~Riser Phenex | 3rd Person~
Riser couldn't even react as his face was caved in and his body was launched backwards, going through the building like an overloaded spring. Moments later as he sailed through the air his face finished reconstructing and regenerating, allowing him to see once more and the first thing that entered his sight was the form and fist of the devil he had failed to see properly before.
"What the hell-!?"
It was more like the fist of the devil, he moved much, much faster than Riser, by the time his jaw had healed the monster had reached his flying body and punched his jaw with enough strength to tear it clean off, ragdolling him through the air once more. But even before he could regain his bearing the devil raised a hand towards him.
In Iron Emperor Devil Trigger from Yuta Yukimura's Ferrikinetic abilities were increased drastically in all areas such as power, precision and range in addition to be being able to sense all Iron constructs in his sensory range.
This was demonstrated when all of the iron sand in the entire rating game area was torn out of the ground and walls, forming into chains that snaked themselves around Riser's ankle and pulled him back towards Yuta, Riser regenerated again and covered his fist in flame to smash his opponent apart as he was being pulled in, but his fist whiffed easily as the monster ducked and punched his stomach hard enough that he felt his organs rupture with a shockwave that shattered all of the glass in the school building. As he doubled over and his vision went white briefly from the pain, a jagged metallic gauntlet-like hand grabbed his face like it was a bowling ball, preventing him from spitting out the blood in his mouth.
Woosh! Crash!
The devil moved faster than he could see, and before he could react he was slammed into the school building, his face and body dragged through the entire building before he was thrown at the ground like a wooden doll, cratering it as if a missile had been dropped where he landed, he felt his bones break and start re-knitting themselves almost instantly, but then in the corner of his view he saw the devil do a simple hand gesture with his hands and then he felt himself get impaled iron spikes that emerged from the ground beneath him and rip through his battered body like needles through paper.
"Kuah! Graaah! Just burn!"
Riser sent a wave of flame around himself to melt away the spears lodged in his body and jumped up toward the devil who was also moving towards him, knowing he directly couldn't hit the devil in front of him he decided to instead cover himself in flames and make them as hot as possible to prevent the devil from approach him without being burnt-
That line of thought was forcefully interrupted by a fist uppercutting his jaw and sending him soaring into the air, he saw parts of the devil were molten but those parts were quickly shed off as more iron grew to cover them.
"Spear."
A deep, primal demonic voice sounded as Riser watched a giant iron spear the size of 10 men form in the devil's open palm from tens of tons of iron sand fusing together, the spear spun like a drill and telekinetically hurled toward him like lightning, Riser barely dodged by leaning back, the spear only grazing him and melting slightly from the heat.
"Hah! You missed!"
He hadn't.
"Thousand Arrows."
The devil stretched an open palm towards the oversized spear and clenched it, causing the spear to stop dead in its trajectory before splitting into a thousand iron arrows and the moment he pulled his hand back as if dragging something, the arrows all shot back down towards Riser, with speeds that were much faster than the spear.
"So what!? I'll just burn them!"
Riser intensified his heat as the arrows approached, but despite burning up in the heat, Riser felt his body get shredded and battered by hundreds of streams of molten iron, despite being molten iron was still iron and Yuta could still manipulate it no matter the temperature.
"Grhhh! You cannot get past my immortality! The o-only thing you are doing is making things worse for yourself!"
Riser shouted but despite his bravado the tremble of fear and pain in his voice was clear, it hurt. He was getting bones broken and organs shredded almost every second, just as his words finished Riser saw the devil vanish, filling his heart with trepidation and fear before less than a second later he saw a pair of metal boots appear millimetres away from his face, when less than a moment later his head was crushed like a rotten melon and his body was planted firmly into a crater with his limbs twisted in different ways.
"G-gueak!"
He made an undignified noise as his face was regenerated and fixed by his immortality, his bones righted themselves but due to having to regenerate from such severe wounds and the blinding pain he couldn't respond when tens of human-sized iron spears fell one after another like missiles, some shattered upon impact due to his durable body but even then the ones that hit properly tore apart his flesh and shattered his bones, he felt his mind keep blanking out as spear after spear nailed his forehead.
Crack! Boom!
He released an explosion around himself if only to get a reprieve from the onslaught of spears but the moment he did so, his explosion was scattered by a 2-meter tall humanoid devil of iron flying down towards him in a hypersonic tackle.
Booom!
Riser felt his organs rupture and bones get ground as he was tackled deeper into the earth by the devil. But through the pain and severe injury, he rose and grabbed the devil.
"E-enough! I am a proud Phenex! I shall not be felled by the likes of you!"
He kept his grip firmly on the demonic entity despite his lesser physical strength and turned his heat as hot as it got, enveloping the entire area in blue flames that could be felt all across the rating game arena.
But then...
Grab
Instead of his foe being turned to ash he felt a pair of metal gauntlets grip either side of his head. He felt the pressure increase as the flames grew hotter but the fear in his heart grew even more.
