Oh but, ohhhh it's- it's like, ohoh I'm like, ohhhhh, how are-
Rick: Stop being stupid and start already... wait, maybe that's natural and not on purpose...
Fuck you.
Rick: Fuck you back.
No homo!
Rick: Of course.
No homo?
Rick: No homo.
...
Rick: ...
Not that's bad or a-anything!
Rick: O-Of course!
Chapter 7: One plot isn't enough, give me more!
"...ghuu...wh... whe-where... I am...?"
A little girl woke up with a very bad headache.
Gazing around, she couldn't help but draw a sharp breath with the situation she was in. Around herself revealed a desert of sand, though small structures similar in appearance to an Aztec temple could be seen here and there. Rotten corpses roamed around and a black-hooded humanoid stood still, stroking a glowing skull-decorated rod. Her fear increased a notch when realizing her body was firmly bound to a big wooden cross.
Tears build up, comparing this to the scene of what happened to the great Jesus-Christ, son of their Father in Heaven.
But, as a young angel, she couldn't just stand there doing nothing. She had a duty to bring salvation to this world, and purifying those corrupted beings was the first way.
Even if she wanted to run away, she needed to stay and purify them.
Even if she was still in training.
And tied up.
The girl gathered up the Light energy in her body and tried to create a [Light Arrow]. Yes, she was still in training and couldn't create a [Light Spear], yet...
Nothing happened.
The energy dispersed before she could even use it, flowing inside the cross she was bound to. The cross apparently absorbing her power, she could feel it sipping at her power slowly. If she couldn't free herself quickly, this body would either become putty of only skins and die... or the undead would let her live to become a living magic battery.
Each days being milked of her energy while staying barely alive... her essence consumed slowly by those rotten beings... her fluids, milked dry, savored delightfully by those disgusting and putrid creatures. She'll try to resist but their big and rancid things would be rejoiced by her futile rebellious spirit.
They will jam it in and take pleasure in her suffering before... she ultimately falls... tainting her white wings with the darkness of corruption. Changing from her innocent Angelic form to a disgusting Fallen Angel, from which she will eventually start to enjoy her position as a slave.
Even if young, she knows.
The few times sneaking her way to the lower world, the human world, she learned it all in some informational books she found. If her memory stands correctly it was called... doujinshi? Anyways, she knew what is going to happen next.
Their sticks will jam it in.
Her body will be knocked-up.
"...*sniff*...*sniff**sniff*..."
Now she really did want to cry.
Oh my Lord, you holiness greater than all light... could you protect this lowly one with your love...? ...Please?
Prayers always work, after all!
*Tan~* *Tan~*
And as if to answer her prayer, steps noise heard. Something's coming her way. Its silhouette slowly coming their way. She could hear music playing around but couldn't pinpoint its origin. It seemed profound and a woman's voice could be noticed, singing along. This voice was beautiful but had an edge of danger too, as if her coming was the announcement of Divine Judgement.
GATE Music - Apostle Of War
The little angel rejoiced. Her prayer has been heard! She's saved!
Excited eyes landed on the being that would become her savior.
It was a man with brown hair but you could distinct whites as well coming from the roots. His hairstyle was spiky and he harbored an armor all made of black but resembling the bad-humans' called truant biker. His black eyes seemed lifeless but had a hint of shrewdness and insanity in them. His only weapon was a pistol in his right hand and a... shovel...? But more importantly...
He was a human.
"Hm, this music's kinda depressing, let's tweak that!" (Savior?)
The man exclaimed with way too much glee. Then...
He sang.
"Pipiru piru piru pipiru pi~" (Savior?)
At this moment, the little angel realized...
"Pipiru piru PIRU PIPIRU PI~!" (Savior?)
Looking at the sky, she could only ask with tears and snot on her face.
Why have thou forsaken me, Lord?
As if to answer her, God spoke.
"The shovel that can do anything, EXCALI-VELuuuuu!" (Insane Human)
*Pom*
The insane person used his shovel like a blade to cut the neck of an undead. He frowned when the cut didn't go all the way through. The undead tried to bit his face but died from a bullet in the head.
"Hum, indeed level 18 is a big difference... but even a level 100 would die without its head." (Insane Human?)
The crazy human said to himself, confusing the little angel who couldn't understand his words. His singing started once more... while the killing of undead continued.
"Pipiru piru piru pipiru pi~ Pipiru piru piru pipiru pi~!" (Insane Savior?)
A tiny bud of hope crept from inside of her.
Maybe God didn't forsake her, after all?
There were around 50 zombies and, although she was an angel, she found them quite fast for supposedly dead-beings. After the first corrupted crumbled into dust after re-dying, all the monsters realized the intruder presence and ran at him. She noticed, however, that the hooded being stayed behind to observe.
While concerned with the obviously human man's safety...
The person himself was still singing.
"With my magical chants, you will restart your life~" (Insane Savior?)
Based on her knowledge, those words didn't appear to be an incantation or sacrament. It, in fact, was just a very annoying voice when confronted with the beautiful voice of the lady's in the background.
Shooting with his gun some zombies to slow them down, his shovel flew to one too close for comfort, intending to decapitate him. Strangely, compared to before, this strike did cut through the zombie's head in one strike and makes it crumble into ashes. The little angel swore she felt the strike was exactly the same as before, so maybe the zombie was weaker?
Another monster appeared behind him-
"Oh no! Please don't- SLASH!"
-before its neck got cut in one slash of his shovel, again.
The zombies appeared to possess a little intelligence and glared at him. The man paused... before giving them his middle finger.
What a vulgar human!
"Please don't glare at me like that, pretty pretty please~?"
He continued in his singing tone and tilted his head slightly, trying to act like a puppy... a murderous puppy holding a knife, smiling at you, and asking if you liked cannibalism.
Horrifying.
