DxD: The Holy Knight!

"Shouldn't the selection of peerage members be based on talent and aptitude?"

"Even if someone can survive in this city for a year, it doesn't necessarily indicate their true strength," Akeno asked in confusion.

"In Dorte city, everyone has their power sealed. Here, everyone is like an ordinary human. The starting line is completely leveled."

"Even people with great strength and talent can easily fall into a trap and be killed by others if they aren't careful."

This method of selecting peerage members was something Akeno had never heard of before.

She couldn't understand what special qualities these selected servants had.

Rias saw the question in her mind and answered. "Shelby became a new favorite among devils, and was at the height of his power in the underworld."

"He won the rating games repeatedly, and for a time, almost no one dared to play against him."

"This was because he was so cruel that he treated his peerage members as disposable pawns."

"The servants who came from this city, regardless of their strength must have been seasoned hunters to survive in such a brutal environment for a year."

"Cruelty and cold bloodedness were all deeply ingrained in them."

Akeno understood and picked up where Rias left off.

"So a group of hunters, who Shelby treated as disposable pawns fought in a self destructive way."

"They could overwhelm many participants in the rating games just by this cruelity alone."

Ordinary clans cherished their peerage members and each servant was difficult to select.

However, there were few people in the underworld who did the opposite, treating their servants as disposable items like Shelby did.

Akeno could also imagine the height of the dorte clan's power.

Being able to freely replace servants was a privilege ordinary clans did not have.

The privileges of the strong were never based on rank or social status.

"Wait, Rias, you just said that the dorte clan was once powerful in the underworld. Has the clan declined now?"

Akeno noticed the implication in Rias's words.

"No."

Rias shook her head and said, "Their clan didn't decline. They were wiped out along with dorte city."

Akeno was shocked.

Looking at the bustling city before her, she never imagined that it had disappeared.

Moreover, the dorte clan had a founder like Shelby. She found it hard to believe that he had been killed so easily.

"Did they touch a taboo or did the city established by Shelby touch the bottom line of certain factions, so they were wiped out?" Akeno pondered.

For now, those were the only two reasons she could think of, because Shelby and the city he founded fit those two guesses perfectly.

"No, it was the church that did it. With lightning speed, they wiped out the city overnight, leaving no time for the underworld to come to its rescue."

"It caused a massive sensation."

"The church openly attacked the elites of the underworld. Weren't they afraid of igniting a war between the underworld and heaven?" Akeno asked, puzzled.

Her impression was still that the three factions were trying their best to suppress the voices of the warmongers within their ranks.

Any signs of war would normally be suppressed.

"War?" Rias chuckled silently, as if she were mocking something.

"If the church cared about peace between the two sides they wouldn't have tolerated that madman, the saint who embraces darkness slaughtering devils, fallen angels and so on across europe."

Akeno had also heard of the insane actions of the person Rias mentioned.

He was a devil in the eyes of devils, an embracer of darkness in the eyes of the people and was even called the shadow.

In fact, his official title in the church was the saint of dawn but with his hands stained with the blood of countless creatures, it was impossible to associate that title with him.

Therefore, almost everyone outside of the church called him by the title saint who embraces darkness.

Since the end of the great war, few clans in the underworld had been wiped out.

However, it was precisely by the hands of that guy that several clans were killed.

For a time, all the devil clans recalled their heirs who had been in the human world.

This included the gremory and sitri clans, but Rias and Sona both refused.

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