Side Story 46: Power Of Destruction Unleashed

After weeks of training with Kuku, Scàthach, and Lucoa. The Gremory peerage and Sitri peerage were now hardened veterans that have been through hellish battle exercises.

They were currently meditating like sages in the mana pools. It was so concentrated in mana that the water was glowing like a blue lava lamp.

Their concentrations can't be broken by anything while they meditate. The mana circuits in their body was now like a wide bore tunnel that can output tons of energy.

Lucoa looked at them with her eyes open and she nodded in satisfaction at what they're capable of now. "Ahhh, they were like newborns that couldn't even reign in their mana a few weeks ago. Now, they could be called mediocre." Lucoa nonchalantly commented with a smile.

The trainees twitched upon her assessment. They could be called the best of the best in mana manipulation in their respective factions. But for Lucoa and the other dragons who have innate transcendent skill in controlling their titanic mana. They were like little children who just started to learn how to use it.

Though the three were an exception, not the rule. As they rank up pretty highly even amongst dragonkind in their world.

"Umu, they could now be called proper battle mages. Why have mana and energy if you can't use it properly. Good job everyone, you can now fight really well. So your basic training ends here." Ein nodded at them and they opened their eyes widely.

"What!? This... This is basic training?" Rias was gobsmacked and Ein looked at her like she is an idiot. "What do you mean, what? Of course this is just the basics to make you able bodied. Sushang would've still killed all of you with her just messing around when she was 15. That's real talent, she trained at around 14 and could murder all of you in just one year of lax training except Morgan and Alfia."

The trainees twitched and sighed. Accepting their fates to be training maniacs now. "Hah, even Sairaorg didn't train like this. And he's now the top rookie devil. I'm pretty sure I can beat him in a fist fight right now." Rias began shadow boxing and her fists were cutting the wind like a whip.

"Yeah, I'm still not good like the others in hand to hand. But I feel like my body is on a whole new level." Sona took an iron bar and bent it like a pool noodle. Without using mana to reinforce her body.

"Silence! Don't get too carried away. You kids are still far away from being at the top. Your forms are sloppy, you can still min max your movements to the limit. Look at how Sushang-sama dealt with Pluto. She stood on a sword while invalidating his attacks. That's just a sneak peek of the apex." Scàthach tapped her demonic spear on the ground and they nodded.

"Hai, shishou. You're right, we're at the ultimate class right now on our estimates. And that guy was a Satan class combatant. Sushang-sama handed his ass to him without effort whatsoever." Kiba, Rias' knight wanted to have as much balance and power like her.

"Un, she's also the cqc specialist of Ein-sama's wives." Koneko nodded in agreement and wanted to be like that.

"Heh, we've seen Sushang-sama fight Ein-sama. You haven't seen anything yet!" Mordred bragged and the devil trainees were quite jealous of that privilege.

"Mordred, don't be proud of an achievement that you haven't reached yourself. They can just watch how they fought. Ein-sama has recordings of their previous spars too you know?" Artoria chided her and Mordred was shocked.

"W-what!? Why didn't I know that?" Mordred was feeling betrayed by her father and Gilgamesh laughed. "It's because you're an idiot, you would've seen it if you just asked Aponia-sama" Gilgamesh laughed his ass off and Mordred got depressed.

"Don't worry Mordred, you can just ask later." Ishtar patted her back and she gave a smug smirk at Gilgamesh.

"Okay okay, shut up already. Geez, you don't need to fuss over it. I can just show you!" Hua snapped her fingers and showed everyone who didn't witness their battle a dream.

"Uhhh, should they suddenly look like dead people?" Achilles asked as their eyes lost their light.

"Oh, it's fine~ I'm sure they're having a mighty fine time." Hua gave him a thumbs up. Meanwhile, the viewers of the battle were running for their lives as they were sent to the middle of the battlefield in their battles. Giving them the full 3-d experience.

Achilles didn't ask anymore and was gonna stay away from that really suspicious viewing party. Which was a wise choice.

The devils and servants were given 5 minutes to prepare to go to school. Which they all efficiently used.

They just used magic to clean themselves and dressed up in front of everyone quickly. Embarrassment and shame, what was that? They were now hardened warriors that will start their journey against the world.

Everyone's steps changed. They had a subtle elegance to them. Their balance improved massively and every step was silent.

Issei then got hounded by Matsuda and Motohama, asking him where the hell did he go for weeks.

