Chapter 34 - chapter 34

Issei and Koneko were lead through the castle and came to an indoor garden near the top of the castle. Looking around they saw a variety of flowers and water flowing as the indoor garden was bathed in a white light that wasn't too bright. Koneko tapped on Issei's leg nudging him in the right direction as he saw a table with some figures around it.

They took one of the free seats across from Valerie as Issei sat next to Rias and Koneko next to him. In the back of the room, Issei noticed the power radiating behind them as he saw a man dressed in all back behind them leaning on the wall.

"That's my bodyguard Crom Cruach." Valerie said smiling "I had Rias tell me about how Gasper lived in Japan. I hear that it's a very peaceful country Issei Hyoudou."

"It's a nice place, not as cold as it is here right now. I prefer foods and entertainment in Japan over Greece. Your highness?" Issei questioned as he didn't know how she wanted to be addressed in this setting.

Valerie chuckled hearing that "Please call me Valerie. This is a casual conversation between us."

Issei shrugged hearing that "Very well then." She smiled hearing that but it was empty as if a smile was causing her pain. The conversation continued as they discussed things about daily life in Japan. It continued for over twenty minutes as Issei had to know something "So how did Gasper start crossdressing?"

Valerie held her hand up admitting to the deed "It's because of me, I wanted to dress something up when we were young. He didn't like it at first but then it got to the point where he would dress like a girl."

"Don't tell them that Valerie." Gasper pleaded with her.

She shook her head "Nope. Do you still have a problem where you can't sleep without a doll?

"I...uhhh...:" Gasper sputtered out she laughed "

It seems like Gasper is still Gasper." Valerie looked off into the distance as she started speaking to the void once again this time she was speaking in words they could partially understand.

Koneko whispered into Issei's ear "Her ki went from positive to negative and went spiraling down into the spot she's talking to."

Issei was impressed with how far she had come in such little time. "Is it draining her power?"

"I can't tell."

They watched as Valerie's tilted up to the ceiling "Gasper has seen the sun before." Her voice was sad as she returned to the conversation.

"I'm a daywalker so I can see the sun, but you're the same Valerie." Gasper said to her

"Yes I can but I can't. I'm not allowed to go out there. Once is fine but I can't do the things I want to do. No picnic under the sun with Gasper."

"That doesn't sound like a Queen speaking." Issei said to her reminding her that she is the leader.

"How about this," Rias said having a brilliant idea. "We can go to a Japanese resort with the members of my club and you can come along. You can do all the things you want to try out."

For the first time they had seen Valerie some color returned to her eyes and face for a brief moment "That sounds wonderful, a picnic under the sun sounds fun."

Gasper wasn't so gloomy when he heard that "Let's go to Japan Valerie when this is all over. You should have some free time once this settles down, then you can experience all of the different foods even different seasons."

"Such enthusiasm coming from Gasper of all things." Issei leaned over and looked at him with a smirk on his face.

"Don't tease me, I'm trying to make a suggestion to Valerie." Gasper tried to defend his words.

Koneko smacked Issei on the arm in a playful manner "Don't tease Gaspy, he's trying to ask her out on a date." Rias couldn't help but laugh at the banter.

"Oh, and what happens to be so funny?" Marius asked as he was walking towards them.

Valerie's positivity quickly changed as it was noticed by them as she spoke. "Marius I was just speaking to Gasper and Rias."

"Ah then forgive my intrusion. I heard Valerie had guests so I figured I would introduce myself, Am I bother?" Issei wanted to tell him he was kept his mouth shut for the time being.

Rias put on her usual smile but it wasn't a nice as it could be "Not exactly, I am however sorry for Xenovia's attitude early."

"Think nothing of it" Marius put on a bitter smile as he looked at them "The low-class don't understand this world." He shrugged his shoulders after he finished as if something like this was a common occurrence.

"Excuse me." Gasper spoke up

"What is it Gasper Vladi?"

"Could you please release Valerie? I will do anything if something like that is possible. I just don't want her to suffer anymore."

Marius thought about it for a moment as he was hanging the suspense over Gasper. "I think we can release her from her duties." Gasper was happy to hear that as things weren't sitting right with everyone else. "But you need to give me some time. She was just announced as Queen and if she was to resign so quickly it was cause panic. So it would take some time to deal with things."

He looked down at Valerie "You can go to Japan and live with Gasper Vladi."

"But the…" Marius put his hand on her interrupting her

"Don't worry you will be released from all of your duties. You have fulfilled them admirably."

Valerie looked over to Gasper as she grabbed his hands "Looks like I can go to Japan Gasper." Rias, Koneko, and Issei were far from excited as Marius's words were full of bad times to come.

Two days passed as Asia, Xenovia, Irina, Rossweisse, and Issei left the castle to explore the surrounding town. As per earlier, it was a winter wonderland covered in snow that it was best for them to see instead of being cooped up in their rooms for a while. The group left the castle as they walked through the town as Issei was thinking about what had transpired. They saw small shops that ranged from restaurants to clothing stores and even a general store.

"I think they know were outsiders." Xenovia said as she was scanning their surroundings.

"Word travels fast in a small town like this." Irina shrugged her shoulders "Remember when we would travel around and we always would stick out?"

"I was confused about many things when I first arrived in Japan." Asia said remembering the past.

Issei thought about some of the simpler things that Asia struggled with like transportation around the city, and even dealing with the change of food. "You have looked in the mirror right Asia?" Issei looked down at her as she didn't understand what he was talking about. "A small little blonde girl who is akin to a muffin wandering around is going to attract heads. Rias is the same way with her red hair, hell even Rossweisse gets some double-takes because of her looks."

"Still…" Xenovia turned her head to look behind them "I don't like being followed." She saw a vampire following them staying well behind them.

"One of the many upsides of being a guest of the castle." Issei pointed at Rossweisse as she staring at the shop signs "You know I didn't expect you to come out here with us, to begin with.

"Well I am a teacher and you are in my class. So we could call this an extracurricular lesson about Romania." Everyone saw the sparkles in her eyes as she was looking at the shops.

"Uh-huh, is that why Rias gave me the money and not you?" Issei asked her.

"I think it's because there are no 100 yen stores here." Rossweisse deflated somewhat when she saw the price tag on some items through the window.

"Let's go with that." Issei said as he saw something standing in front of one of the shops. When he walked over to the shop he saw Lilith, Ophis's now younger half staring at something.

"Sweety what would you like to buy?" The shopkeeper asked as he was only met with silence.

Looking around Issei didn't see or sense anything around Lilith so she had to be alone. He walked over to Lilith and points at the clothing accessory that resembles a red dragon. "Do you want it?"

Lilith looked up to him giving him a cluelessly blank stare as she said nothing. 'There's no doubting that this is a split of Ophis.' Issei looked at the shopkeeper as he took out some of the money he was given. "I'll buy this for her." Money was exchanged as he handed her the accessory and started to walk away. But there was a tug on his shirt as he looked back and saw her holding onto it. "Yes?" This was already a dangerous territory and now she had his hands on him.

She looked at Issei "My stomach… empty."

Issei waved her hand telling her to follow as he got everyone and went into a restaurant. After a bit, the table they were seated at was filled with food from different countries. They watched as Lilith ate as they were eating anything put in front of her. "Does it taste good?" Issei asked as she put a piece of tofu in her mouth a swallowed.

"Don't know." Lilith responded as she went back to eating.

"Issei." Asia called out pointing to her face "You have some stuff on your face."

"Oh." He reached for his napkin as he wiped it off.

"So this is the other half of Ophis. What should we do? Do take the chance?" Xenovia asked as she looked to the others for advice.

"Surprise went out the window long ago." Issei said to her.

Irina shrugged her shoulders "I say we do nothing. Were being watched after all. And if anything happens this girl is still 'Ophis'. And I bet the Vampires even treat her as Ophis as that don't know about the real one."

Confidence is what holds everything back and just like that any plan was thrown away. "Then eating is as good as it gets." Issei said as he watched her finish off the last of her food.

When Lilith put her utensils down she leaned over to Issei and sniffed him. Issei found it somewhat odd as the others watched on to see what was going on. "I took a shower before I left."

"You smell like Lilith." She tilted her head to the side the same way as Ophis would.

"I smell like Ophis?" He asked assuming that she picked up the scent of Ophis.

"Ise, maybe you smell like her because of that." Rossweisse said as Lilith went on.

"Also red, like a red dragon."

He caught onto what she was able to smell real quick. Issei shook his head "My name is Issei Hyoudou, these are my friends Asia, Xenovia, Irina, and Rossweisse." He pointed to them as he said their names.

"Issei….Hyou..dou...Issei." She tried saying his name.

"Just call me Ise its easier." Lilith was silent as she showed very little expression compared to Ophis. It's possible that was one of the things that didn't get transferred over to Lilith. She got out of her chair not saying a word to anyone. "Are you leaving?"

"Lilith Duty…..protect Rizevim." She said as she left the restaurant. Everyone looked at each other not too sure what was going on. But they all got the feeling that whatever it was, it wasn't good as they finished up the meal and headed back to the castle.

When they made it back into the castle and back into the Room Issei was staying in everyone else was in there, even Azazel who disappeared for a few days. "So how was the trip to the outside?" Azazel asked them.

"It's normal, almost as if they don't know what happened inside." Issei said as everyone else agreed with him.

"I thought as much."

"Marius promised me that he would release Valerie." Gasper said, getting Azazel's attention "I can take her to Japan soon."

"Explain." He said looking at the others.

