The Lion of Gold

Third Person PoV

Asagi was currently in predicament, just as she watched Kojou suck the blood of Yukina, the facility she was working in or more specifically the place she was in, was smashed.

Keystone gate was an important place and the only way to reach the anchor block, the deepest level of the island. And now Asagi was trapped along with the other personnel.

It was fine for her as she was still inside her room as the outside guards were attacked. But the building had caught fire and was nearing collapse.

She wasn't worried, as she had a familiar to handle this situation, but she didn't want to reveal Kojou's identity to everyone.

Hence she was holding out to be rescued or she would call Kojou, both were guaranteed ways to survive, only that Kojou would be faster if she called him.

…

With Kojou and Yukina, Kojou's eye had become blood red, showing that his vampiric instincts have taken over.

Seeing the vulnerable form of Yukina he moved forward. He caught her by the waist and fell along with her on the ground.

He cushioned the fall with his hands, which were at her waist and the back of her head.

He brought his face near to her ear and started saying in a husky voice.

"You smell so nice, your hair is soft and silky, then why are you so intent on dying?"

Yujina was wholly not prepared for her dear senpai to whisper sweet words into her ear. She was just thinking to get him to drink her blood as an incentive.

"Senpai! Please stop, you have to drink my blood!"

"Really, why did you lie when I asked about your parents?"

Seeing that he will continue to do this if she didn't answer, the sword shaman said

"They sold me for money, and I was trained to kill demons, I am a tool."

Kojou bit her ear gently, making a cute moan come out of her mouth.

"As bad as that sounds, I am sure that the people at the High God Forest cared for you, you are so cute, so do not think of yourself as a tool, from now on."

"I understand, so please!"

Kojou only laughed a little and then plunged his vampiric teeth into her supple neck.

The familiar flavor of iron invaded his sense of taste again, and then the sweetness came.

He gulped the blood like a drink, each gulp sounded like a drum to the girl trapped between him and the floor.

She squirmed as the euphoria hit her, not knowing about sexual pleasure aside from theory, her mind was blank.

And then after he felt the connection form with one of the familiars, Kojou took out his fangs from her flesh and licked the holes, sealing it up and lapping the leaked blood.

He then sat, seeing the cute girl writhe with pleasure was quite an arousing sight, but business first.

Just then his phone rang.

"Asagi? What happened now!"

"Kojou! The keystone gate was smashed, I am trapped."

That line changed the entire atmosphere. Yukina, who was in her own ecstasy, snapped out of it and reached for her weapon.

"Are you fine?" Kojou growled, his phone cracking against the pressure of his hand.

"Calm down! I am fine, but I want to say that if rescue doesn't come fast then I will have to use my familiar."

"Why wait? Do it now!"

"No, if I can stay fine without using it then there is no need to reveal it.

"Fine! But call me immediately if something happens and use your familiar in case you need it, we will handle the consequences later on."

"Alright! Also hit that blonde old bastard for me!"

"Sure!"

"Ano, senpai what happened?"

Yukina asked, she had fixed her appearance by now, but there was still a healthy blush on her face.

"The keystone gate was smashed, so no reinforcements will come, as the second way is from here. So we are going after the two and taking care of this mess."

"Are you sure? What about the divine vibrations barrier?"

"Just watch me girl!"

The two started to run towards the way the two terrorists went.

…

The last sealed door to the cornerstone was finally breached by Astarte, using the monstrous strength of her familiar and the divine vibrations, no magic or door was able to stop her.

"Ah! Aaah! Finally the stolen relic of the church of Lotharingia will be returned to the rightful hands of its believers!

Astarte, destroy these bindings and bring judgement on this island and its inhabitants!"

The tears were flowing down the face of the deacon, his true feeling were finally out to be witnessed.

"Received. The requirements for the tasks have not been met, please choose another command."

"What!"

With the sound of two people running Kojou and his observer also reached the cornerstone.

"Too bad old man, this is a personal matter now . You are going to pay for trying to harm my girlfriend!"

"I don't even know what snd who you are talking about!"

Both the men stared at each other and then Kojou looked at the severed arm, stuck inside a crystal floating in the middle of two tree-like protruding branches, one from above and one from below.

"The severed arm of the Saint, this is what you were after.

The deacon calmly answered, none of the previous fanaticism present in his voice and face.

"The creator of this island, Itogami Senra, created the four giga floats to represent the four divine beasts, the Seiryū, the Genbu, the Suzaku and the Byakko.

But to connect them organically he needed to use their leader, the Ōryū, but there was no man-made material to act like that 40 years ago, hence he used the right arm of the Saint."

"He used a human sacrifice." Yukina interjected

"Indeed, he used the arm of a saint, wrested from our church to hold up the city rampant by demons! I will reclaim it by my own hands! This is a holy war between the city and the church, go back Primogenitor, this is not your war."

"Indeed, it wasn't my war. But after you made Asagi hurt, then it became my war. Ready yourself, exorcist. You are facing the strongest!"

Kojou jumped with the railing as his foothold, bending it with his jump and landing on the ground with a crash, cracking the floor and raising smoke.

"Astarte!"

"Accept!"

The order was accepted and the fight began. The deacon knew that he was no match for the mightiest vampire in the world, but the barrier he made would be effective.

The giant homunculus jumped between Kojou and Rudolf. But the result was the same as last time this had happned.

"Come! Mesarthim-Adamas!"

The divine sheep of adamantine came and used the diamonds in its fleece to stop the attacks of the giant homunculus familiar.

Kojou let his familiar handle the situation with the homunculus girl while he rushed towards the deacon.

