Chapter 123: Chapter 123: Cao Cao
As Loky and Noah continued to fight, suddenly a huge pillar of blue light appeared in the sky, with a divine-looking hammer inside.
"Mjolnir!"
Loki was distracted for a moment and Noah seized the opportunity.
With a snap of his fingers, he disappeared from the scene and appeared next to Mjolnir before grabbing it by its handle.
Suddenly, Fenrir appeared behind him and opened his mouth to try to swallow him.
With a backhand swing of the hammer, he broke the wolf's jaw.
"Damn Odin!"
Loki wanted to go after Noah but suddenly a few whips of light held him by both arms.
It was Saji, a member of Sona's group and the wielder of a Sacred Gear formed from the soul of an antigul dragon king.
"Damn you!"
The others also finished off the pair of wolves, Scoll and Hati, while Akeno sent a huge lightning bolt that knocked down jormungandr.
Noah shouldered Mjolnir and carried behind Loki, striking him in the back and sending him flying.
Loki's sons got up and wanted to help their father but suddenly, a magic circle formed under Fenrir's feet and magical chains surrounded his whole body.
Loki steadied himself in the air and looked up at the top of a mountain.
"Who's there?"
"It's Arthur and Kuroka from Vali's team.
Loki! Fenrir will be leaving with us!"
"What did you say?"
"Vali wants the fangs that can even devour gods."
The blond swordsman pointed his sword at Loki in the air and said.
"This is the holy sword Caliburn, even a god like you can't stand up to it."
"That Vali Lucifer, he tricked me!"
Kuroka shrugged his shoulders.
"It was your fault for letting yourself be fooled so easily."
Arthur made Caliburn disappear before pulling another sword from his waist and thrusting it into Fenrir's forehead.
It was the sixth Excalibur, Excalibur control.
"Well, have a nice day-"
Suddenly, as Arthur bent down to make a graceful bow, with no one able to react in time, not even Kuroka at his side, a silhouette materialized above them and suddenly swung the spear in his hand, striking the spear shaft into the back of Arthur's neck and knocking him unconscious.
Then, the person kicked Kuroka, sending her tumbling off the ravine.
A hooded man looked at the magic circle under Fenrir's feet, which was crumbling along with the chains surrounding the beast.
A golden arrow shot from the young man's glabella and entered Fenrir's forehead, penetrating the defenses of his soul and heading into the depths of his consciousness before turning into a golden humanoid with a wheel on its back.
One hundred golden stags emerged from the wheel and began to wreak havoc on Fenrir's consciousness space until they completely destroyed him.
With their mission accomplished, the deer re-entered the golden wheel before the golden humanoid left Fenrir's soul dimension.
This was one of the most terrifying abilities of a trueself, they could ignore the soul's defenses and penetrate straight to the core of one's consciousness and do whatever they wanted.
The hooded person placed his hand on Arthur's unconscious body and chanted a spell before a golden light shot out of the latter's body and materialized into a sword.
Magna grabbed the holy sword Caliburn and kept it in her space storage next to the Excalibur embedded in Fenrir's forehead before disappearing next to the giant wolf.
Because his consciousness was destroyed, Fenrir had now become an empty shell. Although he had a body and soul, the consciousness, which was the core of his existence, was gone, turning him into a puppet with no will.
"Fenrir!"
Loki raged but before he could do anything, the Mjolnir in Noah's hands expanded multiple times before crashing into the god.
"Emperor red dragon! I will not give up without a fight! I curse you to suffer miserably for the rest of your life!"
A blue magic circle covered Loki's entire body as he melted inside the giant Mjolnir.
Loki's curse coiled around Noah's body like a poisonous snake but suddenly, the amulet Michael gave him glowed with a golden light that protected him from the curse while releasing a golden beam that pulverized it.
On the other hand, Kuroka got up from the ground and found herself standing in front of Koneko.
"Shirone... It looks like you've accepted your power."
Looking at the cat ears and tail protruding from Koneko's body, Kuroka smiled softly.
"Looks like it's over..."
Saji let out a sigh of relief.
"Good job Saji."
Sona congratulated him but suddenly, Jormungandr behind her stood up and opened her huge mouth.
"President beware!"
Before Jormungandr could do anything, someone hit her belly so hard that her whole body shuddered.
A burly young man approached the group and conversed with Sona for a while.
It was Sairaog, considered the strongest among the upper-class young demons.
"So you are the red dragon emperor. I see you also train your ki, I'd like to have a confrontation with you someday."
