Chapter 20.
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As the machine continued to beep someones eyes had opened up.
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Freed Sellzen once the crazed murderous, psychopathic, and lunatic was no more, and what replaced him was a man adorned in royal robes, golden silks and royal demeanor.
"YES, YES, I DID IT, HAHAHAHAHA," Valper laughed out as he walked out of the wall that Kokabiel made to protect him.
"Lush, Gossip, Tonic its time for phase 2," Kokabiel said as he levitated up high in a manner that looks like he was being crucified, as both hands were stretched out and one foot was behind the other.
"Yes lord Kokabiel," a heavily injured man with red hair said as he was extremely brutalized from the onslaught that the woman in a black wedding dress had brought on them.
"It shall be done," both the green and blue haired man said as they both bowed and got in to position, and that position was to form a triangle with their bodies as the points below Kokabiel.
"You got a plan in dealing with him?" The purple haired woman asked the downed Uryu.
Everyone was about to ask her not to but to their surprise.
"I hate being in the front lines, this is why I need Gin or Dante with me," Uryu said as he groaned on the ground.
"Well who's fault is that? I mean i'm not the one that shot him through the lung," Medusa said sarcastically as she squatted close legged near him and poked his cheek with her nail.
"Its not my fault he pulled a Dante, hell he usually just throws it at people not do it in front of them," Uryu weakly replied.
"Asia I think you should heal him," Koneko said as they would need all the help they could if the feeling she got was right.
"That would be appreciated," Uryu said as Asia began to heal him, "Thanks,"
"Your welcome," she said with a smile.
"So, you have a plan?" Medusa said as Valper gushed over Freed's new appearance and the swords transformation.
"I have one," Uryu showed her the glove, everyone was questioning what it meant but Medusa sighed.
"Wait, why don't you just enter the fight? Its clear that both of you are strong enough to win this," Saji asked the two.
"Sorry dear but me and Mania belong to the darker side of the spectrum," Medusa said as she hugged Mania.
"What does she mean by that?" Issei asked.
"It means that like you lot she has a fatal weakness to light, Medusa belongs to the beast or monster section in the greek side, and Mania is a corpse given life through dark means," Uryu said as he was currently healthy enough to stand and move without problems.
"Wait we have that weakness but we still fight so why don't they?" Reya asked.
"It's the fact of responsibility," Sona said catching everyone's attention.
"Hmhmh, she's right, while you lot fight to keep your position and spot in the human world while also surviving, we aren't obligated to help nor do we have responsibility towards your survival," medusa said as she walked behind Mania and hugged her from behind while resting her chin on her head.
"But what about the people? What about the lives this could end, if this continues then the world as it is could be no more, everyone could die even your boss would be effected," Irina said as she couldn't help but voice her thoughts out.
"That's none of our business dear, we are a group of creatures, Gin may be mortal but his mind is far from your modern day human thoughts, unlike this day and age where life and all that is considered precious, we don't care one bit, so as long as he can live and do what he wants its no skin off our back," Medusa said and while everyone was appalled by the words except those who were never human, and before they could speak.
"Stop antagonizing them Medusa, I know you don't value the lives of others aside from the boss and those you deem as friends, but there is something you should never forget, and that's that without capital there is no money, and when there is no civilization to use that money then its worthless, so I would like to not have a sudden collapse of the current status of civilization," Uryu said as he debated on doing it.
"I do," Mania's voice cut through the silence and confusing those who couldn't understand her.
"I guess your right Mania, everyone has something they value," she then buried her face into Mania's hair which smelled of mens shampoo and cool mint.
"What did she just say?" Saji asked.
"What plan do you have Uryu?" Sona asked Uryu completely ignoring Saji voicing out everyone's thoughts.
"Well i'm no swordsman, but I can probably stall the half baked king Arthur there," Uryu said as he pulled out a seele schneider and inspected the tube that lets you insert liquid.
"What…." Xenovia sounded out as she was shocked by what Uryu said.
"What? Uryu looked up at everyone and prepared himself for a sword fight.
"What do you mean that's King Arthur," Issei said as he put both hands on Uryu's shoulders out of pure shock.
"Wait didn't you guys piece it together?" Uryu asked as he looked at everyone's confused face, "Ugh, we don't have time so i'll make this short," Uryu said as he saw Kokabiel look at them patiently while Valper was now finished in admiring Freed's new form, "Valper brainwashed Freed, Freed was taken over by the swords and with the current events and so I deduced that Freed has taken the most familiar form the swords remember and that would be King Arthur, now lets go," and just when Uryu finished the light explanation.
"GET THEM!!!" Valper yelled out and Freed jumped forward to attack as if he was a pokemon.
At that moment Uryu jumped forward and clashed swords with Freed, the clash wasn't spectacular as the moment of impact Uryu was no match as he was instantly overpowered and was launched with the sheer swing force of this new entity.
The fight wasn't over though as the moment Uryu landed King Arthur came in to finish the job by stabbing him, however nothing was hit as Uryu managed to roll to the side and stand back up, but this time Uryu isn't holding back as blue vein like pattern appeared around his body.
The fight restarted and Uryu was still on the back foot as every swing overpowered him and every strike pushed him back, Uryu was never meant for close quarters combat as his main goal was always support and to deal a shit load of damage when given an opportunity, so right here and right now in front of a master in wielding a blade he was nothing but a child playing swordsman against a train warrior.
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While Uryu distracted the newly minted king Arthur everyone rushed towards Kokabiel, even Medusa and Mania entered the fight as if they didn't Gin's entire trading market would fall and nothing would be useful.
