Chapter 91: Familiar

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And grew.

Until Lelouch was panting, holding an orb about the size of a basketball between his hands. He was forced to widen the distance between his hands by about six more inches so he could avoid touching the orb and risk destabilizing it.

"Huh, it's bigger than before." Last time he'd done this had been when he first started training with Akeno, it was only slightly bigger than a baseball. His arms trembled slightly as he felt the power trying to escape and consume so he looked to Rias from his sitting position.

"Is this good enough?" He asked, sweat sliding down his chin as he maintained as much of his focus on the orb representing his power as he could.

When Rias nodded, her eyes clinical as they stared at the power he was holding, Lelouch began slowly allowing the orb to shrink as he reabsorbed the power.

Tendrils swirled out from the orb, slowly slipping back into the palms of his hands. The orb spun as it slowly shrunk until, with a small burst of air, it vanished back into Lelouch.

"Can you use any other elements, other than the Void I mean?" Rias asked once Lelouch no longer needed to maintain his focus. "I don't think I've ever seen you use an elemental spell that wasn't connected to the element without form.

" The Void was a different element from everything, whether it was the traditional elements like fire, the more technical kinds like lightning, or the two that were set apart from the others, differently from the Void, darkness and light.

A Void was nothingness personified, emptiness without shape, an element without form. The fact that Lelouch could use it so easily, it honestly surprised Rias.

Devils' first elemental magic, if they even used elemental magic, was often of the element that represented them the most.

Most started with the basics like fire or water, depending on their natural inclinations, she had never heard of anyone starting with Void.

Not even as a bloodline like her Power of Destruction. If she got the chance, she'd have to ask her brother about it. He'd know more than her about this kind of subject since he was the Devil King.

"I can shape it so that it has the appearance of other elements, but I can't give my magic properties other than Void if I'm using an elemental spell." Lelouch explained, having already tried that a few times.

A bolt of Void that was shaped like lightning, a flame of Void energy, anything he tried to do still had only characteristics of Void and Void alone.

The only two spells he had for the moment were those of his Arm of the Blackest Knight and his shield spells. Every other spell originated from his apparent gift for utilizing the powers of Void.

"I see." Rias frowned in thought. It was too bad she had another elemental specialist, Akeno wasn't nearly as good as she was with other elements as she was with her lightning.

"We might be able to use it for some good deceptive tactics, especially if you can shape it into a flame." Black flames weren't unheard of, but they were rare.

Even amongst the Phenex family. If she could bluff that her Black Knight had the power of black flames, it could send Riser's Peerage into disarray at a critical moment.

"Speaking of tactics, I'd like to help with that." Lelouch offered his services to Rias, drawing a look of surprise from her. "I'm not just good at chess, I'm not a half bad tactician." If C.C. heard that she would have doubled over in laughter.

It was probably the most understated thing he had ever said. "If you share what you know about Riser's Peerage with me, or even just the knowledge of where we will be fighting, I can help you come up with some good strategies to use."

Rias smiled. Maybe this would be a good way for her to connect with her Black Knight. "I would appreciate that, but unfortunately I don't know about Riser's Peerage beyond the stories and I'm not allowed to access his previous matches since that would give me an unfair advantage." A frown graced Lelouch's face at that, prompting her to continue.

"This match isn't official, and since it has a wager attached to it the ones who are directing this don't want either side to have an unfair advantage over the other." There was one thing she was willing to bet on however.

"I do have an idea of where they'll have us fight though, Rating Games occur inside an alternate dimension created by our technology that replicates the terrain of a given territory in the human world.

" It was a similar kind of thing to the barriers that Devils, Fallen, or Angels set up so humans didn't get involved in their battles, only on a much larger scale and for much longer periods of time.

For the terrain, she was willing to bet that the terrain would be something she was familiar with to compensate for her lack of experience compared to Riser in Rating Games.

Something she knew that he knew nothing about, it was almost certainly going to be Kuoh Academy.

"I can work with terrain." Give him a mountain with underground springs, sufficient numbers of explosives, and he could take down an army. Lelouch wasn't happy that he couldn't analyze Riser's strategies personally, but he could deal with only having Rias' stories. It would be an enjoyable challenge.

"We can talk later about strategies. I'd like to work on your training for now. Maybe we'll get to it in the second week of training." Rias shifted direction back to their main purpose.

"I would like to see what kind of spells you have, would you be willing to demonstrate what you've developed so far?" She made a mental note to teach him some of the more traditional spells, as she was planning on doing with Issei once his magical power had increased sufficiently.

Same with Asia, only Lelouch had enough base power to work spells that were unrelated to a Sacred Gear right now.

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