Dxd: Master Of Shadows - Volume 2 Chapter 17 17
“HNGGYYYYAAA”
A wyvern-lion started charging at me for no reason, my dad always told me that Wyverns were similar to bandits.
“Crazy aggression”
I created a slightly-better-than a-knight’s sword sword and proceeded with the next action, I didn’t bother to stay at one spot so I moved while making sure to land a killing blow at the Wyvern-lion’s neck.
“If I was a king of…I’ll take a guess and say dragon-lion, where would I hide?”
I tried guessing but it was empty so the only possible action was to say f.u.c.k you and rely on [EX Instinct] for 2 minutes just to guess the proper direction to go for. I stood in a single spot for 3 minutes much to my annoyance, stupid dragons were a little too hard to spot, but that means nothing because I still found em’
“A cave, a big cave in a big mountain in a big spot of land, a truly kingly location”
I went to the south of where I was, and along the way I saw many different types of winged creatures. Yep, this wasn’t just dragons but anything that has wings in particular, but wyvern-lions were still the majority, f.u.c.k.i.n.g Hyenas in draconic forms.
[EX Instinct] says climb up a tree and stay at the tree!
It barely saved me from being roasted Victor!
“A fire breathing dragon-lion? Cool, I’ve wanted to know what they tasted like~”
After staying on top of the tree for a few seconds, I used [EX Instinct] again and followed the best course of action. 4 seconds of movement towards the dragon, 2 seconds of total combat, 1 second of me posing in victory…okay, skip the last part.
I swung from tree to tree until I saw a lion-ish head popping out from a cave nearby, the dragon-lion sense me from quite far away it seems, not that far but pretty far in all sense of the word. 4 seconds were up, I landed beside the dragon, making it open its eyes at the raw Victor instead of the medium rare one.
“One serving of dragon ala king…well I hope it was a king, but still a dragon up!”
I decapitated the thing with [Burst Boost] and took made myself a fire while skewering whatever could be skewered. I learned some fire starter magic before, or like, a few hours ago, basically chant fire and fire comes up, cool, I feel like a magician now.
And so I spent some few more minutes of eating the dragon, heck, did you know that dragon blood while heated up tasted like barbecue sauce? I didn’t and now I’m making sure to stockpile on dragon blood…
“That sounds a little too vampire-ish”
After the hearty meal, I continued on with my journey to the south.
Umu.
“Okay, on second thoughts, another dragon wouldn’t sound so bad…heh”
This time, I finally went on to my journey to the south and not only after a few hours, my first obstacle finally showed itself!
“A mountain…”
(That’s as big as Mt. Targon, friend. Careful, if you fall it won’t kill you but it would hurt)
“Can’t I just use [EX Mana Burst] and dash my way up along with ventus promouit?”
(Sure, if you want to attract attention and maybe a repeat of your ‘heroic’ 3 month battle, go ahead friend)
Yeah, no. I’ll climb it, easy peasy.
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*4 weeks later*
“That was stupid”
(It was a good climb I say, friend. People take 80 days to climb Mt. Targon you know?)
‘Waduhek is Targon anyway?!’
I continued my last spurts of climbing as I reached a cold flat ground. The last few weeks were very similar to a thermometer, from raging hot due to volcanoes for no reason, all the way to being cold as f.u.c.k because of the atmosphere…or so does my [Mind Library] say. I used [EX Instinct] to double check if my journey to the south was as correct as a certain monkey’s journey is and gladly it was.
“Now then, big location and big mountain done! Big cave to go…or which big cave to go”
I wanted to use my cheat path finder but, there’s no point to an adventure if we don’t enjoy em’ right? Right…
“Say, should I go left or right?”
(I say, jump back down and start killing a million wyvern-lions)
I stuck out my tongue and pretended I was puking, you know, the comical style.
“No, I’m not using the spear unless I need to”
(At least you’re learning, huh, friend?)
I sighed and went to the left cave, additionally it was filled with countless different dragon-lions before I got to it, cool things were killed with…decapitation because I was hungry and so just like the rest, I spent a good amount of time outside the blizzard prone cave while eating dragon meat with dragon blood.
Afterwards, I took the time to rest and sleep. Just used Faithful Wish and get myself a portable bed along with the pillow I always have with me, good night.
But of course! Rejoice Victor! [EX Instinct] says wake the f.u.c.k up and dodge to the right, and dodge to the right I did, only to find a dragon-lion sticking it’s head inside my tiny little cave of coolness and freedom.
“What’s your problem?!”
“The King has sent you his regards, if you manage to survive either left cave of molting heat or the right cave of chilling cold, he will consider having a 1v1 bout with you, boy”
I stared at the dragon-lion for a bit, he looked so damn tasty but he was civil so no dragon-lion BBQ as midnight snacks
GRUGRUGRU
Bad stomach!
“Anyways, keep in mind that the cave of molting heat would get rather molting heat after a few more steps so if you’re made of ice be sure to, well, ya’ know, live”
“Do I look like I’m made of ice?”
“It was a joke, an example joke. Sheesh, I try so hard to learn human humor and you act either too afraid or just look at me with pity”
After that, the civil dragon-lion left me, and I continued my beauty sleep.
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“Victor!”
I slowly opened my eyes and saw myself at a battlefield once more, in front of me was a peach haired girl with extremely revealing clothes, she had a hairband that acted as some sort of crown and her whole clothing was pink themed. She started laughing at me while whipping me with a horse whip, you know, the short bendy ones with square looking tips. Oh, and it doesn’t hurt, it’s a dream and I’m fully aware, but I’ll try my best to keep in the dream.