They faced rather horrifying oppositions as the three fallen had made a portal that spewed out a constant stream of Kokabiel's loyal followers, and were they loyal, they formed a shield line like the spartans and straight up charged at them with light shields and spears, with the majority of them were only single paired fallen, their dedication and skill clearly showed as they did prove to be effective in stalling them, however Akeno's lightning, Sona's mastery over water, Rias's power of destruction, the collective power of Rias's peerage, and the tactical acumen and combinations of Sona's peerage left a trail of bodies behind them.
However overwhelming power and an uncoordinated team could only lead to so much, as they pushed in deeper they managed to slit the power house from support, Issei and Saji. Irina, Rias, and Akeno. Xenovia, Ruruko, and Momo. Asia and Tomoe. Reya, Sona, and Kiba. Tsubaki, Tsubasa, and Koneko were split together.
Issei and Saji instantly when into panic and proceeded to place their effort in reconnecting with their group but the horde of fallen came down on them, there numbers weren't many but their tenacity were deadly and so were their light based attacks, Saji could hold on because of his training with Sona allowing him to perform barriers and sense for the magic, Issei could survive thanks to the constant boost he was getting and the natural reflex he has boosted by his mutated sacred gear.
Rias and Akeno had no problems defending themselves as thanks to their years of companionship their teamwork was impeccable, one always had each others back seeing as when Rias attacks Akeno defends, and when Akeno attacks Rias uses her power of destruction, however they had not one but two problems, one was Irina seeing as she was new they couldn't incorporate her to any of their combo's, second was that they didn't know what she could do, however despite that Irina managed to incorporate herself in them as thanks to Griselda's rough training she had a handful of black keys she uses to effectively aid them.
Ruruko and Momo despite their rivalry could aid each other, however they had a problem with Xenovia as due to her hot headed and brick headed nature she declines the aid of the two devils and even sometimes get in their way as she swings around destruction, however thanks to this Xenovia manages to cut a path that leaves an opening for Momo to use her magic and Ruruko to start using the branches as platforms and bounce around to strike at the enemy.
Tomoe, Reya, Sona, and Kiba had a relatively easy time as they had a well rounded group, Tomoe with Kiba to defend and with Kiba's holy eraser she and him made a perfect duo, Sona and Reya also worked well together as with Sona's mastery over water she could easily bind and connect them allowing Reya to use her lightning, though not as strong as Akeno it was enough to incapacitate them making it easier to deliver the finishing blow.
Tsubaki and Tsubasa were a good pair as magic attacks were effectively useless against Tsubaki thanks to her sacred gear [Mirror Alice] a tool that usually only allow's her to reflect one attack, but because of their light base attack it is heavily effective against light magic as light is naturally reflective, and with her mastery over the Shinra Naginata art she could effectively support Tsubasa, and with Koneko around their power just increases.
But as they prospered there was someone effortlessly getting their shit stomped as Uryu couldn't keep up with the powerful and masterful use of the holy sword this version of King Arthur had, he used nightmare in a simple but masterful way as he would make an illusion strike from an angle but his real attack was hidden by transparency as he attacked from a different side.
Honestly if it wasn't for his Blut he might have died long ago, but the defensive boost was to strong for the King of Knights to slice through in the current state excalibur is at, though its speed and the wielders power were already deadly enough with out destruction adding in the slicing power of the sword, however it cannot effortlessly cut through a fully warmed up Bluted Uryu.
Though he cant say it doesn't hurt as he is in excruciating pain from all the blows he took, not to mention the increasing amounts of cuts he received as despite his toughened interior thanks to blut, his skin is still rather soft.
"Do you talk?" Uryu asked in desperation to get King Arthur to at least halt for a second as he was being battered, and funny enough he did and even thought about it for a second, "This should do," Uryu said as he looked at the distance from where he was and where everyone was.
While everyone was close to the gymnasium Uryu and Freed were on the corner of the campus, and in that single second of King Arthur being distracted Uryu grabbed the metallic piece on his gauntlet and immediately broke it off, the resulting explosion of magic that suddenly entered and exited his body managed to push King Arthur hard enough to stick him to a wall.
The resulting explosion of magic caught everyone's attention as they looked back to see this blue pillar of light just extend to the heavens in the corner of the school, and before anyone could ask something passed through the wall of fallen angels, what passed through was thin and metallic, what happened after was what could only be explained as a rain of fallen blood, as a massive hole in the fallen angel's formation had instantly opened giving them a straight line to Kokabiel who caught the arrow with one hand but the hand was damaged, and he did this while protecting himself from two of the most powerful women they knew, as Mania and Medusa were keeping his attention.
Everyone looked back and saw Uryu, Uryu now has transformed, nothing about his appearance has changed what so ever but he now has an unusual equipment with him, a white gauntlet that extended from his right arm all the way to his shoulder blade and over it was what they could only describe as a wing of pure energy, "QUIT GAWKING AND FIGHT!!!" Uryu shouted out to make them focus on the prize as he was suddenly launched back due to a swing that he blocked with his new gauntlet.
As soon as they saw King Arthur they instantly moved toward Kokabiel to aid in his defeat.
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As Uryu was flying he noticed King Arthur jumping towards him, when Uryu hit the barrier keeping them in he pulled out his bow and aimed a seele schneider at him, Uryu fired and king Arthur parried it, however he did not account for one thing, and that was that it exploded upon contact changing his direction, and so Uryu formed a magic platform where he then proceeded to turn on rapid fire and rained endless arrows at King Arthur.
The barrage only lasted seconds as a metallic liquid suddenly bursted upwards from where Uryu was firing, as it reached the apex a hole opened and King Arthur was there and he leaped at Uryu, Uryu instantly pointed his bow and rapid fired, but it was ultimately useless as King Arthur sent an even stronger slash of holy magic at him.
