The Magic Knight

by HolyKnightX

Lancelot Du Lac the descendant of both Sir Lancelot and Merlin. After completing his training at the Order of Knights since arriving there at the age of seven, Lancelot returns to his hometown and makes his presence known to the Devils of Kuoh Academy. Armed with his swords and magic, he is prepared for any threat that comes forth. (Slight AU Story).

35. The Great Battle

Welcome to the next chapter of The Magic Knight, before starting the story. Let's answer some reviews:

Hellspam: Thanks, I'm glad that you enjoyed their fight with the Hero Faction. Yep, I think that she won't be in the best mood.

King0fP0wers: I kind of wanted to get this arc over with, but I did consider extending it. Though there will be more events like this one in the near future. There are a lot of people who would like to see more factions outside of the ones that we have already seen. Yea, there are a lot of people who call him Goliath. For a technique-type, they can think of a number of ways to use their sacred gears, but for power-types, they at sometimes rely on power and Heracles tougher than most humans, but he isn't anything like Vasco Strada. Yep, this guy was more of a copy of our Freed. I wanted to make the fight between them an interesting one since they're most technique-type fighters (since most times fights in DxD are just throwing around power). I thought that would be interested since within a number of different media "Aura" and "Magic" doesn't mix well with for someone not well trained to properly utilize both or that's at least how I interpret it. I thought that its design was awesome, but you can't tell how it would end up like. The build-up will continue until Gilgamesh finally makes an appearance. That is funny, I thought that this would be the perfect time to add a lemon.

Guest: I already have an idea of who to add to his team.

Tohka123: Thanks and everything is just about to settle down. Yep, the two of them have finally developed their relationship to the next level. And I will.

Guest 2: Maybe. Yes, it would be interesting to see other members of the Hero Faction aside from those acting as the main team.

Guest 3: I know, but I kind of wanted to get this arc finished with, but I promise there will be far more than focus on other mythological factions. This arc is in Volume 6.

Guest 4: Thanks, I wanted to do something different with Xenovia's character in this story. I'm happy to hear that you like Lancelot's character along with the fact that he's related to Gabriel (Mother) and Asia (Cousin). Yep, there are a lot of things that Percy will be able to do in the near future. Happy to hear that you like Yuuma's character there are a lot of people who enjoy how her character is with the others; I pity the person who tries to get her a name like that. I'll make sure that their first encounter will be an enjoyable one along with their relationship; this will be the same for when he recruits his Brave Saints.

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The Great Battle

"Is everyone ready?"

Rias questioned. Inside of the Occult Research Club Room along with the rest of her peerage. Similar to their battle with the Phenex Clan, they were waiting for the magic-circle that would be taking them to the rating game site. This time their opponent was Diodora Astaroth, a noble devil who belongs to the same family as Ajuka Beelzebub. Neither of them knew the kind of power that they used in his rating game battle against Seekvaira, but they did realize the enormous demonic-power that he has.

Though the Gremory Group were also filled with a number of powerful individuals. Every one of them was dressed in their perspective school uniforms aside from Asia who was dressed in her nun's outfit; Koneko also had fighting gloves tightened on both her hands.

Knock! Knock! Knock!

Just as they were standing around waiting for the magic circle to show itself, there was a knock on the door of the ORC. Without waiting for a response, Lance entered the club room and waved towards all of them with a wondering look on their face.

"Lance, what're you doing here?"

"What? I just came here to wish you guys luck."

Lance answered Issei's question as he walked over towards them, his attention was soon caught in the direction of Gasper who still looked a bit nervous.

"Oh, come on, Gasper," Lance said petting the nervous dhampir comfortably on his head. "You have to be brave for the girls of the group remember you can't show that side in front of them, right?"

"Y-Yessss," Gasper shouted out loud wearing a confident yet at the same time a very scared look on his face. "Niiiii-sama, I'll beeee brave for everyone!"

Smiling a bit to himself, he then turned towards Asia who still looked a bit shaken up about their upcoming encounter against the main person who caused her such trouble. Lance soon turned in the direction of his younger cousin and placed his hand on her brilliant blonde hair.

"Now, come on a face like that doesn't belong on that cute little face," Lance stated filling her up with some comfort causing somewhat of a smile to form on her face. "…. ….. ….. …."

While speaking under his break, Lance said some unfamiliar words that the others could barely make out yet couldn't understand despite their [Language] ability, which allow them to head foreign languages in their native tongue.

"What did you say, Onii-san?"

Asia titled her head cutely.

"Nothing just a small good luck charm from my side of the family," Lance answered. "So, do you best in this rating game. Also, Koneko-chan."

"…Yes."

"Work well with Gasper," Lance said petting Koneko on her head. "A supporter such as him always works best with someone else."

"…Okay."

Koneko agreed with him with a nod of her head. Seeing how Lance was acting with their younger members caused Van to laugh a bit.

"What no head pats for the rest of us," Van had made that sarcastic remark but was stopped as Kiba placed his hand on his head with his usual refreshing smirk on his face. He made an annoyed look on his face with his eyes started twitching due to the annoyance that he felt. "Kiiiiiibaaaaa!"

"What," Kiba asked in a faux confused tone. "You said that you wanted a pat on the head."

"He and Yumi are definitely alike," Lance thought with a smirk.

Van glared towards Kiba with an annoyed look on his face. The former tone that formerly filled them with dread has now vanished. As they were laughing at the antics being performed by both Kiba and Van there was a sudden shine being released from the magic-circle inside of the Occult Research Club room.

"It's about time."

Seeing that the magic-circle that would transport them to the rating game location everybody stepped in and each of them was wrapped in a crimson light. Just as all of them were being transported away, Lance waved towards them with his usual smile on his face.

"Are they gone?"

A familiar voice questioned.

Walking into the club room was school president, Sona. At the moment, she wasn't joined with any of her peerage members since all of them were stationed in other location.

"Yea, so that means we should get started as well."

Lance answered her question with a smile on his face.

"My peerage is posted outside of the rating game with…Seekvaira-san and her peerage," Sona seemed to be miffed about being partnered with Seekvaira, but she hid it well enough to hide it from others…Lance, on the other hand, was not one of them. "Together with the reinforcements, we will take care of any enemies who get away from the main vanguard."

"While the main vanguard and I will take care of the rest of em' on the frontline."

Lance said with a smirk on his face.

"Aren't you worried about Asia-san?"

"Of course I am. That's why the spell that I placed on her just in case anything happens, but I don't think that those guys will let her get hurt." Lance answered as both he and Sona activated a magic-circle under their feet. "So, let's get this creepy traitor and get back to our somewhat normal lives dealing with actual threats."

"I'll see later then."

Both Lance and Sona smiled at one another, as they vanished from inside of the Occult Research Club room to another location.

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Once the light vanished and Lance regained his vision, he found himself in a location that looked a lot similar to the Greek Faction shrine that he was in just a couple of days ago. Making it there, he noticed a large number of people who were already there waiting for the battle. He looked around the area for his team until―

"Lance-kun over here!"

Hearing Jeanne's voice calling him over, he turned his attention towards his brave saints all dressed in their perspective battle suits waiting for him to show up. Along with them was Percy who had a red "4" imprinted on the back of his right hand and dressed in a new battle suit; a white modified jacket is worn over a black shirt that showed his toned body, black pants, and shoes.

"Yo, Boss-Man."

Percy called out with a wide smirk on his face.

"You're still calling me that."

Since joining up with his brave saints and attributed with his leadership along with his actions during their battle with invading of the Hero Faction in the Greek Faction.

"Of course," Percy answered. "You're the boss in the actual and literal sense."

"Alright, whatever works for you."

"Quite an interesting assembly here." Hearing a familiar voice, he turned his head and noticed a familiar black-haired with violet colored eyes. Sairaorg Bael, the Strongest Youth accompanied by his Queen, a beautiful blonde-haired young woman whose hair is kept tied in a ponytail similar to how Akeno had kept her own and dressed in very professional wear. "Two holy sword wielders, the holder of the spirit of a saint, and a descendant of the demigod monster-hunter. You really know how to pick them."

"Yo, Sairaorg."

After approaching him both Lance and Sairaorg both of them shook hands with one another.

"Hey, it's been a while," Lance said as he directed his attention towards the blonde-haired woman with his usual nonchalant demeanor who glanced towards him. "Yo, Kuisha."

His Queen, Kuisha Abaddon from the Extra Demon Clan, which are said to utilize a unique innate ability known as "Hole". An ability that creates and controls portals that can absorb a person's attacks and then reflect them in whatever way they choose. Similar to Sairaorg, he met his whole peerage during one of their missions.

"It has been a while, Lancelot-san."

Kuisha respectfully bowed her head and responded to Lance.

"Well, it looks like Sirzechs-sama didn't get his wish about sending you guys out into battle."

"Yes, but to me, I find it an honor to fight for the Underworld," Sairaorg had said with a confident smirk on his face. "And to fight against the so-called descendants of the Old-Maou would be interesting."

"Kuh, what's this guy?"

One of the devil troops questioned loud enough for Lance and the others to hear. The moment that they said something, all of them directed their attention towards Christian who currently had his arms crossed and silently unleashed his magical-aura and hostility from his body while tapping his index finger onto his forearm. For those without the strength or will to resist the combination of power and pure hostility, all of them moved away from him. Sairaorg stared at him and fully understood his reasoning.

"You can't blame him for being like this," Sairaorg spoke crossing both his arms. "It is his daughter who got caught in the middle of this. Do you think that you should talk to him?"

"That's alright. Since I was a kid whenever he got like this he'd feel better after venting out his anger for a bit," Lance said with an understanding look on his face. "My dad's not here to act as his target, but he will probably feel better after shooting down devils from the Old-Maou Faction and when he has Asia back."

"He used to shoot magic are your father?"

Sairaorg questioned.

"Of course, my dad was usually the source of his frustration. Actually, now that I think about my uncle may have been partially responsible for my dad's high magic resistance."

As both of them stood there conversing with one another there was a signal being heard amongst all of them. This signified the upcoming start of their operation to fight against the Old-Maou Faction of the Khaos Brigade. Hearing the signal both Lance and Sairaorg nodded their heads in agreement.

"Well, let's get this over with," Lance stated as the both him and Sairaorg fist bumped before heading off to their perspective teams. Walking towards them he glanced forward noticing a somewhat hesitant look on Xenovia's face and he questioned. "What's wrong Xenovia?"