Dashing toward a nearby zombie the human impaled it with the shovel and, in a display of great strength, used it as a shield to bash the other zombies with it. Shooting bullets indiscriminately all around like a bullet-rain.
"The murderous Angel, delighting in blood RICKI RI-RICKI, RICK-chan~"
The little angel felt offended.
Jumping in the air, he took a shot at the hooded being who observed the scene since the beginning.
A dark shield sprang to life around them blocking the bullet. The little angel winced when she felt her energy drained a little. The human turned at her, frowning...
Before singing again.
"I'll SLASH you-" he said cutting a zombie's neck but got his leg bitten by one behind him. "PIERCER you!" his shovel pierced another zombie which skewered itself with its friend already on it. When the first skewered zombie tried to grab the man, "RIP you~" its throat was ripped out barehanded, changing it into nothing but ashes.
Unfortunately, this distraction was enough for 10 zombies to jump at him. The man fell on the ground with an *eek* noise and the zombies threw themselves at him, making a small zombie hill. The angel prayed for the human but despair grabbed her heart again. After all, what could a lone human do?
Shockingly, she felt a disruption of magic power coming from the hill of zombie. The visible opening between them glowed a light blue color before-
*BOOOM*
*Splat* *SPLAT* *Pooom*
...The zombies exploded.
"*huff* *huff*... Mana... Bolt...*huff* your face...~ *huff*... holy sh*t, almost got raped out there...!"
Loud breath and a singing tone, that's how the human appeared after making tens of zombie explode from above himself. His body was dripping in blood and you could see bite marks on his face... Oh Lord... one of the ears was missing... The little angel ignored the weird *BEEP* noise when he talked, she had other things to think about. For example, the fact that he is a magician. Or for another example...
"...Yo...YOu... ChilD oF the AlL moTHer..."
The fact the hooded being could talk- no, that wasn't talking.
Its voice came from everywhere at the same time, it was a magic spell used to talk only with your mind. Similar to telepathy but closer to a communication using wind to spell-out what you wanted to say. The little angel could hear bones clattering together when it talks. Her savior's expression changed when he heard it.
"Woa, I knew you've high intelligence but you can talk? That's some high-level monster here."
Although the little angel understood his words clearly, she couldn't help but think she missed the point.
"YOu Sh...SHOUlD noT do Th-"
"Yeah, yeah you're great and all and shut the f*ck up!"
A ball of blue energy impacted the black barrier of the hooded being. The angel jaw-dropped when the human magician used a magic attack... with no magic circle. The magic attack wasn't strong enough to destroy the being's barrier, but the wind created from the impact lifted his hood, revealing its true form.
As she expected, the being was an undead skeleton using necromancy. She thought it could have been a Lich but was relieved it wasn't. A Lich was a lot stronger than a simple undead skeleton... or that's what her superiors told her. She never saw one before.
She once again gasped at the stronger drain of her magic reserve.
The human looked her way again before scolding.
"So that's it, how truly effective..." He said mostly to himself before gazing at the necromancer skeleton with... admiration?
"You use a little girl as a hostage, power supply and a shield all at once?" He bowed respectfully toward the bone monster. "Your cultivation of the Scumbag Way almost reached the heavens, big bro. Could you spare some time to teach me your art?" (Human Garbage)
"You...Y-YOU DEMONIC HUMAN...!" (Little Angel)
She screamed out, her face red from anger and shame. Anger toward this human's desire to allies with the corrupted bone-monster, and shame toward herself from even considering the possibility of him being the one sent by her Lord to save her.
*PAN*
*TONC*
"Kyaaaa!" She screamed from fright when the wood next to her slightly blown-up.
"Silence Loli-angel, the grown-ups are talking right now!" The human said while pointing a still-fuming-gun at her.
Did he just shoot me?! (Little Angel)
"So what do you say?" He turned back to face the sack of bones. The necromancer glared at him and made clattering noises, possibly from frustration. "I can pay." Five bills of 1000 Yen miraculously appeared in his hand after saying that. The angel would have gasped in disbelief if she wasn't still in shock from almost taking a bullet in the head.
She was just an angel in training, while one bullet wouldn't kill her it could hurt very bad and make her unconscious.
The only answer from the skeleton was a wave of its rod.
*WOOOM* *WOOOM* *WOOOM*
Which swiftly summoned 3 more zombies from the newly appeared dark puddle on the ground.
"Why nobody never simply not says 'no'!?" he paused in contemplation, "...woa, wonder why I used so much negation for this one...?" His contemplation was promptly interrupted by the newly born zombies trying to devour him. To her surprise, he didn't attack them nor flee, no. He ran...
"...!" (Angel)
In her direction.
*PAN* *PAN* *PAN*
Shooting at her.
"Kyaaaaa! NO! Stay away, STAY AWAY!" (Angel)
Ironic coming from the one in danger toward the one she thought, at first, was an envoy of the Lord. The skeleton also screamed at him. No doubt because it also thought this guy was bad news for her.
She's sure of it.
Definitely that.
Three arrows of darkness materialized above the rod of the skeleton before shooting at the human's back.
"B-Behind you...!" Although this human was obviously a bad person, she judged the corrupted being was a little eviler, which is why she warned him.
Taking a look at his back the human swore before using his shovel as a shield for his head. One arrow got intercepted by the improvised shield, ruining the metallic part. Too bad the others two pierced through his right shoulder and left leg.
"MOTHER F*CKKKKKKKKKAAAAAA...!" Came his scream of agony.
The angel grimaced and looked a little pale now. But to her complete astonishment, the human just outright ignored the blood pulsing from the wound and continued his mad rush at her...
She wasn't any doctor or anything but even she could see something was very, very wrong here. The pain should be incredible but this person, even more, a human, except for a scream completely shrugged it off... oh look, he can even use his gun even though his arm's dangling of!
The angel started to think it was all maybe a dream.
The stench coming from the rest of the still living zombie close to her, made her think otherwise. Around twenty zombies placed themselves between her and the human.