Uryu dodged but was then tackled by King Arthur and was beaten and wrestled to the ground, since seeing that his blade doesn't cut to well he decided to use brute force and he brutalized Uryu all they way to the ground, but Uryu didn't take the beating one sided as thanks to Gin's training he managed to free an arm and sock King Arthur in the face, where he then used his wing to change their position and changed the shape of the wing and punched him so hard it created a crater in the ground.
As the dust flied it then dropped as it followed the arrows that dug deep into the earth as it then broke, however Uryu did not notice the presence below him as a tendril of gold shot up and wrapped around his leg before his vision blurred and gravity shifted as Uryu was slammed into the ground again and again and again.
Before Uryu could be slammed again Uryu pointed his bow down at the origin of the string and shot out another arrow that dug deep and shattered the surrounding area, however Uryu did not anticipate that King Arthur was not there as he also made a string and connected it to himself, and as Uryu was slammed again King Arthur came in and punched him slamming him against a wall where he was unceremoniously beaten with gauntlets formed from mimic's elastic properties.
As King Arthur proceeded to push a flailing Uryu deeper into the concrete wall with his golden spiked knuckles gauntlet Uryu gave up on the attack and focused on the defense as with his blut, and mana wing he could withstand an ungodly amount of damage despite the constant kinetic force delivered to his vital areas.
While this King Arthur is clearly not as strong as the original in both body and weapon his techniques and skills, that were used through the swords are deeply engrained in them allowing a controlled vessel to utilize them, however there is a problem with this utilization as this King Arthur has a body that can not keep up.
And in an instant king Arthur's arm had shattered as due to the bodies insufficient capability and unadapted physique could not keep up, this moment Uryu countered as he through the wing Uryu shot out a fully powered seele schneider, unlike the usual seele schneider this one was treated like the solid arrows which is meant to be more stable than arrows created from thin air and it brings a heavier impact, the arrow blasted through the wing and into his torso, it launched him far and once he blasted through the gymnasium and into the school buildings the solid blade of seele schneider broke apart and wrapped itself around King Arthur and sealed him with the handle of seele schneider as the center piece.
"One down, two to go," Uryu said but he couldn't keep going as he had thought as he got down on one knee and proceeded to spit out blood as despite his rather monstrous defense he was not meant to take on so much damage in one go, even his victory over King Arthur was rather cheep as holy light could still be seen struggling through the seal.
"A rather fine achievement for someone so unfit for close quarters combat, though the creation of a rather weakened King Arthur was impressive as well," Kokabiel noted as he slammed a light hammer into Xenovia's back launching her down, then he formed a light shield to protect himself from the power of destruction before catching a black key that exploded, and outside the smoke water formed which then collided and trapped him inside, then Akeno and Reya combined an attack and rained lightning on him.
"Marvelous, utterly marvelous, giving you a couple more years would make this painful instead of ticklish but we don't have time," Kokabiel then unfurled his 12 wings, it destroyed the water and dispersed the lightning.
"Why are you doing this?" Rias asked as she was frustrated at the turn of events.
"A bit late to ask that question isn't it?" Kokabiel looked down at them, "Oh fine its always good to inform children," a chair made of light then formed and he floated down.
"Is this a good idea?" Issei asked as he rubbed his side from where Kokabiel had struck him.
"Its better to let him talk so we can heal up and rest," Saji said as he grabbed Issei's arm and carried him towards Asia with a limp.
And so a story of how the war had went, it was something all of them had already knew even Issei himself wasn't ignorant to it, and when the war started things had changed, Kokabiel explained that everyone was involved and when he says everyone he meant everyone, every race, like elves, gods, dragons, dwarves, beast folks, yokai, and yes even humans, humans were basically the weakest and easiest faction to ever kill due to their inability to produce off the bat strong offsprings, but as proven humans are terrifying when they start running, the biggest example was King Arthur himself, the first to receive the boosted gear.
A man born from a human, though a king he wasn't anything special as he was just a human with a title and land, and his son King Arthur like every human was weak even with the help of the first ever half devil and the greatest mage to ever exist, Merlin the wizard of flowers had only helped the little king only a bit.
But that was his walking age, it all started with his first kill a random monster discovered near his village, it killed and ate those it saw and the moment it entered the very village he resided in everything went to shit, fires, dead and no reinforcements from the capital everyone was panicking, well that was until a 12 year old Arthur came in, armed with only his training blade given to him by his adoptive father he attacked the beast, and after a vicious struggle he won, that day he started running.
At the age of 13 his strength skyrocketed, he trained from morning to night and only rested by hunting beasts it was so destructive that it came to the point that Merlin had to constantly heal his body when ever the little king slept, though his path was destructive one cannot say it had no results.
At the age of 14 he was widely recognized as a monster hunter killing beasts and protecting his little village, everyone treated him with respect and admiration, children wanted to be him and women wanted to be bedded with him.
At the age of 15 he was tricked by Merlin who brought him to the place where the sword of selection was imbedded into the stone, it was enchanted so that only the rightful heir could ever pull it, many have tried and failed, Arthur never wanted the sword but with a little persuasion from Merlin via a giant monster Arthur was forced to pull the sword as he had no weapon on him.
At the age of 18 he was already king, he had his people, his men, his knights, and his very own wife.
At the age of 20 he was raped by his sister Morgan.
22 he unlocked Draig the boosted gear.
30 he met Mordred his son.
35 he received Excalibur which was Caliburn just blessed by the fay.
45 revolt happened.
And by the age of 50 he was deemed a threat to the path of the demons as those who passed his side were slaughtered and killed due to the blessed sword of Excalibur the sword of promised victory.
55 he died due to a combination of the people being dissatisfied, a combined attack from Mordred and Morgan, the demons, and Vortigern who at this point unlocked, mastered, and developed the skills of the white dragon Albion.