"Lancelot, I want to go where Asia is in case anything happens," Xenovia answered with a look of worry her face. "Asia is my friend, so I want to be there."

Noticing how worried Xenovia was about Asia caused him to smile a bit. Just a while ago before they all went on their summer break that Xenovia once called her a Heretic and Witch. And now the both of them were now the closest of friends, he felt as if that was the effect that Asia had on people. After he saw the look on her face, Lance had no reason what-so-ever to refuse her request.

"Yea," Lance replied with a smile on his face. "You can go and help your friend."

"Thank You!" Xenovia gave him a happy reply.

"Oh, since you're going there can you do me a favor," Lance reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a total of fifteen slips of papers with magic-circles drawn on them. From the symbol drawn on it, it belonged to the current Beelzebub, Ajuka. "I was requested by Ajuka-sama to make sure that all of Diodora Astaroth's Peerage was transported back alive. He said that he wanted to see them."

"Why?"

"I'll explain later. So, all you have to do is place the seal on them, then it'll activate automatically after they respond to their demonic-power."

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Another signal came and the room started to be covered in a magic-circle that was related to the magic system used by Devil. They were wrapped in a bright light and was transported to another location. One that resembled those from the Greek Faction and it was something that Percy immediately took notice of causing him to feel as if he was fighting in his comfort zone.

"I bet you feel right at time Percy."

"You just read my mind, Boss-Man."

All around them, a number of magic-circles started to appear all around them and all of them were ones that those who fought their owner's recognized. Coming out from them were devils giving off waves of killing intent from their bodies. They glanced towards the group of people who were gathered in this one spot and didn't look to be all that surprised.

"Seems like they were expecting this little ambush," Lance stated but not before noticing that a number of the devil's from the Old-Maou Faction were looking towards Christian whose silver hair current had his face covered. "Oh, no they're not thinking about doing what I think they are."

"Look it's the Head of the Ambrosius Family, our enemy."

"If we were to take his head, then our fame will reach across the new Underworld."

"Let's take his head!"

A number of Old-Maou Faction devils already started gathering blocks of demonic-powers from within their bodies and summoned a wide number of them. Seeing all of their attention directed towards a single person, a number of those among the alliance started to step away from the range of all of their attacks.

"Should we help him?"

Percy questioned with a worried look on his face.

"We need to get away from firing range," Lance stated confusing Percy a bit more. "Xenovia use the scale of the attack the head over towards Asia-chan and the others."

"Lance-kun, I want to go to and assist Xeno-chan."

He heard something like that from Jeanne who stood next to her prepared for anything that had come her way. Though hearing the look on Jeanne's face, Lance didn't want to say no with the look, but there were some issues that he had with the suspicious issues occurring around them since the mess with Diodora started.

"Alright, fine," Lance sighed with a look of reservation on his face. "You can go with Xenovia, but be careful Jeanne. You'll have about a couple of seconds right after my uncle destroys these guy."

"Alright. Eh, what?"

The moment he mentioned it, he pointed in the same direction as Christian who was quietly giving out a magical-aura from around his body.

"Kill him!"

All of the Old-Maou Faction devils started to fire off a collective number of demonic attacks towards him with the intent of taking his life.

"What's he doing?!"

"Is he trying to get himself―"

A number of people among their groups started to question Christian's sanity but stopped after seeing him create a number of magic-barriers that surrounded his entire body almost instantly. Once their demonic-attacks came in contact with Christian's barrier each of them were nullified without making a single dent. The silver-haired magician had looked up in the direction of the devil from the Old-Maou Faction with emotionless eyes, but―

CHILL!

Despite his eyes being seemingly emotionless behind them lied an unbearable amount of intent to kill towards anyone who dares get in his way.

"Be gone."

With that single emotionless word a wide array of magic-circles numbering in the hundreds with each of them originating from different factions and some being of the ancient variety of magic. Seeing the sheer number of magic-circles alone was enough to completely strip away the fighting spirit from the enemy devils in front of him. A single motion of his eyes and―

BOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBON!

Over a hundred of the devils were annihilated by each of his attacks alone with Christian beginning to walk forward step by step. More and more kinds of magic attacks started falling down from the skies almost like raindrops. From his blind spot, two enemy devils who avoided his assault charged at him from behind. Their hands were pulled back with demonic-powers covering their hands and aimed directly at his neck, but―

SWIFT!

Christian vanished from sight almost instantly appearing behind them with both his hands placed on the backs of their heads and slammed them into the ground driving them deep into the ground. Removing his hands, he continued to proceed forward. More and more devils started getting in his way despite seeing what he was capable of. With a single snap of his finger, the ground beneath him started to move as if they were alive taking the shapes of spears piercing their bodies killing them instantly.

"Boss-Man."

Percy said with an astonished look on his face causing Lance to nod his head in agreement.

"That was totally badass!"

"You are talking about one of the Highest-Class of Magicians inside of the Magician Associations," Lance has stated as he turned towards the others and noticed that both him and Percy were the only ones there. "Did all of them just leave?"

"Right, Yumi said that she didn't like the look that you made after Jeanne asked to go…so she went along with them."

"So, it just leaves us to deal with these guys."

Just he turned around, a number of devils started to converge around the both of them and gathering their demonic-powers.

"Look its Lancelot Du Lac and the Monster Hunter."

""I'll take the devils on the right/left.""

Both Lance and Percy stated with both of them summoning a light weapon in their hands. Pressing their feet on the ground both of them charged forward at their opponents.

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Meanwhile, inside of the Greek Shrine, the Gremory Group who had just been informed about the incident that had been occurring by Azazel via a communication device given to them by Odin. Just before they had arrived there Asia was taken by Diodora Astaroth just after the Old-Maou Faction appeared before all of them filled with killing intent. The Governor General Fallen Angel explained the entire situation to them about how Diodora gained his increase in demonic-power via Ophis' snake allowing him to overwhelm the heiress of Agares. Along with the Khaos Brigade being responsible for the death of the next heir of

To the plan for that Norse, Greek, and Hindu Factions' gods planned to completely eliminate the Old-Maou Faction using the Gremory Team to lure them out. Though the only thing that all of them cared soon cared about right now was Asia being taken by Diodora.

"We will go and save Asia," Issei declared speaking into the communication device.

[Do you know what kind of situation it is right now?]

"I don't understand anything complicated! But Asia is my comrade! My family! I want to save her! I don't want to lose Asia ever again!"

"Azazel-sensei. I'm sorry, but we will continue to go forward inside the shrine to save Asia. The game is canceled, but I won't agree to it if we don't settle this with Diodora. I need to teach him how foolish it is to take my servant away from me!"

Rias replied to Azazel who seemed to be angered by their constant attempts at trying to go against their orders given to them. She then recalled their right to eliminate anyone whenever it came to the Khaos Brigade.

"Azazel-sensei. We have the right to use our powers against those who take suspicious actions within the Three Faction Alliance correct? And, didn't Diodora show rebellious actions directed towards the current Devil Society?"

Everyone amongst her peerage silently agreed with what she said and it was true.

[…Geez. You guys are a bunch of stubborn brats… Well, okay. This time there aren't any restrictions on you guys. That's why there isn't any reason to hold your powers back. That why rampage to your heart's content! Especially Ise! Show the terrifying power of Sekiryuutei to that traitorous brat, Diodora!]

Azazel informed them with a happy tone coming from him.

"Osu!"

Issei replied in high spirits at the thought of fighting without restrictions.

[Lastly, listen to this. It is important. They started this while knowing that we started getting the gist of their plans. In other words, their plan is something which won't be affected even with us knowing about it.]

"Does it mean they started the terrorist attack because they have something up their sleeve?"

[Yeah. We don't know what it is, but it is certain that this field is dangerous. The game has stopped, so there isn't any retiring. If you guys get into a dangerous situation, there is no way to help you so keep that in mind. Be careful.]

Once they were finished getting information from Azazel the Gremory Group had started to commence their plan to save Asia from Diodora. The first thing that Rias asked of her servants was directed towards Koneko who already called forth her Nekomata ears and tail.

"Koneko, can you find Asia?"

"…I can sense Asia-senpai and Diodora Astaroth at the end of the shrine."

Koneko answered, signaling all of them to proceed deeper down into the inner depths of this Greek shrine.

As they continued down, they found out that this shrine was highly spacious with numbers of giant pillars built along their path. Once they reached another portion of the shrine all of them sensed the presence of different people in front of them. Taking another step forward, they ran into ten people with a small built wearing robes keeping their identities secret.

[Hey, Rias Gremory and servants.]

A very disgusting voice echoed through the room via the PA system built for this Rating Game field causing Issei to clench his teeth in shock.

[Hahaha, Sekiryuutei. You won't be able to find me no matter what whether you look around or not. I'm waiting at the end of another shrine for all of you. Let's play. It's a substitute for the Rating Game which has been canceled.]

Just hearing his voice caused the fury within Issei to built up even more as he started to clench his teeth.

[Let's have a match to see if you can make it to Asia-chan. The rule is that you can't use the same person again until you reach where I am. Other than that, anything is okay. For the first match, I will be sending my 8 [Pawns] and 2 [Rooks]. By the way, all of my pawns have promoted to [Queen]. Hahaha, it's 8[Queens] from the beginning but that is okay, right? After all, isn't Rias Gremory a young devil famous for possessing powerful servants?]

The Gremory Team narrowed their eyes at his provocative words, especially after hearing that eight of his pawns had already promoted to Queen beforehand. Though that wouldn't stop either of them from going forward in order to save Asia and Rias directed her finger forward declaring.

"Fine. I will play along with your nonsense. I will carve into your heart, just how powerful my group is."

[Oh, but it seems like we have some more guests.]

Upon hearing Diodora's words, they sensed the holy aura originating from three individuals. Once they all turned around they noticed that it was Xenovia dressed in her modified exorcists' battle suit; Jeanne was dressed in a blue coat worn over a blue tube top with a breast plate, a silver arm-guard on her right arm, black shorts stopping at her thighs, thigh-high black socks and brown boots; and Yumi dressed in a white Taisho-style sleeveless kimono that stops at her thighs with a black obi wrapped around her waist, black shorts are worn under them, long leather boots, and leather arm-guards that stops at her forearm.

"What're you all doing here," Rias questioned.

"I came here to help my friend." Xenovia declared with a confident expression on her face. "I refuse to let that creature lay his hands on her."

