Reincarnated as Alfia in DxD

Duel 2

Pov. Alfia Lucifuge.

I woke up on the day of the duel. In the underworld, this does not happen often.

Therefore, it is something like a holiday.

All the devils were waiting for this day with impatience.

The fact that children fight in a duel is not a minus, but adds even more exoticism and interest to the duel.

Father immediately declared that my sister and I must be present.

I had no doubt about it, because I myself was interested in watching.

Yes, I am also interested in watching how children fight. Leina dressed me in the best outfit (In my mother's opinion.)

In general, it turns out strange.

Everyone says that the duel happened because of me.

And no one insults me, on the contrary, everyone is impressed that at such a young age I can already create duels.

Father even conveyed gratitude from Lucifer.

In the world of devils, all young representatives of the clan dream of a duel for her hand instead of a prince. The bloodier the better. I can't imagine how you can fix these people.

There are strict rules in duels. You can't kill.

Yes, it surprised me, I thought that this is how the winner was determined. As it turned out, this was exactly how it used to be.

But everyone realized that they could quit the duel and kill the devil they didn't like, and they started throwing down challenges every Monday.

Seeing that the devil society was rapidly shrinking over 10 years, the highest authorities of the underworld quickly passed a law prohibiting killing an opponent in a duel.

Which, by the way, Lucifer himself violated by killing Uncle Glahn.

When I told my father about this, he said that the situation was different and Lucifer was within his rights. I realized that he was ready to kiss Lucifer's feet.

Therefore, saying that I was poorly acquainted with the laws of the underworld, I hurried to retreat.

Let's get back to the laws. Now you can't give up, you can only switch off.

There is also a rule prohibiting items that help in battle.

Like enchanted or simply legendary items. The door to my room opened and Leina entered.

"The duel is about to begin, and the lord is gathering the entire family to move." And so we have arrived at the location of the duel.

This is a small settlement near the dragon mountains.

Duels are traditionally held here. I don't understand why not in Lucifaad. Father explained that this is tradition.

The first duel took place at this place between Lucifer and Zerkam Bael. Lucifer decided to spare his son.

This duel is shrouded in mystery, since Zerkam has always been a loyal supporter of Lucifer and it is unclear why he would challenge him.

The small settlement we are in lives off duels.

The more duels, the better for this settlement.

Many tents have already been set up by the nobility of the underworld. Interesting fact Sajex Gremory has not appeared at any of the parties held in the underworld.

Perhaps in order to protect him from Lucifer. Having learned of his potential, it is very likely that Lucifer will want to bind him to himself.

I think that's why Sazhex developed a different view of the devils and their culture.

Having spent his entire life in isolation, he interacted not with the heirs, but with completely different individuals, and they shaped his worldview.

We came to the stadium and took our seats. The beating would most likely begin soon.

My family and I sat near Lucifer and the other houses of Satan. Of course, these families took the main seats, but we, as representatives of the six houses of Lucifer, sat in less important places.

"Today, on this fine day, we will have a duel between Otor Sallos, the heir of the Sallos house, and Glan Borbotos 2nd son of Nevel Borbotos."

The duelists come out to battle and the crowd greets them with joyful applause. When the participants were announced, the crowd exploded and joyful cries were heard throughout the arena.

"Is the participant from the Sallos house ready?"

"Yes."

"Is the participant from the Borbotos house ready?"

"Yes."

"Then I officially announce the start of the duel."

Said my father, he is the referee of this duel. Each duel takes place under the name of Lucifer, and if you conduct a duel without Lucifer's knowledge, you break the law.

The fighters stood silently for a while and waited for who would make the first move. Otor couldn't stand it first and began to weave the construction of the spell. In general, even though devils use the magic of imagination, this does not mean that you can just come up with a kyouka suigetsu and humiliate everyone. You must understand what you want to do.

And we also need to learn the spell and train it. The advantage of being a devil is that you do not need to calculate. In other races, 70 percent of the time to prepare a spell is spent on calculations.

As I already said, magic here is not only impossible to move, it is a faithful dog that you walk. I will give an example: you are walking a dog and throw a stick.

At that very moment the dog will run after that stick, regardless of whether you have a leash in your hands or whether you threw the stick over a concrete wall.

The dog, that is, magic, will try in every possible way to bring the stick, that is, to create a spell. This system has its advantages, but it also has its disadvantages.

One unsuccessful calculation out of 100 can kill you.

You also put one amount of mana into the spell, but because of its properties and your poor control, you can put much more and the spell will simply be destroyed.

 In this regard, the devils are really lucky because we just need to remember the structure and the program itself is entered by our imagination and we do not set ourselves such risks as others.

If I want to come up with a technique, and I really want to create Sukuna's cuts, then I will have to come up with a structure and control the mana very well.

I thought about it and realized how dangerous this technique can be for me because the mana can start cutting before leaving my body and I can easily cut off my hand.

Since the main manipulations with magic occur inside the body, and the magical formulas at the output are just an aid to control.

Will is also very important in battles. If the devil has a weak will, he will never win, this is my personal theory.

I thought about this and came to the conclusion that the magic of the devils is somewhat similar to the magic from the anime Freeren, since if you think that you have lost, then your mana is unconsciously weaker due to our ability to imagine.

Therefore, the devil must believe that he will win regardless of the situation.

This is again just my theory. My teachers and my father know nothing about this and have never even heard of it. But the more I think about it, the more it seems true to me.

At that moment during the duel, Otor finished his spell and a fireball flew at Glan.

It took him 3 seconds to do all of this, and he is only 8 years old, for our age this is a very good result. In response to this, Glan summoned a magic circle and summoned water.

Here questions may arise as to how this is possible, since the Sitri control water.

It's simple, the Sitri themselves create water and because of this they can control it incredibly well.

Glan summoned water from a reservoir, he cannot control it since there is no mana in the water, he can pump in a little and control it for a surprise attack from the steam from their clash of fire and water.

But apparently he did not think of this.

The battlefield was covered in steam and this is dangerous since this steam is hot and any fighter who enters there is guaranteed to get burns.

I saw a magic formula above Otor's hand and soon stone arrows a meter long and about 60 centimeters thick flew at Glan.

In response to this, Glan formed a stone wall. It was a trap. Otor flew over the wall and hung in the sky. Another fireball flew at Glan and at that moment more stone arrows burst out from the sides of it and flew at him. Probably at the moment when Otor created the fireball, he created 2 spells at once and one of them were these stone arrows.

A spell with an effect of triggering after its activation is very difficult. It requires strong control of mana and I do not understand how he did it.

Otor showed himself to be very talented. I thought that this was the end of it, but then something happened that I least expected to see.

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I hope I explained the mana system well. As for mmna, it turned out to be a cool concept. I will refine it as the story progresses, but I laid the foundation in this chapter. And yes, I really want to give her Sukuna's technique.