What happened next would make the dream theory come back full force.
They jumped on top of each other and started... to melt?
"...what?" (Little Angel)
The little angel was confused. Where before a pile of rotten humanoid creatures were, now lies a puddle of... rotten mash.
"...The f**k are- OH HELL NO!"
The human also seemed confused but realized something that made him go frantic. Rushing desperately toward the puddle, he used his gun to shoot at it with strange aggressiveness. Brandishing his now deformed shovel, from all the abuse it took, the human bashed violently the weapon at the growing puddle while screaming things like 'Power Strike' and 'Quick Shot'.
The puddle shivered.
"Nop, nop, nop, nop, please die, die, DIE!"
Like a mantra, the assault redoubled in strength each time the puddle shivered. Then, as if a signal was sent, an immense growling noise came out from the puddle. Following the growl, the puddle transformed and a giant hand jerked out of it.
"F**k you to-"
*POMMM*
*Crack**POP**CRACK*
And slapped the human ten meters away.
In a normal situation, the angel was certain this human could have avoided the blow. Unfortunately, he was too close, plus dodging a hand 3 times your whole body size was pretty difficult.
*puff*
"...ouuuuchh~ My FREAKING bones..." pained complaints came from his fallen form. Here he was, lying on the ground, red blood staining his dark-bicker clothes. Both arms limp at his side and a leg torn in an unnatural way. "...my life is suffering~"
The little angel couldn't help but pale.
Although she couldn't help but jaw-dropping as he survived this kind of attack even if with great injuries, it was over.
She was screwed.
As if to crush the last hope inside her heart a 10-meters zombie giant, the giant hand's owner, crawled out of the puddle. Locking eyes with the now wryly smiling human, its expression revealed rage and insanity. The human decided to stand up an-
WAIT WHAT?! (Angel)
As crazy as it sounded, the human stood up lazily using his torn leg like a cane...
"Use chocolate, use chocolate, use chocolate, use chocolate..."
Then he started spouting nonsense... the angel's mind was so out of it she didn't notice his torn leg slowly replacing itself back in place.
"Use chocolate- wait, what do you mean empty?"
His expression took a turn from calm and cocky to confused and shocked.
An exclamation of rage and hopelessness erupted.
"I FORGOT TO STOCK UP BEFORE COMING HERE FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUU-!"
His renting got interrupted by the giant zombie's hand coming down, ready to squash him. The human took one glance at it before raising his hand high and saying.
"...High five?"
*SQUASH*
It was over.
Just like an apple rolled over by a car, a sickening noise erupted from under the hand. Just like the pulp of apples exploding in all direction, an immense quantity of blood splashed around the giant fist.
Slowly lifting its fist, the giant zombie peered at the fallen form of the human's body, which stayed unresponsive. He was definitively dead. Nothing could survive this kind of weight crushing down with just their body, neither-less a human. Returning to its master's side, the giant zombie sat down and waited.
The skeleton master in question ignored the dead human and turned his attention to the little angel, continuing the weird ritual it was doing before getting interrupted by the human maniac.
The little angel cried.
My life is over... oh Lord, please forgive this small one for her weakness and sneaking out to the lower world... I just wanted some melon pan... (Little Angel)
On the last day of her life, she understood one truth.
Melon pan was evil.
At the moment, she also felt a certain guilt toward this human. She wanted help and although harsh, bad, lacking fashion, insulting and probably insane... he still tried to help her... but died.
He died for her.
Yes... the human that is currently crawling on his knees away from them wanted to sav-
"EHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhh?!" (Little Angel)
Her eyes widened in disbelief.
He should be dead! Then what is this? How can he crawl away as if nothing happened? There is a literal POOL of blood all around him. Whatever race you are, you wouldn't even be able to move after losing so much blood, not to mention a human!
Following her outburst, the skeleton turned his head to look at what surprised its captive. Unfortunately, the only thing he saw was the human his creation previously killed. Still on the floor. Still dead.
Just when the necromancer turned his head back, the little angel saw the human pull back up and continue crawling away.
Impossible... is he...? (Little Angel)
As if sensing something wrong the skeleton turned around once more but again, all he could see was the still dead human on the floor.
"...JuSt m... imaGination..." (Skeleton Necromancer)
After turning his attention back to the little angel, the supposedly dead human got back up again and continued his crawling.
Yes, this guy was-
He's running away! This person is actually trying to run away alone! (Little Angel)
What an asshole!
As if to answer her prayer the skeleton felt something wrong again, but this time throws an arrow of darkness at the human. A yelp resounded before the dead human jumped away in surprise, dodging the projectile and stood awkwardly like he didn't die just moments ago. The angel wasn't sure whether to thanks the monster for its action or be happy that the human dodged.
Since the former would most probably make her fall to a Fallen Angel, she decided to go with the latter.
"Hum...huehehe..." (Madman)
Now chuckling, the human hugged himself in the most sensual way the little angel's doujinshi could show, however, a certain air of style could be seen exuding from his form. Slightly leaning on his side while protruding his hip ahead, half his face covered by shadows.
"Oh my, oh my, it appears I gravely underestimated you, spooky skeleton." (Madman)
"..." (Spooky skeleton)
"Silence is it... In normal cases, I would start feeling my sins crawling on my back and regret. But since you don't have a blue magical left-eye, I won't." (Madman)
"YoU...-" (Spooky skeleton)
"AND YOUR NEXT LINE WILL BE '...LeaVE now...oR F... CONseQuEncEs... ' or so!" (Madman)
"...LeaVE now...oR F... CONseQuEnc-!?" (Spooky skeleton)
*ゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴ*
*menacing rumble*
NANI-?! (Little Angel)
She couldn't help but gasp. The sudden and out of nowhere menacing rumbling noise added to both her and the skeleton shocked state. What's with this situation? Weren't you on death's floor just ten seconds ago?
How come you can look so confident and menacing now?
