As everyone watched Vali attacking Katarea to silence her, they knew that she didn't truly belong to the group and tried to rush to help...
However, Haoh looked at them and made them freeze in their tracks before Katarea looked hopelessly at the attack coming to claim her life...
She felt Haoh doing something with his fingers which were a way for her to realise not to move and take it head-on...
Biting her lips, she pushed Haoh out of her way and was engulfed by energy like arrows that got thrown from Vali's wings...
Explosions happen shortly after they came in contact shocking a bit Vali that she didn't defend and waited until the dust died down to see what was happening...
When it did, he gawked as she was perfectly fine except a few spots on her clothes having signs of getting pierced but not even blood was seen...
Katarea looked at her hands in shock as, she knew what happened, when she was killed just now and her conscious drifted away she felt the same sensation she did from being unable to move and foreign energy invading her body...
But those energies didn't clash with her and instead started healing her wound and evaporating the blood she lost even from her clothes...
It was at that moment she realised that this was one of the benefits of being marked and noted it only worked possibly in a certain range of it...
Just as she snapped out of it and looked at Vali who was in a shocking state, a thud sound was heard as something fell on the ground from her clothes...
It was a small bottle with a black like a snake inside swirling around and before Vali could react Haoh took it in his hands...
Haoh : So this is the power granted by Ophis and it looks like you have to consume it to take effect...
Vali : What will you do with it...
Haoh : I have my own plans for it...
Vali : Interesting... I would love to fight you...
Vali : It's our destiny to do so...
Haoh : As i said to Kuroka... If you wish to sit down and join me on a drink i would be more than happy to obgligate...
Haoh : If not, i'm not interested in you or the fued in the dragons...
Haoh : If you wish to fight we will fight close to a year from now...
Haoh : I believe from the moment Kuroka notified you only a bit over than a month passed...
Vali : Hahahahaha, interesting... I also don't care about their feud...
Vali : I'm a descendant of the previous generation's Maou Lucifer who died.
Vali : However, I'm a child of mixed blood born from a father who was the old Maou's grandson and a human mother.
Vali : I obtained the [Vanishing Dragon]'s Sacred Gear because I'm half-human. It was just by chance.
Vali : I, who is a true blood relative of Lucifer and is also the [Vanishing Dragon], along with being a human-created a being that will surpass things as fate and miracles.
All of them gawked at this revelation with only Haoh keeping a straight face as if he already knew this shocking Vali once again wehn he realised this...
Haoh : And??
Vali was speechless, he thought his identity will shake him and possibly make his blood rage as they fought to see who it was stronger...
Even Albion was stunned inside Vali... Just as he wanted to say something he heard Ddraig aka Akari talking to them...
Akari : You are in bad luck, Albion...
Albion : What do you mean??
Akari : I would give you a piece of friendly advice... Make your Host stronger... Stronger enough to hold his J. Drive for more than an hour...
Akari : Otherwise you wouldn't even know how you died...