Strikes got traded back and forth like words in an argument between a married couple, and like most words some strikes were more lethal than others. Although Theseus kept retaliating against his mind-controlled bro's attacks, Vali's had no such passivity in that they came at him from all sides with non-stop aggression. It had been made apparent that somehow Albion was limiting the use of the Sacred Gear Divine Dividing since he had traded so many blows from the White Dragon Emperor yet not once did it do any of it's signature power stealing.

Maybe the Dragon was still down there, deep inside trying to stop his host from doing something he knew that he would regret for the rest of his life.

Whatever the case may be, as Theseus performed a back kick that slammed right into Vali's scale mail-covered torso, sending the dragonic male backwards a fair distance, the manipulated male retaliated by twisting his body so his back faced him then jumped into the air. Spinning several times, the male slammed into the blonde with a multi rotational tornado kick aimed at his head. While Theseus managed to indeed block it, doing so by crossing his arms in front of him like he were forming an 'X', the resulting impact made a large indentation form beneath his feet.

THUD!

A loud thud sound accompanied the kick's impact, causing various tremors to rock the ground around them knocking away anything that's not chained down.

'Ugh… in terms of CQC, Vali's had the edge due to his superhuman strength…' Theseus thought with a pained grimace as he recalled the countless little 'spats' they had over the years. The two of them, three if they counted Kuroh, they all knew one another's physical abilities by heart at this point. It was why they were so well put-together when they took assignments together, despite their constant bickering. 'But in terms of proper technique…'

Technique-wise that was more Theseus' territory, case in point when he grabbed onto the leg faster than the mind-controlled Vali could react and then promptly yanked backwards, pulling him close enough to grab onto his opponent's head by both sides (or in this case the armor which was quite grabbable to the male by now) before pulling off a move he got from watching a Mui Tai fight on TV once. His grip secure, Theseus raised his right knee and leapt upwards to use it as extra power for…

SLAM!

… The knee that slammed into the silver haired hybrid's face.

"Gah!"

A loud gasp escaped the Wwhite Dragon Emperor's mouth when this happened but Theseus wasn't done yet. Landing on the ground in front of him with his hands still gripping his dazed opponent's head the male reared the same leg backwards that had been previously used to knee Vali's (self-proclaimed) handsome face.

WHAM!

SHATTER!

This hit finally pulled off what Theseus had been aiming for: shattering Vali's entire helmet to reveal the dead fish-like gaze that he currently sported thanks to whatever Riser had done to him.

"Goddamnit, Vali…"

Seeing his bro being reduced to this state tore once more at Theseus' heartstrings, knowing that this had happened to one of his best mates despite their countless arguments while he had been unable to do a damn thing to prevent it. It made him curse himself inside countless times over, while also wondering something. Was this what those magical girl heroines who faced their love interest being manipulated into fighting them felt like? If so, then he'd definitely be shitting on them less when Mio asked him to watch some with her.

Never had fighting his bro felt this painful to him before.

"...SNAP THE FUCK OUT OF IT ALREADY!"

WHAM!

After being knocked down to the ground, Vali had attempted to get back up to continue the fight which had been going on for nearly 5 minutes at this point, and in terms of combat things could be decided in seconds if the two fighters were sufficiently skilled. But knowing that his Balance Breaker wasn't reforming the helmet (another ploy by the suppressed Albion he imagined) Theseus once more performed another Tornado kick which slammed into Vali's head with the force of a bullet train colliding into a wall at full speeds. While the strength difference between the two was as different as night and day, Theseus knew fine well that he could hit pretty hard n his own right and that his physical abilities were enhanced in other ways too.

The attack hit home once again with his foot meeting the side of vali's temple and in his mind, the male swore he could hear his skull fracturing from the force applied to the kick. Instantly being slammed back into the ground, Theseus saw his friend lay there unmoving for the most part but wanted to make sure he had applied the proper cognitive calibration…

So for the third time in a row, Theseus slammed a hardass hit onto his head with this one being a downward fist straight into the front of Vali's face.

"..."

A few seconds of tense silence passed between the two boys, neither of them making any moves against one another. One who loomed over the other with bangs shadowing his eyes, and the other… well, he was pretty much unconscious by this point thanks to the constant hits to the noggin. Such things would have knocked out anyone one could say…

Though unlike prior fights that he had been in, Theseus felt like absolute utter DOG SHIT in the aftermath, both now and in the immediate aftermath.

After staring down at his defeated adversary for a short while, Thesesus lost control over his legs, which resulting in him falling backwards and landing on his backside. From there, the blonde sat there while still continuing to look down on the ground Vali currently occupied. The satifcation of winning or brutalize his opponents in the past usually always filled him with excitement and joy, similar to how his teacher always revelled in amongst the countless corpses in his wake. But now all he felt was numb, emptiness and a lack of satisfaction.

He had rarely ever felt this before, one exceptio in the past with the vampire couple, second was the thought of killing Mio if she went out of control, and now this. He wasn't used to the emptiness that came with this victory… he wasn't even that hard for him to figure out why.

Theseus continued to stare at Vali's unconscious body. He sat there motionless and looking lifeless, he didn't kill Vali but that doesn't mean he had to have the pleasure of fighting his comrade who has been with him since they were kids.

The more he stared at Vali's unconscious form, the more he could feel the disappointment, the hurt and the growing anger burning inside.