Chuckles could be heard coming from the man. His extended finger pointing straight to both of them, as if berating a child, only added more to the insanity.
"Tch, tch. While I admit I underestimated you, I never said I lost, did I?" Flashing a quick smile at the now attentive skeleton, he righted his pose before continuing in a bored voice. "Bu~uut since I'm close to my quota of references for the day I'll right-it-up now... Rejoice Papiru- I mean spooky skeleton! For you will witness my secret art!"
"Secret art...!" (Little Angel)
"...!?" (Spooky Skeleton)
An eerie 'kekeke' laugh reverberated inside the desert-like world. Pocketing his hand in his bicker outfit, the human was pleased with the attention he now had from the two others sentient.
"Yesss, but before that, you need to survive my special attack!" (Human)
"S-special attack...!" (Little Angel)
"...!" (Spooky Skeleton)
Taking a look at the skeleton, the angel could see it was now very tense. The black barrier around him became more opaque as if reflecting its owner's fear for what could happen next. She read once that corrupted creatures especially magic caster have very high pride, so much in fact that if it happened to be utterly broken they could die.
For such a proud monster to fear this human... maybe it knows that something incredible will come out?!
Her fantasy started to run wild.
At that time.
"Behold! The technique perfected by my clan for generations until this day... Special Technique - Rick Style:... "
Taking a step back and lifting one arm, the human turned 180° before unleashing his super attack-!
"RUNNING AWAY!"
-and dashed away.
"..." (Little Angel)
That's fast.
Very fast, even.
...
...
Big brother, you can't just build up our expectations before crushing it at the last moment...
As if to add salt to injury, a condescend and mocking voice called from far away yelling at them 'baka~ baka~', that her heritage translated as 'idiot' before laughing loudly at 'how stupid and simpleton they were'.
...she couldn't help but groan at the bad pun. Taking her eyes out from the now dot-like human figure in the distance, the angel gazed at the skeleton.
It was frozen solid.
Its eye-sockets still looking in the distance, as if some sort of internal battle played in his mind.
Then-
*CRACK*
*BLEUUUUUUUUHHHHhhhh*
-it puked dark fluids.
Vomiting some more of this blood-but-not-really dark matter, she could now see a big wed-spider crack on its skull.
Ah, it got hurt... (Little Angel)
For such a proud monster... such a creature which could actually die from having its pride broken... To have been so tense. To have been so prudent against an attack from a human. To have felt fear against all the tension a single person made up... Only for him to turn around and run away...
Where's all your tension for?
What were you even afraid of?
Did you just get scared of a loser who was hundreds of times more afraid of you?
"...Pfff-!" (Little Angel)
Ah, the skeleton glared at her. Or, well, it appeared so. Ah, now it was walking angrily toward her, probably wanting to finish his work and suck her dry.
Haa~ah, she's probably going to die.
Gazing at the strange and unreal-like sky, she couldn't help but smile gently.
Let's just give up! (Enlighten Angel)
After all, what did all her expectation do? Nothing. Each time she thought safety came, something happened and brought her back to the starting point. She's still bound, can't use magic, a savior came only to run away... the hope and despair she felt alternatively now gave place to numbness.
WHATEVER!
She was probably going to die but maybe that's a good thing? She could restart her life, from one...no...
FROM ZERO!
...
...
Where does this music come from?
Undertale OST - Megalovania
*SWIIIIiiirrrrrrrld*
*BOOOMMM*
A 5-meters sphere of blue energy flew past her head.
Turning slowly toward where it came from, she deadpanned at the previous human and the giant sphere of energy forming above his head. His hand looking as if supporting the whole thing.
Throwing his hand forward, the ball impacted the previously calm giant zombie's leg, ripping and exploding it off... literally.
The thing seemed to spin around the leg for a short moment before rapidly collapsing on itself and exploding.
*BOOOMMM*
Another formed before being thrown hazardously into their direction... only to miss and lifting dust all around. Another formed before being throw again. The skeleton couldn't really reach him with its spell and the giant zombie just had its leg obliterated, so it could only crawl even slower than before.
*BOOOMMM*
There's something she noticed though...
*BOOOMMM*
While the giant balls were imprecise and took sometimes to charge...
*BOOOMMM*
*BOOOMMM*
They were getting faster.
*BOOOMMM*
*BOOOMMM*
*BOOOMMM*
And only 1 every five seconds evolved into 3.
"..." (Little Angel)
Taking a look at the sky, she couldn't help but mutters.
"Are you having fun, My Lord?"
God did not answer.
Hi, Rick here.
Actually sniping from afar the Legion Zombie and the Necromancer. Well, trustfully, I'm not trying to kill the skeleton. More like I can't. If I do, the 'Little Angel' that is part of the mission will probably die. That's what I concluded when trying to attack it.
The bastard uses the little angel MP and HP as a reserve for itself.
If I try to attack it, it will drain the MP of the angel and a little of her HP. If she happens to run out of MP it will probably start draining more of her HP. Though, if I keep at it I could probably kill it, but if the Little Angel dies too I won't get the bonus reward. I want the bonus reward.
Now flash news!
I died.
...
Thanks myself for equipping my {Humanity Wild Card} title which ignored the fatal attack. Ha. Ha. Ha... it's not funny. Weird. At least I know it works properly, now. If I take an attack that would kill me, although the attack isn't canceled and the pain is here, the damage taken is zero.
It's cheating.
Though it's limited to one time a day.
Second flash news!
I now know what the hell was the reward in chapter 1 about 'Personal BGM'.
Undertale OST - Megalovania
Personal BGM #2 'Megalovania' has activated. Effect:
+10 ALL stats
+10% MAG stat
It's a music that, when played, increase my stats. You know, like when the MC of an anime or game use his final attack and his music theme appears, that one? Well, that's the same. The only problem is I can't control this, though the effect is incredible... and if I combine it with my {Apprentice Undead Slayer}...
