DxD: Emperor of Chaos

CHAPTER 10

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It was currently nighttime, and he was out in the open field once more after dinner. He already drank a cup of coffee, Boosting the caffeine inside his body, so he had all the time in the world to train, and then he could maximize the time of grinding.

The whole day, he spent training his physical body. Now, he was going to train his Demonic Magic. More specifically, techniques that would help in the Rating Game that’s coming 9 days from now.

His current list of techniques that he mastered with Demonic Magic are as followed;

Instantaneous Movement

Flight

Demonic Bullets

- Demonic Tracking Bullets

- Demonic Beam Attacks

Demonic Shackles

Demonic Strengthening Boost

The list was… Horribly short, that’s why he needed to create new ones that would help his current build. He had a few ideas of techniques for fighting devils, but 9 days was cutting it too short in his opinion.

At most, he reckoned that he could only create and master 4 techniques, so he had to choose wisely.

First, he needed a sure-hit attack. An attack that will hit with 100% accuracy. With enemies that could fly, and random magic bullshit that may cause a good attack to miss, any damage would go a long way in a fight.

Second, he needed a defence technique. Something that will block or deflect enemy attacks. He could replicate Punisher Shield with demonic energy, or maybe an aura barrier, the possibilities are endless with magic. Another hit survived is another second in combat, after all.

Third, he needed a crowd control technique. Something that will catch someone in surprise and cause them to falter. Even a millisecond of flinching would change the tides of a battle,

Lastly, an ultimate move that would win a match, something that will blast through everything in its way and grant him victory. This must be big, and deadly. He already had the perfect idea of what it was going to be. Besides, it's cool having an ultimate technique that one can yell out.

He wrote down a list of techniques that fit every single requirement and went through them one by one to choose the best techniques before choosing the perfect move for each category to be added into his repository of techniques.

Circling on the 4 that he chosen, he took another look at his move set before nodding to himself… Yes, that can work. That can definitely work. They combo well with each other.

Praise the big G for giving him this Twice Critical. With it, his demonic energy regeneration rate is doubled, meaning he could do twice as much experimenting than normal. He could even train his stamina while he’s busy magicking it out.

Alright then, these 4 he will focus on then, while other magic spells will be minor priorities. Getting up, he stretched his body before letting his wings out, flying deeper in the woods. He had some Magic creating to do.

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He will curse the demon of a master for this. He and Buchou were discussing the training that currently suited Hyoudou when suddenly she told him to stay put as she entered a room. A few seconds later, she arrived.

“Oya? Akira-kun, are you perhaps… avoiding me?”

Akira who was frantically darting his eyes around the hallway to try to find an escape route simply laugh nervously. What was this weird architecture of just a long narrow hallway and doors? There were no windows at all!

“W-What? Me? Psh, no! I-I… I just simply don’t look at you in the eye!”

Akeno who had a scary smile took a step closer, to which Akira took one back. Another forward, another backwards. This dance continued until his back suddenly hit a wall. He turned to look, they were in a T-junction that separated a hallway into two other hallways.

“It seems that you have nowhere to run… Ufufufu, I will enjoy this.”

“I… Please, don’t?”

At that moment, his lifeline came. Kiba who was passing by. Their eyes met, and Kiba’s eyes glanced over at Akeno who glared at him. He took a moment before he mouthed out a sentence… With an apologetic look.

“Sorry, I am not getting near that.”

K-Kiba! You traitor! And he was power-walking away swiftly, he will remember this!

A jolt of electricity rushes down his spine as his chin gets cupped by Akeno’s hands, forcefully tilting his head so that his head was facing hers. His breath hitches as her other free hand snakes up and wrapped around his neck. Their faces were so close to each other, their foreheads would touch with just a single inch of movement.

“That is not nice, Akira-kun… Keeping this Onee-san at arms’ length. I thought we were comrades, we need to… get closer to one another.”

