"Shirone." I called out to Shirone, and she looked at me while tilting her head.
"If anyone asks where I am, tell them that I am in a mountain."
"What mountain?" Asked Shirone.
"The one behind Kuoh Academy. I turned that place into my training place."
"Un, okay. I will tell Kuroka nee-sama about that."
"Thanks." I raised my hand at her and then teleported to the mountain behind Kuoh Academy.
Spreading my senjutsu to feel whether there was anyone here, I found no one in particular. Even Sona and her peerage were not in Kuoh Academy.
The Satans must've called them to prepare for the friendly competition.
Young Devils would be asked to come too, huh? That would be the best choice for them.
From what I knew, even the Church was preparing their best fighter as well as their new exorcists to join the friendly competition.
The ones who had no such thing were us, youkai. There was no young youkai in my Hyakki Yakkou. Only I was the part of the new generation.
Well, enough of that. I put a barrier around the mountain so no one could enter.
There were two things that I wanted to try. I felt like I had achieved Balance Breaker once I absorbed Incinerate Anthem earlier.
So, I wanted to test it after trying Incinerate Anthem. If I remember correctly, Incinerate Anthem was a Holy Fire and was considered one of the Holy Relics. It was the Holy Cross that crucified Christ.
This Longinus was an independent-Avatar type similar to Regulus Nemea, which was bound to Sairaorg.
Now, the ability of the Incinerate Anthem was to control Holy Fire that could slay Ultimate-class and even Satan with ease.
This was good. I now had the Holy element to eliminate the rest of the Khaos Brigade as well as that sly Lucifuge who was still hiding in wherever he was right now.
"Well, let's try it."
I tried to call upon Incinerate Anthem's power as I raised my right hand. It was a bit hard to call it, but then I succeeded.
A purple flame appeared from my palm and floated slowly. Finally, it formed a ball, and it moved following my command.
I tried to make it shaped like a sword, and it complied. It formed a normal long sword-shaped fire.
"Woah, this is cool."
I played around with the fire a little. Incinerate Anthem was so convenient and could be shaped into anything. I now had a lot of ideas on how to utilize this Sacred Gear.
But now, I should test something again.
I called Nenekirimaru in my right hand and created the fire in my left hand. The experiment that I wanted to try was combining Incinerate Anthem with Nenekirimaru.
"Can I do it?"
Nenekirimaru had a special characteristic that cut any supernatural power. While Incinerate Anthem was a holy fire that could take any form or be imbued to any weapons, I had no confidence whether it would work on Nenekirimaru or not.
This was honestly a gamble. If it worked, then it would be the best. If it didn't work, I could try to imbue Incinerate Anthem to Garm.
I had no expectation with Garm, as the sword was a Demon Sword. Maybe Incinerate Anthem would purify Garm and make it a holy sword? Who knows.
Now I should concentrate on imbuing Incinerate Anthem to Nenekirimaru.
I slowly brought my left hand near Nenekirimaru.
Controlling the fire of Incinerate Anthem, I made it circling Nenekirimaru with care. Touching Nenekirimaru's blade was risky for now, so I tried to at least make it revolve around its blade.
The fire followed my command, and it now revolved around Nenekirimaru's blade. Step one was good; now, into step two.
I made a small fire again in my left hand and tried to imbue it into Nenekirimaru's blade. It slowly approached it, and when it made contact with Nenekirimaru's blade, it burst.
"Damn, so it's impossible after all?"
I ruffled my hand and sat on the ground. I admired Nenekirimaru, which had purple fire revolving around it. It was beautiful.
However, being beautiful was not enough. I was still in a sitting position as I raisedNenekirimaru above my head.
Incinerate Anthem could burn Satan's level devil with no problem. It should be hot, but when I touched it, it was only warm.
That was why I needed to test it.
"Tsuki Giri."
I swung Nenekirimaru down, and a crescent slash flew to the tree across from me. The usual blue slash was now purple while leaving a fire trail.
My mouth gaped a little. I never thought that only adding Incinerate Anthem around the blade would have this effect.
But, the slash was slower than the usual one, maybe because I was in a sitting position.
Although it was slower than the usual one, it was still faster than Issei's dragon shot.
The flying slash traveled to the tree and hit it in less than three seconds. When it made contact with the tree, it didn't cut it, but it engulfed the tree.
Swoosh!
In an instant, the tree was burnt down, leaving only ash.
The power of Incinerate Anthem was stronger than I thought. Once again, I looked at the purple fire that danced around Nenekirimaru's blade.
"Nice! I did it!"
With this, I shouldn't have any problems fighting Super Devil by myself without using Matoi.
Incinerate Anthem itself was strong enough, and it didn't cost a lot of energy from me because it was sentient-avatar.
Now, there was the last thing that I needed to do. I needed to test whether I could use Balance Breaker yet.
No, I was confident that I could use it, but… I didn't know the effect of Telos Karma Balance Breaker.
There was nothing known to it. I should be prepared for the worst.
"Well, I won't know if I don't try."
Pulling myself up, I made Nenekirimaru disappear and took Incinerate Anthem back to my body.
"Let's just do this. I hope this Balance Breaker can be combined with Incinerate Anthem."
"How should I say it… It's crazy…"
I looked at my aftermath of using Balance Breaker.
After making sure that I could use Incinerate Anthem with Nenekirimaru, I tried my Balance Breaker that was unlocked after I absorbed Incinerate Anthem.
To be honest, I had no expectation of the Balance Breaker of Telos Karma. I thought it would create a world where I could freely control the possibility of things.
