Chapter 33: Brilliant

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If he wanted to gain more power, he needed to focus on increasing the strength of his current spells before moving on to the stronger ones.

Lelouch was meditating at his and Koneko's home later that day, immersing himself in his power as he had done every night.

She had gone to help Akeno, Kiba, and Rias handle an Exorcist that was targeting Issei. Rias, feeling he wouldn't be of much help after his exhausting training session, told him to remain.

He didn't like it, especially since Koneko was going into battle, but Lelouch knew she was right.

Even if he didn't like not being able to watch her back, Lelouch knew he could trust in Koneko's strength.

Unlike the battlefields back in his home world, where his brilliant strategies could turn the tide without him having to lift a finger, it truly was might makes right in this one. And his might was sorely lacking for the moment.

And so, he meditated, trying to draw on his Wrath without letting it consume him.

As Akeno had explained to him, if a Devil was not careful, their Sin wouldn't boost their spells without a serious cost to their magical reserves.

If a Devil had enough control over their Sin however, it would provide an invaluable boost to their magical power.

Wrath was harder to control due to the nature of combat, but Lelouch felt he could master it if he focused hard enough on acclimating himself to the sensation.

He also tried to focus on the energy of the Void. He was concerned that the element he was naturally drawn to was the one that represented the Nothingness that sought to consume everything around it to fill its emptiness.

He wasn't sure he liked what that said about his psyche.

Regardless, it had taken practice, but, despite having his focus split between maintaining his Wrath and managing the energy of the Void from within his body, Lelouch felt he was making progress.

Lelouch had managed to maintain a steady feeling of the cold rage that fueled his connection to the Sin of Wrath for a solid half an hour now.

And the energy of the Void was just below the surface, waiting for his call to action.

It felt like he had a ball of ice cold rage festering inside his soul. Every breath he took, he could feel his Sin and his connection to the Void growing in power.

He had reached double his normal base energy ten minutes ago and was steadily reaching halfway to the triple mark when he sensed a magic circle appear in front of him.

"Lelouch, Rias would like to request your presence in the old clubhouse." Akeno was polite as she teleported into the living room, before opening her eyes and trembling slightly at the sight in front of her.

"L-Lelouch?" Her voice quivered as she spoke to the young man on the bed. He felt so cold.

"What is it Akeno, speak." He ordered before opening his eyes, revealing their crimson red coloring.

He still couldn't prevent his Power of the King from flaring when he allowed his Wrath to increase his power.

But, as he had learned over a few Contracts when his control had slipped slightly, unless he deliberately focused on using the spell, flaring his power as he did so, the spell could remain active in his eyes.

It could prove useful if he ever needed the split-second of time it took to activate his spell, but Lelouch was still careful with his words whenever he got like this.

He didn't normally keep it active, but sometimes he didn't have much of a choice.

He also noticed he almost instinctively ordered when he was in this state. He didn't request, speak, or ask, he demanded.

It was a little confusing for Lelouch, why he would act like that, but he decided to write it off as a side-effect of the state of mind he entered that, so long as he avoided flaring his active spell, didn't do anything other than make him sound like a King ordering his subjects.

Lelouch's voice was almost a growl as he spoke. "Holy shit that's hot." Akeno whispered before shaking herself out of it.

"Um, Rias wants you in the clubhouse." The Queen was having a hard time not falling to her knees as she beheld the sheer amount of power Lelouch's Wrath granted him.

'His eyes.' Akeno felt a blush flush her cheeks. "You're Wrath, it's overwhelming." She spoke with admiration coloring her tone. So much anger and hate. She loved it!

Lelouch allowed the sensations he had been focusing on for the past half an hour to slowly fade back into his being, causing his eyes to revert back to their normal violet coloring.

"I see, thank you for coming Akeno." This way he didn't need to walk. He blinked curiously at her strange compliment.

"My Wrath?" Lelouch had felt far stronger than he had before, but he didn't expect it to have this kind of effect on Akeno. "Are you okay?" The Queen looked almost sick with how red her face was.

'He hasn't realized.' Akeno noticed with surprise. Lelouch's power was normally about the level of a Low-Class Devil at the bottom tier, which was normal for a Devil who had been Reincarnated for less than a month, but when she arrived she was struck by just how much power his Wrath had granted him on its own. It had grown him to mid-tier Low-Class at least.

"After we're done with the Fallen Angels, I want to fight you in that state." By then the increase from his Wrath would be even greater as his base power would have increased as well.

The fact that he had contained so much raw Wrath inside without allowing any of it to leak out, it was the kind of a surprise she didn't expect out of the normally calm and collected Lelouch.

She wondered what fueled his magnificent Wrath, even though she was almost scared to find out.

"Okay?" Lelouch drew out his answer, confused by Akeno's request considering he doubted he was her equal, even in at his current peak strength.

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