Hurt or pain perhaps would be a better word since he felt that for the fact that he'd been forced to fight his own brother in all but blood, to treat him like all the enemies he'd butchered in the past. Killing one's own comrade wasn't something he ever thought he would have had to do and he had hoped to never do so in his lifetime. Today marked the closest he'd came to doing just that.

Then there was the disappointment aimed towards himself that he had gotten close to killing his own comrade. That he had came close at all was an utter humiliation, made worse by how it had been due to the machinations of one of the races that have constantly if he hadn't thought about knocking him out, if he had truly gone and killed Vali, he'd never forgive himself, adding further salt to his wound.

And anger at how he didn't prevent this from happening before hand, that fucking devil managed to ambush them with this horrific ritual that pretty much caught them off guard. What was worse was that they should have figured something like this could have been a possibility because of one simple fact, that they had seen how prideful and arrogant that Riser had been and thus, when someone wounds that pride there's no telling how far those people would go for their own ego.

Entire civilisations have been wiped out over a petty grudge.

All these things pooled inside his chest and because of this, Theseus felt so fucking weak and he hated it, he hated every part of himself feeling weak, cowardly and humiliated to the highest degree.

Lifting his head up a bit, Thesus once more glanced down at his unconscious bro. The injuries to his person didn't look all that serious but the sight of those inflicted by Theseus himself sent knives of pain into his heart, causing him to wince as shame stabbed into his gut, wrenching itself into place.

Not long afterward the visage overlapped itself with something else, replacing Vali's body with a sight that stretched his already thinning wire holding his sanity in place.

His mother's dead corpse.

…SNAP!

Something in him finally broke.

Following that faint cracking and snapping, Theseus's eyes slowly lost their focus as his pupils all but vanished, a feeling of weightlessness taking hold of him. In the future whenever he would look back on this event, Theseus would be describing it as identifying the dark abyss that had always existed within him, first awakened when everything had gone to hell and he awakened into something that would erase any trace of his previous self.

Right now, the male slowly slouched forwards like a puppet cut from its strings, head hanging low. In the initial seconds that followed a grey aura started to encroach around him like a serpent coiling around its prey cutting off all escape routes. The more the aura spread, the more tendrils of smoke started rising upwards towards the space above from various points across his body, making him resemble a living furnace. Clouds started to form around the area beneath the rooftop, crackling with lightning whilst similar-looking clouds formed in the skies above the building too.

"Haaah… haaaaaaah…. haaaah…"

His breathing turned ragged and uneven, irregular displacement causing faint wisps of water vapor to leave his mouth all while the flurry of emotions within his chest grew and grew. Eventually they became so powerful that the blonde male just couldn't keep them suppressed anymore, which caused the aura to start spiraling around him like a miniature twister.

Theseus gritted his teeth, clenching his hands into trembling fists hard enough to draw blood which dripped down towards the ground, hardening into a more solid form due to the way the temperature plummeted around him. It practically dropped to the sub-zero levels as cold chills swept across the atmosphere, seemingly wiping away all warmth from the world.

BAM!

Lightning from the clouds struck behind Theseus, revealing his near monstrous expression with his eyes slit. He started to tremble minutely at first with things getting increasingly chaotic by the second, increasing violence and fury making the clouds become more chaotic.

DRIP!

DRIP!

DRIP!DRIP!DRIP!DRIP!

DRIP!DRIP!DRIP!DRIP!DRIP!DRIP!DRIP!DRIP!DRIP!DRIP!DRIP!DRIP!

Rain started to drip before it turned to a heavy rain, strong winds swept across the interior of the building making his coat flutter in the direction they blew in.

His chest rose and fell alongside the heavy, increasingly erratic breathing leaving his chest. The water droplets from the rain swirled around the male, forming a tornado as the clouds spiralled around Theseus before they combined with the water tornado.

Then at long last, he reared his head up to the heavens before he shouted.

"RRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRR!"

BAM!

ROOOOOOOAAAAARRRRRRR!

St James park

BOOM!

WHOOSH!

SSSSCCCCCCCCCCRRRRRREEEEEEEEE!

In the midst of the battle between Hellsing and the abominations that had once been Riser's Peerage, former knights Sirius and Karlamine were all repelled by magical energy that generated gravity magic. This wound up making them crash into the fake londons buildings, burying themselves beneath the rubble.

Flames roaring to life burst out all over, joining the rest of the flames currently dominating the majority of Saint James Park from the park itself to the buildings and streets that looked to have been destroyed by either large bodies or infernal magical attacks thrown by the Hellsing group with similar quantities to children pulling fluff out of a stuffed animal… if that was what it took for them to survive.

Within some of the flames two figures started walking through the fire, not being fazed or burnt by the fire as if it were trying to embrace them. Soon both figures are revealed to be Meredith and Kuroh, the latter pocketing his hands inside his coat letting it flutter behind him. Though they didn't look like they had been unscathed by the fight as blood trailed down from various wounds dotted across their forms like they were dalmatian dogs, their outfits mostly torn apart in various places thanks to the monsters the girls had become, their faces clouded in darkness and eyes glinting like steel blades.

"You think that throwing away your humanity would lead you to achieve more power? You think that makes you able to topple anyone beneath you? Hmph, I'm afraid that is where you were wrong." Meredith declared, her hair fluttering (her usual bun having been destroyed alongside her hat) with the winds. "That path would only lead you to self-destruction. Monstrosities you are, as hellsing, it is our duty to slay monsters." Despite the calm manner of which she spoke, it didn't hide or mitigate the enraged expression on her face.