A few minutes passed of everyone telling him as he went over to a corner of the room away from Gasper as Rias Akeno and Issei followed him. "So you know what he means by releasing her is?" Azazel said in a quiet voice not to let anybody else catch on.

"Yeah." Issei made a gesture as if he was breaking a stick in half. "Crom is the reason why I haven't killed him yet."

"He's planing on taking the Holy Grain from her and use it for his purposes. Fallen Angel technology was leaked somehow to the outside world and it made it here. He will be making his move soon then if he follows through with what he said. But if it comes to it we are taking her by force and starting a war."

"Bennia is already preparing an escape route for that eventuality." Rias said.

"What were you up to the last few days?" Issei questioned him as there was zero contact with him.

"Merely researching Sacred Gears possessed by the dhampir here. Many of dhampir born lately have a Sacred Gear and considering its luck of the draw to get one I don't know the reason behind that. The thing is the knowledge of Sacred Gears has increased drastically among the researchers here. Seems as if they are trying to find out as much as they can on their own much like Marius. So I gave them a few scraps of information."

"You sure that was a good idea? With a coup d'etat just happening and Marius attitude?" Issei didn't think this was the best idea.

"The ones I spoke to have been researching the Sacred Gears for a while. They were willing to listen to me rather than flaunt their pride. From what I was told Marius does his own thing and only focuses on the Grail. But I gave them minimal information, for now, nothing of major importance but just enough for them to figure things out. That and the looming threat."

"Let me guess Balance Breakers?" It was the only thing Issei could think of being a danger.

"Exactly, because Cao Cao leaked to everyone what was needed to reach Balance Breakers."

"And if the dhampir's become dissatisfied with the government then they could overthrow it." Akeno put all the pieces together.

"Exactly, Balance Breakers becoming a bargain bin deal was a chance of being used for revenge. Preparing countermeasures against it is a good idea. I also told them that the Grigori and devil side has had some troubles with it in the past as well. Unfortunately, I cant meet with Valerie to look deeper into her condition."

"What about Rizevim?" Rias asked as if they were going to get any form of support.

"I reported Rizevim's appearance to the higher-ups. But with the appearance of Rizevim and Euclid, they are most likely freaking out right now. And unfortunately, Sirzechs can't do much as he has to plan countermeasures. Rizevim has plenty of supporters hiding in the dark of the underworld." Everyone thought about Azazel's words as they wondered how things were going to progress.

A blue glow illuminated the room as everyone looked as a barrier surrounded the room and the Sitri magic circle appeared on the ceiling. Hello Out of the magic circle a head popped out as it was Bennia. Took some time to prepare the barrier and connecting it to this room.

Screaming was heard as it sounded like a female voice as out of the portal landed a girl on the floor as they saw it was Elmenhilde. Next to her was the hulking man compared to them Rugal, followed by Bennia who dropped down from the ceiling.

Elmenhilde stood up rubbing her hip as looked at everyone. "How have they been treating you? It looks as if you're doing well."

"Elmenhilde now you snuck into this country." Rias said getting a nod from Elmenhilde.

"Of course, I met Bennia who was speaking with some of the agents about border penetration. Anyways, I have something that needs to been said." Her attitude changed from an upbeat to a serious tone in a matter of moments. "We have obtained information the faction of Marius Tepes is going to be moving to the final phase of the Holy Grail." Gasper sat their eyes wide listening to all of them. "They plan on taking control of this country by taking the Holy Grail from Valerie Tepes. Then they will remake the citizens who live here in the castle."

"We already guessed this was the plan to take the Grail. But remake the citizens into 'vampires' no less? I doubt that nobility would consider those people to be vampires."

"No, we don't, it's downright repulsive at that. Those of the Carmilla faction have come here to deal with these terrorists as they have now been dubbed." Elmenhilde informed all of them.

Issei looked at her "You and what army of people on par of Ultimate class Devils? I don't see Dracula with you. Because the situation in the castle is far worse than you think it is. Rizevim Livan Lucifer is here along with the Evil Dragon Crom Cruach. And I don't know of any vampire that can withstand an assault from them."

Elmenhilde wasn't exactly happy to hear any of that. "What will happen if they extract the Holy Grail from her?" Gasper asked somewhat fearful of the answer.

"She dies." Azazel answered as Gasper had to know the truth. "They wanted Sephiroth Graal to mature to a certain point before they remove it and use it anyway they wish."

Hear that Gasper sank to the floor as he started crying "Marius promised me that he would release her. Was in nothing but lies?"

Rias sat down next to Gasper as she held him "Marius is a person who makes trash look like an upstanding citizen. You don't see many people like him that often."

"Xenovia get Durandal ready for an assault. Expect plenty of guards on the way to where ever Valerie is." Issei said to her as light flooded the room from the window. "It's still nighttime."

Azazel moved over to the window and saw a magic circle producing daylight. "Looks as if they are making a move earlier than expected. My guess is they know that you three entered."

"We will be making our moves outside with our comrades. So you all need to escape now."

"Even with the threat of Evil Dragons and the son of Lucifer you still are going to proceed with this assault?" Azazel asked her.

"Yes, Vampires will solve Vampire problems." Elmenhilde breathed in as she closed her eyes. "That's what I would normally say but Queen Carmilla has approved your help." Issei only chuckled at her as she looked at Gasper. "Gasper Vladi do you wish to retrieve Valerie Tepes and the Holy Grail?"

"Yes." Gasper was quick on the draw to answer her.

"Very well then if Gasper Vladi is going to save her then you have the approval to go with him. We planned to stop Valerie Tepes with Gasper Vladi anyways, this is just the same them." She started walking to any open spot where a circle could be formed "Farewell for now. Please send me outside."

Bennia made the magic circle as Elmenhilde fell into it as screaming was heard from the falling as the circle closed I sent her to a ceiling on some house outside the castle.

"Oh, I like you already." Issei smiled as Bennia got a small chuckle out of it.

Gasper stood up from his slump "I'm going to save Valerie."

"We will all join you in battle." Xenovia said as she slung Ex Durandal onto her shoulders.

"Testing my skills against these so-called upgraded vampires sounds like another trial of skill." Kiba drew his blade and shoved it into the ground acting as a noble knight.

"Let's go then." Rias pointed to the door.

You going with them? Bennia looked up to Rugal.

"Yeah…. We came here to gain experience."

Azazel reached into his pocket and pulled and pulled out some paper that was folded up. "Very well then." He opens it up and placed it on the table as everyone gathered around it. "The ritual is taking place in the basement. Unfortunately, we are here." He pointed at a hastily drawn map but was still serviceable. "And we need to get down four floors to the basement and get here." He pointed to a large room compared to the others. "This is the ritual room where it's taking place as it correlates the light outside."

Kiba traced a line on the map through the floors while marking spots along the way. "There's plenty of guards stationed in these areas. But for the most part, there is no easy way to get down." He smiled saying that "There will be strong foes down there but this is something we are used to by now."

"It's why you all as strong as you are." Azazel said as he looked at everyone "Plan is to stop the Grail extraction. Worst case we capture Marius alive if it's been extracted. Try to keep the nobles alive as much as you can but you can kill the terrorists."

"The nobles sided with the terrorists. That makes them terrorists." Issei pointed out.

"I'm aware of that but it makes things harder later on if the nobles are all dead. If an Evil Dragon attacks, we might have to abort all of them. I can't ask you to defeat an Evil Dragon of any sort."

"Issei what about Grendel?" Rias asked, "Think you can kill it?"

"Grendel took internal damage from one of my punches after I found out how hard I had to hit him. But I might be able to weaken him to a point where he can be finished off by an outside attack."

"Okay then. But if we do see an Evil Dragon it's most likely a delay tactic." Azazel said as he folded up the map and put it away. "Let's make haste then."

They soon exited the room and headed towards the stairs. Once down a floor, Kiba disappeared in front of them scouting ahead. Luckily for them, they walked down the hallway with no issue towards the second set of stairs. As they got deeper into the bowels of the castle they could hear the battle beginning outside as the siege started. When they got near the stairs they heard the clanging of metal as they saw a platoon of Vampire soldiers wearing metal armor that resembled the days of old.

"Now who wants to fight them. The cannon fodder is up here so we don't want to waste any power that can be used for later." Azazel asked as he got ready to throw a spear of light at them.

"It would be a waste of your energy Azazel if you fought them." Akeno watched Xenovia walk forward.

"I want to release Durandal's aura and beat them all at once. But that's a bad idea isn't it?" Xenovia was starting to think about her fighting style could affect the tides of battle.

Rias nodded "Yes it is. You can only use that once and it would be better suited against the threat of an Evil Dragon."

"One pump chump." Issei felt a small smack on his arm as Akeno hit his arm as she had a smile on her face.

"At least she starting to think." Irina shook her head.

"What! Kiba is with this so I thought I would make it easy."

"We will talk about this later Xenovia." Kiba said as the clashing of metal and screaming was heard. Looking over they saw Vampires laying on the floor some cleaved in half and others had their armor shattered. They continued fighting as everybody was watching them. Bennia was moving at a speed that was faster than Xenovia or Irina could move at but not as fast as Issei and Kiba. Bennia was laying down precision strikes and slashes far beyond anything that the Grim reapers they fought previously. "Watch her movements Xenovia. With the speed from the Knight piece she's very impressive." Kiba told her.

A howl echoed through the halls as they saw Rugal arch his back ripping his shirt off as fur appeared all over his body. "Oh wow, a Werewolf" Issei said as the Vampires in front of Rugal were scared shitless seeing a werewolf.

(Battling Vampires is a routine thing.) Rugal continued tearing through the hordes of Vampires.

