Dxd: Master Of Shadows - Volume 2 Chapter 16 16
I’m going to develop fish, swimming and water trauma all in all if these type of situations keep happening.
“Hell, hell, hell, hell!”
I swam, orange sparks came from me and [EX Mana Burst] was supporting me, my previously numb legs were bulging with muscles as I tried my best to escape death by fish. The only way to escape was to find the way out of the south den and quickly get the f.u.c.k to another different den, something anti-fish would do.
“REVENGE FOR THE KING!”
The fish kept shouting that in chorus, it was very noisy and my body shivered every time I look back.
(They look more like an archipelago with that size, no?)
“THAT DOESN’T HELP!”
If they were only a million, I’d manage, easy peasy, but no~ apparently this place has 2 f.u.c.k.i.n.g trillion gigantic fishes from hell, who created this place? Poseidon and Hades? Did a leviathan just start f.u.c.k.i.n.g everyone to give them that size? I don’t understand this entire place!
(Why not try fighting back, friend?)
“How do I do that? Don’t my one-poke spear is in their hands and I don’t want to risk being pasted just to get it!”
(Sheesh, you’re a demigod with the mana of a dragon, want me to teach you a spell that can solve population problems?)
“I don’t think ‘population problems’ is the right term for it, you probably mean species extinction!”
(Hahaha, friend, it’s population problems, It’s not like we’re killing them all, just enough that they will not be a bother)
I looked behind me and swam quicker again, the distance between us was about 15 meters, far but super close if you count their size.
“Tell me your plan!”
(It’s a spell, just say ‘Ventus Promouit’ and face the enemy! I guarantee their defeat at your hands…)
I did as he said and stopped swimming to face the 2 trillion fish-lions slowly closing in, I inhaled before channeling the near infinite mana I had and said the chant given to me.
“VENTUS PROMOUIT!”
(…Literally, I forgot to mention)
At first I expected a giant tornado but in less the 3 seconds [EX Instinct] warned me that I was about to go melee against 2 trillion fish-lions. Yep, the spell was just an over glorified dash, damn voice got me good.
“SCREW YOUUUUUUUUUUUU”
The first fish saw me coming close and allowed itself to bite me, but luckily I had the mind to use faithful wish, despite the chaotic situation, and get myself a decent sword, no point naming it as it’s just a little bit better version of what the knights have. I dodged the upcoming nom-nom strike, how? I dived back down and swam up with sword stabbing it just right at it’s belly button.
‘I need land!’
(There’s a fairly okay island to your west, it’s pretty close if you spam 7 ventus promouit)
F.u.c.k that but I’ll do it anyways! There’s nothing to lose. Nope, I either become fish food or they become motes of light.
“VENTUS PROMOUIT x7!”
Even while underwater, the amount of air the spell made was enough to propel me a few meters forward the first time around, but as I continued using it the distance grew longer and longer until the last cast made me dash for 30 meters, that is insane for an auxiliary spell.
I ignored the still angry 2 trillion minus 1 fish-lions and got myself on the island, my armor wasn’t really that troubled by the wetness but I needed as much mobility as I could get myself so I removed the armor and removed my shirt, the island was around 67 meters in all direction from the center, I used [EX Instinct] and according to my chosen course of action, 2 trillion fish-lions, no specifically 2,499,999,999,999 with each fish dealt in most probably 2 seconds gives me an estimate of 10,000,000,000,000 seconds and that’s bullshit! Rex Form won’t help me in this situation.
“Crap! Crap!”The first fish-lion finally came and it didn’t mind me being in land and straight up came to swallow me, I quickly moved to the side and swiftly decapitated the fish, the whole action did take 2 seconds but what I didn’t account for was that, the moment they saw me have the advantage in 1v1 they quickly charged at me in swarms, I have never felt any greater fear compared to seeing 978,345 monsters with 3 meter mouths trying to swallow me at the same time, for f.u.c.ks sake the whole sky was covered and I don’t even know how! [EX Instinct] showed me another course of action and this time it was a very complicated piece of shit.