"We came here to assist Xeno-chan."

[Hahaha, so this is the so-called [Brave Saints] lead by the Half-Bred Angel. Ah, and I see that the illustrious possessor of Holy Saint, the Maiden of New Orleans, Joan of Arc…Jeanne-chan.]

Jeanne felt sickened by the tone coming from his mouth as she instinctively covered up her body as if she was being leered by from far away. Not liking the tone that being directed at Jeanne, Yumi had got in front of her with Masamune prepped and sheathed at her side.

"We won't let that devil lay his hands on our adorable future cousin-in-law."

Hearing their reasons for assisting them, Rias could in no way refute either of them.

"I may not be Lance, but will you three follow my lead?"

[Right!]

All three of them agreed with Rias' condition each of them nodding their heads in agreement and with this their battle with the devil Diodora Astaroth.

"Alright, first up is," Rias declared as the crimson-haired king directed her attention towards four specific people. "Ise, Koneko, Xenovia, and Gasper. Issei, Koneko, and Gasper you three will take on all eight of the pawns. Xenovia can you handle the two rooks and don't worry, you can fight with all of your might."

"Roger that. I like that idea."

"Issei can you come here for a second?"

Hearing his name being called, Issei started to walk towards the direction of his King who begun to whisper something into his ear. Rias started explaining her plan to him, Issei nodded his head a number of times and smiled.

"Alright, Buchou."

Once their planning stage was finished, the first people to step up would be those who are battling against the eight pawns. Along with Xenovia who stepped further away from them for her battle against Diodora's two rooks.

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[Then let's start!]

The moment Diodora gave the word, his servants made their stances. Issei who cut his finger using a demonic sword from Kiba had dripped his spilled blood into Gasper's mouth. Gasper's heart got a sudden pulse and his red eyes started to shine with a red light and were covered with a strong mysterious aura due to the influence of Issei's Sekiryuutei blood.

"I will take Asia back," Xenovia declared in one hand was Durandal and in the second was the holy sword owned by Issei, the Dragon-Slayer, Ascalon. An intense pressure that none of them had ever sensed before was unleashed from Xenovia and her eyes became sharper. "…I never had someone whom I could call my friend. That's because I thought that I could live without such people. I thought that I could live if I had the love of God."

As Xenovia mumble to herself, the two Rooks already made their move with speed uncommon for a Rook. Though none of them were as fast as Kiba they were still none the less.

"Then those who started to treat me in a friendly manner came. Especially Asia, who always smiled at me and called me her friend."

Responding to her emotions, Durandal started to silently give off a golden aura around its blade steadily increasing as time passed. Both Jeanne and Yumi felt all the emotions that started to roll off Xenovia as she blocked the punch from one of the Rook using the flat of Durandal, then sent them flying while forming a gust of wind in the process. Recovering from the counter-attack, the two rooks recovered and started to charge back at the bluenette.

"…When I first met Asia, I said horrible things to her. I called her a witch. I called her a heretic. But Asia came and talked to me as if nothing happened. She even called me her friend," the wave of destructive holy power that was released from Durandal blew away the rooks due to the pressure. "That's why I will save her! My best friend! Asia! I will save her!"

"That's why! I beg you! Durandal! Respond to me! I won't like it if Asia disappears. If I lose Asia, I…! So, please! Give me! Give me the power to save my friend! Durandaaaaaaaaaaaaal!"

Responding to her call, Durandal increased its aura several times over to what it originally was before, so much so that the devils who were around it could feel it prickling on their skin. It was so intense that it caused the ground under her to form several cracks started forming on the ground just from the aura that is being unleashed from Durandal.

"I realized that I can't suppress Durandal very well. It might take a lot of time for me to reach the same silent wave that Yumi showed, but then I just have to keep on going forward. I decided to increase the sharpness and the destructive power of Durandal instead."

Forming a cross with both Durandal and Ascalon. Durandal's holy aura was transferred to Ascalon resulting in both swords synchronizing with one another.

"Now, let's go! Durandal! And Ascalon! Let's go to save friend…my best friend! Please respond to my feelinnnnngs!"

Durandal and Ascalon formed a pillar of light creating a big hole in the ceiling of the shrine, then she swung on both the Rooks in front of her.

""Iyaaaaaah!""

Both Rooks let out a high pitched scream as they were engulfed in that massive level of holy power. This engulfed a portion of this portion of the shrine in a golden light so much so that it caused those that were around her to cover their eyes. Once the light vanished, before their eyes the pillars that were one there beforehand were gone along with the wall along with a portion of the ceiling. Before them, both of the Rooks were lied down on their backs with smoke rising from their bodies. Based on the movements of their chest they didn't appear to be dead but were in critical condition.

"Xeno-chan, I think you went a bit too far."

Jeanne called out with both her hands cuffed on both sides of her mouth.

"*Huff* *Huff* *Huff* I held back at the last second."

As Xenovia accomplished her assignment, Issei summoned his Boosted Gear.

"Koneko-chan, Gasper, let's go!"

""Yes,"" both his underclassmen replied in high-spirits.

"First, I will also promote!"

Normally, since he would normally have to invade the enemy's base before he was allowed to promote into another piece. As long as has Rias' permission he could promote, which he is why he made the choice to promote to Queen raising his base powers.

[Boost] [Explosion]

Right after his Boosted Gear reached its second counter, he unleashed the stored power being covered in a red dragon aura.

"Raise my Insight! Unleash my personal boundary! Spread out, the world of my boundary!"

A mysterious field spread out all around Issei extending towards the eight pawns that were around him causing them to feel an odd presence all around them. He was informed that this technique would be unable to be used due to it being primarily directed towards women and being intrusive to the strategies of their opponents during the game.

"Hey! All the Pawns! Tell me what you are going to do, starting from the right!"

Closing his eyes, Issei started to focus solely on the presences of their auras as they started to move in his personal field and their intent could be heard.

[First, we will get rid of the troublesome vampire~!]

[Let's take him down with the three of us at once!]

[Vampire! We must defeat! Defeat!]

Once Issei opened up his eyes again, he pointed towards the three pawns that were all prepared to attack Gasper and gave him a command.

"That girl, that girl, and that girl are aiming for Gasper! Gasper, "stop" the ones I just told you!"

"Y-Yeeeeeees!"

Responding to him, Gasper's eyes shined with a red light and the three pawns were all frozen in time.

"What are you guys thinking about?"

Issei directed his attention towards to the other pawns who were coming towards them after seeing all of their comrades.

[Whoa, those girls were stopped! Then they will find out that we are aiming for the Nekomata!]

[Don't tell me this is the rumored power of the dragon who can the hear voices of a woman? Scary! I was planning to target the Nekomata! Don't tell me it was useless to use defense spell to stop my heart from being read?]

[The Nekomata will find out about our plan!]

Seeing that they were directing their attention towards Koneko next Issei gave his next short orders to Gasper.

"Gasper! Next, those three will head towards Koneko-chan! Stop them there!"

"Y-Yeeeeees!"

Again at Issei's behest, Gasper activated his sacred gear stopping the next three pawns in time. Seeing the strong combination between the Gremory Group's Pawn and Bishop scared them due to the fear of not being able to do anything against them. It became so much that they contemplated running away, but―

BANG! BANG!

Before they could make a move, Koneko struck both of them in the back of their necks with a bluish-white aura hits.

bluish-white senjutsThis strike at the back of the pawn's necks caused their minds to turn all dazed and soon fell on conscious signaling the flawless victory.

"Phew. We claimed the first victory."

It was just as Azazel said being able to fight using their full strength really did make a difference, but that wouldn't matter if they a peerage primarily filled with attackers if they were trapped by either a [Technique] or even a [Counter]-Type fighter.

None of the Pawns could fight or use demonic-power anymore due to being attacked by Koneko's senjutsu and the Rooks were still damaged by Xenovia's last attack. Though, before either of them could proceed to the next room; Xenovia, Yumi, and Jeanne started to approach the members of his peerage each carrying the magic slips that Lance gave them.

"What're you three doing," Rias questioned.

"We were asked by Lancelot to do this," Xenovia answered walking towards one of the Rooks that we defeated. She placed the magic seal on both their heads and a green-colored magic-circle was drawn under their bodies. "It was a request from the Maou-Beelzebub to send Diodora's peerage to him the moment that they were defeated. As for why this was requested…why are all of you looking at me like that?"

Just as Xenovia said, the entire Gremory Group stared at her with a confused look on their face. All of them were primarily shocked by the fact that she didn't add -sama to Lance's name like she normally would, but instead, she casually called him by his actual name.

"I didn't think that you two were at that stage yet."

Rias was generally confused since Xenovia didn't appear to be the type who wouldn't add -sama to the name of someone like Lance. This was due to her upraising as an Exorcist and also learning to have respect towards someone who is the child of one of the Four Great Seraph. Though Akeno who studied the reddened expression was the on Xenovia's face as she looked away and let out a very surprised laugh.

"Ara, have the two of you already reached "that" stage," Akeno questioned and noticed the face of the bluenette queen's face turn bright red causing the senior queen to let out another laugh. "Ara, I did not think that you would be so bold."

"Yep, Xenovia's the first of us to lose "It"."

Jeanne answered as she finished transferring the last pawn using the last magic slip that was in her hand. As the conversation continued to proceed; feeling uncomfortable about hearing this had caused the two knights and lone pawn of the group to look away pretending not to listen, while Gasper's face turned a bright shade of red and covered face using his hands.

---

"Achoo," suddenly Lance sneezed after taking out another devil using a dense light sword and he started to look around with a suspicious look on his face. As he looked across the battlefield, he could see a number of people letting out powerful attacks against the Old-Maou Faction without the slightest bit of hesitation due to this being just like any Rating Game field. "Someone's talking about me behind my back. I don't know whether it is good or bad thing, but—"

"Die, monster!"

Behind him, another old-maou faction devil attempting to take his life, but without even needing to turn around he directed his thumb at him and fired off a normal beam of light piercing through their chest.

"Gah!"

The devil let out a loud noise dying from the attack piercing through its chest with blood spewing out from their mouth.

"Word of advice, if you want your sneak attack to be successful don't yell out [Die, Monster]," Lance stated directing his attention towards the devil. "It's like a ninja choosing to wear bright orange and coming out proclaiming that they're there, that is basically saying [Attack me, attack me, I'm right here]."

"Ha! Shots Fired!"

