Omniversal Travel

Katerea's entire body turned into ashes that scattered into the air.

Everyone paused momentarily to watch this scene and an overwhelming silence fell over the battlefield for a few seconds before they resumed their fight.

The golden armor disappeared from Azazel's body, turning into a purple gem that floated by his side.

"Looks like there's still room for improvement. But that guy who just appeared..."

Suddenly, a barrage of bombardment hit Azazel's back and knocked him to the ground.

"Ouch. Looks like you gave me a ben hit, eh Vali?"

"Sorry, Azazel. Being on this side seems more fun."

"Hey Vali, I want to ask you a question."

Azazel flew up until he was close to Vali.

"Since you're on that side, do you know this guy who just showed up?"

Vali just shook his head.

"So you also joined forces with Ophis in the end..."

"It's true that I joined forces with Ophis, but unlike her, I have no interest in this world or its plans.

People joined forces with us because they wanted to make use of our strength."

"I see. And here I thought you and Katerea had planned this together, considering that you're both trying to take the throne of the original Demon King."

"That's my right. The blood of the deceased demon king flows through my veins.

I am a direct descendant."

"Despite being a descendant of a demon king, being half human allowed you to host the Vanishing Dragon by pure coincidence."

Azazel shook his head.

"Your existence is like the product of the whims of fate."

"I believe the word miracle was created to define me."

Eight demonic wings appeared on Vali's back before disappearing again.

"Past, present and future. He is perhaps the most powerful white dragon emperor that ever lived.

I wonder if you can keep up with him, red dragon emperor."

A red shadow appeared behind Azazel and stood in midair, looking directly at Vali.

"Welsh Dragon, don't you think your fate is rather cruel?

The blood of the ancient demon king flows in me, and yet I also have the power of one of the most powerful dragons in the world.

On the other hand, you are a mere human.

You and I are not on the same level, you are nothing without your Boosted Gear.

How boring, so boring it makes me laugh.

Our Sacred Gears are supposed to be rivals of the same level, but the current distance between our levels is even wider than that of heaven and earth."

Pap, pap, pap.

Loud applause was heard.

"You are right, we are not on the same level.

Your ego is so inflated you could explode, I can't compete with you on that."

"You..."

Vali frowned because she didn't expect that answer.

"You're arrogant and full of yourself, you think you're invincible when in reality you're just an arrogant child whose power has blinded him."

With a flash of red light, all of Noah's armor dissipated.

"Oh...you're going to give up?"

"Not at all."

Noah smiled.

"Since you say I'm nothing without my Sacred Gear, I'll fight you without it."

A sword appeared in Noah's hands.

It was Ascalon, the dragon-slaying holy sword.

"Has he gone crazy?"

The others looked at him in shock and even Vali on the other side thought he had gone stupid.

"Ten seconds will be enough for me to defeat you before the effect of your Divine Dividing acts on me."

Not caring what the others thought, he conjured a pair of wings made of mana before flying towards Vali.

"How stupid. Since you seek your own death, let me grant it to you."

Vali charged at Noah at high speed and reached out to strike his face but his arm went right through it before Noah's entire silhouette blurred.

"An illusion?"

Noah appeared behind him and clipped one of her wings before she could react.

"Damn you!"

Vali kicked behind him but Noah had already disappeared.

"Eight seconds."

With a blink, Noah appeared in front of Vali and thrust the sword into his chest, shattering the gem in the center of his white armor.

"5 seconds."

"Altered distortion!"

Vali tried to use a spell on Noah but his opponent was too fast.

With another blink, he sliced Vali's back, shattering his armor completely and sending him to the ground.

"As I told you, you're too arrogant.

All you have is raw power with which you've been able to defeat your enemies so far but you lack too much when it comes to control."

Shaking his head, Noah deactivated his wings of light and put Ascalon away.

Vali staggered to her feet.

"Interesting. Very interesting.

I'll give you that, you are a worthy opponent.

You are worthy to witness my Juggernaut Overdrive."

"Assess the situation, Vali. Using Juggernaut Overdrive now would not be a wise decision."

"It's time to wake up, Albion.

Overthrow everything, even the demon kings..."

"Vali! Do you wish to be carried away by my power?"

Vali paid no attention to Albion, immersed in his delirium.

"I am the celestial dragon, who covets infinity and contemplates it.....

The way of the white dragon shall decide..."

Suddenly, the barrier covering the place shattered and the dimension returned to normal.

A man with a long staff dressed in Chinese armor and a golden diadem on his head landed in front of Vali.

"Bikou, what are you doing here?"

"The battle against some deities in the north is about to begin, so you should hurry back."

"I see, so the time has come."

Bikou was a direct descendant of Sun Wukong and was on the same team as Vali.

