With a forceful breakthrough, Rias and the others didn't waste a single moment—upon entering the battlefield, they immediately launched a ferocious assault.
Brilliant arcs of lightning danced around Akeno as she hurled a massive sphere of thunder straight into the heart of the enemy formation. A violent wave of paralysis instantly swept across their ranks, leaving them unable to move.
In the very next second, Koneko charged straight into the enemy lines. Her slender, delicate fists carried a terrifying explosive power as she slammed a punch into a fallen angel who was frozen in place!
A shrill scream rang out as the unfortunate target was sent flying like a cannonball for over a hundred meters, carving a long, deep trench into the ground before finally coming to a stop.
Koneko then grabbed another fallen angel by the arm with her backhand and, using sheer monstrous strength, swung him up into the air—whirling him around like a rag doll before smashing him into the ground in a wide arc!
After being slammed back and forth just twice, the pitiful fellow lay there, barely breathing.
It was hard to believe that such a jaw-clenching scene had been created by someone as petite as Koneko…
A flash of holy light followed—the enemy's counterattack arrived right on cue. Two fallen angels unleashed holy light magic.
Even though they had fallen and were now ruled by their desires, the power they wielded was still sacred in nature. Dazzling angelic radiance erupted, causing Koneko's pupils to contract slightly.
This was an attack from two high-ranking angels.
Faced with the incoming blasts of holy light, Koneko barely had time to cross her arms in front of her chest before she was struck head-on.
Her body was blasted backward dozens of meters. Relying on the immense strength and defense granted by her Rook, she forcibly endured the attack.
There was no change in Koneko's expression. She glanced at herself and found that she had only suffered minor injuries to her arms.
However, because she hadn't distributed much demonic power to protect her clothing, the lower half of her outfit had been blown apart by the attack. Her slender waist and flat abdomen were exposed, and her skirt had been torn to shreds.
Seeing that Koneko had charged deep into enemy territory alone, Ryuya naturally wouldn't stand by and watch. Gripping the King's Sword, he followed her straight into the fray.
Although he didn't possess Koneko's overwhelming defense and brute strength, with the divine artifact Benevolent King Sword and Shield, he was no longer inferior to her in either offense or defense.
As his strength continued to grow at a rapid pace, the true might of the Benevolent King Sword and Shield was gradually revealing itself.
Within this sword-and-shield set, the Sword specialized in pure offense. Its attack power was terrifyingly strong—strong enough to shatter even the holy light armor of fallen angels. When Ryuya went all out, its destructive power rose to an even higher level.
Yet the true core of the Benevolent King Sword and Shield did not lie in the Sword, but in the silver shield itself.
This was a shield once stained with the blood of a Benevolent King, and because of that, it possessed incomparably powerful strength. The true terror of the Divine Shield lay in its core ability—Endless Twilight Citadel.
At present, Ryuya could only barely activate a tiny portion of this ability's power. If it were fully unleashed, he would become utterly impregnable.
The Benevolent King Sword and Shield could be said to be a supreme divine artifact born from that Benevolent King's will to protect all living beings.
Even without activating the core ability of the Shield, Ryuya merely expanded its defensive barrier—and that alone was enough for him to move through the ranks of these high-ranking angels as if no one were there.
After breaking through to the level of a mid-class devil, the attacks of the fallen angels could no longer penetrate Ryuya's defenses!
Unfortunately, Ryuya was still unable to take the promotion exam, so he could only continue bearing the title of a low-class devil for now.
Of course, that hardly mattered. At the very least, his combat power already ranked among the very top of the mid-class devil tier—and that was what truly counted.
With Ryuya and Koneko—both perfectly balanced between offense and defense—holding the front line, and Asia continuously supporting them from the rear with Twilight Healing, Rias Gremory and Akeno Himejima had no reservations at all as they unleashed their full firepower!
The sheer intensity of their attacks made the fallen angels on the opposing side break out in cold sweat!
Boom!
A violent explosion echoed across the battlefield, accompanied by terrifying arcs of lightning slithering wildly through the air. Akeno wore a gentle smile as she casually blasted seven fallen angels away in a single strike.
"Th-This… why are they this strong?" one fallen angel cried out in horror, lightning crawling all over his body, leaving him convulsing helplessly.
"Ara~ you still look quite energetic!" Akeno said with an exceedingly gentle smile—but the attacks she unleashed were anything but gentle.
The surging waves of demonic power radiating from her made the fallen angels' eyelids twitch uncontrollably.
"W-Wait, let's talk this out! Fallen angels and devils don't really need to fight to the death anymore, right? After all, the great war ended hundreds of years ago—"
The only response he received was a terrifying bolt of lightning as thick as a water barrel crashing down from above.
Boom!
The poor fellow collapsed to the ground, smoke rising from his body as he lost consciousness.
"Ara? Didn't he just say something about stopping?" Akeno tilted her head cutely, then smiled gently. "Oh well… what's done is done~ They're already fried."
Seeing how overwhelmingly powerful the few devils who had charged in were, the remaining fallen angels realized there was no way out. Gritting their teeth, they went all in!
"Then we'll take you down with us! Lord Kokabiel will definitely avenge us!"
Massive waves of divine power erupted from their bodies, growing more and more violent by the second.
It was clear—they were planning to self-destruct.
Ryuya glanced up at the fallen angels in the sky. Seeing the holy power around them boiling out of control, he immediately flicked his wrist.
A purplish-red magic circle bloomed in his palm, and in the next instant, a silver Magic-Sealing Crest appeared in his hand.
"Go."
Ryuya barked out softly, swinging his arm as he hurled the crest forward.
The little familiar flapped its adorable wings, and the silver crest flew out with a rapid pap-pap-pap, stamping seal marks onto the bodies of the women one after another.
As the anti-magic field and the sealing power activated simultaneously, the fallen angels were instantly silenced!
Pupu-pupu-pupu-pupu…
The sound of fabric tearing rang out as the clothes on the female fallen angels were completely blown apart—
Each of their bodies now bore a glowing, purplish seal mark shaped like the character "正", shining brightly.
"Eh?"
The fallen angels froze on the spot, completely dumbfounded. Then, as the sealing took effect, their bodies lost all power and dropped straight out of the sky, slamming heavily into the ground.
"W-What… what kind of ability is this?!"
"You bastard—how can you be this inhuman?!"
Dying in battle wasn't frightening. What was truly terrifying was this situation. The female fallen angels instantly lost their composure.
"You animal!"
"Perverted devil!"
They cursed furiously—this felt worse than being killed outright.
Ryuya, however, remained utterly calm. At that moment, Koneko spoke up from the side.
"That's way too low."
"…" Ryuya fell briefly silent. "Koneko, whose side are you on?"
"The women's side," Koneko replied bluntly, without a shred of hesitation.
"…This move isn't even meant to be used on you."
"Even so, it's still way too low," Koneko said, as if clicking her tongue in disapproval.
Ryuya sighed helplessly. He curled his fingers and flicked the Magic-Sealing Crest buzzing around him like an angry little bee, speaking in an utterly flat tone:
"My lifelong reputation is going to be completely ruined by you sooner or later."
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