True High School DxD

Volume 4 Prologue

Life 0

There are limits...the end even for miracles–

What are you going to do at that time–

Part 1

I, Hyoudou Issei, and my friends visited the [Lucifer Stadium] located at the former capital of the Underworld, Lucifaad. The reason being–

《Two teams collide in this [Lucifer Stadium]! The battle between team [Journey to the West] and team [Hakuryuukou of the Morning Star] is on fire!》

The announcer's voice resounded throughout the venue!

[Wow! Wooooooooah!]

Huge and excited cheering came from the audience.

Yes, we had come to watch the eighth match of the main game of the Rating Game World Tournament [Azazel Cup], the battle between Vali's team and team [Journey to the West]. In the dedicated VIP room, my friends, Rias and I watched the game with enthusiasm!

To me, as an equivalent Heavenly Dragon and as a rival I wanted to surpass, the game of my fateful arch-rival Vali was definitely an important thing to watch at all costs.

The monitor in the spectator room showed us what was currently happening on the Rating Game field. Vali's team and First Generation Sun Wukong's team battled in the massive aquatic battlefield, filled with numerous huge lotuses and lotus leaves. Team [Journey to the West] was related to Buddhism, which was related to the lotus flower, and it seemed like the battlefield reflected this.

Vali and Prince Nezha, the ace of [Journey to the West] with a youthful appearance, flew around the water surface field where huge lotus flowers bloomed in all directions.

Vali was of course his team's [King], and Prince Nezha was the other team's [Queen]. His clothes had a lotus-like design. Vali had already transformed into his silver and black coloured armour– Maoufication!

As Vali created a dense aura in his hand, he aimed at Prince Nezha and launched a huge amount of aura towards him. At the same time, a herd of Wyverns (Hakuryuukou version) floating around Vali also fired aura in response to their master's aura! The mixed white, silver and jet black aura was giving off a vivid glow. A single shot from each of the twelve Wyverns was even stronger and more intense than that of an average Devil.

Prince Nezha evaded the salvo attack from Vali, the Hakuryuukou, just by dancing in the air. After the aura bombardment got dodged, several especially large explosions occurred, shaking the entire field strongly. Regardless of that, Vali kept releasing aura attacks from his hand and rapid fire was launched by the twelve Wyverns at Prince Nezha.

Each shot had extremely ridiculous power, and even one was enough to defeat the strong people present there. In particular, the Wyverns flying around in the air attacked from all angles, so you just couldn't let your guard down. Numerous aura bombardments were also fired from completely blind spots. Although he released the same superb attack several times, none of them were able to hit Prince Nezha!

Prince Nezha then set his foot on a wheel-type divine weapon called Wind Fire Wheels, which created divine speed by blowing fire. While drawing arcs and helices in the air, he created fire tracks and dodged Vali's attacks. He was dodging so beautifully that the series of their offensive and defensive actions seemed like a dance performance.

Vali, being a battle veteran and a genius among geniuses, could see through the opponent's attacks or their habits to some extent after exchanging a few blows. Still, his attacks were not able to hit the opponent. I thought it was probably beyond his perception too at that point.