Her expression had been mirrored by the subordinate at her side. "And monsters we shall slay." Kuroh added in before preparing to jump towards the abomination knights.

Just before they would enact their hunting duties…

"Magnificent, truly magnificent!"

"?!"

"Wha-YOU!"

The two hellsing agents opened their eyes at the unexpected voice that came from the air. They looked up and instantly their expressions turned LIVID. Veins appeared on both their heads and hands with untold rage as they stared up at a familiar blonde Devil with flaming Phoenix wings looming over them with a disgustingly amused smirk on his face.

Said Devil Riser ignored their expressions and instead cast his gaze across the area around him, ignoring the sounds of conflict raging acoss the area between his monstrous peerage members and the other Hellsing agents, the crucified descendent of Leviathan floating beside him as motionless and lifeless as ever. "It is a surprise to see you a lot have survived for so long against my beauties. I cannot tell you how much I am shocked." he commented, nodding his head in silent approval yet there was an undertone of sarcasm, like he didn't really mean it.

Considering who this was, that could definitely be the case.

Additional veins sprouted across Meredith's forehead like a certain middle aged korean manager about to body some fools who tried harming his daughter. The amber haired woman looked up at the Devil who held his hands over his hips in some form of superiority over them. "Do you think of this as a game, Phenex? You think that you can get away? From this?!" outrage flooded her expression as she gestured at the abominations once Riser's knights who had just broken out from the buildings they'd been buried under, to which they snarled at Meredith. "Do you even know the consequences of enacting those rituals? They were forbidden for a reason! There is stuff that is beyond the knowledge of any beings of this world! Your actions will have grave consequences, you'll suffer a fate worse than death itself and you will wish for death to embrace you!"

"Hahahahahahaha." Riser simply laughed at Meredith's what he believed to be rant and false threats which he simply brushed off. "Death won't be an issue, Elizabeth's granddaughter. You forget that I am a phenex, immortality runs through my blood. I can never die, so long as I have the blessing of Lord Satan himself! Revived from the dead!" Riser pointed his finger at Meredith. "And the rest of you Hellsing, will not be there to witness my ascension." He smiled wickedly. "Just like what I have done with two peasant boys."

'Peasants?' Meredith furrowed her brows in confusion as her thoughts rammed through thousands of ways, trying to figure out the meaning behind those words. 'What the hell does he mean by-...oh no.' It didn't take long for her to know what he was talking about. She widened her eyes before she hardened and sharpened them.

"What the HELL DID YOU DO WITH THEM?!" initially sounding calm, her voice rose a few octaves near the end at Riser with her features resembling that of a certain blonde Shark King.

Kuroh was almost taken aback by Meredith's surprising burst of emotion. It was unlikely for Meredith to act like an improper lady even under the most stressful of circumstances. However, his brain immediately worked millions of ways before understanding what she and Riser were talking about.

Soon, Mio and Maria came by his side. Kuroh shift his attention to the two girls. "How did you get past thos-"

"Those disgusting beings became docile little dogs all of a sudden when the boss lady screamed, giving us enough time for us to reach you guys." Maria quickly answered to Kuroh's unfinished question before shifting her gaze towards the cocky phenex. "Guess that would explain how they became docile, by that asshole." she commented.

Mio looked worried about the situation, about how her magic teacher had screamed with a rage she never expected from Meredith. For one the woman was never one to lose her cool something which she had learned from experience with how patient she'd been with teaching her in her initial days with Hellsing. Her worry about her magic teacher fuelling her, the redhead turned her head to Kuroh to ask him a question about the situation. "Kuroh, whats going on-"

"You should've expected this by now Hellsing." Riding on his high from being an asshole, Riser interrupted Mio's question as he continued to talk, his smile growing wider each word he spoke. One could just FEEL the glee in his voice as he proclaimed his accomplishment like he were one of the greatest generals in human history. "For only a monster, can kill another monster."

Initially frowning, Meredith's mind raced as she sussed out the meaning behind the statement as her dread rapidly increased by the second, not only her but also Mio and Maria as well when they got similar thought process.

"No..." Mio softly whispered to herself, dread increasing within her gut each minute which was mirrored by her Succubus companion. He just did NOT imply that he had disposed of Theseus and Vali, right? Those two were some of the strongest guys she knew! The thought of either one of them, Vali or Theseus, having been killed or worse… no way would she believe that. No way in hell, pun unintended, would she believe someone as despicable as the man above them could deal with titans of power like those two.

She may as well be the only one to think this way though. After a minute of silence, Kuroh's anger reached it's peak. Hands shaking violently, the man's untold anger finally got unleashed like a nuclear bomb detonating over the cities of hiroshima and nagasaki.

"YOU MOTHERFUCKING BASTARD!" he shouted out loud, unfitting for a proper butler like to spew out such foul language, for him to say. He continued to spill profanities. "WHY DON'T YOU GO AND MAKE YOURSELF SO USEFUL AND FLY OFF YOU GLORIFIED PARAKEET PINJAY! I'VE SEEN SEAGULLS FIGHT HARDER THAN YOU, YOU PUSSY TROT! IT IS A WONDER WHY YOU ONLY JUST STAY BACK AND OBSERVE LIKE A GLORIFIED JACKDEW! NO WONDER YOU SURROUND YOURSELF WITH WOMEN, IF YOU WERE AROUND OTHER MEN YOU'D HAVE THE SMALLEST, FRAILEST PENIS THAT GETS KICKED ABOUT! POOR WOMEN, HAVEN'T HAD ANY BETTER OPTIONS OUT THERE!"