"I was having a vacation, I wanked every day and it was glorious." He acted perfectly and his friends didn't suspect a thing.

"Kuuu! You fucking bastard, you're so lucky you got excused! Being able to jack off without worry!" They tried beating him up, but he just dodged and weaved their attacks.

After a few hours, the servants and the devils went to the occult research club. The servants has gotten pretty close with the devils during their training and they were trying to learn how they do their jobs because they have nothing better to do.

"Ohhh, so you guys don't take their souls anymore or something?" Jeanne asked as Rias shows them that devils nowadays get called in for pretty much anything.

"Yeah, Kiba's clients even just ask him to cook and clean because their jobs are really tiring. And having a handsome devil cook a nice meal apparently heals their souls." Rias quoted the air, making Asia and Jeanne chuckle.

"How about you Koneko? What kind of requests do you get?" Artoria was a bit concerned. A lot of people nowadays apparently likes little kids. And not in the wholesome way.

"My number one client just wants me to carry him and rock him like a baby." Koneko shrugged and just ate some treats. Not bothered even a single bit by her client's ridiculous request.

"Uhhh, that's certainly unique." Artoria was quite baffled and still didn't understand modern people that much.

"What about Gasper? He's a really shy thing." Arcueid put her arm over the young half vampire and he has now overcome his fear of crowds.

"I'm the number 1 devil in the Gremory peerage actually. I just do contracts in the internet." Gasper shrugged and now aspires to be like Dio Brando.

"Good for you!" Astolfo gave a thumbs up to his kin. His fellow trap that would shiver in the face of new people. Now, he was confident and proud to be like his idol, Dio.

While they were chatting and having a relaxed time. A magic circle that wasn't familiar appeared. Akeno and Rias then frowned. But a smirk slowly formed on their faces.

"Ahhhh, the air in the human world still sucks ass. How are you doing Rias? Can't wait for our marriage I assume?" A blonde and pompous guy greeted and everybody immediately didn't like him.

"Haaa? Who the hell is this guy, red?" Mordred immediately stood up and was about to throw hands.

"He's Riser Phenex, my fiance that my father picked. But now that I think about it, he probably just picked the Phenex clan because they have pretty nice perks like their healing potions that's in high demand everywhere." Rias shrugged and Riser was about to give the one who interfered a piece of his mind.

"Whatcha looking at punk? Wanna go, huh!?" Mordred crackled with lightning. He then stared at everyone that was there at the room. Noticing that Jeanne and Artoria was right there.

"Ummm. Nothing, I just came to greet Rias is all." He gulped a mouthful of saliva. Seeing Jeanne and Artoria raise a brow at him.

"So? What are you here for, Riser? Clearly, nobody here likes you. So you should just go away and eat your chicken feed at your house." Rias quipped and Riser was about to shout. But he looked at Jeanne and the blonde was squinting her eyes at him. Daring him to do so.

"Ahem, Rias. You know that our marriage is inevitable. The date has been moved up once again. This is for the good of devilkind." Riser just huffed instead.

"Wait, is your marriage really going to be that beneficial for the entire race?" Arcueid raised a brow at that statement.

"Basically, no. It's just a preconceived notion that devils need to make pureblood babies so their powers get passed on. But that's just not true, Sairaorg didn't inherit the power of destruction. But he's still the strongest of the young devils." Akeno explained and everyone nodded.

Riser was about to retort, but Atalanta intervened. "Then isn't it final? You should just give up young man." Atalanta tried to make him leave. He was pissing her off and kind of reminded her of Jason.

"Who are you to try and make me leave, you filthy animal? Now that I look at you, you can be my pet. How about it?" Riser's young master genes couldn't hold itself back and he insulted Atalanta that made every servant look at him immediately.

"Damn... May the Satans help you. Because you won't be leaving here alive. It wasn't nice knowing you." Akeno closed her eyes and bid him farewell.

Scàthach had enough of such a pompous weakling and took out Gae bolg. She was about to throw it at him, but a wild Grayfia appeared and immediately prostrated.

"Forgive him please! Don't kill the Phenex clan for retribution, I beg of you!" Grayfia's timely intervention saved his ass and the clan.

The devils were surprised. As they knew that Grayfia was a Satan class devil that was known by every faction as the silver frost. As all her enemies were frozen in ice after the battle. She immediately knocked out Riser or he would definitely dig a deeper hole.

