World Rebellion
Perfected Pillar 2
An Un-Fateful Beginning
" Sir, Sir please wake up." Huh? Who that? Who's calling me? Uhhh so annoying go away.
" Sir we're running a bit late." Late? Late for what. I don't have any school today. "Mhmhmh 5 more minutes." I muttered as I covered the blanket over my head.
" You don't have 5 minutes sir, in fact you don't even have a second we're already late as it is to combat lesson you completely slept through breakfast." And like that my eyes instantly shot opened. As I jumped out of my bed and rushed into my closet to find in my state of absolute panic my black trench coat a t-shirt and some pants to put on.
Somewhen along the way I tripped on a box filled with new clothes but somehow ultimately I managed to put on everything without to much troubled. I then ran to the bathroom to brush my teeth.
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" Okay Mal Im ready to leave no-.." Stepping out of the bathroom after finishing brushing my teeth and giving myself a quick rinse. I was about to ask my Butler Mal the guy that woke me up to guide me to the training field today. Until I noticed the time on my own alarm clock that he was standing next to that has 7:20AM.
Immediately a dark aura began to surround me as my eyes gained a dangerous gleam to them. Also adding to this was the fact that I had my hood up casting a shadow on my face making all but my most likely now glowing yellow eyes non-visible.
"...Mal…" I spoke a bit quietly my voice full of venom that promised pain if given nothing but a good reason not to create pain. " Yes oh most honorable guest." The bastard had the nerve to say in a normal voice. " Why is it that you have woken me up under the pretense that I am late for training when I am only late for breakfast."
Yes the entire reason that I was so obviously pissed off at my own buttler today was because training officially starts at 7:40 so in this case I would only be late for breakfast which started at 6:00.
"Ah the reason is simple sir, you see despite having been staying at the Phenex for 2 whole month now you still have the troubling 'human' habit of sleeping until 7:20. So I thought it be a good idea to slowly help you accommodate to earlier wake up time."
" So in order to help me accomodate me to this new sleeping time you saw it fit to nearly give me a heart attack just as I woke up?" I asked a bit sarcastically as I folded my arms together. " That right sir after all it as you told me you were never one to do anything without the proper motivation."
"Correction old man I said otaku's were never ones to do anything without the proper motivation. How you relate them to a proper member of society like myself I will never get." I said while waving my right index finger back and forth. As I tried to keep calm about how much of a hypocrite I am being right now.
"My humblest apologies sir. I will try to make sure to make such a distinction the next I wake you." Mal said while taking a bow. hmmm pretty sure I heard sarcasm in there.
Huh whatever. Taking a long winded sigh I relaxed my tense shoulder. " Well we can discuss this later, for now escort me to the training field I got a new move to blow up the trainer with." I said in a tired tone.
Putting both my hands into the pockets of my coat I proceeded to make my way to the door and then into the hallway while signaling my butler to follow behinds me.
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"Hey, Mal..?" I asked my butler while staring at the scenery outside via the various windows were passing. "Yes sir, what seems to be on your mind?". Mal asked instantly understanding my current predicament.
" It been 2 full month since I have come to stay at this manor is that right?" I spoke in a I am not really here tone. " It has indeed been 2 month since you officially started freeloading here yes." Mal stated in his usual prim and proper butler tone.
Instantly for a second I stopped moving forward and flinched as if I just got struck near the heart. I even had my fight hand over my heart to signify the damage dealt. "Oyy, Old man I have not just been lazing around you know. I done a fair share of chores here and there like cleaning these halls were walking on now." I argued.
"Ah forgive me then sir, I had accidently mistaken those acts of kindness of your as simply childish carnage. However considering the fact that by the end of it all the esteem Phenex family had to replace at least half a dozen vases and even an entire painting can you truly blame me."
"Gack" As if to emphasize the fact that another imaginary wound had been inflicted to my heart, I had clenched it with with my hand once more and dramatically flinched back. " Tch, you may be a butler but for a man who speaking to someone he suppose to be serving that one sharp tongue you're using."
" My apologies once again sir, for you see as a butler for the esteem Phenex family even I must sometimes deal with my fair share of unsavory individual. Thus throughout my years of service I had naturally acquired such a skilled. So when our conversation took such a turn I thought it be best to utilize the skill albeit I was managing myself quite a fair bit in consideration for you my lord." Mal said with a slight mischievous gleam in his eyes. "Tch one of these day I will get you back for all of this." I muttered low enough so that I knew not even his devil enhance senses could hear.
Picking up the pace of my walk a little albeit doing it quite unsteadily, due to the fact that I was trying my very best to to ignore that last bit where Mal wasn't even using his final form. Honestly that alone wouldn't normally be enough for me to become unsteady especially since I spent my whole life being treated like nothing but a naive child. Nah the reason I am unsteady right now is because of the metaphysical arrow that I just took to a place I am not low enough to specify.
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"Still...2 months huh?" I said with a voice full of nostalgia and awe. " Is that so hard to believe sir." Mal replied no joke in his tone. " yeah believe it or not it is. After all 2 months back I would never thought to be in the position I am now, maybe fantasize though."
Yeah even I an otaku that been thinking about this isekai stuff for years, is having a hard time believing that I been in this 3rd rate hentai for a whole 2 months now. I mean from going from complete loser in life to a trashy self insert protag. When I think back now I just can't help but laugh like a madman towards all those fuckers in the old world living an ordinary everyday life in a broken society without their favorite punching bag to relieve stress on.
As the walk continued I simply thought more and more about such subject repeating them in my mind over and over again like a broken recorder. Honestly I don't know why it getting to me so much by all mean such things should be behind me at this point. But no matter what I just couldn't help to believe that everything is just as good as I imagined it would be. That for some reason I still am in the role of a punching bag for someone else.
