It did not take too long until the weapon was complete, revealing a product that had the designs of the two spears merged perfectly and from what I could tell, the required abilities as well.
Now I just needed a target and a spot to get all those hounds together.
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"You guys stand your ground and get ready! I am about to do some major spring cleaning!" I shouted as I slammed my fist into the ground, creating huge walls of steel blades that protrude from the ground and cut off the majority of the horde, ensuring that the others were protected. Once that was settled, I kicked off the next part of the plan by running into the horde and towards the open courtyard.
"Dude, are you nuts?!" Ise called out with his eyes as wide as dinner plates. "You are going to get your ass eaten out there!"
"Trust me!" I ran through the horde with [Aegis Type 2] deployed around me to ensure the hounds were forced back and swords flying around me to kill off those that got too close. As I neared the point I needed to get to, I used the spear to pierce one of the creatures, using the latent ability of aura absorption to sample the creature's prana and blood. The spear started to glow a deep red while vibrating wildly and I could feel the second ability acting up as the spear released the same type of energy that came from Rias's ability.
"Everyone hang on to something!" I raised the spear in one hand as I bend my legs in an awkward angle, then with a loud yell I twisted my body to throw the spear high into the air before calling forth a wall of steel around me and a particular long chain to anchor myself to. Through the open at the top, I watched the spear continued its trajectory before hovering in the air, then with a huge pulse of energy, the dark aura around it started to swirl and the ground around me started to get disturbed with the debris and bodies starting to come off the ground.
"What is happening?!" Ise yelled as he held on to Asia and maintained a firm grip on some iron rods that stuck out of the building.
"My solution to deal with the hounds!" I yelled as the hounds let out defying roars as they attempted to move away from the growing orb of darkness that was sucking them in. Their attempts were futile as one by one, the hounds got picked off the ground and sent hurtling towards the orb, their bodies smashing into one another and them trying to push themselves away by using one another as a stepping board.
"Whoa! Too much suction over here!" Tsubasa yelled as she used her body to buffer the others while hanging on to the wrecked pillars next to her. I looked around me, noting their positions and their struggles in getting a firm hold with the ground. With a fist slammed into the ground, multiple links of [Prometheus Chains] erupted from the group and wrapped themselves around them, anchoring them to the ground and leaving them free to take down any hounds that attempted to get close to them or flee the area. Thankfully they did not have to deal with them much, and so we treated ourselves to the sight of the hounds getting sucked up into the big ball of darkness, some of which got a bit of a front row seat to watching the creatures dissolving in a rather horrific fashion where half of their heads were removed to reveal the skulls and portions of the brain.
It took a while but soon the entire legion was sucked up into the black hole, displaying a particularly disturbing scene of a huge ball of mangled bodies slowly disintegrating as some of those that were still breathing tried their hardest to move only to get sucked into the vortex. It was so disturbing that some of the other combatants from the enemy's side balked at the sight.
Best to put them out of their misery.
I brought out my bow and [Hrunting] and took a good look at those creatures, remembering the last time they gave me this much trouble, before I notched the projectile and pulled the string. I held the tension for a bit, then I released the arrow and let it fly to the hounds.
"BOOM!"
It was quite a sight to see the ball of flesh erupt into flames and it was utterly terrifying to hear the sounds of the hounds roaring in pain as their flesh started to burn from the flames while getting disintegrated at the same time. The ball started to get smaller as the flames killed the outer most creatures first, letting their corpses get sucked into the vortex of darkness. Before long the ball of dire and darkness compressed on it, sending charred pieces of bones and flesh scattering all over the floor.
Well at least that was done. I could tell that my reserves were getting low and I hoped that things were more or less over with. Then again, I could not count too much on my E-Rank Luck. I dismissed my projections and made my way back to the others, pausing every now and then to make sure I did not miss any one of those hounds.
"Well, that was a thing." Azazel remarked as I finally got to them, with the others just arriving as well.
"Is everyone alright?" I asked while noting the states of some of the others.
"We are okay, although we have some heavily injured." Sona commented while looking at Saji and a couple of others who were sporting deep wounds. One of whom I took note seriously.
"Mitelt, your arm?" I pointed at the Fallen Angel's arm that sported a deep gash and revealed a bit of bone.
"I got hit by one of those things." She grimaced as she cradled it. "At least it did not bite me or use that creepy tongue on me, so I should be fine." That was good, from what little I could tell and sense, none of them got attack with its tongue, and that would mean the hounds were all truly dead.
"I will start healing, please make space." Asia said as she brought her hands together and the rings on her hand started to glow a light green. Those hurt badly were brought to her and we made some room for her to work her magic.
"Still, those creatures were odd, they kept multiplying no matter how many times we took them out." Sirzechs mentioned as we looked at Asia healing the injured group.
"Indeed, I must admit, such a creature has never been heard of. Immortality through numbers, a rather frightening concept." Michael spoke as his fellow angel stood next to him looking nothing worse for wear.
"I believe our companion here has encountered this creature before?" Sirzechs turned to me with a cursory glance, while Grayfia was not bothering to hide her hostility against me. Tough crowd.
"Yes, although the hounds seemed to be altered in some manner. I do not recall their ability to divide to be this quick." I answered his question. "Granted the last time I fought it, it was a few years back, and it was fewer numbers, so perhaps the reason for the earlier numbers may have been due to the attackers who were outside. They may have tried to attack them only to be consumed themselves."
"Sucks to be them." Azazel commented with a slightly off-hand manner that rubbed me wrongly, but I reigned in on my temper and focused on the situation. I knew that he probably meant nothing by it, but the way he commented set off some alarms.
"Well, I guess we got everyone right?" Ise asked while looking around him. "I mean we got the magicians after us, Azazel dealt with one of the leaders, and Shirou killed off a bunch of monsters. It is over, right?"
I was about to reply when my highly tuned battle senses went off like fire. My body moved on instinct and I found myself barely avoiding a kick to my abdomen as I swerved, but unfortunately, I did not anticipate the aftershock that came after which threw me off my feet and sent me crashing through a wall and free-falling towards the ground. With a curse, I quickly projected a chain to slow my descent enough to twist in the air and land on the ground.
"Shirou!" Ise called out from the wrecked room. "You still alive?!"
"Yeah!" I called out while wincing lightly from the pain. I was seriously getting too old for this bullshit happening all around me, but unfortunately, I was not given a reprieve as the glowing form of [Divine Dividing] appeared before me.
"Time for our rematch." With that, Vali swung hard with his armored fist. There was only one thought that went through my mind as the gauntlet came closer.
'I really hate my E-Rank Luck.'
'BOOVM!'
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