The deacon seeing he will have to keep Kojou occupied, activated his trump card.

"Armour of the holy war, Alcazava! By thy light remove the obstacle before me!"

"Yeah, real fancy. Catch these hands, motherfucker!"

The armour proved to be ineffective against Kojou's super strength, the deacon was vastly outclassed.

Even if Kojou lacked experience, his physical stats more than made up. Even if you could predict the movements, it is useless if you can't react to them.

The deacon swung his massive battle axe, his instincts warning him to do so. But just like last time the axe was caught by Kojou.

The kick that followed, destroyed the armour, but the life of the exorcist was saved. But his axe remained in Kojou's hands.

The man went flying and rolled on the ground for a few moments before he was able to steady himself.

Kojou smashed the battle axe on his knee, breaking it into two and then rushed the old man.

The deacon was unable to keep up and got his guts rearranged by the punch and the following uppercut discombobulated his brain.

And the final front kick, sent him to be embedded into the wall, rendering him barely conscious and unable to participate in the following battle.

While Kojou was kicking some ass, his familiar had managed to corner the homunculus. The vast experience the sheep had was too big of a hurdle to be passed by a mature homunculus with a familiar.

Thus the huge beast was now trapped between the walls and two hexagonal diamond shields, completely subduing it.

But still the divine vibrations barrier was able to hold back the diamonds from crushing it. But Kojou had talked about Asagi for possible countermeasures for the divine vibrations.

The magic used in the LKO barrier was tuned at a fixed frequency, he just needed to match his frequency to them and then his attacks would pass through if his power was greater than the one holding the barrier up.

This was also possible by Yukina, if she overloaded her spear and used it, but it would break, but Kojou was completely capable of overpowering a homunculus.

But even then the frequency of the divine vibrations were too high, such that no one could manually match them. But his new familiar was capable of using electromagnetic waves, hence he could adjust the frequency of the waves.

And ofcourse, the exact value of the frequency was known to him. Thanks to Asagi, her hacking capabilities were truly marvellous.

She first hacked into the LKO mainframe and found out everything about the divine vibrations and then used her intelligence to calculate the frequency.

So now Kojou was partially immune to the divine vibrations, and was fully capable of overcoming them.

And now to settle this situation, he called upon his new familiar. But before that he looked at Yukina and said

"Himeragi look, this is the familiar I awakened through your blood."

The girl who was until now in a stupor seeing Kojou's and his familiar's fight finally focused on him.

"I, Akatsuki Kojou, successor to the blood of "Kaleid Blood", now release your constraints. Come, Fifth Familiar Regulus-Aurum!"

The Lion of gold graced the world with its presence, and with an earth shattering roar, it released a devastating lightning strike on the area enclosed by the diamond barriers.

The lightning's frequency was the same as the frequency of the divine vibrations and thus the barrier was nullified for a few moments.

But that was more than enough for Kojou. A lance made up of ice appeared in his hands, and he threw it at the head of the beast.

The lance pierced it's target and the lightning bolt fried the homunculus, as the barrier was bypassed by the lance and it conducted electricity.

"Aaahhhh!"

With a scream of the homunculus, the beast covering it vanished and Astarte fell on the ground, with electricity crackling around her.

The deacon who was nearing unconsciousness, said looking at the battle.

"What a monster, releasing this much magic power in a closed area!"

And finally fell unconscious due to his internal bleeding.

Yukina was shell shocked, too many things happened today for her to make any sense.

First she had the 4th Primogenitor drink her blood, then saw him beat the shit out of the combat deacon, who was stronger than her easily.

Countered the secret technique of the LKO and defeated a homunculus with a familiar implanted in it.

And he didn't look even a little winded up. She was really doubting her mission now. As, what can she do if he wanted to kill someone, forget stopping him, she can't even delay him.

Before Kojou could relax he had to do one more job.

He went near the fallen homunculus and lifted her a little, as to make her neck closer to him and then bit her.

He connected the familiar of the girl to himself, bringing it under his control. This way Astarte wouldn't need to consume demons to continue using her familiar.

As Kojou has infinite negative life-force, she can simply use his when summoning her familiar.

Yukina was again feeling jealous, seeing Kojou bite another girl just after drinking her blood. But she controlled her emotions, afterall there are greater things to consider for her now.

…

Asagi finally managed to get rescued by the island police, thankfully the situation didn't become grim enough that she had to reveal her familiar.

…

In Saikai Academy, in the middle of the night. When no one remained, Yaze Motoki was standing alone in his classroom.

Outside, there was a raven, perching on the railing, the eyes of the raven were glowing blue.

"So Akatsuki Kojou, having gained another blood partner, took another step closer to truly becoming the 4th Primogenitor, or so the story goes.

Does this mean everything went according to the plan?"

His words were responded to by the raven.

"There has been no Primogenitor being in this country before him, so the utmost care must be taken to avoid the ruin of this nation."

Yaze, as if unbothered by the fact that a raven was talking to him, continued.

"Even so, sending that little girl to become his lover, what a harsh way of doing things!"

"But being the blood partner to the king she also becomes a queen, not to mention in the western church the word Akatsuki corresponds to Lucifer."

Leaving those cryptic words the raven, unravelled to become a blank piece of paper, blown away by the wind.

Unfazed the hyper adapter said to seemingly no one

"You got a tough road ahead of you buddy!"

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AN:- Genbū- Black tortoise, Suzaku- Vermillion bird, Seiryū- Azure dragon, Byakko- White tiger, Ōryū- Yellow dragon.

Most probably from next week, this fic will get two to three chapters a week! So hooray!