Rating Game

Regina's PoV

Today is finally the day of the rating game against Riser. I haven't seen how well the others improved except Kiba.

Speaking of Kiba, Ilya has imparted some of her knowledge onto Kiba letting him create stronger swords. I had to level up the swords I fired at him to break them. Which I did so he wouldnt get cocky. He will probably be surprised when he uses them later as he never noticed I used stronger weapons during our battle.

I have asked Rias to let us watch the match to which she agreed and it appears we will watch alongside Sona's peerage.

With me are Raina, Yun Yao, Ilya, Nanashi and Lily who wanted to see their students fight. Of course we also prepared some disguises towards them.

Entering the room me and Raina greeted Sona. Seeing the unknown people with us she raised a brow wondering who they were.

"These are some friends of ours who wanted to watch a rating game so they came as well."

Hearing that she nodded and greeted them as well. Her peerage introduced themselves to Lily and the others to which they also introduced themselves.

Seeing that the match is finally starting we put our focus in the screen.

"What do you think are their chances?" Asked Sona to me as we watch the rating game start.

"6 - 4, in favor of Riser." I said towards her.

Hearing me say that she was surprised as she didnt think I thought of Riser that highly.

Seeing her look I explained.

"Before being trained by us the pds would have been 8 - 2. Riser underestimates Rias' peerage too much and is not taking them seriously from what I can see. They are barely even planning a strategy. Its not like im underestimating Riser's peerage. However the reason I still rate them highly is because of Riser himself. The power of the Phenex clan is something that Rias' peerage will fond it hard to counter.

Im sure you heard of it legends? The immortal bird of flames that revives from its ashes."

Raina has inherited Solomon's wisdom and among that knowledge is the 72 Demons Solomon has contracted. Those demons are coincidentally the first ancestor of the noble houses in the underworld one of which is Phenex.

It all depends on how much power Riser can tap into from the bloodline of Phenex.

"[Dress break!]" As we were talking the screen finally showed Issei using an absurd technique to take of girl's clothes .

"What the hell...?" Even Liliane couldnt help but curse out loud.

"So thats why he approached me..." said Raina with a facepalm.

Hearing this everyone put their attention towards her.

Seeing everyone looking at her she sighed and finally explained.

"Onee-chan, you remember that I used break magic during that event in the church right?"

Hearing this I thought back a bit and recalled that she did use it to break the ritual on Asia.

"Wait did you teach him that?" I asked her. How the hell did he even learn that? That needs an absurd amount of control.

"Although I did explain how it works to him but do you really think he can learn that easily? Among the Regu- I mean our friends only Ilya and Alena can actually do it." She explained.

"Im sure Raina has also notices but that not the same Break Magic that Raina uses. Raina's ability is disrupting the flow of mana while his ability is more similar to Dispel magic. Which removes abnormal conditions. Though I dont know how that pervert came up with it." Said Ilya explaining Issei's dress break.

We then looked towards Nanashi who trained him.

Sensing our gazes Nanashi shook her head.

"I just taught him what you told me to." She said looking at me.

Issei's training consisted of building his foundations as a fighter. When he fought during the rescue event he had too many openings, he didnt even know how to fight. So I told Nanashi to just keep hitting his openings while giving him the feeling of death as we didnt have time to train him normally. She also trained his body during those 10 days.

It did eventually work out in the end as he showed less openings from what we can see and he is decently holding up his own against his opponents being able to dodge them with ease. Although the result is good he developed a trauma towards Nanashi who trained him.

[Raiser Phoenix-sama's 3 "Pawn" and 1 "Rook" are defeated!]

Hearing that I smile a little. Seems like their on the lead. However this is just the beginning of the battle. If we go by numbers Raiser still has more compared to Rias. Although Issei is powered up by all 8 pawns its a double edged sword as if he gets eliminated that would be the end for Rias. Even if they improved quickly in our trainings there is so much we could do in 10 days.

It was at this moment that Koneko was attacked by Riser's queen.

Seeing this we got shocked by the sudden turn of events. However it seem like Koneko managed to survive the blow by reacting quickly.

Still the battle is pretty grim as Koneko is got slightly injured. Seeing Koneko survive, the queen launches her attacks once more as explosions rang across the battle field.

Issei and Koneko ran away while dodging the blows as they slowly got cornered.

It was then that Akeno comes in and fights the opposing Queen. During the two Queen's battle Issei and Koneko ran to join with Kiba.

"[Ride Lightning!]" Yelled out Akeno as she disappeared and appeared behind the enemy Queen and tried impaling her with a spear made out of lightning. Seeing this the opposing Queen dodged in the last moment however not before being scratched.

Seeing this I looked towards Raina and asked.

"You taught her those two techniques?"

She nodded and replied, "Yes, with those two she will be able to make better use of her position as a [Queen]."

Hearing that I nodded and returned my attention to the screen.

[Riser Phoenix-sama's 3 "Pawns" retire]

Kiba managed to eliminate three of Riser's pawns and joined up with Koneko and Issei.

It was then that one Riser's Knight introduced herself as Carlamaine and challenged the three of them to a battle. Seeing this I thought out loud by accident.

"Is she an idiot?"

"Yeah she probably is..." replied Raina who heard me, but who can blame us? This girl, Carlamaine challenged three people at once instead of trying to eliminate them one by one.

However it was at this time that two more people entered the fray. A blond girl who is one of Riser's [Bishop] and the other a [Rook] like Koneko.

It seems we will have a 3 on 3 battle. However Rias' side is on the disadvantage as they already fought and Koneko is injured from blocking the opposing Queen's attack.

It was then that we heard that Riser's bishop was his sister.

"Im gonna call the cops after this." Said Raina with a serious expression to which everybody nodded in agreement. Like seriously that guy must be some sick pervert to include his sister into his harem peerage. Whats worst is she looks underaged!

The opposing knight attacks Kiba as he tried to counter with the same sword he used against Freed however he slowly got overpowered. Seeing that he was being pushed back Kiba took out an ice sword and countered the Girl's flame sword.

The girl was shocked at the unexpected turn of events as she didnt expect him to have another demon sword. It appears they didn't know that Kiba's [Sword Birth] can make multiple swords of any type.

After being surpressed by Kiba the girl went nuts and started a sea of flames. The Rook on the other hand is fighting Issei and Koneko. However it seems Ravel doesnt have any plans of joining the battle.

It was then that Issei used [Dress Break] making the Rook show an opening by covering herself. Seeing this Koneko and Issei attacked her with full power ending her.

[Riser Phoenix-sama's "Rook", retires.]

[Riser Pheonix-sama's "Queen", retires]

If was followed with the announcement that Riser's queen also retired. His Queen is pretty impressive to hold on that long considering Akeno can use [Ride Lightning] and fight in close quarters.

Kiba on the other hand was pushing the knight harder and harder.

After hearing his queen being retired, Riser decided to join the fight and gone towards Rias on his own.

"This may be bad..." Yun Yao said with a serious expression.

"I agree with Yaoyao, this has certainly taken a turn for the worst. Should the king, Rias fall all of their efforts will be for naught." Said Raina with a serious expression.

Raina knows of the power of the 72 Demon houses the best as she can use them through Ars Goetia so she has some ideas of how to strong they are.

With Ars Goetia, Raina can borrow power from the 72 Demons that Solomon contracted, which are the ancestors of the 72 Pillar houses of the devils in the underworld. Although she can only use them one at a time, It is still a strong ability combined with her usage of magic.

Ravel then snapped her fingers as Riser's other knight and 2 more pawns appeared as Ravel herself prepared to fight.

The other knight took on Kiba and even out the fight putting it on a stalemate. The two pawns and Ravel took on Koneko and Issei.

Seeing the dangerous situation Issei gritted his teeth and started boosting his power. It was then that the gauntlet changed.

'Thats interesting... so there were other sacred gears that can evolve. In the entire Regulus Dominion it was only Alyssa who managed to evolved hers with the exception of Balance Breaker that Yun Yao also has.'

"Hmm? It evolved..." Raina muttured.

Looking over Ilya was also interested in this situation.  "No wait...is it releasing more of it's original power?"

"I see! So it didn't evolve like Alyssa's sacred gear but transformed closer to its original power. Something it already has but just sealed within, its similar to the Regalia we have." Rain muttured analysing the situation while discussing with Ilya.

"Its transforming closer to the Red Dragon Emperor in its prime tapping more of its power." Ilya added.

When it comes to sacred gears and magic items these two are their field of expertise. My expertise leaned more towards Holy Swords and other Mythological weapons I got from studying and researching the countless weapons in my treasury. Ilya on the other hand has knowledge on all three and would sometimes research with me regarding my weapons in the treasury.  However compared to the two I pale in regards to sacred gears, though I can still be considered and expert.

"It shouldn't be a subspecies like Alyssa's but returning to its true form." I added to their discussion to which they agreed with.

"It is proof that Issei has really grown stronger and the sacred gear responded in kind showing more of its true power. It responded to Issei's desire to win, to emerge victorious." I continued to say. Sacred Gears responds to your desires. Raina myself are examples. We both desired power and trained to get revenge on the Arclight family and our sacred gears responded in kind allowing us to tap more of its powers and even achieve balance breaker.

Sona and her peeraged just looked at us with curious expressions but didn't ask anything.

It was then that Issei transfered power to Kiba as the latter unleashed his own sacred gear to quickly end the battle. Doing so blades emerged from the ground, each of the swords that emerged was different and unique.

[Riser Phoenix-sama's 2 "Pawns", 2 "Knights", and 1 "Bishop", retires.]

The female's voice rang out announcing Issei's and the others victory and eliminating their opponents.

However things just got taken a turn for the worst as what immediately followed was bad for their side.

[Rias Gremory-sama's "Queen" retires.]

Hearing this everyone froze and looked over to the other monitor where Riser just defeated Akeno.

"This has just taken a turn for the worst." Yun Yao muttered saying what everyone was thinking.

However everyone's eyes were still in the monitor praying for our friend's victory. It all up to them now.