The activation of Balance Breaker had shocked everyone outside the arena. Riser's familiars were no exception. Although they had never seen a Balance Breaker before and had never heard of a Longinus or the Red Dragon Emperor, the aura around Luo Guang was completely different from before.
Riser keenly sensed the surge in magic power in the air. After hearing the report from his familiars, he slammed his hand on the table. "Don't think I'm afraid of you just because you have a Longinus!"
Despite his words, Riser was internally anxious. He now understood why Lord Lucifer allowed the opponent to fight alone against his entire peerage. It was because Lord Lucifer had known all along that the other guy was the host of the Red Dragon Emperor. They're the ones who are the challengers!
"Everyone, attack with all your might! Don't hold back at all!" But Riser's shouts went unanswered.
The next second, he heard a sound from outside the window. Under the fictional moonlight, the deep crimson figure shone brightly. Although there was no magic power swirling around him, the pressure he put on Riser was immense. In that instant, Riser understood. Only he and his sister Ravel were left in the arena.
"Ravel, give me support from nearby," Riser said, but he still received no reply.
He instinctively looked back and found his sister staring blankly at the figure in the sky. Her family had only given her a spot in the Rating Game to gain experience for the future.
"Get down here!" Riser's body was suddenly engulfed in a fiery aura of magic power. The crimson flames quickly consumed the surrounding oxygen and formed the shape of a phoenix around him. "Go!"
The phoenix flapped its wings, showering embers toward the figure floating high above, which then collided, creating a dazzling burst of light in the sky. The entire school building trembled from the impact.
"It... it worked?" Riser was stunned, but his expression quickly turned to one of ecstatic joy. The Phoenix family's immortal flame not only gave him an immortal body but also possessed extremely high heat. It could severely injure even a High-Class Devil. What legendary Longinus?! His Phenex family was also an ancient pure-blooded devil clan!
Rias and Sona's hearts sank. Although the power of the Two Heavenly Dragons was world-renowned, their wielder could still be hit like a target. After all, the person using the Sacred Gear was human.
But when the flames dissipated, the deep crimson figure still hovered in the air, completely unharmed. The smoke and dust blew away from Luo Guang's body, revealing not a single scratch.
"Impossible! This isn't how it's supposed to happen! How can this be?!" Riser couldn't comprehend it. Even if he couldn't gravely injure Luo Guang, he should have at least seen some effect. Why did nothing happen?!
Riser summoned more immortal firebirds, and they all surged toward Luo Guang.
"A trivial trick." Luo Guang raised his right hand and casually made a gesture forward, and the three immortal firebirds instantly vanished.
"How can you do that?!" Riser was on the verge of a breakdown. He had used all of his strength, yet he couldn't even touch the opponent? How was he supposed to fight this battle?
But with everyone watching, Riser gritted his teeth and charged forward. The Balance Breaker of a Longinus must have a high cost. If he could just last until the end with his immortal body, he would win. It might not be honorable, but the result was all that mattered!
"Are you thinking of using your immortal body to drain my power?" Luo Guang said calmly. "While that's a possibility, you won't be able to do it."
"Don't underestimate me, you bastard!" Riser's body erupted in a torrent of flames, and he quickly flew up, enraged at being looked down on like this.
Luo Guang remained still, simply saying, "I could kill you over and over again to drain your magic power, but that would be a waste of time. So, how about this..."
Luo Guang's figure vanished, leaving a afterimage. He reappeared in front of Riser, gathered magic power in his arm, and then punched the space where Riser was.
BOOM!
The crimson power shook the atmosphere and instantly shattered the very fabric of the battle arena. Riser was severely injured and fell like a broken doll toward the rift, crashing from the alternate dimension back into the real world. His immortal magic power began to heal his body, but it was unusually slow. Watching the rift in the dimensional space, Riser reached out his hand, but he ultimately passed out.
Rias and Sona were stunned. "So strong, he even broke space itself?!"
Sona adjusted her glasses. "This is certainly a way to win, but... it's almost impossible for anyone to do in a Rating Game."
"I knew that trusting Luo Guang-kun was the right thing to do," Akeno Himejima said, smiling with her eyes narrowed.
Meanwhile, in the arena, Luo Guang calmly floated in the air and looked up. "When a participant falls out of the ring, I suppose that counts as a loss?"
After a few seconds of silence, a message came from the nearly collapsing dimensional space.
[Riser Phenex has fallen out of the ring. The winner of this contest is the human, Luo Guang.]