STR - 34 (17) | END - 35 (18) | AGI - 33 (16)
INT - 42 (27) | MND - 45 (30) | MAG - 27 (10)
...hahaha, HAHAHAHAHAH!
I practically doubled all my stats!
A title that gives +5 to all stats when fighting against zombies, and a BGM that increase by 10 all stats plus 10% more for my MAG stats. That means an increase of 15 for all stats! Also while the 10% increase in MAG calculates from the total MAG stat, which is great, it appears my [Mana Circulation] skill only take my base MAG into account... sad.
Oh, yeah, you ask how can I spam the famous [Spinning Mana Bolt], that I totally not ripped-off from the original Gamer btw, continuously like that?
Well, my nigga-dude-wacky-pal-friendly-digidy-little-shit, it's very simple.
I.
Speak.
Fast.
"Use strawberry, use strawberry, use strawberry, use strawberry, use strawberry, use strawberry, use strawberry, use strawberry, use strawberry... "
While I don't have any 'Chocolate' left to heal 10% of my max health (HP), I still have a lot of 'Strawberry' which regenerate 5% of my maximum mana (MP).
Also, thanks to using [Multi-Attack] before, I can create the [Spinning Mana Bolt] faster and faster. Fun fact is, [Spinning Mana Bolt] is still recognized as the [Mana Bolt] skill. Meaning I won't have to level those two skills apart from each other. Cool.
Hm? How did I make the giant mana bolt from before explodes, you ask?
Oh my Johnson, you actually wondered that? Well, though I didn't take 'Magic 101' in high school (no shit), I am a very smart person. So, as a smart person, I know that adding energy to something already full of it tend to go BOOM... I did just that. I needed a link, though, since when a [Mana Bolt] leaves my hand I can't manipulate it anymore. This is why I did what all great people in the world do.
I cheated.
I created a fine string with my mana and attached it to my [Mana Bolt], meaning that even if it left my hand I can still manipulate it using this link.
It's a freaking Yoyo.
I very originally named it, [Mana String].
I know, f**k you too.
I tried to change the direction of the giant-spinning-mana-bolt while in mid-air, but even with the increase in my stats, it wasn't very good. I DID change it slightly but it just made a mess of the battlefield and a lot of dust flew around.
Though, I also wanted that.
*BOOOMMM*
*BOOOMMM*
*BOOOMMM*
HAHAHAHhahAHAHAHah!
Now I can dish-out 3 close to one another, Rito, please nerf this!
I feel like in URF mode now, kakaka, kaKAKA!
...
Pls, don't nerf.
Anyway, all my magical giant bolts lifted so much dust that the battlefield resembled a haze of dust. Completely blinding the skeleton, legion zombie and angel. Their vision impeded, I took my chance and ran toward the angel's position. Still using my spinning bolts to lift more and more dust.
On my way, I noticed something interesting though.
A flickering blue fire quickly disappeared from where my giant mana bolt impacted.
Did my mana burn the ground? That's interesting...
An idea suddenly flashed inside my head.
Arriving at her previous position, coughing some dust from my lungs, I used the leftover of my broken shovel augmented with a [Power Strike] to broke her shackles.
The Little Angel coughed a lot before dumbly looking at me, as if not understanding anything. I didn't have time for this and quickly took her like a sack of potatoes before running back. Not a second later a giant hand crashed down where the altar was.
Guess it knew when I freed her, then. Cool.
Now some distance away, I saw the Legion Zombie slowly regenerating his leg but still crawling rapidly toward us. The spooky skeleton glared daggers at me. Eh, funny, glares don't kill pal.
"Guess it's time to make use of my best skill."
"...what... is it...?" (Little Angel)
Oh? So the NPC could also talk normally? Damn, they went full AI development with this instance. But well since you asked I will answer you, Loli-chan.
"Just humanity's strongest power~"
"...?"
Taking out a pair of plastic sunglasses from my inventory, I stole a lot of crap didn't I, I couldn't help but dumbly grin.
"Improvise-"
Then wore my sunglasses.
"Micheal F**KING Bay style!"
Glaring at the sack of bones and its giant-approaching-butler from afar...
"Hey, there isn't any wind in this place... and woah, would you look at all this dust around you?" I asked the skeleton. The dust is still present in large quantity around them because of the movements of the Legion Zombie and its size. "Isn't this a little dangerous?"
Either it understood or didn't have time to chat, the skeleton lifted its scepter... before pausing when looking at me. Specifically, looking at the gun that I pointed at my own temple. The necromancer was confused.
"Wanna end me? Think again! Can't kill me if I shoot myself first!"
"..."
It tried.
It tried very hard to understand what was just uttered. But this, instead, made it even more stupid-frozen. It looked as if saying 'Brother, the deepness of your mind is imperceptible to us lower beings'.
With a shake of its head, the skeleton decided to finish what it started before realizing something...
"!?"
It couldn't move.
I pull out my tongue at him.
The ultimate skill. The supreme cheat. By making my opponent doubt my sanity they become confused and frozen. Yes, the sacred skill that can reverse any situation.
"Fool Act, for the win!"
Taking out one of the lighters I always used to start a fire and cook my stuff, I quickly charged it with mana, remembering myself not to overdo it.
"Hey, bastards..."
Smiling their way when I finished my little charging, I quickly attached a mana string around it.
"Ever heard of a dust explosion?"
Throwing the super-charged lighter inside the cloud of fine particles, close to them, I sent a f**k-ton of mana through the mana string.
*swiiiiiivvvvv*
The already super-charged lighter received even more magical energy than it could contain and started to disintegrate. Unfortunately, the liquid inside is highly inflammable. Although I still didn't take a course on 'Magic 101', I do know that when you over-compress magical energy into a material it either, one, fall apart, or two-
*swiivv- BOOOM*
-go boom.
Now that Magic took its course, Science showed up.