Percy commented as he knocked down a number of devils out of both his fists infused with light power in order to cause more damage to devils. As he continued to fight a number of devils using light-infused kicks and punches. He launched his fist towards another devil who soon anticipated his attack and stepped back away from him, but Percy altered the light covering his hand and shaped it into a sword of light that pierced through the body of the rogue devil.

Lance couldn't help but marvel at Percy's adaptability, it had only been a short time, but he already became effective at using his light powers in combat.

"Looks, like Percy got his side covered."

DOOOOOOON!

From behind him, there was a massive shockwave being unleashed from behind him along with the bodies of rogue devils being launched into the air and crashed into the ground. This caused Lance to glance in the direction of the scene. Of course, it was Sairaorg fighting his way through the crowd of rogue devils using trained punches and kicks, which unleashed a powerful shockwave in their wake launching a wide number of rogue devils crashing through the ground causing them to cough up blood. Lance couldn't help but be reminded of their last match against one another.

At the time, Lance's own magic barely had any effect on the strongest youth's trained body, but he could at least keep up with him by relying on his speed and technique. This is the power of the untalented yet the strongest youth who became an embodiment of power, through training his body to the limit.

While he fought in the front, he was being backed up by his Queen, Kuisha who expertly utilized her clan's ability of "Hole" to absorb the attacks of her opponents and redirect them back at them, while Kuisha had retaliated with her own magical expertise. Those two were recognized as the strongest members of their own team as the King and Queen, the only one missing was the sole pawn. But, obviously, the two of them weren't fighting at their best.

"Truly an excellent peerage, " he stopped after sensing that a number of rogue devils all heading in his direction. In response to their arrival, Lance summoned a second dense light sword in his hand and turned towards them in a prepared stance. "Hmm, I wonder what Issei and the others are up to right now?"

---

Meanwhile, in the next room of the shrine, the Gremory Group were battling against the Queen and both Diodora's Bishops. With both their leader and co-leader being the ones battling against them, but—

"Ufufu, Rias. This is proof that my love has finally been received by Ise-kun. Seems like you have to give up now, yes?"

"W-W-What are you saying! I don't want it to be said from the vulgar Akeno who sparkles her holy-lightning from just a single d-d-date!"

Both Rias and Akeno were currently arguing with one another after Issei (at Koneko's request) had asked Akeno on a date in order to help her power-up. Due to the near flawless teamwork of the Queen and the Bishops causing this situation. Both the enemy Queen and Bishops stood there confused about what was currently happening right now, as they just continued looking back and forth at the crimson-haired King and black-haired Queen.

"What did you say? I don't want it to be said from you, who doesn't seem like you'll be getting any love from him anytime soon."

"T-That is not true! E-Even a while ago he…!"

"What happened a while ago?"

"…He touched my breast a lot on the bed."

"…Isn't it just that Ise-kun had a bad sleeping posture and that happened?"

"…We also k-kissed. Twice."

As they continued to argue among one another, their perspective crimson and golden aura began to flare up. Along with their enemies, even the other peerage members and brave saint were all dumbfounded about what was happening. Seeing this scene, Yumi couldn't help, but be a familiar with what was happening right now.

"Is that really what we're like?"

Yumi questioned as she viewed the scene.

"No, at least I don't think so."

"Then I will tongue kiss him right now. Three times, right in front of you Rias."

"Akeno! No! No! I don't even want to imagine your tongue going inside that boy's mouth! His mouth belongs to me!"

Rias acted more like a cute girl he age and not the dignified king that they knew, while Akeno was acting more like an older girl teasing her. Unable to endure the situation anymore, Diodora's Queen covered herself with an aura of fire.

"You two! Stop this, for god's sake! Don't ignore us for fighting over a man…!"

"Shut up!" "Shut up!"

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

Both Rias and Akeno became angered about being interrupted fired off a combo power of destruction and holy-lightning directed at all three of them. Once their attacks settled smoke started to rise from their bodies and just from the sight alone they were unable to continue fighting anymore. Seeing that they were done, Xenovia directed the three slips of papers that had magic-circles drawn on them towards Jeanne causing the blonde to stare at her shockingly.

"N-No, I am not going over there," Jeanne said now scared up walking over there even if it was a request from Lance. "I've seen what happens to people when they interrupt them. Yumi-chan?!"

Jeanne looked towards her adoptive sister for assistance, but Yumi turned away with a nervous laugh being released from her. Without much of a choice now, she took the three slips of paper off of Xenovia's hands and proceeded to walk towards the downed enemies. She hesitantly walked passed both Akeno and Rias as they continued to argue.

"Don't mind me, I'm just passing by."

Jeanne hesitantly walked passed both Rias and Akeno as they continued their argument. Seeing that she went uninterrupted, the blonde let out a sigh of relief and placed the magic-circle on both their heads causing them to be transported away from the rating game field. Once she made it to the Queen who couldn't move a single muscle, as she was about to place the magic-circle on her forehead Jeanne noticed stray tears that came from the corners of her eyes.

"Why is she crying," Jeanne questioned herself. "Is it because she lost?"

As Jeanne stood there watching as the Queen who came at them as an enemy cried and shivered if it were anyone else they would have thought that it was due to her loss. But, Jeanne felt as if she were looking at herself from the past after losing everything that was important to her. Almost mechanically, she placed the magic slip on her forehead and activating the Current-Beelzebub's magic-circle under her body.

"I…don't want to…." Jeanne heard the Queen mumble out as she started to vanish from sight. "…be abandoned…again."

Hearing those words from her caused a cord in her heart to be struck with stray tears starting to be freed from the corner of her eyes.

"You okay, Jeanne?"

Xenovia asked after seeing who long she was taking to return back to their side. After she returned to normal, Jeanne wiped away the tears that formed.

"I'm alright~," Jeanne said in her cheerful tone. "Okay, let's keep going and save Asia-chan!"

Once Jeanne had returned to their side, Yumi took notice of the falseness that was hidden behind the cheerful look on her face. Though with the number of enemies remaining, Yumi made the choice of talking to her about it once everything was finished not wanting to aggravate anything further.

---

"Iyaaaaaah! Please don't!"

As their group was headed in the direction of the next shrine area where Diodora's two knights were meant to be inside. What they heard were the cries that came from one of them, which they recognized from the recording they received from the Rating game between Seekvaira and Diodora. The moment they got there, all of them saw "something" holding onto one of the now injured knights clothed in tattered nun's garbs by their legs in one of their deformed arms.

In front of the creature was another knight wielding the broken part of a sword in their hand and pointing it in its direction in an attempt to defend herself.

"Please get away from me!"

"…Diodora-sama, please help."

"What the hell is that?"

Van was the first to answer to the rest of their shock.

The Gremory Group were stunned by what they saw before their eyes, but Xenovia, Yumi, and also Jeanne full recognized this creature by its presence alone.

"Th-This sensation…it's the same as…."

"The same as Hebi."

As Xenovia and Yumi were stunned after seeing this phenomenon once again, Jeanne had glanced in the direction of the pleading knight and started to step forward.

"Stop it," Jeanne spoke out as she begun channeled aura into her legs preparing herself to charge forward. "Don't…you dare kill them!"

The moment, Jeanne kicked off the ground it cracked slightly due to the amount of power that she channeled into her legs. Due to the suddenness of her actions, everyone else was shaken out from their confusion and begun to act.

"Jeanne, don't do anything reckless," Xenovia called out. "If that thing is the same as Hebi, then he won't be hurt the same way."

"I should've talked to her sooner about what was troubling her."

Jeanne summoned a holy sword in her hand and slashed it upwards at the hand directed at the knight who was fighting back. Though the moment she did—

BREAK! BREAK!

"My holy swords broke," Jeanne said out loud watching as her holy sword broke the moment that it came into contact with its hardened skin. "But, I'm not stopping!"

Jeanne channeled more strength into the next holy swords that were made, but the creature aimed their deformed hand towards her. Following the direction of its attack, she bent backward letting it pass over it causing a vibration in the air.

[Heh!]

Letting out a noise from its mouth, it slammed its fist downwards with the intent of smashing her in the ground. Before it could reach her someone had blocked the attack covered in a blue aura mixed with black had stopped its attack from reaching her. It was revealed to be Van wielding an unsheathed Muramasa in his hand.

"If you're going to save someone, then think it through instead of acting like an idiot!" Van declared with an annoyed look on his face as he held the creature's attack in place utilizing the power granted to by the Demon Sword Muramasa. "But if you're going to save someone, then you'd better see it through!"

Nodding at what he said, Jeanne summoned another holy sword at the bottom of her feet and she expertly spun around on her hands stabbing the hand that had the last knight in its hand.

[Kuh!]

It let out a pained grunt as Jeanne's holy sword was stabbed deep into its arm forcing it to free the defeated knight causing her to land on the ground. With a quick response, Jeanne had pulled the knight away from the creature, while the other one also moved away from them.

"What is that thing?!"

A number of the Gremory Group members stared at the monster thinking that it must have been placed there by Diodora, but the question why it attacked his knights entered their mind. As the creature walked towards them and into the light revealed its—no his deformed face.

"Y-You've got to be kidding me."

"No effing way," Van said as he moved away from the individual who he blatantly recognized.

"…That person "quit" being human."

Issei was the first to realize who it was the moment that he stepped into the light. The young white-haired stray exorcist that they fought with a number of times and thought perished by the hands of their holy-demonic sword wielder. Freed Sellzen now in the form of a deformed creature with the mouth of a dragon, his legs were several times thicker than before, with a pair of dragon wings that grew out from his back.

[Ya, it's been awhile.]

Freed spoke in a deeper voice, but there was no way any of them wouldn't be able to discern it.

"Freed!"

[You thought, [This guy was alive?] right, Ise-kun? YES! YES! I'm so stubborn, that I'm alive very clearly you know?]

"Stop reading my mind!"

"More than that what the hell happened to him?! I knew he was barely human before, but whoa—"

[Hyahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah! Right after I got slashed down by the pretty boy knight, I was retrieved by that shit Valiiiiiii! And I got fired by that rotten Azazel!] Freed had explained as he continued to let out a deep laugh. [The ones who picked me up after I lost my place are guys from Khaos Brigade! They…no, that psycho magician told me that he could give me power, and just look at what I geeeeeet! Kyuhahahahahahahaha! And that was turning me into some kind of monster! Fuhahahahahaha! It was like meeting my own grandpa!]

