"So" Rias's questioning voice resounded across the training field "How are your Visions feeling so far?"
Hearing the question from Rias, her peerage members heads turned towards her. They were in the middle of a short break and wasn't expecting her back so soon from her meeting with Sona.
Not missing a beat Kiba responded "Well if I had to describe it the best way I can it it would be that is feels extremely different than usual" standing up from his seated position he prepared for a demonstration. "Outside of just being able to manipulate the Anemo element the vision has also granted me specific abilities that seem to correlate with my fighting style"
With a gesture with his hand five swords alight with Anemo energy emerged from the ground. Each sword spread apart evenly to create a fifteen meter pentagon shape with him at its center. With a clap of his hands beams of anemo energy shot between the swords and the into the sky forming a closed off arena.
"While in this Arena all the swords I create are enhanced with the anemo element while also keeping the elements and traits that I made them with." Kiba said.
"Speaking of elements" the voice of Akeno who was just returning from the club building was heard. "We discovered something interesting about how the elements interact with each other"
"Oh?"
With a shout Issei piped up "Yeah! And it's totally awesome!"
"You're quite excited" Rias said with a small giggle.
Rubbing the back of his head Issei says "Yeah, just happy I finally have got real magic"
"Ehem" the cough of Akeno came "Are you two finished?"
Getting her confirming nods she continued "So a brief summary is that while we were practicing koneko and Issei decided to have a light spar. During the fight they both let out a a blast of their respective elements, Cryo and Pyro."
"When the blasts met each other, rather than a regular reaction when they touched, Issei's fire exploded into a inferno before dispersing almost instantly. So we decided to test how each element would react with each other" lifting her hand purple lightning crackled from her palm. "Issei if you would?"
Realizing what she wanted issei raised his hands into a clasping motion and as he separated them a blazing orb of fire emerged. "Here it comes!" With his shout the ball of fire was hurled in Akeno's direction.
And with a swipe of her hand Akeno sent off her own attack, the attacks flew at each other, and once they met the aftermath left everyone shocked. Though they all excluding Rias had already seen the interactions between elements they had only tested it in small amounts.
Pyro and Electro are by far the most volatile of the basic elements, both naturally cause explosions if left to naturally occur. Now what happens when two elements known for exploding meet? Well they trigger an even bigger explosion known as overloaded. As the blasts met a devastating explosion came forth, the once small flame transformed into a fiery inferno and the single bolt of lightning crackled to life and from one it turned into many. But like many other reactions it went out almost instantly.
In the wake of the explosion, the training field was left devastated its once perfectly flat surface was left with with a gaping crater covering its surface with dust now dominating the air
"Ack! Akeno you put way too much power into that wee you trying to kill me!?" Issei said between coughing from the dust.
"Of course not, I was taken by surprise as well you know." Akeno said while casting a wind spell to clear the dust.
After the dust was cleared a barrier surrounding all of the peerage members could be seen slowly fading away. Clearly Rias's handiwork and a testament to her now improved control and reaction time.
"The reaction may be exponential in nature" Rias said with her hand on her chin. "I wonder why this didn't come with the information about visions and elemental energy, It seems quite important to just be left out."
"It could be because your ability allows for the manifestation of more vision types which would also make different reactions. Giving you the information about the specific reactions would be kind of meaningless." Akeno theorized
"Possibly…"
As they continued to contemplate they all started to feel a certain wrongness with the world, their instincts screamed of danger beyond anything they have ever experienced before, well except for Rias herself.
"This feeling! Ashtart?!" With the call of her name the world shattered and time froze. A giant crack marred the sky and from it the giant body of "Ashtart" descended. Her appearance was much different from the last time Rias had saw her, before she was a decently petite woman with purple hair that was wrapped entirely in a cloak.
Now she is a mountain sized fox woman that towered over the landscape. Silence encompassed the unfrozen group having never seen anything on this scale before. "Ashtarts" gaze pelted Rias as if expecting something.
Taking the initiative within the silence Rias spoke up "Uhm Ashtart why are you here?" She said awkwardly with mild sweat running down her brows "I don't believe I've done anything worthy of a visit just yet"
A small smirk graced "Ashtarts" lips at Rias's statement "You may call me Amaterasu while I'm in this form."
"But my dear Rias you've done everything worthy of a visit, don't you remember what I tasked you with?"
"…To become the strongest in this world and bring you entertainment"
"Exactly! Though you aren't near the top just yet you've significantly changed the entire course of history in this world!" Her voices boomed across the still world, her enjoyment palpable.
"You likely haven't heard yet but a faction that was once a cornerstone of the future of this world have been destroyed, and guess who's fault that was~" a sly smile adorned Amaterasus face. "It was all yours princess~ carelessly handing out visions while not even thinking about the consequences that may occur, truly an entertaining move on your part"
A look of pure shock decorated Rias's face, she truly hadn't thought about the consequences of that specific action at all. It seems she had underestimated the power one could obtain from visions. "Which factions was it..?" Her voice came out softly almost a whisper really.
Letting out a laugh Amaterasu said "Don't worry, you'll find out soon"
"But to get on with why I came to visit in the first place" with a snap of her fingers a gigantic lottery wheel appeared in front of Rias.
"The wheel!" Rias exclaimed in surprise
"Because of your achievement in overturning fate on such a large scale you get another chance to spin the wheel" Her giant form leaned closer to the group "And just like last time, it's all up to luck."
Rias laid her hand upon the lever and took a deep breath and with an exhale she pulled it down
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"So do you agree?" The voice of Sirzechs echoed across the silent room
Looking between each other Lord and Lady Phenex nodded to each other.
"We accept your bargain but that's simply off of the impression that what you say is actually true… Can you prove it?" Lord Phenex's voice filled with suspicion questioned them.
Hearing his question Sirzechs could only smile "If you want proof simply take a hold of the jewel, that is all the proof you need"
Looking at the Jewel that sat snuggly in a small jewelry box on the table that sat between the Phenex couple and the Satan Lucifer and his queen, lord Phenex couldn't help but take a small gulp.
"And this holds no risk correct?"
"None whatsoever"
Taking a breath lord Phenex grabbed the the Vision and instantly it lit up like a firework, it burst with flames as it activated, clear indication of a pyro vision. And with the activation of the vision, lord Phenex could feel it, the spark of Divinity.
"We accept your deal."
A small smile decorated Sirzechs lips "It's good to see you understand." And with a light tap of his fingers on the table a red magic circle appeared and from it two more small jewelry boxes appeared.
"This is a gift from us to you. Do with them as you please."
Standing from his seated position Sirzechs headed for the door that was in that moment being held open by Grayfia.
"Oh one more thing, try to keep those a secret from the public for now. It's not being announced just yet" and without listening for their reply he walked out.
"Thank you for your time and understanding" Grayfia said before closing the door and following behind her king.
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Short chapter, sorry, alongside it not really having anything all that interesting in it, but honestly while writing I realized that there's a few plot holes that I need to fix alongside not wanting to delay the chapter for even longer than I already have. I've been busy with quite a lot recently, having to babysit my baby cousins, other hobbies, and job finding. However the next chapter will definitely come out faster than this one, I'll also be fixing some plot holes that I believe was created in the earlier chapters.
Also, does anyone have any tips in writing more than 4 characters in a scene? Whenever I try it always feels so awkward and I just end up removing it, which also isn't good because characters on scene would definitely react more than I make them react. It works with a character like Azathoth because of the fear factor but in a conversation between each other they would definitely react more.
Also chapter will also go under some revisions because there's a few things u want to add but don't want to delay again.