Chapter 40

3° person P.O.V.

On the game field, two teams were facing off. In one side there was Rias and her peerage, on the other there is Raiser and his peerage. Both sides were thinking just about the same at this moment, 'I have to make sure that Rias win'.

Yep, both sides wanted exactly and precisely the same.

With those thoughts running on the field the battles were about to start.

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Gymnasium

Issei and Kiba entered the place they could clearly feel the other three presences in the place.

As they looked at them the three figures moved.

One of them was a woman with a female-knight armor, but less bulky especially when in the joints. An armor that grants excellent defense and freedom of movement. She had short brown hair and azure blue eyes. Her name is Karlamine.

The next one was also a woman, but this time she used clothes that looked like an adventurer from an RPG, clearly more focused on speed and techniques instead of brutal strength and power. She had long black hair and gray eyes. Her name is Siris.

The final one was a woman with short brown hair with many flocks or red. She used a cloth that looked just like a biker, including the many gashes and steel spikes for decoration. But, the most striking thing about her was that she was using a half-mask covering her face, giving a 'Phantom of the Opera' vibe to her. Her name is Isabela.

As both sides faced each other the first one to speak was Kiba.

"Hello, it is nice meeting you. My name is Kiba Yuto, a knight of Rias Gremory and your challenger for today." He kept smiling while saying that, confidence oozing out of him.

The one that went ahead to talk was Karlamine.

"Hello, Rias Gremory Knight. My name is Karlamine and these here with me are Siris and Isabela. We are pleased to meet you and hope that you won't feel too bothered by us when we defeat you." She said, no less confidence oozing out of her than Kiba.

As the two faced each other the first one to move was Kiba. He dashed forward with a slower speed than he had before the training, but not by that much. As he ran toward Kalarmine he took out an unadorned sword. It had a simple design and power, but that power is one of the most effective as it raises his dexterity and the edge was extremely sharp.

As the two clashed swords Kiba instantly dropped his gravity center so as to force his move to flow better, evading Kalarmine sword and going to the outside of the room while saying.

"Come and face me, knights of the Phoenix clan!" At the end of the shout, he was already up on the outside of the gymnasium. Seeing this both knights sweet dropped and thought in unison 'such a shameless knight'. How could he challenge them if he runs away on the first possible chance?

Not seeing much of a choice as the two considered honor extremely important, both knights went out to face Kiba, leaving Issei and Isabela to face each other. But not before bumping into Issei that was in the way.

Issei, for as amazing as it might be seen, was facing Isabela with a serious face. Not a trace of lecherous thoughts was showing on his face.

As they faced each other no word was exchanged. They both saw no meaning to it as they were too well trained to allow conversations during combat, especially Issei as whenever he tried to talk anything during the spars with Bon Clay-sensei he would be kicked extra hard.

Right on his jewels, the only ones he cared about.

So many Phoenix Tears were used because of it, and all the costs were put on his tab. Now Issei won't talk during combat, traumatic experiences are a powerful thing.

Issei attacked first by kicking Isabela on the side with a roundhouse kick, which she managed to stop by putting her left hand in front of the way. This is the moment when the advantage of a rook is showed as even if Issei's kicks can break stone easily it could not make more than sting Isabela.

Isabela followed up by giving a straight right punch, but Issei managed to evade by bending his back. Not only that but he put his hands on the ground so as to flip himself while trying to kick Isabela's chin with his now free foot.

BANG

The kick hit its mark, Isabela got a weak concussion and got confused due to her brain being shocked by the impact.

Seeing the wing of opportunity Issei took a forward step and gave one attack.

"Little Boy!"

The flaming punch hit Isabela right in the stomach, bending her at a weird angle before being shot two meters back.

As Isabela adjusted herself she looked at Issei with a glare while a small steam of blood came out of her mouth.

As she cleaned her face Issei smirked at her, a smile that gave her the chills even if she did not know why.

Then Issei put his hand in front of himself and snapped his fingers while saying two words.

"Dress Break!"

Outside of the gymnasium, Kiba was having a hard time facing off against the two knights of Raiser.

His movements were a bit stiff and due to that he had received some minor wounds across his body. Nothing much but the fact that he was pushed into a corner was the truth.

