23 Chapter 86: Barbecued Chicken

Rias opened her eyes as she looked around. "Hey you, you're finally awake." Mordred smiled at her.

"What happened?" Rias was confused and Mordred chuckled. "Hit by that spirit's ambush, you were in quite a pinch." Mordred massaged her head while she was being given a lap pillow.

"Ohh... I remember now." Rias clenched her fists and she could still feel that exhilarating feeling.

Wielding a form of primordial magic that is on par with the reality altering magic of dragons.

"Now, now, how about we show her how the divine fights Mordred?" Scathach appeared besides Mordred as she hugged him.

"W-wait, she's your master right?" Rias blinked and Mordred nodded. "She taught me how to really fight." Mordred smiled at Scathach.

"We're fucking if you want to ask." Scathach shrugged and Rias almost bugged out.

"Cath, she just got through something incredible. You're going to shock her out of her mind." Mordred sighed and Rias rebooted.

"W-what!?" The crimson princess was envious. "I'll get back to you later, we'll show you what you can reach with your magic." Mordred stood up after laying her head back down softly.

"You're going to fight?" Rias was confused and Scathach nodded as two spears appeared beside her. And their demonic energy made her cower.

It was so bloodthirsty and the killing intent from them almost choked her. "Watch closely, Rias Gremory. I acknowledge you as a budding warrior, so I will show you the peak."

Mordred and Scathach disappeared as they stood in front of each other in a rather large plain. Momiji made it for them as their battlefield and Erina started reinforcing her with her mana pool.

"Shall we start with something easy?" Mordred breathed in and he roared. Rias was almost blown away by the concussive force.

A black beam of pure mana escaped from his mouth and Scathach already prepared her runes. A reflective shield refracted the massive beam and the scattered lasers hit everywhere.

With a resounding thunderclap that would've made her eardrums rupture if she wasn't behind the Nakiri twins, a truly awe inspiring explosion swallowed everything in sight.

Mana explosions that released their energy in a split second were like atomic bombs that could level entire cities in a second.

Miles upon miles of land and rock were vaporized as lakes of lava formed due to the sheer heat. Turning the battlefield into an apocalyptic landscape.

"W-what power..." Rias shuddered at the thought of being under fire against that.

Steam was released from Mordred's mouth as he sighed and a red light flashed. He grabbed something in front of him and it was a barbed spear that seemed to be colored with blood.

"That's a bit too predictable, Cath." Mordred chuckled as he already know how she fights like the back of his hand.

"Hmph, I still have some tricks under my sleeve." Scathach prepared to fight as she rolled her shoulders.

"Then let us start, I feel a bit stiff you see?" Mordred took out Caliburn and they disappeared once again.

Meeting in the middle of the ruined landscape, their weapons clashed as light flooded the entire realm.

The land of shadows trembled at their might. The stone under them cratered for miles as everything shook. Earthquakes made everything tremble.

Earth, torn asunder. Fault lines appeared as hills of rock and stone formed upon their first bout of strength.

Divine light clashed with the demonic aura from Gae Bolg and the holy aura was devouring the spear's demonic energy.

"T-this is insane, how strong are they?" Rias couldn't believe she was seeing people at that level fight each other.

"Thrust! Drill!" Scathach thrusted the spear on her offhand at Mordred and he blocked it with the flat of his blade.

He flew like a bullet, plowing through the ground as he dug through the earth. Only stopping against a mountain that crumbled due to the godlike force.

A golden aura covered Scathach as she drew strength from her divine spark. He has far surpassed her time as a mortal and she needed to use her divine body.

"That was a good strike, let me repay it in kind." Mordred appeared out of her shadow and he kicked Scathach with a spartan kick.

At the other side of the battlefield, she experienced the same thing and they both dusted themselves off.

"Hmph, don't get soft on me now. Or I will refuse to sleep with you." Scathach dematerialized one of her spears and her offhand focused on creating runes.

"Well, as a gentleman. I need to give the lady what she wants." A golden portal appeared behind him that rippled like water.

With immense speed, his swords were launched at her. Scathach grinned as she parried them. And their holy powers were redirected to the side.

Holy fire, light, and energy showered the whole land of shadows. Purifying the evil spirits that roam it. And Rias could feel her skin burn as she hissed at the immense pain.

"You've got to shield yourself you know? Master and Mordred's fights aren't going to be pretty for those who are watching on the sidelines." Erina reminded her.

"Could've told me sooner." Rias grumbled and the two warriors clashed, their visages merely a blur to Rias and the twins.

Scathach's left hand moved with amazing dexterity as she formed a mana disrupting rune. "No you won't." Mordred waved his hands and a white net of energy encompassed her runes.

She went wide eyed and Scathach had to jump backwards due to the dangerous magic; Crash magic.

Her runes were sliced up like pieces of cheese and their form vanished as his magic hit the ground. Disrupting even matter as they got turned to cubes cleanly, down to the atomic level.

"Your repertoire of magic is as ridiculous as ever." Scathach smirked and Mordred formed a rectangle with his fingers.

The position she was in suddenly distorted as everything in his field of view through his fingers were sent to the void via spatial ruptures.

"Isa!" Scathach moved her hands like a conductor and the runes she drew earlier combined together once again, surprising him. Thinking that his crash magic made them disappear.

Rias and the twins shivered as a titanic iceberg encased Mordred. The battlefield suddenly turning into a tundra.