Kuroh looked to have been swamped by both the chaotic river of anger and fury, becoming the opposite of his usual demeanor. He refused to believe that either Vali or Theseus had been killed by this asshole let alone one another.

"...Oh my." Maria whispered behind a small gasp as she covered a hand in a rather scandalous expression on her face. Though behind that hand lay a small grin of approval. "Guess someone is more like those two than I thought…" she mused, though she did appreciate the insults for everything they were worth since it resulted in Riser's smug grin being wiped off his ugly mug.

It wasn't just her who approved as Mio had a similarly scandalized look on her face, though hers looked more genuine compared to her sucubus companion. "Wow Kuroh… I never thought you'd…" she remarked in a breathless whisper. Having grown used to seeing the butler being this refined smooth gentleman that usually kept his cool, seeing him flip out like this shattered that image irreversibly.

Riser, like the rest of them, had been gobsmacked by the sheer disrespect to his name and prestige. Those bird insults that many in humanity's current era haf forgotten the meanings of just got used once more to literally slap his pride in his face. One can guess why he would be a little pissed off… ok, maybe 'little' was an understatement since the dude's face looked to be turning purple from the outrage flowing through his system. 'This damn pesant…!'

Ignoring the looks he got from both friend and foe alike, Kuroh took a glance at the crucified girl, and thought to himself she might be behind this. Seeing how lifeless she looked, it didn't take a monkey to know she was being controlled. 'If Theseus and Vali really did engage with one another something tells me SHE is a piece of the puzzle. Those two are way too professional on the battlefield so they wouldn't just clash for no reason.' the man thought, glancing around at the battlefield.

Out of the group only Issei seemed to still be locked in battle with the abominations that were currently regaining their prior ferocity meaning that their first priority was to rescue Issei then break out of this encirclement to then regroup near that idiot's last known location. Their plan had allowed Kuroh to predict where everyone would end up at during the ambush, and as such he could think of a general idea as to where the Shark King would be alongside that battle maniac white dragon. He again refused to believe that those two idiots would squabble willingly when it'd just serve this asshole's interests, those two held just that much pride in themselves. Something must have happened and he felt determined to find out what, it was what a true bro would do unlike hoes who immediately believed what others said about their loved ones.

…BOOM!

Huh?

BOOM! CRACK! BOOM-BOOM! CRACK-CRACK-CRACK!

Not long after kuroh devised his own battle plan, it alongside his thoughts got halted when dark clouds covered the skies from seemingly out of nowhere. All gathered together, blocking the Fake London sun from view. Soon, lightning cackled and danced across the sky.

BAM!

BAM!

Few Thunderbolts struck miles away as rain started drip before turning into heavy rain, strong winds, making Fake London experience an incoming hurricane.

When the storm arrives, Riser lost his anger, replacing it with joyful expression. "Yes, yes, yes! This is it!" He stretched his arms at the side in a presentation while looking at the sky as rain started to drench him. "Lord Satan has given a sign! A sign and a mark of revelation that he has accepted me as one of his! From this day forward! I shall become the new king of the underworld! With the blessing of the dark god!" he declared with strong emotions and happiness. Thinking it was a sign from Satan himself. "All devil shall bend their knee to me! Kneeling before King Riser himself! The gods from other pantheon will not stop me because they will know the power over the dark god! No one shall stop me! NO ONE!"

WHOOSH!

A Tornado was heading to Riser, fluttering his suit and hair while he still remained unaffected.

Riser returned his attention to Hellsing and formed a victorious smile. "Not even that so-called trump card of yours can ever escape death." he sneered as he threw his arms open wide. He ignored nearly everything around him in his arrogance and vanity at having gotten over the ones who he despised the most in this world. He ignored the low booming sounds that echoed throughout the surroundings that occurred with greater frequency, the loud yet distant grunts of something that kept approaching from behind…

BAM!

In a single moment everything, the storm, the fighting, everything ground to a halt when a massive limb, long and slender yet ending in two tips, slammed dead into Riser's centre from the rear before he could even process what had happened.

'What?!' he gasped mentally, his mind briefly going blank from the force of the hit resembling being hit by a truck going at full speed.

By the time that he could regain his bearings, the man had been sent flying so fast his body almost deformed straight through the ground leaving a fissure in his wake, one which he ground into the earth all the way to and into the lake next to the park, stopping at the center leaving behind a trail of geysers of varying height behind him as proof of what had happened to him. It passed so quickly and so unexpectedly that it gave the Hellsing group below whiplash from how fast it had happened. Each of them had to cover their faces from the winds generated by the strike that resembled the prior hurricanes with Maria clinging onto Mio's wings to keep herself from being blown away like a leaf disconnected from a tree.

'What the hell?!' Meredith shrieked in shock and disbelief over what had happened. 'Just what did... WHAT?!' by the time that the woman managed to lower her arms to see what had gone on, her eyes alongside everyone else's turned saucers at what towered over them like a titan from the greek mythos.

