Bab 22: Chapter 85: Absolute Power
After talking with Rias and her peerage, everybody went to Agreas so they could celebrate.
"Ahhh, that guy huh? They sure are ballsy, deciding your marriage with a rating game." Seekvaira fixed her glasses.
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"Seek-chan, here's a little gift from Akihabara." Ise gave her a little bag and Seekvaira checked it out with a critical eye.
"Thank you for this wonderful gift, I will add it to my collection." Seekvaira slowed down time around her as she cancelled the magic that hides her gunpla collection.
She then looked around first if there Sae or the servants of the Agares house were there, snooping around.
Seekvaira resumed time to its normal flow and Latia looked at her incredulously. "Take pride in your hobby, Seekvaira." She huffed at her.
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"Tia is correct Seekvaira! You must be proud of the things that you love!" Sairaorg nodded sagely at Latia.
"Shut up, it's an image thing." Seekvaira sighed in exasperation. "I can't be like Rias who is a blatant weeaboo."
"Hey! I'm not a weeaboo, I'm a Japanophile, those are completely different things!" Rias complained as she glared at Seekvaira.
"Well, she's not wrong Rias." Mordred shrugged and Rias puffed her cheeks at him. She then shot a black beam at him in annoyance.
But he just ate it and licked his lips. "The power of destruction is as spicy as usual." Mordred sighed and steam escaped from his mouth.
"I can never get used to that..." Latia commented as she winced. Rias' power of destruction is much stronger than even the Baels. The only ones who have more proficiency in it are her family.
The flaxen haired madame of extinction, and Sirzechs Lucifer; the strongest devil that has ever lived.
"Well, it is tasty. It's like a really delicious hot sauce." Ise shrugged and the devils looked at the dragons incredulously.
They haven't been causing any chaos for the past few years. And the Satans even got a bit suspicious that the devil council is being meek.
"Anyways, how about I train you to the absolute limit Rias?" Mordred has been preparing a lot for an opportunity.
And it was time to reveal their real strength to the supernatural world. Their executives are all at the ultimate class. And even Le Fay just needs a push to break through her limits as a human.
A mortal human who is weak that could break through the chains of their weak bodies. She's practically mastered Thu'um enough that she's basically a dragon.
Longinus were called the balance breakers of the world. But he has raised warriors that will tip the balance of the world.
"Train? But you've been training me with Saber." Rias tilted her head and Mordred had a grin on his face that threatened to rip his lips with how wide it was.
Mo-chan then reacted. "You mean that piss easy sword training he puts us through? You haven't seen anything yet, red." Mo-chan shrugged.
"Kuu! This will disrupt the balance! I want to train as well!" Sairaorg was jealous as heck.
"Sorry, Sai. You see, there is an unfortunate thing in this world called bias. And Mordred loves the female form." Vali shrugged and Mordred nodded sagely.
"I sure do, tights that dig through thighs are the best. Chests that are hidden under constraints that are just waiting to be revealed..." Mordred started missing his master and Yasaka.
"I see... So it seems that I would've been luckier if I was born as a woman. Curse my cruel fate." Sairaorg cursed the heavens.
"No, it's definitely easier being a guy, Sai." Latia and Seekvaira deadpanned at his antics.
"So what do you say? Do you want to see? The reason why we got this strong?" Ise challenged her and Rias snorted.
"Count me in. But wait, what's the compensation for this? You're all about every action has a reaction." Rias looked at him suspiciously.
"That's easy, we haven't hanged out for some time now. And my hands want to see how far you have developed." Mordred's hands started wiggling.
His god hands that have been developed by massaging a goddess and Satan class individuals increased his dexterity to the limits.
"Kuu! I'm so jealou~ I mean, congrats for being given the chance to meet our master, Rias." Ise quickly corrected herself.
"Mordred's been really busy." Vali looked at Mordred's butt and her desires were leaking.
"W-what's with his hands?" Seekvaira didn't know what to feel about his hand movements, it was both hypnotizing and ominous.
"I offer myself as tribute." Akeno stood up and Rias glared at her. "I agree!" Rias immediately shook his hand.
"Then let's go, to the place where you can shed your mortal shell." Mordred snapped his fingers and they disappeared.
"Ara~ they just left behind like that." Akeno sighed and she at least wanted to spend more time with her very first friend.
"A dragon's whims are beyond our understanding, Akeno." Latia rolled her eyes while fanning herself.
"Do you think she'll get even stronger? Rias already has the strongest attack power between us." Sairaorg wondered.
"We can only wonder." Seekvaira shrugged and they just waited in curiosity on what Rias will show them later.
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Rias blinked as she took in the surroundings. And they were in his house. "Your master lives with you?"
"No, I can't let our teleportation get tracked. So I went here first, and we'll be fetching someone so you can get the most out of it." Mordred took out some food and he made its scent spread.
"Is that Mordred's tonkatsu sandwich deluxe!?" The Nakiri twins who were self-proclaimed gourmands suddenly appeared.