Noticing the activation of magic I snapped out of my thoughts to 'sense' that a magical array of motion sensors has been set off thus activating the array of spells around the large pairs of doors in front me. The spells were a basic one upon sensing someone nearing they would automatically open the doors that they were connected opposite were also true once the magic detected that everyone's had went through they would automatically close said door. If I remember correctly from Mal lectures a few weeks back. Every door in the Phenex house with the exception of the more private ones had one of these.
Just like I had explained, once me and Mal had made it through the sets of doors to the training ground they had closed by themselves as per the magic array commanded. Moving my eyes around the place to observe it I saw that the place was the same as always. Perfectly flattened dirt floor with hidden array of magic circles implemented in them for various purposes like say summoning mystical beast to battle with or school equipment like desk and chalkboard for me to well magic and fighting stuff you know the same old same old martial arts, strategy, leadership, etc.
There is 14 meters wall encircling the whole place, with various doors connecting this place to other halls throughout the manor. The size of the encirclement/ field was 240 yards twice the size of a football field. Making it plenty enough for high speed fights requiring lots of room. Like the ground the wall were also enchanted with various magic, for purposes like say defending the audience member should a stray blast hit the invisible barriers around the place.
Speaking of audience right on top of the walls were various roman style bleachers for people to observe the fighting that happens sometimes in this room. Naturally there were also some more 'high class' seating for those important people should they ever visit. The ceiling of this place by the way was well highs very high, high enough for aerial combat at least anyways. Though apparently if that not enough the roof can open up.
For those of you that can't tell by now via the description I just gave or just skipped that entire wall of text what I basically just described was a roman coliseum. Why anyone would have one of these in there house well just about to explain that. For you see dear audience of the stand, fights between devils visiting each others manors or fights between sibling happens more than you think. How much exactly I don't know but apparently enough to warrant any noble family with the money build an entire fighting ground for such occasion though apparently not all of them are roman style. Take example the Sitris who apparently uses a japanese theme dojo as there arena.
For those of you thinking WTF right now. Fun fact that was my exact reaction when I learned of this to. I mean what kind of idiot would built an entire roman coliseum in there house for such a reason. Truly devils are all power idiots then again such to be expected for a race that prided powers above all else. With a whole governing merit system centered around supporting the strong and ridding the weak. KInda like what it is IRL except they don't make any real attempt in pushing that fact under the rug.
Honestly if you ask if such a thing disgust me then yes. After all even if I am a piece human trash. I am still a human raised in the modern era but like it or not my whole continued easy going existence here in DxD is completely depended on a family that support such a system and ideal. So can't do much about that little moral issue well for now at least.
Cutting myself off of that particularly dangerous subject. I decided to re-focus my attention towards the center of the coliseum where a magic circle had just flared open. Then the circle started to spin eventually unleashing a small blinding light.
When all was said and done appearing from said light was a man, no a giant, actually thinking now he was closer to a gorilla man. Point is the guy was big about 8ft tall via eyeballing it. Didn't help that he was buff like really buff in fact I think the size of his biceps alone is bigger than my head when I used to have my old body that was… huh how old was my old body again?
Never really celebrated my own birthday and eventually with the combination of school and various 'other' things I just stopped caring completely. Well lets just say I was 16-19 years olds.
Well back to the topic the guy bicep was bigger than my head back then like I think nearly twice as big. However what really supported however was his arm hair that was practically a jungle and his gorilla looking face. Thinking now he looks SIMILAR to that guy from fullmetal alchemist you know the one that can transform into a humanoid gorilla. Well he looks (facial feature wise) similar Darius in his humanoid gorilla form. Though unlike him this guy wears a military camouflage tank top complete with camouflage shorts. Which show his chest and leg hair, which like his arm hair is also a jungle of a mess.
" Oh! Zaxan what a surprise my star pupil. Aren't you a bit early today. Usually I have to wait at least 5 minutes for you to finally gets here." The man greeted me with.
Yes people if you couldn't tell by now, then let me spell it out to you. The gorilla like man standing in front of me now was my teacher Sago Belemont. The guy that the Phenex family entrusted to train me on all battle technique/tactics. A supposed war veteran that fought in the Devil Civil War. For the new maou side of course.
" Well you see Sago Sensei. Mal over here sought it fit to start 'training' me to wake up earlier in the day. So because of that here I am now 3 minute early for class." I spoke while directing a bit of malice toward Mal via a small glare.
" Ohh! Is that so. Well then good joob Mal for straightening this kids behavior." My sensei said as he gave a thumbs up to Mal while also patting my head while I struggled against him.
"No thank you needed Sago-sama. After all as an honor servant of the Phenex family it is my natural responsibility to make sure that someone as important as a future peerage member of the lord son or daughter be taught such things." I don't know why but I feel as if there was more than 1 meaning to Mal's words just now, as if I am being left out of something here.
" If that's so, then I expect your continued assistance in helping to get this kid act straight from now on." again I can't help but feel that there was more than one meaning in Sago words there. "Why it would be my honor." Mal simply replied.
Finally struggling Sago head patting I decided to get things back on track. "Sago-sensei if you don't mind I would like to begin class now. With a spar first if you don't mind."
" Another spar from the beginning? How many times dat makes it now like the 3rd time this week?" Sago questioned my decision making skills. " There a good reason for this spar and the because I got some new tricks up my sleeve." I countered his argument.
"Well if that so. Then I guess I don't have any real reason to reject your offer, don't want to kill my own student motivational drive after all. AHAHAHAHA"
" Ah well then if don't mind I going to take battle position now if you don't mind." I said as I took my stance. " yeah feel free to start anytime." replied Sago
First spreading my legs a bit and then bending them. I then positioned my closed left hand near my stomach and then position my right hand near my face. Honestly speaking I barely even know what I am doing when taking this stance because fun fact people it takes longer than 1 month to get an extremely good grasp on these things. Especially since I am being taught various form of martial art along with magic and strategy during these lessons. Making my experience in martial art in particular overall less than even your average karate student. This stance really was what Sago sensei recommended for me 2 weeks ago after getting enough time to analyze my fighting style.