Her eyes beheld the limb that had just acted out what she and the rest of hellsing desired to do to that piece of fried chicken, a long and slender tail which swished around slowly, before sinking back into the cloud of smoke that currently concealed the mystery attacker from view. This didn't remain the case for long though, for the silhouette of something GIGANTIC that towered over the entire Saint James Park.

BAM!

BAM!

From there, the creature slowly emerged from the smoke after apparently turning around, it's tail having been briefly seen moving in a manner that indicated this, as its thunderous footsteps boomed across the air, until it finally revealed itself in all it's glory. When it did, all of hellsing(Save for Issei) had different reactions.

"What…?" Kuroh attempted to speak but found it very difficult to utter a single word. Just seeing this type of creature made him feel like he is in the presence of fear incarnate. He almost feel to the ground as if he hadn't kept his balance, though his knees felt absurdly weak regardless of his efforts though. "What is that…..that thing?" he whispered beneath his breath, jaw having form

'What in gods name is that?' Meredith took a step back as her eyes widened in both surprise and shock to see this type of monstrosity. 'That thing! It can't be anything from other pantheons! It simply cannot be! What did Riser spawn in from the depths of hell itself?' She mentally said while conjuring her holy nail to her hands.

Mio and Maria took a step back, both in fear and shock. They have never encountered this type of monster in their years of fleeing from the demons that were pursuing them, nothing so gigantic nor anything that made them feel nothing but utter helplessless. Maria finally spoke. "What is that?" In all her life Maria has seen both kinds of horrors in the supernatural and the human world, but this. It made Maria feel like an ant in the presence of a giant, waiting to be squashed.

Mio was no different in what Maria was feeling right now, her gaze making her rear her head back just so she could get a decent look at the looming giant of a beast that made all the others look pathetic. Though in her mind this type of monstrosities could only exist in one world and one realm that is capable of producing this. "Father." she spoke in a soft tone. "Is this how far you will go? Just because it is your nature? Is it?"

The monster as if ignoring or not even noticing these ants looking up at it, slowly crossed it's massive four arms in front of it's lowered head, the four swords that it held crackling with dangerous lightning. This all came to a head when the beast unfolded them in one quick motion, releasing an explosive roar

RRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

With the viewing Devils

"WHAT IN NAME OF GOD IS THAT?!"

"LORD OF ALL DARKNESS!"

"AHHHHHHHH! I CAN'T STAND TO EVEN LOOK AT IT!"

"MOMMY!"

"RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY BEFORE IT GETS TO YOU!"

"DON'T WORRY! THAT MONSTER WON'T GET TO YOU! I PROMISE!"

The moment that monster appeared on screen, pure pandemonium ensued. The whole area turned into a hub for frantic activity, many attending devils scrambling across the floor just from the sight of the monstrosity like rats. Just the monster's visage had been enough to make all of them in a panic state, surpassing what they even felt before. Most of them fell from their seats and scout farthest away from the sight of it, many fainted from fear, little devil children cling onto their parents, trying to hide away from the sight of the monster.

Though the roar that the beast unleashed didn't help, scarring the devils, young, middle age or old, traumatizing them.

The thought of fleeing hasn't crossed their minds because they were too busy flailing around like headless chickens, unaware of anything other than the primal fears that dominated their respective psyche. One could say that fear had consumed the devils to the point where not even fleeing their lives never even crossed their minds.

The monster had simply been just that horrific to even look at, one glance and they'd been scarred for life worse than all the monsters that had formerly been Riser's Peerage.

There were still SOME Devils who weren't as affected as the rest to where they could still remain somewhat cognitive of their surroundings. One of them, Zeoticus, along with his wife and daughter, sat frozen in their seats with their eyes wide open. They did not say anything, though Rias and her peerage did not react as most of the devils there, but her father and mother weren't so much.

"Dear Satan..." Uttering the creator of the devil's name, the man stared with sheer horror at the sight on the screen. More than that, he worried about what this meant for the whole of the underworld. "What madness has occurred here? to bring in such monstrosities from the pits of hell. Has lord Satan began his move?" The matriarch of the Gremory family whispered, her hands trembling over her lap despite her parental instincts demanding she remain composed in front of the children. It didn't help that this instinctual desire combined with her pride as the Gremory matriarch had been the few things stopping her from joining her fellow devils in their panic spree.

The Phenex family's reaction was the same as the Gremory's, but with more sadness and despair overwhelming their varying expressions. "It was only supposed to be a rating game." Lord Phenex muttered in despair. "Just how low can you go, Riser? Why couldn't you just throw away your pride for once in your life? The madness, the insanity you have wrought…what do you intend to achieve all this? Is it worth dooming the entire Devil race to annihilation?" consumed with grief that his son has committed atrocities against the laws of Ars Goetia, knowing the outcome of the fight would not end well for their entire household, lord Phenex and Lady Phenex mentally prepared themselves to bear the consequences of Riser's actions.

They could only lament not being able to rein in their son from the start.

Lucifer's office

"(GASP)!" The eldest child of Gremory gasped as he stood back at the very sight of the monster he had gazed upon through the viewing screen. Though that did little to diminish the horror he felt inside.

That thing that was on the screen, the monstrosities surrounding its figure. Its enough for even a super devil like Sirzechs to develop PTSD at MINIMUM. The sight reminded him of the past, back in the civil war where he and his friends had to deal with the old satans who used these types of rituals to gain the upper hand.