The battle was chaotic and monstrous, it was almost a reflection of the great war where gods, satans, demons, and everything in between died, both King Arthur and Vortigern had mastered their respective sacred gears that it was almost impossible to identify man from dragon, all it needed was a figure like the God of christianity to come and slaughter both of them however all that happened was Vortigern's death and later King Arthurs after losing his sword and slaughtering the majority of the opposing army.
"He was fighting for his people, his kingdom, and for the innocence, but in the end he died, just like God to protect his children," Kokabiel casually dropped a bomb on everyone, but the christians like Xenovia, Irina, and Asia had it worse, they were destroyed as all they had believed in was nothing but a lie.
"Are you all healed up now?" Kokabiel asked as he stood up, "Good,"
The first to come was Medusa as using speed, magical reinforcement, and her supernatural strength she was the only one who could fight and go against his monstrous strength.
Second to move was Mania as she activated her veil to protect everyone from the suddenly falling lights that exploded, later she summoned a group of 6 undead wyvern where she allowed to aid in attacking Kokabiel who had managed to parry many of Medusa's attack leaving her open for an axe kick that launched down leaving Mania alone.
But before he could get close Uryu had shot a barrage or arrows at Kokabiel forcing the cadre to wince at the explosive force that came to him block moat of the attacks with his wings.
However Kokabiel did not anticipate Medusa using her nails like a grappling hook when she managed to throw it hard enough to imbed itself into his wing, with the retraction capability of her chains she launched her self at him feet first crashing directly into his chin opening him up for a solidified arrow from Uryu.
"Ahh, now I see, so it was you who nearly destroyed my arm," Kokabiel said as he caught Uryu's arrow with a heavily bandaged arm, "Though I have to thank you, as without your work I would have never thought my brothers toy would be handy," he said as the bandages that wrapped around his right arm had some glowing letters in them, "Though I couldn't verify it on the first one due to its weakened state from the bodies that withheld its speed but now I know who to kill first,"
"No you don't," Medusa then tossed her nails at Kokabiel.
"My word, you need to learn how to aim my dear cause you missed," he said as both nails passed by him harmlessly.
"Oh did I now," she smiled as she pulled back and behind him was an undead super orc which was modified to the extreme before it died.
It swung its fist at Kokabiel, Kokabiel blocked it with his magic, the force behind the punch sent rippling shockwaves that blew winds everywhere but sadly it wasn't durable as with a swipe of his wing it was bisected.
He then moved to the side to dodge an incoming gorgon who smashed into the rock, and before Kokabiel could move something came out of the dust from the shattered rock, it had red and purple scales, sharp claws, and radiant eyes that glowed in purple.
Kokabiel was stunned as he couldn't move from where he was leaving him open for a devastating attack that launched him towards Uryu, Uryu didn't have time to form an arrow due to his incoming speed but he managed to form a fist from his mana wing and punch him back with devastating force.
However this wasn't enough to take him down as the moment he could move once more he formed his mace and swung at the monsterfied girl, however before he could Mania had jumped in to block the attack with her shadow like arms that extended from her back, however due to opposing elements her shadow was no match and only managed to cushion the blow as it ultimately had a direct hit as it launched both ladies far away.
Before Kokabiel could land the final blow his weapon was thrown off its original course from an arrow Uryu had launched, Kokabiel was about to rush at Uryu but was stopped, it wasn't any unrelenting force of any creature but it was Medusa gripping his ankle with her monsterized hand, it had gold and pink scales with small feathers here and there. That was enough, enough for what you may ask? Well it was enough for Uryu to land a blow, what blow you might ask, well it was the same arrow that tied up the newly reincarnated king of Britain.
As the arrow landed on his chest its blade shattered and expanded to encompass the cadre, however it wasn't as full proof as they had expected as a simple light barrier had halted its momentum.
"A curious creation, its reminiscent to the standard light creation and manifestation of the fallen and angel's weapons, however its unstable allowing the highly concentrated magic explode in the moment of impact, and so," Kokabiel then formed a light spear, and in that moment the light barrier he made abruptly expanded shattering the construct trying to swallow him whole, and seconds later a beam of light erupted from his hands towards Uryu.
Uryu couldn't dodge and couldn't defend due to the incoming speed of the projectile, the only reason why he wasn't blown up into bits was thanks to his blut forced into overdrive, the consequence was an abrupt evaporation of his mana wing that acted like a mana bank.
Kokabiel floated towards Uryu, Uryu was in the ground struggling to keep his consciousness awake from all the pain, it wasn't only from the explosion but the sudden instinctual activation of Blut overdrive had shocked his body and damaged him causing internal bleeding.
"You are rather tenacious," Kokabiel said as he picked up Uryu by the neck, "It was an honor learning from you, a skill you used to nearly remove my arm was used to utterly shatter you, and for teaching me a skill I shall make your death painless and honor your grave," Kokabiel said as he floated up high, he dropped Uryu making sure he looked up, to witness the event.
As Kokabiel was about to form a light spear something stopped him, it wasn't anything physical but one word that interested him.
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Kokabiel looked down and was interested at the view, both the newly minted red dragon emperor and the crimson ruin princess, one his target and another a needed catalyst, but he wasn't interested in that goal as right now what interested him was the power that she wielded.
"Oho, do the children want to play with the adults," Kokabiel said as he closed his eyes and smiled.
"Kokabiel, I from the house of Gremory deem your deeds unjust, to hold the peace placed upon us I shall bring a stop to you here and now!" Rias yelled out as she used the transferred magic and congregated it into a sphere of destruction above her, the ball was nearly as wide as the entire gymnasium.