"Oi! Nice to meet you, red dragon emperor, looks like you beat up my partner, hahahahaha."

Bikou jabbed his staff into the ground, opening a spatial portal that began to swallow the two of them.

"Let's fight harder next time we meet. I haven't used all my strength."

Vali looked intently at Noah as he sank to the ground.

The mages fighting in the sky also disappeared, heralding the end of the battle.

"Well, I think it's time for me to leave."

Michael nodded towards everyone before disappearing along with his angel troops.

"I'll stick around for a while.

I'm going home to rest first, goodbye."

Azazel also disappeared along with his fallen angels.

"Since there's nothing left to do around here, I'll leave too."

Noah opened a portal and returned home as well.

...

Inside the subway floor of the villa, Noah appeared in front of his trueself, who was sitting cross-legged while channeling his energy into a matrix drawn on the floor.

In the center of the matrix floated Katerea's heart.

It was brimming with demonic energy that was constantly being drawn from within and crystallized into dark crystals.

This was the method created by the cardinal that Yuuto killed to condense holy crystals but altered to condense demonic energy crystals.

Noah sat on the other side of the matrix and assisted his Trueself throughout the night until they squeezed all the demonic energy out of the heart, which turned to dust, leaving a large pile of demonic energy crystals in its place.

The next day.

In the afternoon, an unexpected visitor arrived at the occult club.

"Starting today, I will be the official advisor of the occult research club."

"What does that mean?"

Rias folded his arms as he looked at Azazel, who was sitting at a desk.

"Oh nothing, I asked Sirzechs and he told me to talk to Serafall's younger sister."

The group looked at Sona standing across the room.

"He threatened me by saying my sister would come in his place if I didn't agree...no, he made a very sincere request."

"So basically, you sold us out?"

"Well, I'll leave the rest to you, Rias."

Sona turned and opened the door to leave.

"Wait, Sona!

"In order to stay at this academy, I had to accept a condition from Sirzechs.

I have to help properly develop the skills of their Sacred Gears.

In other words, Boosted Gear and Seimaken.

I will use all the data obtained from my research and take them both on a different growth path.

It's a pity that the transvestite boy had his Eon Balor stolen.

Well, from now on you must call me Azazel-sensei!"

"I don't want to."

"I don't feel comfortable saying those words."

Noah and Yuuto immediately refused.

"Well, that's all I had to say, it's nice to see you guys."

"Hey wait! I still didn't agree to this..."

Rias went after Azazel.

"Oh right, Sirzechs left a message for you."

"My brother?"

Rias blinked in confusion.

"In the name of the demon king Sirzechs Lucifer, I order all of Rias Gremory's family members, with her included, to go live with the red dragon emperor Noah Astaros to ensure their own safety."

"Hey!!!"

"Hey hey hey wait a minute! I disagree!"

"It's an order from your brother, don't resist, Rias."

Akeno aside laughed softly as he teased Rias.

"Well guys! We have new tenants!"

Noah gathered Magna, Lena and Asia and introduced them to Rias' group.

"Although the house is quite large, there aren't enough rooms for everyone so some of you will have to share a room.

You can arrange yourselves however you like."

Noah chuckled before going to his bedroom and plopping down on the bed.

"Ddraig, let's get started on the daily training."

Although he appeared to be asleep, Noah's soul actually entered the Boosted Gear's inner space and penetrated deep into a shadowy dimension.

This was a place where fragments of the souls of previous Boosted Gear wearers were stored.

Looking at that pile of enemies, Noah smiled before charging at them.

He sent only a fragment of his soul with a power equal to that of an ordinary human soul to fight against this tide of enemies.

Although he could annihilate them all if he let his entire soul in, Noah's goal was to train against these previous Boosted Gear carriers.

As people whose lifestyle was based on constantly fighting, their battle experiences were exceptional and would serve as the perfect opponent for him.

He had been training this way since the day he obtained his Boosted Gear and always ended up with that shattered soul fragment, which caused him immense pain.

Fortunately, his soul-warming lotus was able to heal his wounded soul and with the souls he absorbed from yesterday's battlefield, he had enough soul energy reserve to use.

After five hours of constant fighting against those soul projections, Noah was finally overwhelmed and shattered.

His consciousness returned to his main soul, accompanied by great pain.

Noah's entire body shook continuously but he quickly managed to stabilize himself before letting his consciousness rest while the soul-warming lotus slowly healed his wounded soul.

"This kid...he really is a monster.

Torturing himself like that to improve his combat skills, even if he has a method of healing his soul wounds, the agony of wounding the soul isn't something that can be endured as easily as he has."

Ddraig was amazed with each day he spent with this new host of his.