Many good men and women died during those chaotic times, many children taken away from their loved ones forever to be sacrificed to summon the foulest of demons from the pits of hell. While it eventually helped in their downfall, the amount of bodies that piled beneath them could rival ifle towers. The red head man could still remember the mutilated bodies spiked like how Alucard used to impale his victims, all for rituals and intimidating their enemies which worked back in the past when the younger devils couldn't handle the site.

The (Fake) Lucifer wasn't the only one who felt terror in his office, though.

So was the human hero tribe's war god as well. The moment he saw that….that thing, he dropped his cigarette, his pupils shrinking in shock, horror and morbid terror. His hands were shaking almost erratically, the man almost having a panic attack if years of experience hadn't helped him with controlling most of his emotions.

He can still remember it, Jin could still remember it.

His form, broken and bloodied, a shadow of it's former self or glory. Stripped down to his core essentials, equipment moments away from breaking, and finally his consciousness on the verge of cutting itself off. Yet none of this compared to the sheer terror, despair, and helplessness he felt from being in the presence of the deadliest monster he had ever seen. The monster he wished to never see again.

It had been the hardest and most dangerous fight Jin had ever been in his life, almost falling beneath the blood-soaked hands, that blood being of countless brave heroes, of the Vampire king. Being strangled, close to the pale face of Hellsing's trump card and the most vivid memory he had of the experience had been the wide, bloody yet downright satanic smile on his face that exposed his massive fangs that were (and probably still could) tear off his entire head by biting his neck.

And now Jin was almost experiencing the same fear he felt during that harrowing nightmare.

"Shit…What the hell kind of madness has that Phenex unleashed upon the underworld?"

Back with Hellsing in fake London

Within the battlefield, one could say chaos had begun to rage in earnest.

"Shit, looks like the welcoming committee is coming!" Kuroh cursed under his breath, breaking his comrades out of their horrified trances.

Before anyone could ask what that meant, many roars erupted across the battlefield as the demonic Peerage started converging on the Monster's position, evidently still recalling that it had batted away their master with ease. All across the battlefield the former Devils could be seen gathering around it with the clear intent to ruthlessly butcher their opponent in nothing butt violent savagery mixed with ruthless retrbution.

The monster with it's swords made from seemingly bone hence the coinage by Maria 'Boneswords', hissed in acceptance of this new challenge posed to it's dominance, turning (causing several minor earthquakes with it's stomping) to face off against the former Burent who currently was charging at him shrieking bloody murder. She lifted the front hooves of her horse body when close enough, intending to smack her foe in the face like zebras do to their own kind whilst her arms unravelled themselves into many long whip-like Tendrils intending on shredding through the monster's hide at the same time…

Those would be the last moves she would ever make however, for at once the monster saw that it was close enough it unleashed several sword swings too fast for the naked eye to see… severing not only the horse head, but the hooves that would have struck it as well as the majority of the ribbons. The horsewoman once called Burent shrieked in anger, pain and shock at the swift severing that it had delivered, far too fast for her to have developed any means to counter it. What worse was that she saw a faint fashing motion right in front of her…

And before she knew it everything had turned upside down… then nothing but darkness.

After having severed Burent's head and then stomped on it to utterly crush any chance at reviving her, the monster tore it's gaze from the now fallen corpse which had fallen to the ground on it's side. It sensed someone already fast approaching it from behind and thus reacted…

By grabbing onto the offender using it's tail ending in two ends tipped with pincers, the offender being none other than Shuriya whose neck had been ensnared by the Tail's dual pincers without the creature even looking at it, already facing off against it's third challenger.

SNAP!

Once it had snapped the former Shuriya's head clean off and then used it's tail to hack her body apart like it were a butcher in a butcher shop, the monster swung it's swords in a cross formation which sent long walls of chaotic, violently purplish blue flames out in the direction it had attacked in. These fire walls rose across the entire street forcing Hellsing to quickly relocate to a nearby building roof lest they get caught up and incinerated by the flames, but their primary aim was not achieved since the one they were targeting, the former Xuelan, had managed to dodge them with speeds that did not fit the current form she took.

In retaliation, Xuelan's form released a loud howl of outrage despite her lack of a proper mouth, her fists enlarging themselves to similar sizes to Isabella's (who was still fighting Issei with the Chainsaw twins at the moment), before engulfing them in flames showing that the Peerage still retained some of their former abilities. These flames were imbued with both the demonic and satanic energies that coursed through this entity which it began launching at him in the form of chinese-based martial arts strikes, these strikes primarily consisting of palm strikes, cross slashes and various punches aimed at the monster's exoskeleton to try and carve her way through.

Initially she saw progress, forcing the monster to step back a few times while using its 4 arms to block and parry her fiery strikes from hitting their marks and potentially immolate it like it were the fourth of july. Few retaliation strikes were launched by the beast in turn and those didn't lead to much since Xuelan just dodged them using her slim yet flexible monster body to her advantage. Some of her strikes even caused similar waves of flame to the ones it had launched previously with those Bone swords it had.

But like all good things, this advantage ended and rather abruptly when out of nowhere, just when Xuelan made to strike at it's face after making an opening with several cleverly placed kicks on it's reverse jointed legs, the creature's eyes flashed a deep sea green and that served as her first, and only, warning sign. A warning that in her current state she failed to heed or perhaps more accurately chose to ignore…

Resulting in the creature breathing a single flamethrower-like attack from it's maw that it opened seconds before her attacks could land.