He isn't a normal Werewolf tho. Bennia said as she cleaved a vampire in half.

Rugal's fists were on fire as they saw a magic circle powering the flames. "Sona made a great choice to round out her team. A Werewolf who can magic like that is quite rare." Rias was surprised to see the combat capability of Sona's choice of a Rook.

You guys can go on ahead while we have fun here.

"You sure about that?" Issei asked her.

We will be fine these guys aren't that strong. Plus this the reason why we were sent here, to begin with, to show off our strength and get experience.

Nobody was going to argue with them as they headed down the stairs this time it was a longer distance between floors. "Wasn't expecting the Sitri team to get that much stronger." Xenovia voiced her thoughts.

"I never once looked down on Sona. Let alone how she can find people. She has always been creative in ways to make things happen." Rias said to Xenovia.

"That's good because the balance has shifted to Sona's side in Rating games. Your focus of raw power will have a hard time with her more balanced approach." Azazel told her as they had just seen the new additions.

When they reached the bottom of the stairs and walked into a hall there was a much smaller group of people walking to them. This time they were dressed in general clothing "They're here already!" One of the Vampires shouted out.

"Plain clothed vampires, maybe they are members of the political faction?" Azazel spoke to himself as Issei and Kiba stepped forward.

"There's only about ten of them." Issei said as his classic red armor formed around him. "Tag Team?"

Kiba smiled as he readied his blade "Very well we can do this together."

The two of them stepped forwards "Let's jam" Issei put all his pressure down on his right foot as over the top of him he felt air rushing.

"Too slow!" Irina and Xenovia shouted as they ran towards the group of vampires swinging their holy swords.

The vampires did all they could to dodge the attacks in wide births so they would dodge the aura that followed. Xenovia's first target had to change into a bat to get away from her attack. She watched the bat gain altitude "Don't think so!" The golden part of her sword morphed as a long thin blade appeared as it was attached to Durandal still. It swung at the bat smacking it down to the ground as he transformed back into his normal form.

Irina slashed her sword downward staggering a vampire backward "This isn't working, and we need to conserve energy instead of hitting them repeatedly. As that will take too much time."

Kiba was looking down at the floor "Go on ahead." He said to the group "I can help them clean up."

Nobody said anything as they thought about what was about to happen. That's when Koneko stepped forward "Please leave this to me." She closed her eyes and took a deep breath in, when she exhaled a white glow appeared around her. "Sister taught me this." It was touki similar to Sairaorg as things were happening.

The aura flooded out from her as her body started emitting a light. It got brighter to a point where the vampires had to cover their eyes. When it died down Koneko was no longer there in her normal looked. Her body had grown up as it resembled her sister Kuroka and her clothes changed to a small white kimono top with a small skirt on the bottom. Her cat ears were out on her head as out from her skirt there was not one but two white cattails.

"By gathering ki I can synchronize it with my body." It was Konko who spoke but her voice was more grown-up similar to her sisters.

"Koneko calls this her Shirone mode where she can access her nekomata powers.." Rias said getting Issei's attention. "She showed it to us before we left."

"Kasha" Koneko stuck her hand out as a wheel of white flames appeared in front of her hand.

"I know about the Kasha technique." Azazel said as he continued "A Youkai technique that lures the dead to the other world. The flames of Kasha is the same as holy energy but for the undead. Not sure if it works on people if weaknesses have been removed… but it is an attack of purification."

She grabbed hold of the ring and threw it at the closest vampire. It hit the first vampire as it bounced off him ricocheting to the next target as it bounced off all of the vampires leaving white flames on them. The ring returned to her as all of the vampires were marked as they were on fire and nothing was putting the flames out. "It's useless, the fire will burn you till you die. As long as your a vampire you will burn till you turn to ash. You always have and will be a vampire no matter what you do with the grail."

They watched as parts of the vampires started to turn ash as the flames accelerated in power as their screams of pain were drowned out as their lungs and throats were burned out. Soon they turned into piles of ash the flames around her disappeared when she looked at Issei. "Look Issei… I've gotten bigger."

"I can see that and you look amazing." Issei was more than happy to see an upgraded version of Koneko as Rias walked over to her.

"But I can't stay like this for long. I used too much power." Her body snapped back to her normal smaller self as the light around her dimmed as a tailed disappeared and she returned to her normal clothes.

She fell to the floor drained of her energy as Rias grabbed ahold of her "You did an amazing job Koneko." Rias patted Koneko's head.

"And she's drained of her power. Not surprising considering how much power she just outputs on her first combat use of it." Azazel's analysis was spot on but fortunately, the path to the final floor was clear.

When reached the bottom there was an all too familiar aura (Come out a play Ddraig.) They heard Grendel's voice as they opened the door and saw the massive dragon.

Issei was ready to fight but Rias pulled on his arm. "Don't go all out on him, save your power for the end. I have an idea for this."

"Alright then" Issei stepped forward as the booster jets on the back of his armor ignited propelling him forwards.

(YES YES THAT'S IT! It's so nice of you to fight me head on!)

As Issei charged down the hallway something caught up to him as it could only be one of two things as he saw Kiba there. Alongside him were several of his Dragon Knight and in Kiba's hand, he had a large crimson and gold sword a dragon slayer weapon with tremendous power the Demonic Emperor Sword Gram.

When they reached Grendal Issei and Kiba made a combined swing at his chest. Kiba ended up hitting Grendal on top of his ribs as he only laughed. There was soon a second set of blades that crashed down on his arm as Durandal and Irina's holy demonic sword ground on his scales. (You're going to need more than that.)

"Even more so I have to use Durandal's full power to damage him."

"No, he's just a freak." Issei reassured her.

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Issei let another punch fly this time it landed on Grendal's jaw. It pushed his face back ever only getting a smile from him. Irina spread out her wings as she held her hand up gathering some of her holy power and threw it at Grendel. The attacks bounced off the scales as they left small black marks on him.

(A small burn, how pathetic.)

"Take this" Kiba shouted at Grendel as he and his Knights were behind him as Gram was glowing as he slashed down at Grendal's back from the back of his head to his legs. The Knights followed through slashing down in the same groove.

Blue blood spewed out around his shoulder as there was some smoke and sizzling from the searing of flesh. "You have to be kidding me, he only takes damage when I put some much power into Gram."

Grendel only laughed as he saw Kiba behind him (That kinda hurt, you're not half bad.)

"Gram is a dragon slayer sword, and with it, I can only do this little damage. This is bad as I cant get more out of Gram." Kiba said as he saw the results.

Seconds later Grendel was bombarded with arrows of all different elements. Rossweise had unleashed a massive assault on him as she watched the arrows sizzle out most doing little to nothing. "Even an assortment of different attributes did not affect him. Dragon scales are one thing but a magic resistance like this is unnatural."

Everyone retreated to the rest of the group "It's so annoying that he's this tough. And our attacks just bounce off him." Xenovia was frustrated that this was turning into a dragon humoring them.

"I don't think he cares about us Xenovia." Irina said as she looked at Issei. "He only wants to fight Issei ."

(Show me your full power Ddraig. COME ON I WANT A FIGHT.)

"There is something in our arsenal that can do critical damage to him." Rias said getting everyone's attention.

"Are you planning on using that Rias?" Akeno was on the uptake as to what it was going to be.

"I don't think we have much of a choice." Both of her hands radiated with the power of destruction as she pushed them together creating a ball of energy. " I need some time to generate enough demonic power." The Gremory magic circle appeared under her as she started generating power.

"Alright, then we can stall for a bit but don't take too long." Issei saw as he turned his focus back to Grendel.

Azazel stuck his hand out creating a barrier behind Rias protecting Asia Gasper and Koneko. "That sounds like fun so I guess I'll join in." Azazel stripped off his jacket as he got ready to fight alongside the kids.

(Interesting now the Watcher wants in. Bring it on.) Grendel stood there waiting to see what they would bring. Rossweisse opened up magic circles all over the ceiling as she primed her attacks. Xenovia and Irina charged towards Grendel as each took a side swinging at him as Kiba got behind swinging Gram at his spine. As their blades impacted in unison Rossweisse opened up releasing hundreds of elemental beams that pelted Grendel's face.

He tanked all the attacks as if they were nothing but flies landing on him. As Kiba prepared for a second strike Grendel pushed Xenovia and Irina away with air pressure from swinging his arms. Gram came swinging horizontally at Grendel's feet trying to slice the Achilles tendon area but Grendel made a small hop avoiding the blade through the full arc of the swing.

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"Kiba Xenovia!" Issei shouted as he held his hand out. The three of them retreated to Issei's location as he pushed his hand into their backs.

[TRANSFER!]

The demonic aura of Gram and Holy aura of Ex-Durandal began to radiate off the blades as their natural auras were stronger than normal as they resumed the onslaught. Kiba and Xenovia disappeared when they ran around but one thing was sure is that they were finally damaging Grendel now. (You two got super fast now.) Grendel was swinging his arms around trying to stop the two of them as cuts into his scales were appearing and the slight smell of burnt flesh was starting to permeate the area. (Now you're pissing me off.) Grendel was trying even harder to hit them as one swing of his fist slammed into the wall breaking it. Xenovia's saving grace was Excalibur Rapidly as she was able to keep up with Kiba and able to dodge Grendel.

(Had enough of your shit.) Grendel hopped backward as he breathed in a massive amount of air as his belly was swollen. Kiba and Xenovia returned to the position in front of Issei as they got ready for the fireball.

"It's time." Kiba said to Xenovia

"Yeah, time for destructive powers." She said as they raised their blades above their heads as the blades radiated power.

