Strongest in DxD - Chapter 34

And Ren also knew that Scathach was a user of [Clairvoyance] so she could anticipate Ren's attacks.

In Celtic mythology the [Clairvoyance] of the Queen of the Shadowland was so strong and accurate that she anticipated the death of her student, Cú Chulainn.

Seeing this, Ren decided to use the [Sharingan] to give him an advantage in battle.

When Scathach looked into Ren's red eyes, for a moment a memory replaced Ren's image.

He was a young man with blue hair and red eyes fierce as a beast.

When for a moment the memory of her beloved student flashed over Scathach the Immortal Witch smiled as she returned to advance against Ren.

Both discharged the power of their spears generating an immense explosion of red and white energy.

While intense spear combat took place between the original Ren and Scathach on the other side, the battle of Ren's clone against Arturia Alter took place.

Both exchanged blows at high speed while repelling each other.

Due to the size of the sword Arturia had a faster handling to attack Ren and to recover from each blow.

Now Ren, who due to his spear each attack had to position to attack again, was taking advantage of the length of his spear to keep Arturia and his sword at bay.

Ren knew that even a small attack could be dangerous, Excalibur Morgan had the ability to cut through the skin of Hercules (Berserker) empowered by the Noble Ghost [God Hand] as if it were nothing.

It wouldn't be wrong to say that the Alter version was stronger than the original Arturia.

The disparity in strength between Saber Alter and Saber before his blackout is such that while Arturia was overtaken by Heracles and badly injured in their first fight, Saber Alter easily corners and overwhelms him even in a direct battle. Although Hercules destroyed the ground with an attack powerful enough to destroy a mountain, even the flying debris doesn't make it fall, and it simply blasts its way through Berserker's sword and flying clods and attacks his helpless body. Each of her attacks is massive, and anyone who fights her without paying attention will have the upper half of their body flying.

In fact, each of her sword strokes is equivalent to an A-level attack, and as such, she cuts through Hercules' harder-than-steel body, killing him as if it were nothing.

Ren knew that even an attack would be dangerous.

But in exchange for such crushing raw power Arturia lost some of her speed and that's what Ren was taking advantage of.

He moved at an intense speed as he swung his spear faster still making it difficult for Arturia to dodge.

Seeing that he was getting nowhere, Arturia stood up and gripped his sword in both hands and gripped it tightly.

At the same moment an immense wave of magical power appeared covering the entire sword that gained an intense red and black aura.

Ren's eyes widened as he saw all the energy focus on Arturia's sword.

Ren recognized that ability as Arturia's [Mana Burst], her ability to infuse mana into her weapon.

And Arturia Alter's was even more powerful to the point where each blow had power compared to a Noble Phantom.

Arturia brandished her sword as she lunged at Ren and left an intense amount of violet flames burning in her wake.

Ren swung his spear at Arturia's sword as well.

And the moment they collided, the impossible happened to Arturia.

Her [Mana Burst] was nullified.

The moment the holy spear hit Arturia's Sword his [Mana Burst] disappeared as if it had never existed.

Looking at Ren's spear, the Saber class servant saw that it was bathed in the same black miasma that Ren used to neutralize Semiramis.

The [Mana Burst] although powerful was something simple, it was the ability to infuse its magical power into the weapon and fire it.

Then Ren bathed his spear in [Anti-Magic] and when the weapons collided Arturia's magic power was negated and thus her main ability negated and rendered useless.

Although while using [Anti-Magic] Ren couldn't use his own spells.

Taking advantage of Arturia's state of surprise Ren quickly swung his spear that lost its [Anti-Magic] aura against Arturia.

The Alter version of the King of Knights defended but widened her eyes when she realized her master's intent.

The moment the weapons crossed the tip of the sacred spear flashed, releasing an intense and immense beam of light at point blank range against Arturia.

Arturia stayed strong trying to withstand the massive and endless amount of light but she ended up succumbing when sent flying tens or hundreds of meters.

In a quick display of skill worthy of the King of Knights, Arturia repositioned herself, even in midair, and landed on her feet as she skidded.

Ren, who even from a distance saw him, threw spear at her before grabbing her, but it wasn't as if he was holding to wield it, but rather to throw.

In a great display of physical strength Ren hurled his spear with such force that it became a white bolt streaking across the skies towards Arturia.

Even seeing the white ray crossing the skies towards her Arturia didn't feel fear, but doubts why Ren did it.

After all, Arturia could easily dodge the spear.

But Ren's next speech, which even dozens of meters away Arturia heard, made him understand his plan.

"Raise it, [True Longinus]"

In the instant of this speech the spear changed, what before seemed like a small ray crossing the skies increased making the width and length of the spear increase to the point that it could cover the clouds and impede your vision of the sky.

One of [True Longinus's] abilities was [Size Change] which allowed its size to be altered according to Ren's wishes. It can be made wider or thinner and taller or shorter at will.

And Ren used it to transform his spear into the size of a mountain over a thousand meters long.

Not only that, Ren also used another ability, [Weight Change] on the spear.

The [True Longinus] can become lighter or heavier and the normal one for Ren is heavy by many people's standards, just putting it on the ground was able to create cracks in the ground that reverberated through a giant hole to its surface. Making it lighter greatly increases movement speed.

That's what Ren did during the battle against Arturia, he reduced his weight to handle it more quickly while when his spear hit Arturia's sword he increased the weight to force Arturia even more.

When Ren threw her at Arturia he had made his spear the weight of a mountain.