Noticing that Sago is purposely leaving himself wide open. probably because he don't see me as a threat. I reinforced my body to the max and then dashed at him fist raised ready to strike. Knowing full well thought from a month of experience that no way in bloody hell this works mid way through I changed tactics.
"Time Alter-Double Accel" Immediately the change was apparent. To me that is. As I felt my speed or rather time moving faster. Doubling not only my movement speed but also my reaction time.
Disappearing in a burst of speed moment before reaching Sago, leaving him and even Mal in complete shock guessing by the look on their face. I reappeared behind Sago and then spin kick toward to left side of his face. Sadly it seems this was nowhere fast enough as Sago raised his left arm to block my kick. Following that Sago used his right hand to grab my leg and sent me flying halfway across the stadium.
Halfway through my flight I used some magic to allow to interact with air like I do the ground kinda like what the shinigami and such in Bleach uses to fly. Landing on my feet mid air I then grab ahold of the air to stop myself from sliding back any further.
" Time Alter-Triple Accel"
Finally when I gain stabled ground or air in this case and stopped, I rushed toward Sago once more disappearing again in a burst of speed. Reappearing once more in front of Sago with my fist raised to strike him. Sago got in a stance to prepare to catch my blow. Of course naturally I knew this stance would also allow him to easily adapt should I choose to try what I did a few moments ago of trying to catch him by surprise by striking him from behind.
So this time I decided to go straight in ahead. Continuing my desperate rush ahead. Sago responded by merely catching my raised fist as it was about to impact against him only to realized that he felt no impact against his hand. Widening his eyes in surprised as Sago saw my afterimage phased right through him and eventually faded. Revealing him the sight of me coming down on him with a kick mere inches away from his chest. With no time to catch this one Sago raised with his hand into a X shape to block my kick.
BOOOOOM
The sound of my foot impacting with Sago arms rang throughout the entire arena. As the ground Sago stood on cracked a bit but ultimately he was unharmed. Applying a bit more pressure to my kick the ground under Sago cracked even more but in the end he stood firm. As my effort were getting me nowhere I decided it be best to jump back and retreat and come at this from a different.
Sadly Sago would not let me end it with just that as after I used him as a launch pad to jump off of. Sago closed the distance between me and him by jumping toward me when I was still in mid-flight.
Grabbing my right foot while we were still in mid air Sago then threw down toward the ground. The force of his throw launched my down toward the ground so hard and fast that it created a miniature crater where I landed.
*Cough, Cough, Cough*
"Oh god did you seriously have to throw down toward the ground so hard Sensei. Im pretty sure I broke a bone or 2 just now." I said as I struggled to get my back up to my feet while holding my ribcage.
Falling mere feets right in front me. Sago sensei responded with. " AHAHAHAHA, sorry, sorry. I got a little too excited there at the end and it awakened the warrior spirit within me."
"Well then next time can you hold back a lot more I mean for someone with experience in fighting I would think you know how to hold back against someone." I mean to reiterate once more this guy was supposedly in the Civil War which happened HUNDREDS of years ago. One would think that he at least know how to hold back or keep his owns excitement in check.
" Still thought that new spell of yours really caught me by surprise. I mean it like your speed doubled like that of the Boosted gear well except yours only applied to speed. Care to tell Sensei the secret behind your technique." Sago asked that last part in honest wonder.
" Ah sorry Sago-sensei that a little secret I will be keeping to myself for now." After all it would not do me any good if they found out that over the last few months now I been experimenting with magic from different worlds. Though thus far I been only successful with the magic and mana used in the Nasuverse mostly because the system is so flushed out.
" Is that so, well perhaps one day you will trust your sensei enough to tell me the secrets behind your spells." Well maybe one day I will teach the methods to someone else when I get a better understanding of how my own magic works. After all learning other worlds magic foreign to this one is harder than it looks.
Now someone that was just told this probably thinks it like the difference between Chakra from Naruto and Magic from here. But it even more complex for instance what I just used Nasuverse Magic and DxD Magic. Now experts of the first may say the difference between them is how Od and Prana works but I don't mean it like that.
What I mean are closer to benefits. For example Nasuverse magic is far superior to DxD magic under the ground of conceptual manipulation. Example I found it much easier to manipulate Time Alter whenever I used Nasuverse 'mana but when I used DxD 'mana' despite being able to still use Time Alter I found myself having to strain myself much more to keep it operating.
Mana is another thing that is interesting in this fanfic that I am so obviously in. If I had to explain it in gaming term one would think that Prana, Od, and Mana would all be in one MP bar. Nope Prana and Od (Nasuverse Magic) are in one combined MP bar while Mana (DxD magic) is in a completely separate bar all together. Continuing from the the concept manipulation example. If I were to use Time Alter using the DxD bar then I would have a longer 'cast time' compared to if I had just used the Nasuverse bar.
Well not that I am complaining too much this all just ultimately means that I have more MP under my disposal than your average DxD residence.
And all that just now is just the simpler stuff it get more complex once we get into 'systems'. If I had to explain it then 'systems' would be how a technique is performed and executed. Let take Street Fighter for example. In SF to perform the Hadouken normally one would have to input a series of complex commands to do it. However in a version that I played there was a gamemode that allow one to do the Hadouken by simply pressing a single button. Of course this is all an example and things are actually many more times complex than that but this is just my way of summarizing it for the general masses.
Also for those wondering yes you can use different worlds systems with different MP and such. In fact that how I managed to use Time Alter. You see if I had used Nasuverse 'system' then well I would have to go through MANY complex steps just to activate it let alone keep it operating. But via DxD 'system' where everything is literally dumbed down to the max this process becomes many time easier.