"Alright, i'll play your little game, and my prize will be your head," he said as he stood there with open arms as if to accept any attack.
Rias threw her attack at the fallen angel, Kokabiel caught the attack but it looks like he had underestimated the power given to her by Issei as it appears that his hands were slowly getting devoured by the attack.
After throwing her attack Rias couldn't stay awake no longer as she felt weak and drained from the attack, she fell and he caught her, "Are you alright president?" Issei asked as he pushed some stray hair out of her face.
"I-i'll be alright, a-as long as we defeat him," Rias said weakly as Issei stood up and looked at the ever inching ball of destruction that was eating away at the fallen, as currently his arms were inside as he screamed out in what i could only imagine as pain.
"Everyone run, the explosion will most likely level the whole school," Issei yelled to everyone as they began to run.
"But what about them," Asia asked as she looked at the downed monster duo and a struggling Uryu.
"Don't worry I got them," Saji said as he shot out a line to all of them.
"Well done Saji, now lets go," Sona said but everyone was stopped as in an instant an overwhelming pressure suddenly slammed over them.
"HAHAHAHA! HOW JOYOUS A CHALLENGE BEFORE THE STORM," Kokabiel laughed out as the skin on his arms began to crack and expel a corrupted light.
Kokabiel's star halo shattered, star dust began to surround him and his skin started to shatter as his wings began to expand and darken to the point that not even light could escape his darkness, and with a swift motion of his hand the power of destruction dispersed and began to fall like snow.
"Now, you shall be the catalysts to end it all," Kokabiel said as he was nothing more than a mass of broiling darkness swallowing the light, his wings void of color, it wasn't white, it couldn't be described as black, and each motion erased light as it flapped, his halo once a golden star that shined like the sun shattered into millions of pieces, while it held its shape it was not the same.
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Beep.
A loud hissing noise echoed out and an arm was instantly in motion, something stabbed through the arm and loud gasps could be heard, "You know when you want to assassinate someone you typically don't bring an army," the person in the pod said as the person who attacked him couldn't counter as his head suddenly exploded.
All the assassins moved back in shock as the person they were sent to kill jumped out of the pod and inspected himself, "Hmm looks like the organs and everything healed up well, though I don't like my skin being this thin," Gin moved the dagger from his arm and inspected himself as his chest wound and shoulder wound were covered but the fat that usually was under layers of skin was not present so it had given those spots a rather fiber like appearance.
Everyone was scared, as they just saw one of their own suddenly die, they had expected that they would fight a monster as the old monster himself respected their target, but having one of their most skilled personnel suddenly die out of nowhere had all of them shook, so shook in fact that one of them shoot their gun out of fear.
"Rather trigger happy now aren't we, well I guess i'll kill you first," Gin said as he smashed the guy's brains in by hammering his head with his fist, the action was abrupt and shocking to them as they knew the target was human but that display was more than human.
"AHHHHHH!!!" Pandaemonium struck as blood was splatted and panic had struck, bullets were fired and lives were taken.
"Hmm, you guys were sent here," he talked to himself in the crossfire while he dodged the bullets as he began to kill and destroy those he could, "You typically don't need an army to assassinate someone, so that only means this is a distraction," Gin realizing this squatted down to the floor and circuit like patterns flared from his body that extended to the floor, the next instant spiked shot out of the floor impaling everyone killing the group of 20 or so people.
"I should go and fight," Gin said as he tapped a panel nearby and dressed himself accordingly.
"Good to sea you to son," Gin said as he put on a jacket where runes suddenly began to flash before Alex had wrapped him in his general black coat.
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"Looks like I made it just in time," Gin's voice was like a hot knife through butter as he appeared before everyone just behind Uryu.
"What?!?" Everyone was shocked Gin's sudden appearance.
"Man Uryu, you look like you've been shoved inside a blender," Gin said as Gin circled Uryu who was on Saji's shoulder.
"Shut up, and fucking finish this," Uryu said weakly as he couldn't muster up enough strength to spit at Gin so he just drooled on Saji's hip.
"Looks like you had a fulfilling rest," Medusa said as she snuck behind Gin.
"Not now dear, children are watching," Gin said as she wrapped her arms from behind me pushing her body on my back.
"I don't mind, they will be doing this sooner or later," she said as her clawed finger turned Gin's head towards her while sparks came to life as she dragged her nail along his chin to land a kiss on Gin's lips.
"Oh my," Akeno sounded out as she covered her lips.
"Issei don't look," Asia panically said as she pushed her palms on his eyes.
"This is not the place for such actions," Sona said sternly as she pushed her glasses upwards to distract herself from the blood rushing to her face.
"Not really, I think he's letting us have some time," Gin said as he looked back and up at Kokabiel.
"I will give you time to say your final goodbye's," he said as the snow of destruction harmlessly disappeared the second they touched his skin while those that did not easily removed chunks of the earth.
"Well then I guess i'll take this time to do that," Gin said as he walked towards Saji and picked up Mania, "i'll see you later," Gin said as he hugged her tightly, and to everyone's surprise she moved and returned the hug.
"I do," she said in a soft tone, her words bewildered everyone as they did not understand the intentions behind those words.
"Don't worry, I won't die easily," Gin responded with a chuckle, and before they could ask for questions the floor under them opened up, they all fell into a familiar room.
"I'll see you later," Medusa went in for one final kiss before she entered the portal willingly.
"We'll see," Gin replied as the portal closed off.
"You are rather brave to willingly face me alone," Kokabiel said as he landed on the ground.
"Not really, i'm not fighting you alone out of bravery, because if I were brave I would have let them watch, so no i'm not brave i'm quite terrified actually," Gin said as he faced Kokabiel.
