V1C11

Later that night Matteo and the girls went off to walk around the small lake in sector three, the surroundings were eerily silent void of human presences which is normal but there should at least be cars moving in the surroundings. When Matteo came over to the lake what he noticed was the water have a faint tint of green on the surface, "It appears the water is quite poisoned or someone has done something to it" Matteo spoke to the girls so they will keep their distance from the water so Matteo called out his spellbook using several scanning magic to see if he could learn what kind of substance was inside the lake.

Matteo used the same spells once again to double-check the properties was indeed correct the first time, his brows furrowed as he began to ponder "Erica contact my father and have him work together with Lilliana's grandfather and Patricia to search for water sources that have similar green colour in it" Erica tilts her head, while she was dialling Matteo continued, "This water has some strange mixture which I am not even sure how to discern but from the looks of it, this water source is the reason for the undead and why they have human presences." Matteo looked around his surrounding wondering how that Mad doctor got his hands on something that should not exist in the mortal realm.

After working down a list of possibilities Matteo came to two possibilities, this old man either working together with a Heretic God or a Divine Ancestor, Heretic God was the least likely since all of those gods have pride so high up their noses that working together with humans would be like an insult for them. however, Divine ancestors are different. "Also notify my father of the possibility that a Heretic God or divine ancestor is working together with Giovanni" Erica nodded while she was talking with Paolo on the phone, in the meantime, Matteo was using the spellbook to use purifying magic to remove the harmful substances from the lake water, it was only after an hour Matteo stopped when he saw the water returned to its natural colour although, from the looks of it the water was different, when he scanned again he almost choked himself from shock, his purification turned this lake into a natural antidote for diseases.

Lilliana began to giggle when she heard what Matteo did so she too called a few people to resolve the issue, from the looks of it they will have enough antidotes for diseases for many years to come. Matteo could only chuckle nervously as he did not expect such a result but at least they dealt with a bigger problem. When the three of them were about to leave they were surrounded by undead, the strange thing was the fact Matteo did not detect them until the last moment. 'Teleported?' Matteo considered this possibility as he was confident in his presence sense, none of the undead was moving till one at the back came forward. "Welcome to Romania, Matteo Blandelli and his two fiancee's"

Matteo kept silent and immediately used the spellbook to take control over a random undead but he felt the connection snapped on the other side so he could no longer sense the exact location but from the direction he felt the connection went to before it snapped, he knew this old man was somewhere in Sector Six. "You should not try to hack someone, it's against the law you know" The undead spoke nonchallantly as he thought Matteo would not be able to feel the direction where was at so he was confident that Matteo was still on the palm of his hands.

"You're quite sick for playing such game old man" Matteo spoke with a disdain tone, this was a kind of tone the old man despised as it was the tone the people around him used on him when he presented the project but it failed at the end if it was not for the long life he learnt how to control his temper he would have flared up at this moment but the twitch at the corner of his lips made Matteo realized this old man was quite sensitive. So he immediately began to express his disdain upon the old man, this change in expression transformed Matteo's aura like he was a king looking down upon the commoners.

"Don't try to anger me, boy, you don't know what I can do" Matteo chuckled, "You can try" 'This senile fool forgotten that the more I get used to the presences of this undead the easier I can formulate a detection spell for Father to use to clean up Italy' Matteo thought, Giovanni was quite furious as he wanted to yell at this disrespectful boy but instead he chose to play a game. "A granddaughter of one assistant who worked together with me in the Artificial Campione project lives here, and this man was a traitor so naturally I will kill something important to him"

The undead's face began to smirk "Let's see if you can find her before tomorrow night... Otherwise, she will be dead... Oh and... She is an important figure for someone" After that the undead no longer spoke but instead they rushed forward towards Matteo and the Girls, Matteo froze the zombies in his time freeze domain. Meanwhile, Erica began to chant "Come, lion of steel. The one carrying the spirit of the lion, the steel that carries the essence of battle! Respond to my hand and voice! Your name is Cuore di Leone..."