A solid hit and run guerilla warfare where I had to take out 978,345 fish-lions in 2 seconds by using [Burst Boost] to throw out 3 different smaller blades changing positions quickly with a 4 stack ventus promouit, and doing the same thing over and over again, I created 4 instead and used [Burst Boost] on each one of them before throwing them all out, they did as expected and 978,345 were taken out, of course, my actual blade killed the most with a super charged [EX Mana Burst] that was pretty much a quasi-caliburn in power.
“How long would this take!?”
I continued using the over glorified dash and creating another 4 smaller blades throwing them out and then following up with a quasi-caliburn [EX Mana Burst] attack, [EX Knight of Owner] and [EX Gigantic Beast Hunt] helped severely in making sure the sword was able to last and before I knew it, a day has passed.My arms and legs were feeling pain that wasn’t supposed to be possible for me, my near infinite mana was used to permanently act like my muscles and bones, since it was badly worn out.
By 7 days, I was thirsty and hungry, so while killing the beasts I drank the blood that came spraying out from those that were luckily decapitated, the raw meat was disgusting but I had to eat what I could in so little time, I wanted to just give up but a certain voice kept giving me motivation.(You’ll see that girl again if you win this! Imagine telling her that you survived fighting 2 trillion beasts!)’Elaine…WHY HER?! WHY NOT MY DAD AND SEE HIS FACE BE IN AWE BECAUSE HE CAN’T POSSIBLY DO IT?'(Then your dad! Yes, friend! Make your own legend, fighting against 2 trillion fish monsters and coming out alive!)I ignored him again by that point, why? Because the big boys were starting to show themselves, my mouth tasted like rusty iron and my throat was actually full of fish bones, yes it hurts but not by much that it would possibly disturb me.
By 8 weeks of continuous fighting, the island was barely an island, all the trees were gone and the surrounding was more of a battlefield than a peaceful shore, blood and clearly bitten parts of fishes were floating near the waters and I continued slashing and throwing, I had the world’s deepest eyebags too! Yeah, considering the fact that I was not able to sleep for 8 weeks now, my head felt hazy and I made mistakes once or twice every now and then, it’s not major enough that I failed the status quo of 978,345 per 2 seconds but minor enough that I gained injuries, thanks to [EX Battle Continuation] I was hanging on and it somehow healed, probably, gonna have to check them later.
2 months. I’ve been fighting for 2 months, the island was slowly sinking, and by now I’ve lost usage of my right eye, it wasn’t bad enough that I was blind but it was blurry enough to make me almost miss, solution? I had to close it. By this time, Leviathans and Krakens have already started appearing, they took the same treatment of dying and believe me when I say that these guys have no fear. I don’t even know why they’re still going, I’ve killed so much that the seas near the sinking island was red as actual blood already.
2 months and 3 weeks of fighting. I gave up twice already buy my body moved on it’s own, so I had no choice but to continue fighting, I lost count of how many I’ve killed but their numbers were visibly smaller now, my left eye was now with the same problem, all blurry, I couldn’t see shit so I had to create glasses and help me survive against whatever remained, the whales have started appearing, apparently with their large sizes they were the bosses of this place and the Leviathans were far from the original so they weren’t that high in the fish-lion rankings, oh did I mention how the whales had the ability to create barriers and were technically psychics? No? Well, they were and I had to adjust a little to fight back.
The last wave. 3 months, only a million was left, the one-poke spear was close but I opted not to use it, I didn’t want to go crazy while already nearly insane, I might just kill myself. The last batch were all whales and I had the worst time of my life, no new skills came from me and since the beginning I was using [EX Knowledge of Melee Combat] to help me manage making it probably the most useful skill ever in my opinion. Finally, at last, they have arrived! My last victims!
“HAHAHA! This is it! My final attack! MANA——”
“REVENGE FOR THE KING!”
They combined all the beams they gathered near their forehead and sent it to me, a full beam of brain power by 1 million whales, but it’s time for me to rest.
“—BURST!”
And finally, a bright light came from my sword, purple, and strong, the last spurt of my mana all for this one blow…
“It’s…over”
3 months of endless fighting, my back reached the ground quickly, I was submerged in water though since the island was already shin deep in water when I fell. I stared at the sunset, and from beside me the Frigus Aurora floated in the bloody waters until it was beside me, damn spear started this and it still wants to be with me, I closed my eyes at last. I don’t even care anymore, I just wanted to sleep and with the last seconds of me being awake the voice said something I won’t ever understand.