"Hmmm, I want 1000 bottles of Phoenix tears tomorrow at dawn. And the boy dies, that's final. His execution will be on the capital by our hands. If the sun rises and we don't receive the goods. Then we will drive you all out of the underworld." Scàthach demanded and the devils cringed. Immediately glaring at Riser like he was the plague.

"U-understood." Grayfia teleported Riser out of there. "Rias-sama, we still need to cut off the engagement formally with a rating game. Based on your strength, it will be a cinch. Or the Gremory household will be under fire for being engaged to a threat to devilkind." Grayfia bowed and gave her the schedule for the rating game against Riser.

"Well, this is interesting. I guess that chicken can entertain us a bit before we execute him." Morgan smiled and thought that Rias will give them a show at least.

"Sorry about that Atalanta-san. Riser is a douchebag, good riddance of that little stain." Rias was quite happy and felt a thorn in her chest disappear. She agonized about her marriage for years. And now, she'll cut it off with her own hands.

"You better beat that guy up. Or we will be going to the underworld to cause havoc." Chiron was quite angry that one of his students was called a dirty animal.

"Watch on then, please. I've been working on something on my downtime when we were training. I'll definitely be showcasing my prowess at the rating games." Rias smiled and was quite excited.

Her peerage was happy for her as well. Seeing her smile genuinely in what seemed to be a long time.

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Rias' peerage were picked up by Grayfia and she started explaining the rules to both sides. "Dad, isn't their opponent too weak? He could only throw fire around and heal quickly. When his mana goes dry, he'll be fried." Shenlong quickly noticed and Ein patted her head.

"Good job seeing it, yes. He's actually really weak and just has a gimmick. And Rias is his natural counter. Look at what she's going to do to him." Ein just sat on a throne in the middle of the viewing area.

Sirzechs, and Serafall gave a wry smile and Ajuka that was interested in seeing them was really anxious. As Ophis sat on his lap while drinking a carton of chocolate milk and having a cupcake.

"Look at that piece of trash Ophis. Don't be like him, always be nice okay?" Ein patted the Loli dragon god's head and everybody inside the room knew who she was. But having confirmation is another thing.

"Wait, so she really is Ophis? The infinite dragon god? You didn't tell me about her you meanie." Serafall pouted at him and was quite upset. But she was happy as well, having another person that could basically body everyone was their ally.

"Well, you didn't ask. Now let's watch how Rias and friends will use their training, shall we?" Ein gave a smile, taking out some fresh popcorn so they could enjoy the show.

"The rating game between the peerage of Rias Gremory and Riser Phenex will now commence. It will take place in Kuoh Academy. Gremory peerage will have the occult research club as their main base. While the Phenex peerage will have the gymnasium. Winner by taking the king out or all the pieces, leaving the king." Grayfia began the match and the two groups teleported to their respective bases.

"Okay, everyone. I got us into this mess, I'll end it myself." Rias stood up from her chair and wanted to beat Riser by her lonesome.

"Fufufu~ Then I'll take care of the riffraff that's hanging out at their base." Akeno changed her outfit to her Miko dress and flew in the sky.

Her lightning got a violet tint on it as she started imbuing it with holy the holy element. Being half fallen angel, that was the perk of being a hybrid.

"Hmmm, mom always wanted me to use this. I guess my father who abandoned us has his uses." A magic circle appeared in the sky and it crackled with lightning.

A storm of electricity and plasma bathed the gymnasium where Riser and his peerage was wasting time. The intense heat and powerful lightning turned everything it hit into a molten puddle.

The ground around the gymnasium got glassed. "Riser Phenex's only remaining member is his bishop." Grayfia announced and the devils inside the viewing area were quite impressed.

"That was amazing, Akeno's lightning got more concentrated. Riser was able to survive with her sister Ravel because they're from the Phenex clan. This will be quite the one sided fight." Sirzechs commented and Serafall cheered them on.

"Well, that's a given. I don't know if you've learned of our training, nee-sama. But I don't think anyone normal would want to undergo what we went through." Sona shivered a bit and remembered Scàthach whipping them with a holy whip. Her back still throbbing whenever she remembered it.

"Well, honestly. I want everyone to undergo that training. You're all at least ultimate class, all that's missing is your wand and magical outfit!" Serafall smiled at her and Sona frowned heavily.

"Ooohhh, that's a great idea Serafall. How about I turn you into magical girls?" Ein gave a smirk and Sona knew he could do that and paled.