'E-even that is not enough!?'
"Hey Riser, what did you say again?"
The demonic voice bore through even the raging flames burning around them, Riser felt his legs shake as the molten orange eyes pierced through the veil of fire.
"Who did you say you were going to hurt again?"
He saw the face of the iron devil pull back as he felt his breath get stuck in his lungs. And then-
Crunch!
He felt the forehead of the iron devil slam into his and everything went black for a moment, the impact was such that it created a shockwave that dispelled the flames around them as Riser's face was pulverized, teeth, gore and flesh scattering to the wind and charring from the ambient heat.
That was not enough however as next the devil quickly grabbed his neck and slammed him into the ground yet again before raising his hand and creating hundreds of arrows made of iron that tore apart Riser who couldn't circulate his magical energy to protect himself.
By the time Riser came to, he was on his hands and knees, his clothing completely shredded and was sitting in a pool of his own scattered blood and fragments of iron. He raised his head to see the iron devil standing in front of him once more.
"Trigger off."
His eyes widened as the visage of brutal demony fell apart to reveal the boy, Yuta Yukimura underneath who looked at him with an expression that made the blood in his veins curdle. He tried to breathe but...
"K-koff! Cough! Cough! Bleurgh!"
Whenever he tried to breathe or speak the only thing he could do was vomit, whenever he coughed, instead of spit it was molten metal mixed with blood. He tried to summon his flames but his body hurt too much, he could feel it in the blood circulating throughout his body, his bruised and battered body, he couldn't breathe, he couldn't stop coughing up more and more molten liquid that made his lungs feel like they were heavier than lead.
He couldn't understand, he tried to resist as Yukimura bent down and grabbed his hair and tugged on it to force Riser to face him but found no strength in his body.
"Wondering why your limbs are stiff and words can't leave you?"
The cold voice of the devil struck fear into Riser's soul as he keeled over and coughed some more, he felt his lungs getting torn apart as he kept coughing up more molten slag and iron fragments.
"You, see, I needed some way to keep you down despite your regeneration, now normally, when you regenerate your body would break down magical materials in its way and dispel them back into mana. That's basic regeneration 101."
He felt the hand on his head leave before a foot came crashing down on his head as his vision got blurrier and darker, he was drowning on land.
"But what if it was an actual physical material? Your body wouldn't be able to expel it so easily. So, as you were regenerating I used Ferrikinesis to force it to stay in your body. As your body regenerated the iron fragments stayed inside Normally, if you were more perceptive it wouldn't work but I'm not kind enough to monologue about how you could fix such a mistake."
Riser's consciousness kept flickering in and out, despite not being able to breathe his immortality would heal the brain damage and the damage to his lungs. Despite drowning he wouldn't die, but the lack of oxygen to his brain was making his consciousness blurrier and blurier. Even if he couldn't be killed, that didn't mean he couldn't black out and stay blacked out until he could breathe again.
"Thousands and thousands of iron fragments are in your body, in your bloodstream, your organs, your lungs. You will keep dying as the iron tears apart your lungs and veins, interrupting your vital functions constantly, even if it is melted by the extreme temperatures in your body and even if you regenerate there is no way for you to function with so much iron flowing through you no? You will keep suffocating and you cannot act against us either. Your entire peerage is wiped out and you cannot even move. You can't eliminate any of us like this either so you will lose to lack of points too when the timer ticks down."
Riser coughed up more iron and blood as he tilted his head up, tears and snot streaming down his face in fear to see.
"Which means..."
The face of a devil.
"It's a checkmate."
That was the last thing he heard before Riser Phenex finally blacked out and was whisked away by the teleportation magic.
< Riser Phenex was incapacitated. Checkmate. >
< Gamer over. Rias Gremory is the victor. >
Yuta Yukimura had won.
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Quest [Flames of Wrath] complete!
Rias Gremory's Peerage wins the Rating Game!
+1x Platinum Ability Gacha Ticket
Defeat more than half of Riser's Peerage Yourself!
Reward: 1x Platinum Trait Gacha Ticket
Personally defeat Riser Phenex with minimal help! (Near Perfect Bonus)
Reward: 1x Advantage Platinum Ability Gacha Ticket
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A/N: Riser gets his stomped in without landing even a scratch, Devil Trigger is strong. It is a high-demand transformation Epic-ranked ability with triple synergy. Yuta is absolutely insane with this power. The only thing he needs is higher reserves and levelling up Demon Scion and it will keep getting more insane. But at the same time, DxD will keep getting more and more insane. Let's see who gets more insane faster.
Also, I absolutely fouled Riser with this one, he got the most painful way to get eliminated out of all of my fics, choking to death with your lungs and veins filled with molten iron feels like a pretty yikes way to go. Anyways, did you guys enjoy the climax of the Riser arc? I hope I delivered.
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