17 World of Blades, Field of Corpses (1/2)

{Pov: Rias}

I am Rias Gremory heir to the house of Gremory and my day today has, lead me from one place to another. Originally I had come to the eastern sector of the underworld due to a strang spike in demonic energy but once we actually got here things started to get out of control.

First, we meet Sona and her sister at the sight because like us they were also curious but later we made our way to the local devil noble's manor only to find out it was empty. Onii-sama and Serafall-sama along with a couple other people went into the house but we were told to stay but. They tried their best to hide it under their breath but I heard them mention the word blood.

When Onii-sama and the others came back the first to speak was Serafall-sama, she wanted to find a boy. A boy?? Thinking back the reason we were here was that we followed a trail left by a human boy, but I don't get why we have to specifically look for him.

When I asked who the boy was Onii-sama told me he was around my age but stronger, Sona also started to wonder who this boy was because both of us were around the same in strength. After getting some more details we learned that in this manner were bad devils who were working on illegal experiments. Then the people who were being experimented on were two Nekoshou sister who suffered for years.

I felt sympathetic for the girls as did the others with me but I was surprised at what came next. The boy the one were looking for happened to cross paths with one of the sisters and she told him their story.

The boy felt sorry for them and promised to help them, and with the use of all his skills he defeated everyone in the manor and took the girls away from here.

Akeno - It's like a story from a fairy tale.

She's right if some other person told me this I'd think it was a story too, but the people in front of me never lied to me so I could only believe it.

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After that, we followed the boy's trail with the help of Gustav, and for some reason the more we travel to more I wanted to see this boy. I kept remembering what Onii-sama said over and over in my head and couldn't stop my self from wondering what he was like in person.

Akeno and Tsubaki (Sona's Queen) also seemed to wander the same thoughts as me, even Sona too while she tried to keep straight face I saw that her eyes seemed to wander from place to place.

We had already passed by their campsite and now we were closing in on the Nekoshou village. Then before we could even see to the village in sight we heard to sounds of battle, hastening our pace we exited the forest and looked at the destroyed village in front of us. To be honest it made pretty sad these were peoples homes and other people just had to destroy them.

Akeno - Look over there by the river!

Everyone looked to where she pointed and we save a male youth escaping the bombardment of spells by jumping over the river and running into the forest behind it. While I didn't get a good look there were to girls in his arms just like Onii-sama said.

Watching the army of devils enter the forest soon after I started to feel worried about the boy. I tried to get Onii-sama to help but before I could he made a motion to Uncle Mathers, I didn't know what he was going to do but before I knew it a magic circle appeared before our feet and we teleported to a new location.

I was confused, I wanted to know where we were but the sound of explosions attracted my attention. We seemed to be on top of a ridge by the entrance of a canyon, inside that canyon I saw the boy again but he didn't look like he was doing so good.

He was still having spells thrown at him but he now had a shield the shape of a lotus protecting him. Behind him were the Nekoshou sisters, in front of him were a lot of soldiers coming their way.

Surtr Second - Master should we intervene

Sirzechs - No, I want to see what he does. Look at his eyes they don't seem to have lost their fighting spirit.

Listening to Onii-sama I tried looking at the boy's eyes but he was too far away for me to see. As if he read my mind Uncle Mathers used a spell to enhance everyone's eyesight. Once I could see I confirmed Onii-sama's words. While the boy was covered in wounds, while he was fighting a losing battle his eyes didn't seem to lose hope.

Right now while he wasn't looking at the girls I saw that he was talking to them, when it seemed like he had finished talking teal colored lines appeared on his left arm.

Sirzechs - MacGregor!!

MacGregor - On it!!

Rias - Onii-sama what's wrong?!

Sirzechs - Look at the sky Rias, I don't know what happened but a spatial dome suddenly appeared out of nowhere! MacGregor is currently trying to lock our position in place so we don't get trapped!

I was surprised when I looked up at the sky it did look strange and I was having this thought the wind started to pick up really fast. While I was trying to adjust to the wind all of us heard a loud clear voice, it wasn't from a shout more but like a low calm declaration.

”I am the bone of my sword”

”Steel is my body”

”And fire is my blood”

”I have created over a thousand blades”

”Unknown to death”

”Nor known to life”

”Having withstood great pains to create many weapons”

”Yet these hands will never hold anything”

”Waiting for that one to arrive”

”So I pray”

”Unlimited Blade Works”

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For a moment I doubted if I was really awake or was I dreaming. Today should have been another normal day but then I remember everything we did today and I started to doubt if this was really happening. I felt like I needed to pinch myself

Rias - Ouch!

It hurt so I was in reality, and the world before me was real too. Currently, all of us are on a magic circle floating in the air, and before us is a landscape I don't know whether to call scary or magical.

On the ground, there were hundreds, if not thousands or weapons stabbed.The land was that of a dying meadow, it looked like it was once a beautiful field in the past, but dead grass and multiple weapons littered the area.

In the sky was a light fog, and within that fog was giant rusty gears. Pillars could be seen on the horizon, I counted five each a different color.

In the center was a clean marble pillar, on its north side was an aqua blue pillar. To the east an emerald green pillar, the west a crimson red pillar, and to the south an ebony black pillar.

Standing in front of those pillars was the boy, his shield was gone and he looked tired but be seemed to be calmer than before. Opposite to him was the devil army, they were confused by the sudden change but I could be some mages were trying to reorganize the troops.