Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Cursed Hope Arrives
Riser POV
"Let go of Yuuto! Why are you even here, Riser!?"
Huh, now that's a throwback to Chapter 1, This chapter started with a scream by Rias to me. The only difference is that this time the ball is in my court. I have the advantage as not only am I not discombobulated by my sudden transfer, but the strongest queen is not here to protect her now.
"You always stay in your base and let your peerage do all the work!" She fired a ball of power of destruction that hit my infinity.
Now is the time to test out what would win. The Power of Destruction or my Infinity? An unstoppable projectile or an immovable object and the result…
The infinity won, or at least I won against Rias' power of destruction. The power of destruction did destroy the space it was occupying, limitless worked hard to stop it and the tiebreaker was only one thing, magic power.
Her power of destruction destroys everything but it was still powered by demonic energy, it simply ran out of energy before it could reach me, not to mention I have, in theory, infinite energy with 'Inexhaustible' granted by the 'Waifu Catalog'. The thing with the power of destruction is that it destroys everything but it doesn't mean entropy. It doesn't spread.
That's why in canon Rias uses her family trait on Riser but he just regenerates it. Half his face was annihilated but he just regenerated it because her destruction does not spread.
Although if Sirzechs himself did this, I would be destroyed instantly, in the end it all comes down to 'weight'. The 'weight' of Rias' power is too light; there is no denseness that destruction should have. Just like how Archer described Emiya Shirou's projections, her power is just an imitation. She is trying to be like Sirzechs when she should try to be Rias.
"Well I guess you are just special Rias. I wanted to see you sooner rather than later. And if the King doesn't lead, how can he expect his subordinates to follow." I casually swung my hand to the side.
And a large gash appeared from the left shoulder to the right waist of Isaiah. Just why did you name him 'Horse-Rider' Rias? You are almost as bad at naming as Minato. Is a bad naming sense really the Gremory family trait? First Koneko, now…
Almost immediately, the knight glowed and disappeared to a thousand pieces not unlike a certain anime games' death effect. Huh, they must have been really waiting to pull him out for him to disappear that fast, it usually takes a couple seconds to actually get someone out of the rating game.
"The Knight of Lady Rias has been retired." A colder voice than usual of the maid sounded through the battlefield.
"Riser!!!" Seeing her knight's blood everywhere on the ground enraged her even more as she sent Power of destruction balls to me left and right.
Then in the skies, a large lightning bolt crashed towards me, though leaving me unscathed as I once again activated Infinity while Rias was whaling on me. A surprise attack by her queen is nothing.
Meanwhile I see the loli twins sneaking around and making it behind their healer in the shadows of Rias. Just as they were about to stab the healing nun. Another loli makes her way to the scene and sends both the twins flying.
They were caught by the nekomata twins, they really got close during training huh. But I could tell that they were severely injured. While Mira was considered to be the weakest because she is the newest pawn.
The twins were almost always just behind her. They were meant to be a showpiece by Riser, that's why they wielded chainsaws to compensate for their lack of strength. I just trained them to be more like scouts or ninjas. So I can't really blame them for taking the chance, even as they were not prepared to take on a rook. Even as weak as she is right now.
"Looks like it's time to show them your special training, Isabela, Xuelan go and take on their priestess. Mihae and all the pawns hit and run tactics on the cat. Luna, watch out for their pawn and signal me when he comes, also support either side, I leave it to your judgement. And knights protect Ravel." I ordered my peerage decisively and without hesitation they carried out my orders.
This is why I love my peerage. Undying loyalty to me. Also why I chose to be Riser. Why be Issei and chase girls, when I can be Riser with a harem that would never betray me? Even stayed with him through his depression arc.
"And I'll take care of Rias…"
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Ravel POV
Holding in my anger for the Gremory is harder than I thought when I finally see her face to face again. How dare she scream like that to Onii-sama? When, she should be grateful that she is even getting the chance to marry him? I would be elated if that happened to me.
So looking away to simmer my anger I look towards the rook of the Gremory who was being used as a target practice for the pawn brigade.The pawns especially were taught to dodge by Onii-sama, as they were the weakest piece but some of them still took glancing blows. The damage that they were doing was not that significant either.
Marion punched her to her sides but the petite rook just took it like a champ and was immediately on her when Burent appeared to her back and decked her skull. But once again she just tanked it and continued on. The rooks' defense enhancement effects were working for her overtime.
Slowly but surely the deadpan expression of the nekoshou was turning to agitation, her brows furrowed and just as she was about to be hit by a lunging attack by Mira she turned around as if she predicted the attack and used her full body weight in one punch that sent Mira flying knocking her out.
"One of the Phenex's pawns has retired" Grayfia-sama's voice sounded out.