Grendel unleashes a massive fireball that was over 10feet in diameter. In unison, they swung their blades down unleashing two waves of energy that collide with the fireball and continued towards Grendel. The explosion rocked the castle as it drowned out his screams of pain while they waited for everything to clear.

When the smoke cleared they saw Grendel was kneeling in a pool of blood. Akeno walked up to the front line as curled around her was an eastern dragon made from her Holy lightning "Please step aside." She asked as she pointed towards Grendel. The dragon rolled off her arm as it flew to Grendel.

When it got close its body electrified and slammed into Grendel exploding into electricity. The sound of blood pooling into Grendel's throat and gargling it was heard as he was frozen in place. When the electricity wore off Grendel spat out a glob of blood as he looked at them (It's been such a long time since anybody has done this much damage to me.)

"He can still move after all of that." "He must enjoy joy the pain. Guess that's why they say Evil Dragons accept death laughing." "Also why they tell you not to fight them." Kiba Xenovia and Akeno said as they were shocked to see that Grendel could still move as there was a good portion of his blood on the floor.

"Then how about this?" Azazel asked as he was holding a massive spear of light in his hand that was on par with the one Kokabiel had.

(DO IT!) Grendel cackled as Azazel threw the spear at his stomach. Grendel went to grab the spear as it broke apart into a hundred longer spears as they pierced his stomach. Each spear created a decent size hole as it shattered his scales.

Azazel lobbed another spear this time much smaller and almost at supersonic speeds. It zoomed to the target smacking Grendel in the face as blood poured down his face. An eyeball was missing from Grendel as Azazel's spear shattered and vaporized it with minimal effort. "Loss of 50% peripheral vision is acceptable."

"It's time we end this" Rias said as everyone looked at her as she was holding a large ball of her power of destruction. She walked towards Grendel as everyone got away from her. "I hate that we run into so many enemies that can resist my attacks. Let alone that I have to rely on my servants to beat them. But that's why I created this… a special move of sorts." Rias stopped about 15 feet away from Grendel "Do me a favor, remove yourself from this world." She pushed the massive sphere towards him as it floated to Grendel slowly.

(Your kidding you dumb bitch, it's so slow.) Issei reached down and grabbed a rock and rolled down the hall and under the sphere. The rock was pulled up from the floor and sucked into the mass of energy. It was far too late for Grendel when he saw it as he was being dragged into the mass. (It has the power of attraction! Impossible!)

Grendel was pulled into it as his right arm came in contact with the sphere. Scales were shattered instantly as flesh was cut into severing his right arm. Grendel extended his wings as he flapped them trying to get away. He was able to pull back slightly as his right arm disconnected and fell into the maw. Akeno had her Fallen Angel wings spread out with two golden bands on her wrists as a thunderbolt came crashing down on Grendel as he trying to retreat. The retreat was a failure as he was paralyzed once again as his body fell into the mass of energy.

"You will be eliminated from this world today." Rias said as she fixed her hair. "I call this the Extinguished Star. A pure mass of Power of Destruction made to eradicate creatures like you. No elements or weaknesses only pure power to destroy things." Grendel was falling into the star as if it was a wood chipper when Rias snapped her fingers. The attack detonated engulfing what was left of Grendel.

When the light died down most of Grendel's body was gone as he was missing half of his head. The downside was Grendel was still alive somehow (I guess Euclid was correct. Those from House Bael can eat at an Evil Dragon's consciousness and Soul.) He cackled like a maniac with what was left (It's not like it matters. I'll get a new body and kill you after this. The Holy Grail is a Convenient tool. God was an idiot for making an object like that but it works to my advantage.)

"Then I will eliminate your soul as well." Rias conjured up a normal ball of her Power of destruction. "Your fleshy insides are vulnerable."

Rias got ready to release her attack as out from the shadows appeared a man in all back. It was Crom Cruach as he stood in front of Grendel "Your time is up Grendel."

(Now you're here, just when I wanted to see how I could push this body.)

"Doesn't matter go get fixed up." Grendel turned as it looked as if he was going to lash out at Crom. "If you don't leave now I will drag you back as a corpse."

It took Grendel a moment to think about it as he stood up (Fine you can deal with them then.) As Grendel was getting ready to teleport away, Xenovia charged up Ex Durandal and sent a wave of energy at him. As she sent it flying towards Grendel Crom stepped in front of it blocking it as if it was nothing. (You cant beat Crom even if you try. That's if you can even survive long enough.)

Grendel disappeared leaving Crom as their new unfortunate objective. "I can't let you go past here."

Issei didn't have much of a choice as he was about to start to recite the chant. Another powerful energy was coming towards them. [He's here] Ddraig said to Issei as the door that led up the stairs was blown off its hinges and into a million pieces. A bright white light landed next to Issei as Vali was there in his Balance Breaker.

Vali looked at Crom "I take it that your Crom Cruach."

"I am White Dragon Emperor." Crom and Vali had a small staredown.

"What kept you vali? You left before we did." Azazel asked

"Things happened. I ran into a man named Euclid Lucifugus who wanted to talk."

"Where are the others then?" Vali's story checked out the others so far were the mystery.

"Stray magicians under the name of Hexennacht or something. They have the holy cross so they are fighting them right now."

"Now the Holy Cross is cooperating with the Khaos Brigade. Of all the relics to be seeing lately truly disgusting. "

Vali looked over at Issei. "Hyoudou Issei do you have the confidence to beat Crom Cruach?"

"I think your brain is broken if you think we can beat him." Issei shook his head "One too many hits to the head. Crom is clearly above all of us."

"He is clearly above you." Vali said as Issei gave him a blank look and mouthed no shit. "I have business with what Crom is protecting. So I don't want to waste as much energy as possible."

Issei understood loud and clear what he was asking. "Alright fine but if this goes south I'm calling in my backup plan."

"Everyone get back here. While the Heavenly Dragons are fighting you can recover some power while they spend theirs." Rias nodded as she understood the severity of the situation as she was running low after her last attack.

Issei's armor changed into the thicker crimson version as he looked over to Vali "Sorry I can't use Juggernaut Overdrive. I've already used up too much stamina for the transformation."

"Great the danger zone it is them."

"The Heavenly Dragons working together will be amusing." Crom looked forward to the impending fight with some glee

Issei took the lead as he ran at Crom in an attempt to make the first blow. He swung his left leg at Crom getting Crom to lean back slightly to avoid the stroke. Crom pushed on Issei's foot turning him around faster than Issei was expecting and made a slight jab at Issei now exposed back. It sent Issei flying with minimal damage done to him aside from the impact of running into the ground. When Issei turned around he saw Vali behind Crom charing his demonic power.

"How about this then." Vali fired his demonic power from his hands at Crom. The impact kicked up dust and dirt clouding everyone's vision. But as it faded away Crom's wings were behind him as they soaked the impact of Vali's attack.

Vali circled back around as Issei had an idea. "I have a plan, so back me up here."

"Oh, this should be good." Vali went forward with the plan as he attacked Crom.

As Vali and Crom were going at it with an explosion going off in front of him Issei prepared his plan kneeling as the left cannon appeared on his shoulder as he grabbed ahold of it. The muzzle began generating a crimson aura on it as Issei aimed it at Crom. Waiting for the perfect shot as more and more energy was being condensed Issei saw Vali move out of the way for a moment. "Crimson Blaster!" [Fang Blast Booster!]

The room was flooded in a crimson light as the blast flew to Crom. When he saw the attack he put his wing to block the attack. When the light died down Issei saw that Crom's wing was missing as only the root and a portion of the leading edge was left as even that had smoke coming off it. Parts of Crom's skin were the same way as it sizzled away exposing parts of his mouth and arms showing black scales underneath. "Welllll shit."

"The Red Dragon Emperor has shown me strength. Yet you haven't shown me the same why is that?" Crom asked Vali as he retracted what was left of his wings. "Or maybe you don't want to waste strength yet."

"Why are you not showing off your full power?" Issei had to open his big mouth.

"This form is convenient for things like these. But it matters not what form I fight you in. My original form is useful for other things. Your attack was impressive that it broke my wing, but your firepower is still lacking if you want to hurt my scales."

"I heard you died in Christianity's invasion of Scottland. But to see that you were revived with the grail and gained so much power is not something I would have expected." Vali said somewhat in awe of Crom.

Crom looked at Vali giving him an odd look as if something was off "I was never destroyed. I left after Christianity invaded as they were annoying."

"If you weren't destroyed them what were you doing all this time? That was long ago. Let alone that blast you took from a nonenhanced body should be lethal." Vali was now more confused than he was coming into this.

"I simply observed the human and underworld as it grew. It was only a part of my training."

"Training mind and body then." Vali said as Crom was smiling at Vali.

"Yes, I want to see where Dragons would reach in this world."

"So it's useless then." Issei heard voices behind him.

"We have no choice then Xenovia." It was Irina talking as Issei looked back and saw them.

Kiba stood up holding Gram "I can't fully use Gram, the feedback is far too strong." Kiba was leaning on the blade as blood was coming out of his nose and breathing heavily from the stress the sword put on him.

Azazel put his hand on Asia's shoulder "We have already wasted enough time it's time." He said to her.

She nodded knowing what next to do "Respond to my voice, the Golden King. Crawl on the ground and receive my reward. Please come out Giganatis Dragon Fafnir." The Golden Dragon gate appeared next to her as it glowed brightly.

Out came the large Golden scaled dragon ~Pantie time~

"No, it… I mean maybe." Asia was flustered just thinking about it.

