DxD: A World Where T*tties Defy Gravity [ Chapter 116: Status! ] (Patreon)

"Oh, it's just you." Cana remarked, sighing. "I thought we'd be facing down Rex when we got this close."

"Same." Himari replied. "Good to know we're now here. So we can fight whoever comes up against us togeth-"

["VANISHING DRAGON, BALANCE BREAKER!"]

Remaining members of Rex' Peerage:

Rex (24), Valian (18), Akasha (30), Akeno (6), Kuroka (4), Neo (2)

Total Value: 84

Remaining members of Sairaorg and Imogen's Peerages:

Sairaorg (10), Kuisha (9), Coriana (3), Misteeta (3), Beruka (3), Ladora (5), Regulus (7)

Imogen (11), Cana (9), Himari (3), Chifuyu (1)

Total Values: 61

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Time left in the Rating Game: 42 minutes.

Valian grinned under her Scale Mail armour, as she looked around, seeing who her five victims for the match were.

'Imogen's Queen, daughter of Gildarts Clive...' she mused. 'The sole remaining member of the Buné Clan, the two people who took out Rias and Asia, and the wielder of the White Knight Shirokishi, an armour-type Sacred Gear. Shouldn't be too hard to take out.'

"The White Dragon Empress..." Misteeta whispered, before pointing his staff at her. The same blue markings appeared on Valian's armour, but Valian didn't even flinch.

"What did you suppress, Misteeta?" Himari asked, curiously.

"Her ability to Divide." Misteeta replied. "Now everyone here can face her with all our- agh!" Before Sairaorg's Bishop could finish, Valian had flown forward at great speed, and smashed her armour-clad fist against Misteeta's face, sending him flying away, in a haze of blue light.

As the blue markings on Valian began to disappear, she turned on Ladora Buné, who had transformed into an average-sized Western Dragon with black scales, and flew right at him, latching onto his head.

["Divide!"] Albion called, inside Valian's Gear. ["Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide!"]

The black Dragon that was Ladora shook for a moment, then expired from his Dragon form, quickly reverting to his human form, and landing on the ground, on his hands and knees, shaking.

"Hehe." Valian chuckled, summoning two balls of the Primordial Power of Darkness through the use of the gained demonic energy. 

Looking down at Ladora and Himari, she threw the balls at them, one each. When they made their marks Himari was unable to run away from the ball of darkness they were both retired as quickly as Misteeta was.

Hearing a growl of anger from behind, Valian turned around, in time to grab the gigantic blade of the broad-sword that Chifuyu Orimura, inside her Shirokishi armour, had swung at her. 

With a quick jerk of her hand, she pulled the sword from its owners' grasp, tossed it into the air, caught it on the hand on the handle, and threw it far, far away like a javalin.

Finding that she was unable to really defend herself, Chifuyu tried to fly away, but Valian was, again, too quick for her.

Accelerating to just under the speed of sound in under a second, she swung back her fist, infused it with Holy Energy, and punched Imogen's helpless Pawn so hard that her armour Shirokishi was only a low-tier Sacred Gear, after all was destroyed, leaving the black-haired woman totally defenceless.

Not that that mattered, as it seemed that the impact of Valian's punch was enough to knock her out, given that Chifuyu was Retired, seconds later.

Twisting her body around to look at Cana, who was shaking in fear on the ground, Valian made to attack her, and give her a peaceful end to the Rating Game, but she found herself interrupted by the fact a gigantic blast of Holy Lighting flew at Cana from behind, and Retired her in one shot.

Valian held up her hand to shield her eyes from the dust that suddenly rose as a result of such a strong blast, but when the dust cleared, she saw that Akeno Himejima, hanging on eight white Devil wings, was there, looking as fine as ever.

"Hey, Akeno." Valian greeted Rex' sole Bishop, while deactivating her armour.

"Well, damn." Raven's voice came from the commentary box. "The daughter of Baraqiel, a formerly Stray Nekoshou, the legendary Vampiress Akasha Bloodriver, and the host of Albion himself, the former and latter of whom seem to both be Nephalems, given their uses of Holy Energy, who just destroyed a large-ass chunk of Sairaorg's and Imogen's force.”

“That being Imogen's second Knight, third Pawn, and Sairaorg's second Rook and first Bishop, on his own. Not to mention Akeno striking Cana down from behind. Rex' peerage is a lot of things, but it certainly isn't boring."

"Damn right." Valian muttered, as she descended to the ground beside her close friend.

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In Imogen's and Sairaorg's hut, both Kings looked at each other when they heard the announcement from Raven that Rex' Queen, the host of Albion, and Rex' Bishop, Akeno Himejima, had just destroyed what was essentially half of their remaining force in the Rating Game.

If they were correct and most times, they were, their remaining force included themselves obviously, Kuisha Abaddon, Sairaorg's Queen, Coriana Andrealphus, Sairaorg's half-Succubus Bishop, Beruka Furcas, Sairaorg's Knight, and Regulus, Sairaorg's sole Pawn, who was stood by his Master.

"I think now's a good a time as any to get out into the game ourselves, eh Sairaorg?" Imogen asked. "There's only one group of our force left, and it's all members of your peerage."

"Yeah, it is, Imogen." Sairaorg replied, putting a hand on his chin and thinking for a moment. "Yeah, I think we should come out now."

"Shall I accompany you, Master?" Regulus asked.

"No." Sairaorg replied, to his Pawn. "Stay here, until I call you to me."

Regulus silently nodded, and watched Sairaorg and Imogen leave their hut, and begin walking out into the woods.

"Oh, my!" Naud's voice came booming over the crowd, who were watching in the Agares Stadium. "Sairaorg Bael and Imogen Belial have decided to step out of their base and into the Game themselves. Rex' peerage, wherever they are on the field, had better prepare themselves! Not many Devils can claim, with proof, to be stronger than either of these two exceptional Devils, let alone both of them!"

"I'm gonna go on ahead." Imogen muttered to Sairaorg, spreading ten leathery Dragon wings, and flying off on them.