Become a powerful shadow master in the new world

"Looks like one of my followers?"

Rias frowned slightly and began to think about the hint Sirzechs had given her.

Akeno?

The first person Rias thought of was her queen, but she then shook her head to deny the idea.

Whether it's fighting style, personality, or identity, Himejima Akeno has nothing in common with Claire, and the same goes for Koneko.

After thinking about it, it seems that the only person who fits the description is Yuto Kiba. Both of them are swordsmen, but this is not worth the effort of one of the four rulers of the underworld, not to mention that these two people only have this one thing in common, and they are not similar at all.

After thinking it over and comparing her four followers, Rias still couldn't figure out why her brother went to such great lengths, or...

"Yes, is it Akeno? Is Claire wanted for bloodline issues like Akeno?"

Rias hesitantly said Himejima Akeno's name and stared at Sirzechs closely, wondering if her answer was correct.

"Hahaha... you're half right, Rias."

The voice gradually became louder, and Sirzechs smiled and shook his head, giving a negative answer.

"If it's not Akeno, then could it be Yuto?"

Rias wanted to take this opportunity to get the truth out of him.

"Okay, Rias, stop blasting me. I won't tell anyone. This is for your own good."

"I understand, Your Highness Lucifer."

After receiving a definitive answer from her brother, Rias's voice lowered and became a little distant.

Seeing his sister so depressed all of a sudden, and calling him by such an unfamiliar name, Sirzechs became a little anxious. Just as he was about to say something, he noticed the cunning flash in Rias' eyes.

Realizing that he had been fooled, Sirzechs did not know whether to laugh or cry. After thinking for a while, he gave a little more assurance.

"Okay, okay, Rias, I'll reveal a little more to you."

Hearing her brother change his words, the frustration on Rias's face disappeared, and she raised her head instantly for fear of revealing any details of what her brother said.

"Ahem, I promise you, Rias, if Claire is really willing to help you, then you will definitely win the battle against Raiser in three days."

Rias listened to the so-called hint word for word, but she was unable to react for a while, as if her brain had not yet processed the information.

That's right. What bothers Rias the most right now is the ranking game between her and Raiser. If someone suddenly says there is a way to definitely win, she would be a fool.

"Brother, you are not kidding."

When Rias came to her senses, her first reaction was that Sirzechs was joking. This was not impossible, on the contrary, it was very likely.

It is possible that Sirzechs saw that their morale was low, so he told them a white lie in order to help boost their morale and allow them to seize the opportunity in these few days to improve their coordination with Claire.

In response to Rias's disbelief, Sirzechs just gave her a mysterious smile. It seemed that he said nothing, but in fact he said everything.

"But...how is this possible?"

Even though Sirzechs said he wasn't lying, Rias still couldn't believe it.

She was the one who arranged the battle plan, and she knew the difficulties of this battle very well.

According to the information revealed to her by her brother, driven by the war, Lessar's strength had just broken through not long ago, and now he can be said to be among the top young generations in the underworld.

He already had A+ strength a year ago, and now he has made a breakthrough. Taking into account the difficulty of the immortal body brought by the phoenix bloodline, there is a high probability that he has reached S level, which can be called the highest-level demon.

On her side, besides herself who is an A+ level, there is only Akeno who is an A level. Even if she can persuade Akeno to take out the other power she is not using, Akeno will most likely only be an A+ level and will not be able to undergo a qualitative change.

And if we count the newly joined Claire, there are only three A+ level ones on their side.

With this lineup, even if they only face Raiser alone, there is a high probability of failure, not to mention that Raiser's followers are full, and it is simply unrealistic to fight against Raiser alone.

In her estimation, it would be best to kill all of Raiser's followers without losing anyone, and then team up with Akeno and the others to beat Raiser, so that they could win.

This is just a possibility. After all, immortality greatly increases the tolerance rate. If it were an ordinary S-level, she wouldn't have to worry so much.

If I tell her now that Claire can easily defeat Lesser if she wants to, how can she believe it?

"Could it be..."

Rias seemed to have suddenly thought of something and spoke tentatively.

"Claire has a divine weapon on her?"

"No."

Chapter 57: Personality Issues

Rias was stunned by the negative response from her brother. In her impression, only a divine weapon could allow Claire to fight across so many levels and still be sure of victory.

"Okay, Rias, is there anything else you want to tell me?

Let me make it clear in advance that even if you continue to act pitiful and try to find out anything about Claire from me, I won't tell you. This is for your own good.

As long as you can become friends with her, I believe she will tell you, or do you have no confidence in yourself?"

Rias, who had originally wanted to try to find out more information, gave up her little thoughts after hearing the second half of Sirzechs's words, and instead raised her head proudly and spoke.

"They are not friends, they are family. As long as they are my relatives, I will treat them as my family.

I can see that Claire, the older sister of the Kageno siblings, is still a little wary and cautious of me. In fact, the reason she is willing to become my dependent is because of her younger brother Sid.

But I believe that as time goes by, she will feel my feelings and treat me as her family from the bottom of her heart."

The high-pitched voice allows people to clearly feel the emotions contained in the voice, as if it is saying the confidence that something is a matter of course, and the determination to win.

"Well said, you are worthy of being the princess of our Gremory family, my sister. Unlike some other demons, you completely ignored the original intention of Ajeka to create demon chess pieces."

After listening to Rias's speech, Sirzechs nodded repeatedly to show his approval.

As one of the four great demons in the underworld and the leader of the demons, Sirzechs' most troublesome problem is how to change the current demons' views on demon pawns.

His friend and rival, Ajeka, who inherited the name of Beelzebub, is a world-class sorcerer and the creator and maker of the devil's chess pieces.

There is no need to explain how valuable the things created by a person of this level are. The fact that the race can be changed without any side effects alone is enough to be called a treasure.

However, even though it is such a precious thing, some demons in the underworld use it as a chess piece to recruit servants for themselves, similar to a slavery contract.

He simply wanted to slap in the face all the demons who had this idea, and tell them that this was developed to overcome the racial crisis, not to satisfy their selfish desires.

It’s okay to forcibly turn the other person into a dependent without their permission, after all, feelings can be cultivated later.

But some demons actually treat their own followers as their own, and abuse them at every turn to vent their anger.

Do you really treat the devil's chess piece as a slave contract?

You know, the demon chess pieces don't have a similar mechanism where the superior can force orders on the inferiors.

In other words, if a demon abuses his followers too much, his followers will choose to betray him and become wandering demons, and then they will kill their master.

Although the betrayed follower will be hunted down and killed later, before that, the demon betrayed by his own followers has most likely died in a sneak attack. After all... you only have one life.

However, even though they know that their actions may cause their followers to betray them, and that many of them have killed their masters and become wandering demons, most of the demons still do not take it seriously and abuse their followers, using them to take bullets for them.

In their words, they are noble pure-blooded demons. It is an honor for humans to have a human as their follower. If someone dares to betray them, they will just be killed and replaced by someone else. Some humans envy the power and lifespan of demons.

Hard, the fist is hard, such stupid words really make Sirzechs angry just by hearing them.

After much difficulty, we found a bug in the World Battlefield. We could use the devil's chess pieces to exploit the loophole in the rules of the World Battlefield's combat power balance to repel the invasion from another world. But, it turned out that this group of stupid devils were enemies of the world.

The only thing that could make Sirzechs feel fortunate was that the other mythological forces were no better than the others. Except for a few forces that were originally close to humans, the new generations of most of the forces also had more or less some arrogance of higher life forms towards humans.

If everyone slows down together, it means no one is slowing down.

Although this situation cannot last long due to the pressure brought by the invasion of the alien world, other forces will inevitably promote the progress of the ranking game. All they can do is try to become stronger faster than other forces.

Well... originally, the demons, as the source of chess pieces, had more advantages than other forces. After all, the chess pieces used by other forces were all variant chess pieces developed based on the demon chess pieces. They took a shorter time to accept them and were not as well understood by them as the demons were. Now they have simply wasted their original advantages.

Before the fusion of the worlds, demon chess pieces had already become popular in the underworld. The demons at that time viewed their followers the same way as they do now, using them as servants.

But they were not in a hurry at that time. They felt that as time passed and they suffered a few setbacks, the new generation of demons would understand the true purpose of the demon chess pieces and would let go of their views on the demon chess pieces. There was nothing wrong with that.

But now, as the ability of the demon chess pieces to exploit bugs in the world battlefield has been taken seriously by all forces, the introduction of ranking games has been rolled up along with it. The backlash caused by their early indulgence has come. Given the current views of most demons on the demon chess pieces, there is a high possibility that the forcibly recruited followers will betray them.

The new generations of other forces are somewhat arrogant towards humans, but once this has been emphasized at the beginning, they will be more restrained.

So after seeing Rias's performance, he expressed his approval of Rias, because in his mind it would be best to correct the values ​​of most demons as soon as possible through the example of the younger generation of the underworld, including Rias.

Hearing Sirzechs' praise, Rias responded modestly.

"It's nothing, brother, isn't this the philosophy that our Jimon family has always believed in? I'm just doing what you have been teaching me, but..."

At this point, Rias's expression began to become strange, as if she didn't know what to say.

"Just what? Just tell me, Rias. As your elder brother, I can still give you some experience from an elder."

Seeing Sirzechs' attitude, Rias sighed and told him what she was worried about.

"It's just that I can't quite understand Claire's brother, Sid."