Vali looked back hearing what was happening. "What is happening…"

Issei shook his hands "Don't do it, man. For once this wasn't me." [Dont do it Albion don't listen to Fafnir.]

{No not breasts…. Not again. The last time was too much.}

[Fafnir is no longer the same Fafnir as we knew from before.]

"Fafnir" Azazel spoke to the Dragon "When we had a pact I gave you an item. I need the replica of Tathlum. Since Crom Cruach is of the same religion it should work against him."

Fafnir thought about it ~Okay, but I want something.~

"Yeah panties." Azazel nudged Asia forward "A single pair of your precious panties for Tathlum is a bargain. Baack in the day I had to bribe him with much more."

Asia reached in her pocket and pulled out a white pair with a yellow bow on the front. Fafnir looked at it as if he wasn't looking forward to it. ~I do not want panties~

Everyone was shocked to hear that from Fafnir. "What do you want her bra then?" Azazel asked

"This isn't a strip club Azazel or even a lingerie shop." "We can't be giving those out as if they were candy." Rias and Akeno said to him.

"No, I'm sorry for trying to tempt a dragon with a maiden or her things. It's not if that trope came from somewhere." Azazel came back at them calming down their overprotectiveness. "So what do you want then Fafnir?"

~I want Asia's school swimsuit.~

"Why would she even have that here?' Issei yelled at Fafnir "It's cold as shit outside and it's winter."

"No no." Asia waved her hands as she reached a magic circle and pulled it out. "I have it here." That's when she pulled out her school swimsuit with her name written across the chest.

Xenovia grabbed onto Asia and shook her slightly "Why do you neven have that here?'

"Because Sona said to bring it with me." Asia said quietly as she looked embarrassed. "She told me that Fafnir would most likely request it. She said that he was watching me when we were at the pool so it would be best to take it."

Rias shook her head "To think that Sona predicted something like this. Just how far ahead can she predict."

As the girls were admiring Sona's dedication to making sure that all bases were covered. "So does Fafnir want to swim?" Crom asked not sure what was happening.

"No." Rossweisse sighed hearing that from Crom "It's much worse than that."

Aisa held up her swimsuit towards Fafnir as he pushed his face into the swimsuit. ~Asia's swimsuit~ Soon his tongue came out and wrapped around it ~Silky smooth and tasty~

{Nooooo. I am not the White Ass Dragon}

[Get ahold of yourself.] Ddraig yelled at Albion

Heavy breathing was heard from Albion {Listen Ddraig I think I might be suffering from Oppai dragon as well.}

[Wait somebody else understands my pain?]

{This era has been so cruel to us. Breasts and Butts are the centers of attention when it comes to us.}

[I understand that all too well. Even Fafnir has changed for the worse.]

Ddraig and Albion were talking as if nobody else existed. Vali pointed over to Fafnir as he looked at Issei "So what's up with this?

"Don't ask me. I didn't do it all I know is a dragon is hitting on my muffin."

~Here~ Fafnir said as he stuck his tail into a dragon gate and pulled out a massive rocket launcher.

Azazel picked it up and slung it over his shoulder "Good with this we can see how well it works against Crom Cruach. When Azazel pulled the trigger a massive backblast went out as a bullet went flying towards Crom. As it moved through the air it zig-zagged trying to confuse its target before it reached the impact point.

"The Tathlum, been a long time since that has been seen yet it's impossible for me to avoid it. But that's not much of a problem for me." Crom put his arms out in front of him as if he was going to catch it as his arms changed from the human-looking things to the massive arms of a dragon.

The bullet picked up speed as it zipped towards Crom. When it neared him he closed his hands around it trying to catch it but the bullet. It wiggled around in his hands as its velocity was reduced drastically but it was still able to wiggle its way out of his hands tearing the skin off on way out. When it was ejected from his hands it flew towards his head creating a large flash of light. Crom opened his mouth and bit down on it doing all he could to stop the bullet.

When the light faded away they saw the bullet wedged in Crom's mouth as he crunched down on it shattering it as the metal fell to the floor. "And he stopped it." Azazel said somewhat surprised and yet expecting it at the same time.

"It looks as if our time is up." Crom said getting Vali's attention the most.

"Are you Quitting?"

"I was asked to buy ten minutes. Next time we meet the fight will be serious." Crom stood down as he let them go through onto the final area.

When they made their way down the final flight of stairs they came upon a large wooden door, Gasper got in front of them as he pushed the doors open. They were greeted by a disturbing sight of Valerie laying on a bed with Marius standing over her casting a magic circle. Valerie's head rolled over so she could see the doorway "Gas….per." The area around her is glowing and giving off a somewhat disturbing vibe.

"Valerieeeee" Gasper screams out as he ran over to her but was stopped as he ran into a barrier. "Stop! Please release her!" Gasper screamed with everything he hand.

"That's what I'm doing. You're just too blind to see that I'm releasing her from her pain. The Grail has eaten her mind and soul." Marius smile from ear to ear as if he was enjoying this.

Valerie began screaming as Kiba and Xenovia ran forward swinging their blades at the barrier. Both of their swords bounced off it as if it was the hardest material known in existence. "Do refrain from attacking the barrier, it affects the Grail and the possessor. And don't bother former Governor I know much more about the grail and how to deal with it than you do."

With a magic circle covering his hand Azazel ran it over the barrier. When he checked the results of the scan he didn't look as if he was happy. "To think you of all creatures would have had a protection code of God. It must be information given to you by Rizevim."

"He shared plenty of information with me. Enough so that I could progress my research on the Holy Grail to the point where the Evil Dragons that were dead were able to come back to life. But now she is useless and I no longer need her to operate the grail anymore." Out of Valerie came a small golden cup as Marius grabbed hold of it "And with that, we are done."

Valerie wasn't looking so great as her breathing was sporadic and her eyes were fading away as she couldn't focus on objects near her. "So this is the Longinus Sephiroth Grail. A masterpiece in of itself."

The barrier fell as Gasper ran over to Valerie trying to talk to her. "Valerie"

"You will always be a cry baby Gasper." She reached up and touched his face as she felt his tears rolling down his face.

"I...I wasn't able to save you."

"No, but you came back. In the end… my only friend… my only family. But… you are strong now." Her head tilted back and looked up to the ceiling "I really wanted to… go and see the sun."

Everyone knew what was going to happen soon as Asia was having the hardest time dealing with it. "We can still do that." Gasper said as Valerie's arm went limp as she stopped breathing.

Marius looked towards Rias "If you would Rias Gremory shoot me with your power of destruction."

Rias was none too happy hearing the sheer arrogance from Marius. She walked forward as she gathered the required power for her attack and then put even more into it. "If you want it so badly then have it." She pointed it at Marius and then let it go. It impacted with him creating a shockwave from the two forces. When the dust settled Marius was floating where he was standing with his lower half missing his right arm was gone and a large portion of his lungs were missing.

"Very good." Marius said with a smile on his face as blood vessels formed as muscle mass and skin rapidly took over what his body regeneration it almost instantly. "But the power of the Holy Grail is far more powerful than your attack."

"Just as predicted." Out from the shadows appeared a noble Vampire followed by a few others. "The same powers as the Phoenix."

"Oh, it's my uncle." Marius said as he looked back at the other vampires. "Do you want me to strengthen you now?"

"Residents of the night that will no longer be constrained by sunlight, water, the cross, or even holy water. We will show off where we always have been as the superior species." "Dominating humans and making them the working class of our society showing that we always were the supering beings."

"There is only one thing left to do before proving that. We need to eliminate the current King and Carmilla head to start our New World Order. The former king was far too blind to see what was in our grasp.

Marius could only smile hearing that " To think you all thought so highly of me. I only care about the Grail."

"If we stop talking and get to the fighting we can avoid having to hear them talk about humans as food and pride." Issei said getting on with it

"Devils have noble blood who stand at the top and since ancient times. You are no better than we are with your use of humans." Marius pointed out "Since you of pure blood Rias Gremory you should be able to understand us. The difference between nobles and…."

Marius was cut off as laughter echoed through the room this time it was something dark and sinister. "Rubbish"A deep and dark voice was heard that belonged to nobody that recognized it. That's when they saw Gasper and a black aura that enveloping him as it was crawling up the walls encasing it. Gasper stood up as his eyes were glowing red"Nobility, show me this so-called power of a superior being that you claim to be."

The darkness surrounding the room snuffed the lights making it near pitch black. Gasper started to change as his body morphed gaming muscle mass as he took the form of a beast. Sharp claws took over his hands as all of the leg joints were reversed while a cross between a dragon and an eldritch nightmare grew a horn on his head with red eyes peering out from the darkness.

A wolf-like howl came out as it echoed in the room. All the girls were shivering from the aura that was flooding the room as Issei and Vali watched at what was happening. Azazel was questioning in his mind what was going on as if he had a possible explanation for what was happening. And all while the so-called nobles were scared to see what Gasper has become all except Marius. "Calm down, This is Gasper Valdi's true form that Euclid has reported about. There is nothing to fear about it as we are well beyond it."

"What of superiority?"Out of the darkness appeared another creature but it was unrecognizable. It was just a mash-up of insects a dragon and plants as it walked towards them.

"He is a mere beast born of darkness…" One of the nobles said as the monster swung one of the limbs that could be best called an arm as a head came out and chewed on the vampire crushing him as he disappeared.

"We are the superior beings how are our powers not working." 'What are you?"

"Do you know why your powers don't work? That's because I overrode the power of the grail. So you are nothing but sub-par."