(The Grand General of Chaos is truly an existence above all others huh? My best friend, that was a splendid show truly~ I can never be bored with you around, now go on and sleep, I’ll protect you while you do so, HAHAHA consider it payment for the front seat experience!)
Yep, whatever. Not important.
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The sound of doors creak open reverberated throughout the entire cottage. Yes, it was me, Victor Malum Noctis Lionheart, all in flesh and now back at the peaceful grasslands after my heroic achievements of 1 vs 2 trillion. It should be a normal, I go back to bed and rest and flashback and inspiration and shit, right?
Well, not mine then, because right now, a familiar lion costumed son of a bitch is standing laying down in my bed.
“Why are you here?”
Red eyed, blonde, loli. If I wasn’t so mentally tired, I might’ve just charged at the damn thing right now.
“Oooh, cool spear, gyao!”
I pointed Frigus Aurora at her, this thing was not to be trusted. I ramped up [EX Instinct] and it showed no movements from her, I still wasn’t buying it and stayed at the door waiting for her to make the first move or sentence.
“Oi, oi, relax why won’t you, gyao!”
“I won’t considering how that nearly costed me my life before”
“Hey at least you’re strong now right, gyao!?”
She started stretching like a cat at my bed and sat up with her feet swinging, she looks so relaxed it was rather annoying, her face was was smug like she won something but I don’t know what.
“Hey, what happens when 80% of a kingdom’s nobility revolted when the said kingdom was only a day away from war?”
I narrowed my eyes at her question, should this be taken literally or is she basing this figuratively, the damn thing was as cryptic as always!
“Won’t the kingdom lose?”
She grinned and sighed after a few moments, her expression wasn’t helping either as her face was rather annoying to look at, especially with her eyes that looked at me with smug and disdain.
“Indeed, the kingdom lost but they were as persistent as a roach, who knew they had the power of literally 2 Goddesses instead of 1?!”
No way.
“Oh? Did the last sentence clue you in?”
I didn’t bother with any more words and attacked her with the spear, [EX Instinct] showed her next actions but she as usual, speed beats instinct in more cases than usual.
“Angry, feisty, coward aren’t you, gyao~”
“Tell me what the hell did you do?!”
I twirled the spear on top of me and pulled it back quickly, my muscles bulged and orange sparks came from me as [EX Mana Burst] helped me increase my speed to nearly match hers, I made a quick thrust but she dodged it without any effort, was she always this fast?
“Welp, I won’t tell~ you just have to eliminate the 3 other remaining den kings now and find out for yourself, gyao~”
I clicked my tongue and watched as she slowly contorted and twisted before disappearing, I took my chance and threw the spear but it missed and just went straight out of the cottage.
(Friend, relax. Your mother and father are a Goddess and a demigod respectively, they won’t die to pretty much anything, especially youn- your father)
“And how do you know that huh?”
(The fact that this place is still working should be enough proof, after all his mana runs this place one way or the other)
The voice managed to calm me down and just to vent out a little bit of my frustration, I punched the walls, it looked cool being angry so excuse me. Anyways, I wished for a quickie rest but with the way things developed, I might need to lose 3% more of my life just to rush this place…scratch that, I’m sure I can finish this place in no less than 2 years now. I’m 100% sure about this, my only problem would be ‘that’, I want to know what’s on top of this place and it still hasn’t been forgotten.
I laid down at the bed and closed my eyes. I managed to get 3 hours of sleep before my anxiousness couldn’t stop anymore and I just had to do something already. I stood up with only the spear of death with me, there was no need for anything else.
“Okay! Let’s face north den! Pun intended”
In front of me was the same level of creepy sign ‘Love~ Welcome to north den of mountains Love~’
As soon as I entered, the whole surrounding changed like usual. A dark, stony, not plant suitable soil welcomed me along with…wyverns, lots and lots of wyverns and big mountains.
“This is going to be sooooooo fun”