Keep in mind this is what I have only discovered after spending many sleepless night tinkering with only DxD and Nasuverse magic. I by no mean intend to keep myself limited to just these 2 no I plan for even bigger things.
" Hey Zaxan, Zaxan, ZAXXAAAAN." I heard scream out my name again and again.
Huh, What?" I asked in surprise as I snapped out of my inner monologue. " You were monologuing again weren't you?" Sago stated with an empty voice.
" Ummm sorry? I was kinda thinking about my magic." I said with a bit of shyness due to spacing out just now. (Hey I can get embarrassed like this to I am still a person after all.)
"Well I guess I will let stuff like this pass for now. I mean I can understand, kids like you
Need to be constantly entertained every moment. I was like that once upon a time you know. Yeah a very long time ago…"
Oh crap did I just trigger 'a remembering one's happy days before tragedy' event. Gotta fix this somehow before shit hits the fan. " Ah sorry Sago-sensei you were talking about something before this." SHIIIIIT that came out wrong the way I phrased it made it look like I could care less about his problems.
" Ah yeah I was talking about something…" Oy you didn't seems very happy just now not necessarily angry either just depressed as if you only wanted to go back to your room curl up into a ball and eat ice cream.
Taking a side glance at Mal to signal for support I saw him on the magic circle talking to someone. ( YOU goddamn butler the one time I needed you the most after 2 months here and you're not even bloody available.)Well looks like I'm on my own for this one. (THANKS ALOT MAL.)
" AHAHAHA well then could you please tell me what it is. Time is waning after all…" SHITTTT that came out wrong again. I really need support here any time now. It was foolish for me to deal this scenario on my own! TAG OUT some TAG OUT with me!
" Well I was saying I finished setting up the equipment for class. Sorry by the way for my absent mindedness." Hey the hell are you apologizing to me for are you really the same super energetic teacher I've grown used to this past 2 months!
This is hopeless there no way for me to possibly salvage this situation as it is now. Well not without making it horribly worse with every sentence I utter. Ahhh I can already see my 'favor' points with Sago hastily plummeting to the ground. Truly this world is cruel the bond I semi-worked 2 months on is now disappearing before me in the blink of an eye this. This is why I don't try to make friends with people. Truly I have grown soft during my time in this world.
" Oh Sago it seems that the lord and mistress wants to meet privately with Zaxan-sama now so it seems we will have to end class for today." SAAAVVVVVEEEEE. Just as I had given up all hope for this situation Mal THE GREAT BUTLER THAT HE IS comes in for the assist! Now I have a genuine excuse to leave this awkward situation.
" Ah I see well I guess we'll end class for today." Seriously not even a I am going to work you twice as hard next time! Well not that it my problem anymore.
" Well if that's the case then bye, bye." I said in a slightly cheery voice as I made my way to the exit. Half way through I turned around toward Mal and asked. " Ummm where exactly do they want to meet me?"
" In the living room sir." Mal answered and with that last piece of info I made my out the door rushing for the living but not before leaving one last message. " Bye now good luck with Sago-sensei."
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A few minute later in the coliseum.
" Geez that kid don't even know how to cheer up and adult like myself. Couldn't he have at least thrown in a compliment or two to cheer me up rather than trying to just change the topic." Sago sensei complained to Mal after having recovered from his depression and was now sitting in his teacher chair.
" Well I do believe Zaxan-sama was trying to cheer you up in his own unique special way. I mean if he didn't care than he probably would have gone back to monologuing like alway." Said Mal while standing near Sago side being the one to comfort him and all.
" Yeah I guess that another unique thing about that kids beside his growth rate I guess." Sago replied in a distant voice while thinking back to all the times he trained Zaxan.
" Forgive me if I am overstepping my bounds here but unique growth rate sir. In my eyes his growth rate is average at best." Inquired Mal.
" Yup it average alright completely average if you ask me but let me ask you this question Malice Amasta. What is the definition of average that you are using." At that moment Malice eyes widened in shock at the implication at that question.
" It seems you realized, when you mean average you are comparing his growth rate to maybe a low class - mid class devil like us. Despite the fact that he is a human still in his early years. The years when magically at least they grow the least due to lack of magical methods to further strengthen themselves." Sago said with a smirk.
" So imagine this how strong will he become when he is older. How strong will he be when he join a peerage as a reincarnated devil and have all his abilities multiplied by the chess piece he is given. Can you imagine it the possibilities that awaits that boy." Sago said, assured that the boy that he is training will have a bright future ahead of him.
" And that just his growth rate in terms of magical power. Lets not forget those interesting spells he has come up with thus far. What was the one he just used today Time Alter? Yeah Time Alter when he used that it really felt like his base speed doubled. Man I was genuinely caught off guard completely when that happened."
While Sago was boasting about Zaxan growth all Mal could do is simply stand there silently in awe at what he was hearing. Sago Belemont a War Veteran for the Civil War was praising a human in such a manner. Sure Sago was no War hero who earned many medals in the battlefield but at the same time he was no nameless foot soldier during then. Sago himself has received at least a few mention in the history text books used by High-class devils during class.
Truly during all of this Malice could only think of how blessed the current Phenex family must be to just find such an 'average' person out of nowhere like that. As his own worries about the safety of the lords and mistress youngest son and daughter fades away at such news.
Meanwhile with Zaxan
The atmosphere in the air currently could only be described with word such as tense, awkward, strained. Why is that so one may wonder well. It certainly not because of Zaxan incompetence with dealing with people like alway well not completely this time at least. No the reason why currently the atmosphere is so tense is because of a completely different reason.
Said reason being right now standing before Zaxan was simply not just Gai and Alma Phenex. No two smaller form were accompanying them. Those two being a young 9 years old Riser Phenex standing protectively over his sister that had taken shelter behind her older brother. Said sister obviously being a young 5 years old Ravel Phenex.
