Chapter 40: Divine x Dragon

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[Steal Lv. 12/100]

Cost: 550CE

Cooldown: 1 Minute

-Steals a random item from Target. The target must possess Ce/MP and must be within 10 meters.

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[Kalawarner's Panties]

+10% Light Damage Resistance

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After turning into a proper cursed technique steal had changed quite a bit. First, I no longer had to execute the steps one by one. Instead, I turned into a determined process.

Secondly, the skill has instead refined itself with what I assume is the system logic and I can no longer truly decipher what it is. Just that it has shifted to be more like the one from Konosuba.

How strange...

Regardless, after having finished basically sexually harassing Kalawarner to increase my skills and to feel meager satisfaction I dismissed her and was left alone with my thoughts. I felt like I was forgetting something really important right now.

Reaaaaaaly important.

So important that I would probably kick myself for forgetting about it.

Is it the absorption line? No, that was still inside the water bottle in my inventory. Is it the scenario ticket? No, I dont have a death wish. Scrolling through my inventory I finally saw the icon in the corner and indeed felt like I got kicked.

Yeah, Akira just forget about the god-slaying weapon in your pocket why don't you!?

What to do what to do. I could give it to someone I trust but I dont really trust anyone with my safety let alone willingly giving them a god-slaying weapon.

To get me to give the boosted gear to someone else you would have to pry it off my cold dead fucking hands. I thought about potential things I can do with the weapon before an ingenious idea was given birth to within the confines of my mental space.

I can have familiars right? Like Crabulon but he just kind of does his own thing.

...How about getting Ddraig as a familiar?

Considering my skillset it is definitely possible for me to animate Ddraig in a new body, granted he would be incomparably weaker than his peak. Possibly only decently stronger than the average man. Or else the level difference would be too high for me to make it.

Basically, my idea was to create an empty cursed corpse using the corpse construction circle, trapping Ddraig's soul inside it using soul trap. If it all went well and Ddraig agreed to become my familiar I would basically have not a Longinus wielder as my familiar, no I would have the fucking thing inside of the goddam Longinus WITH the Longinus as my familiar.

That is a big ass if though.

But on the other hand, this is DxD, the fucking dragon king Fafnir agreed to become a familiar in exchange for panties.

Fucking PANTIES.

I uh ah aaghds. THE FUCKING DRAGON KING BECAME A FAMILIAR FOR P A N T I E S. P A N T I E S.

Forget being dropped as a baby was the fucker repeatedly swung against the wall while being held by the tail as a baby!? Somehow, somehow, somehow, that's a big fucking somehow his motivation is even more unfathomable than Issei's.

...If I ever come across that oversized scaly rat I will flay it alive and force it to watch as I turn its hide and scales into a rug. Then I will walk over that rug with my dirty boots and then throw it into the fire.

If Ddraig also asks for something equally asinine I will chuck him back into my inventory before I can find out a way to devour that fucking soul or wipe his ego off the gear and give it to one of my undead.

Regardless, I headed down to the basement before setting up 5 entire curtains. One physical to prevent entry while the other 4 were all chameleon. The absolutely last thing I needed was someone discovering the longinus in my pants like I got caught with my hand stuck in the cookie jar.

Just in case I set up 5 more chameleon curtains.

After I pulled out the gem and used speak with the dead on it. And as expected the gem glowed.

"Hello? Anybody home?"

"< < Hooh, so you are the one that took me from my host huh? > >" A booming indistinct voice rang out, instead of an actual voice it felt words being put into your mind. There was no gender, nor any distinct voice like the anime. For some reason though the voice did not sound annoyed just surprised and curious.

I can work with this.

[Ddraig Goch Affection: 5]

"< < How did you even manage to pull me out of my current user anyway? Even Micheal shouldn't be able to > >."

"Why? Are you mad at being taken from your host?" Hopefully he wasnt. And judging by the tone he had been using throughout this exchange he probably isn't.

