Chapter 130: Embroiled
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For every three explosions she fired off he focused on firing at most one of his own spells.
His agility was his greatest strength for this battle and speeding around the Queen was making it difficult for her to hit him. As long as he maintained a decent distance.
His own spells were constantly countered where he did fire them, explosive blasts interfering before the Void magic could reach her to do any meaningful damage.
Before long, Lelouch could sense his reserves dwindling to a point where if he was going to pull off his gambit, it needed to be soon. Pretending to be exhausted, he allowed himself to land a short distance away from the Queen.
Lelouch panted heavily as he stared up at her. The Queen approached him from on high and fired a massive explosion spell down at him. Lelouch cast a shield at the last moment. Though it barely held, it did enough.
A massive dust cloud was kicked up by the explosion. But without an announcement stating the Knight's retirement, the Queen was forced to wait to see the body.
She was exactly where Lelouch wanted her to be. Well within range of his trump card and none of his own allies were close enough to be caught in the blast radius.
From under the cover of the dust cloud, Lelouch prepared to unleash his final spell. The Black Knight closed his eyes and pressed his fingertips together, making a bridge with is hands as he focused intensely.
He concentrated all of his remaining magical power into a single point between the palms of his hands. His body was shaking as the power increased exponentially with each passing second.
Then suddenly, the air froze, and a whisper escaped from his lips. Echoing ominously in the silence created by the void he held in his hands.
"Ash to Ash."
With that simple spell, a spell based on the underlying concept of the Void itself, a dark orb expanded. Immediately almost consuming Lelouch and forcing his retirement from the game as the safety spells were triggered upon the spell's release. But the orb did not move slowly nor was expansion its only gimmick.
Fast as the expanding orb was, the Queen was still able to see it coming due to a stroke of good fortune.
However, despite being able to outfly the expansion, she was unable to outfly the gravitational force exerted by the spell. Riser's Queen found herself forcibly dragged into the Void spell.
"Lord Riser's Queen, Retired." The shocked voice of the announcer declared.
Only Riser himself remained. However Rias had lost her Knight, Bishop, and Rook to Riser's Queen. All that she was left with was her Pawn, her Queen, her other Bishop, and her remaining Knight.
Her remaining Knight and her Queen were exhausted, her other Bishop had no combat abilities and her Pawn was currently embroiled in the fight against Riser himself.
And losing badly.
Issei screamed as his body was sent flying away from Riser's territory towards Rias' territory where she was standing by with Asia.
The young Devil landed nearly in front of Rias, covered in burns. "Issei!" Rias and Asia rushed towards the boy but were forced back when a wave of fire separated them.
Riser's face was calm, but his eyes were almost literally fiery with rage. "I'm not done with him yet." His voice was quiet and menacing.
With another gesture, he scorched Issei's body even further, the screams of the burning Red Dragon Emperor music to his ears.
"Riser please!" Rias begged as she stared at the scene in front of her, desperately trying to think of a way to stop this.
She tried launching her Power of Destruction at Riser, but he easily dodged her attempts to strike him as he maintained his distance. She couldn't think of anything she could do.
"The protection spells only activate if near fatal damage is detected." Riser stared at Rias coldly. "As long as I keep my attacks from that level, the pain he will feel will be immeasurable." Riser had not had to get involved in Rating Games very much in the past, but that didn't mean he wasn't well aware of all of their mechanics.
Experience trumped enthusiasm in this case. Rias was simply too inexperienced to know how to conduct herself in a situation like this.
"I'll give up." Rias swore, tears in her eyes as she felt her heart break. "Just please stop hurting him!" With that, the flames became silent as Riser heard her plea. At his nod, Rias collapsed, Asia next to her as she uttered her surrender.
"Lady Rias has surrendered." The announcer declared disappointment obvious in her tone. "The match goes to Lord Riser."
Sirzechs had a hard time concealing his anger at the result of the match, but as he retreated into the medical wing he was already thinking of ways to ensure the wedding between Rias and Riser never happened.
The reason he had gone to the medical wing was not to check on Rias, she had been taken by their parents back to the Gremory estate once everything resolved.
The only ones in the medical wing now were those who had been forcibly transported from the Rating Game by the safety precautions and one particular individual had drawn quite a lot of attention.
Sirzechs was incredibly strong and so he knew he'd have no issue resisting the suicide attack his sister's Knight had pulled off against Riser's Queen, but should he grow even stronger, well, Sirzechs got a chill down his back.
And there was something else he needed confirmation of, something that had been on his mind ever since he'd seen the Knight's face. Normally the medical wing was divided by team, but in this case Sirzechs had asked the Knight be moved to an individual room upon arrival.
Standing before the door, the Satan paused momentarily before deciding to just enter. He ended up walking in just as the Knight on the bed started to groan.
"Awake already, impressive." Sirzechs spoke as he made his way to a seat near the bed. "I would like to speak with you, if that is alright.
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