Even after training so much, he still was not quite there yet to face off against two other knights.

Or so it seems.

As he saw the swing of Siris Zweihander, he managed to parry it with a sword he made with the intention of releasing a thin surface of water that makes paring easier as the enemy sword simply slips. However, the strength that Siris put behind the swing was such that even with the fact that he parried the sword it still wasn't enough to eliminate all the power put into it.

As a result, Kiba was thrown back four meters, right in the place where Kalarmine was positioned.

When he was being pushed back by the force of the impact, Kiba spun just in time as to avoid being slashed on the back. Unfortunately, even as he managed to turn in the right direction he did not manage to defend properly against Kalarmine flaming sword as the sword he has made previously to enhance his dexterity was melted on impact.

But Kiba was not to be underestimated. Due to the training, his body was stronger now and with it a bigger amount of magic energy. A magic energy that he used to create extremely energetically unstable blades beneath his feet right when he was pushed back.

While he could not create those swords too big due to excessive drain on his limited reserves it was still plenty enough for what he wanted.

A diversion.

BOOOOMMMMMM

When those two blades exploded close to Kalarmine she instantly put her sword in front of herself and liberated flames out of it so as to work as a pseudo shield. As Kiba looked at that scene he hoped that it would at the very least inflict serious damage to her, but he underestimated how strong her armor was and thanks to that she only got some minor scratches.

He then decided that it was no longer time to hold back so he used all his leg strength to jump over to the roof.

"What, tired of running?" Siris asked, already pissed at the Gremory knight that ran away more often than not.

"No, it is just that I realized that I need to take this fight seriously." He said that and next, he deactivated a small demon sword he kept in himself that had the effect of making an illusion to hide the four cylindrical weights he carried on his members.

As he removed all four he looked like a weight was taken out of his back and he then said.

"Ready for round two?" Following that he let those cylindrical weights drop.

Normally weights are not that heavy as if they were too heavy it could wound the body in the long run, but Kiba was a devil and his instructor was an (in his own words) 'demon that even hell did not want any more'.

As the weights fell on the ground-

BBBOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM

An explosion on the point of impact, followed by a dirt cloud was released on the field.

"Dress Breaker!"

As he heard Issei's voice he wondered what happened and what was he talking about. But in the next moment, he heard a sound that he was accustomed to hearing in a VERY different setting.

""KKKKKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!""

A vision that would be engrained in Kiba's mind to the day he died surged at that moment, the image of two swordswomen's caring their swords and butt naked.

And up until the day he died, he would deny the following thought ever passed through his head.

'Thanks for it, Issei!'

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Inside the gymnasium, Issei was griming while looking at his work.

Isabela was on her knees, trying her absolute best to not show anyone her more intimal parts. Meanwhile, Issei was griming like a fool, and while blood dripped from his nose he said.

"Thank you, Castiel-sensei, for teaching me magic. If it was not for you I wouldn't have completed my undressing magic."

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In a room, an interesting scene was happening. One young man was being held down as he tried to craw his way to the nearest point of teleportation for inside the game.

He had to correct a mistake, even if a par of jewels (ones that are in the middle of the legs of a young pervert) could and most likely would end up crushed because of it.

The situation seemed to have gotten better after some time, but when those words from Issei were heard even Sairaorg needed to put some serious effort into not letting Castiel walk out of that room.

In his mind, Castiel had one thought: 'when you get out I will make sure that you cannot walk straight for a full week out of how damaged your balls will become!'

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Issei suddenly felt a chill running down his back. A feeling of impending doom was upon him.

At that moment there was a flash of light and suddenly Isabela left the place. Not just her but Siris also left, the only one remaining was Kalarmine that turned tail and ran away as fast as possible, covered in flames liberated by her sword.

"One rook and one knight of Riser Phoenix left the battleground by their own choice. Also, five pawns and one bishop of Raiser Phoenix lost and one bishop from Rias Gremory lost."

Hearing this Issei and Kiba got shocked thinking: 'What happened over there?'.

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A few minutes ago

The woods were a place where normally there would be close to no movement or sound, this time around was different as a large group of people was entering the woods.