The reason Riser was standing protectively over Ravel. Well Zaxan had walked in on the family when they was having a conversation. Thought bursting through the door may have been a better way to put it.
That combined with the fact that Zaxan was still dirty from his spar with Sago and surprise in meeting Riser and Ravel finally after being teased of their existence for 2 months caused him to be left speechless in this situation. Thus Riser and Ravel jumped to conclusion that this boy before them must have been an assassin.
Uknown to the 2 kids plus one teens in a child body. This was all planned by both Lord and Mistress Phenex in an attempt for Zaxan to leave an impression on both their kids. After all both parents knew enough about their kids to realize that there is no way that they would accept Zaxan an ordinary human boy without a Sacred Gear into there peerage.
Riser wanted himself a harem so there no way that in any normal situation he would let Zaxan in without some big changes happening. As for Ravel she was to shy and cautious to let someone like Zaxan into hers but that can be fixed if Zaxan first gain the approval of her brother Riser.
In other words this was one big gambit for Zaxan in the time span of 1 short fight to leave a big enough impression on Riser. So that Riser will at least give Zaxan a chance. That had been the entire reason why Gai and Alma for the last 2 months had tried there best to make sure Zaxan and Riser did not meet. Because back then Zaxan probably was not even strong enough to last a single second against their son and thus would not leave a strong enough impression on him but now things are different.
Now as the tension in the room rising with neither Alma or Gai doing anything about Zaxan presence. Riser being the hot headed young boy that he his decided to take thing into his own hands. Pushing Ravel out of the way and into their mother's embrace.
Riser then launched a gigantic ball of fire into Zaxan direction that was twice the size of a wrecking ball. In response Zaxan reinforced himself to the very limit and then jumped right to avoid the fireball knowing full well that there was no way he survive getting hit by that without being incapacitated at least. The fireball soared past Zaxan and onto the closed door behind him where it was then extinguished by various magic circle.
Now normally just as the 2 Phenex monarch had planned any 'normal' person would take this chance to counterattack the stranger that had just randomly attacked them no matter who they were. Sadly to Gai and Alma plans Riser and Ravel were no strangers to Zaxan because despite their young age, Zaxan was able to still recognize them as the characters from an anime/Light novel he once watched/read. Thus rather than attack he simply stayed at the spot he landed on.
Enraged at the fact that his attack was so casually avoided and ignored seeing as Zaxan had simply decided to stand in one place silently after he dodge it rather than counterattack. (Though in truce the entire reason Zaxan was silent was because he was still in shock at everything that been happening.) Riser then unleashed a barrage of punches each one launching the same fireball as before each and everyone precisely aimed in Zaxan direction.
Though to surprise to even speak now. Zaxan still understood that If he was hit dead on by such a barrage he would no doubt burn to ashes. So he responded the only way he could.
"Time Alter-Double Accel" activating the magic Zaxan had worked 2 whole months perfecting. The time inside of Zaxan flow at doubled the speed it normally would be and thus also increasing his movement and reaction speed. On top of that this ability is stack upon the reinforcement that he had applied to himself already thus allowing Zaxan to reach extreme levels of speed nearing that of lightning.
But rather than use this ability to evade all the individual fire balls. Zaxan instead decide to wait for the last possible moment when all the fireball would congregate in one place. Thus allowing him to conserve the most stamina albeit this was also the most dangerous possible option considering how if he miss his chance Zaxan burn to literal ash. The gleam and smirk on Zaxan face spoke of that of only pure confidence that he will succeed.
Thus Zaxan waited. He waited for the last possible moment and thus at the last possible moment when all the flames before Zaxan had congregated into one single bunch. Zaxan simply jumped over the mass of fire and into safety. As the mass of flame exploded behind him. It should be noted by the way that by the time the fireball had exploded Zaxan didn't even bother to look at it. Mostly because he thought that such a scene would look cool.
Maybe it because all the shock finally gotten to his mind maybe it because he finally reveling in his own insanity whatever the reason might be for a regular person the next action Zaxan did was incredibly dumb. Said action being? Well Zaxan had brought his right arm up and raised up four finger and is currently waving his hand back and forth between him and Riser. In other word he was aggroing Riser to come at him.
Sadly for all our dear audience specifically the 2 Phenex parents and even Ravel. Riser being the young hot-headed lad that he is fell for the bait. As Riser unfurled his devil wings and even used his own flame to propelled him faster towards Zaxan.
Raising his arm at the end of his charge and covering it with flame Riser prepared the end the life of Zaxan right then and there. Sadly for Riser the hit would never reach Zaxan as moment before it landed, Zaxan side stepped out of the way.
Info Dump time
Speed no doubt it was the advantage Zaxan held over Riser in this one battle. After all throughout these 2 months Zaxan has focus solely on training his speed and disregarded all form of defense and offense. Even the spells Zaxan learned from were all mostly speed oriented.
Normally by the logic of DxD this would be completely absurd and idiotic. After all in this world with not many notable Hax beside a weak time stop brute forcing your way through things is alway an option. Even if the enemy was multiple times faster than you all one must do is unleashed a large AOE attack to deal with them and since said enemy only focuses on speed there would be no way for them to perfectly survive against such power. Even Kiba of the Gremory peerage, a speed type did not go this route as at least with him the option of having sword birth simply create a strong enough blade to make up for raw power difference existed which meant he had to train equally hard in trying to master that ability.
Sadly for Riser however Zaxan does not follow DxD logic and even if he did follow logic Riser lacks the experience to probably deal with such an enemy in the first place. After all as someone with an entirely different magic system under his command Zaxan is exempt from such thinking. After all when Zaxan chose to solely focus on speed his mind set was ' Hax is meaningless if you can't get it off against your opponent before they kill you'.