A Massive red magic circle appeared in front of Erica with a silver Lion Head statue appeared with its mouth open, she thrust her hand inside the mouth as she grips the hilt of the blade "The warrior inheriting the name of the lion-hearted king! The knight Erica Blandelli swears thus, I will return your loyalty with valour and chivalry!" When she pulls out the sword a red trace of magical energy followed the blade like a shadow as she spins her body around till it was absorbed into the blade.

Similarily Lilliana thrust her hands towards the skies as she began to chant "My wings. Steel that becomes the form of my phantom blade! Il Maestro, grant me power!" Illusory wings materialize as a golden ray of light shone upon Lilliana while the sword Il Maestro fell from the skies into her hand, seeing that the girls were equipped Matteo released the time freeze since he already inspected the undead that they would not explode.

"Sword of Destruction that Terrify, Sword of Holy and Judgement, free yourself from heaven´s bonds" Matteo chanted softly as a massive gold-coloured magic circle appeared right next to him, his eyes were firmly locking with the shadow floating in the skies, he was not certain who it was but it was someone that was powerful to float in the air for this long without feeling exhausted. "Become one with my power, one with my body and let us walk the path of destruction together!" Matteo thrust his hands into the magic circle pulled out a regular-shaped sword that had a blue coloured blade with a golden edge, the holt was wrapped with golden leather while the edge of the hilt it had a cross symbol of the church.

(Reference: Fate Durandal + DxD Durandal + My Cross addon = Complete sword)

"Power that can smash even the souls of Heretics, Durandal!!" Matteo pulled out the sword completely when the chains snapped, it was 1.8 meters long which a bit longer than Matteo. Immediately he took off into the skies with flying magic leaving Erica and Lilliana to deal with the undead on the ground. When Matteo came closer he saw the flying lady's appearance wearing white open at the top shirt revealing her cleavage, black form knee heigh skirt with black high heels shoes, with a white scientist robe over her clothes, her face appears to be in her early thirties with one of her eyes seems to had an accident since a mechanical goggle was installed in its place with a zooming feature.

"It is an honour to meet you Matteo Blandelli" Matteo's eyes squinted when he got a good look on the female's face, her forehead was bigger which made her head looks bigger than the size of a soccer ball. But the revolting appearance of the scar that ran from her forehead across her face with stitches from top to bottom made her appearance gruesome while it allowed Matteo speculate the identity of this lady, "So you are the lady helping Giovanni huh?" The divine ancestor did not deny it nor confirm it but the silence was an affirmation for Matteo, "What Giovanni seeks is similar to what I seek, however, I seek something different. I want to discard a withered apple for a fresh apple"

Suddenly the Divine Ancestor strike out a fist towards Matteo who blocked it with Durandal, Matteo poured in his energy into the sword causing a faint golden aura to envelop the blade which hands destructive properties, a white smoke surfaced from the Divine Ancestor's fist before she pulled back and immediately sent out lightning strikes towards Matteo who used wind magic to divert the lighting into the ground causing an explosion to occur on the street which alerted the surrounding people, what Matteo wanted was to alert the people to start becoming vigilant as he will not be protecting them if he had to fight seriously.

The Divine Ancestor smirked before she unleashed another several lightning strikes far stronger than the previous, by the time Matteo managed to deal with the lighting the Divine ancestor was already gone and most of the Undead was killed when Matteo diverted the lightning attacks to the Undead. "Heh, you think you can escape from me" Matteo smirked as he looked towards the northwestern direction where the Divine ancestor was moving swiftly towards, this confirmed that the old mad man was indeed in that direction.

When Matteo landed on the ground he thrust the sword back into it's sealed alternate space before he caught the two running girls who felt a bit excited after a thrilling battle after he gave each of them a light kiss he made sure the two of them were fine "Matty, why did you let him go?" Matteo smiled warmly, "So I could allow the rat to lead me to where he stored the cheese" Hearing this Erica smiled devilishly with anticipation in her eyes, pranking and teasing was definitely something she loved to do.

"First let us clear this area of the corpses first" Matteo summoned his spellbook, he immediately burnt all the dead bodies till there was nothing left and repaired most f the surroundings but left the damaged roads for the subordinates that are coming to deal with. "Well, first let us go eat and sleep, those two will not be slipping out of my grasp this time" Matteo spoke confidently while firmly holding his two fiancees around their waists.