บท 240: Rage!

As Aegis went to sleep with Krull and Neo on each side, even if Krull seemed firstly reluctant, and Neo too eager, with Neopolitan sleeping on Neo's other side and the three females fallen on sleeping uneasily on the other bed, there was development in the church where the massacre happened.

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"Who do you think could do this?"

"Maybe a stray?"

"We both know that stray devil in the city wouldn't by able inflict such damage in such short time and in such discrete manner, all of this happened not even an hour-long battle, and from the look of it... They were played with..."

Said a young and petite female with a slim build, black hair in a short bob cut, and glasses that hid her sharp violet eyes that showed intelligence rare for her apparent age.

"Maybe new sacred gear?"

There was hope in other female's voice as she no longer looked at the massacre with uneasiness, but hope in her blue eyes as her beautiful long crimson hair that reached deep down to her tights framed her face, partially hiding her current expression, with a single strand of ahoge sticking on top of her head, her body was voluptuous one with white cream skin...

Both females wore a strange uniform that just added to their charm.

"Rias, do not make any hasty decisions."

"I-I know, Sona! Sorry... I just..."

"I know, Rias, but there is still time, and my proposition still stands, we can train together, maybe a mock rating game between us would help."

Said the now named Sona as she looked at her friend, who deeply sighed.

"Y-yes... Thank you, It is just, before we came there, I found something unpleasant..."

"Hm? Care to tell your friend?"

"I-Issei, the boy we knew had Sacred gear, is no longer in possession of one."

"What?!"

Sona looked at Rias in shock as she saw her nod her head sadly.

"Yes, somehow, someone came and took it from him, I asked him what happened to him, he said that some pretty boy came to him and spouted some nonsense about life choices and then he felt pain, I needed to erase his memory of it, or he would risk getting into danger now that he no longer has sacred gear..."

Rias said with sadness and little disappointment, as Sona looked deep in thought, to take sacred gear from someone without hurting them or even killing them was rare, almost unheard of, yet someone like that was now in their city?

"Rias, we need to be careful, who knows what this unknown want, maybe, no I think even this place has something to do with this 'pretty boy' we must be careful!"

Sona urged to Rias, whose eyes gained desperate glint.

"Y-yes, of course!"

Rias said, but the moment Sona looked at her, she knew her friend didn't take her urging seriously, they were friends from a young age, and Sona knew what was now on Rias mind.

"Rias, for satan's sake, do not do anything rash."

Sona said, but Rias no longer listened to her as her mind desperately looked for the best type of approach she could use on this unknown...

And mainly how to poach him/her/it to her peerage...

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"Sir! Altiry is ready!"

"Good! Send them back to Hell from where they came!"

"Yes! Kinetic artillery fire!"

There were tremors in the ship as it started to fire its weapons into the forest that no longer looked like a normal one.

As the Captain of the ship looked at the lad that was now bombarded by his fleet, his face was set in a stone-like visage.

"Can someone tell me how these things got out from the Dimensional facility? I do remember that on the last meeting, his majesty saying that these things couldn't invade other places before fully subjugating Dimensional facility that is by reports were active and still in our hands?!"

"That would be because of poor luck."

Captain looked at his side, where Album nodded at him as he saluted to A.I that was at the same time, Schnee.

"Luck? How does this situation have anything to do with luck?"

"Everything, let me show you my last recordings."

Captain nodded as Album opened the screen where everything was alright until one child seemed to go in shock and then just vanish, just to appear in another place.

"So, teleportation semblance, nothing new."

The Captain said as he looked at the happy kid and concerned parents who berated the kid for not being more careful.

"Yes, uncommon but not rare power to have, yet if you look too close, his teleportation isn't instantons."

"Hmm? Yes, there is some kind of delay, and? What the..."

The kid vanished again in joy, just to return after a while with teary eyes and a scar on his arm as the parents quickly scooped their kid, but before the kid could say something, a portal opened in the town square from where the familiar demons rushed in force, massacring the Solitas town, after that, a fight began between defenders and the demons who rushed in forces, Sentinels and automatic defenses held the line until some of these new demons didn't start shooting firebombs that annihilated the automatic defense turrets that until now held the rushing mob in check, making it possible for the demons to overwhelm the defenses...