To put it simply for you less savvy folks Zaxan has at this point at least 1 ability that allow him to close the difference between him and his opponent and unlike Kiba he does not have to train said power as much. Since these ability even in their base strength is simply that powerful. A Limit Break level technique that Zaxan can use almost passively if you will. An ability that break all 'rules' of the game. Similar to that of the longinus but at the same time completely different.
In this scenario the one single ability that Zaxan had tried to obtain that doesn't increase his speed in any way is force transfer. The ability to transfer forces from one point to another. At the level of mastery Zaxan has it possible to transfer the whole force of his blow through someone skins and directly into their internal organs. To put it simply all of Zaxan attack may as well be directly striking at someone internal organs with no skin and bone to soften the blow.
Real Time begin again
Landing down onto the ground before Riser could even realized Zaxan had dodged his attack, Zaxan used that opportunity to punch Riser in the guts using his force transfer ability. The effect was immediate as Riser had stop in motion and vanquished the flame in his hand and the one's used to propelled to simply stand in one place and hold his stomach in place as if he didn't it would threaten to fall out of his body.
During the time that Riser was busy recovering from that attack just now Zaxan could have launched at least an entire barrage of punches and kick toward Riser. But since Zaxan thought the Phenex family would not enjoy looking at there proud son getting such a one sided beating Zaxan chose to simply stand still.
Honestly speaking Zaxan was impressed at Riser current condition after all Zaxan estimated that most average high-class devil his age would be 'emptying' the content in there stomach by now. The fact that he survive that ordeal just now was not because of the Phenex regeneration either. Since at this age it should not be strong enough to negate attack that could potentially permanently damage internal organs and at best grant him an EXTREMELY fast healing factor. No the reason Riser is not emptying the content in his stomach right now is purely because he is strong enough to shrug off a blow that would near incapacitate any high class devil his age. Albeit shrugging off for him meant standing in one place while holding his stomach it still LEAGUES better than emptying the content in said stomach.
Honestly when Zaxan thinks of this he can't help but make a sigh since all this just proves how strong canon Riser could have become if he had trained a bit more instead of playing around with women.
" Argg huh huh huh huh. Bastard!" Riser said glaring at Zaxan with eyes that could literally burn someone to ashes. After having finally recovered from his predicament that took 5 whole seconds to finish. Again impressive since most Devil his age would spend a good minute emptying their stomach contents.
" Hey you attacked first I merely followed you after don't blame me for the fact that you picked a fight you can't win." Zaxan told Riser. In response Riser charged at Zaxan once more and like last time Zaxan dodged out of the way at the last moment and counter attacked by striking him in the stomach
Except this time something was different Riser was prepared for such a things as the moment Zaxan hand was got to close Riser body was covered in flame. Noticing this Zaxan quickly retreated many meters back before things could get too hot for his liking.
However that didn't mean he was safe as. ( Holy shit those flames barely touched me yet my entire right hand not arm only hand currently has fucking 3rd degree burn! Note to self focus on regen and defense HAX after this.) Zaxan thought to himself as he stared down to his damaged right hand.
Honestly with the fact that Riser can cover himself in flames strong enough to nearly burn Zaxan hand off. Meant that the situation was looking quiet grim for the young human mage. But that did not mean it was hopeless.
Charging directly into Riser for a simple punch. Riser seeing Zaxan mad charge once again raised up his flame armor to deter Zaxan. However when Riser failed to sense magical energy heading his way along with an impact near his flame armor. Riser shut off the armor to see what's happening and that where Riser made a mistake. As the sight that Riser was greeted with was a kick that had been aimed directly at his chest.
Once more the effect was immediate as Riser staggered back despite no force pushing him back since all of it was wholly transfer toward his internal organs. However this was where Zaxan made his mistake. Rather than using a punch which would have allowed Zaxan to faster he used a kick that despite being more powerful gave him a slower escape time and that what Riser took advantage of as he flared to the max his flame armor nearly burning Zaxan right foot off .
Thankfully Zaxan managed to escape back before that could occur. Still he had taken plenty of damage from the flame and currently could barely feel his right foot. However ultimately the charged served it proposes of proving a theory of Zaxan and that is that Riser can't keep the flame armor active without draining to much mana. If he could he would keep it constantly active as there really not any negatives with keeping it up against a close range combatant and there was 0 point in deactivating it when Riser thought Zaxan had not in actuality attacked him.
Now with a plan in action Zaxan did the one thing he knew repeat it over and over again until it fails horribly.
A Few Minutes Later
"Huh,huh,huh. Will.. you..go.. down..already." Spoke Zaxan who was now covered with various 3rd degrees burns all over his body. As he his arm were currently hanging tiredly in place while while he was standing slumped forward.
" I could...huh.. Say the.. huh.. Thing.. huh.. to you." Retorted Riser who despite looking completely fine was currently clutching his stomach. Due to the fact that throughout this match he has taken so much internal damage from Zaxan that even now his Phenex regeneration was having many trouble fixing everything wrong with his insides up.
To say this battle is at a complete stalemate right now would be completely 100% accurate. As following Zaxan thoughts before the slight time skip he did indeed try to repeat the same strategy. In the process of repeatedly doing the same thing over and over again Riser eventually got a read on Zaxan timing and thus they eventually started to quite oftenly trade damage with each other. Which all eventually culminated in the latest recent clash where Riser got some good burning time on Zaxan. While Zaxan got an extremely powerful punch on Riser. Both were equally low in HP and MP at this point.
As for why nobody has tried to stop this mess. Well this is part of both Gai and Alma plan anyways. Ravel is too busy hiding behind her parents really do anything. As for the two idiots (Zaxan and Riser) halfway through they got to focused into the fight to even think about anything else. Hell if this was an anime the camera would be panned to focus only on them. Gai, Alma, and Ruval wouldn't even be in the background.
