenovia out become more vigorous with his tongue exploring her entrance as far as he could while running his hand around her butt and even tightening his grip. He soon removed his hands and positioned his fingers in front of her entrance.
"Aaah!"
Another moan escaped from her mouth as she was being fingered by Lance's index and middle finger, which felt her insides tighten with every motion made. At the same moment, Xenovia could feel Lance's member twitch more and more in her mouth.
"X-Xenovia, I'm about to…."
"Y-Yes, I know…me too. Release it into my mouth."
Both agreed on this and resumed pleasuring one another until―
""Kuh!""
Xenovia released her juices onto his face drinking whatever fell into his mouth and enjoying how they tasted. Said bluenette found mouth being filled with Lance's white essence as some of it dripped onto her breasts as she moved off his body. She had to put some effort into swallowing, but she was finally able to drink all of it. Seeing that there was some still covering her breasts Xenovia wiped off all of it and licked it clean from her fingers.
"What an interesting taste," Xenovia stated as started to crawl towards him. "But, I think that I could do with another dose."
"I-I didn't expect you to be this erotic Xenovia."
Lance was genuinely surprised by the erotic look on her face as she wrapped her arms around him.
"I want to give my king the best experience," Xenovia answered reaching her hand towards Lance's still erect member. "Now, Lancelot do you want to proceed further?"
"It'd be a shame if things ended here, but are you sure that you want to―"
"I already decided to give all of myself over to you."
After answering his unfinished question, Xenovia aligned his length with her entrance and proceeded to lower herself down. His length moved forward under reaching her hymen and―
"Aaaah!"
Xenovia let out a pained scream as her hymen was torn through. It caused her to also dig her nails into Lance's back causing him to wince a bit. Seeing his queen in pain, he wrapped his arms around her and started to circulate his own aura into her body to alleviate her pain. Xenovia let out a breath of relief.
"Thank you, Lancelot. I just need a moment," Xenovia explained as she waited a couple of moments before she lifted herself up before impaling herself on his length again. Lance could feel her insides as they tightened around his member as if they were attempting to milk him. "Aaah…aaaah…mmmm."
The pain that she felt was no longer there and now all she felt was nothing but pleasure as she started to bounce up and down on his length. Lance's mind started to become blanker by the moment as she continued to bounce on his lap. He leaned forward placing her left mound into his mouth and started to suck on her erect pink nipple.
Before she knew it, Lance in the heat of the moment pinned her down on her back. He then started to speed up the movement of his hips causing series of melodious moans to escape from her mouth. No one could have ever expected that the normally serious looking Xenovia to make an expression such as the one she was making right now. As he continued to rocket his hips back and forth until finding her g-stop.
"Ooooh~" Xenovia moaned as she wrapped her toned legs around his waist allowing him to go deeper in her. "I can feel your dick hitting my womb!"
"Xenovia, I'm almost close to my limit."
"Me too," Xenovia answered, as she looked directly at him with her dark yellow eyes kissing him for a moment before declaring. "I want you to release your seed inside me! I'll accept anything that you give me because that's how much I love you!"
"I love you too."
Lance continued to pound into Xenovia with both of them reaching their limit and finally―
""Aaaah!""
Both of them climax with their juices mixing with one another and whatever cum was shot into Xenovia beginning to spill out of her. The king and queen soon lied down next to one another with both of them covered in sweat
"That was amazing," Xenovia said with a smile on her face and intertwined her hands with his. "My bed is a mess, so can I sleep in your room today?"
"You actually asked for once," Lance replied in a joking tone. "Normally I'd just wake up and find you all in my bed…then I realize I'm on the floor. I don't mind, but let's get a bath before going to bed."
"Good idea, I need to clean up," Xenovia responded. "I'll wash your back."
After getting prepared to enter the bath, Lance reached his hand towards the front door after undoing the barrier ―
""Iyaaah!""
Just as he opened the door, both his houses' blondes came stumbling on the floor in front of them. As they realized that they were caught by Lancelot who stood over them they looked towards Lance with a nervous smile on their faces.
"Hehehe, hey there Lance-kun."
"Yumi-chan. Jeanne-chan. What're you doing?"
"We were trying to hear?"
Lance became suspicious about how Jeanne put that and continued on.
"Hearing what?"
"You two doing it."
He spit-take after hearing how she put it and noticed that neither of them was too angry about that happening.
"Y-You two know about…?"
"Xenovia told us about it during the party."
"And you two actually agreed?"
"We all agreed not to get in each other's way when it came towards how we feel about you," Yumi had answered him in a straight tone. "Sona-san also mentioned it once and how would we develop our relationship with you if we were focused on stopping someone else. You have so much faith in us, so it was decided that we wouldn't get in the way of one another."
Lance felt so much admiration for about what Yumi had just told him, but Jeanne had raised her hand up with her usual smile on her face.
"We're about to take a bath," Lance said with a smile on his face laughing nervously about what she said about Yuuma finding out. "Do you girls want to join us?"
""Okay!""
A/N: And there goes the thirty-third chapter of The Magic Knight, well a lot happened this chapter along with Lancelot losing it to Xenovia. I apologize if the lemon wasn't well written this was the first time that I ever wrote one (besides I'm better at writing action scenes). Speaking of action scenes there were a lot of battles all across the replica of the town located in the Greek Faction created by Dimension Lost. Our favorite bluenette Queen had a bout against a former Knight who joined the Hero Faction and had some difficulties against him; Percy had his bout with the traitorous Heracles, and Lancelot had his epic fight with Cao Cao who supposedly found a weakness in him, but how will our Magic Knight last?
Also, Hebi revealed a little invention made by our least favorite sociopathic magician. I wonder what will be revealed in the near future.
Not much to say any more about this chapter. So, until next time later.
Lancelot's Harem: Yumi, Jeanne, Irina, Xenovia, Le Fay, Sona, Serafall, Rossweisse, Valarie, Seekvaira, Kuroka, Yuuma, Griselda, Yasaka, Lavinia, Liu Bei, Tiamat.
Issei's Harem: Rias, Akeno, Koneko, Asia, Ravel, Tsubasa, Aika, Isabel, Katase, Murayama, Mira, Kunou, Elmenhilde, Bennia, Reya, Kiyome.
Lancelot's Brave Saints:
King: Lancelot Du Lac
Queen: Xenovia Quarto
Jack: Lint Sellzen
Ten:
Nine: Himari Kirigakure
Eight: Alex Grimm
Seven: Rossweisse
Six: Ariel Light
Five: Chelia Ashker
Four: Percy Mycenae
Three: Yukio Saito
Two: Jeanne d'Arc
Ace: Yumi Kiba
Joker: