"Being weak is nothing to be ashamed of…Staying weak is!"— Fuegoleon Vermillion, Bck Clover

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  Rias's smile vanished, repced by a serious expression.

  The smoke from the explosion hadn't even cleared when the Demonic Spirit charged out, its bck spear aimed at Shikoutazer's feet.

  Rias had no choice but to retreat. Despite its size, the Supreme Teigu was surprisingly agile.

  Oep back from the thousaer tall giant created a signifit distaween it and the Demonic Spirit.

  Rias unleashed Shikoutazer's full power. Laser beams erupted from its forehead gem, mouth, shoulders, and hands.

  The Demonic Spirit was engulfed in a blinding barrage of light.

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  Explosions rocked the earth, fttening the ndscape for kilometers. Rias, exhausted, finally ceased the attack.

  Roy waved his hand, and a gust of wind cleared the smoke. The Demonic Spirit y on the ground, heavily wounded.

  "Yes!" Rias cheered.

  "Go make the tract, quick!" Red.

  "Right!"

  Rias desded from Shikoutazer and approached the Demonic Spirit.

  The spirit, weakened and injured, offered little resistance as Rias performed the ritual. The tract was formed quickly and easily.

  Rias's power surged. She'd broken through to Ultimate-css!

  ...

  ...

  "gratutions, Riri~!" Roy beamed.

  "Thank you, Roy!" Rias, overjoyed, hugged him tightly. She turo introduce the Demonic Spirit. "This is Leia!"

  "Huh? She has a name?" Roy was surprised. He thought Demonic Spirits were mindless.

  "My Leia is different. She's Ultimate-css, so she has intelligence."

  "I see." Roy nodded, uanding dawning.

  "If you really want to thank me, Rias," Roy whispered in her ear, "Tonight, you'll have to work hard."

  Rias blushed and nodded.

  They teleported back to the Five Elemental Lords' stronghold.

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  "Roy-onii-! Look, look! This is my tracted spirit!" Alice ran to him, pulling a small girl with pink hair.

  The girl looked shy and sweet. She was a high-ranking Light Elemental Spirit, radiating a pure and holy aura. This meant Alice was High-Css Devil level now.

  "Alice, you're amazing!" Roy ruffled her hair.

  "Hee hee!" Alice beamed, pleased with his praise.

  Not just Alice, but all the girls had formed pacts with high-ranking spirits.

  They were all High-Css Devil level now, evehree little girls from the Butterfly Mansion.

  Koneko had finally achieved her goal of being stronger. Akeno had reached peak High-Css. Xenovia, Irina, and Kiyome were also High-Css.

  Rias was overjoyed. Her peerage was strohan ever.

  Akame and Kurome, already at peak High-Css Devil level, had broken through to Ultimate-css.

  Roy nodded, satisfied. He'd aplished most of his goals. Now, it was time to help Rias find suitable servants.

  Why hadn't he let Rias tract a high-ranking Elemental Spirit? Because he had better options in mind. Elemental Spirits had limited potential.

  Without a special opportunity, they rarely reached Ultimate-css.

  Roy had already chosen targets for Rias: the main heroines from the inal Bdedance of Elementalers story. They had immeential.

  With a high-ranking spirit, they'd bee incredibly powerful.

  Roy had discovered that his system's world-travel fun allowed him to travel to different points in time within the same world. This would be useful.

  But there was no rush. The girls ime to adjust to their new power.

  Red for them to train and spar. With the Spirit War over, the Elemental Spirit World eace.

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  A year passed.

  "Go, Kanae-neesan!"

  "Go, Shinobu-neesan!"

  ...

  Nezuko and the others cheered from the sidelines. Shinobu and Kanae faced each other, ready to spar.

  They drew their swords and charged, their movements enhanced by wind spirits.

  "Flower Breathing, Fourth Form: Crimson Hanagoromo!"

  "I Breathing, Butterfly Dance: Caprice!"

  g! g! g!

  Both had tracted Wind Spirits, making them incredibly fast.

  Their movements blurred, leaving afterimages across the training ground.

  "Roy, who do you think will win?" Rias asked, smiling.

  "Kanae is more experienced, but Shinobu's skill is undeniable. It'll probably be a draw," Roy replied.

  Rias nodded.

  As he predicted, the two stopped fighting soon after, her able to gain an advantage.

  After a year of training, the girls had all grown stronger.

  Nezuko, Alice, and Makomo had ged the most. Nezuko had permaly transformed into her Mature Demon form.

  She wasn't as adorable as her younger self, but she was still quite beautiful. Makomo had finally grown up. Alice had blossomed into a lovely young woman.

  "It's time to end this training camp," Roy announced, looking at the girls with satisfa.

  A peerage entirely posed of High-Css Devils. If the Underworld khey'd be stunned.

  "Already? Time flew by!" Akeno seemed relut to leave. The past year had been fulfilling. She'd spent every day with Roy, training and growing stronger. She'd been blissfully happy.

  "The training camp is over, but our journey isn't. Now, we help Rias find some suitable servants," Roy said with a smile.

  "Oh! That's right!" Akeno beamed.

  "Saeko, tell everyoo get ready. We're leaving in three days."

  "Yes!" Saeko went to inform the others.

  The girls were excited.

  Three days ter, Roy gathered everyone and activated the system's teleportation fun. They vanished.

  With their departure, the world began to revert to its inal course. Alexander, slowly corrupted by the Otherworld Darkness, grew more ambitious.

  He maniputed Solomon, aiming for world quest. Areishia Idriss, the Saint, rose to prominence. Even without Est, she defeated Solomon and saved the world.

  Thousands of years ter…

  ...

  Outside Areishia Spirit Academy, Roy and his group appeared on a bustling street.

  "Wow! So many people! Where are we?" Irina Shidou excimed, thrilled to be ba civilization after a year in the Elemental Spirit World.

  The girls looked around. The architecture had a medieval feel. The streets were crowded and lively.

  "This is the world, thousands of years iure," Roy announced, arms crossed and smirking.

  "Thousands of years iure?"

  "Amazing!"

  "Are Rias's servants here?"

  "We Time-traveled?"

  "Yep. Thousands of years sihe Spirit War."

  Roy expined. He was impressed by how much the human world had advanced in just a few millennia. His inal world had taken millions of years to reach this level of development.

  The girls looked at him with eveer awe.

  "Let's take a look around," Roy suggested.

  "Yay!" The girls cheered.

  Roy led them towards Areishia Spirit Academy.

  The academy trained maidens from across the empire to bee Elementalists.

  Despite being called an academy, it was vast, with its own spirit forest and a city-like campus. Instructors rivaling the Imperial Knights resided there.

  It ractically a small nation. To maintain their purity, the girls lived in an enviro isoted from men, receivie education.

  As a result, the students were sheltered and unaced to iing with the opposite sex. It was like a nd of women.

  The head of the academy was Greyworth Ciel Mais, known as the Dusk Witbsp;and the Stro Elementalist.

  She was sidered the most talented Elementalist in the world, holding the title of Chief of the Empire's Twelve Knights.

  Her self-created Absolute Bde Arts were incredibly powerful.

  Her tracted spirit was the Demonic Spirit, Void, a spirit said to be impossible to tract. pared to her, the protagonist of the inal story, who ied Ren Ashdoll's power, was weak.

  The sudden appearance of Roy and his group naturally caught Greyworth's attention.

  In the academy office, Freya Grandol reported the presence of powerful strangers iy.

  "Powerful strangers?" Greyworth adjusted her gsses, a thoughtful expression on her face.

  She ordered someoo monitor them, then dismissed the matter. As the stro Elementalist, she was fident no one could cause trouble oerritory.

  Roy and the girls explored the city, then checked into an inn for the night.

  Uhe cover of darkness, Roy and Rias teleported to Greyworth's office.

  "Who's there?" Greyworth looked up, startled by their sudden appearance.

  "Hello, Dusk Witch Greyworth Ciel Mais, I'm Roy Lucifuge," Roy greeted her with a wave and a smile.

  "You're the strangers from earlier," Greyworth said, adjusting her gsses. She wasn't fazed by their sudden appearance.

  "Don't worry about who we are. Just enroll us tomorrow," Roy said.

  "You know who I am, yet you dare cause trouble in my academy?" Greyworth asked, a cold smile on her lips.

  "Want to test my strength? Fine… I guess I'll have to show you who's in charge." Roy shrugged.

  He released his aura, the sheer pressure f Greyworth to her knees.

  "H-How… How he be so powerful?!" Greyworth stared at him in disbelief. As the Stro Elementalist, she had never felt such overwhelming pressure, not even from aal Lord…

  She looked up at Roy. He wasn't any of the Elemental Lords she knew.

  The pressure vanished.

  "Now you know. I'm bringing some people to the academy tomorrow. Be ready." Roy patted her head and teleported away with Rias.

  "Roy, why didn't you just use magic?" Rias asked. He could have trolled her mind or altered her memories.

  "Because she's one of my targets," Roy said, grinning.

  "You wao make her my servant?" Rias asked.

  "Yep. She's the stro Elementalist, remember? She'd be a valuable addition to your peerage."

  "Alright, I'll get her tomorrow!" Rias was eager to try.

  ...

  The day…

  Roy led the girls towards Areishia Spirit Academy. Greyworth had gathered all the students at the entrao wele them. She was there as well.

  She'd spent the night researg, but she couldn't find any record of such a powerful man. And a man, at that? Elemental Spirits only formed tracts with pure maidens.

  The man from st night, whose aura alone had brought her to her knees, was clearly beyond her power. She would greet him with respect.

  "What's going on? Why is the Headmaster making such a fuss?"

  "I'm the eldest daughter of the Laurenfrost family! I 't believe she's making me wele someohis is ridiculous!"

  "I heard it's some important person."

  "Important? Even the Emperor wouldn't get this kind of wele!" The students grumbled among themselves.

  Greyworth ighem and waited patiently.

  Soon, Roy and the girls arrived.

  "Wow! Are we that popur?"

  "So many people…"

  "Are they weling us?"

  "This is… excessive!" The girls looked at the assembled students curiously.

  "Roy-sama, wele to Areishia Spirit Academy," Greyworth said, bowing respectfully.

  "Well done," Roy said, pleased.

  "It was my honor. Please, follow me." Greywestured for them to enter.

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