"For real!? Yahoo! You're seriously the best! When are you gonna make it? Can you give it to me tomorrow!?" Serafall was like a kid in a sugar rush and Sona just flopped onto her seat. Accepting her fate.

"Hmmm, look at Sona. She's so excited, so maybe I should just do it now." Ein snapped his fingers and a pink wand appeared in Serafall's hands. While Sona got a blue one

Serafall had stars in her eyes and began twirling it in her hands. "Transform!" Serafall began transforming just like sailor moon and gave a peace sign. (pic)

"Sona-chan! Come on, quickly! Go and transform like magical Levi-tan!" Serafall shaked Sona down like a thug and Sona lost the light in her eyes as she went limp.

"Go, magical So-tan! You've gotta do a little twirl and transform to your true form!" Ein egged her on. Making Sona cringe. And everybody is already watching her. Slowly succumbing to peer pressure.

Sona's hands trembled and she gulped a mouthful of saliva. Breaking into a cold sweat as she looked at Serafall that was gesturing for her to transform.

"M-magical So-tan... Transform." Sona twirled awkwardly and raised her wand. She then got into a magical girl outfit that was blue. (pic)

She blushed like a tomato. "K-kill me..." Sona was about to cry and her peerage prayed for her soul. "Yay! Now we're real magical sisters!" Serafall hugged her tightly.

"Serafall-sama, aren't you already a magical girl? You can use magic without the wand, right?" Tsubaki made the mistake of questioning her logic.

Serafall gasped, making Sirzechs and Ajuka groan. "Tsubaki-chan! That's heresy! Retract your blasphemy right now!" Serafall pointed her wand at her and it sparkled, getting pink glitter everywhere.

Meanwhile, Rias that slowly walked to the gymnasium started crackling with her power of destruction.

Every step of hers cracked the ground as her eyes turned red. "Hmmm, that training really gave me some nice perks." Rias' mana sprung to life and concentrated in her body.

The remaining rubble in the gymnasium got exploded as flames erupted. Riser showed himself, his clan trait of regenerating showcased itself as flames coated his whole body.

"You're cheating Rias! I demand an investigation!" Riser demanded and thought that they shouldn't be really that strong.

"Hmph, shut your trap you barbecued chicken." Rias snorted and squinted her eyes. Riser's bishop, her sister that was smarter than him immediately knew that they'll lose. Sensing the intense mana being formed in Rias.

"Nii-sama... Please give up, she doesn't like you." Ravel Phenex tried dissuading him, seeing Rias' obvious desire to beat his ass. (pic)

"Shut up Ravel!" Riser hit her and Ravel flew away. Rias frowned heavily, cracking her knuckles. "You're so dead."

Rias concentrated and released her mana. The improved control made her power of destruction morph into her desired shape. A ribcage of crackling energy formed on her body and an arm holding a large katana appeared.

"A susanoo? Hmm, she has picked well." Ein nodded in satisfaction that she used her otaku knowledge and brought her dreams to life.

"Like it? Pretty impressive, no?" Rias willed her magic and the arm swung its sword. Slicing Riser in half and because of the power of destruction, Riser's regeneration slowed to a crawl.

Sirzechs was surprised upon seeing Rias' control of her power. "I can't lose here! You filthy cheater!" Riser erupted into flames and created a large fireball the size of the gymnasium.

Rias went chuuni and started using gang signs, ahem. Hand signs, her susanoo started to grow muscles and got larger.

"Take this, you filthy barbecued chicken!" She concentrated to the max and four arms appeared on her titanic armor of energy. The swords in each hand got coated by large amounts of mana.

"Ajuka! Teleport Riser out of there! He'll die there, Rias can't kill him!" Sirzechs ordered as the rating game was being broadcasted to the underworld. And Ein's faction will be the one that executes him for his transgressions.

Rias roared and her four swords released a swing. A thin line of red and black energy cleaved through everything in its way. Kuoh academy was sundered by the 4 swords of energy and crashed into the border of the realm for the rating game.

Grayfia had to stabilize the place as Rias' attack was specialized in cutting through with her power of destruction.

"Ein-sama, what did you made them do in their training?" Sirzechs was shocked and Rias' masterful display of her power received such a huge leap in progress.

"Plenty of juice and meat." Ein shrugged, making the devils smile wryly.

"The king of the Phenex peerage has been eliminated from the match. Rias Gremory wins, almost a fatality." Grayfia announced and the devils inside the viewing area expected as much.

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Thanks for reading everyone, anyways. Ciao.