"Yes, and we need your sacred gear Momiji." Mordred gave it to them as a bribe and the two started to eat it with an ecstatic expression.
"Wait a minute... She's one of the people who attacked Lilith!" Rias was shocked and Erina looked at her in curiosity.
"I didn't know we have a visitor, Mordred. Will this be fine? Or should we kill her here?" Erina asked as she bit the best part of the cutlet, which was the crispy ends.
Rias suddenly shuddered as Erina wasn't kidding. And she's the ultimate counter to magic users. Devils who rely on their clan traits are her perfect targets.
"Erina, she's obviously Mordred's friend. Hello, we are Momiji and Erina." Momiji bonked her on the head.
"Come on, we'll be visiting Cath." Mordred snapped his fingers once again and they appeared in the land of shadows.
Rias immediately felt the ominous aura around the place and her power of destruction crackled to protect herself from the aura of death.
"What is this place? I feel so much death around." Rias frowned and Mordred smacked her butt.
"The aura isn't the worst thing around here, what's beyond those ramparts are." Mordred pointed at the castle up ahead.
A spear then suddenly appeared right in front of Mordred as he caught it. "It's good to see you, Mordred." Scathach was about to hug him tightly, but she noticed a devil with him.
"A devil? Is this the devil that tried to seduce you?" Scathach remembered that time and she almost chuckled at the memory.
"This is a friend of mine, master. And she wants to break her limits. So how about we send her out there?" Mordred pointed at Scathach's stronghold.
"Really? But she's what in your words would be a peak ultimate class." Scathach observed Rias and she was too weak to roam the realm of the dead.
Where all kinds of spirits want to break through. And some of them are even Satan class beings that Scathach imprisons inside the land of shadows.
"I want to get stronger." Rias looked at Mordred and she could feel it, the gap between them only got farther.
It was like she was sprinting with all her might to catch up to him, but he was speeding through the road to strength with a jet.
"I like the look in your eyes, devil. Mordred, pump her with your babies, your offspring will be strong." Scathach who was from the age of the gods of course thought differently from modern people.
"P-pump me with babies!?" Rias blushed like a tomato. "Anyways, I imagine that I'll be using Innovate Clear to make time slow down huh?" Momiji understood now.
"Yes, Rias will be having a fun time in the land of shadows. Nothing like a fight to the death so you can surpass your limits." Mordred nodded sagely and Scathach agreed wholeheartedly.
Rias got nervous, but she shook her head to get rid of her anxiety and paranoia. "I am ready, those who do not walk will not be able to run." Rias squinted her eyes.
"You'll definitely come a long way, I approve of her." Scathach nodded at him and Mordred puffed his chest in pride.
"She's my friend, of course you will approve of her." Mordred smiled at her and Rias beamed at him.
"Then prove your determination, devil." Scathach grabbed her neck with amazing speed that the speed oriented Rias didn't even see her move.
Scathach then tossed her over the walls of her castle, starting the trial by fire. Momiji then started floating to the air as she spread her arms.
"Balance Breaker: World of Eternal Perfection." As she activated her balance breaker, reality seemed to bend over the land of shadows.
They were swallowed in a pocket dimension where Momiji could control everything, from the atmosphere, time, physics, chemistry, reality itself.
An absolute territory where Momiji is God. Turning her hand clockwise, time stilled to a crawl as she started up the hyperbolic time chamber.
"These Longinus sure are ridiculous, how can you fight against her in her dimension?" Even Scathach couldn't think of a way to fight Momiji and Erina when they were together.
With Erina there, her Gae Bolg just turns into a normal spear. And her perfectly calculated movements are thrown out the window. She'd basically be fighting like a noob.
And while they were in Innovate Clear's balance breaker, Momiji could micromanage everything to make fighting a living hell. She's the perfect crowd control.
"What can I say? You've raised them well, Cath." Mordred smiled at her and Scathach chuckled.
"Well, you motivated them to be stronger too. Don't sell yourself short." Scathach pinched his nose and she gave him a kiss.
"Come on, let's watch her shed her mortal shell and become a divine warrior that can slay gods." Mordred flapped his wings and Scathach flew to the air.
Back with Rias, she was disoriented due to the change of scenery. And that was a fatal mistake, as she got jumped immediately.
"Mana! Magic power! Consume!" Ghosts that refuse to rest in peace mobbed her immediately and the confused Rias got lynched.
Receiving a punch right on her face, she sobered up quickly. "Begone!" Blackish red lightning crackled as her power of destruction incinerated the weaker ghosts.
"What in the world? How can they be so strong?" Rias watched the evil spirits eye her like a juicy piece of meat. Wanting to take her essence as a living being.
"Survive, Rias. Only then will you break your limits." Mordred loaned her a sword. And it was the demonic emperor sword; Gram.
She looked at it and was offended that he would think she would need it. "I don't need handouts, Mordred. I will do this on my own." Rias formed daggers of power of destruction on her hands.
