"I have no idea." Clayton looked at the remains warily, noting the odd tentacles and limbs of the creature. He shivered at the sight of the creature's eyes staring back at him. For a brief moment, he thought the eyes shifted slightly. "Maybe it is one of the devils' pets to deal with us if anyone tried to invade."
"Well at least that is over…"
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That was the only thing Clive got to say before his head flew off, the neck squirting out blood at high pressures and splattering blood all over Clayton's face. Then after a moment, the headless corpse dropped to its knees and crashed to the ground.
"What the?!" Clayton stumbled backwards as his brain tried to compute what had happened when he heard a growl behind him. Before he could react, his leg got grabbed and he was pulled to the ground roughly. Struggling he turned to see the headless corpse of the creature using its arm to hold him, and much to his horror the neck started sprouting muscles and bones from the stump, roughly making the shape of its head. He tried to move the staff only to yell out loud as something bit his arm. Turning his head, he found the now healing head of the first creature chomping on his arm, muscle tendons and bones appearing from its neck to start forming the body. Then to his ever increasing horror, two more creatures appeared from the bushes and advanced on him, the closer one wasting no time to pin him to the ground and opened its mouth wide to reveal rows of teeth.
"AAAHHHH!" The magician screamed as the creature bit into his neck and ripped his head off without much effort. With a loud crunch, the creature swallowed his head while tossing the body back to the others to let them rip it apart and eat the remains. It slowly turned its head towards the academy where some of the magicians seemed to have realized its presence. It ignored them for a moment and smelt the air, catching the scent of the one it was supposed to hunt down.
The scent of the one it should feed upon its flesh.
With a shake of its head, it took a deep breath and let out a loud roar to both announce its presence and to call the others to its side.
"GROROROORO!"
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Seriously, one time. Just one time, where I do not have to get my ass attacked during a meeting, be it from poisoning, bombs, assassinations, decapitations, and bloody terrorists!
Just One. Root Be Damned. Time!
After letting my thoughts run wild on a heated rampage with a few chosen words not appropriate for kids, I got up from my spot and shook my head a little to rid myself of the ringing in my ears before I looked around me. Soon after another thought came into my head.
Sona and Rias were so going to murder the people attacking them right now.
The windows were completely unsalvageable and the walls were wrecked, revealing the courtyard from which I could there were several people standing around in dark cloaks. From there, I could sense the presence of a barrier that covered the entire academy and supposedly isolated us from the rest of the world. What little I could tell, the attack force seemed to consist mostly of humans, the remainder being Fallen Angels and supposedly Devils.
Great.
"Ah~ you are awake." I turned my head to find the leader of Grigori stretching his arms and cracking his neck. "That blast got us good~"
"Don't suppose you know who our party-crashers are?" I asked while wincing from some pains in my arm.
"I might have an idea or two." Azazel turned to look at the group outside. "Meet the Chaos Brigade."
"Seriously?" I turned to him with a deadpan expression. "Chaos Brigade?"
"I know, not the most original name in the block, but it is their name." Azazel shrugged as he pointed to the others. "Forget them for now. Could you check on our companions?" I turned to find some of them frozen in place, a couple of them were literally floating in the air, their expressions of surprise and fear stuck on their faces.
"What happened to them?" I quickly made my way to Sona and Reya, noting how the expressions were stuck in the transition of surprise to fear.
"My guess comes from the missing Bishop of the Gremory." Azazel supplied the answer as he pushed some of the rubble away from those frozen in place, watching them float away in the same position. "He has issues controlling that Sacred Gear of his and it tends to act up and freeze time sporadically. However in this case, I believe the enemy has located him and forcefully activated his Sacred Gear to create this field, hoping to disable us." He looked around with a raised eyebrow. "They did get some of us, so that would be a problem."
"Then how did you and I escape?"
The fallen angel pointed behind me that revealed the presence of [Hell's Trident], having come out in its true form to protect me from whatever the attack was. "The gear you procured activated automatically and created a small film of demonic energy to cover your body, protecting you from the blast and the time effect of the field."
"As for me, you can thank your magic sword for that." Azazel used his thumb to gesture at the Excalibur which I only just noticed. The item in question was hovering in the air to create a barrier of Holy Light on the leaders and some of the others, and from where I was I could tell that the devils were the most confused as to why they were not being affected negatively by the weapon. At me looking at it, the swords pulsed before bringing down the barrier, before coming at me quickly blade first, forcing me to dodge it before grabbing the handle as it passed.
"Why does every weapon that you meet wants to go back to you in such a rough manner?" Kiba asked as he looked at the sword as though it would bite his head off.
"If I ever know the answer, you will be the first to know." I glared at the holy sword in question as though it could answer my question, and the response, if it was one, was to glow brightly. I sighed before putting it back into the dimensional pocket. I should consider getting a scabbard for that.
Maybe a copy of Avalon? That might be suitable and safer than using the actual item, I don't want to know what would happen if the two got into contact with one another. Probably blow up in my face like one of Rin's experiments.
"This is so bad~" I turned to find Serafall Leviathan looking around with a pout on her face, more focused on her sister frozen in time. "Why do these guys have to ruin our meeting?"