As Captain continued to look, of course, the battle wasn't a short one, Sentinels and Sentrie's were trained to fight against the swarm enemies, and their experience with Grimms and Flesh monster's made them hold the line even without the defenses that were being annihilated by these demon magic users, Captain saw how Sentinel Captains engaged the more dangerous looking demons, but because of the distance of the town from any major or strategic meaning, the reinforcements were just too far for them to come in time.

But before the last Sentinel's could fall in fight, there was an animalistic howl that sounded like a wolf as from the forests near the town, werewolves rushed at the demons, tearing them apart and saving any civilian they could...

"Thanks to the werewolf clan that was placed to this forest where they have their own town, more than hundred of five hundred civilians survived."

Album said as Captain nodded his head, looking how these man-beasts with their claw met in melee against the demons, the werewolves were too different from their previous image when they came to Remnant, no longer they look like sick or limp bodies of man-wolfs, thanks to Solitas genetic knowledge, and psychiatrist's, and Solitas entire acceptance of these being's, the werewolves life changed to better as they were helped in both body and mind, and thanks to it, they now looked like Grimm Beowolves, ripped with muscles that screamed strength, as their inner wolves were accepted by their human minds, making the coexistence between a wolf and human possible, thus regaining human mind even in wolf form...

"I see, they have our thanks... Their fallen would get same honor as our Sentinel's and Sentrie's that fall in their duty, and their names would be engraved to Solitas Honor Wall Of Fallen..."

The Captain said as Album nodded, she herself had already made the same decision.

"And what about... Lili? The last surviving Sentrie?"

Captain said, as even if Werewolves come in time, all Sentinel's with their Captains and Sentrie's minus one was killed, the numbers and new abilities of these demons taking them in surprise...

"She is... Look at it yourself."

Captain noded as another clip of battle was shown to him, in this, the bloodied Sentrie screamed in rage and anger as she ripped demons with her bare hands, any weapon forgotten as her helmet fell down, yet her Aura seemed to not take any damage...

No...

"What is this?"

"As you can see... Each time she killed a demon, her Aura got recharged..."

"What?"

The Captain said dumbfoundedly, looking in shock how the Sentrie woman screamed in rage as she ripped one demon after another, no longer there was a sigh of any fear or reluctance as if she lived for this...

For this savagery...

"But that wasn't the most interesting find, look at the more important looking demons."

Album said, and Captain did so, and what he saw shocked him, for he saw clear human emotion in these demon eyes, no longer their eyes were full of cruelty, now they held something Captain saw in his eyes each morning, he saw in many other Solitas soldiers, a clear sing of PTSD, of fear of something from their past...

"Whatever Lili Scrile has done, it reminded these demons of something or someone, and if my guess is right, it is possible that what is happening to Lili isn't so rare, as it is clear that these demons and the Ardent Energy changed Lili's mind, taking her desire to kill demons into another level..."

Captain looked deep in thought at the women fight, the same woman who now slept as dead in the medical bay on his ship...

"This... Contact Vahlen, no contact Commander Sienna, we need to find how these demons opened the portal, and how to stop them in doing so, and to prepare forces in all our cities, towns, villages..."

"Already done, but I do not think that this would be repeated, as you can see, the boy's semblance clearly didn't teleport him from point A to point B but rather teleported him to another dimension and then back to our, and demons somehow used that to open their own portal."

"Don't care, better be ready than not..."

"Sienna said the same, very well, I will send additional battle drone squadrons to all civilian's living locations."

Captain nodded as his eyes turned back to the savage battle, as his fleet of ships continued the bombardment of the town full of demons.

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"Iris, this decision must have your consent."

"I know... Very well if you think this is for the best."

"I do, the Flesh Monster's outlived their usefulness, with these demons as new bogeymen, the Vale and Vacuo citizen would flock on our side much quicker."

"Yes, especially after 'Someone' released the invasion's of the facility and that town to the net, right?"

Iris said as she looked at Album, who just nodded.

"It was a logical decision, already our forces need to deal with Flesh monsters, and now with demons who could take their place, our forces wouldn't be so stretched."

"Haaaah, not even a week after his departure, and this falls onto my lap... Good, just release the virus."

Iris said as Album nodded, releasing the virus that was created to kill the Flesh monsters that were hiding underground.

"What a mess... I need bigger pay..."

Iris mumbled as she again threw herself on dealing with the fallout of one of Soltias towns falling to demons invasion.

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