"Rias Gremory! Sona Sitri! So what is your choice?!"
"Is it to defeat me within these 20 minutes! Or be destroyed with this city after 20 minutes!" Kokabiel was very pleased at this moment.
"We! Will definitely defeat you here!" Rias said.
Before Miko could react, she flew into the sky. She raised her hand and threw a Power of Destruction orb towards Kokabiel.
Akeno did the same, unleashing a bolt of lightning with a raise of her hand.
Sona was equally unwilling to show weakness, with demonic power surging from her hands.
Seeing the vast demonic power approaching, Kokabiel sneered, raising his hand and then clenching it.
"What!"
Rias and the others were somewhat shocked.
Their attacks fell into his hand like toys, and all the demonic power formed a giant ball.
"Foolish!"
As he spoke, Kokabiel threw this ball towards the three of them. It was extremely fast, and the three of them didn't react in time.
Immediately after, a figure stood in front of the three.
Mirror Alice!
The person who arrived was Tsubaki.
A mirror appeared in front of her, which was her Sacred Gear. Its effect was to return double the damage that shattered the mirror.
The ball slammed into the mirror, and cracks appeared on the mirror's surface.
As the mirror shattered, the doubled attack surged towards Kokabiel.
"Hahaha! Interesting!"
Kokabiel said, swatting the incoming energy with a slap, sending it crashing to the ground and creating a huge crater.
At the same time, Kokabiel held one hand towards the sky, and a spear of light shot towards the four of them.
Rias and the others' expressions changed abruptly.
Akeno and Tsubaki both blocked their respective Presidents behind them, activating barriers to defend against the attack. However, Kokabiel's spear of light was too powerful, and cracks appeared in the barrier. Immediately after, an explosion blasted all four of them away simultaneously.
The four of them stabilized themselves in the air, blood overflowing from the corners of their lips.
Kokabiel looked at their disheveled appearance and laughed even more wildly.
"Is that all you've got? Then this city is beyond saving!"
Rias and the others wanted to stand up, but the damage from the spear of light caused searing pain.
"President!"
Valerie and Asia rushed towards the four, and two auxiliary Sacred Gears simultaneously provided healing.
"You really don't put me in your eyes, do you?"
Kokabiel raised his hand again, preparing to throw another spear of light.
"I won't let you hurt President!"
Gasper, who was nearby, rushed over, his eyes lighting up, and Forbidden Balor View activated again. But it only made Kokabiel pause for a moment.
Immediately after, Koneko and Hana also rushed over. Taking advantage of Kokabiel's momentary pause, Koneko leaped up, preparing to punch him.
But Kokabiel quickly broke free of the control. He grabbed Koneko's fist and threw her to the ground, her body's impact with the ground creating a large pit.
Gasper fainted from the backlash of his Sacred Gear.
At this moment, only Miko, Shinobu, and Hana were still able to fight.
"This boring game should end."
Kokabiel raised his hand, and a massive spear of light appeared. He was about to resolve it once and for all, when he suddenly seemed to sense something interesting and stopped his movements.
This gave Rias and the others a moment to breathe.
...
The scene shifted to Yuuto's side.
"Hehehe! You damned devils and holy sword users, are you ready to die?"
Freed said to the four people in front of him, holding his brand new holy sword.
Xenovia and Irina rushed forward first and began to fight Freed.
Yuuto stared intently at the fat man wearing glasses.
Issei looked at Yuuto, patting his shoulder. "Leave this to us. Go complete your revenge."
With that, Issei rushed towards Freed.
Yuuto looked at Issei, nodded, and walked towards Valper with the demonic sword in his hand.
Valper looked at Yuuto walking towards him, shrugging his hands indifferently, "Tsk tsk, the escaped experimental subject actually became a devil, how pathetic. But thanks to you, my plan can be perfectly completed."
Hearing Valper's words, Yuuto's face darkened. "What do you mean?"
Facing his perfect masterpiece, Valper, as the instigator, happily explained to Yuuto, "Of course, it's about extracting the adaptability factors for wielding the holy sword. Everyone has more or less holy factors in their bodies, but no one can perfectly unleash the power of the holy sword, so I came up with some methods."
Valper looked at Yuuto with the gaze one would use for an object, and continued, "Since a person cannot control the holy sword because of a lack of Holy factors, then if all the Holy factors in everyone's bodies are extracted and transferred to one person, wouldn't that work?"
"Valper!!!"
Yuuto was enraged, wielding his demonic sword and slashing towards Balba.
The truth he had been pursuing turned out to be just this.
Valper looked at Yuuto slashing towards him, showing no panic whatsoever. While activating a protective shield, he threw out a crystal. As the demonic sword cut through the crystal, translucent dust appeared, floating in the air.
"You keep saying you're avenging your comrades, but you yourself scattered their ashes. How truly laughable."
Hearing Valper's words, Yuuto froze.
Valper looked at Yuuto and continued his verbal assault to break down his fighting will, "These are the Holy factors extracted from your comrades."
Upon hearing this, a string in Yuuto's mind snapped. The demonic sword in his hand fell, and he knelt on the ground.
He wanted to gather these Holy factors, but it was all in vain.
Yuuto collapsed.
Even Xenovia and Irina, who were fighting Freed, looked at him in disbelief.
Irina's face was somewhat pale. She had injected this thing into her body when she first became a holy sword user. At that time, they even said it was a blessing for the holy sword user.
She never thought that this thing was actually something created by sacrificing countless lives. She had unknowingly done something that went against the Lord.
Irina's fighting will also crumbled at this point.