(This has to end now) were the thoughts that rang out both their head as they prepared for their final confrontation.
Zaxan had reinforced his right dominant arm to beyond it regular limit that combined with the burns on it and Zaxan right arm felt like it could literally explode at any moment. But that wasn't enough Zaxan knew that if he were to make it out alive from this they he would need speed enough speed to get in and then get out and for that he would need.
"Time Alter-Quadra Accel" Zaxan highest limit unlike Double Accel in which he can keep continuously active and Triple Accel where he only uses when he feel like wasting lots of MP Quadra Accel could only be used in short burst. So what better time to use it then now when all chips were on the table.
Riser preparation on the other hand were much simpler. Simply turning on his flame armor and cranking the flames on it to the max Riser sought to burn off Zaxan hand before he could land a hit. He would become a charging mad warrior a kamikaze betting everything on the fact that he could burn Zaxan away before things got too dangerous. (Even thought it quite clear we have long since went past that point.)
Finally both were ready to end this. Both equally impatient believing that if the fight were to prolong any longer the other would come out victorious. However for whatever reason Riser was the one to come charging at Zaxan first his body full inflamed and was melting the very floor he walked on. Zaxan seeing and obviously exploitable weakness decided to wait it out for the moment when Riser heart would be most exposed.
Or at least he would have normally done if he wasn't super on edge and literally rocketed at mach 70 towards Riser at the 4th step he made. With Zaxan hand held out curled into a fist Zaxan plan to end this battle with a single strike straight toward Riser heart. Phenex family watching the match be damn. In fact Zaxan probably haven't even realized his own action yet. All he could think of was his will to live and the fact that for the first time in his life he felt ALIVE.
The clash that was about to be would probably without a doubt take both their lives. Zaxan fist should it connect would completely destroy Riser heart along with the already weakened organs in his own body. Meanwhile due to Zaxan recklessness Riser flame would fully engulf Zaxan upon moment.
Yes in a matter of mere moments the lives of both of these young boys will be extinguished. However not because of a failed scheme nor would it be ignorance at the situation at hand but rather because [fate] wished it to be. Yes they would both meet mutual destruction because of some imaginary force beyond their control and nothing else.
Or at least that was how this fight was originally [scripted] to end at least. For to oppose this fate a small light had enveloped the young girl known as Ravel Phenex moment before the two boys clash giving her the courage that could only exist 'in another possibility'. With this newly found courage the girl ran straight in between the clash of the 2 boys.
Sadly until the very end neither boys even acknowledged her existence. Who did acknowledged her existence however were the young girl father and mother. Who immediately stopped the fight. Riser had been sent flying to the other side of the room by his father while Zaxan was pinned down by Alma.
" Boy oh boy. You kids sure did a number on each. I mean Riser what made you think that me and Alma would just stand there as doing nothing to punish the 'assassin' that interrupted our precious family bonding time." Gai teased Riser who was currently face planted onto the floor.
" As for you young man. You may be an important guess but no way will I let you harm my precious little Rie." Said Alma covering up the fact that they totally did watch that fight to the end mostly because it was all planned from the beginning in the first place.
" Huh your son?" Zaxan muttered just loud enough for Alma and Gai to hear. " Wait you mean this brat that I been fighting. Is the Son you guys been bragging about for the last 2 months?!" Zaxan asked in surprised, fully knowing Riser true identity from the very beginning.
In response Alma merely nodded a yes toward Zaxan who was still pinned down by her. " As for you Riser couldn't you be a bit more gentle to one of your possible future peerage member." Alma then turned to a now wobbly but ultimately standing Riser who was still at the other end of the room.
" Wait are you saying that this was the super special future peerage member that you guys scouted just for me?" Riser cried out with a bit of annoyance.
Simply tilting her head to the side a bit to play dumb Alma replied in a dead on tone. " Yeah what seems to be the problem with him sweety." Then there was silence mostly because no one was bothering to say anything. Even Zaxan stayed quiet mostly because he really didn't have anything to add to the conversation. As for Riser he would remained stunned in place and silence for a bit longer.
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" Problem?...There plenty of problems with that person being my servant. 1 he not female and 2 he a complete weakling human without a sacred gear did you even pay attention to our fight!" Riser yelled out despite the fact that his lungs should still be damaged from Zaxan internal organs damage. Even if he had time to regenerate.
Before Alma or Gai could respond however Zaxan retorted to that weak comment with. " Hey don't insult yourself like that especially since you were literally 1 step from losing to me."
" Hah me one step from losing to you. Don't kid yourself human if anything you were one step from being burnt to ashes by my noble Phenex flame. As you can see by my perfect appearance any damage you dealt to me was negated by my clans invincibility Immortality." Riser retorted back.
" Hah what a hypocrite the only one kidding himself here is you. I mean one would think from those wobbly legs and pained expressions on your face that you're about ready to keel over any second now. By the way I recommend you stop hyperventilating it will only make your lungs hurt a lot more." Zaxan savagely answered back.
" Hmp such an insolent tongue from a mere human peasant pinned down by my mother. Then again I guess such things should be expect from someone of such low-born as yourself. Be thankful for in a more normal situation I would immediately burn that vile tongue of yours." Riser said trying his best to ignore Zaxan latest comment. Even ignoring the hyperventilation advice since taking it would mean accepting everything else he said.
" Ohh? Hiding behind the accomplishments of someone else now? What the matter Riser-sama can't fight your own battles? Well in the first place anyways I guess you should be glad that I am pinned down right about now. Since if not you would be K.O. on the ground now."
" What that I hear about me being K.O. on the floor right now human. That sound awful lots to my ears like a challenge for round 2 if you ask me." Riser said as a sent a glare directly at Zaxan in the eyes.
" If that sound like round 2 to you then I don't mind going for seconds. Brings it on Phenex Riser." Zaxan answered sending a glare also toward Riser.
