Chapter 522 - Escape (1/2)
A few hours later, everyone except for Vali, who had taken Samael's curse, was able to recover. Le Fay tried to dispel the curse from him, but it was simply too powerful for her to do anything, so Vali had been enduring intense pain and the curse's encroachment with his massive stores of Demonic Power. But even that has a limit, so something had to be done.
It was also then that Le Fay received a notification from the Khaos Brigade headquarters, ”An official notification came from the main headquarters. To explain it simply, it said 'The Vali team tried to pull a coup d'état by deceiving Ophis and making the organization their own. Ophis was safely rescued by the Hero-faction. Terminate any remaining members of the Vali team when found.' ”
While they were planning their escape, Akeno asked Ophis how she was feeling and she responded with, ”...I've become weak. Right now... I'm only twice as strong as the Two Heavenly Dragons at their peak.”
”Y-yeah... You've definitely weakened...” Azazel muttered.
However, compared to him, others couldn't help but put up a shocked expression. According to Georg, the Ophis right now was basically the 'leftovers', and she still had the power of the two Dragons that wreaked havoc on the battlefield that the Three Factions had to join forces just to deal with them.
Ophis then revealed to them that while Samael was taking her power, she sent out some of them towards another space and she just went outside to retrieve it. Now she's twice as powerful as the Two Heavenly Dragons.
”So the reason you said you would go around this floor is so you could retrieve the power you released to another space!?” asked Azazel in shock.
Ophis nodded. Seeing that, Azazel couldn't help but laugh, ”Kukuku. That Cao Cao. He said he took most of Ophis's power, but Ophis released her power into a different dimension while she was having her power taken. She retrieved most of it just now and got back some of her original power. And she's still twice as strong as the Two Heavenly Dragons in their prime. Looks like the Hero-faction took Ophis too lightly.”
Ophis then demonstrated to everyone by creating small black snakes on the tips of her fingers, ”My power changed like this. This, is what I sent to another space. That, is what I retrieved. But I, cannot leave here. Here, there is something restraining me.”
They were finally reminded of the predicament they are currently facing and started taking actions. Azazel faced Le Fay and asked, ”Le Fay, you are talented in using magic related to space like Kuroka right? Is there any way to get help from the outside world? Or is there any way to get at least a few members out of here?”
”There is. But there is a limit to it if it is by myself. There is a magic where others can leave this space with me. But the number of people that can is 2 at most. Since we performed swapping transportation with Vali-sama and Fenrir-chan, I think the barrier on this space became even stronger. I am pretty sure that it is impossible to perform swapping transportation once again. I think Georg-sama knows the majority of the formula used by our magic, so there is only one more chance where I can use very special transportation from here.” Le Fay replied.
They wanted to send Ophis away since they were aiming for her, but Azazel told everyone that it'd be useless as there was something holding Ophis in place. And the current Ophis was 'finite', it would be dangerous if the Grim Reapers were to get more of her power.
After a short discussion, it was decided that Xenovia and Ravel would be the ones who'd leave with Le Fay. They would be reporting the truth to the Alliance and also have Xenovia's Ex-Durandal repaired.
At first, Azazel wanted Irina instead of Ravel to go out but Irina insisted on staying. He thought her insistence was weird but he didn't have time to dwell on this now. Irina and Akeno then took a quick look at each other. Neither of them could go if they wanted to preserve the trump card they had for emergencies.
Le Fay, with the help of Azazel, located three anchor points that were keeping Ophis inside this artificial space.
Le Fay then gave Xenovia the last missing part of the Excalibur, Excalibur Ruler, to include it when the Ex-Durandal was repaired. She cited that it wasn't needed anymore as Fenrir already reduced his power so that she could control him without it.
After thanking Le Fay for the final sword, the three of them stood on the magic circle that Le Fay prepared to transport them out, but before they disappeared, Le Fay warned everyone that Siegfried was different from the rest of the Hero Faction as he is not only cruel, but also malevolent. This is the main reason he was expelled from the Church.
There were a total of three anchor points they needed to destroy to escape this space. One on the roof, one of the hotel's hall below them, and one in the parking area. With hundreds or even thousands of Grim Reapers patrolling and destroying the barrier they put up, they needed to make their move now.
Using the firepower of Issei's Welsh Blaster Bishop, they instantly destroyed two of the anchor points, and the only remaining one is in the parking area.
But due to that, most of the Grim Reapers went to that area and Georg strengthened the defensive barrier around it.
With that, the group started fighting to break through the Grim Reapers. Akeno and Rias used their magic to deal with the Grim Reapers from a distance, while Irina and Kiba were guarding Asia. Despite the curse and being unable to use his Sacred Gear due to it, Vali still had enormous Demonic Power reserves and sent shots of it, annihilating some of the Grim Reapers.
Ophis, who saw this, tried copying him. However, the resulting force was so massive that it almost caught everyone else too, ”...Strange. Holding back my power, very hard.”
Azazel then prohibited her from doing anything else due to the fear of friendly fire. He finally figured that they can't depend on Ophis who couldn't control her powers despite being weakened.