Underworld, capital Lilith.
"Tatsuma attacked MAR?!"
Hearing the sudden news, Sirzechs, who had been working overtime for a day, couldn't help but be stunned.
"Is the intelligence accurate? Is it possible that someone is impersonating Tatsuma and trying to frame him?"
Grayfia placed the parchment filled with text on the table and pointed to the row of text in the middle.
"It's highly likely to be true. This is the emergency communication just sent by the United States government."
"The time was five minutes ago. Tatsuma, leading the White Dragon Emperor Vali, the strongest esper Toichiro, and other members of Akatsuki, appeared near MAR."
"Immediately after arriving, the Akatsuki members began setting up a barrier and driving ordinary people away from the vicinity to prepare the battlefield."
"At that time, the holder of Unknown Dictator, Magnus Rose, was visiting MAR. Upon noticing Tatsuma's actions, he immediately tried to stop him."
"However, this attempt was unsuccessful. Magnus had no choice but to report this matter to the United States government and contact us through the government to stop Tatsuma."
"Incidentally, Tatsuma only gave Magnus nine minutes, and as of the moment I finish saying this sentence, there are still two minutes left."
"...Alright, I understand."
Sirzechs rubbed his forehead, feeling a bit of a headache.
If only Tatsuma had appeared alone, he could still consider the possibility of being framed. But since Toichiro and Vali and others also appeared, it couldn't be fake.
Taking a deep breath to calm his emotions, Sirzechs took out a magic tool that looked like a phone and made a cross-realm call to Tatsuma.
A few seconds later, Tatsuma's voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Hello, who is this?"
"It's me, Sirzechs."
"Oh, is there something you need?"
"I heard you are attacking MAR. This matter is..."
"It's true."
Before Sirzechs could finish speaking, Tatsuma's voice rang out first.
"I am currently in front of MAR. The barrier will be set up in 39 seconds."
"Tatsuma, don't be reckless."
Sirzechs advised, "I know you are very dissatisfied with Deva, but MAR has a very special position in the human world, with industries all over the world."
"Attacking MAR, even if you win, it will affect humans all over the world. This is already an act that touches the bottom line of all major forces."
Tatsuma let out a light chuckle. "So you mean, let me swallow my anger and pretend nothing happened when I was attacked by people from Deva and then had them poaching my people?"
"Sirzechs, I am not like you. I will not wrong myself for the sake of so-called peace."
"If you think this disrupts order, you can go ahead and declare me a Stray Devil and send some unpleasant guys to kill me."
"For Rias's sake, I won't retaliate against you, well... provided you send enough Devils for me to kill, otherwise it's hard to say."
"Tatsuma, stop joking, you..."
"Time's up, I should prepare to make my move."
Just as Sirzechs was about to say something else, a click sounded.
Looking at the call that had been hung up, Sirzechs felt his blood pressure rise a bit.
Why is he so stubborn?
It wouldn't kill him to listen to him say a few more words.
Grayfia asked, "What should we do? Should we declare Tatsuma a Stray Devil and cut ties with him?"
"No, absolutely not."
Sirzechs shook his head and refused immediately.
Not to mention that doing so would make Rias's situation very awkward, more importantly, it was Tatsuma's potential. In two months, from an ordinary person to a transcendent, Tatsuma had already fully proven his potential with his fists.
"Tatsuma is the hope for the future of the Devils, and also the key for this world to move towards peace."
"If we make a wrong judgment, remove the restraints on him, and push him towards the terrorist side, the situation will completely spiral out of control."
Grayfia asked, "Then what are you going to do?"
"...Issue a public announcement to all forces in the world, stating that last night, the remnants of Deva, in conjunction with the Khaos Brigade, Hexennacht, Hueco Mundo, and other forces, attacked Kuoh Town, attempting to disrupt the Three Factions Conference."
Sirzechs was silent for a moment, then gave a solution that wasn't really a solution, which was to falsify the culprit.
Changing the main instigator of the attack on the Three Factions Conference from the Khaos Brigade to Deva, who also participated in the attack. This way, the Bible mythology would have a legitimate reason to launch a counterattack.
However, other mythological forces were not fools and would definitely see through the trick.
"Sigh, I'm going to be busy again."
Just as Sirzechs was silently sighing and cleaning up after Tatsuma—
In the center of Los Angeles, Tatsuma hung up and looked at the man in front of him.
"It's a pity, this childish trick of telling on me to your parents is useless against me."
As Balance Breaker activated, a bright red armor appeared on his body, and Tatsuma's aura surged up a notch.
"Are you going to tuck your tail and run away like last time? For the sake of your status, I can spare your life."
"Stop joking! You bastard!"
Magnus's eyes widened in anger, and his aura began to rise steadily.
Last time Tatsuma attacked Claw, he could overlook it because Claw was a terrorist organization.
But this time, Tatsuma was attacking MAR, the United States' largest military company on the surface. This was no longer a matter of attitude, but a fundamental matter of stance. No matter how much he valued his life, it was impossible for him to run away.
"Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you're strong! Let me show you the crystallization of human wisdom!"
Magnus activated his Balance Breaker, and a set of black mechanical armor appeared on his body.
At the same time, faint spatial ripples appeared behind him, and hundreds of thousands of guns emerged. Under Magnus's control, these firearms formed a formation, aiming their muzzles at Tatsuma and launching an attack.
At the same time, Tatsuma raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
Hundreds of magic formations instantly formed, unleashing endless flames that collided with the barrage of bullets.
However, just then, something unexpected happened to Tatsuma.
The bullets shot by Magnus ignored the flames and passed through the sea of fire to reach him. After that, these bullets landed on the Balance Breaker armor, leaving a large number of dents and cracks.
"Interesting."
Tatsuma didn't care about the damage to the armor, but instead reached out and grabbed one of the bullets to examine it. Unlike ordinary steel, these bullets were black and had red runes carved on their surface.
Tatsuma had an impression of these red runes, they were characters from Northern Europe Magic.
When he was learning magic from Le Fay before, she had mentioned the Rune Magic of Northern Europe.
Based on characters, the original Rune Magic is one of the strongest magics in the world today. Under the same level of magic power, the power of Rune Magic is three times that of ordinary Magic.
However, correspondingly, the difficulty of learning Rune Magic is also very high, and ordinary people cannot understand it at all.
"Material that can ignore magic power, and bullets engraved with runes..."
After analyzing the composition of the bullet, Tatsuma chuckled lightly and looked at Magnus. "Are you sure this is the crystallization of human wisdom? This thing should have used Deva's technology."
"I'm not so foolish as to reveal my trump card to the enemy."
Magnus snorted coldly and summoned more firearms for suppressive fire.
At the same time, a roaring sound rang out, and three steel giants broke through the ground and flew out from underground. Like the bullets, these steel giants were also made of black steel and had a large number of runes carved on their surface.
As soon as they appeared, these three steel giants appeared in front of Tatsuma with a speed that did not match their size, swinging their giant fists and smashing down.
However, just at that moment, a cold light flashed.
Surging demonic power mixed with raging flames severed and blasted away the bodies of these three steel giants.
"Tsk, as expected, it's not that simple."
Magnus erupted with a massive magical power, pushing the Unknown Dictator to its limit.
Under the effect of the Unknown Dictator, the three steel giants that had just been severed turned into liquid and covered him. In just a few seconds, these liquids transformed into a hundred-meter-tall Gundam, appearing before Tatsuma.
"It's quite cool." Tatsuma sized up the Gundam thoughtfully.
To be honest, Magnus's strength wasn't particularly great. Tatsuma was confident he could take him down within ten moves in a head-on confrontation.
However, adding these liquid metals inscribed with runes, that was another matter entirely.
Magic resistance, fusion regeneration, plus the characteristics of penetration, sturdiness, etc, bestowed by the runes.
With the help of the Unknown Dictator, these liquid metals brought Magnus power far exceeding his own.
More importantly, Tatsuma could sense that these metals were analyzing and deciphering his energy to adapt. If the adaptation was completed, the defense level of these liquid metals against him would increase by another level.