However, it betrayed me in a good way. The Balance Breaker was crazy…
"To think the Balance Breaker of Telos Karma and Incinerate Anthem will be combined."
Right, two Sacred Gear's Balance Breaker was combined to create a new one.
With what happened earlier, I was now sure that the reason I couldn't use Telos Karma Balance Breaker was this. It guided me to get Incinerate Anthem first because the Balance Breaker turned out to be strong.
I looked at the scenery in front of me once again.
When I tested Garm a few days ago, a part of the mountain was destroyed, but it was quickly recovered by my barrier.
However, the scale of destruction caused by my Balance Breaker this time was greater than that.
A big crater, maybe around 200 meters, was made in front of me, spanning from me to the mountain.
The trees around the crater were pulled out because of the shockwave. Not only that… my barrier was destroyed, so this destruction would stay unless it was fixed manually.
I couldn't fix it by myself, and it led me to this trouble.
"Fallen Angels will be able to fix it." I muttered to myself and pulled out my phone.
There was one guy who was indebted to me, and I should use that to ask for this favor.
The phone beeped a few times before a cheerful voice greeted me.
"Heya~ What do you want from me, you brat?"
His voice was as loud as usual. That perverted fallen angel must've been glad that the favor that I needed was only this small.
"Hey, Azazel. Can you fix something for me?"
"Fix something? Sure! What is it?" Asked Azazel curiously with a tone mixed with excitement.
Did he think that I wanted him to fix some weapon or something?
I had some unusual stuff after all.
"Yeah, I want you to fix some land. There is a chance that ordinary humans will notice the supernatural existence if this is discovered. For now, I put a barrier to make it look like nothing is wrong with the area around the source of the problem."
"Land? What happened?" Asked Azazel worriedly.
"Well, it's like this…"
I then explained to him that I tried some new technique, but I couldn't judge its strength and ended up blowing the mountain as well as my barrier.
Silence descended between us for a few seconds until it was broken by Azazel's laughter.
"Hahahahahaha. You did what?!"
"Don't laugh. It's my fault; I know that."
"Yeah yeah. But what kind of technique can destroy your barrier on top of some land and mountain?"
"It's my trump card," I answered him vaguely.
Azazel seemed to catch what I implied as I could hear him snickering through the phone.
"Trump card, eh? Well, I won't pry. I will arrive personally in a minute, don't forget to put your barrier down so I can teleport to that place."
"Yeah, I will be waiting."
***
A few minutes later, Azazel called me again, and I took down my barrier for a few seconds to allow him to teleport here.
A magic circle appeared in front of me as soon as I gave him a sign, and two people appeared from it.
One of them was Azazel himself, while the other was Le Fay Pendragon.
I put up the barrier once again before greeting them.
"Yo, sorry to call you here."
"No problem. It's not troubling me at all, but…" Azazel looked at the aftermath of my attack behind him. "… This is too much for me to fix. Thankfully, I bring Le Fay with me."
"Yahoo~" Le Fay waved her hand to me energetically. "We met again, youkai-kun!"
"Yeah. If I remember correctly, you are called Le Fay Pendragon?"
"Yes! That's me!"
I nodded my head and pointed at the gouged Earth across from me. "Can you fix that?"
"Hmm…" Le Fay turned to look at the destroyed ground. When she turned around, her skirt was dancing in the sky.
"I think I can do that much. But… the fire over there." She pointed at the burnt tree in the distance. The tree was still burning with a purple fire caused by Incinerate Anthem's attack. "I can't extinguish that."
"That's easy."
I had grasped the trick to controlling Incinerate Anthem. Even the fire that was not inside my body was easy to control as long as it was part of Incinerate Anthem.
I extended my hand toward the fire, and it then disappeared instantly.
"Hoh?! Is that Holy Fire?" Azazel exclaimed. He turned to me. "How can you use a Holy Fire that even the Angel couldn't?"
"About that. Remember the magician that I caught yesterday?"
"Oh, right. You caught Walburga." Replied Le Fay.
I nodded my head at her and raised my right hand. Slowly, a purple fire appeared on top of my palm.
Azazel looked at what happened with interest. He was curious about it, but then he realized the identity of the purple fire.
"Is this Incinerate Anthem? You are really ridiculous… A strong youkai who needs nothing to beat his opponents now holds 2 Longinus; what a joke. Who can defeat you now?"
"I can also use Balance Breaker," I added, and Azazel could only smile wryly.
"Really ridiculous. I think no one can beat you now; even gods from mythology will have some trouble defeating you."
"Well, I know that. Putting that aside, can you fix the destroyed earth now?"
"Sure~ I will work on it now!"
Le Fay then turned to the destroyed Earth and extended his hand. A wand that looked like a broom appeared in her hand, and then magic circles followed suit.
A lot of magic circles of various colors appeared in the sky. The next thing that happened was miraculous.
The destroyed Earth began fixing itself slowly. It only took a round a minute that it turned back to normal.
"It's done!" Exclaimed Le Fay.
"Good job. Thank you for coming here."
"Nah, it's nothing." Answered Azazel.
Why did he be the one who answered me?
Well, it was no problem. I then looked at Le Fay.
She had helped me this time. As a good person, I should at least offer her something.
"Want to have breakfast in my mansion?"
And now it was still morning, so breakfast was good.
"Sure! I am famished after the work." Azazel answered once again.
I glared at him, and he smiled wryly.
As they had agreed to have breakfast in my mansion, I then teleported back to my mansion with them.
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