Freed continued to talk with the same light-hearted tone as he did before. Jeanne checked up on the unconscious knight that she saved from Freed and noticed that she was still breathing, then let out a breath of relief.

[Hyahahahahahahahahaha! By the way, did you know? Diodora Astaroth's hobby that is. His hobby is beautifully crazy, and just listening to it makes your heart beat.]

Hearing this caught the attention of Freed more than his appearance.

[Diodora's taste in women. That rich boy certainly has great taste. Apparently, he has a fetish for girls affiliated with the Church! Yes, the ones you call nuns!]

Jeanne noticed that the moment that it was mentioned the knight that was still conscious let out a notable shutter and begun to hug herself as if comforting herself.

[And the ones he preys on are the passionate and strong believers. Do you know what I am trying to say? His servant devils that Ise-kun and others defeated just earlier are all former believers of the Church! The same could be said for the girls who are at his house! All of them are famous nuns and Holy-maidens from various areas! His taste is really something, don't you think!? The devil rich boy seduced the women from the Church and made them into his toys! Oh wait, that's why devils exist! He speaks with sweet words to the passionate Holy-Maidens and makes them fall for him! I guess that's what you call a devils whisper!]

"Wait. Then Asia was…."

Freed started to laugh out loud after hearing Issei's words.

Everyone in the room had an idea of what was going to come out from his mouth. Everything that Asia had gone through being treated as a "Witch" being turned on by the people who had originally treated her as a "Saint" due to everything she did for others. All of it was due to―

[The one who wrote the scenario of Asia getting kicked out of the Church is none other than Diodora Astaroth. The scenario goes like this. One day, a devil rich boy who loves to have sex with nuns found himself his very ideal, Bishoujou Holy-Maiden who also had a good lineage. He couldn't help but want to have sex with her ever since he saw her. But he thought it would be hard to take her away from the Church, so he used a different plan to make that girl his.]

"Then that means everything…." Xenovia spoke out as she clenched the hilt of both Ascalon and Durandal in her hands letting her anger flow out. "Everything Asia went through. Being hated and blamed…it was all because of him!"

[The Holy-maiden is a very, very kind girl. I got advice from someone who is knowledgeable with Sacred Gear that "The Sacred Gear possessed by the Holy-Maiden can even heal devils". So the rich boy put his attention there. "Maybe she will get kicked out of the Church if another believer sees her healing me! Even if a scar is left, it would still be alright if I can have sex with her!" That's the way and is how that rich boy lives!]

[I don't regret saving him back to then.]

Those words echoed in Issei's head as he clenched his fist.

[She will get exiled from the Church which she believed in, then her life will get ruined and she won't believe in God, and then she will come to me. That's what he was thinking. Hyahahaha! Even the painful experience for the Holy-Maiden is a spice for that rich boy! He will save them from the depth of despair, and then rape them! He will rape both their body and heart! And that was the best and ultimate entertainment for him! He had been raping and making the girls from the Church his own! And he won't be changing even from now! So the rich boy, Diodora Astaroth-kun, is a devil who loves to fuck strong believers of the Church! Hyahahahahaha!]

As the words from Freed made it to the ears of the Knight, she started to hyperventilate as if she was reliving what happened.

"H-Hey, calm down."

Jeanne started to make a number of attempts at calming the knight down.

[Before any of ya gets too into this story, why don't I tell y'all another one. This is another story about the cute blonde Bishoujou once loved by everyone in a once happy town.]

Hearing that caught Jeanne's attention based on the widening of her eyes.

[You see one day, inside a small religious town it was discovered by the town's church leader that a certain adorable blonde born into a normal relatively normal family had inherited the spirit of the famous saint Joan of Arc and she worshiped by everyone in town. It didn't take long for a number of different devils and stray devils to find out of this fact. Kyuhahahahahahaha! Do you have any idea how ecstatic someone who enjoys fucking saints and breaking their will until they obeyed was when he found out there was someone who inherited the spirit of a such a saint?!]

"Did, he have something with those strays how burned down my hometown?"

Jeanne was livid for the first time in a very long time, though it was somewhat subsided by what he said next.

[Sorry, but no…before he could make his move around the same time a peerage of stray devils had burned the town to the ground with the intent of selling the young girl for an extremely high price. Though this didn't deter the devil rich boy, he altered his plan to "save" the young Jeanne from the stray devils after her parents and friends were murdered in front of her. But, his karma must have finally caught up with him, because at the time a group of knights from the Chivalric Order led by a female paladin who soon adopted the girl as her daughter.]

"Naomi," Yumi thought as she recognized what she was told.

[Now, he was stuck in a sticky situation. Since the knights of the Chivalric Order weren't deeply affiliated with the Church and Heaven. So, if a devil were to invade them, then it would lead to a fight that would be counted as justified. Even when that Paladin Bitch died Jeanne was still hanging around with both that Little Bastard and Blonde Bitch, which would lead to a fight that he couldn't win. The Bastard foiled all Diodora's indirect attempts made on making Jeanne his.]

Jeanne remembered the look that Lance made the moment she offered to join Xenovia in order to save Asia. The moment the blonde saint took a step forward, what she didn't notice was that Issei was also taking a step forward after hearing Freed's words. She was stopped by Yumi who grasped her wrist; Issei was stopped by Kiba who grasp onto his shoulder.

"Yumi-chan, I love you and all, but don't get in my way."

"You're not in the state of mind."

"And I won't return to my right state of mind unless I take my frustration out on someone," Jeanne stated as she continued to attempt to walk forward only to be stopped by Yumi. "And what do you know in front of me is a monster both on the inside and on the outside."

"If you're going to do something, take responsibility for it," those words causing Jeanne to stop in her place. "Those were the words that Naomi told us whenever we were adamant about making a choice. It was your choice to save these two knights so take responsibility for them, while…."

Both Kiba and Yumi had stepped forward with hatred for Freed being apparent in their eyes.

""I will fight. I will stop that vulgar mouth of his.""

Both twins spoke in sync with one another as an aura of hostility covered their bodies as they proceeded forward in the monstrous Freed's direction.

"Hey hey hey! You are the rotten Knight-san who cut me down back then and with his blonde bitch of a look-a-like! Thanks to that I went through a lovely model change like this! But! You know I also became quite a lot stronger? I was going to eat Diodora's knight and take in their traits, but I believe like this and due to my new powers you won't be able to kill me!"

"Nii-san, we faced someone like this before. There should be a core somewhere inside of his body…destroy it and he dies."

"Got it," Kiba said as he summoned a strong holy-demonic sword in his hand. "It would be better if he doesn't exist anymore."

SWIFT!

In unison, Yumi channeled aura all around her body, while Kiba pulled out the power of his Knight piece. Both of them vanished from sight at speeds that no one wouldn't be able to follow and—

CUT!

Together both Kiba and Yumi sliced Freed's entire body at godspeed each essentially slicing up his body into what's essentially mincemeat with the only thing that was intact being his deformed head. Both soon begun to notice what remained of his body started to heal meaning that they hadn't struck his core yet.

"Hihihi. Well, you won't be able to stop Diodora's plan or defeat the guys behind him. More than that you don't know the true horror of Longinus possessors…. Hyahahaha…."

STAB!

Kiba stabbed his sword into Freed's severed head piercing through the core that resting inside of his head.

"You can continue howling to the Grim Reaper in hell."

With one final quote from Kiba, which those inside the shrine admitted was an awesome line. None of them could spend more time in the area, so they wanted to head forward.

"Let's go, everyone!"

As everyone was heading in the direction of the final part of the shrine, Jeanne remained in front of the two knight still in shock about what they heard.

"I'll talk to guys later, kay."

Just as Jeanne said that to them she placed the seal on their forehead causing them to vanish from sight.

---

"Gah, th-this can't be."

"Well, that was a clique death," Lance said as the bodies of rogue devils lied around him while holding the Avalon Heroic Sword in his hand while letting it rest on his shoulder. "Keep it up guys, I'm sure that if you keep sending more people to me, then you'll get somewhere…eventually…possibly."

[Lance are you sure that you should be so casual about this? I mean, that devil does have your younger cousin.]

"What do you think that Ise and the others will lose?"

[You never know what might happen in a situation such as this…huh.]

Just as Avon was speaking with him, Lance could feel the Avalon Heroic Sword starting to shutter, while it unleashed a bright silvery white light from its jewel almost as if it were reacting to something.

"Hey, Avon what's wrong," Lance questioned.

[There's no way that I could mistake this presence, she's here.]

"She?"

Lance questioned as he was unaware of the presence that Avon was referring to.

"A Knight. A Magician. And Angel. How peculiar."

He was shocked by the sudden voice belonging to a young female coming from behind him and causing him to turn around in shock. Behind him was a cute black-haired young girl with black-colored eyes somewhere around the same height and age as Koneko, but she seemed to be far more emotionless and unexpressive compared to the young Neko; she was dressed in gothic lolita and her limbs appeared to be thinner than most.

"You have all of their blood and power flowing throughout your body," the mysterious girl stated to him. "Lancelot. Merlin. And Gabriel."

"When did she," Lance wondered before turning towards the black-haired girl as she continued to stare at him with a curious. "Excuse, mysterious adorable and yet somehow creepy girl. How did you get here?"

She was far normal if she could not only get behind him without him even noticing and entering this place without him nothing. Even with such an aura that seemed almost creepy.

And Avon obviously knew who this girl was.

[Ophis. Ouroboros Dragon, the Dragon God of Infinity. So, you still take that form.]

"The Avalon Dragon, Avon. It has been a while."

"So, that's Ophis, the leader of the Khaos Brigade," Lance mumbled out as he stared at Ophis as she stared at him almost as if examining him. "From what I heard, Ophis took the form of an old man that Azazel ran into once. But, why did she take the form of someone so adorable."

[From what I remember Ophis visited took that form after visiting Avalon once since there was the quietest place she could find outside the Human World. Then, upon Nimue's request, she took that form so that she could dress her up in all the clothes that she could find.] Avon sighed as he remembered the Lady of the Lake in her loli form dressing up the ultimate dragon in different clothing before going back to what Lance had said before. [And don't you dare start cuddling one of the strongest beings and dragon in the world.]

"Do you really think that I would do that? We're kind of in the middle of a serious situation."

[Before the summer break, you cuddled the nekoshou for almost five minutes during their training camp against that Phenex Clan member.]

"Who told you that?"

