I Am A Villain

Getting back to the temporary base, Zero was ready to put the power of the Vanishing Dragon through it's first and most important test, reforging Excalibur.

It wasn't anything special, an underground cave with different devices used through the years for numerous tests. Zero had many across the different dimensions, used to study the way the magic flows into different species. Though for his safety, he never kept any records.

Continuing further underground Zero went inside a special room he designed. Once inside it was quiet, too quiet. This was a room Zero had prepared for this moment. Four swords were already hovering inside the room, slowly rotating clockwise. Zero took out the 3 recently acquired swords, bringing together all the seven pieces. Two he kept from when he broke it, two others he took from Xenovia and Irina, last 3 from Kokiabel's attack.

'The only missing piece, a piece of me.' – he said as he slowly pulled out a chunk of biomass from himself.

Throwing the biomass lightly he used magic to direct it in the middle of the swords, making all the swords rotate slowly around the biomass. As Zero controlled his magic numerous magical runes were activated, lighting up the room. The sound of metal bending beyond its limits was heard, compressing and expanding, little by little the swords started to crack. From the cracks, massive amounts of magical energy were released, and alarms where heard, the room was slowly approaching its capacity and couldn't handle the amount of magic anymore.

Zero: "Divide, Divide, Divide!"

As the energy was continuously divided the alarm was shut off.

'Not enough!'

Zero: "Order!"

Using his ability, Zero forcefully stabilized the room, forcing the process to go as he wished.

Little by little the cracks expanded, until finally breaking off. The parts added from the church to create the seven separate swords were forcefully removed and the parts of the original Excalibur started to resonate and continue rotating around the biomass.

As Zero willed, the pieces of Excalibur started taking their original shape, each piece connectin to another and the biomass seeping into every crack, being used as a base material, hardening and softening as needed.

Little by little as the pieces grew closer the amount of energy released continued to increase, and Zero continued to use his Dividing.

Finally, after a few days, the process was finished.

A black sword, filled with red lines across it was standing in front of Zero. As he raised his arm the sword came flying right into its owner's hand.

'Indeed the power of this sword is not to be underestimated. The physical attributes of my body are more than just doubled. After all, it is part of my body, and not in a shounen anime swordsman protagonist type of way. All that is left now is the Red Dragon Emperor and my last experiment.'

'I finished right on time, the day of the summit is tomorrow. My agents in the underworld have the preparations ready. Let's see just how many can my little experiment kill… if it works.'

…

The Summit meeting was about to begin and all the leader were on their way. Unknown to some of them, this day was going to change everything and everything started the moment they left the safety of their domains.

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(Underworld, Gremory Household.)

As a servant was cleaning he secretly observed Sirzech Lucier leave the underworld. He slowly pressed the point in his neck, sending a signal across all of his accomplices. Soon he received two similar responses.

Servant: " I received confirmation, everyone is moving out. Secure the 72 locations and get everyone in position to activate the array, per his Highness's command."

Out of the shadows, somebody strode forward. It was the famous number 1 knight of the underworld, the right hand of Sirzech Lucifer, Souji Okita.

Souji: "As per his highness command." – said the knight as he turned around, not stopping when he heard the next words to leave the servant's mouth.

Servant: "And the young master?"

Souji: "He will be taken care of."

…

(Underworld, Phenex household.)

Guard: "My Lord, we have received confirmation, Sirzech Lucifer, Grayfia Lucifuge, and Serafall Leviathan have left the underworld. "

Lord Phenex: "Are the preparations in place?"

Guard: "Falnium Asmodeus will take care to restrict Ajuka and the allied Families will take care of the remaining 4 Houses that side with the Gremory's."

Lord Phenex: "Start the construction of the array as soon as the 72 sites fall within our grasp.."

Guard: "Yes, my lord."

…

(First Heaven.)

'Brave Saints' or Reincarnated Angels as well as the normal angels, this is where they resided, on the first line of defense. Right now a meeting that included 100 of them was being held.

Member: "All the preparations are in place. Our brothers are equipped with the seal his highness provided. We have one chance to save Lord Michael."

These 'Brave Saints' had continuously begged Zero to spare the Seraph Michael, which Zero eventually agreed to, earning him quite a lot of volunteers from the angels. Many of the angels still held a grudge regarding the previous war where they lost their lord, so they saw this as an excellent opportunity to inflict a preemptive strike and get revenge.

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(Fallen Angel's Headquarters.)

Baraqiel was currently staring outside the window, towards the direction of the Kuoh Academy. The location of the summit.

Suddenly he felt someone approach and without turning around he simply asked.

Baraqiel: "Are our men in place?"

Fallen Angel: "Yes, they are currently applying the given scrolls all over the barrier at Kuoh Academy. We have also come into contact with devil's and Angel's who are doing the same."

Baraqiel: "…It seems he was telling the truth. Very well, I will be going to get my daughter out from there and use the scroll to come back."

Fallen Angel: "Of course, my lord."

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(Above Kuoh Academy)

Zero was currently flying above Kuoh Academy, having located a weak point in the barrier while supervising the agents within the 3 groups.

'Red Dragon Emperor, I made sure the Hero Faction wouldn't interfere, that means you are all mine.'

As Zero went inside te barrier, the heads of the 3 factions were discussing peace when they felt his presence.

Zero: "Order!"

As the area inside the barrier became part of Zero's domain a simple calculation allowed him to apply simple relocation magic to Issei who had nearly no magical defences, teleporting him beside Zero, who caught him by the neck.

Zero: "To be honest, I didn't think it would be harder."

As Zero said that he formed a sword basking in electricity in his hand and stabbed Issei straight through the heart, all the while Issei stared aghast at him.

Zero: "Sorry, but I'm not in the mood for hearing your bullshit today."

The members of Rias peerage stared in shock as their friend was impaled through the heart.

Rias: "NO, ISSEI!!!"