Based on the information they had received, the attack on Kuoh Academy was expected around this time. Sona Sitri led all her peerage members in channeling demonic power into the barrier to maintain its stability.
Boom! A strange light lit up over Kuoh Academy's athletic field, accompanied by a tremor in the ground.
"What happened?" Everyone was startled by the strange shaking.
"It's coming from the athletic field!" A massive surge of demonic power came from that direction, along with the rotating glow of a golden magic circle. Its power made the demons deeply uneasy.
"Let's go take a look!" Rias said with a grave expression, and everyone hurried toward the athletic field.
When they arrived, they saw an old man dressed in an archbishop's robes standing on the track at the center of the field, laughing wildly. "Hahaha...! My research... my research has finally succeeded!"
Four golden magic circles had appeared on the ground, each with a Holy Sword floating above it. Streams of golden patterns continuously fused together, seemingly drawing out the Holy Swords' power and gathering it through the patterns into the magic circle in midair.
Before long, all four Holy Swords floating above the magic circles vanished. The magic circle in the sky shone, and a new Holy Sword appeared. The aura it gave off was more powerful than any of the previous four.
The magic circle released a pillar of golden light into the sky as the Holy Sword fell to the ground. The golden magic circle gradually sank into the earth.
Then, a huge teleportation circle appeared in the sky—the kind of Void Channel used by Fallen Angels. More than a dozen Fallen Angels flew out of it.
Next, something enormous, like a towering spire, emerged from the Void Channel. Once it had fully