Although a normal lighter wouldn't have enough heat nor could ignite this type of fine particles. Magic proved earlier to be bullshit. The fire originated from the lighter has already been super-charged from my mana, this gave it a weak magical characteristic. This lead to the possibility to burn earth-dust.
And, oh! Would you look at that?
"There's a giant cloud of it!"
...
...Magic is a useful word.
The super-charged lighter explosion liberated mana-enhanced flames. Dust thought the flames had a cute color and so decided to get itself a perm like them. Acknowledging its wish, Science decided to create a rapid combustion of Dust using the flames themselves. Science-kun was skeptical his plan would work as this dust wasn't flammable...but oh, here comes Science-kun's neighbor-with-complicated-relationship, Magic-chan! Magic-chan decided to help her together-but-not-together-together friend with her... magic touch.
This lead to the dust cloud rapidly combusting on itself, creating enormous pressure because of heat and the COMPLETE lack of wind inside the ID. This pressure build up as the heating progress unhindered by any dispersion from the wind until it leads to-
*BOOOOOOOOOOMMM*
Yeah.
A long-ass string of onomatopoeia- I mean explosion, yes, of course.
Magic is a useful word.
"Well, technicality it's more of a deflagration than an explosion but, whatevs."
BGM END
I suddenly feel extremely tired.
A constant thought says to go and f**king sleep.
Dammit, losing so much stats in one go is the worst... (Rick)
Since the music ended I guess I killed them. Because of that, I lost the +10 all stats from the personal BGM and the +5 all stats from {Apprentice Undead Slayer} because I'm not fighting any undead anymore. I guess the wall of notification will appear soon enou- HOLLY SHAT!?
Necromancy and Angel (Difficulty B) [✓]
You found an anomaly in your ID and someone in big need of help! Be a dear and go clear the corrupted.
Main Objective:
-Deal with the corrupted [✓]
Bonus Objective:
-Rescue the Little Angel (+500 EXP, +5 Reputation 'Angel Faction') [✓]
-Little Angel more than 50% HP (+1 000 EXP, +3 Reputation 'Angel Faction') [✓]
-Little Angel more than 90% HP (+2 000 EXP, ?) [X]
Reward:
5 000 EXP, +10 000 Yen
+6 500 EXP, +10 000 Yen
You level up!
You level up!
You level up!
You level up!
You defeated Legion Zombie (LvL 25)
+800 EXP
You level up!
You defeated Necromancer (LvL 20)
+500 EXP, +1 000 Yen
All conditions met, title evolution acknowledged.
{Apprentice Undead Slayer} → {Undead Slayer}
{Undead Slayer} title granted!
Congratulation! A boss dropped (Rare) 'Necromancer Robe'.
{Item added to inventory}
Congratulation! A boss dropped (Rare) 'Legion Zombie's Heart'.
{Item added to inventory}
Long exertion strengthened the body, +1 END!
Long exertion strengthened the body, +1 END!
Using the Foundation 'Breaking to Growing', +1 STR & +1 AGI!
Seen death first-hand push your limit further!
+3 STR, +3 END, +3 AGI, +4 INT, +4 MND and +1 MAG
Using nature and mysteries together grant you new insights!
+3 INT, +3 MND and 3 MAG
[Detect Killing Intent] skill level up! x6
[Sense danger] skill level up! x8
[Masochism] skill level up! x2
[Physical Resistance] skill level up! x3
[Poison Resistance] skill level up!
[Firearms Mastery] skill level up! x3
[Sword Mastery] skill level up! x2
[Unarmed Mastery] skill level up!
[Polearm Mastery] skill level up! x3
[Blunt Mastery] skill level up! x5
[Throwing Mastery] skill level up!
[Mana Bolt] skill level up! x11
[Mana Release] skill level up! x2
[Multi-Attack] skill level up! x4
[Fool Act] skill level up!
...
My head hurts.
"Only five levels for all this mayhem... seriously? Though the skills did go up a bit..." (Rick)
Then I saw the increase in stats. Holy-molly-lemon-squishy... death is a good friend. You know when warriors say it's by confronting death that you can grow? I agree with that. If I ever see Death face to face, one day, I will kiss her/him/it... even if it's a spooky skeleton.
I'm a very open-minded guy.
Or I don't give a sh*t.
...
Probably the later.
"That was fun and all, but dying one time is enough for today. Time to ball out, Destroy ID."
Using vocal command, I could feel my mana gathering around myself with an intention to shatters the fake of this world and return back. The mana fizzled around an instant and-
Nothing.
"...?"
A-qua-san, a little explanation?
As said previously, Anomalies are IDs with errors materialized as special bosses.
They do not adhere to the general rule.
"I don't give a damn, just tell me how can I f*ck off from here."
"...who is Mister talking to?" (Little Angel)
My head almost snapped with the speed I turned it. On my side stand a little girl with blond long hair and sapphire eyes. Dressed in a one-piece, white mini-dress and flapping her tiny whitish feathered-wings, awkwardly.
Tainted by the sand and dust from this desert-like environment, stood almost despondent the little angel NPC from my quest. I have only one thing to ask.
"...what the crap is Flonne from Dis*aea doing here?"
"...? I do not know who this Flonne person is but my name is-"
"Skip, skip, who cares about NPC's dialogue. Aqua, where can I get out?"
Completely ignoring the NPC I concentrated on my AI-no-so-useless companion.
To exit an Anomaly ID, you need to find a portal that appears after clearing it.
It can either be back at the starting point or around the defeated boss.
ヽ( ￣ д￣)ノ
"Suppose, you can't do some scanning to find where it is?"
I could but it will take some time.
"How much?"
3 days (o^▽^o)
"Who are you, Histoire or something?! Are you dumb, han!?"
No...
"...don't you dare you piece of-"
I'm Aqua.
"F**k this, I'm out."