"You freak nothing but an imitation to come from a human." The one vampire stopped as he felt his legs could no longer move. When he looked down his legs were covered in darkness as they were being held. The creature approached him as he started screaming "We have noble blood we are above you!"

"Do it"The creature crawled up on the vampire and chomped into him as blood spewed out everywhere. The creature tore the remaining vampires apart as blood-curdling screaming was heard as the monster had its fun with all but Marius. The extreme violence was far too much for Asia as she has closed her eyes and covered her ears as she was going to need some help after all of this was over.

"Most Interesting." Marius said examining the carnage around him "The half-bloods lately have been born with abnormal powers and you are no exceptions. And you have the potential that rivels the Holy Grail itself, so how about it want to help with my research?"

"Research? You mean murder like you did to Valerie?"

"And that made you angry? Hear me out the Holy grail…" Marius tried talking as what was Gasper stretched out its arm at an amazing speed that was far beyond Kiba's speed. The arm struck Marius as it blew off his shoulder and took the arm and part of the ribcage as well. "Oh, you want to play like that then. I see how it is, the Grail has strengthened my body so it's pointless…" Marius stopped his mouth to look down at his body only to see that his body hasn't regenerated yet. "Now that's odd. My body hasn't regenerated yet. Has the Grail lost its power?"

The monster said nothing as he swung his arm again this time Marius jumped back to dodge it. Out of the wall came a massive bear claw that slashes him in the back knocking him to the ground as the head of a crocodile came from the floor and chomped down on his legs.

"It's only a matter of time before I regenerate my legs as well." Marius's confidence was faltering as his legs and arm have yet to heal. "Why!" He shouted "Why isn't it healing. Why isn't it responding to me? I'm holding the Grail I have unlimited power." That's when he saw it and what little hope he had disappeared. "The darkness is…. Stopping my regeneration. Impossible! This creature is beyond the Grail?"

"What's a matter? You can regenerate yourself, can you? Get on with it so I can keep destroying you." He approached Marius as he was panicking.

Marius tried to back away while on the floor "Wait! I can make a clone of Valerie for you with the Grail. I can find her soul and make it so you can go back to Japan with her." Marius jumped right to the bargaining stage as he saw what was happening.

"Silence. You will not speak her name again. Nor will you be living anymore."Reaching its hand out one final time it pierced Marius' chest grabbing hold of his heart. It didn't do anything but hold it as the darkness producing all different forms of creatures as they each took a bite out of him ripping his body to shreds. When they were done the hand squeezed down ripping the heart out and crushed it as blood splattered around the room.

After witnessing that execution Vali looked over to Rias "After watching that you're going to have restrictions on him for your Rating game future. Whatever it is it's more dangerous than any of us."

The darkness shifted as Valerie was lifted onto a bed of darkness and moved towards the group as the Grail was removed from Marius's hand and placed next to Valerie. The darkness was devouring what was left of Marius' body to make sure nothing of him ever existed in this reality.

Azazel moved over to Valerie's body as he looked at her. He ran a magic circle over her scanning her. "Now I wasn't expecting that."

"What's going on?" Rias asked him

Azazel was poking away at his magic circle making sure what he was seeing was correct. "It looks as if her version of Sephiroth Grail was a subspecies. So that must but another Grail inside of her."

Everyone was shocked to hear that "There's more than one Longinus now? That goes against the rules of only one Longinus."

"No your right about that but, but it looks as if this subspecies of the Holy Grail split into multiple cups. I need to look more into it but as she is right now she's alive more comatose than alive but you get the point." Azazel grabbed hold of the Grail and cast a spell on it as he pushed it towards her chest letting it return to her. "If we return all the parts to her then she should return to an awake state."

Next to all of them, the morphed monster of Gasper was sitting there watching as Azazel pushed the Grail into her. "Here I would have thought you would have remembered Red Dragon Emperor."

Issei looked at it "I know that you are not a crossdressing vampire called Gasper."

"I am Gasper but at the same time, I can't say that I am. When the child was in the mother's womb he received a fraction of Balor's consciousness, even if it was shattered."

Azazel looked at Gasper with his eyes wide from hearing the conversation "Balor? As in you are Balor consciousness?"

"Partially I'm only a fragment of his power after my divinity and power faded. The fight between Balor and Lugh caused many things to happen and then a fragment was trapped into this Sacred Gear. In the end, I am no longer Balor just Gasper Vladi."

"How should I know that 'you' were a fragment of Balor?" Issei asked as he was confused about all of this. "I'm not familiar with Celtic myth or even Welsh."

"I was referring to the Ddraig. "

[It's a learning opportunity.]

Gasper turned towards Azazel as the Church girls gathered around to look at what became of Gasper."This form or fusion was created by the Sacred Gear and the connection to Balor. You could classify this combination as a Balance Breaker if you wanted, something like Forbidden Invader Balor the Beast."

Azazel scratched his chin hearing that "Not only are you naming your own Balance Breaker you could even be classified as a Longinus level. I wouldn't be surprised if you have already mutated the base Gear of Forbidden Balor View."

Rias had to make sure of what she was hearing "Wait… there could be even more Longinus?"

"My Existence taints everything in darkness but know this it will not harm any of you." The darkness around them started to fade away "Gasper proper cant hold this form for long and I have already extended it as much as I can."The last of the darkness was sucked back into Gasper's body as his legs gave out.

Rias caught Gasper as there were tears in his eyes. Azazel's focus was turned back to Valerie as she was still on the table. "She should have woken up by now." He said as he ran a scan over her making sure he did everything correctly.

"You might be looking for this then." Everyone heard the familiar voice as they saw Rizivem on the other side of the room holding another golden cup in his hand.

Vali however was grinding his teeth as his face was filled with rage. "I really wanted to see you Rizevim."

"So little miss Valerie was in possession of three grails. A subspecies Longinus with so many goodies in one package. I extracted one before Marius failed to realize that there were multiple. He wasn't much of a researcher of the Holy Grail as he thought he was." Rizevim looked over to Vali "Cheer up Grandpa is here to see you! Fun times will be starting soon."

"So what brought on the murder boner from Vali?" Issei asked Azazel

"Rizevim ordered his son Razevan to abuse Vali." Azazel said as he wasn't exactly enthused to have to talk about that.

"Really living up to that Lucifer name." Issei said to himself for the most part.

Rizevim waved his hand getting their attention "Yep can't deny that one. I did order my son to bully him. Not my problem that he was a coward who abused him because he was scared of the fact that he had a sacred gear. But in the end, little Vali couldn't endure his treatment and ran away from home. I was so happy to hear that Azazel found you." Azazel and Rizevim had a hate-filled stare down after that.

"Enough, where is that pathetic excuse of a man?" Vali asked to Rizevim.

"Razevan? He's dead, I killed him. After you ran away he lost his usefulness so I killed him. Are you mad? Are you angry that I killed your daddy?" Rizevim tried to speak to Vali as if he was a mere child.

"No, hearing that makes me happy. I was planning on killing him as well." Around Vali, his power was showing up outward "But killing you the Morning Star, that is something I want so much more."

A smile grew on Rizevim's face hearing that "Good good, Azazel raised you well. To think that my own grandson wants to kill me so much." Behind Rizevim Lilith appeared standing there.

"Just what do you plan on doing with the Holy Grail?" Azazel interrupted the two of them. "Do you plan on reviving the rest of the Evil Dragons?"

Rizevim looked at the Grail as he swirled it around as if it was a glass of wine. "You know what I'll tell you. Truths in this world are now as you know it. This world and that other world do exist, it revealed something that we knew was there." Azazel's eyes opened as wide as they could "So you understand. Loki was a fool but only the catalyst to make the possibilities reality." Rizevim pointed at Issei "And you made that happen the Oppai Dragon. You spoke to Chichigami a god from another world."

"How the fuck do you even know about that?" Issei said

"Chichigami the unknown god, that has nothing to do with God. It is never mentioned in the Bible, the Norse have no trace of it, the Shinto has nothing on it and even the Hindu with their absurd stories have nothing close to a record containing it. But then I had a great idea why don't I attack them." Rizevim smacked his hands together "Boom just like that best idea. But then I thought how could I even attack them. There's a dragon guarding the dimension so it makes it hard to look around."

"So you're after Great red after all." Azazel shouted at Rizevim

Rizevim continued his monolog as if he didn't care if anybody but Azazel spoke. "Yes yes yes you are so clever Azazel. I want to defeat Great Red and get into their world. But Great Red is insanely strong, living in the gap is no simple feat. Even if I wanted to put Ophis in a fight with Great Red that dumb kid Cao Cao botched the extraction process. Even I can't beat Great Red, what should I do steal Samael? No then Hades will be pissed and then I would have to deal with him and his Reapers. The Evil Dragons might get destroyed because of Samael so that's out of the equation. Or I make the verse of the Apocalypse a reality."

"Trihexa" Azazel was as pale as he spoke.

"Good you remember. Great Red isn't the only legendary beast recorded in the book of the apocalypse. If God of the Bible left hints of its existence then having it fight Great Red would be a great match."

"What is this Trihexa?" Issei asked as all of this was well beyond all of them now.

"In the book of Revelations, there is a hint of a creature knows as the Apocalypse. Humanity associated it with the number 666. There has never been any proof of its existence but the leaders of the supernatural never doubted its existence as well."

Rizevim looked look he was about to squeal like a schoolgirl "Guess what it Exists. After searching for its principle of life with the holy grail we found it at the end of the world that everyone forgot about. The funny thing is it's covered in thousands of seals that are all forbidden levels of magic. It would be funny yet plausible if God of the Bible died from fatigue because of all of the seals he was placing on Trihexa."

