Once a fire is formed within Rugal-san’s hand, he simply smashes his fist into it! A fire-punch! The Vampire soldiers get their whole body burned. It’s so hot that it even melts the armour they are wearing! I can tell that is quite a powerful magical fire! “So he can also use magic!”
Bennia says to me who is in shock. 《He’s basically a hacked hybrid wolf-guy that was born between a famous witch and a Werewolf that is famous for its ash-coloured fur.》
What the heck is that!? So he’s a Werewolf who is both good in attacking and defending, on top of that he’s good at magic!? “……Sona sure did make an incredible person into her [Rook].”
It also seems like Rias is shocked at Rugal-san’s traits! Even though he started his attack after Bennia who began attacking before him, he has already taken down more soldiers than her! He enhances his attack and defence with his magic when it has already been increased due to his trait of being a [Rook]! He doesn’t even flinch against the enemies attack, therefore he’s still unscratched! His movements are also wolf-like, swift and speedy. Even the opponents he hasn’t attacked—get taken down without anyone remaining by Bennia who is supporting him! The two new faces of the Sitri-group are showing their reliable battle skills already! No wonder Sona-kaichou said they will become very handy in this land of Vampires! —Then from behind us, we can hear footsteps from the stairs that lead back up to the surface. The others also realise that. An ominous aura. It’s most likely enemy reinforcements! [Go on, Gremory-group. Bennia and I will take care of this.] Rugal-san says that while tearing apart the enemies. “We can entrust this place to you then?”
Bennia responds to Rias’s word as she swings her scythe. 《This is also the reason we were sent here. Showing the strength of us, the two newcomers, as well as buying time for the main force which will be all of you is our duty.》
[She probably wants us to get used to the battle as a Devil immediately. Our master is quite strict.] Despite saying that, you sure are showing reliable attacks! If it’s like this, then we can leave the enemy reinforcements to them too. We nod to each other and walk across the battle field by running through their fights! We then reach the stairs to the basement! Rias says while turning around. “We’ll leave this place to the two of you, Bennia, Rugal!”
Bennia and Rugal-san give us a thumbs up. We’ll entrust this place to you, Sitri’s new faces! We then climb down the stairs in a rush—. As we go down the stairs, Xenovia mutters. “……The increase in battle force of the Sitri group is overwhelming. Won’t we have even more of a difficulty if we were to have another game with them?”
Sensei then says. “In terms of overall balance in the game, Sona’s side is already above this group. If you simply focus on fire-power, then you’ll have a hard time for your future games, Rias.”
Rias breathes out. “I know that. I have never once looked down on Sona.”
She’s right. We can never look down on Sona-kaichou. She even showed us that she can control both the Sitri group and the Gremory group in the battle against the group of magicians the other day. As we go down the stairs, we come out into an open space again. There are four spacious floors including the deepest floor within the basement of this castle. This is the second one. The ones that stand in front of us are—. “They are here. Just like the King said.”
“Yeah, the rumoured Gremory group.”
“They would be good opponents for us that have been strengthened.”
The Vampires are clearly displaying an atmosphere where they are above the rank of the soldiers we encountered on the previous floor. Instead of the soldier’s armour, they are wearing regular clothing, but the pressure coming out from their body isn’t comparable to the other soldiers at all. “They must be the direct subordinates of the higher-ups of the coup d’état faction. They aren’t pure-bloods, but they are warriors that carry the traits of Vampires strongly.”
Sensei mutters. So we have enhanced warriors next huh. Now then, who’s going to take them on? “Either way, Balance Break.”
I wear my armour immediately. It’s probably a good time to wear this. The danger increases as we travel further down the stairs after all. “Now then, what should we do? Oh yeah, Kiba.”
I give my suggestion to Kiba. “How about we attack them together?”
Kiba makes a fearless smile. “There’s no way I can decline after receiving an invitation from you. Okay, let’s dance together with the Sekiryuutei and the holy-demonic sword.”
Alright, let’s take this on with the male-duo. —It happens when we take a step forward. “We’ll take the—”
“—first move!”
The ones that run past us are—the duo of Xenovia and Irina! The ones who attack first are the warrior-duo from the Church side! After they close the distance with the enemies, they start slashing towards the enemies by making a complicated attack by using their holy-sword and the mass produced holy-demonic sword! “Ku! A holy-sword!”
The Vampire that just whined changes his body into mist and avoids the first strike. —But the strike from Xenovia and Irina doesn’t end there since a holy aura is emitted from their blades! The male Vampire positioned at the rear morphs his body into a bat and just barely avoids the aura. “Stretch out!”
Xenovia makes a second strike by changing the blade of Durandal into a whip to slash down the Vampire beside him. “Nuwah!”
That Vampire couldn’t dodge it and gets hit by it……but he doesn’t receive that much damage from the holy-sword. Normally, Vampires are weak against holy attacks similar to Devils. Since he didn’t receive that much critical damage from it, it means that they have overcome their weakness due to the Holy Grail. Xenovia and Irina sigh. “Hmm, even though we swung our swords softly, I don’t feel good about Durandal not working properly on the Vampires. “
“But they are not opponents we can’t defeat. We can certainly win if we attack them again and again. …...The problem is that we can’t waste that much time.”
Yeah, what we found out right now is that even though they are enhanced Vampires, they are not a threat to us. Except, due to being enhanced by the Holy Grail, there’s no doubt that they are opponents that will be annoying to take on. By including the factors that we are confined in space in the basement and that we are in a situation where we can’t waste our energy, we have to avoid using flashy attacks and attack them with simple attacks instead. “There’s an option for me to stay behind and fight……but the one downstairs is most likely—”
Kiba looks down to the floor—and it seems like he’s trying to look far below the floor. Yeah, the one waiting for us downstairs is most likely the Evil Dragon. There’s a chance that it’s Crom Cruach or Lilith who is the other half of Ophis that is always besides Rizevim. If we have to fight those two, then we will be in trouble if Kiba isn’t with us.