Making my over-abused but somehow still functional legs work, I took a look around to see if some suspicious rift in space-time didn't stand out. Since I couldn't see one, I scrolled back to where I came from. Realizing the NPC was still following me, I couldn't help but roll my eyes. Your job is done, I saved you, the bad guy is dead, your existence that's tied to my quest is over.
You can disappear now, you know?
The meaning of your life is over now, you know?
The rainbow-colored spiraliptical (call it what I want) hole in mid-air took my attention away from the NPC's existential questioning. Guess that's the portal, hum? At least there's no way I could just walk past it without noticing, that would've been sad.
Taking a running pose and cracking my neck-
"Maximum effort."
I jumped in.
As if going through a roller coaster, my mind turned right and left before being jerked up and down and finally forward and behind... then all at the same time. Yes. Talk about messed up 3D. When out of it I appeared on some house's rooftop. The first thing to do was clear.
*BLEUUUUUUUGHR*
Vomiting my chocolate.
Wao, that was some wild ride, never want to use a spiraling portal ever again.
"Time to go sleep..." (Rick)
This chapter already took too long- I mean I'm tired.
Since I got five more levels, I guess I can rest for some time.
"Uwwaa, head... spinning..." (?)
I froze.
The voice of a little girl that shouldn't be here echoed behind me. Turning around slowly, here's a little girl with blond hair and blue eyes, small angel's wings on her back.
"..." (Rick)
But...but... why is the NPC out of the ID? Here's reality, it shouldn't be able to follow me here-
Who said the angel was an NPC to begin with?
...?!
You mean... she's real and wasn't created for the anomaly's quest?
Of course not, this angel is someone who lost themselves in the ID created by the anomaly.
They came from the outside world.
...
Sh*t.
That means people can be sucked in IDs created by those anomalies. And since it's obviously not something made by the plot of Highschool DxD, that means it's coming from elsewhere. Namely...
Me.
I took out my brevage of alcohol and a big gulp.
It's an original plot born from me coming to this world. (Rick)
Which means, on top of having the plot of DxD on my ass I got to deal with this Anomaly bullshit plot...
I took another big gulp.
...
"F**k my life." (Rick)
"Pardon?" (Loli Angel)
The angel asked as she didn't understand what I meant. I ignored her as I had a more important question.
"Oi you, how did you get in this desert in the first place?" (Rick)
"How rude... I was traveling the lower world when a portal suddenly appeared... it sucked me in and... after I don't remember..."
I took a time a think.
Could it be random? Or maybe she's targeted? She isn't anyone special so probably not. Most probable is 'approximate apparitions where people are', though as the samples are too few (only 1 case) this is just a speculation so...
I can't do anything, yet.
"I'm gonna sleep."
Affirming my decision I started walking to Viper's house-
Viser!
-or more like, previous house. Just...
"Why are you following me."
The angel scrolled behind me.
"I-I... can't go back yet... the monster drained too much of my s-s-strength... this will take some time to recuperate... s-s-so..."
So you want me to protect you until you have enough power back to return in heaven on your own. Sounds like free work...
"O-O-O-Of course I won't trouble you and t-try-"
"You're already troubling me."
"..."
I could feel her biting her lips behind me. Oh, what is it, little angel? Frustrated? Are you feeling angry at the moment? Be careful not to fall~ Wrath is of the seven cardinal sin after all~
"Fi...l..."
"What?"
"My... my name is Firiel and..."
She stopped before bowing deeply to me.
"Thank you for saving me!"
Before smiling brightly when coming back up. This smile's very cute. It was like looking at an excited puppy that just heard his master coming back home. It's just so sweet-
*BLEEUEUUUGHGHHHHhhh*
I regurgitated the last volume of chocolates and gastric juices on her face.
The sweetness stimulated my already weak stomach...
Firiel's eyes went wide and her mouth couldn't help but open in shock. Unfortunately, this made a trail of vomit juice enter her mouth and she inadvertently swallowed. More so, some of the alcohol I drunk was in it, giving her a taste of wondrous mixed liquids.
Her face turned from healthy white to sick green, her small hand rushed in front of her mouth to try and protect her dignity... and the content of her stomach.
Taking big *gulps* of my beautiful brevage of seven wonders, I raised a middle finger.
"Suck my d*ck."
The angel was shell-frozen.
But, still, did her best not to vomit her insides.
I felt proud about myself. I just said to a holy being with moe traits of [Loli] and [Innocent] to suck on my marvelous appendage.
Ain't I awesome?!
Alcohol is awesome!
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«Meeeerrrrrdeeeeee...!»
All conditions met, title evolution acknowledged.
{Pervert} → {Lolicon}
{Lolicon} title granted!
MOTHERFUCKERS...!
"FINE! You wanna play you little fox piece of shit?! I'M GONNA PLAY TOO!"
I turned to the little girl that was still stained with vomit and grabbed her. She made a small *eekkk* yelping noise. Somehow she looked cuter than before... guess titles try to influence me. AH! Jokes on you, I don't care at all!
"You're coming with me, I'm gonna take you in until you can go back."
Firiel just looked at me confused as hell with all the stuff that happened, before getting an epiphany and understanding what I just said.
"Thank you very much!"
Temporally forgetting the vomit on her face and dress, Firiel smiled in relieve before realizing something.
"Ano, Human-sama's name is...?" (Firiel)
A row of white teeth and a savage expression accompanied the answer.
"I'm Rick but you can call me..."
I took a sip of my drink and burped.
"God."
"...!"
Ignoring the face she made at me, a human, claiming myself a God to her, a literal freaking Angel, I started thinking something to screw things up because of what the piece of sh*t fox wrote.
...and I got an idea.
You wanna add a new plot to the story? Fine! (Rick)
I looked at my inventory and grinned.
Then I'm adding a third plot on my own. (Rick)
Two plot ain't enough, I want more!
Looking at the little angel *patipata* walking behind me, a song pop on my mind.