I stared in shock as an unknown aura enveloped the girl and cat ears and two tails appeared on her. Ah, I see. Onii-sama did tell me she was a nekoshou but she didn't like that side of hers. She must have unconsciously channeled her power due to her anger.
"Nyaa! So there was another nekomata with us! Come play with us then nyaa!" Ni and Li lunged at her.
As they were about to come close to their brethren.
Swoosh
An arrow sniped the annoying cat making her dodge right into the range of Shuriya who immediately trapped her in her cloth. It wouldn't last for long, only for a second actually. But that second was all that was needed for everyone to crowd around her.
In the shadows sneaking around was Ile and Nel, who once again stabbed the legs of their opponents. Even though they were on their last legs, they still tried to help.
"Aaagh!!!" She yelped in pain. Those two have a habit of targeting their opponents legs now huh. But it wasn't over, just as she ripped the cloth of the dancer away she tried to jump away but the pain in her legs made her flinch.
And finally she was sniped by Mihae in her stomach. She doubled over but she still wasn't down. Ni and Li finally got a second chance and both punched her in the stomach once again, however she had one last hurrah.
She gathered all her demonic and ki in her fist and punched the blue haired cat girl. The result was a double knock out as they both retired from the match.
"Nyaa, that was fun nyaa. But I will make her pay next time for taking sisnyaa with her too." The red haired nekomata complained but looked happy while doing it.
"Lady Rias' rook retired, One of the Phenex's pawn retired" Another announcement was heard.
Meanwhile the two rooks are teaming up to take on the lightning priestess.
While the queen tries to fly away and shoots lightning behind her to put some distance, the two rooks chase her and slaps away the lightning.
They don't give in and tanks all the lightning that the miko gives their way. Looks like all those special training with Onii-sama really did pay off.
During training, Onii-sama took out a cursed tool he calls 'Kamutoke' that generates lightning and used it to train up their resistance to electricity. And their rook pieces adapted to that and made their defenses even stronger.
Though afterwards while I was spying on them they also used electricity to make them more sensitive while they were doing the deed. Onii-sama made sure that they were really intimate with the lightning element in all ways, even in the bedroom.
So when they caught up to the miko they immediately went to work and made their fists friends with her stomach and their legs with her back.
The queen tried to once again fly to put some distance between them but Isabela grabbed her hands and dragged her back to the ground, and put her on a choke hold from behind. And Xuelan went into a stance, widening her legs and putting her core into balance. She stepped forward and the ground cracked. Her right fist flying forward with the momentum of a train compressed into a dainty fist.
The priestess spat out blood while her stomach caved. Although she was smirking, I did hear she was a masochist but really? In battle?
And suddenly a lightning strike as big as a car struck the three locked in the end of their combat. We didn't notice it at first but above us thunder clouds were actually forming and using that as a conduit, she projected a larger lightning than she was capable of on her own. I see, so that was her plan.
The three combatants fell to the scorched ground. While they do have lightning resistance, a strike of that magnitude still wounded them severely. We have to worry about that later.
"Yubelluna, blast those clouds away, they may use it against us later." Yubelluna's support was not really necessary in the fights that occurred but losing that many pieces still hurt, we wanted an overwhelming victory after all, but this is still fine I think.
"The Queen of Lady Gremory has retired, two rooks of the Phenex has retired."
And so only three are left, the king, bishop, and a single pawn.
We got this in the bag then. I won't say that outloud though for I am a proper and refined lady of the Phenex household.
And then behind us an unbelievable amount of power erupted, I didn't even know what was happening but trees were blown away. The ground cracked and shards of rubble went flying. Green energy was being tossed around. And finally looking behind us, stood a dragon. So this is the power of the Red Dragon Emperor. A weak newly reincarnated devil can have this much of a power up because of the artifact created by Him.
All of us in the peerage backed away, because all of us knew that this is what Onii-sama wanted. He always told us during training that he wanted to fight the Red Dragon Emperor at his full strength. The legendary dragon who decimated almost half of the houses during the great war. The dragon that took on the combined strength of the three factions together with his rival. And debatably came out on top.
Even if he is being wielded by a pathetic wielder. The strength of Ddraig Y Goch still shines through. And hearing the proud voice of the dragon from the weak devil's left hand, "Boost!"
I also craved to fight the real dragon locked in the gauntlet. I didn't know it at the time but the influence of Onii-sama was deeper than I imagined for me to not run away but to actually want to fight against one of the Heavenly Dragons, my past self would boggle to what I have become now.
"Get away from her!!" the pawn shouted at the same time as an "Explosion!!" sounded out through the battlefield. The last hope of the Gremory has come.
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