Six pawns and one bishop entered the woods together, looking for a chance to sneak around to the other team's base so as to get as many pawns promoted.

Raiser wanted to see if he could make a spectacular almost win before he conceded the victory in a perfect way.

As they entered the forest the one at the very front was a girl with blue hair and light brown eyes. Her hair is styled with four short ponytails, with two of the four pointed up and the remaining two pointed down. The front of her hair features split bangs going across her forehead, with side bangs framing her face. Her outfit consists of a white haori with a red obi, which is worn under a red happi coat. She wears bandages on her forearms and shins she also wears black guards over her hands. For footwear, she wears a pair of zōri.

The name of this girl is Mira, one of Raiser's Pawns and a user of Ki.

She also knew some basics of senjutsu and used those two abilities to specialize in scouting.

As she stopped in the front of the forest she put her right hand on a three and closed her eyes. After a few seconds, she said.

"There is just one enemy in the forest to bar our path, but he is strong."

"Oh please, as if he could be strong enough to stop us all." Said Marion, one of the bishops of Raiser. She is a young girl with shoulder length light brown hair and dark brown eyes, dressed in a buttoned, sleeveless, French maid uniform with a white lace design, along with a standard maid headpiece, cuffs, and a white half-apron to go with the set. She also wears light grey tights.

"Yeah, how strong can he even be?" another one of the pawns called Burent said. She is a young girl with shoulder length dark brown hair, dressed in a sleeveless French maid uniform that exposes her breasts cleavage and with a white lace design on the edges. She also uses as a maid headpiece, half-apron, and forearm length fingerless gloves.

"I agree." Was all that the fourth pawn said. She is a woman in her early twenties using a metallic bikini and some veils and clothes that in combination gives out the vibe of an exotic dancer. The name of this pawn is Shuria.

"Always one for few words, huh Shuria?" said the leader of this group, the bishop Mihae. She's a young girl who most notable characteristic is that she is always seen wearing a Kimono with a color pattern of purple, orange, and pink with her long black hair tied on opposite side. "Why are you two so quiet, Ile, Nel?" asked her in concern as she knew very well that these two are always quite hyperactive.

"We are tired from last night." Ile said.

"Yeah, yeah. We stayed up until now because we were playing mortal kombat with Raiser-sama." Nel said.

"Uhum, I and sis were competing to see who can give more fatalities against him." Ile said.

"I won." Nel said in the end with a toothy smile and a thumbs up.

Nel and Ile are the two youngest members of Raiser peerage, both being 15 but with the appearance of 13, or, as Raiser would say, 'Legal LOLI for the WIN!'.

The two have turquoise shoulder length hair, which they keep tied to one side of their head with a yellow ribbon (opposite to their sister), and blue eyes. Both of their outfits consist of gym uniforms, which consist of white t-shirts with blue accents, black leggings, blue sneakers above a knee-high sock and they also wear an orange wristband on their right wrist.

As all of them entered the forest Mira was the first one to realize that they were being watched. When she sensed that she jumped ahead and gave a palm strike on the place where she felt that they were being spotted, killing a shadow familiar.

As they saw this they realized that the one they would be facing would be Gasper, the scared bat from the Gremory peerage. They could not help but relax a bit as he was known or being afraid of everything.

A grave mistake.

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On another point of the forest Gasper was sitting down on a chair made out of a shadow that he produced while looking through the eyes of the shadow familiars that he just made.

Since he went through that hell he stopped being afraid of his vampiric side and when he made that decision a new strength surged throughout him. It was not coming from his sacred gear of just his vampiric powers over blood and shadows, but something more primordial to him.

It came from his very soul.

He did not understand what it was, but it was clear to him that it was not evil or bad for him. If he was to describe it would be like he got a new soul together with his, a strange but welcome change and power. From it, he felt like a leader and a king, like he needed to be more and gave him the power to do so.

It was clear, however, that he was far from capable of fusing completely with it. It remained a different entity and he was not sure if he would ever completely dominate this power. But he would work towards it, he needed to since he had a mission in life that he would do anything to do. A mistake that he had to correct and a revenge for his dearest older-sister that he must execute even if it costs his eternal life.

But it was not what he should focus right now. Now what he needs to do is to destroy those enemies that DARED to challenge him.

