Dxd: Master Of Shadows - Volume 1 Chapter 10 10 Rewrite Maximus

In a weird castle surrounded by many different clouds, in fact it would be no joke to call this a ‘castle in the sky’, a certain ironically nicknamed ‘Tigress’ was in her little girl from, standing in the middle of 4 other colossal creatures.

“What is your plan, Guider? Why would you push the inheritor that much?”

A gigantic dragon with, you guessed it, a lion’s head was the first to question Tigress, the one being questioned only shrugged, earning her the glare of the dragon-lion.

“Insolence! Do you know that your actions equal to treachery?! You were supposed to guide him, yet you push him near his death?”

This time a familiar dino-lion spoke up, he was pretty small compared to the other weird beasts in the castle but his power could be said to be the strongest out of all them, except Tigress anyways. The Tigress herself only snorted and faced the…weirdest of the bunch.

“How can you say that pushing him near death wasn’t guiding him to something? You rude ancient lion, pathetic to the core, perhaps being in the land for the rest of your old life made you that way, no?”

A whale-lion, spoke up. It was a whale with a lion’s head and…it had glasses, his words caused the previous dino-lion to stomp aggressively, this earned the glare of the other 3 lions.

“Contain your anger, the one in question is Guider not you or him”

A scorpion with a lion’s head spoke up, he had a voice that assured you he was the one with the most authority in the whole room. The dino-lion gritted it’s teeth and settled down, Tigress looked towards the whale-lion, a glint of understanding between them.

“I did it so he could gain a near death experience! He’s so c.o.c.ky and spoiled, he even asked me if there was a shortcut to gaining mana! Isn’t he annoying?”

Tigress finally spoke, her words contained nothing but disdain directed towards Victor, this earned the sudden interest of the dragon-lion and scorpion-lion but they hid it well.

“So? What right do you have to endanger the heir?! Are you out of your stupid little brain?!”

The dino-lion retorted in anger, out of everyone in the room, he was the closest to humans considering as how he was even more ancient before them, he had a certain…naivety towards humans. He didn’t know how ‘corrupted’ they could be.

“An ancient fool”

The whale-lion replied in a matter of fact tone.

“THAT’S IT! You fish face! I challenge you to a duel!”

The dino-lion bit the bait and with just a little more push, he would no doubt jump off the chair and attack the talking glasses thing.

“I won’t accept it, what can you do, huh?”

Several lightning sparks came out of their eyes and they continued the stare-down until a burst of mana from somewhere came a gave them a certain taste of the emotion called.

“””””Fear…””””””

The first one to recover was the scorpion-lion, he didn’t know any other being with as much mana as that but one thing could be seen in his face.

“Exciting”

The others saw this, and even Tigress, the self-proclaimed strongest, had a bit of sweat at the expression of the scorpion-lion, the others were gulping, if you call it that, visibly.

“We find out who that mana came from… and then you report to me. I’ll deal with it”

With that, the first one to leave was Tigress followed the the whale-lion, despite being a whale he could grow legs and walk but is severely weakened compared to being in the water, because, like, he’s a fish? After everyone made their exit, the last one remaining was the scorpion-lion, he sighed and stayed at where his place.

“What a troublesome prince he is…a dragon’s mana capacity? At that age? Maybe that Guider was on to something. Bastard Lake! Your son in about as stupid as you it seems!”

The scorpion started laughing and reminisced about the past throne of lions. That’s a flashback for another time.

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*Under the lake, Victor*

I don’t know what’s happening, I was in a black void with aurora that seemed to made out of mana, the floor was there and it looked beautiful with it’s bluish tint, the reflection of the aurora and the surrounding void made me feel like I was in one of those tutorial zones, I don’t get it either but my memories had that.

“Weird, is this how getting a dragon heart works?”

The voice wasn’t with me this time, I was also n.a.k.e.d, that required a little bit of observation. I checked myself but other than being technically gender less, it was me. While I was still lost in thoughts a giant mana construct appeared in front of me, it was…

“RAAAAAAO!”

“Oh, a dragon huh”

Instinct says fight, but you know what?

“RUN!”

I ran as fast as the wind, orange sparks surrounded me as I ran and I got away from the horrifying mana dragon, well that last bit was a jinx now.

“RAAAAAAAO!”

Mana Fire Breath Attack! Or as the dragon wanted to say.

“Easy there! I don’t want to beat you up but if you want to be beaten up then you better ask for someone else!”

“RAAAAAAO!”

“RAO-DESU?!”

I kept running away from it as it flew through the aurora and shot a few mana fire- you know the name things at me, well, until a glorious idea popped into my head.

“If this is what I think it is then—Mana Spear!”

And boy, was I right! Apparently this place is my place, therefore, I can make mana spears. What happens when you give me, Victor Malum Noctis Lionheart a spear?

“Lionheart Spear Arts!”

I held the spear in my hand, with force even more than what I used before, it was enhanced by both the mana in the surroundings and my [EX Knight of Owner] glowing an eerie blacking blue light, I positioned my self in a crouching stance and orange sparks started coming out of me again, my n.a.k.e.d muscles also started bulging and the dragon finally caught up.

“SKY SPLITTING BITE! DRAGON LACERATION”

Instead of the previous time where I charged with the spear and caused that massive shockwave, a certain feeling came from my [EX Instinct] it was just like the time where I learned about the instant [EX Knight of Owner] against the eagle. A foretelling of what I can use, a potential.