"I see no wonder you let them leave, I had assumed you rather not like distractions for our second match," Kokabiel talked as Gin prepared to fight.
"Yeah, but I wasn't scared of you using them as a distraction or leverage to get one up on me, no i'm scared that they will die from the cross fire, because as you know very well us humans are rather unique in chaos," Gin then began to light up, blue veins began to appear along with blue nerves, the runes on the back of his hand began to glow showing the full extent of its capability.
The glow Gin had shown was more than before, the radiant glow had shined through his clothing and jacket, a golden wave of energy began to coalesce on his back, as the energy swirled like a miniature tornado it suddenly collapsed and removed itself from my bare skin, a circle of golden light adorned with runs began to rotate behind Gin.
"I see you have chosen to fight me with everything you have, but with such little changes in your power do you think that this will be enough to challenge me? If so then I have over estimated you," Kokabiel said with a disappointed sigh.
"Hmm, who said this was all," Gin said with a smile as his arms disappeared and reappeared with two grails on each hand held between his fingers.
The two grails on his left are white and black, the white cup had golden outlines depicting angels, doves, and wings, the black cup had red cracks that looks like they are bleeding magma, it had red outline depicting hell, demons, and torture, along with bat wings.
The two grails on his right are gray and purple, the gray cup was warn and torn complete with battle scars with a blue outline depicted knights, humans, and magic, the purple cup had scale patterns with black outlines that depicted dragons, fire, and destruction.
"shall we?" Gin mockingly gestured a toast and clinked the cups together before tossing them behind him where they attached themselves on smaller circles that adorned the bigger circle, as they did the golden color had changed, the white cup began to purify the runes around it, while the black cup began to corrupt, the purple one began to burn, and the gray one began to shift and change to its needs.
"We shall," Kokabial then launched a spear at Gin, before it could land it suddenly turned back and struck Kokabiel just from a motion of a finger from Gin.
"He, then lets dance," Gin brandished his sword as the cups began to charge Gin, the gray cup was the first to act as it covered Gin with a pale gray aura, the purple cup then covered him.
Gin leaped as the white and black cup coated new beginnings before he swung.
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"Ahhhh!!!" Everyone screamed as they fell, but it suddenly stopped as they landed on something.
"AHHHHH," well except two boys who hugged each other like it would be their last.
"Hey" Koneko said as she stood above both dragons.
"Issei?" Asia asked as she got closer.
"Gen-chan?" Momo asked.
"Ack?" Both of them were silenced by the heals of an amazonian that dropped on there heads and bounced off.
"Ugh, what the hell," both of them sounded in unison while Saji and Issei rubbed their heads.
"Were alive?" Issei said.
"Were alive!!" Issei and Saji hugged themselves in pure glee.
"Not for long we aren't," Medusa said as she walked towards the terminal.
"W-what do you mean by that?" Asia asked while the tall girl look at the rapidly shifting screens.
"The barrier won't last, and once that breaks destruction will rain on the land of koah," Sona said as she watched intently on the screen.
"Precisely, so before we all get caught up in the wide spread destruction Kokabiel will bring to hunt you two," Medusa said as she watched both the heiresses who stood next to each other pensively looking at medusa.
"Its not their fault, they didn't ask for this," Issei stood in front of Rias while rebuking her judgmental stare.
"Yeah, leave the president alone, none of them thought this would ever happen," Saji joined Issei.
"Perhaps, but we need to move or else," she said while turning back to the screen.
"What about the people? What about our families?" Tomoe asked.
"Yeah if were leaving and Kokabiel is willing to level the entirety of koah to get a chance of killing the heiresses what will happen to the people?" Xenovia asked.
"Perish most likely, any survivor will most likely be brainwashed in to thinking it was a meteor shower that destroyed koah," she replied coldly.
"But why? Cant we save more people if we ask for reinforcement?" Momo asked.
"Do you think the old fools sitting on the heads of your race will allow that? Rather I would imagine they would do what I said as it would be easier than saving hundreds of thousands and hypnotizing them, angels I can see trying but the church would never inform the angels as they would not see it as important matters as the corruption as begun to dig deeply," Medusa said silencing most of them except one.
"There is a way to save this land," Uryu's words was like water in the drought of silence.
"And how do you intent do achieve such a magnanimous miracle," Medusa turned around sitting on the table and crossed her legs to look disapprovingly at Uryu.
"Its called protocol void," Uryu said, and Medusa's glare grew deeper.
"I will not let you send him to the dimensional gap," Medusa sternly said.
"Well then tell me lady medusa what other plan do you have, because I see no other plan, a teleportation wouldn't work as Kokabiel isn't that stupid not to mention the time needed for preparation," Uryu while steely looking into her eyes.
"We can leave this place, let the battle finish and let the land and people take the brunt of it," she said unapologetically in front of the people who has friends and people living in this area she planned to sacrifice.
"What then? You comfort Gin from the blood off his hands? Can you really wash off that much blood from a man so stubborn that even human limitations couldn't stop him? Because I know you can't and we both know that Gin isn't as emotionless as he seems, you and I have seen it. Each consequence he doesn't just brush off, each family, building, land, and lives that are destroyed will weigh heavily on him," Uryu said calmly and forwardly.
"Fine, but if he dies your head is mine," she said as she walked out the room.
"This will take a while?" Uryu struggled to stand up while being helped by Asia.
"Wait," Issei's words cut through everyone's silenced as his words sounded serious, "Whats the cost of this plan to make her that way," Issei asked surprising most due to the care he had in someone who was willing to sacrifice not only his family and friends but the whole island as long as he lived in.
"I guess you deserve to know…." The building began to shake.
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A massive flash of light could be seen that soon was followed by a shockwave so strong that it crumbled the school building below, a flash of light then escaped the giant flash before digging a trench with the falling light.