" < < I can't say I am, I have had dozens to hundreds of hosts. It doesn't really cause me grief to be taken away from a host, especially one that wasn't even aware he had the boosted gear. > >"

"I see, well to answer your question. Yes, I am the one who took the boosted gear. I happen to possess a special variety of abilities that allow me to do so. And I also happen to have a proposition for you."

" < < A proposition? If you want the boosted gear I am willing to help you become a crimson dragon emperor, you seem to be quite suited for it anyway, besides having such an interesting host instead of one that thinks about boobs every five sentences in his mind is far more preferable. > > " I could hear the slight cringe to its voice at the last sentence and I very unfortunately related.

Being stuck inside Issei's mind for years on end seems only slightly more preferable than the void.

"Temping but no, that's not my proposition. You see Ddraig, I want to make a deal with you. In exchange for freeing you from your sacred gear and giving you a new body I want you to become my familiar."

The silence was deafening. Even I grew nervous before Ddraig spoke.

" < < Your words do not seem like a bluff. You seem completely confident in your ability to free me and you were able to free me from a host already. In that case, I will accept your offer if you are truly able to accomplish that. > > "

"That easy?" I was so dumbfounded that I accidentally spoke those words aloud. Was it really that easy?

" < < Boy, are you aware of long I have resided in this sacred gear? Hundreds of years, even thousands. For so many years I have been stuck in this prison. Unable to escape, I haven't felt anything, eaten anything, or smelt anything by myself in hundreds of years, nor have I had a semblance of freedom. In exchange for being freed from this prison, I am more than willing to become your familiar. Partner > > "

[ +10 Affection with Ddraig Goch ]

"The pleasure is all mine Ddraig."

After our agreement me and Ddraig talked more about the cursed corpse I could make for him. With their large amount of wisdom, I found several conditions I would most likely need to fulfill before I could them into the body.

Firstly, no normal body was going to be able to handle Ddraig's draconic divine soul. I would need to make a specific body to handle that. But thankfully my new partner in crime Ddraig pointed out a way I could go about it.

The sacred gears Twice Critical are actually created from the remainder of the scales on Ddraig's corpse after their body was turned into the boosted gear. This meant that if I could collect a satisfactory amount of Twice Critical's I could use them along with sturdy material to construct a cursed corpse Ddraig could actually inhabit.

Also, I would need to make a high-grade cursed corpse core to make to the corpse but then I realized that I could just use the Boosted Gear itself.

Speaking of the Boosted Gear I realized why I couldnt use it myself when Ddraig explained how boosting worked.

Boost, allowed Ddraig to draw in Mana from the dimensional gap and use it to enhance his own body and attacks. This was also why Issei's boost seemingly kept getting weaker. They weren't.

The boost of the boosted gear allowed the gear to draw in the mana and boost the abilities of the wielder. Specifically twice. But the boost of the boosted gear is flawed. The limit of the gear is Ddraig and less.

So the closer the power level of the gear comes to Ddraig's the weaker the boosts will be, it isn't that the gear boosts your ability by 2x it is just restricted and forced to 2x. Boost is normally just a way boost to Ddraig's stats.

The sacred gear takes that ridiculous amount of Mana to augment Ddraig's stats and instead turns it into several parcels, those being the 2x boosts. The reason it works so weirdly for Issei is because it is designed for a human.

The boosted gear is supposed to be a gear that boosts your power level to one comparable to Ddraig's. That would work as it would continue to double your power level until it reached Ddraig's at absolute max. But for a devil with far higher stats instead, those boosts dont work as intended resulting in a fall off the more you use it in a row and the stronger the user is.

And the reason I can't use it is simple. I have cursed energy, not MP. If my body was flooded with MP when it is supposed to handle CE instead the results could be Catastrophic. Like filling an electric car's battery and engine with 10 gallons of crude oil.

Anyway, I guess I should probably find a way to track those twice criticals down.

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