‘Mana Burst’

And the black eerie aura on the spear got coated by a violet burst of mana as it enlarged the reach of the spear… that’s what she said.

“RAAAAARGGGHGHHK!”

And so I pushed it inside his belly, I should change the name to pulverization actually, why?

“Woah…he got turned into a mana meat paste”

The previous hulking mana dragon, when my spear coated in various strengthening auras poked through it, exploded. Yep boom.

After that the whole space seemed to distort and the surroundings slowly faded away into the black void, and then a dream.

I was again in a war, I didn’t control my body but I was in the war, wearing an armor that only served to make me look badass, in my hand was a sword. It looked ordinary but a black and purple aura coated it, like how I did with the spear. Each slice was clean, it made body parts fly and the force on them created shockwaves the blew away arrows and some magic. After I slaughtered my way to at the least a thousand men, a blonde haired person stood in front of me.

“Victor”

“Arthur”

The people around us moved away and gave space, although they were still fighting, the view of 2 armored men with glowing weapons attracted attention.

His sword looked magical and ancient with the bonus of good golden light that made it look holy.

Mine was a crude sword, blood dripping from it and the blackish purple light that made it look demonic.

“Do we really have to?”

“My country is already at ruins, I’m their last bet. That bitch got us when we least expected and now you are siding with her”

The blonde man sighed and readied himself, his stance was of a knight, chivalrous and created with protecting in mind. I also readied myself, both of us, contrasting each other, ying and yang, good and bad, light and dark.

“For victory…”

“For survival…”

We muttered our own reasons for fighting, his is noble while mine was shameless. Just how far will our contradicting existence go? Without anymore words, we charged at each other…and I woke up.

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“MAGICAL KATSEW CHICKEN!”

(Oh? Your awake already? HAHAHA! What an entertaining dream you had, friend!)

I panted and the first thing to do was check little jonathan…

“Good God. He’s still here”

(Heh, I indeed am)

“Not you, I meant my d.i.c.k!)

(Eh? Whatever, take it as you wish, friend)

I stood up from wherever I was, I looked around me and the first thing that made me nearly die was the fact that I was actually in a cave somewhere. Why would it make me die? Because, I can’t swim.

“So…how do you expect me to get out of here?”

(…Oh my, that’s a ridiculous [Skill] that thing turned out to be…)

“What do you mean?”

(You’re practically Sigurd, but without Gram!)

“Who the f.u.c.k are those?!”

(Don’t mind me, just keep in mind that your body is still adapting to the dragon heart you now have, friend, don’t you dare do anything else)

I remembered the sacrifice I had to make for the heart, doubt surfaced into my face as I wanted to ask something, that something scares me but I had to ask.

“H-How…long do I have?”

(About 26 years, 16 years if you want to live a…fun life)

I…couldn’t reply, the shock was amazing, it just made the words stick to my throat like how a certain lion costumed girl clung to me. I slumped down with my back on the cave walls, my entire sense of awareness was focused only on one thing…

“Huh?”

(Is it fun?)

I found myself smiling, why? I don’t understand why? I just found out that my minimum longest was 26 years more living days. 16 if I went and pursued my life as a warrior, but I was smiling? What is this?

(It’s the thrill, friend. The thrill of being limited)

“Is this…good?”

(It’s definitely not, most of the time. But it is MORE fun than not, HAHAHA! Say, friend, what would you do now?)

I looked towards the cave ceiling and inhaled, I tried gathering mana but after just a few minutes, I found that my capacity was simply…too much. I was like an unending bottle of mana, and I didn’t even notice it but the amount I was absorbing could potentially make a farmland lose crops.

(Use it! Gather them to you! Find your limits! Use the power I gave you!)

A skill, like my few others appeared, [EX Mana Burst] a skill to enhance using mana, it’s generally a powerful skill that can turn a stick into a weapon of mass destruction and the body of a frail witch capable to fight with thousands of men, that’s with the A+ counterpart. Mine though?

(That’s right! Channel it! Use it as a catalyst! HAHAHA!)

“The…”

(YES!)

“The thrill of panties!”

(The thrill of challenge! NO WHAT?!)

A loud, jet like, burst of mana came out from me, all the mana I’ve absorbed even if not full, released a massive stream of power, I felt my defense multiply by so much along with my power and, no. I was joking, I don’t really like panties, sorry, I like stockings more.

My [EX Mana Burst] could potentially allow me to kill fafnir with a piece of stick, that’s if I fully charged it while at my maximum growth potential, meaning 21 years old. With my burst of power came the shaking of the caves, the shake of the caves came with the caves breaking, the breaking of the caves? Yeah, I can’t SWIM!

The ceiling cracked and water started seeping through it, in a matter of minutes, I’d be drowning.

“Hey, you sure you don’t mean that my life was actually shortened to 2 minutes?”

(You are aware that you won’t die if you just hold your breath and allow yourself to float up right, friend?)

“I can’t swim.”

(You don’t need to swim)

“I can’t float”

(You only need to hold your breath and relax)

“I’m panicking”

(You don’t seem like you are)

“…”

(…)

It didn’t matter, he forced me, violated me, the voice made me do what I kept, he took my chastity.

I was forced to float n.a.k.e.d. I’m not pure anymore.