[Ddraig.]

"Fair enough."

Ophis titled her head at their conversation.

"How odd. You do indeed have the blood of three separate people, but Avon doesn't appear to be linked to you at all. It also appears as if the other dragons who were inactive appear to be moving as well."

"If I don't mean to sound rude, but what're you planning to do with the Khaos Brigade?"

"I would also like to know that."

A familiar voice came onto the scene, he looked and noticed that it was Azazel flying down with his twelve jet-black fallen angel wings unfolded carrying the Down Fall Dragon Spear in his hand. As Ophis saw him she sent him a creepy smile.

"It has been a while, Azazel."

"Didn't you have the appearance of an old person before? Now that you have the appearance of a Bishoujo-sama, you definitely have my respect. What are you plotting, Ophis?"

"Observing. Just that only. I was also curious about so-called "Abomination" mentioned by the Old-Maou Faction."

"Oh, come on," Lance spoke out in a somewhat annoyed tone. "It's always like this, I take down one group and I'm suddenly labeled as a freak."

"You technically are."

BANG!

"Whoa!"

Azazel suddenly moved out of the way as a strike of azure lightning from the skies was aimed at his feet. Its origin came from Yuuma clad in her azure-colored sacred dragon balance breaker armor matching the young woman's physical stature. Since the start of this plan, she was joined by the Grigori who was also on the battlefield along with them.

"Tou-sama, I heard that!"

"Got it! I won't be rude to your little crush!"

BANG!

The next strike of azure lightning came down on top of him, but it wasn't enough to do any substantial damage on him.

"Gah!"

"Did you get weaker, Azazel? If you were to fight back, then an attack like that would be nothing."

Ophis questioned her head titled obviously confused by Azazel's reasoning behind why he hadn't fought back, which Lance found to be cute.

"No, I just can't seem to win against my own child. And unless you don't have one, then you won't be able to understand why." Azazel said as he pointed hid Down Fall Dragon Spear going back to the topic at hand. "Sightseeing from such a good place aye…. But for the Boss to appear, huh. Will the world be peaceful if I were to defeat you here?"

"Azazel even with Fafnir, I really don't think that's a good idea to fight someone who is literally Infinite."

"Then how about the two of us?"

Hearing a familiar deep voice accompanied by a large shadow and the flapping that came from a person's massive wings. It the former Dragon King and current Ultimate-Class Devils, Tannin.

"Tannin."

"The young devils are betting their future, and they are standing on the battlefield. I don't like the fact that you came to interfere with it! For you, who didn't take any interest in the world to become the boss of the terrorists!? What made you become like that!"

"Killing time. Don't tell me such a dull reason like that. Because of your actions, there are casualties in each area."

The both of them knew that Ophis was an all-powerful individual so gathering a number of terrorists such as the Old-Maou Faction comprised of rouge devils from the old-generation; along with the Hero Faction, which is comprised of mainly hero-descendants and humans. It wouldn't make sense why she would start moving after being uncaring about the world.

"The Silent World."

It didn't take either of them even a second to realize what she meant, the "Silent World" would only be the [Dimensional Gap]. This is a dimensional wall that separates, the Human World, Underworld, and Heaven. Nothing exists in the world aside from whatever was abandoned there by the ancient gods granting it the title "World of Nothingness". It was also the birthplace of two extremely strong beings one of them being right in front of them.

"I want to return to the dimensional gap, and attain silence. That is the only reason."

"…I would laugh because your reason is being homesick, but the dimensional gap huh."

"The Dimensional Gap. I remember being there a couple of times to see what the ancient gods had left in there. I was also curious about the other dragon who was born there and tried finding him once."

It was true, near the age of thirteen, he traveled into the dimensional gap once before in order to examine whatever was left inside the infinite void."

"Yes, Great Red is there."

Even among the Gods in their realm there possibly wasn't any one of them who could defeat Ophis or even match the Dragon of Infinity. However, in the Dimensional Gap, there was another dragon, a dragon of true red that could match Ophis. It had a number of different names but there was one that had an impact.

"Great Red recorded in the Book of Revelation," Lance had mumbled out to himself. "The True Red Dragon God Emperor, the Ultimate-Class of Red Dragon. It makes sense that Vali who represents "White Dragon" would challenge the one who represents "Red Dragon" it would be the best opponent for Vali to challenge."

As they came to a conclusion, a magic-circle appeared next to Ophis and the one who appeared from it was Creuserey Asmodeus.

"It is my first time meeting you. I am the one who carries the blood of the true Asmodeus. Creuserey Asmodeus. I came here to ask you who is the Governor of Fallen-Angels for a battle as I am the member of the True-Maou faction of the Khaos Brigade."

"Looks like the Asmodeus of the Old-Maou faction showed himself."

"Hey, it's the Wannabe Vampire Lord."

DON!

Hearing Lance's taunt, Creuserey summoned forth his demonic-aura covering around his body with its deep-black color due to the effect of devouring Ophis' snake. Before Creuserey could make a single move there was another presence that arrived on the scene. The one who was standing behind three of them was Christian who still had his emotionless expression still on his face with rage still resting behind them.

"I apologize if I'm interrupting something," Christian started off as he walked towards them with his hands resting in his pocket. "But, I appear to still be in a foul mood and it appears as if this one should be able to lessen what anger I still have a bit."

Azazel could practically sense the anger behind Christian's silver-colored eyes, and he could in no way disagree with his request. The governor general himself would have done the same thing if it were his own child in a situation like this. Seeing this situation, Azazel placed his Artificial Sacred Gear within his hand in a resting posture and nodded his head.

"Fine then," Azazel responded closing his eyes slightly before looking towards Tannin. "I was going to pay him back for trying to attack my kid. So, what will you do?"

"I'm not a rude guy who would interfere with a one on one. I will have myself watch over Ophis."

Tannin answered with crossed arms, as he glanced down at Ophis who remained motionless with her attention directed towards Lance with some hint of curiosity behind them.

"I appear to be caught in a tense situation," he mumbled to himself as he could feel Ophis' gaze on the side of his head and admittedly started to feel a bit uncomfortable. "I wonder how long it's been since I last saw him fight?"

"So my opponent is the Head of the Ambrosius Household," Creuserey said in a bit of an arrogant tone. "Taking down such a person shall start our rule of the world!"

Creuserey was the first to start it off by gathering two blocks of demonic-power in both his hands, then charged at Christian who remained still. He didn't need a reason to move from his spot as he formed a number of magic-circles acting as barriers in front of him stopping his attack and causing shockwaves to be released.

---

Meanwhile, inside of the Greek Shrine the others made it to the final part of the shrine and the first of them burst through the front entrance was Issei. Looking directly in the room he shouted out.

"Asiaaaaaaaaa!" Issei screamed.

Once the others made it into the room, the first thing that they took notice of the thick white roots wrapped around Asia's body keeping her suspended in the air and were connected to the walls of the inner shrine. Based on their own perspective there wasn't a single tear in her clothes nor injury on her body. At least that gave them a shred of knowing that she was alright.

"…Ise-san."

After hearing his voice calling out to her, Asia glanced towards them and saw her friends and dear comrades standing right there. They let out a sigh of relief after seeing that she was alright, but all of them stopped after seeing how red her eyes were along with her puffy face almost as if she was crying a for a long period of time before they arrived there.

"You finally came," Hearing that person's disgusting voice inside of the room, all of them followed its source. Sitting on the sole throne inside of the room near the device was Diodora Astaroth who sent each of them a sickening smile before his eyes stopped at Jeanne. "I see you even brought my darling Jeanne, I'll enjoy taking her having I take Asia."

Hearing his provocative words caused Jeanne to become sickened. Rias who was leaking killing intent while covered in a crimson aura of destruction glanced towards him with pure hatred.

"….Diodora. Did you tell Asia about the whole thing?" Rias asked.

"Yeah. I told everything to Asia. Fufufu, I wanted to show it to you as well. The moment she had the best expression. The face Asia had when she found out everything was going according to my plan was simply the best. Look, I even left the video of it. Should I play it? She really had a splendid face. The expression of the women affiliated with the Church falling, no matter how many times I see it, I never get bored of it."

Hearing those cruel words for him caused the tears to stop flowing from her eyes to start again, but to them, those words continued to go on. Despite the collective amount of killing intent being directed at him, Diodora instead lets a slight sigh escape from his mouth.

"But I think it's still lacking. Asia still has hope inside her. Yes, I'm talking about you guys. Especially the filthy Sekiryuutei over there. Because you saved Asia, my plans turned into a failure. I was supposed to appear and kill that idiotic fallen angel after he killed Asia and I was planning to give her my evil piece and then another evil piece. I thought you wouldn't win since you were just weak human. Even if you interfered with me, I was planning on killing you too. But, then I found out you were the Sekiryuutei. It was a very interesting occurrence. Thanks to that my plan were postponed quite a lot, but she finally returned to me. Now I can enjoy Asia."

Diodora spoke out to them without a shred of hesitation, those words continued to lit the fire of hatred that had already started in Issei's chest.

"Shut up."

Issei spoke in a low tone, he knew from the start that there was something odd about the green-haired devil in front of him. Something that he had already gotten used to from the number of evil people that he already met before. From his hatred towards Raiser Phenex when he tried to take Rias from him, and the hatred that he had towards Vali was nothing compared to right now.

"I just can't stop thinking about all the time that bastards like you and that irritating knight keep getting in the way of what's mine." Diodora's tone of voice and tone started to become more disgusting. "Asia is still a virgin, right? I like to train them from virgins, and I will hate it if she was already "used" by Sekiryuutei."

Issei gritted his teeth to the point where they could be heard by the others.

"Ah, but maybe it might be fun to NTR from Sekiryuutei?"

His ability to control his answer started to lessen to the more he continued to talk. Until―

"Maybe it would be good to forcefully have sex with her while she screams out your name…!"

Issei's rage finally exploded outwards.

"Shut Upppppppp!"

[Welsh Dragon Balance Breaker]

"Diodora!"

Responding to his call, his sacred gear unleashed a massive red flame-like aura that causing a pressure to be unleashed from his body and covering his entire with the armor of the Sekiryuutei being formed around his body. The fury that had accumulated since meeting the devil in front of him couldn't be contained anymore. Without turning towards any of the others he locked his eyes on his target.

"Buchou, everyone. Please don't interfere."