And her actions were approved by the dragon and godslayer. "Good character, show me your motivation, girl." Scathach squinted her eyes.
Like royalty that watched a gladiator fight through enemies, she observed Rias' every action.
"Haa! Come at me and fight you dead bastards! I still haven't given my virginity to Mordred!" Rias charged in.
"Ahhh... Weird motivation, but she's got the spirit." Mordred smiled wryly as the twins looked at him with a raised brow.
With her daggers, Rias slashed and stabbed through hordes of malicious spirits. "She isn't conserving much energy, she will get tired." Scathach pointed out.
"Let her see her mistake later, it is the part of growing." Mordred shrugged and she nodded.
Rias didn't use much of her magic, opting to use daggers and fighting with pure martial prowess. But it has a flaw, it would tire her body too soon.
After an hour of fighting, she thought that it was pretty easy. The enemies were approximately high class. And she could keep fighting them for days on end.
But the land of shadows contain many fallen warriors like Valhalla. The Ulster cycle is a bloody string of events that killed countless warriors.
And feeling the life force of a devil that is surging with vitality, the stronger spirits came. Rias was blindsided by a fist that crashed against her torso and she was sent flying.
The air in her lungs escaped through her mouth and she coughed as she hit the wall of Scathach's castle.
Her teal eyes glared at the new offenders and their malicious aura was much, much stronger than before. "Ultimate class..."
She dusted herself off and Rias formed a sword in her hand. "Not barely enough, you are too weak to bring me down to my knees."
Rias squinted her eyes and she disappeared from her place, using shukuchi.
The spirits disappeared, but they were quickly replaced by more. The dead knows rest and their desire to escape the prison of Scathach intensified.
"It starts here." Mordred squinted his eyes and Rias continued to fight. Spectral arrows started to rain from above. Magicians from times past released an onslaught of spells.
"She won't make it, she isn't improvising, improving." Scathach sighed at her narrowmindedness.
"Let's wait, she might surprise you." Mordred shrugged as Rias formed a kite shield of her clan trait to weather the storm of magic and spectral attacks.
A single person fighting armies of undead that keep on coming. It was like an epic of a hero of legends.
Seconds turned to minutes, minutes to hours, until days passed. And the undead were not mindless.
Their tactics changed, assassins started to look for openings and they were surrounding her at all times. Spreading their attacks so they could exhaust her mana.
And she reached a breaking point. "Shit!" Rias slipped on a rock, a rookie mistake. But she was getting exhausted.
The little mistake cost her dearly, as arrows hit her on the back and a knife was shoved on her side. A lithe ghost successfully wounding her gravely.
"She's at her limit." Scathach pointed out and Mordred nodded. "True, but that is when normal people and those who become legends differ."
Rias coughed up blood as she smashed the assassin in front of her with a hammerfist. Her blood flowed and the ghosts feasted on it like a pack of hyenas.
"Hah, hah. I can't give up here... So tired." Rias could feel her eyelids grow heavy. Her legs were like lead and every muscle on her body started to hurt.
Her memories started to flash before her eyes and Rias' eyes glazed over. "Remember, Rias. Our power of destruction is formless, boundless, you can turn it into anything. The sky is the limit."
She remembered Venelana's words as they began her training in the power of destruction.
"Formless, like flowing water." She could see them approach her, like hounds that smelled their target.
"Our magic is dangerous, it could erase anything with enough mana. But overwhelming power is useless if you cannot control it Ria-tan." Sirzechs' words echoed in her mind.
"Absolute might that needs to be tamed." Rias' teal eyes glowed as she let her remaining magic power flow through her hand.
"I see now, my eyes have been opened. This power's purpose, why the Baels are the great kings of devilkind. And it is to annihilate my enemies until their souls disperse." Rias clenched her fists.
"Begone, never to be reincarnated again." Rias formed wings made of the power of destruction, her will to annihilate her enemies bent her magic to her desires.
The air around her hand buzzed as her power of destruction became something else, something more primal.
"Her magic is destabilizing my balance breaker, what kind of magic is that? You can't even call that the power of destruction anymore." Momiji was shocked.
"You idiot, you've finally found it. Something that sets you apart from rabble." Mordred grinned.
"The forbidden magic of calamity, Chaos magic." Scathach was pleasantly surprised. Like primordial magic, its potential was limitless.
"My power shall be absolute!" Rias formed a sword made of chaos. She then swung it with godlike speed as the dimension trembled.
"It's opening rifts to the dimensional gap, that's something you don't want to get hit by." Scathach smirked as she saw another bright warrior being born.
Void seeped out of the spatial rends and Rias collapsed on the ground as the army of evil spirits were erased to their very essence.
Mordred's arm turned jet black as he closed the rifts to the abyss and he jumped down besides her. "Rest now, my crimson princess." Mordred smiled as he patted her head.
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Thanks for reading everyone, ciao.
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