Rias had left Arthas in the home base not only as a trump card but also to prevent a simple breakthrough. After all, in a Rating Game, besid
Rias had left Arthas in the home base not only as a trump card but also to prevent a simple breakthrough.
After all, in a Rating Game, besides defeating all the opponent's forces, having three or more pieces invade the opponent's home base also constituted victory.
Riser had fifteen familiars, a numerical advantage Rias couldn't match.
Losing because of a blunder allowing Riser's familiars to invade the home base would be humiliating.
Although Yuuto, Koneko, and Akeno were out, they had perfectly accomplished their tasks. Excluding Riser himself, only two of his familiars remained.
This meant Arthas, having nothing to do in the home base, was completely free to act.
The Phoenix was a child of flames.
In the eyes of most, the Phenex family's power was a definitive counter to ice and water-type magic.
Souna, skilled in water magic, would find facing the Phenex family extremely difficult. Freezing a Phoenix with ice? Ridiculous.
"But… if I could freeze the flames, it would be a beautiful sight, wouldn't it?"
Muttering to himself, Arthas smiled faintly and stepped out of the school building. As he walked, a faint frost gathered, spreading from his feet, coating the entire building in a layer of crystalline frost.
Meanwhile, on the roof of the new school building, Rias and Riser faced off.
She was at her limit.
Rias breathed heavily. Asia's healing was powerful, but the difference in strength still put Rias in a tough fight.
Riser, a Phoenix incarnate, quickly recovered from any attack.
With three familiars eliminated, Rias wryly smiled. This was her limit.
It was all up to Arthas… hopefully, he could deliver a surprise.
"I have to admit, my dear fiancée, your familiars are strong, but I'm still one step ahead. Are you considering surrendering?"
Knowing his sister and the Queen were heading this way, Riser said confidently.
"Hmph, I'm not your opponent, but you're not facing me anymore." Rias smiled, retreating far away with Asia.
"What? Your familiars are all defeated. Who else will fight me?" Riser raised an eyebrow.
"I have five familiars. Your next opponent is my strongest Pawn!"
As Rias spoke confidently, her headquarters, the old Occult Research Club building, began to crumble from the inside out.
The destruction, while not as spectacular as an explosion, wasn't particularly noticeable.
But those who understood the process of this destruction—Sirzechs and Grayfia—showed shock.
This destruction was caused by the alteration of the material's structure under extreme force, leading to complete disintegration into dust.
Ominous frost spread across the ground. The school building was torn to shreds by the biting cold.
A figure slowly walked through the white mist.
"Hahaha! So, this is your strongest Pawn? Don't make me laugh! It's certainly a powerful ice-type divine artifact, but don't you know the Phenex family are Phoenixes incarnate?!"
Initially surprised by Rias's confident expression, Riser burst into scornful laughter upon seeing Arthas enter the battlefield.
The Phenex family's true form was a Phoenix, a child of flames. Mere frost would only be consumed by the Phenex flames. This was why Riser was so dismissive.
Not just Riser, but the devils watching in the hall also laughed freely.
In their eyes, the Gremory heiress had lost her mind, sending an ice-type familiar to act as a clown?
Ice was countered by fire—a deeply ingrained belief among these devils.
Especially the Phenex family's flames, the flames of a Phoenix.
Before such terrifying flames, what could mere cold, a mere ice-type divine artifact, do?
"Finally… he appears. An ice-type divine artifact. Freezing the Phoenix's flames with frost… it should be a spectacular visual feast."
Ignoring the murmurs from below, Sirzechs, gently swirling a glass of wine, smiled faintly.
While he didn't believe ice was definitively countered by fire, it was the Phenex family, the flames of a Phoenix. Against such hellish flames, could frost… truly be effective?
Well then, I eagerly await your performance, you magnificent being reincarnated from eleven devil pieces!
In a corner of the banquet hall, upon seeing Arthas appear, Souna excitedly tugged on her sister's sleeve.
That was her familiar, standing there, under the spotlight, unleashing his terrifying power, about to freeze the Phoenix's flames with frost—Souna's familiar!
"What is it, Souna?" Serafall, noticing Souna's strange expression, asked.
"Nothing… doesn't sister find this exciting?"
"Exciting? Ice and fire don't definitively counter each other, but trying to freeze a Phoenix's flames with frost is still ridiculous."
"This isn't ordinary fire, not some simple fire magic. This is the true fire of a Phoenix!"
"This Pawn's divine artifact does have immense power, rivaling even Divine Destruction-class artifacts, but why is it purely frost?"
Serafall sighed.
Ice and fire might not definitively counter each other, but that only applied to ordinary fire. In Serafall's mind, the Phoenix family's flames still held a decisive advantage.
Simply put, this Pawn's frost power would be completely countered by Riser's flames!
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