"Ise. We will defeat him together. That's what I would like to say, but it looks like we can't stop you. You can't hold back, okay?"

Rias gave him the okay to let loose on the devil in front of him.

"Ddraig, can you hear me?"

[What is it, Partner?]

"Let me do as I want just for today."

[…Alright.]

Ddraig laughed in joy at the intensity that his partner was giving off and allowed for him to do what he liked just for today. Seeing the red aura wrapped around Issei, Diodora let out a slight laugh and unleashed an aura that was covered in blackness.

"Ahahahaha! Amazing! So this is Sekiryuutei! But I also powered-up! With the snake that has Ophis gave me that is! I can kill you in an instan―"

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

Issei sent his magic-power into the boosters on his back and charged towards Diodora closing the distance between them in an instant.

BANG!

"….Gah!"

Issei grove his fist into his stomach causing blood to spill out from his mouth and threw the young devil towards the bottom of the ground. Diodora rolled over on his stomach and vomited up more of his blood on the ground. He stood there in pain from the back, but before he could do anything he felt someone picking him up by his collar.

"And the instant kill you were talking about?"

Issei questioned pulling his fist back and driving it into his stomach causing the green-haired devil to spit out more blood. Without worry about it, Issei threw them towards the ground.

"Ku! With something like this! I'm a High-class devil," Diodora declared noticing the difference in power between them and gathered more of his demonic power. "The blood relative of the current Maou Beelzebub! There is no way that a noble high blood like myself will lose to a lowly, filthy, and vulgar reincarnated-devil like you!"

He fired off a number of demonic bullets in Issei's direction with each of them breaking apart on his armor and Issei continued to walk towards Diodora unfazed. For those that he could see, Issei knocked them away using his fist. This feeling reminded him of his training with Tannin and how he was unable to show these results during the Rating Game.

[That's right. The training with the Dragon-King trained you quite a lot. During the match against Sitri you couldn't show the result, but with no restrictions at all, you can release your power. The durability of the armor is more stable than that time in the match against Sitri.]

Issei agreed with Ddraig, if he could have shown his full power during the match with the Sitri then the result during there would have definitely been different.

[In terms of simple battle power, you are quite the opponent right now.]

After coming in front of Diodora, the once proud devil started to shuffle away from Issei in a last-ditch attempt to fight back. Holding his hand out, Diodora used his demonic-power to form a wall of green-colored barriers that separated him from and Issei.

"It looks thinner than Vali's barriers."

BREAK!

Issei's fist broke through all the barriers in front of him with ease, then punched Diodora in the face and slammed him into the ground. His face started to bleed and his eyes started to become leaked with a number of tears. The once proud devil that was there before has now turned into a sniveling crybaby.

"…It hurts. It hurts. It hurts! Why! My demonic-power hit you! I was supposed to have had my power increased drastically with Ophis' power!"

Lifting Diodora up into the air, Issei hit him with his fist covered in his red aura sending a strike into his stomach and the pain was transmitted through the pure-blooded devil's body.

"Guha! Gaha!"

Issei continued to hit Diodora in different parts of his body, but before he could launch another attack on him. Diodora placed both his hands forward.

"I won't be defeated by a damn rotten dragon like you!"

Spouting out those words, he formed a thick barrier made from his green aura that separated him from Issei. Compared with the one before, this barrier was indeed a lot stronger. But―

BANG! BREAK! BREAK!

Issei's aura covered fist was launched into the barriers before him, but his fist was stopped by the barrier and it didn't budge even a bit. Seeing that the Sekiryuutei couldn't break through the barrier had caused Diodora to burst out laughing.

"Ahahahahahaha! Did you see! I have higher demonic-power than you and natural talent! There is no way that a power idiot Sekiryuutei can defeat me!"

Hearing that from him caused Issei to pull his fist back letting a breath escape from his mouth and decided to give it his all.

"How about I show you the power of the power-idiot then?"

[Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost!]

Utilizing the ability of his scale mail, Issei continued to double his power more and more until―

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

An intense aura burst forth from the boosters on his back, which in turn increased the impact of his next punch increased a great deal. A small crack was made in the wall in front of him that started to grow wider and wider.

BREAK!

The barrier finally perished with Issei's aura covered fist.

"Sorry. I'm a power idiot, so I can only use my power like this. But if you are my opponent, then this should be enough."

"Hee."

Diodora's face turned into that of a frightened child who just experienced his worst nightmare.

"Don't make our Asia cry!"

Issei released his fist again with it sailing towards the cowering Devil, it made contact with his left arm and it started to make an unusual cracking noise as it bent. The attack sent Diodora crashing into the ceiling creating a wide dent in it, before falling to the ground. Standing back up leaning off one of the pillars inside of the room he started to complain.

"This must be a lie! There is no way I will be beaten! I won against Agares! I'm also planning to win against Bael! There's no way I will lose to the untalented heir of the Great-King! Gremory who holds affection can't even be my opponent! I'm Diodora from the House of Astaroth!"

Diodora started to gather all the demonic-power that he had to the utmost limit and fired off a full-on blast of demonic-power.

"Dragon Shot," Issei had muttered to himself gathering his dragon aura into his hand and fired off his first signature techniques. Both attacks collided with one another pushing against one another being caught at a standstill. "Goooooooo!"

[Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost!]

The Dragon Shot Issei launched increased in power growing larger and larger, then overpowered Diodora's own demonic-power. It soon passed by him blasting a hole into the wall next to Diodora blasting through a formation near the shrine destroying it. The once prideful devil fell down to his knees with his face a complete mess and tears that ran down his cheeks. He was pampered since he was born due to being from a great family of high-class devils.

Doing whatever he wanted since his older brother was the Maou-Beelzebub and felt that there was no one who could touch him. It was something that a devil who had never been in combat before never thought that they would feel before and something that caused one such as Raiser Phenex to leave the Rating Game. It was the fear of facing a Dragon.

"…?!"

He heard the sounds of Issei's footstep coming towards him, Issei reached his hand out and picked up the Devil before him after making his helmet disappearing allowing for his face to be seen.

"Don't ever get near Asia again! The next time you show yourself before us, then that time I really will blow you away!"

He nodded his head almost as if he were a zombie.

[Partner. His heart is already crushed. His eyes are of those who have had the fear of the dragons engraved into their bodies.]

Issei dropped Diodora on the ground who then started to shuffle away from Issei in fear.

"Ise, aren't you going to finish him off?"

Xenovia asked as she pointed Ascalon towards Diodora, her eyes were filled with killing intent to the very limit. She clearly held the intentions of taking his life if given the order.

"He might approach Asia again. Don't you think it will be better for the future if we cut off his head here?"

Though deep down he wanted to give her the "Okay", he shook his head from side to side.

"…This guy is also a relative of the current Maou. Even if he assisted the terrorists, it would cause trouble to Buchou and Buchou's brother if we kill him. Lance would also be in trouble if his Queen were to take his life. I already beat him enough."

Issei said in a bit of a more calmed tone compared to before with whatever he had towards him being somewhat calmed. Hearing his words were also enough to calm down Xenovia, but she fully understood his reasons.

"…I understand. If Ise is saying that, then I will stop. But."

"Yeah, that's right."

With both, their weapons pointed towards the cowering devil both of them declared.

""Don't ever come and talk to Asia again!""

With both their voices filled with such intensity it caused the already cowering Diodora Astaroth to shake his head numerous times.

---

Once they took their eyes away from them, all of them went towards Asia who was still attached to the mysterious device that was wrapped around her body.

"Asia!"

"Ise-san!"

After walking close to her, Issei petted her head comfortably. Feeling the sensation of Issei's hand on her head caused her to feel a bit calmer than she was before.

"We came to rescue you, Asia. Hahaha, I did promise you. That I will definitely protect you."

"Yes, thank you. Ise-san, everyone."

Issei said to her, it was something that she wanted to hear from her. Tears came from her eyes, but this time they weren't from sadness but from joy. As the others were trying to take off the bindings that were around her body, the first to make an odd expression on their face was Kiba.

"…I can't take off the restraints on her limbs."

[…!]

Hearing Kiba's words caused everyone to continue to try and remove the restraints connected to her body. No matter what they did none of the restraints that bound her would budge. Even with the holy-demonic swords from Kiba, the full power of the demon sword that Van wield, the power of the holy sword wielders and even the unique powers that came from everyone else…not even the power of the Sekiryuutei. It didn't even budge a bit. It was then the weak voice from Diodora had made it to their ears.

"…It's useless. That device can only be used once due to its mechanism, but it's made so that it won't stop unless you use it once. It won't stop unless Asia's ability is activated."

"What do you mean?"

Diodora who spoke in a timid voice glanced towards them with fear still residing in his eyes.

"That device is one of the special ones created by a Longinus possessor. The strong barrier that protects this field was also made by him. Dimension Lost is the ultimate barrier-type Sacred Gear. Having the possessor in the center, it spreads an unlimited amount of mist. It can seal everything inside its zone and can even teleport it to a different dimension. When it reaches Balance-Breaker, it changed its ability in which it can create any type of barrier device the possessor wishes with the mists. Dimension Create. The barrier made can't be stopped unless it is activated once properly."

"What's the requirement for activation, and what is the ability of this device," Kiba questioned.

"…The activation requirement is either I or someone affiliated with us gives the signal to start, or if I was to be defeated. The ability of the barrier is to increase the power of the one in the restraint, in this case, Asia, and reverse its effect."

After hearing the term [Reverse]. A memory from their match against the Sitri came back into their minds, but the moment of what happened when Asia's healing ability was reversed as immense damage back onto her and Momo resulting in an instant out.

"What about the range of its effect," Rias questioned feeling fear about his answer.

"…This field, and the viewing room where the observers are present at."

Hearing those words from him caused the color to vanish from their faces. They were aware of just how strong Asia's ability to heal was and if that was reversed to that much of a range. Then―

"…The leaders of each faction might be eliminated…!"

This was the plan that the Old-Maou Faction had come up with to get rid of their enemies with just a single move, not just the Underworld, but there were also members of Heaven who were in this field.

"So they thought of a plan like that with the match against Kaichou!"

"…No. It seems like the possibility of it was predicted quite some time ago. Except, since the ones in the Sitri group used it, the plan was proved to work…."

Rias' face turned into anger after hearing that from Diodora. It was because the only ones who held that information were the same ones who gave that magic to Sona meant for their rating game against them.