At the acceptance of the challenge strangely enough both Zaxam and Riser raised a twisted smile. Thought hidden behind such a hideous smile Gai, Alma and even Ruval who was now hiding in a corner could see the genuine honest friendly anticipation behind them.
However before things could go on any longer Gai the man of the house decided to finally place his foot down. " Okay that's enough out of both of you boys. Look I know that you to had a rough start but for now why don't we call a truce." Gai said with firmness.
" But, but what about our round 2?!" Asked both Zaxan and Riser at the same time.
"What about round 2 this end now. I mean look Zaxan your running obviously low on Mana to keep going with your spell and have 3rd degrees burn all over the place. Plus if you had tried to tank my sons flame no doubt you would be K.O. on the ground by now." Immediately after Gai statement Riser smile turned into a smug look of victory as he change his posture to stand tall and proud. While Zaxan on the other hand sulked into the ground.
" Don't get too far ahead of yourself now Riser. After all even if you were hit by Zaxan last attack which you would have since you thought it be a good idea to idiotically charge at your opponent without any real plan the one on the floor would have been you." And with that statement the mood immediately switched as Zaxan face shot up from the floor with a happy smug smile on his face as Riser fell down onto all fours.
" Would you two let me finished my speech already without any mood swings." Gai spoke immediately attracting the attention of both. " Look with both of these facts presented now can't you both agree on a tie?" Gai asked.
"Sure" Zaxan and Riser both said grudgingly. " Good now Alma can you unhand Zaxan. As for Riser why don't you come over here so that you two can shake on your new friendship."
Disappearing from in a burst of speed Alma reappeared right next to her husband freeing Zaxan, allowing him to stand up and make his way to Riser who was also walking toward him. Both of them glaring deep into each other's eyes.
Finally meeting each other in the center of the room where Riser parents were with Ravel standing safely behind her mother. " Now introduce yourselves" Alma said gently.
" Riser Phenex 4th son of Gai and Alma Phenex of the illustrious Phenex clan." Said Riser as he held out his right hand.
" Zaxan Ark 1st son of parent's I don't want to talk about. Normal human boy and possibly either you or Ruval future servant." Zaxan spoke as he made his way to grab Riser hand.
However at the last possible moment something completely unexpected happened surprising all parties. As moments just before both boys were about the have contact. They both retracted their hand and used the opposite ones to punch each other in the face. Trading blows and knocking both out.
And done. Finally I finished this bloody chapter. Now before some of you new folks get your hopes up that this will be a regular thing with me don't because usually it takes me 2 weeks to get out 5k words not 10k. This chapter is by all mean an outlier.
I don't know why but while doing this I felt strangely motivated and before I knew it reached 10k words.
Now to discuss somethings about this chapter.
As some of you may notice there are some... Ah who am I kidding there are a lot of foreshadowing done here. Honestly this chapter is just to give you a general idea of the vibe of this story mainly humorous but can and will get serious when the time calls for it.
THis chapter was also used to give you an idea on how Zaxan life at the Phenex family had gone and how strong he gotten.
Now I know most of you are probably bitching about how Zaxan a boy with only 2 month worth of training could defeat someone like Riser. Well answer to that 1. I said in the description OP Oc and 2. HAX because if Zaxan didn't have hax things would end of differently. How differently well I give you some stats to find out.
Note these stat are purely focused on only Riser and Zaxan and devils there age this does not apply to anyone else. Max stat is 10
Riser
*All stats are at 7
Zaxan (This naturally include Reinforcement)
*All stat but speed is at 3.
*Speed without time alter 6.
*Speed with Time alter double 8.
*Speed Time alter triple 10
*Speed with Quad 12
Rias
*All stat at a solid 5 with expectation to.
*Magic Reserves 6
*Destructive force 7 (Literally only because of her Power of Destruction, which is Offensive base mind you)
Average 9 year old High class devil
*All stat at 5 with there weakest at 4 and maybe strongest at 6
Serafall 9 years old
*Lowest stat at 8
*all other stats range somewhere from 9-10
Sirzech Lucifer 9 years old
* WEAKEST stat 13
*Ill let you imagine what the rest look like
Also for you Fate Stay Night fan calling bullshit on how Zaxan can survive using Time Alter continuously without taking a lot of damage. Let me clarify this Kiri is just an average human. Maybe with Reinforcement he can achieve super human level of feats but in the end he is still in the realm of human. Devil in this fic at the age of 9 can crush gigantic boulder easily with there magic and tank said magic with only a few light scratches and Zaxan is at least somewhat on par with them. So yeah he definitely at least in term of stats far above Kiri pay grade. Unless your talking about Assassin then Zaxan and even most Adult high class devil get stomped to the ground.
Now some of you are bitching about Phenex regen. Well here my take on that. Riser is still fairly young at this point Riser can't instantly recover from such level of damage as having his internal organ attacked. Hell he can'y instant regen from anything but he does have near godlike recovery rate at this point in time. Sadly for Riser internal organ damage is fatal and not something to laugh at.
Now for those that came from my comedic last fic. Seeing as how this Zaxan has such an edge lord back story you prob wonder will he be the God of Edge. To that I say FUCK NO! I will say this I hate needless edge I can understand it important but most of the time I just hate it. The Edge Lord backstory only there as a plot device to explain some of Zaxan Insane and most of the time Asinine actions.
For those wondering when does canon start. In the context of the story 10 years from now. In chapters depends on how well I do on chapter 3. Honestly the Childhood-Hen which is the one were on is just in my eyes a prologue to set everything up. Nothing more but definitely in my eyes something possibly less. Once I set up everything I have to, I plan to skip straight to canon and have flashback explain everything that happens in between.
Anyway any other inquieries feel free to PM me I consider myself a fairly nice guy if not a bit critical on things.
And with that Review and tell me what you think.