“Ohohoho~ Oh my dear, Victor! Why must you punish yourself my love~ just say you love me and I will allow you to feel relief…inside of me~”
Please end this dream now.
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And I awoke.
“Never again, nope, I don’t think I’m going to ever come close to girls with peach hair, nuh uh, definitely no way”
I began packing away my portable bed and leaving there, you know someone might come in here in the future and decide he wants to sleep so I keep the bed there.
“Alrighty! Let’s step forward the molting heat!”
…
“OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH!”
I rolled at the ground, molting heat? More like catch on fire heat! The thing just started sizzling me and then set me on fire after a good 4 seconds! Goodness gracious is that even normal?!
(I don’t think it’s aimed to be normal, friend)
“No shit!”
Ok, keep calm, think and relax, what do you do when you get burnt the first time you enter a cave? Simple.
I walked away from the cave and fought my way to the right one, a few extra dragon meat was reserved.
“You switch caves”
I inhaled and did a few warmup strikes using the sword I’ve always had and after making sure that I wasn’t going to burn anytime soon, I went for the chilling cold!
…
“W-W-W-W-WH-WH-WHY?!”
I didn’t last 3 seconds. What’s the point of all my hardsh.i.p.s if cold and hot makes me useless? No is this even normal hot and cold?!
“Voice! I give up, maybe I’ll just get a million souls instead”
(Dumb friend, if you want my help then just ask, anyways try coating yourself with mana as you go in, I mean not your [EX Mana Burst] but as in literally coat yourself with mana, like a secondary skin)
I took heed of the advice and begin coating myself with mana, I’m fully aware of how much of a genius I am and so, my confidence with using mana was through the roofs. In fact I don’t think I’ll ever fail a single spell in my remaining 16 years…or 14 years of life left!
“Done-zo! Okay, back to the chilling cold!”
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“Woah, it’s crystal clear in here”
I walked forward, now with no chittering chatters because of the cold. The first I’ve observed was how the entire place was more of a castle made of ice than a cave, I mean if the carpet wasn’t a sell off then, yes.
After a few minutes of mindless walking throughout the gigantic castle of ice, I realized that there was technically nothing to be done.
“Am I missing something?”
(A lot, if you actually used your eyes, for example see how those carpets are in the same pattern as a rainbow but slightly altered?)
Oh, wow. Didn’t see that one, [EX Instinct] would’ve but definitely not me alone.
“Okay, so the rainbow goes red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet”
As soon as I fixed it, a gigantic hidden door opened from the ends of the carpet, it was leading down.
“I kind of feel like an adventurer right now…”
(Poor choice of jobs)
I went down the stairs and once I reached the bottom, I probably squealed…probably.
“KYAAAAA! Look! It’s a treasure trove of dragons! Dragon blood and dragon meat, all in all ready for me!”
I thanked the Gods of all the pantheons for giving me everlasting dinner, well, I hoped it would be dinner but sadly it wasn’t. In front of me was a sign, like any other. Except that this was literally telling me to find a key inside all these flesh, huh…
“I just need to find a key right?”
So it was dinner after all! It didn’t take…or rather last long enough until I eventually found the key, it was a dragon shaped key but half, now that I think about it, whenever I walk towards the left of this room, the temperature rises…
(The caves all lead to this place and that half of a key, friend)
“I could tell that on my own”
I tidied myself up from the colossal BBQ party I just had and moved towards the next room, this time it was all fancy and dandy, like how you would expect a throne room to be. Eww, I felt a little shiver run through my spine after every step.
No, it was not cold, just freaky like…something weird lived here, oh nice jinx. After 4 more steps, backwards mind you. A sudden light shined upon me, along with a clap or something similar to a clap.
“YOROKOBE SHOUNEN!”
(That’s copyrig-)
“Enemy?!”
I took out my spear this time, it won’t hurt to one shot freaky sounding weird clapping invisible rejoicing peeps right? No?
I took my spear away and the voice finally showed it’s true form!
“Gasp! It’s you! Civil dragon-lion?!”
The civil dragon-lion from before was now in front of me, I had my suspicions but never really decide to put them out because it didn’t matter.
“That’s right, boy! I’m the dragon-lion king of the north den! A cool plot twist, huh?”
I pity this dude.
“Oh come on, any reaction? Aside from the over exaggerated gasp and the blatant pitying looks you have?”
I continued giving him pitying looks.
“Forget it, I’m a rather peaceful dragon-king, there’s an exception when Guider is part of the equation but yes, I’m mostly a pacifist”
“Guider?”
“Tigress, as you ironically named her”
I already knew where he was heading with this conversation so I prepared my sword already, this was going to either be long drawn out fight or a short one…
“So, as promised, we get a 1v1 duel, if you kill me then you get the other half of the key but if I kill you then you are dead”
“People die when they are killed after all”
(Why?)
‘Shut it, it was the perfect opportunity!’
“Now, boy, show me your might and if you deserve the treasure that lays on top of the throne of lions!”
(THERE IS A TREASURE IN HERE?!)
I ignored the voice and entered battle mode, because the dragon in front of me enlarged to at the very least 30 meters, this actually feels like a boss fight. Unknowingly a smile already formed at my lips as the thrill of the challenge has once again started acting up against me, this was not a battle where I was troubled with surviving unlike before, but this was a battle where I could do as I please and win thus this ought to be.
“Fun”