"That explains how you got a hold of a protect code spell and let Marius use it."

"Currently we are unraveling the seals, it would be easier if we had the Holy Spear to break apart the seal into parts. But we're doing fine with the Grail and the Cross. But when we revive Trihexa and defeat Great Red, we are going to use an army of Evil Dragons and Trihexa to decimate that other world and I will rule it." Rizevim started laughing as they saw a deranged psychopath tell everyone about his plans.

"One that's kinda stupid of an idea and two.." Issei looked at the rest of the group "Anybody up for murdering whoever has the Cross to prevent this insanity?"

Rizevim wasn't happy hearing that coming from Issei "It's rude to insult my motives. We devils live for so long that dreams are hard to have. I lived such a bland life with nothing to do. But now I see something that humans have all the time. I'm quite jealous that humans are like that but Euclid changed all of that and now I can rule over the chaos of a world, and maybe even another world after that. Devils are evil and I will kill everything that stands in the way of my goals."

Rizevim felt the glares on the Gremory group upon him. "Just look at all of you brats. None of you are devils, you look at me as if you are the justice and heroes of this world. Worst off is you Red Dragon Emperor, you are nothing but a monster and a dangerous Devil."

"A monster you say?" Issei stepped forward and with a flash of light, his armor changed from its base red form to his crimson upgrade.

"Wait Issei!" Azazel shouted too late as Issei stuck his hands forward as a massive dragon shot was sent towards Rizevim.

As the power moved towards Rizevim he stood there waiting for it to come closer. But when it got close the ball got smaller and smaller down to the size of a basketball that impacted Rizevim's hand. His hand let off some smoke but otherwise was undamaged.

"What's a matter Rizevim didn't feel like canceling all of the attack?" Issei watched Kiba step forward "Don't," He told Kiba "It's pointless."

"How do you even know about his ability to cancel sacred gear abilities?" Azazel asked him.

"Great Red is a wealth of knowledge even if all he does is swim around. I was informed about Rizevim's powers as a precaution and it turns out it was worth knowing."

"Interesting, but you're still useless in a fight against me. And now you know why SirZechs has a peerage of all non-sacred gear users as they would be useless against me."

"If Sacred Gears don't work then how about a holy sword." Xenovia shouted as was already flying through the air towards Rizevim. When she got close she swung Ex Durandal down at him only for the blade to be intercepted by Lilith throwing her back to the group.

"Anyways I have something much more interesting to show you." Rizevim snapped his fingers as the area around them shifted as if they were outside. "Does anybody know where this place is?"

Everyone looked around as it was a castle that was currently being snowed in. "This is the Carmilla castle?" Rias asked as Rizevim nodded.

"Exactly this is that Carmilla castle. Now watch this live feed." He snapped his fingers once again "Can you take a guess what's about to happen?"

Everyone was ready for something to happen to them of all things. But above them, black figures appeared in the sky. The figures descended as they were black dragons.

"What's the meaning of this Rizevim?" Azazel shouted.

"The Carmilla faction fell for a trap of the Tepes faction. They also enhanced their bodies to have no weaknesses. But those who went so far we turned them into mass-produced evil Dragons. In the end, only Vampires will deal with Vampire problems" Rizevim started laughing like a maniac.

The ground shook around that violently as if an earthquake happened. The dust from the ceiling fluttered down only for the shaking to happen once. "What's happening." Rias looked around as they were still looking around in the sky.

"Oh, right forgot about that. The same thing is happening here. Sorry." Rizevim shrugged his shoulders. The castle shook even more as they were teleported to what looked to be the roof of the castle. "You idiots should go deal with that." Rizevim said as he disappeared.

Vali spread out his wings as he took off "Wait Vali!" Azazel shouted at him but it was far too late as he disappeared. "We need to deal with this. Split into two teams and eliminate these discount evil dragons. Akeno Rossweisse Kiba comes with me. Xenovia and Irina go with Issei. Evacuate as many people as you can."

"Xenovia and Irina I need to you take Koneko and Gasper while we take Asia as well." Rias said.

"There's an underground shelter past the east gate, take them there." Azazel said as they jumped off the roof down to the ground floor.

Issei saw his opportunity when they landed as he ran forward. [Solid Impact Booster!] He charged towards the closest evil dragon he saw and punched it as hard as he could. The impact of the punch tore the scales of the so-called evil dragon in half carving a massive gouge in the body killing it instantly. "Oh, I can hold back some then."

Issei started punching his way making his way towards the shelter. Everyone followed suit as they were swinging their swords and throwing spells destroying the evil dragons as if they were nothing. The problem was there were only taking out drops from an ocean of enemies. One of the dragons that Issei punched slammed into a building next to some people "Get to east gate shelter!" He yelled over the chaos of the battlefield as to what people could be moving around.

Down the road from him, Issei saw a man wearing a silver robe with the hood down as he had a long section of silver braided hair. "Euclid Lucifuge why are you here."

"Oh just dealing with some leftover business but you happen to be in my way." He looked around as the town was on fire in some places while it was snowing. "Ironic how Vampires that lost their weaknesses lay siege to their homeland. Prideful beings are now and now look at them."

"This isn't ironic. Ironically, they learned from people who have not only done the same thing not once but twice. Even though you urged them on for your test subjects."

Euclid sighed hearing that. "I've been thinking about Longinus and how they break the balance of principles and foundation. They gave you a new choice but others were not."

Issei feigned a yawn "Oh man it's like I've never heard that one before."

"This might be a result of you and those around you who have the illusion of choice." Euclid said in an angrier tone.

"What are you going on about? Nothing but gibberish." Issei looked at Euclid as he was shaking his head.

"Very well, I guess I must show you fate." Euclid grabbed onto his robe and pulled it off. "Then I will show you my Boosted Gear!" Euclid raised his left hand as a red Gauntlet appeared on his hand.

"What?" Issei saw the perfect replica of the gauntlet on Euclid as he didn't have much of a response.

A silver aura appeared around Euclid "Balance Break." Euclid was engulfed in his aura as it turned red as it formed an armor. The armor took into its form as it was perfectly identical to Issei's.

"Scale mail" Issei was beyond surprised to see a perfect-looking copy of his powers.

"Yes, this is indeed the Balance breaker of the Boosted Gear. It's only a replica of it, however."

[Impossible, a replica cant exist. You cant copy the Boosted Gear, it's impossible even for Azazel.] Ddraig shouted out for everyone to hear. [This is an act that would surpass God of the Bible.]

"You know it's not possible to make this from nothing. I had to have something before I could make it." Euclid pointed at Issei. "Blood sweat, tears, and even saliva. You have no idea how much work I did to collect the required materials."

Issei felt chills run down his spine "That creepy as hell man."

"The power of the holy grail and those materials gave me all I needed."

[He created a body of yours with the grail.] Ddraig said to Issei. 'That doesn't make it any better.' Issei shouted back.

"It's not possible to copy or recreate Ddraig's soul. But with the power of the Grail, we able to create this replica. Unfortunately, we had to use several dragon souls to power this every time. Enough about that let's have a battle between Dragon Emperors."

Issei put his foot down as he flew forward at Euclid. [Solid Impact Boosted] His arm got thick as a tree trunk as he swung it at Euclid. The echoes of the Boost command came from Euclid's replica as his aura was increased. Euclid did nothing as he took the punch head on making the snow on the ground getting pushed away from the shockwave. Euclid wasn't phased by the hit as he looked down at Issei in his crimson armor "Wonder what it would take to make mine do that." Euclid curled his right and up and punched Issei in the stomach breaking some of the armor and sent him skidding back.

Ddraig got to work repairing the armor as Issei thought about something 'Do you think we can do it?' He asked Ddraig [The first yes but not yet on the second and the third I would be surprised if you can ever do it.]

"I never thought that I was weaker than my Sister Grayfia. But this proves that the Boosted Gear proves that the stronger the possessor the stronger the output."

Issei wasn't going to wait for the monologue to continued as he ran forward as the booster gets kicked in propelling him forward [Star Sonic Booster!] Issei bulldozed right about it only for Euclid to simply step out of the way. When he was behind Euclid the armor rapidly shifted as the two cannons formed as the barrels lit up rapidly pooling energy. [Fang Blast Booster]

A massive crimson aura washed over the area. Euclid turned around as the replica was boosting his power. He stuck his hand up to the oncoming energy "I think you called it Dragon shot?" Out of his hand came a ball of energy that was a mix of Red and Silver as the two attacks impacted with each other sending a massive shockwave through the air.

As the snow began to start falling on them again Issei saw that his attack was nullified. [We will not be defeated by an imposter.] Ddraig said aloud as Issei smashed his hands together as the jewels on his armor shifted from a green to letting off a silver light.

The silver light soon shifted to an ooze that leaked out of the gems. When it all leaked out the ooze began taking shape into multiple small dragon-like creatures that hovered near Issei. "This must be the power you stole from Vali. I requested for Vali Lucifer to show me his true strength of the Empireo Juggernaut Overdrive. But he turned me down saying that he wouldn't use such a form on me calling me a fraud."

Issei pointed at Euclid "Go." As the dragons few around him circling him. He then held his hand up and formed the real deal Dragon shot. When he released it flew at Euclid and with a slight movement, he dodged it with little effort. [Reflect] Was heard as when Euclid turned around the blast was not only coming back at him it was traveling much faster than before. "Dance for me." Issei launched another Dragon shot this time at one of the dragons as it sent it flying at Euclid.

