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DxD: Emperor of Chaos

Added 2024-02-10 12:50:58 +0000 UTC

CHAPTER 15

“To all the High-class Devils here! And Buchou’s brother, Maou-sama! My name is Hyoudou Issei from Kuoh Academy! I have arrived to take back Buchou, Rias Gremory-sama!”

The ballroom explodes in hushed whispers as Hyoudou walked towards the place where Buchou and Riser was standing at, Hyoudou having a rare serious expression on his face. Akira approves, that was the look of a man who was determined to do anything.

“Hey, you! Do you know where this —”

One of the security personnel blocked Hyoudou’s way, but suddenly gets grabbed by Toujou from the back before lifting him up.

“……You are late.”

He guessed that it was the que, from the look on Kiba’s face.

Flashing from his spot, he intercepted the rushing security that headed towards Toujou, standing between them as he flared his demonic energy onto his hand. Swiping the air, a horizontal blade of demonic energy shot out from his arm and scarred the ground in front of the guards.

“Take a step over the line, and I won’t hold back.”

The amount of pressure he sent their way caused the guards to hesitate. They were about mid to high High-Class level, but so was he with Boost.

In those two days, he had been training non-stop at all, using all the resources available in the Gremory Manor to his advantage. Safe to say, that his power level skyrocketed thanks to the number of elixirs and weird devil foods that the manor had on hand.

*CLASH!*

“Ise-kun! Leave this to us!”

*SPARKKK!*

“Ara ara, so you finally showed up.”

Kiba and Akeno greeted Hyoudou while they confronted the guards that poured in from the main entrance.

“Thank you.”

Hyoudou said it quietly as he casually walked up to the podium towards Riser with confidence. Once he was face-to-face with the blond Phoenix, he said it to Riser with determination.

“Buchou—Rias Gremory-sama’s virginity belongs to me!!”

If he wasn’t fighting against these guards, he would have laughed at the face Riser was making. The expression of rage, shock, embarrassment, and confusion was too good to not have a laugh at.

“It’s an event that I organised.”

A single sentence. That was all it took for everything to die down. The sentence held so much power behind them that it sent goose bumps all over his body. He turned his head to the man with crimson-hair who was sitting at the far back walking towards Hyoudou.

Holy mother of God, the man’s demonic energy was so… dense, so raw. If Riser Phoenix’s pressure was like a person in a heavy rain, Sirzechs Lucifer’s was like drowning in a bottomless sea, sinking lower and lower with no clear ending to it.

And he couldn’t even sense this man’s power before he spoke, he was here in the party for an hour plus!

“Onii-sama.”

Buchou said with a hint of worry in her tone. Her brother simply smiled as he stood before this generation’s Sekiryuutei (Red Dragon Emperor).

“I wanted to see the power of the Red Dragon, so I asked Grayfia to help me.”

“S-Sirzechs-sama!? You can’t do something as irresponsible as this!”

A random devil with quite a decent power level stuttered, but Sirzechs simply looked over to the devil’s direction, a casual look on his face.

“It should be fine. The Rating Game from last time was very entertaining. But it was a bit disadvantage for my little sister who had no game experience to face off against Riser-kun who is a prodigy from the House of Phoenix.”

“……So Sirzechs-sama, you are saying that the last game wasn’t fair?”

A man looking similar to Riser said from the crowd. Sirzechs simply raised his hands in a surrender stance.

“No, no, not at all. If a Maou such as myself says such things, then I would be making the old nobles look bad. The connection between the High-class Devils is important after all.”

“Then, Sirzechs. What do you want to do about it?”

A middle-aged man with the same hair colour as the Maou and Buchou asked with a resigned tone.

“Father. I want to make my cute little sister’s engagement party into a flashy one. Dragonversus Phoenix. Don’t you think it’s the ultimate event? To stir up the party by having a battle between legendary creatures. There isn’t any entertainment which can surpass this level of excitement.”

Everyone in the ballroom becomes silent with Maou-sama’s words. Akira simply snorted. Azazel was on the money, no way this siscon of a Satan would let her sister go that easily.

Sirzechs then looks at Hyoudou.

“Dragon-kun. You have our permission. Riser-san, can you show your power once more right in front of Rias and I?”

Riser looked like he swallowed a sour lemon, but cleared his expression and changed it into a confident one, showing off a fearless smile.

“Very well. There is no way I can decline if Sirzechs-sama asks me. This Riser will show his last performance before getting married!”

At that, Riser sent his pressure towards Hyoudou, who in turn raised his own pressure to combat Riser’s. It was little compared to Riser’s, but the difference between his current pressure to his pressure during the match was drastic. A whole 5 times powerful.

“Dragon-kun, what prize do you want when you win the match?”

“Sirzechs-sama!?”

“What are you saying!?”

Sirzechs raised his hand, silencing the ballroom once more. Akira muttered with amusement.

“The Maou sure scares a lot of people.”

“They all have seen what Sirzechs-sama did in the war, no one would be foolish to fight against the Lucifer.”

Kiba whispered beside him as Sirzechs explains why he was granting Hyoudou a prize.

“He’s a Devil, so we need to give him something fitting for it since we are asking him to do something for us. Now then. I can give you anything. A peerage? Or the most beautiful woman?”

“I ask you to give me Rias Gremory-sama back.”

Hyoudou said without hesitation, causing the Maou’s smile to widen.

“Very well. If you win, you may take Rias with you.”

The center of the ballroom was vacant, with the two fighters staring each other down. Surprisingly, it didn’t go as the anime, and instead of them entering a pocket dimension similar to the Rating Game, they however did it in the center of the ballroom.