"I must say for a human you are faring far well'er than those devil's ever could," Kokabial said as he floated just over Gin wielding two holy spears, a solid one on a hand and on the other had cracks just leaking light, as the ball of golden light over Gin began to crumble the white cup began absorbed the particles, there Gin is shown with various scratches and light cuts all over his body, and the Gray light over him was cracked which began to slowly repair itself.
"Thanks, but I rather keep this fight light and less destructive," Gin said as he spat out some blood.
"Hilarious," Kokabial said as Gin jumped at him and swung.
The swing could easily be called a bomb as the moment of impact land and air was displaced, even Kokabial's light spear couldn't hold out as it cracked from the force.
Kokabial then countered with a swing from his other hand, Gin blocked the strike with his right but couldn't withstand the following explosion that sent him reeling back, but unlike before this time Gin managed to hold on and counter, red rose was out and bullets were fired, Kokabial blocked with his wings but the second he did Gin appeared behind him in a portal that had the frames of a broken mirror, Gin swung his sword again but this time directly over him and directly at his shattered halo, the strike launched Kokabial down but Gin wasn't finished.
"I hope you like super natural C4's or should I call this a C-zero," Gin said as he pulled out a small black ball, he pierced it with his fingers allowing a grotesque green veiny eye to open and see the world, soon it grew a small body and gleaming white teeth before he then fed it something and proceeded to throw it in the hole, "Heirro," a barrier formed over him before it compressed and disappeared, blue marks then appeared from within his skin before being engulfed in a golden barrier that shined with purple light and sparked with black red lightning.
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"We will use this to forcibly open a portal to the void allowing an opening for Gin to attack," Uryu said as he held a black ball.
"It looks kind of cute," Asia said as with gentle ministrations from Uryu's magic it began to stir awake.
"I wouldn't get close to this artificial cyclops eye as it wont be here for long," Uryu said as he stuffed it inside a tube where it woke up and allowing its green eye to groggily look at his surroundings while its small body arms and legs began to stretch out.
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For a second nothing happened it was just the sudden appearance of a pillar of light and an abnormal silence that swallowed the world The resulting explosion shook everything, the barrier couldn't hold all the impact that just happened which ended up reverberating outside as a magnitude 6 earthquake, as while the barrier couldn't hold it in it still managed to negate the majority of the explosion.
[Returning to the epicenter of the blast]
As the pillar of light stopped expanding and sound slowly returned all that could be heard was a static ringing that reverberated deep within their ears, Gin managed to survive due to the multitude of barriers he had erected to protect his very being from the special atomizing bomb he had created.
However the bomb did less damage than he was expecting as when his barriers crumbled and reabsorbed he saw Kokabiel, while he was damaged evident from the missing chunks on his body he was for the most part fully intact, but from his observation the wrapping of life and death Azazel made had saved his life by sacrificing itself.
The wrap of life and death was something Azazel made as a prototype in the warring age for the high ranking fallen angels, it had the ability to save a person from death, heal grievous wounds like dismemberment, or grotesque damage like full body burns, and in some cases they can save you from straight up death, but as currently displayed it has its own limitations as the more it is used the less there is of the wrappings until it is destroyed, it was discontinued after the war for three reasons, one was since the war is over it was no longer needed, second was the materials as they were rather expensive to make, and third was the process in making them, something even Azazel does not give information freely.
But despite using the wrap and his wings to protect him it is clear that the protection wasn't remotely enough since the damage was severe, half his wings were torn and damaged, two of them were practically gone, and the other four was in several states of destruction, but despite all of this there is one thing that shows that the fight is not over. His halo glowed more brightly than ever, the light that was being swallowed by his writhing form of darkness was slowly seeping out like light through a crack in a wall.
He floated up to be level with me and there he saw that it wasn't only him that was damaged, while mine were less damming compared to him for a human it was rather gruesome, while the explosion didn't land on me directly the shockwave still effected his mortal flesh. Blood had gushed out of his mouth like a fountain as it covered the front of his shirt, his brown golden eyes turned blood red as he cried blood and blood flowed from his ears, but despite all that Kokabiel couldn't help but respect the little human as despite his critical state his eyes still stared at him defiantly, like a predator hunting his pray.
They didn't talk, not like they could since the explosion had robbed them of their ears, but as if there was a signal both of them rushed forward, Alex swung his sword, Kokabiel blocked it with a spear and thrusted the other into him, but before it could land a wing of pure gold with purple veins block the attack, and above Kokabiel a wing of red with black cracks fueled by a metallic gray slammed him down creating a spiderweb of cracks once he landed.
Gin didn't let up as even before the smoke could reach its peak he came crashing into the ground deepening the crater while simultaneously rapidly punching the cadre with his purple gauntlets.
His rush ended the moment a light explosion occurred, after the blinding explosion he was used like a drill as he was beaten upwards, the moment Kokabiel broke through the floor he kicked Gin away into the dirt, afterwards the only thing they could see was beams of light clashing against each other, and with each clash a shockwave occurred, occasionally one of the clashing lights shoot towards the ground before being followed by the other.
The fight only lasted minutes but for the two it felt like an eternity, Kokabiel's true fallen form was starting to destabilize as for moments of their clash glimpse of his battered and bloodied form could be seen, but Gin wasn't fairing any better as he himself was on deaths doors. Majority of Gin's organs were either destroyed or ruptured from being near the epicenter of the blast as he did not have enough time to escape the nearly instantaneous blast, miscalculating the time and effect it would have has cost him more than he could swallow.
