The Rising of the Hero King

Marion, Burent, and Shuriya were advancing toward the town hall through the forest. It was the longest road but also the safest path as it was away from the main sections of the town. Well, that's what they thought,

"Are you girls lost?" Hearing the voice they stopped and looked up to see Battousai standing on top of a high tree branch.

"Girls, let's take care of him fast," Marion commanded but before they could even move, he was already behind them wielding a normal looking katana which had too many engravings in its blade.

"I guess not." Battousai finished his sentence with a sigh.

"What are …" And then one by one all three of them fell.

"Three of Riser-sama's pawn have retired."

Battousai sighed, "Haruto-dono made the right choice by not calling him to this squabble."

Suddenly the smell of fire hit him and he looked up to see huge fireballs were coming right at him, and there were lots of them.

And in a second the whole forest was on fire.

Ravel Phenex had entered the battle.

Meanwhile,

Shukaku was solely focused on his opponents as he was against one rook and three pawns altogether. They were in a big empty stable of some sort. He had to admit the rook knew Chinese Kung Fu well but she was too predictable and so were the three pawns.

"You bastard! Take us seriously!" The rook shouted.

"You are right, I should finish this fast," Shukaku replied modestly.

The moment the rook came with a frontal kick, he sidestepped at the last minute and karate chopped her neck, hard. Immediately he dodged the two chainsaw lolis and Karate chopped them as well.

"Xuelan, Ile, Nel." But to her surprise, her opponent wasn't there and before she could look for him, her consciousness left her.

"One of Riser-sama's rooks and three of his pawns have retired."

"Well, that takes care of ..."

And then multiple huge explosions occurred, completely obliterating the stable.

The bomb queen had entered the battle.

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The disappointments from the devils were soon replaced with admiration and awe, seeing the raw power from Haruto's members and clever tactics from Riser's ones.

"Did you see those knights' moves?" Issei asked Kiba.

"The one on the stable, barely but for the katana-wielder, no, I couldn't, he was too fast," Kiba replied in shock.

"Yes but too bad they were ambushed immediately," Issei said with a dejected tone, his eyes not moving from the screen.

"Rias," Sona was worried but was surprised when she saw her smiling.

"There was no announcement."

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Sakura and Haku were surrounded by almost all the remaining members.

"Two pawns, two knights, one rook and one bishop." Haku looked around.

"You are forgetting about us." Ravel and Yubelluna joined from the sky.

"So how do you want to approach this, Haku-san?" Sakura asked.

"Surrender now, it is eight against two." Ravel chuckled.

"No, it's four against eight." Shukaku came from the side, completely unharmed.

"How?" Yubelluna was surprised and immediately put her guard up, so did Ravel.

"There was no announcement. Small it may be, but as a seasoned fighter you are supposed to notice something important like that." Battousai came, Ravel was surprised to see he was surrounded by a white flame which disappeared when he snapped his fingers.

"We have to clean up fast," Shukaku said and seeing Haku opening his mouth, he added, "No point calling Haruto since he is busy teaching the newcomer."

"So how do we do this?" Shukaku asked as he looked at his comrades.

"You are all going down." With that, the bomb queen pointed her staff at Shukaku, while Ravel threw huge fire magic at Sakura and Haku. The rest of Riser's members went after Battousai.

"Guess they chose." Shukaku pointed out as he easily dodged the explosion.

Battousai disappeared from where he was and appeared near Haku who had a huge ice shield in front of him and Sakura to block the incoming fire spells.

Ravel smirked, "Fire and ice and we are both bishops. Also, you are quite good looking too. This will be fun."

Her words made all three of Haruto's peerages look at her amusingly.

"Was that a proposal?"

"That sounded like a proposal."

"Definitely a proposal."

Ravel blushed and stuttered, "Th-That was not a p-proposal! I w-was just complimenting."

"Tsundere?"

"Seems like it."

"Definitely Tsundere."

Ravel blushed furiously and screamed, "How d-dare you insult me?"

"Haku-dono, I think you should take her," Battousai suggested, making Haku sigh and approach the girl with caution.

Sakura looked at the angry six girls who were ready to pounce on her and the swordsman. Then she looked at the reluctant knight, "If you reduce their numbers, I can take care of the rest."

Battousai touched the tip of his hat and nodded before vanishing once again.

Thud

Thud

"One of Riser-sama's rooks and one of his bishops have retired."

Battousai appeared beside Sakura again holding that unique looking katana, "There you go Sakura-dono, hope this helps."

Sakura nodded. She could see that the rest of the girls were frightened and were extremely cautious. Sighing, she raised her arm out and said softly, "I summon ye, Celty and Rachnera."

Two magic circles appeared in front of him and from there two girls appeared. But,

One was a young woman with short purple hair but what was standing out the most was the lower half of her body which was that of a giant spider adorned with a large skull design on its back. She also had six pupil-less, monochromatic red eyes and her teeth are all fangs. Still, her attire was quite attractive and her face was somewhat similar to her summoner.

The other girl was wearing a tight biker girl costume which was really complimenting her figure. And also she had the jacket chain down a bit showing a nice amount of cleavage. But her face was hidden since she was wearing a yellow helmet which had cat-like ears.

"Girls, I need help." Sakura said in a serious voice, "Celty, can you take the brown haired girl and the one with the giant sword. Rachnera, I think the twins won't give you much trouble."

Celty, the biker girl, nodded her head and took out a scythe out of nowhere and dashed toward her opponents.

"You had a fun week with the master, didn't you?" Sakura didn't say anything but her face flushed a bit.

Chuckling, the Arachnoid lazily went to her opponents who became scared seeing the intimidating girl.

The fights didn't last long.

The fastest one was Rachnera who caught the twins, Ni and Li, in a matter of seconds with her threads and then neck-chopped them which made them go unconscious. Not before having some light bondage play with them, and this really turned on some of the male as well as few female audiences.

Siris and Karlamine were having a really hard time against their opponent. The girl they were fighting was beyond agile and she was exceptionally skilled with her scythe. Siris went for a wide swipe but her opponent kicked her in the stomach and then delivered a roundhouse kick which hit square at her head, knocking her unconscious.

Karlamine stopped and shouted for her friend but that was her downfall. Celty crouched down and made a swipe with her scythe, knocking the other knight down and immediately she followed up with a few consecutive strikes from her scythe though she hit Karlamine with the end of the scythe handle.

"Riser-sama's two Knights and the last of his pawns have retired."

Rachnera smirked at Celty, "You got better."

The biker girl rubbed the back of her helmet at that compliment.

"Good job girls." Sakura smiled.

"So, when are we going to have a private party with our master again?" Rachnera asked with a smirk, even Celty turned toward Sakura and her body language clearly showed she was excited as well.

Sakura just sighed.