The Blasts of energy kept gaining momentum as he was dodging them in the air gracefully. But that all changed with a flick of the finger as the first blast curved in at the last second impacting with his right hip and the second one with his left foot. "Enough of this game, Unlike those pointless canons of yours I don't need to charge an attack of that magnitude." Euclid held his hand out and fired a Dragon shot towards Issei. Issei stood there as he looked at the blast as the dragons flew to intercept the energy. [Divide!] [Divide!] [Divide!] [Divide!] [Divide!] [Divide!] [Divide!] [Divide!] With each divide, the energy whittled down till it left nothing only the rush of air passed of Issei.

"Did you think it would be that simple?" Issei asked as the dragons formed around him.

"Then show me more of that power." Euclid said as they both looked around as the area was flooded in darkness.

"Let me help you."Issei saw the beast on the ground below Issei but this time the voice was more of Gaspers.

"So your awake now."

"Asia told me what was happening so I came out to help." Gasper's voice got deeper as he said that.

"Euclid it's time." Rizevim flew towards him.

"Yes Lord Rizevim." Euclid gave him a nod.

"It's time we leave, this darkness is dangerous. It's attacking the evil dragons, also where's Crom?"

Euclid shrugged his shoulders "Don't know I doubt he's still in the country."

"I'm not done with you Rizevim" Vali was flying at them at a high rate of speed.

"Anyways" Rizevim kept talking to Euclid "Let's head back our work here is done." Euclid formed a magic circle instantly as the three of them made theirs towards them. Issei summoned up one of his roses and threw it at them as they neared them. Rizevim had other plans as he swiped his finger around and let out a pulse of energy causing Issei and Vali to lose their armors halting most of the moment and Gasper was stripped out of the darkness as well. The rose however kept flying as it exploded into a spine and ribs like a human but only of thorns. "Qilppoth" Rizevim said as they teleported away as the vine rib cage engulfed them only to catch nothing. Issei floated down to the ground as he watched the vines turn to compost as it missed the target.

The darkness of Gasper was gone but the damage was done. The castle town was in shambles as buildings were destroyed. Issei and Gasper made their way to the shelter area as Carmilla agents were guiding people to the shelter. When they walked past the front of the castle they saw a familiar girl sitting on the steps overlooking the city as she was talking to herself "They were all traitors and they did…. this to our homeland." It was Elmenhilde talking to herself as everything that was happened was too much for her.

They stood there just looked on at the destruction that was caused as it was going to take some time to rebuild. Gasper turned around as saw an older man standing in the doorway of the castle "I am a servant of Rias Gremory Gasper." Gasper made a quick bow "We have retrieved Valerie and will be leaving for our house in Japan. And we never plan on coming back here again." Gasper said as he turned around and walked away to go meet up with everyone as Lord Vladi stood there in silence.

Leaving the two of them Issei met up with Gasper as everyone else had regrouped. "We have to retrieve the Holy Grail from Rizevim." Azazel said he was preparing Valerie's body for transport. "It looks as if this subspecies requires it to be fully reassembled to bring her consciousness back but she can survive with one being extracted."

"Rizevim said the word Qippoth before he left." Issei said to Azazel.

He looked up at him "Evil Husk perfect name for a new group of people who want to take over the world with Trihexa of all things."

The sun started to rise letting off the first rays of light for the day. "I'm going to save Valerie." Rias smiled hearing this coming from Gasper.

One week passes as Rizevim was quiet and the supernatural governments were whipped up into a frenzy after what they had been told. And of course, another meeting had been called in the Hyoudou household. Everyone was there as even Vali and his team along with Sun Wukong and Griselda and Dulio and even Sairaorg Sona and Seekvaira "So how are all the leaders taking to all of this?" Rias asked.

"This isn't something that we can ignore, to begin with, and everybody is on board with any plan. So far there have been no disagreements on what needs to be done and factions are cooperating right now. Rizevim wants to cause chaos and he just threw sand in a finely tuned machine. His actions with the Vampires were just a stepping stone. Odin and Zeus are trying to quell full military deployment for the moment. But the Evil Dragons are a dangerous factor to any mythology. And if Trihexa gets revived and fights with Great Red the world will most likely collapse from the fighting even the other dimensions that other factions reside in won't be safe."

"Wait other dimensions?' Murayama asked as she and Katase were confused about that.

"Earth and everything we know of space is the main area. Each mythology has a dimension that they reside in Odin of the Norse rules over nine while others like the Hindu Shinto Greeks and the Biblical of Heaven and Hell have their own. Each faction has a respective area on earth they rule as well." Issei explained to them "You get to see them later on."

"Lord Michael is negotiating with other forces as a representative of our God. Many of the smaller mythologies are seeking help our help as the major factions have only spoken to each other so far." Griselda added on.

"There are other problems as well." Azazel continued on "Heads of other factions are throwing out suggestions. And since the incident of the Vampires, each mythology will have one Combat level, God, on hand at all times. But they also want a counter-terrorist team with a mixed background for fast deployment anywhere at any time. Devils Fallen, Angels, Vampire, Youkai, a Valkyrie, Grim Reaper, beast-man, humans, and Dragons." There was no denying what has about to happened as everyone knew what was about to happen. "Despite all of you being a mixed level of skills all of you fit the bill perfect for the job that has been requested.

"There's no denying that we need to cooperate with others. But this outcome could be for the best so I don't have any objections to this." Rias said as Sona Seekvaira and Sairaorg all nodded in agreement with her.

"No objections as well, working with the young ones will be much easier than most." Sun Wukong even agreed as this would already be off to a good start.

Dulio tilted his head to the side "If we do this then we need a name."

"DxD" Koneko said quietly as everyone looked at her.

"Like Dragon of Dragons? That would make sense we would be protecting him." Rias said to Koneko.

Koneko shook her head "I was thinking something like Devil's and Dragons or Downfall, Divine something like that.

"Sounds good enough for me." Azazel said hearing that "We can tack on names with that later. Just don't make it weird. Up next on the list…" He pointed at Dulio "You will be the leader of this Dulio."

"No no no." Dulio shook his head and waved his hands around.

"It would look bad if the Devils or Fallen would lead this team. And if an Angel would lead it gives this team a more favorable outlook. What do you have to lose? This is nothing but positivity for you."

"But…" Dulio was smack in the back of the head.

"Dulio" It was Griselda of all people "This is a good thing. Your name will be recorded in history, and as the trump card of Heaven you should do this."

"Very well" Dulio sighed accepting his fate.

"Good, and Sun Wukong will be assisting you with everything so ask for help when you need it. With that being said Vali." Hearing his name he looked towards Azazel "Your team has been nominated as an addition as well to deal with Rizevim. Even if most people don't trust you."

"Do you want to work with your Rival Albion?" Vali asked.

Vali's silvery wings appeared as a voice everyone could {I don't mind. We can talk about the past sometimes Red one!} Albion was somewhat happy to say that.

[YES! Our past was so fun!] Ddraig did the same as he sounded happy as well to talk about the past.

"To think that the Two Heavenly Dragons would change their stance on battle." Sairaorg said as he scratched his head.

"But Vali Lucifer and his team are members of the Khaos Brigade." Sona brought up the dirty fact. "That can't be ignored."

"About that… Odin took him in as his adopted son knowing everything that happened." Azazel said surprising everything.

"Even tho you rased him?" Rias asked him

Issei looked over at his newest additions as he saw they were lost "We can catch you three up on some of the side subjects later."

"You don't understand Odin is one of the elder gods. If he is going to adopt him then who's going to stop him? The answer is nobody and other mythologies don't have much to complain about it." Azazel looked back to Vali "There are some restrictions but you will be able to move around freely. Do you accept?"

Vali thought about it for a moment "I will cooperate when it benefits, but I act on my own."

"So that's a yes." Azazel looked at the rest of the group

"Kuroka and Le Fay will stay here most of the time. When they are needed I will summon them."

"Nya!" Kuroka gave her trademark meow while giving a small salute.

"Le Fay." Arthur looked down at his little sister.

"Yes." She looked up at him

"You should join this, the pardon alone is worth it." He looked up from his sister and towards Issei "Red Dragon Emperor." He called out to Issei.

"Yeah?"

"You are still in need of a pact with a magician, I would recommend her. If she makes a pact with the hero of the underworld then she can return home."

"I will put her at the top of the candidate list." Ravel answered for Issei as she was in charge of finding him a magician.

"I'll find somewhat to make this up to you." Arthur smiled as it was a friendly smile something new that they saw.

"With that settled the two of them will be staying with you as House Guests." Azazel said air quoting the House Guests part.

"Moving along, who wants to get stronger?" Sun Wukong asked everyone in the room.

"What are you implying?" Rias asked as the old man smiled.

"There's no point forming a team like this if everybody is weak. I plan on training anybody from scratch provided we have enough time so they reach the Ultimate class devil equivalent. This team as it is will crumble if they were to fight an evil dragon. As you are now you are all amateurs in combat."

Vali smiled hearing that "My Empireo Juggernaut Overdrive can reach the levels of gods."

"That is true. You did kill Pluto but what about a second or third strike. You cant maintain it making it wasteful. How long can your stamina sustain that form? Minutes? Seconds at the worst case?" Vali didn't have much of an answer to any of the questions he was asked. "Your silence speaks volumes. Beating a dragon the like of Crom Cruach might be possible but you would have to do it in one hit but anything else and you're done. Both of you waste too much power with your transformations." He looked at the two of them "Many Gods will be looking to fight the strongest. So for now I will train the Heavenly Dragons and Longinus users. But for now, we need to deal with Rizevim. Fate is often cruel and her path has lead us to this point in time."