The members of both peerages were stationed far away from the battle, in hopes to prevent any intervention during the match. Not that they would, since they were watched by the Maou, they wouldn’t dare interfere with the match.

“Please start!”

The devil who is in charge of the battle gave a call for the start of the match.

They, however, stood still with both their weapons out, Hyoudou with his Boosted Gear, and Riser with his fire wings that resembled a Phoenix’s. One of Riser’s wings pointed at the Boosted Gear.

“All of your ability is already revealed. A Sacred Gear that keeps on doubling the power of the user, the Boosted Gear. Also, it seems like you gained a new ability that can transfer the multiplied power into an object or your allies.”

Riser calmly analyzed the threat before smirking.

“You don’t have any allies to transfer your powers, and I will win this fight before you even double your power. All of this, I can handle.”

But instead of a fearful face, Hyoudou grinned towards Buchou.

“Buchou. I will finish it in 10 seconds.”

“……Ise?”

“… Mocked right in front of me? You sure talk big for saying that you will finish it in 10 seconds. Then I will finish you off in 5 seconds. It won’t be like last time, Rias’ Pawn!”

Riser said as pressure exerted from his being, but Hyoudou simply requested to his King.

“Buchou! Please allow me to use “Promotion” here!”

Buchou nods at his request, and his power skyrocketed by 5 times. He “promoted” to a Queen from the spike of demonic energy levels.

Akira rested his head and leaned back. This was going to be exciting.

“Shiiiiiine, Over Boost!!!”

[WELSH DRAGON — OVER BOOSTER!]

[TRANSFER!]

The holy water floating in the air shined a bright light of silver before contacting Riser’s skin. The heat from his body evaporates it into mist, but the damage was already done.

“Uaaarrrrrgggggg!”

Riser screamed as his face burned as if acid was on his face, dropping onto the floor and simultaneously releasing Hyoudou from his grasp. Keeling on the ground, his wings of fire started to deform into normal flames, losing its shape as Riser tried to heal his body.

But this was holy water Boosted with a Balance Breaker multiplier, meaning that even if his face had healed, it would then burn again with the sound of sizzling due to Boosted potency of the water.

Hyoudou coughed as his arm went to his throat to sooth it, taking a few steps back as a precaution.

A few seconds go by, and Riser stopped screaming at the top of his lungs, his body now deformed slightly from the effects of the holy water, but at least he wasn’t boiling from the holy water anymore.

Panting heavily, Riser tried to stand up only to drop to his knees at the sudden loss of stamina. Holy water would have instantly killed a normal devil, but the Phoenix inherited technique must have used stamina as a replacement to substitute him dying instead.

With the opponent already on his knees, Hyoudou picked up the cross on the ground gently with his left arm of the Welsh Dragon. He clenches his fist to hold it tight, closing his eyes before he keeps it into his Boosted Gear’s pocket dimension — Say what now?

Hold up, Hyoudou just — What? He just placed it back? But why —

“Asia told me this. That Devils are weak against the cross and the holy water. So, increasing the ability of both of them at the same time would give enormous damage to Devils, right?”

“Kugh… Y-You, you crazy bastard…”

Hyoudou then looked around his surroundings, noting that it was clear from any sudden threats.

“Kiba told me this. To widen my line of sight and look towards the enemy and its surroundings.”

Suddenly, his demonic energy rose to a higher level as an aura of scarlet red surrounded his body.

“Akeno-san told me this. To gather the demonic power that flows throughout your whole body. To concentrate and feel the wave of the demonic power. Yeah, even an idiot like me can feel it, Akeno-san.”

Hyoudou got into a familiar stance, his eyes aiming at a certain location of Riser’s body.

“Koneko-chan told me this. When you hit someone, aim at the middle of the body and nail it deep into their body accurately!”

And then Hyoudou placed both ends of his palm together.

“And Ryuuto showed me that even beam attacks can work if I imagine and desire it hard enough! HaaaaaaAAAA!”

The scarlet red aura flared furiously as Hyoudou reeled his arms to his ribs. The pressure coming out from Hyoudou was so strong that most devils started to shiver from the dense aura.

“H-Hold on! Do you even know what you are doing!? This engagement is important and necessary for the future of Devils! It’s not something a Devil brat like you can butt into!”

“I don’t know anything complicated. But there’s something I remember vaguely when I lost against you and became unconscious. –Buchou was crying. She was crying! And she was also crying before! That reason is enough for me to beat the shit out of you!”

A shine of crimson red bursts through the spaces between his fingers as Hyoudou slid his left leg forward, the ground shaking from the power behind the orb in between his hands. Hyoudou stared towards Riser’s fearful eyes before shouting.

“Take this, Riser! Ko Ryu Haaaaa!!! (Crimson Dragon Wave)”

He thrusts his arm out, and a crimson wave of demonic and dragonic energy shot out, rushing out from his arms as Riser tried crawled away from the beam, but he was unsuccessful as it slams into him and sends him flying to the wall of the ballroom, crashing Riser into the wall with cracks forming from the force behind the wave.

He doesn’t move after that.

Power Level Reference

Classes

Low-Class = 150 (Low) – 1,000 (High)

Middle-Class = 1,500 (Low) – 10,000 (High)

High-Class = 15,000 (Low) – 100,000 (High)

Ultimate-Class = 1,000,000 (Low) – 10,000,000 (High)

Maou-Class = 100,000,000 (Low) — ??? (High)

Super-Class = ??? (Low) — ??? High

Humans

Average Humans = 1 – 50

Peak Humans = 50 – 80