I, I, I love little girls, they make me feel so good. I love... little girls, they make me feel so bad. When, they- (Rick)
I think I have a problem.
At Dawn.
When the sun was about to appear on this new morning, a certain someone felt conflicted.
"..." (?)
The girl stood at the entrance of her 'office', cautiously surveying the big box that appeared overnight on her desk. The box was decorated with red paper and kept closed with a green ribbon.
Truly, a very classic Christmas' present.
...
Except it wasn't Christmas, the temperature was still warm and the very notion of someone intruding this very room without her knowledge was... disturbing.
"President..." (?)
The strict sounding voice of a girl pulls her out of her trance. Turning around, she could observe the features of her loyal vice-president and Queen, Tsubaki Shinra. A very long black-haired girl with light-brown eyes hidden behind blue-framed glasses. Her sharp eyes stared at the box before them, commenting.
"I already scanned the residual magic power, there shouldn't be any traps... What should we do, President Sona?"
Sona.
That is her name, Sona Sitri, the heiress of the Sitri clan and member of the 72 Pillars of Hell... though this number doesn't hold true after the Great War and the number of devils is now lower than ever. Yes. She was a Devil, a particularly influential one and no to vent, a powerful one at that. At least in terms of magic power and knowledge.
That's why she's troubled.
Someone, which she does not know, bypassed her barrier without her knowledge AND without use of spacial transportation (teleport) magic (as it would've warned her).
Taking a decisive step toward the very obvious gift, not out of arrogance or minimizing the possibility of a trap even with her Queen's words, but out of curiosity and frankly speaking, incongruity of the situation.
Noticing the note on the box, Sona decided to read out loud for the other members of her peerage to hear.
"Haha, Ha, HaHaHa, haha, ha, lol, hahaha... ha."
The other girls and even Saji looked at her strangely. To be honest, this situation felt so unreal for her, that she couldn't just comprehend what she was reading before actually saying it.
"..." (Sona)
If she didn't have great control over herself, Sona would have blushed in embarrassment. Unfortunately, this joke only made eyes cold and slightly angry.
Turning the page revealed another text.
"Hello, Sona Sitri, heiress of the Sitri Clan and Student Council President of Kuoh Academy..."
At this moment, hers and the other members of said student council's eyes became serious. The joke from before was forgotten immediately.
"Since a lot of interesting stuff started to converge in this town, I decided to follow the flow and make myself at home, I hope you don't mind?" (Sona)
The last sentence was clearly a provocation. Everyone could tell, even Saji. But why did this person embolden the word 'interesting'? She will need to investigate this.
"Who am I? I am the forsaken chaos that is inside every living being. The crimson light born from the blood of the holy virgin. The sadness of every gal that wants the D-... I think we will pass on that part."
Ignoring the disgusted and pitiful gaze of the other female members, Sona passed all the description, which honestly sounded like something coming from one of Saji's secret books... Yes, Sona knows of certain things, not that she will ever tell him.
"My name is..."
The suspense was growing.
"...Pochi-man." (Sona)
"""...""" (Everyone but Saji)
"Bua, ahahHAHAHAHAH!" (Saji)
Saji laughed heartfully, all sense of stress forgotten and disappearing somewhere. Indeed if someone called himself this kind of name* and added '-man' like he was some sort of superhero in this stressful situation, you could laugh...
The next sentence was a lot less funny.
"Looks like you're having fun, Genshirou Saji, you're just one of my Paw-n so don't be arrogant! Haha, ha..."
That froze Saji's laugh and goosebumps crept up his back. This is bad. Although it was short, this single seemingly innocent farce revealed multiple information on the sender. First, he knows the newest member of Sona's Peerage, we could even elaborate and said he knows all of them. Second, he also analyzed Saji's personality and is aware of his comportment. Sona doesn't want to think about whether or not this extends more deeply with each of her Peerage's habits.
Does he know their abilities? Fighting style? Until where his information goes?
This kind of thinking passed through her mind. Now she's aware that this person made his homework and is quite capable of acquiring information. The truth question is...
Is he an enemy or an ally?
I can only continue to find out. (Sona)
"Anyway, I don't have any more space on this paper so here's what I wanna say. I got you guys a present. I found a vile an unholy *something*, sucking the *something* of a poor and innocent lamb before e... eating it... followed by the lamb."
It took a lot out of Sona to continue reading through this gory description.
"So yeah, I killed her and stuff. Should be a Stray Devil named Viper or- ok ok I got it, it's Viser, geez. So yeah there you go, she's inside the box. Ciao Ciao Chimichangas."
There was only one last row of text.
"PS: that's gory as-..."
She stopped reading here. Now it only comes down to this, gift, as the sender said.
Not wasting any more time she quickly and efficiently took out the ribbon. Opening the box... ahead with the empty eyes of a woman stared back at her. At least, she would if she was still alive. Based on the head being separated from the body, the limbs cut into little pieces, the heavy smell of blood and the... pack of chips in her hand?
Apart from the later this person was quite convincingly, dead.
If no for having some experience and her self-control, Sona would have already regurgitated her food right now. Even now she felt a little unwell but she had to pass through.
"Tsubaki, try to understand what happened to the body, also... search for a Stray Devil named Viser. I need to meet with Rias."
"What would you say to her, President?" (Saji)
"The truth Saji..."
She gazed at the empty and fearful eyes on the corpse.
"It appears a Vigilante appeared in Kuoh."
And from what his message appeared to reveal, a servitor of God.
An exorcist.
BUAHHAHAhahahHAha, servitor of big G?! HAHAHAHAHAhahaha!
Rick: Yeah, you have no idea how easy it is to make smart people misunderstand. By the way, about 'Pochi' names?
Oh right, anyways 'Pochi' in Japanese is a very common name used for little dogs and kinda literally means 'puppy'. Adding a '-man' after it would be like calling yourself Puppy-man or Dog-man.
Bye, bye muchachos!