Chapter 56

When Sephiroth and Kunou arrived at the battle site of Rias and her friends, he saw the sight of her group looking worse for wear and Kokabiel floating in the air with a smirk on his face overlooking them all.

"Well what do we have here" Kokabiel said to Sephiroth when he noticed him.

"Sephiroth, what are you doing here" Rias said confused on why he was here but also thankful as well because she knew that Sephiroth was strong enough to stop someone like Kokabiel from carrying out his plan.

While looking toward Rias and her group "I came to help deal with the situation" while he was thinking something else 'I stop Kokabiel, then Azazel will owe me for stopping a war. I can use this situation to my advantage'

"I'm glad to see you Sephiroth, we really need your help with him" Akeno said with clear relief heard in her tone at seeing her boyfriend here to handle this situation.

"I need you guys to step back and join up with the others that are on their way here, I will handle this for you now" Sephiroth said to everyone, it is then that Sona and everyone else caught up with them. Sephiroth motioned for them join with them and to protect Kunou as well off to the side

"I think that I've waited long enough I believe. Don't you think boy?" Kokabiel said getting tired of waiting for them all to finish whatever it is that they are doing in front of him. Sephiroth didn't say anything in response but just gave him a blank stare.

"Before we fight it out, I have a proposition for you. Why don't you join me instead, think of all the things that we could do together. You are a fallen angel just like me, we could show everyone that we are the superior race." Kokabiel said getting himself excited at the thought that he could get someone with Sephiroth's strength to work with him.

Everyone that heard what Kokabiel had to say was shocked that he would ask something like that, of all times. Although they knew that Sephiroth would most likely say no to what Kokabiel asked him they feared that there was a slim chance that he could say yes to him. They didn't know what they would do if they had to fight someone like Sephiroth.

While staring at Kokabiel and thinking for a bit, everyone was staring at him intensely waiting to see what he was going to say and time seemed to go by forever but in reality only several seconds went by till Sephiroth spoke again.

"While I don't really care if a war was to happen again or not, for me to get what I want I will have to stop you here. That being said, enough of this prepare yourself" Sephiroth said while summoning his sword and getting into his stance with an indifferent expression on his face like he isn't going to fight one of the most powerful fallen angels around.

"I see a pity then the things that we could have done together, well best not to dwell on it then. I must admit that you are stronger than me when it comes to combat" Kokabiel says while all around him in the air teleportation circles start to form in the air.

"But, I wasn't known in the war for my combat prowess alone. No it was for my ability to command others. It was what made me feared by the other races. Me and my legion of 1000 fallen angels have never lost a battle before, you should feel honored that you will be the first person to face us since the war." Kokabiel said while all around fallen angels were coming out of the teleportation circles that were sent up all the way till there were 1000 of them in the air.

Seeing this all of the spectators were scared and worried for Sephiroth because while he was strong this wasn't a small number of enemies, not to mention the magical power that some of these fallen angels were leaking out into the air. Most of them were at peak of high class devils in power with a few of them even getting to low ultimate level power. The amount of strength that this legion exuded would be more than enough to handle a Satan class devil. They knew that they wouldn't be able to help them because any one of them in this legion was strong enough to take out most of them not to mention that most of them are injured or low on magical power.

Seeing this Sephiroth didn't even show a reaction to them 'Partner I believe that this might be too many even for you. If what I'm sensing is right this legion of fallen angels is strong and is not simple please be careful.' Ddraig said when she saw all Kokabiel's legion around him.

'I understand even I know that this might prove to be a problem if I were to let them set the pace for this fight of 1 against 1001, I might honestly lose due to the sheer amount of powerful enemies in front of me.' thought Sephiroth back to Ddraig.

"Behold my legion and know that you brought this on yourself" Kokabiel said while madly laughing for the predicament that he put Sephiroth and his friends in. Know one has been able to survive against him and his legion before which is why they were so feared in the war.

"For all of you here know that you brought this upon yourself" Sephiroth said while he released the full force of his magical power around him that was so strong that it cracked the ground around him and sank the earth and created a crater around him. The pressure that he generated was so great that it even affected all of the fallen angels in the air making it so they had to land on the group and the few that were in the ultimate class were just able to float above the group but by only several feet. Showing everyone just that Sephiroth's mere magical presence alone can affect beings of their level.

'What the hell was that, all he did was release his magical power and already he put me and my whole legion at a disadvantage.' thought Kokabiel while his whole body had some cold sweat on it and he was sure that he wasn't alone in this regard.

While Rias and Sona's group were also stocked at the magical power that Sephiroth just released. Granted they were lucky that they could only feel a little bit of it because Sephiroth was directing it all toward the fallen angels but they couldn't help but marvel at the amount that he had.

Retrieving his magical power that he let leak out so that it was flowing throughout his whole body instead of freely around himself, the extreme pressure that was affecting the fallen angels let up allowing them to move freely but when they looked at Sephiroth you could see the fear, admiration, envy, and greed in their eyes each with their own thoughts.

Then Sephiroth spoke "Do not allow yourself to be shaken. Do not weaken your stance. Open your senses. And do not let your guard down for an instant." Then they saw it his sword was glowing with such strong magical power that even from the distance that they were at they could feel the power being condensed into that sword.

"Fatal Surge" Sephiroth then sent a massive sword beam at a group of fallen angels in front of him. "Form up shields" Kokabiel said calmly and all of the fallen angels that were in range of the attack created a magical circle to act as a shield but what made it special was that they were able to link them all together making them all that much stronger.

When the sword beam made contact with the shields created by the fallen angels an explosion was created that blinded everyone. When it died down you could see that all of the fallen angels were still alive from the attack, but there were massive cracks on all of the shields.

"You're going to have to try harder than that to beat me and my legion" laughed Kokabiel seeing that they were able to block that attack but only they knew that if that attack was only a little bit stronger then it would've gotten through their defenses, dealing severe damage to them all.

"I see then let me get a little more serious" Sephiroth said while he donned his balance breaker scail mail covering all of his body in red and gold armor with glowing green gems on it coming with a complete set of armored dragon wings on his back.

'Shit this might be a problem' was the general thought all of the legion members were thinking when they saw that Sephiroth donned his balance breaker. This guy was already strong on his own and now adding his boosted gear they all thought that they will end up dying here today. While they should be shaking in fear knowing that death was standing in front of them, for some reason they were excited at the prospect of fighting someone so strong.

These people were warriors that were able to survive the war with the other factions and if they were going to die they wanted it to be against someone like Sephiroth to them there could be no greater honor. This made them all start to release their own battle lust toward Sephiroth who could only to release his own in response feeling theirs, getting excited as well fighting this group in front of him.

Sephiroth then launched himself toward the nearest group of fallen angels…...