"Don't get too cocky, you low-class scum," said the first woman, who seemed to be their leader.
"Aren't you low-class too?" He had heard it from Serafall; none of the fallen who sought to harm Asia were of a higher rank than low-class.
"Mhph, die!" she roared, a beam of white light appearing in her hand and condensing into a spear. She didn't wield it; she threw it in the devil's direction.
The speed was impressive; the woman was probably middle-class.
'Was Serafall wrong? Or did they manage to increase their power in such a short time?' he wondered.
But he didn't think about it too much. He caught the spear aimed at him with his bare hand. He analyzed it; it was the same energy produced by the weapon he had confiscated from the former exorcist. Although a little inferior, more corrupted.
"What?!" he heard the woman, called Kalawarner by the blonde girl, ask. "How can you...?"
"I'd like to know that too," Altair replied with a smile, watching the weapon disappear into thin air.
Altair could sense a spell that kept humans away from that place; they were in the middle of a street in one of Kuoh's neighborhoods. He wasn't afraid that a curious citizen would dare to get in the middle of the fight.
"Tell me, did the fallen ones also commit the stupidity of attacking the sanctuary?" he asked, testing the waters.
"At this point, ten high-class fallen angels should have massacred everyone there," said the purple-haired girl proudly.
Altair frowned, but didn't respond, nor did he worry too much about it. He looked up at the sky. A few minutes ago, he had been sucking off an inexperienced blowjob, and now he was having to deal with trash.
Ten fallen High-class couldn't defeat Lily or Katerea, no way. He wasn't worried about that, besides, his coven wasn't weak, only his sister and Daphne were ordinary witches at the moment.
"Don't get distracted, boy!" shouted the man as he charged in the sky direction, a white spear in his hand.
He flew forward, black wings with black feathers flapping on his back, two pairs of them.
Altair did not fear holy light; the spear in the man's hands would not harm him beyond its capacity as a spear. Devils may have that weakness to the sacred, but Altair did not.
Altair didn't wait for the man to finish approaching, using apparition to teleport right in front of him. His open palm met the fallen man's face as he dragged him to the ground.
"Depulso," he said aloud as he cast the spell from his palm.
The fallen man created a crater in the ground upon impact.
Altair watched the tall woman approach to fight. He reappeared on the ground again.
After all, Altair couldn't fly; he could only teleport into the sky or jump very high, but once in the air, he couldn't redirect his movements.
On the ground, he dodged the little girl, who was launching light attacks from a distance. Part of him felt bad seeing her.
"I feel like I'm going to hit a child," he said aloud.
He teleported behind the girl and, with a single spell, sent her flying.
"How did you get so strong?" asked the leader. After throwing the first spear of light, she hadn't moved, as if she were the final boss waiting for everyone to lose before appearing.
"Fucking," he shrugged as he spoke, telling no lies whatsoever. It was up to her whether she wanted to buy that explanation.
The girl snorted as she summoned several spears in the air. Altair frowned at her meager arsenal of weapons. They didn't even consider the fact that the spears had no effect on him; they continued attacking without any strategy.
"Sectumsempra," he had stolen that spell from an old enemy.
The spell split the girl in half. Altair frowned; he really didn't mean to kill her, not at all. He just wanted to wound her.
'I could have cast another spell, right? Oops,' he said to himself.
"Really... am I done?" he asked into the air. "Ah, you're missing," he looked up at the sky. "Kalawarner, right?"
He took a good look at the woman. She was tall, probably a little taller than Lily, with gigantic breasts and blue hair that hid one of her eyes. The woman looked down at him from the sky, surprised.
Only a few minutes had passed since the fight began, and it was practically over. Neither the man nor the blonde girl got up; they were completely immobilized.
The woman tried to escape, but Altair had cast a barrier at the start of the fight. It wasn't a concealment barrier; it prevented anyone inside it from leaving, including the caster.
"I surrender." The woman's weapon vanished into thin air.
"You're quite rational. That's surprising, considering your whole team," he commented lightly, his wand still in his hand.
The woman had lunged first, trying to prevent him from raising the barrier. She didn't dare underestimate him. A sound mind among idiots, she didn't attack him again because she knew she had no chance.
"I beg for mercy," the woman descended from the sky, with no chance of escape, the best she could do was submit.
He got a blank paper and lent it to her, along with a blood-quill.
"Sign. Sign quickly or die," Altair warned. He would not allow the woman to distract him; he had noticed the subtle way she knelt in front of him. The valley of her breasts was exposed.
"Fine," she obeyed quickly.
"Go to the sanctuary," he ordered her.
Altair cast a spell on the street. He didn't know how Japan's magical ministry worked, but he believed that with his connections to the devils, he would face no consequences. He cleaned up the place, took the bodies of the three fallen men, transformed them into small animals, and left for the sanctuary using apparition.
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"Please," begged a man.
Lily wasn't going to listen to his pleas. With a simple movement of her hand, the creature's throat became a cascade of blood.
She wasn't a big fan of violence, preferring her laboratory and peace. But she wasn't going to let anyone lay a finger on her daughters either.
"Aren't you planning on moving?" she asked Katerea.
"My orders are to protect, not attack," the devil looked from behind, protecting Altair's coven, his sister, and Daphne.
Lily pursed her lips, but deep down she thought it was better that way. That way, she wouldn't have to wonder if her daughters were okay. She didn't know how the contract Altair had applied to Leviathan worked, but it made her the most obedient person in history, even if she hated the boy.
Lily looked ahead. Of the ten fallen angels who had attacked her at the beginning, only six remained. She had killed two, and the other two were completely immobilized. From the way they presented themselves, they came across as high-class. Lily scoffed. She didn't know how to classify herself, but according to Katerea, she was as strong as an ultimate class, a weak ultimate class.
She hadn't been able to gauge her power again, so she had no reference point to work with, but the power to fight so many high-class beings told her that Katerea's words were valid. Or that the beings in front of her were lying.
Lily created an earth golem from the rubble of the place. She would apologize to Akeno later; the girl did an impeccable job of keeping this place clean and well-maintained.
The golem charged at the fallen, who flew away.
That was what made it complicated: their ability to fly. Lily could try to overwhelm them with spells, but it would not be easy. On solid ground, she could cast a spell on almost any target, but in the air, it was more complicated.
Lily thought about how to hunt crows. She could fly, of course, but she was inexperienced in that area, and it could become her weakness.
"Miracle Levia-tan to the rescue," a childish voice cut through the air.
Lily barely registered the moment when the six fallen died, their chests pierced by ice stakes. The redhead looked up at the devil in the sky. Serafall Leviathan had a smile on her face, but Lily could see the magic moving furiously around her.
Lily had begun to feel strong. She believed she could eliminate the six fallen ones at any moment; they were just elusive. But Serafall took how long, a second? Less?
"Thank you, Serafall-sama," Lily said.
"Is everyone safe?" the devil asked with concern, though not evident to all of them.
"Yes—"
"Altair isn't here!" Lavender cried. Katerea had prevented the girl from going out to look for her boyfriend, and even Azalea and Harley were restrained by her.
Lily didn't like that very much, but Katerea was keeping them safe and made sure not to hurt them.
A snap-like sound caught everyone's attention. Altair appeared with his wand in hand, but as soon as he saw Serafall, he calmed down. Lily wondered if, just by her being there, he would have calmed down as soon as he saw her. Altair's reaction stemmed from his knowledge of the Maou's strength; he knew that if Serafall were there, the others would be safe.