"Uruz! Thurisaz! Ansuz!" Scathach quickly modified her runes as the first two runes stuck to her. Enchanting her strength, speed, and defense explosively.

While the latter was absorbed by her eyes. A crescent slash of light slashed the iceberg in two and Scathach slid under it with a hair's breadth.

A shadow then formed under her and she was about to get stabbed by one of his swords. His hand diving into it.

"Ansuz gives me foresight, Mordred." Scathach grinned as she grabbed his arm and with her unbelievable flexibility, tossed her spear into the air and kicked it towards him.

Gae bolg immediately arrived towards his chest and Mordred had his hand tied down by her sudden increase in strength.

"Athala." He could use runes too though, and he separated his soul from his body. The ethereal Mordred then parried the spear with Excalibur.

And he instantly took out a Gae bolg of his own. Throwing it at Scathach like a javelin, she had to let go of his arm and she countered his spear with another.

"You dare use my weapons against me Mordred?" Scathach snorted and he smirked. The two crimson spears clashed in the air, a terrible drilling sound coming from them.

"I'd say I've gotten pretty good with it." A burst of mana escaped from his back and heels, accelerating him to the maximum as he used shukuchi along with it.

"Arrogant!" Scathach clashed with him again as their spears entangled against one another. Vying for supremacy against each other.

"Think fast." A black arm made of shadows appeared on his side and Clarent repelled her demonic spear with its golden light. Mordred then thrusted with his spear.

Scathach quickly grabbed the shaft of his weapon and she faced her palm against him. "Kenaz." She smirked.

A torrent of superheated flames were released from her palm and Mordred was swallowed by it. When the flames died down, he was smoking.

But his scales were as pristine as shiny, black jewels. He raised his arm and all of his swords flew towards him as they obeyed his will.

"Let's see you handle this." Mordred started to sprint towards her as he entered his Asura mode. And all of his swords were filled to the brim with spells via his Magia Erebia.

Scathach's divinity exploded outwards and they clashed in the middle once more. A storm of spells swallowed them whole, like the divine storm of Zenith Tempest released its wrath.

"Urgh! Hold on!" Momiji sweated heavily as the rampaging spells and mana cracked Innovate Clear's dimension.

The trio of spectators then flew away like a leaf due to the magic that threatened to swallow everything.

"A-are they finished?" Rias recovered as she took a look towards them. The king of knights and the godslayer had weapons pointed at each other's throats.

Scathach's gae bolg alternative was hacked into pieces, but she defied expectations and grabbed the spearhead, pointing it at his neck like a dagger.

While Caliburn and Excalibur were at the sides of her neck like a scissor. "I guess we should end things at that." Mordred rolled his shoulders and he was satisfied with their fight.

"I am starting to fall off, you know me too much." Scathach pouted at him as she felt that she lost in their last clash.

"Of course I do, every nook and cranny." Mordred hugged her waist and gave her a kiss. "What a charmer." She purred and her desire skyrocketed after their battle.

"H-hey! We're right here you know!?" Rias shouted in protest and Scathach sighed.

She did not care if they were to make love in front of his friend, but that would not be an action that a queen should do.

"Have you learned something at least?" Scathach looked at her in exasperation.

"Ahh... Yes? I think so?" Rias wasn't sure, but she could tell that all of their movements were flawless.

And their control on their magic was next to none. Something that she should aspire to do so as well. Especially because her new magic is extremely chaotic, which was poetic.

"Your answer does not fill me with confidence, but that should be par for the course." Scathach thought that she most likely can't even see their movements.

"Rest now then, your fight against Riser will cement your position in the underworld as the Duchess Gremory, give them hell." Mordred rubbed her butt and he nodded in satisfaction.

"W-wha? Right now!?" Rias was surprised, but she didn't really protest much. "Hah, my apprentice is so sinful." Scathach rolled her eyes.

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It was the day of the rating game and Rias was currently with her peerage. Her bishops; Akeno and Gasper.

Her knights; Tosca and Isaiah. They were just a 5 man team, a clear disadvantage against a full peerage. But that didn't matter.

They were confident, and Riser sneered at their team. After all, Gasper looked like a little girl and Tosca was just a young girl. While Isaiah was lanky and slim.

"Riser will win, Rias." Riser grinned at her and Rias looked up from her manga. "Hmm? Did you say something?"

The Phenex almost lost his cool as a vein on his temple almost popped. But he controlled himself, thinking of the things he would do when he gets his hand on her.

"Hah, let us get this boring charade over. I'll even limit myself with this stick." Rias picked up a stick from the ground and Riser's peerage were outraged at her arrogance.

"Get me some barbecue Rias!" Ise cheered them on and Vali snorted. "As if that weakling has a chance, I can crush them without even using my limbs."

"Is the aching power in your left hand enough?" Ise shut her up quickly and Vali went quiet.

"Good luck Rias-chan!" Lavinia made a banner for them and she waved it around with Shirone.

"Anyone got some catnip nya? I'm too sober for this crap." Kuroka asked the others and Dulio gave her some.

"Fuahhh~ That's the stuff." Kuroka sniffed it and she lied down on Mordred's lap.

"Kill him! Gut him! We're eating yakitori tonight!" Meredith was a little too violent as she disliked the weakling's arrogance.

"Then, let the games begin." Mordred smiled as Grayfia announced the start of the match.

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