"The traitor in the Fallen-Angels remained in the organization and let Sona borrow [Reverse]. So they gathered data from it and might have been using them!"

Rias was angered after hearing that the traitor among the Fallen Angel used her best friend since childhood as an experiment but was then stopped after hearing laughter escape from Diodora's mouth.

"What're you laughing about," Van questioned as he clenched Muramasa.

"I was planning on making Asia despair by killing everyone important to her right before her eyes, but being the sole cause of the deaths of those important to her sounds all the more delicious."

Hearing those words from his mouth, all of them wanting nothing more than to go over a destroy him, but they had more pressing matters to deal with.

"Ddraig, can't you do something about this? You are also a Longinus, right?"

[No, Dimension Lost is a higher rank Longinus compared to the Boosted Gear and Divine Dividing, which are Mid-Tier. And if it reaches Balance-Breaker, it's near limitless. Please remember this. There are stronger Longinus out there than the Boosted Gear.]

Ddraig informed him of the situation, it was true, be heard from Azazel once that there were even stronger Longinus compared to the Boosted Gear and Divine Dividing, which houses the Heavenly Dragons. A thought soon came into Issei's mind.

"Xenovia can you get in contact with Lance?"

Hearing his request caused a light bulb to go off inside her heard.

"Of course," Xenovia replied as she touched the badge pinned on her collar causing a unique magic-circle with a knight's emblem on it near her ear. "Lancelot, can you hear me?"

[…Ah. Xenovia did something happen?]

"Yes. Is there any way that you can get here?"

There was a slight silence and at that moment, Xenovia thought that there was something wrong with their communication.

"I'm here. So, what happened?"

[Ahhhh!]

Everyone inside of the room heard a familiar voice coming behind them. Once they turned around, they saw the brown-haired knight standing behind them with his usual nonchalant look.

"How long have you been here?"

"I just got there," he replied to Van's question though they were still confused about how he got here with them not noticing him using a magic-circle. "Just before you guys left, I had placed a spell on Asia-chan that would activate if Diodora tried anything. Since you guys beat him, I just altered it so that I could transport here immediately. Good thing too, since I got caught up in this awkward situation."

"Just to make sure did you put any spells on any of us," Van questioned him. "Because, you and Azazel seems like the kind of people to do that without us noticing."

"So, this is why you guys called me."

Van's question went completely ignored by Lance as he started to examine the structure of the odd device that she was connected to along with how it was connected to the wall. Though, Van knew that he was a bit more concerned about the device that Asia was attached to he was a bit suspicious that he didn't answer his question if it was an easy no.

"I'm not going to lie this is going to be a bit difficult," Lance stated out loud as he turned towards Asia as she was still attached to the device. "The Longinus Wielder who made this is a descendant of the Johann Georg Faust the Magician who made a pact with the Legendary Devil, Mephisto Pheles. The possessor was a Top-Class Magician among the Magician Associations before joining the Hero Faction. That's why whenever a sacred gear wielder especially a Longinus learns magic, then things can get more complicated."

"Lance if that device fully activates, then Asia's Twilight Healing will be reversed and it could kill all of the higher-ups inside of the viewing room."

"Ise-san, Onii-san, destroy this…."

"I refuse."

"Don't say something stupid! If you say that again, then I will get pissed! I won't forgive you, Asia, even if it is you!"

Both Lance and Issei refused her pleas at attempting to end all this by taking her life.

"B-But at this rate, Sensei and Michael-sama will…with my power…. If that was to happen I would rather…."

Before she could even finish, Lance placed his hand on top of her head and started to smirk down at her with a confident look.

"Now, did I ever say that it was impossible? I just said that it was going to be difficult."

"Then, you can do something?"

"I can, but I'll need some room first," Lance said as he started to walk towards the very middle of the room with everyone except for Issei who still stood in front of Asia had stepped away from him in order to give him enough room to work. "I don't really have the time to explain this, but there will be two magic-circles that will appear one the bindings connected to Asia-chan's left and right arms connected to the technique that I'm about to use. The moment you see it starting to glowing place your hands on the magic-circles and transfer your power to them."

"Wh—?"

"No questions just do it."

Once Lance said that Issei nodded his head and prepared himself and stood in front of Asia who decided to put her trust in both the person she cared for and her trust family member.

"I wanted to use this in practical practice first," Lance mumbled as he activated his Avalon Syntax on the back of his hand. "I don't know if these codes will even integrate with it, but I won't know unless I try. Activating the Avalon Syntax."

At that moment, Lance activated a wide array of magic-circles that no one inside the room could even recognize, but they knew that it was high-grade magic. The number of magic-circles didn't stop there, among them different numerical and mystic codes started to appear along the walls of the room that unleashed a radiance of light. None of these codes belonged to any magic system utilized by Magicians, these were the codes utilized by God of the Bible.

GUUUUUUUUN

"Lance it's starting to activate."

"Come on, hurry!"

"I know guys, but this isn't as easy as it looks," Lance thought with his eyes closed as he primarily focused on the technique instead of what was going on around him. He had expected as much, his Avalon Syntax was indeed a technique that could be used for a multitude of tasks, but there were two specific issues with it. One of them was that his technique wasn't even fully complete yet; it wasn't a simple task to include codes used by god and attempting to integrate them into said incomplete technique was more difficult than it sounded. "Okay, I think the codes are starting to integrate into the magic circle. All that I need to do now is expand it further, but there's something wrong here…is this truly the full extent of a High-Tier Longinus' Balance Breaker…no this must have been intentional."

Just as Lance had said, two magic-circles formed in front of the left and right bindings wrapped on both her hands. As they begun to shine with a bright white light, he placed both his hands on the magic-circles and started to focus.

"Alright, Ddraig. Let's do this."

[Roger that!]

[Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost!]

[Transfer]

The dragon power that Issei had gathered using his Boosted Gear and transferred it directly into the technique.

BREAK! BREAK! BREAK!

At the same time, a metallic sound started to come from the device that Asia was attached to and it started breaking apart. When Asia was finally freed from her bindings with Issei forming a bright smile as he wrapped his arms around her.

"Asia!"

"Ise-san," Asia began crying tears of joy after being returned to the ones that she loved. "I believed in you…. That Ise-san will come to rescue me."

"Of course. But I'm sorry. You heard something painful right?"

"I'm alright. I was shocked that time, but I have Ise-san with me."

Hearing her say that in such a tone alone was enough to send a feeling of relief all across his body. Diodora watched in horror as everything that was planned out started to fall apart right before his very eyes.

"Th-That's impossible," Diodora spoke out in shock. "How could a lowly Dragon and Magician stop one of the strongest Longinus?!"

"I studied the Longinus and fought against the Strongest Longinus," Lance spoke out as he wiped away the sweat that formed on his brow. "Each of them has their own dangerous abilities once mastered, but that doesn't mean that they're invincible. You can cancel out a Longinus' abilities by either overpowering them or by even countering them with another ability, I just went with the latter then used Boosted Gear's [Boost] and [Transfer] in order to completely counter it. Even the powers Sacred Gears such as Boosted Gear and Divine Dividing can be better countered with a Dragon-Slayer such as Ascalon or even Gram."

Hearing his reasoning caused Diodora to make a face as if he was completely giving up on fighting back and just slumped onto the ground.

"Asia I—"

BANG!

"Gah!"

Just as Issei was about to say something, Xenovia and Jeanne had rushed over to both their friend, while also knocking away Issei sending him falling to the ground. Kiba who was laughing slightly to himself went over to assist him back to his feet and Van who joined him.

"Asia! I'm glad! If you were to disappear, I…."

The usually calm and Xenovia had uncontrolled tears that came from her eyes seeing that Asia was alright along with Jeanne who wore a cheerful look on her face.

"Asia-chan! Asia-chan! I'm so happy to see that you're alright!"

Seeing this, Asia walked in front of Xenovia then wiped away the tears that formed with her fingers and wrapped her arms around her and Jeanne.

"I won't go anywhere. Since everyone will be there to protect me."

"Yeah! I will protect you! Definitely!"

Lance was still stood up on his two feet let out a breath of relief, as he started to stumble on his feet with Yumi suddenly coming acting as a balance for him.

"Doing something like that really takes a lot out of you doesn't it?"

"Thanks, Yumi-chan," Lance replied with a slight weak smile. "It was actually my first time using a technique like this using codes that I didn't yet fully recognize and I think that I expanded a bit more magic power and stamina than I was expecting. I'll be alright if I start to channel aura around my body for a while."

"That's good to here," Yumi said with a sigh of relief. "Though, I really don't mind you relying on me for a while. It's a nice change of pace."

Before long, Asia soon walked in front of him with a bright smile on her face.

"Thanks for everything, Onii-san."

"No problem," Lance replied with a wide smirk on his face as he petted Asia on her head. "That's what family is for, right? That is especially true for ours, no matter the situation we'll fight in order to save one another no matter who our opponent is."

"Right."

"I'm so glaaaaaad! I'm so happppppppy that Asia-senpai returned!"

Gasper cried with a both saddened and happy expression on his face with Koneko patting him on his back in order to calm him down.

"Since we rescued Asia let's go home!"

As Issei who was still wearing his balance breaker scale mail without his helmet equipped just in case anything happened turned in their direction.

"Yes! But before that, I need to pray."

Asia stood in her same spot with her hands held in a prayer position. Everyone stared at her with a smile on their faces seeing how much this child still carried so much faith despite everything that had happened to her, they all hoped that she could remain like that forever.

(Lord. Can you please listen to my wish? Please protect Ise-san forever. And also….)

FLASH!

Just as Asia was praying with her eyes closed, an unknown magic-circle formed under her feet and it starting emitting a pillar of light causing them to stare at Asia in shock. Due to using the code that he wasn't used to yet, he couldn't move or even gather much strength yet causing him to grit his teeth.

(Please allow me to continue living with Ise-san….)

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A/N: And there goes the thirty-fifth chapter of The Magic Knight, it was the start of the "Great" Battle between the Alliance and the Old-Maou Faction of the Khaos Brigade. I made some minor changes to the chapter and it may have seemed to be a bit rushed, but I kind of wanted to get through this arc and move onto the next.

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: Chelia Ashker

Nine: Himari Kirigakure

Eight: Alex Grimm

Seven: Rossweisse

Six: Ariel Light

Five:

Four: Percy Mycenae

Three: Yukio Saito

Two: Jeanne d'Arc

Ace: Yumi Kiba

Joker: