"Allow me to illuminate you: your little fight with Kokabiel was broadcasted to a lot of people both inside and outside of the Three Factions, and there are quite a few groups who are wondering which cabal you are from.
After all, there aren't that many magicians who fight close-combat or practice such unique spells, and certainly no one else who could combine the Excalibur Shards and take on a Higher Being from the Bible."
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I could not respond to those words as my mind was now racing at a high rate to comprehend my situation. This was really bad for me; I should be laying low and out of sight, not broadcast my abilities to everyone who would be trying to kill me in this world. Not to mention the possibility of mages having the same mentality as the ones back at the Clock Tower.
Crud.
"Now that the confusion is out of the way..." Vali stepped forward with his wings glowing brightly. "Move Georg."
"I will have to decline." The magus slowly raised his arms as magic circles appeared around us and the space around my right started to distort. "As a fellow magician and as a Hero of our faction, I will not stand aside and watch a potential die."
Whatever reasons they have, just as long as they were distracted with one another, I would just make my way out then…
'CRASWQA!'
"Oh no you don't, Shirou Emiya." Vali looked at me with a smirk as the ground before me crumbled heavily. "You will not be getting away so easily."
Great.
"Mister Emiya, this is less than ideal for us to meet, but hopefully you are open to my idea of working together to push Vali back." Georg adjusted his spectacles again as he looked at me. "I have a proposition to make to you and I would prefer that you are alive for that."
"…" I looked at him with narrowed eyes before looking back at Vali. This was not in my favor but I would have no choice but to agree to this arrangement, at the very least I would see how these two would fight for future reference. I just need to keep mine to a bare minimum.
"I don't suppose you can limit the damage to the area?" I asked as I prepped both [Hell's Trident] and my mental trigger, remembering how this guy made Vali's attacks disappear.
"I think I can do something." Georg gave a confident smile as he raised his arms.
"Don't hold back too much on my account." Vali said as his wings started to expand and glow brightly. "This is going to be a good fight." With that, he flew forward to deliver several punches at me and Georg with a few magic circles appearing behind him. I barely blocked his attack with my swords while Georg seemed to teleport out of his reach before attacking Vali with his set of spells. I observed his fighting style while dealing with Vali's attacks and they were certainly interesting in my opinion. He used layers upon layers of defensive spells to deal with his physical attacks, and then he used that weird ability to open up portals to deal with those that got past his shields.
My thoughts got rudely interrupted as Vali vanished from his spot and reappeared behind me, forcing me to duck under the spinning kick he delivered and to make some distance away from him. I was hoping to limit my attacks, but this guy was not letting up.
"Bring into my hands, [Married Spear Custom]. " I called out multiple copies of the twin spears and started to stab the area around us, ensuring they alternated with one another. Not an easy task considering Vali was really doing his hardest to hit me.
"Break, [Claíomh Solais]!" I called out the Noble Phantasm and detonated it to temporarily blind Vali and hopefully alert the others of my position. Using the distraction I created [Thunder Custom] and threw in the center of the circle I made with the spears. "Move Georg!" The magus needed no more motivation and quickly teleported outside of the circle, leaving me to activate the spear and start charging the others around us.
"Let's do this." I threw several charms that attached themselves to some of the surrounding spears before jumping out and touching the nearest spear. "Rip the tongues from liars, the innards from the greedy and the souls from sinners. Take down the enemy and send him into Hell. Destructive Art Number 10: Thunder Palace!" The thunder spear immediately glowed and let loose a torrent of electricity that hit and surrounded the other spears, making glow brightly while increasing the voltage levels to new heights while creating a wall of lightning to stop Vali from leaving the cage. The white spear versions started to vibrate and dislodged themselves from the ground, levitating high into the air before they started rotating and spinning in the air, creating a ball of plasma in the center and send it crashing to the ground, creating a huge fireball that was barely held back by the wall.
Now let's see how his gear worked.
[Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide!]
Again, that weird announcement followed by the diminishing Prana levels that reduced the power of the attack from something that could destroy whole cities to one that would only power an electric kettle. The wall of fire and lightning diminished greatly to reveal Vali in slightly burnt clothes and now spotting several burns and broken skin.
"That was certainly new." Vali panted as he dusted off some of the soot off his clothes. "A little different from Kokabiel's but clearly an original spell."
"Indeed, and to use it together with [Hell's Trident] is certainly something to learn." Georg gave his opinion as he appeared from wherever he came from. "I now have some ideas for my own use."
Great, just what I needed. But at least I now got some idea as to what their abilities were firsthand. Vali's [Divine Dividing] worked along the lines of halving the powers and size of attacks, while Georg's Sacred Gear suggested the creation of the dimensions or at least opening a path to another dimension.
Seriously, what was the Christian God thinking, creating a gear that has the power of freaking Zelretch in it?! If word got out of this back in my world, the magus all over the world would tear everyone's limbs apart just to get it.
"Now then." Vali widened his wings even more. "I think we have enough of a warm-up. Bring out the Excalibur and let's get it on." I was about to try something when a pulse of energy made me look to the side a little, making me smile a little as I recognized the energy.
"That would be the idea I suppose." I paused as I let down my arms much to their confusion. "But it seems the bystanders have something else in mind." It only took them a moment to realize what I meant before several fireballs slammed into the ground before us, separating us from one another.
"Emiya-kun!" I turned to find Reya, Sona and the others rushing to my side, their eyes hardening at the sight of Vali and Georg. In no time they got in front of me and readied their spells and weapons.
"Why are you here Lord Vali? The meeting is not ready for a few more days." Sona asked with an authoritative tone. "And who are you?" She turned to Georg who merely bowed lightly at her.
"My name is Georg, a fellow magician who wished to extend an invitation to Mister Emiya." He said while extending an arm to me. "However, I found this rude fellow trying to attack him and so intervened otherwise."
"Very fluent with your words, Georg." Vali said without bothering to hide his intentions. "But I doubt that you were going to invite him in a civil manner?"
"At least it would be a more civilized manner compared to your approach." Georg spoke back without missing a beat. "But alas, it seems that my mission is being hindered by many 'unnecessary factors'." He said while looking at the girls with narrowed eyes before directing them at me. "I shall have to take my leave, but you may expect me in the near future with an invitation at hand." With that, a line of light appeared behind him and widened to reveal some dark portal to which he stepped inside and just as quickly it closed before we could stop him.
"Well, he is gone." Vali looked back to us. "Now what to do?"
"You do realize that if you wish to continue your aggressions, we would take it that you are invading our territory and attacking on of our allies." Sona said while the others gripped their weapons and their prana levels started to rise.
"Oh, I was just interested in our mutual friend here, after all he is becoming quite a celebrity to a lot of people, and I for one wanted to meet him in person." Vali replied with a shrug.
"Considering the amount of murder you attempted, I doubt that is your reason." I snorted loudly much to some of the other's amusement. "You just want to have a good fight don't you?"
"Oh~" The playful smirk was now back on his face. "You know me so well. Perhaps we can get to know each other better over a cup of coffee?"
"Thanks, but I don't swing that way pal." I could not help the flat tone in my voice nor could I help the raised eyebrow as Reya and Meguri stood a little closer to me with their eyes looking very deadly.
"Shame, but at least we get to have a little spar between us." Vali said as a magic circle appeared by his feet. "As much I would like to continue our fight, she is right. I can't continue being the aggressor. Until we meet again." With that, he disappeared in a bright flash of light, leaving us in the middle of the street and with one question in our minds.
What the hell was going to happen?
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