She didn't even get a chance to scream as she got immolated by flames, ironic considering her status.

Cutting the flow of power to the flamethrower, the beast raised it's Boneswords to bring them down atop the ground.

BOOM!

The sheer impact the strikes had caused a massive eruption similar to multiple japan-level earthquake, uprooting multiple buildings and utterly DEMOLISHING the entire park. Ground was abruptly uprooted as a man finding out his mistress was pregnant, numerous fissures devastated the park and some cracks reached the lake nearby, creating small rivers when the water filled the cracks.

RRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Once more the beast roared up into the skies above, like it were Satan declaring war on the heavens themselves. It's roar ripped through the air like a force of nature, tearing through the atmosphere like the countless swings of it's Boneswords. Anything that wasn't nailed down got blown away like someone being hit by a shotgun at point blank range, and that… also included a few members from the Hellsing party.

"Kyaaaa!" Maria wailed as she clenched her arms around Mio's waist like a serpent's vice, her body flailing like a flag behind the redhead who pinned her Lance down into the rooftop to help her keep her balance. Utilizing her Gravity magic helped too.. The said lady frowned as she covered her face as best she could without suffering the same fate the succubus did.

Kuroh himself kept using his Gravity magic to keep himself grounded while covering his face, his coat fluttering behind him as he did so. However, it didn't mean that he liked his situation. "This thing…! Whatever it is, there's a lot of rage behind it! This thing's likely gonna blast the whole arena apart at this rate!"

At this point it had become painfully crystal clear that this was no longer a mere Rating Game but more a race for survival. The group now stood atop a Sieve, and she wasn't sure who of them would survive this encounter. This thought culminated in her frustration which bled into the question that came next from her. "Is it strong enough to do such a thing?! What are those Devil mechanics doing, lazing about on their asses eating popcorn?!"

"Wouldn't surprise me if they were!" Mio responded instead of her mentor on Gravity magic. Devils seemed to be a lazy bunch who failed to act when necessary, as far as she had seen with how they failed to stop Zolgear and how they couldn't solve the countless problems in the underworld. Then there was how those guys had weaklings for leaders if all this happened under their watch.

Back with the Beast, it hissed dangerously while charging at it's next opponent, deciding on going on the offensive for once. In this instance, it turned out to be the twins Ni and Li who were to be next as they tore their way across the ground towards it in feline movements akin to when they had been just ordinary Devils. It reared its Boneswords back whilst each one got coated in long arcs of biological electricity, arcs big enough to make lightning bolts look like ants to a huan in comparison. Before long, it swung those Boneswords at the enemy and launched a bunch of horizontal-aligned lightning bolts at Ni and Li intending on turning them into charcoal.

Of course they naturally used their feline agility to evade the bolts by darting to opposite sides and running along all fours across several toppled building walls on either side of the Beast which already prepared to launch more attacks with how more arcs were beginning to cover it's Boneswords.

Instead of the arcs being let out however, two blackened blurs shot forth from the rear and tried slashing through those electrified arms only to suffer multiple degree burns along the way as a reward for their troubles. Those blurs landed atop some nearby buildings which revealed their steaming charred bodies to the naked eye, as well as their identities as the former Sirius and Karlamine. Their blades could be seen as on fire too, another remnant of their former Devil abilities whilst electrical arcs danced along their mildly steaming bodies.

As for the beast itself the areas of it's arms that had been impacted by looked to be returning to normal after being hardened into iron-like states right before those attacks had impacted. The beast in question snarled in ridicule of the attacks as it made to start preparing another strike to deal with these foes. The damage that they had tried inflicting onto it had been negligent at best due to it having already predicted and countered their strikes thanks to having seen them coming with it's Prescience ability.

That ability also allowed it to notice an upcoming attack from the former Mihae who had appeared not too far away from it. She had then unleashed a bunch of flaming Tendrils that lunged at the monstrosity at speeds rivalling mach 20 leaving many afterimages behind. In response to the attacks, the Beast growled as it's whole body caught fire… no, catching fire wouldn't be a good descriptor for what it did, 'becoming fire itself' would be a better version.

Thanks to this action all the fiery Tendril attacks merely phased through the creature, unable to inflict any solid blows on it due to now being seemingly made from an inferno itself as sea green as the ocean. Though that didn't mean that the Best wasn't capable of countering back which was proven when it's Tail lashed out at it and tore apart every Tendril that had been launched at it, causing Mihae to shriek in agony… a shriek which got abruptly ended when she found herself being impaled through the mouth by the Beast's tail, which went even further by travelling down her throat (pushing against her gag reflex to pull out a certain blood-pumping organ clean out through that oriface.

The traditional japanese wench was dead before her corpse hit the ground.

Seeing their comrade fall seemed to trigger something within the other four, because they all delivered a furious unified cry before darting towards him and engulfing themselves in their flames, turning themselves into a set of fiery fireballs streaming through the air towards their comrades' killer intending on revenge for their fallen brethren.

Sadly for them…

SCHULUCK X4!

This rage only served to aid the Beast in it's task of slicing them into ribbons, which it did when it's 4 arms were unleashed in a flurry of differently flowing blows which sped through the air faster than they could track… and by the time that they had finished each of the demonic peerage members now resembled chopped up ribbons in the air, their killer going on unavenged as they fell to the ground in bloody chunks of blood and gore.