"People don't want peace so easily." Michael spoke solemnly with a saddened expression and with a tone that spoke of his years. "Considering our factions had been at war for so long, some may feel that would be their only purpose in life. The Three Factions pushing for a disarmament and joining of hands would be an affront to them."
"Just like it did with Kokabiel." Azazel frowned as he remembered the fallen angel. I merely nodded at both of them, recalling my fight with the man. There was the underlying feeling that the angel of war was weary of peace and seek to battle with the strongest. That was why he came after me, to have someone fight him to the death.
"In any case, this is a problem." Azazel turned to Vali who was standing around with a bored expression. "Vali, I need you to deal with our guests until we can get the freezing effect removed."
"Very well, I was getting bored anyway." Vali activated his Sacred Gear and hovered off the ground, sparing a look at Ise before looking at me with a look that sent alarm bells ringing in my head.
"The both of you better be alive when I come back, because I will settle the score as the White Dragon Emperor." With that declaration, he activated the [Balance Breaker] ability that covered him in that white armor and flew out of the wrecked room. In no time, the courtyard was lit with explosions and one shooting star that kept flying all over the place.
Holy mother of the Root! That gear was seriously fast!
"Oh man…" Ise looked down in frustration, biting his lips while his eyes showed the tell-tale signs of self-loathing and worthlessness. I merely raised my arm and hit him hard on the head. "OW! What gives?!" Ise cradled his head while glaring at me.
"You are yourself, Vali is someone else. You do not need to compare yourself to him all the time." I looked at him with a steady eye. "Besides he is not the best role model for you to emulate. That guy has a brain hardwired for fighting only. You have some other goal, don't you?"
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A/N
Current Chapter's Noble Phantasm(s):
Prometheus's Chains - The Binds of the Titan
Type: Anti-Divine
Rank: A / A++ (combined with Sword of Shannara)
Silver chains with ancient runes on each link of the chain, with a sharp pommel at the end of each chain.
The story goes about Prometheus delivering the fires of Olympus to mankind against the will of Zeus, thus resulting in his incarceration on the mountain, where he was changed into a man and made to have his body feasted by a great eagle set by Zeus, and forcefully revived at the stroke of midnight so that the process could be repeated. It was only 30 years later when Hercules was undergoing his Twelve Labours that he went to kill the eagle and broke the chains, thus setting Prometheus free.
Having been created by Zeus to incarcerate a powerful Titan, the chain is one of the few Anti-Divine weapons that can restrain any Gods or divine creatures, Titans being the most susceptible to its effects. When combined with the [Sword of Shannara], its strength becomes stronger due to the story where it was used to restrain an oath breaker.
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Sword of Shannara - The Blade of Truth
Type: Anti-Personnel
Rank: B / A (combined with Prometheus Chains)
A two-edge sword with a particularly thin blade and a rounded end, the hilt is conversely huge with a huge handle and pommel, with runes etched into them.
Unlike other weapons, this is a sword that has its base from the future and in stories. While the name originated from literature, the sword in question came from a parallel time-line where mankind has discovered the existence of the True Ancestors, Dead Apostles and the Moonlit World, and thus raged war against all the supernaturals, leading to a global near-extinction of mankind, magus and other supernatural creatures. The sword was one of the last few weapons created during that great war before it got lost to time, only to be found by Archer who encountered on one of his missions. Later that same blade would be found by Shirou during one of the dimensional travels.
On its own, the blade does what it was meant to do: to confront both the user and the targets with the truth of their lives. If used as a weapon, the sword will store the 'truth' of the person cut, and will release an attack equivalent to its strength. But if combined with [Prometheus Chains], the weapon has its nature altered slightly to resemble the [Sword of Damocles], whereby the person that is chained must tell the truth or suffer a punishment of the user's choice, be it small cuts to instant death based on the level of the lie being told.
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Aegis - Shield of Athena
Type: Fortress (Athena) / Anti-Unit (Perseus) / Fortress (Shirou)
Rank: A (Normal) / A++ (Type 2)
A round shield with ornate designs around its edge and a simple symbol of a tree in the center. Perseus's version has the added design of the Gorgon's Head in the middle with snakes erupting from her head. When called out as a conceptual weapon, it takes the form of hexagonal blocks of light that surrounds the user and moves about to block attacks.
Hailing from Ancient Greece, this was the shield created by Hephaestus that was used by Athena and Zeus during their reign of Olympus. When Perseus was tasked to kill Medusa, Athena handed him her shield to help him look at her reflection to avoid the curse of the gorgon. After his completion of the quest, the head was added to the shield to utilize the power of the Gorgon.
As Rho Aias's Seven Petal Form is often associated with the Counter Guardian Emiya, Aegis Hexagonal Shields can be considered as Shirou's Emiya's personal shield. Shirou was able to understand the history and project it as a conceptual weapon that would aid him in heavy defense. This is particularly useful when he needs to be moving fast while avoiding attacks. The only drawback would be the consumption of his Prana; the longer the activity the faster the consumption would be.
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