Every strike Gin received felt like his body would give up, every clash felt like his end, and each clash felt like his bones would turn to dust, the only thing keeping him from outright passing out or giving up was ironically the pain his grail's brought on him, the small needle like pricks that allowing his body to be used as a conduit had unintentionally kept him going, and with that time he had he fought, he fought long enough for something to happen.
"NOOO!!!" An echo of a woman's voice could be heard despite his deafened state, Gin would have looked back but something happened behind Kokabiel, it was only for an instant but he saw it, his very own creation scaled up with the very same creature he used to blow up Kokabiel, but unlike the one he used which had a green eye and was chaotic upon awakening, this one was red and calm, and like its brother it exploded, but before it could create the blinding pillar of light once more, this one stopped and began to implode twisting space and shattering reality summoning an unstable portal to the realm between realms the dimensional gap.
Gin seeing this knew two things, the portal won't stay open for long, and that why not since this makes his job easier, and so in a last ditch effort Gin absorbed all the energy into his body, now no longer separate it transformed his very body, the black rune marking became more profound, his blue circuit like patterns turned blood red as his hands became black with red cracks that began to crawl up his arms, his skin ones a healthy white color turned into gold, his chocolate brown hair turned purple, lines from his forehead came down passing through his eyes which showed a metallic gray and not his deep brown.
The transformation was abrupt shocking Kokabiel which allowed Gin to instantly blitz him into the portal which closed the instant they entered, there Gin began to pummel the unprepared cadre while entering.
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"What was that?" Issei asked as he heard a woman's voice.
"A distraction method Gin made as we realized no matter how or what the chaos is a destrot mother's voice will cut through any chaos," Uryu said.
"Ok, but then? The dimensional gap is vast as it is wide, no one can moderate it nor can anyone navigate it," Sona said.
"Well for navigating that wont be a problem," Gin showed them his tooth that had a chip inside it, "This chip allows us to locate where we want to go, though its only fixed locations as we cant perform a teleportation ritual on the fly we can however study it and recreate the part that navigates you instantly through a teleportation," Uryu said.
"But how will he escape?" Rias asked.
"That's simple, the void is rather special as like any tool constant use show's wear and tear,"
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As they entered the space shifted, ground became a suggestion, air was useless, and just being there began to corrode there very existence, the first few hits managed to break Kokabiel out of his stunned state as the hits weren't stronger but harder, so he fought back.
In the dimensional gap new lights began to flash it wasn't like everything where light shifted around them it was two primary colors that clashed and circled each other.
Gin came down full force with his katana, Kokabiel tried to block with his wings but it was torn off, Gin didn't cut flesh but he was greeted to a surprise as Kokabiel had prepared a volley of light spears that crashed into him, none of them managed to pierce but the force behind it was damming.
The strike felt like my guts turned into paste as he suddenly struck as I was reeling from the strikes that not only landed once but twice, he had overpowered me while his power began to fading, but while he was weakened the effects of the void was not as damming on him as it was on Gin.
Gin's flesh burned just being inside the void, while Kokabiel only felt pressure trying to crush his body, and the difference was clear while Gin needed to focus the majority of the power he could wield into protecting himself to the point that his attack force did not have enough to increase what so ever, and Kokabial can increasingly pressure him specially in his current state as his body was pulverized from the force of his miscalculations on a modified spacial breaker.
As Gin was getting pummeled he didn't just idly watch he fought back, each strike the energy turned into spikes, each magic attack the shield would turn into a wall, each clash a burst of mana would empower my strikes, but a fight was not what Gin wanted, what Gin wanted was an opening.
Inside the void is an empty space but this empty space is something people pass when entering other dimensions and prolong use has caused the barrier to thin out as they continue to teleport, I was told this by Azazel when he was showing me portals they had to give up on as over hundreds of years, multiple uses in war and transport, they had thinned out which lead to an ambush attack leaving them crippled for the rest of the war.
And Gin had coincidentally found one as he was being pummeled, and so for only a second Gin shifted focus from defense to attack, the thick layer of gold over him thinned out as his golden shine to lessen showing his yellowish skin, yellowish blue dark red jacket.
As his focus changed his golden feathered wings turned draconic solidified by the purple claw that formed on the joint, a golden scaly tail with purple veins grew, his hands grew dark purple nails and he grew purple horns that leaned forward almost making it look like he was being adorned with a crown, this time Kokabiel was not ready, the energy Gin emitted had not changed but one grab to the face had changed it all.
The void is said to be nothingness, but that is not true what so ever, the void is the origin of all dimensions the tree's base of sort, hence here solid is a suggestion and Gin used that to his advantage as he slammed Kokabiel's face into solid empty void and dragged him across it until we reached the point where the void was thin enough for Gin blast through by solidifying the surroundings.
The sudden break of the dimension had unintentionally formed a black hole as it began to suck everything below uprooting tree's lifting dust and earth, and just atomizing anything it managed to absorb, but just like how water is wet and that gravity is real it mended itself as reality could not keep it open as it violated natural order.
As the void closed Gin's sudden transformation disappeared, and as the smoke cleared he saw him, blond bangs black hair and open coat, behind him four figures came flying down with him, one had a figure of a man wearing armor and wielding an axe and shield on his hands, another was a man with a flowing cloak, a woman's shapely figure and the last was a tall and well dressed man, Gin promptly passed out after something crumbled and his head abruptly slammed into a rock.
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Chapter end.
Happy new years yall, see you next time
(For those wondering how Gin's rings looks like its basically the asura wheel, its currently incomplete as he is missing two pieces so this isn't full power, for my anime viewers it looks like Ranga Crimson's battle form when fighting the lightning dragon dude)
What you guys think? Was the king Arthur thing to unrealistic? Was the end to anti climactic? Was it rushed? Well anyways have a good rest of your day, noon, or night and thanks for reading.