"Sure, I just started training it and I could use a sparring partner to give me some tips."
"Haha! I like you more and more red dragon."
"Well, it's time for me to say goodbye.
Take care, Shirone..."
Kuroka jumped to where Arthur was lying on the ground and carried him before teleporting away.
Noah approached jormungandr's dead body before putting it away along with the bodies of Scoll and Hati.
"Well, it's time to go too."
A magic circle lit up under everyone's feet before teleporting them back to the castle.
"Fortunately, the red dragon emperor was there.
It takes a great deal of power to control the Mjolnir.
That saved us a lot of work."
In a meeting room, the leaders of the three factions and Odin gathered to discuss.
"But Loki is an important god of his world, will what we have done be right?"
"Times must change..."
...
"Very well, father, mother, Milicas. We will leave now."
Rias said goodbye to his family before boarding the train that brought them to this place.
A week later, classes began again.
Noah asked to be transferred to class 3-B along with his students from last year, a request the principal readily agreed to.
Irina also enrolled in the academy and entered the same class.
In the afternoon, while the group was gathered, Rias explained that the Rating Games would soon begin, a competition between the demons of the younger generation whose purpose was to judge their strength and that of their servants.
As he sat quietly sipping his coffee on the couch, Noah suddenly froze before his whole body disappeared from the place.
The coffee cup in his hand fell to the floor, staining the carpet.
Suddenly, he appeared somewhere unknown and before he could do anything, a spear covered in a black liquid pierced his chest, causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood.
Golden blood dyed the blade of the spear.
"Oh? Golden blood? Looks like you're not an ordinary human after all."
The attacking person raised the spear with Noah still embedded in it.
All his strength and energy were blocked and he couldn't mobilize a single ounce of strength.
He couldn't even activate his Sacred Gear.
"Notice how the strength leaves you? I smeared some of Samael's poison on the spear blade, how do you like this gift?"
The attacker raised the spear before smashing Noah violently to the ground....
Noah's bones snapped and a sharp pain ran through his entire body.
The man twirled the spear, further aggravating Noah's wound.
"Well, Vali's been doing some things I don't like either but I don't have time to look for him wherever he is."
Only now Noah could see the attacker.
The one holding the spear was an Asian man with seven orbs floating around him.
Noah recognized him immediately. One of the antagonists in this story, the holder of the sacred spear Longinus, Cao Cao.
Cao Cao kept chattering as he swung his spear at Noah.
During all this time, Noah did not speak, nor did he even frown in pain. He merely stared at his opponent with emotionless eyes.
This time he had been careless and so he fell into this ambush. But he would be sure to repay the man in front of him for this favor.
"I don't like your look, now die."
Cao Cao kicked Noah's abdomen with his ki-reinforced leg, breaking his spine and sending him flying a hundred meters into the air.
Then he swung the spear in his hand as he chanted a long chant.
"O Spear.
The true Holy Spear that penetrates through God.
Feed on the ambition of the King of Domination slumbering within me and pierce through the space of blessing and destruction.
Thou.
Announce the will, and turn it into radiance."
A pillar of white light erupted from the spear and enveloped Noah's body.
When the pillar of energy dissipated, nothing was left in the air.
Cao Cao leaned on his spear looking exhausted but seemed relieved.
"Well, one less problem."
He made the spear disappear before a magic circle swallowed him up.
...
On the floating continent, suddenly a person fell to the ground.
Noah was riddled with wounds all over his body and was in a pitiful state.
The worst wound was the one on his chest, where Samael's poison spread throughout his body.
Fortunately, Cao Cao did not stab his heart but True Longinus' residual energy gathered in that wound, making it impossible for him to heal naturally or attempt to eradicate the poison.
In addition, Samael's poison caused his life energy to begin to decay rapidly.
Wasting no time, he summoned the Holy Grail and poured the liquid on the wound on his chest.
"Cao Cao... Fortunately I managed to concentrate and mobilize a pinch of spiritual energy to send my body to the Floating Continent Interior at the last moment."
Setting the Grail aside, he crawled into the castle before entering the medical room and throwing himself into a healing tank filled with Brokilon water.
Noah closed his eyes and concentrated what little energy he had left to create a magic circle and contact Magna, sending her a message, explaining his situation and leaving a few instructions before falling into a deep sleep.
His body needed to purge the residual energy from the True Longinus and the remaining Samael poison to fully heal and that would take some time to do.