He would make them pay for this insolence.

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He might need some therapy.

As the girls entered deeper into the forest they suddenly heard an unexpected sound.

Hooves. Horses hooves traveling in their direction.

As soon as they heard that Mihae used her specialty, enchanting. It was not a particular branch of magic, but it worked in a similar way to a blessing and while the boost is weaker they last longer and could be used in devils without problems.

As she used her magic the others were not idle as they took out different weapons so as to deal with the situation. Shuria took out a pair of scimitars, Marion took out a rapier, Burent took out a whip, Mira took out a wooden staff with the wood being strengthened many times over to the point it was harder than metal, Ile and Nel used chainsaws that liberated flames when on.

After getting ready they saw their opponent. While he was still wearing girls' clothing and even had a hint of make-up his aura of power and dominance was such that he could not be mistaken with a girl at that moment.

His hair was longer now and while it remained platinum blond it now reached the middle of his back and the tips were blue. He was also wearing a pair of silver earrings that he had just bought and a silver necklace. He himself didn't know why but he liked those items very much even if they sting him from tme to time, he was part vampire after all.

He approached Raiser peerage atop a horse that he created using shadows, giving him the feel of a demoing general approaching for combat.

When he was 25 meters away from Raiser peerage he stopped his horse and looked at them with a hint of displeasure in his eyes.

"I advise you all to turn around and leave this game as you guys have no chance of winning here." Gasper said.

Looking at him Raiser's peerage could not understand how someone wildly known for being weakly minded suddenly got this type of presence, but it was not important right now.

What they needed to do was just one thing, to strike him down before he had the chance of facing Raiser as who knows how the confrontation would turn out.

As they all thought that they jumped into action by launching all their attacks all at the same time.

"Fools, prepare for punishment. Taste this blazing stakes of my compassion and wrath! Despair, for this sea of stakes has no end, as it is truly infinite! Your blood will be you're the only one to flow to this land!-"

"KAZIKLI BEY!"

As soon as that incantation finished dozens of stakes made of shadow and blood came from every possible surface. There was virtually no way to get out unscratched and as such most of Raiser's peerage received extremely serious injury as they were impaled through the gut with one or more spears that came out of nowhere. Most had to be removed for emergency treatment or else there was a large chance of them dying if they did not receive immediate treatment.

There was but one survivor of this attack, Mira. As she trained in detection for a long time she was extremely attuned to the ambient and danger, and thanks to that managed to avoid that the stakes aimed at lethal points.

But she was still pierced on one of her legs and the abdomen, if she received the treatment she would be fine but if she remained like that for a few more minutes she would have to be removed due to blood loss.

At that instant Gasper magic reserves took a huge drop, that attack may be powerful but it still cost a lot of magic to execute.

As Gasper deactivated the stakes Mira dropped to the ground, looking close to dying.

"I commend you for surviving this attack, but I will have you leaving the game now." Gasper said, approaching Mira.

She stood up shakily and tried to launch a palm attack, but in the middle of her movements, she was frozen in time.

Gasper's eyes were shining as his sacred gear Forbidden Valor View was activated, stopping time for the one he looked at. Before he was incapable of controlling it due to his mental issues, but now he could control it very easily.

"Useless action, did you really think you could defeat me?"

However, at the following moment, things changed.

"GHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Gasper suddenly dropped to the ground and started screaming in pure pain, a pain worse than anything he has ever experienced before.

The reason why is that Mira's palm contained some senjutsu and even if time stopped the life energy present in the attack itself did not stop. For most, it would not be that painful or debilitating, but in Gasper situation, it was not that simple.

Due to the state of his soul in the moment that the life energy reached Gasper, an instability surged between the two souls present there creating a conflict on his very soul. The result of such conflict was that Gasper started feeling unimaginable pain coursing through his body and mind to unbelievable degrees.

So much so that he was forcefully removed from the battlefield to receive emergency treatment. As a result, the only one that remained in the forest was Mira, the 'winner' of this battle, not that she could actually move or do anything right now except try her best not to pass out.

It really was a surprising sight for the spectators as in both battlefields there were multiple pieces being defeated, but the results could not be any more different.