Although he and Claire had only known each other for two days, they didn't know each other well enough, but at least they could see the general characteristics of each other.

As for Claire's brother Sid, Rias roughly summarized the information she had obtained from spending a few hours with him, as well as the image of Sid as described by Claire, in an attempt to infer what kind of person Sid was and how to build a good relationship with him.

After some summary, she found that Sid seemed to have some problems with his character.

Chapter 58 The value of the world's top five

Sid Kageno might have a problem with his personality, and a big problem. This is the answer Rias came to after spending time with Sid.

Just a few hours of interaction would not allow Rias to see a person's true nature, but she was still confident that she could get a rough idea... until she met Sid.

At the beginning, Rias didn't think there was anything wrong with Sid. Her general impression of Sid was that he was a cute little brother with average strength and talent, a little inferiority complex, easily excited, and who attached great importance to the relationship with his sister.

Although there seem to be a lot of problems, she doesn't think these are problems and they can be solved by spending some time on psychological counseling.

The cause of the problem was still the request that Claire made to her. After all, Sid had already occupied a position in her chess piece. If any special rules were drawn in the ranking game, it would not be up to her to decide whether Sid would play or not.

Unless Sid is asked to go up and surrender, he will have to go up when the time comes.

However, most of the ways to decide the winners that come with this special rule are based on a score system. Once the opponent catches on to the condition proposed by Claire and uses the Tian Ji horse racing tactic, it would be a point given to the opponent for nothing. She doesn't want to bury such a big mine for her future.

The issue of Sid's strength is not important. She believes that through acquired training, even a person with weak talent can become a strong person. Isn't Sairaorg, the strongest of the younger generation in the underworld, an example of this?

So Claire's request made her feel embarrassed. If she really did as she was asked, would she still be able to play ranked games in the future?

The main reason why he could agree to Claire's request this time was because the rules of the ranking game between her and Raisa had already been decided to be a team battle.

There was no need to worry about the team fight because Claire's request would give the opponent a point for nothing. Sid's current combat power was dispensable compared to his sister.

Based on these two factors, Rias agreed to Claire's request.

But this is not a long-term solution after all. As long as she wants to participate in ranking games in the future to realize her dream, Claire must change.

But according to her observation, the only condition that Claire did not accept in her negotiation was this. If she insisted that Sid fight with them, there was a high probability that Claire would pull her brother out of her team.

She was very curious about how Claire's way of thinking, which was to always consider her brother's safety first, was cultivated. She had learned that in the aristocratic families of World 3, there was no idea of ​​favoring boys over girls, and girls could also be the head of the family.

The time she spent with Claire made her realize how much Claire valued her younger brother. If she were asked to describe Claire, she could only think of one word - a brother-supporting demon.

But her inability to persuade Claire to change her mind does not mean that others cannot. As the saying goes, the person who tied the bell must be the one to untie it.

If Sid were to persuade Claire, there was a high chance that she would be able to do so. Some of the things she said to Claire seemed hypocritical, but what Sid said to Claire were the true feelings.

At this point, Sid officially came into her sight. After all, what she wanted Sid to do was strictly speaking depriving Sid of his interests, and she had to explain the pros and cons to Sid first.

Then she realized that there seemed to be something wrong with Sid Kageno.

I didn't notice it because I didn't think about it carefully before. Now I watched it again and found that when I met Sid today, there was a big problem with Sid's performance. He acted too naturally.

Although she didn't say it explicitly, based on her behavior when they first met today, Claire probably brought Sid over before telling her brother what he was going to do, which made Sid a little confused when they first met.

But as soon as they met, Sid showed a look of surprise on his face, and he didn't show a similar expression afterwards.

She was not the kind of person who would say that something was too reasonable and therefore seemed unreasonable. The main reason was that Sid's performance contained a lot of contradictions, but she managed to ignore these unreasonable aspects just right.

These unreasonable aspects include but are not limited to a person with low self-esteem being outgoing and a person who is easily emotional being calm.

It's not that he doesn't hide his inferiority complex very deeply. On the surface, he appears to be a very outgoing person. The problem is that Sid appears to be obviously lacking in self-confidence.

What a coincidence, isn't it? Among her family members there happens to be a person with very low self-esteem and a person who appears to be very confident but is extremely low self-esteem in his heart.

So the inferiority complex that Sid showed seemed very fake in front of her, as if he was just pretending, but his outgoing personality was really familiar.

Then there was the contradiction between excitement and calmness. Sid seemed to be easily fooled, but he was able to receive the information in the shortest time, appearing very excited, and then continue to receive the next information, continuing to appear very excited, without any pause.

And the most obvious problem is that Sid got into the role too quickly!

After knowing that he was going to become her dependent, his attitude towards her immediately became respectful, and it didn't sound like he was pretending. His respect and faith in her almost overflowed from his voice.