Chapter 19 : The flame
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"This is good." I said, stopping our ascent and extricating my arm from Yubelluna. "Target the buildings first, but if you see any of Rias's peerage feel free to light them up. I'll cover you."
Yubelluna gave an exaggerated curtsy. "As you command, my king." Straightening, Yubelluna took a deep breath, then the air began to tremble, the sign of magic being channeled.
Throwing her hands forward, two great, shining spell circles fared to life, and in front of them grew two oscillating spheres of black magic.
With a twitch of her fingers, both spheres rapidly accelerated through the air, beelining straight towards the building closest to the one we believed Rias to have been transported to.
The orbs connected with the building and detonated on impact. There was a brief moment of silence followed by a cacophonous booming sound as if a thunderstorm were roiling overhead.
The building was torn from its foundation by the force of the two explosions, and what pieces of it remained intact were sent flying from the epicenter of the explosion.
"Nice work." I said with a grin. "Keep it up."
Without a word, Yubelluna summoned more spell circles. More and more of the explosive orbs rocketed away from her every moment. The buildings, the trees, the grass, the dirt – nothing was safe from Yubelluna's power.
"Rias Gremory's rook retired."
Grayfia's voice spoke throughout the arena once more, though this time, there was a trace of worry underlying the professionalism.
"That was disappointingly fast." I said. "I wanted to see how I measured up against her hand-to-hand skills. Belford always kicked my ass and I wanted a win."
"My king." Yubelluna said, her eyes narrowed. She pointed towards the building we suspected Rias to be in and I followed her indication to a black-haired girl flying towards us at breakneck speed.
"Keep hitting the ground until you find the knight, then take him out. The queen is mine." Leaving Yubelluna to continue her wanton destruction, I flew forward to meet Rias's queen.
The queen snarled at me as she flew. "Bastard! You hurt Koneko!" Rearing her hand back, she thrust it forward and sent a bolt of vibrant blue lightning streaking towards me.
It was very likely that such an attack wouldn't be able to outperform the phoenix flames of my Immortality, but if she was allowed to hit me, her defeat wouldn't be humiliating.
Morphing into my fire form, I controlled a gust of Wind to propel me downward to one of my markers, easily dodging the lightning blast.
Once there I shifted back and turned to see Rias's queen staring slack-jawed at me.
Not willing to waste such a perfect opening, I held my palm up towards her.
A bright red magic circle flared into being before me and a two-inch diameter column of compressed flame rocketed upwards.
The beam hit Rias's queen square in the chest, at which point I closed my fist.
The entire length of the fiery beam exploded, heated flame rapidly rushing outwards and violently tearing through anything in its path.
The flame that had connected to Rias's queen exploded and knocked her about like a doll held between the teeth of a hyperactive puppy.
More and more flame surrounded her as I summoned even more Hellfire, detonating everything in her vicinity, leaving her to helplessly flail, unable to control her flight.
She'd been thrashed about for almost thirty seconds when she disappeared in a flash of blue.
"Rias Gremory's queen retired."
Grayfia's voice spoke once again, and was that concern I heard in her voice?
I was about to rejoin Yubelluna when I felt a section of the flames I'd summoned to dispatch Rias's queen part unnaturally behind me. My fire had become an extension of myself over the years.
could feel and control it at will, allowing me to feel when it was moved by a force that wasn't my own. The flame that spilled away from me when I'd exited my fire form had just been moved by a force I didn't control.
Spinning around, I saw a blond-haired kid leaping towards me with a long, black, spiked sword held over his head.
Moving quickly, I sped towards the knight to close into a gap where his large sword would be ineffective and simultaneously summoned a flaming dagger into my hand.
I closed the distance and shoved the dagger up into the knight's ribs, his sword arm swinging harmlessly over my left shoulder.
The knight exhaled sharply as I stabbed him and grasped at the wound, but I'd created a second dagger and already pulled the first free.
I began to repeatedly stab into his chest and stomach and was not surprised when his body was quickly covered in a bright blue light.
"Rias Gremory's knight retired."
Yes. That was definitely concern I heard in Grayfia's voice.
I heard a disappointed hum, and turned to see Yubelluna frowning at the space the knight had just disappeared from.
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