Soon enough the next challenger pulled up in the Beast's own hood, ready for the smoke. That challenger turned out to be Marion who had her pixie wings unfurled and started circling the airspace above the Beast's head. To attack, several magic circles formed around her form that followed her about, launching various fireballs atop the beast's head from a long ass distance, not wanting to let those Boneswords get anywhere near her. Even in her current state she could tell those things were bad news especially with how their wielder had slaughtered the majority of her brethren.

As for the beast itself, it constantly threw up various defensive measures such as the constant lightning bolts, crescent fiery waves as well as various other fiery attacks such as conjuring long Tridents made from it's flames, fiery spikes, spheres, rotating disks that functioned like aircraft from an Aircraft Carrier among multiple others. However not only would these attacks always miss their marks by failing to hit the airborn pixie, but they also caused a surge in heat throughout the atmosphere that raised the artificial temperature in the Rating Game arena beyond standard levels. Normally countless security measures would have come in to the picture to prevent this, but somehow that didn't happen this time… yet another failure on the Devils' ends.

Seeing that it's tactics were not working that well, the beast went with a different approach while hunching it's back forwards, aiming it's vents upwards towards the enemy after cutting off power to it's attacks. This took the former Marion by surprise, which led to her deciding to dive down to try and take a crack at the creature with a vengeful hiss while her arms suddenly deformed themselves into twin bulbous-looking masses, masses which turned into large, sharp-looking axes shaped like those an executioner would utelize in the middle ages. Even though her current self had near abysmal levels of intelligence to even sentience at this point, instinctually she could still identify this creature as a threat to her existence.

Then, the creature started to attack once more…

This time, by spewing these molten whitehot beams from it's vents at almost laser-like speeds towards her while hunching on all fours, jabbing it's Boneswords into the ground around it. Her his turned into a hocked shriek as she rapidly dipped, ducked, dived and dodged the molten beams like her life depended on it, something which anyone watching from the sidelines would agree with her on. All the while she kept diving downwards like a bomber trying to drop it's payload onto a japanese aircraft carrier in world war two, refusing to give in and let this other animal in this jungle claim her for a prize like the countless bodies that had already fallen to it.

Unfortunately, thanks to that of sentience and intelligence…

She didn't notice several signs that something had been going on. One of them had been that the ground around it had started to tremble like some kid hearing his abusive father had found him and his worrywart mom. The second thing had been how the ground surrounding it had now gained a SUSPICIOUS amount of uprooted ground and other debris like someone had deliberately carved out a bunch of dirt…

Dirt was about to signal the end of Marion in a moment that began with the quickest of sea green flashes within the Beast's eyes, eyes which showed a brief moment of… dark sadistic evil in them as if excited for what was to come next.

The moment the fairy-like being had dodged it's 20th Molten Beam attack, the Beast shot it's head upwards with beady eyes flashing a dark green color. In the following instant, the dirt and rubble around it's feet shot upwards like it were controlled by a foreign, invisible force. The dirt and debris shot forth like many Tendrils sent from the primordial Goddess Gaia herself, through the very earth that she presided over.

Shock coursed through the former Marion who struggled to escape in time by frantically pulling a U turn and shooting upwards towards the heavens like she were trying to seek divine protection. That protection would not be granted however, for the dirt was promptly able to surround her and forming a hardened sphere around her airspace, cutting off her way to escape as well as her vision due to the condensed dirt blocking all forms of live.

This would end up being her ultimate fate even when she started firing off a lot of fire attacks as the beast below standing upright. It's Boneswords impaling the ground beneath it, the Beast held it's upper right hand up like it were holding a glass with it's palm facing upwards, more and more dirt from the surroundings reinforcing the sphere which started to suspiciously look like some kind of spherical structure. Curling in it's clawed fingers inwards slightly, the beast paused for a second before it finally clenched it into a full on fist.

CRUNCH!

At once, the earthen 'cage' took form and shrunk inward till it had gone from a building-sized sphere to one the size of a small car, utterly crushing the one held within to the point of being ground to paste. For good measure though, the Beast telepathically commanded the sphere to sprout spikes to impale the contents within all vital areas before it made a twisting motion with it's hand to make the thing explode in a brownish, crimson spectacle revealing very little of the corpse that had been crushed to death inside.

Briefly a certain serpentine former Mira had tried to sneak up on it from beneath the ground

RRRRRRRROOOOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR!

BAM!

BAM!

BOOM!

The beast shifted its attention towards several new roars mixed with feline-like caws that reached it's ears. Upon seeing their sources, the Beast growled as three more opponents landed in what remained of Saint James park, their entry creating several large eruptions thanks to the collision against the hard unforgiving ground. Smoke covered the Beast's opponents forms before clearing up, revealing them to be of the young twins Ile and Nel, and Riser's boxer rook Isabella… or who had formerly been them.

Thanks to having sensed their comrades demise beneath this thing's claws, each of them had forgone slaying their prior opponent.

Saliva dropped from their move, Ile and Nel sharpened their claws while Isabella sharpened its eyes while the bodies on its arms also groweled, showing their sharp teeth.

The beast growled, its Boneswords cackling with lightning, the creature stomping its feet and smacking the ground behind it with it's tall. All before it released a roar of its own as it charged towards the three monstrosities.

RRRROOOOOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRRR!