Eid Pack 04/???

'Hmmm… Well, at least it can be used as a bug repellent.' Noah internally thought while taking another bite of the apple, staring at the two knights that were massaging their faces.

He has been fucking with Barrier Manipulation since he has come back from the Jujutsu Kaisen world. He wanted to create something akin to Infinity, but knowing it was impossible without the precise manipulation of Spatial Laws, he went with a Walmart version of Infinity—creating tons of thin sheets of barriers around him, working essentially as Infinity.

The only difference between the two was that Infinity cannot be by-pass unless you use Space Manipulation or attacks like Ddraig's Penetration that allowed him to bypass all forms of defenses while his barriers could be broken if put enough force behind an attack.

But for now, it was alright. With Reversal, Infinity is nothing but another form of attack for him. Since he could reverse the convergence and divergence, creating a huge spatial blast if Gojo or anyone used Infinity in front of him.

"What happened? Weren't you going to teach me a lesson?" Waving his hand with an apple within, he gave a smug smirk to Yubelluna. "Hello? I'm right here. Please teach me a lesson, I'm open to suggestions."

'Umu, yes, I love that expression.' He nodded seeing her gritting her teeth in anger.

"Stop being a coward, hiding behind a barrier!" Karlamine shouted. "Be a man and face us directly."

"Are you dumb?" Noah asked with a smirking face. "Why would I let go of my advantage during a fight? Why don't you ask KFC to stop regenerating then, be a man, and take an injury?"

Karlamine became quiet. She really couldn't retort to that. After all, during a fight, who is willing to give up their advantage? Unless, of course, that someone is an idiot.

"Well, if there is nothing else, I'm already bored with you guys." He said, waving his hand. "Shoo~ Shoo~, go back to KFC unless you want to make that sexy maid angry. She is super strong, you know."

Staring at Grayfia, whose brow was twitching with how Noah called her, Yubelluna could only grit her teeth in anger.

She knew if she moved, Grayfia would really interfere. Till now, after all, there was no big move or damage to property. It was just a 'harmless' exchange of blows.

If she moved, her techniques that blow up stuff, Grayfia would definitely interfere to stop them.

"Bastard! How dare you attack Riser?! Riser will make sure—puwha!" He didn't get to finish before another apple penetrated his head, as Noah grumbled in an annoyed tone.

"Stop talking in the third person, bitch! What do you think you are? Some cute loli? To talk in the third person, that privilege is already taken!"

"..." Everyone stared at Noah with a weird gaze. They couldn't believe he was angry just because Riser was talking in the third person.

Rias's lips curled up slightly. She never really liked Riser to begin with, so she was quite happy to see him getting smacked by Noah like bugs.

"Please calm down, everyone." Finally, Grayfia interferes, her voice containing dominance and authority, shutting everyone down. Even Noah went back to his seat, not willing to make an enemy out of her.

He was an arrogant narcissistic prick, yes, but even he knew who to make enemies with and who do not. He just felt nauseating by the way Riser talked, but he also knew Riser can't do anything against him, the same can't be said for Grayfia.

He was fully aware that she had the power to beat the shit out of him, so he silently sat back in his seat. He will wait until he is strong enough to beat the shit out of her.

Riser, who healed again, was about to make a move but closed his mouth as Grayfia's eyes fell upon him, making him shudder as his hair stood on end. Being stared at by the Strongest Queen was enough to make him shut up.

Grayfia nodded in satisfaction before saying.

"Since everyone is present, I shall act as the intermediary of the current Satan, Sirzechs Lucifer, and pass his words." She continued. "Between the marriage of Miss Rias and Lord Riser, Miss Rias has proposed a Rating Game to nullify it. Next week, at the same place, the Rating Game shall take place. If Lord Riser is able to beat Miss Rias, then the marriage shall not be annulled. Otherwise, the engagement will be canceled with no further move by Lord Riser and the House of Phenex. Is there any objection?"

Riser sneered but didn't object. It would be foolish to object to the Rating Game specifically announced by Satan. It was the same as slapping him on the face, he wasn't stupid enough to do it.

"Very well. Then as per procedure, both parties should be present here next week at night. The Rating Game will take place then."

Riser took a look at the people present before he laughed loudly.

"Do you really think you can defeat Riser with the people present here? Riser must say, there should be a limit to stupidity, Rias. Leaving the fact aside that you don't even have full Peerage, it sure is cute to think you can defeat Riser, the member of Phenex Clan!"

"Okay okay, we all know who you are, we don't have Alzheimer's, no need to repeat your ancestry here." Noah boringly added, making Riser's eyes shine with anger as he stared at Noah.

"After Riser is done with this stupid game, Riser will make sure to teach you your place, human."

"Oooo~ I'm scared~ My legs are shaking, help me…"

Riser grit his teeth to the point where one could particularly hear the sound of it. Knowing that talking with Noah will only get him angry, he waved his hand before the magical circle shone and he vanished.

Grayfia was present, so he knew if he did anything, she would stop him. He would deal with Noah later.

Seeing Riser vanishing, Rias sighed before looking towards Noah and tiredly asked.

"Was there any need to make him angry?"

"Why? Do you not like it?"

"Of course not. I loved it." Rias smirked and answered. She's been wanting to beat the shit out of Riser for a long time, seeing Noah insulting him sure made her happy.

Grayfia shook her head helplessly. She looked at Noah for a second before saying.

"Lord Noah, Sirzechs-sama was wondering if you can visit the underworld during your summer vacation. He has been wanting to meet you for a long time."

Noah narrowed his eyes slightly, but the smile on his face didn't vanish. He wasn't stupid and knew why Sirzechs wanted to meet you, but not now.

He was still too weak. Unless he is at least at Ultimate-Class level in all aspects, he wasn't willing to take a step into the underworld. There were too many goddamn beings there that could slap him to oblivion.

'At least not till I learn Tier 3 magic. There is Spatial Moment magic in it, it will increase my chance of running a lot.'

Though there was magic to block spatial moments, they can't be deployed at the moment's notice. After all, space magic was quite rare even in this world, and more so spatial lock.

It was something that required one to have absolute control over the space around them. It wasn't as easy as creating wards around the houses.

"I'll think about it." He nodded.

Grayfia also didn't say anything else. She bowed to Rias and everyone, giving farewells, and vanished in a magical circle.

Noah also didn't stay for long. Rias wanted to take Peerage to continue with the training, and though she asked Noah to follow, he declined it.

Koneko was enough! He wasn't going to babysit anyone else… It was too dayum boring after all.

After a small walk, he appeared in a desolate place before stretching his body. He has been thinking of a way to become stronger, but unless he found a way to increase his mana all of sudden, he knew he would have to go through a pretty lengthy process of learning some other power system.

But then it hit him... if he can't use his mana, why not use the mana of the world?

Mana was pretty much the energy produced by the earth or "breath of the world", but inhabitants living in it can never use it directly. Instead, it was their body that adapted to this mana and took it in for their use.

A person would take mana from the atmosphere within their body, and then it would slowly be converted into their mana. Only then can it be used.

Essentially, the concept of mana was the same as it was in Fate. In short, an individual can also produce mana the same as the earth by converting their life force into mana.

Noah's body took the initial approach of absorbing mana from the surroundings and then converting it into his mana for use.

As for using life force and converting it into mana? Noah has not met anyone who can teach him. So it was a lost cause for him. After all, he didn't even know how to manipulate his own lifeforce.

If he did, he wouldn't have a headache of low mana quality.

But even though he calls his mana quality low, if put among humans, his mana quality was quite big. The only problem was, that it was not enough.

That is why he planned on somehow learning to manipulate the mana of the world to do his bidding.

If he was somehow able to pull it, it wouldn't be wrong to call him Magic God. Since he could literally back up his attacks with the force of the world, a simple magic lance, if put shit ton of mana into it, could easily turn into a nuke.

He already knew how to manipulate mana, it was essential for every magician if he wanted to use magic after all. What he wanted to do now was manipulate the natural mana in the atmosphere.

After stretching himself, he raised his hand before softly muttering.

[Lightning Lance]

A lance made of lightning formed in his hand, cracking and zapping.

"Hmmm… It is quite weak…" he muttered, quite disappointed before throwing the lance at the tree in the distance, blowing it away in a blast.

It was good to deal with goons, but in front of actual players, it was shit. He wanted to make even the Tier 2 spells into something akin to a bomb.

He again raised his hand and used "Lightning Lance". The only difference was that this time he didn't use his mana, but tried to manipulate the mana in the surroundings.

A small wind blew, bringing with it the sound of leaves rustling as the mana in the air started to converge in front of his pointed hand.

It soon took on a form of an invisible lance, but not the Lightning Lance. It was pure mana condensation.

The biggest problem with using the mana of the world was not manipulating it, as many could do it, the problem was converting that mana into other forces or elements.

After all, what is the use of converging mana if you can't bring something out of it? The least one could do was create a mana blast which was quite useless for higher tiers battles where forces such as Power of Destruction were being thrown.

Noah frowned as he found it exceedingly hard to convert the mana gathered into Lightning Element, making it diverge instead, creating a small mana blast in the air.

He chuckled. It wasn't easy after all. It seems that he is going to take a shit ton of practice before he can even see a slight bit of result.

But he wasn't in a hurry, even if he had to do it for a week without sleeping, he wouldn't mind. Anyway, his mind was strong enough to go without sleep for days.