His heart pounded when Akeno’s right leg leaned on his, her body pushing onto his, feeling the pillows flattening on his chest. Their forehead touched, and he could smell the lavender scented shampoo. Her right knee slowly started moving up from his kneecaps to his thigh —

“… It’s time for magic training.”

His head turned so fast that he swore that he almost broke it looking at Toujou. Seriously, he was about to cry, his bro came to save the day!

“… Ara, Koneko-chan, what a surprise.”

… Akeno had an annoyed tone as she greeted the white-haired girl. He guessed that she was mad at the sudden interruption of the teasing? Quickly, while she was looking at Toujou, Akira wormed his way out of her grasps.

“… Ryuuto, is with me.”

The petite girl voiced out as Akeno crossed her arms, which unintentionally pushes up her amazingly-sized breasts, with a glare towards Toujou.

“Sorry, Akeno-san! I had an appointment with Toujou, so see you soon!”

Rapidly, he gave an excuse before grabbing the smaller girl’s arm dragging her away from the stare-down between the two women in the area. Phew, women are scary beings indeed.

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Currently, it was day 7 of the training camp, and Buchou had gathered us around the field behind the mansion.

“Use your Boosted Gear, Ise.”

Buchou told Hyoudou who did so without any complaints, but he had a confused look on his face since this was the first time that she requested him to use his Boosted Gear. Ah, looking at the beautiful Sacred Gear just made him annoyed that it wasn’t him who has it, but he simply sighed and let it go.

“It should be okay to have Yuuto as the opponent.”

“Yes.”

Kiba comes forward after Buchou urges him to. The two stood a few feet from each other as Buchou told Hyoudou.

“Ise, activate your Sacred Gear before the mock battle. Let’s see……we will start the battle two minutes after you activate your Sacred Gear.”

“Y-Yes.”

Hyoudou raised his right arm into the sky, and yelled out.

“Boost!”

[BOOST!]

The Sacred Gear cried out as he noted the difference between the voices of his and Hyoudou’s boosting equipment. His Twice Critical resembled more to his own voice, though deeper and had a slight reverb to it, while the Boosted Gear’s voice was rugged and low.

Ten seconds later, another Boost is announced.

[BOOST!]

Hyoudou’s magic signature increased again, but he could see that Hyoudou was nearing his limit.

The drawbacks of the Boosted Gear, other than the time-based Boosts, were the energy consumption and the body’s limit. The energy consumption was simple, the more he Boosts, the higher cost of stamina needed to maintain the Boost. If he Boosted 3 times, then his stamina drain is 3 times heavier.

[BOOST!]

Second was the limitations of the user’s body. It’s easy enough, his body can handle up to so much power before the cap is reached, or else he would faint on the spot.

[BOOST!]

Thus, he had to stop additional Boosts from accumulating every 10 seconds once he was nearing his limit or else he would stress his body to the point of failure.

[BOOST!]

[BOOST!]

[BOOST!]

[BOOST!]

[BOOST!]

[BOOST!]

[BOOST!]

[BOOST!]

By the time Hyoudou received his twelfth Boost, Buchou told him to stop and to gain the additional power.

“Let’s do this, Boosted Gear!”

[EXPLOSION!]

Explosion represents the stop of the power ups and acts as a stopper. Once the announcement was called, Hyoudou could fight in the increased powered state for a few minutes, depending on the number of Boosts. The lower the number of Boosts, the longer he could fight using the boost.

“Ise, I want you to fight Yuuto in that state. Yuuto, I will ask you to be his opponent.”

“Yes, Buchou.”

Kiba makes his stance by pointing his bokuto toward him after Buchou ordered her Knight.

“Ise, do you want to use a sword? Or do you want to fight with bare hands?”

Hyoudou took a second to think before shaking his head, raising his Boosted Gear.

“I will fight bare handed!”

“Very well. Now then, I’ll ask the both of you to start.”

Hyoudou then got into a combat stance that resembled Akira’s, no matter how many holes of vulnerabilities it had.

*SWISH!*

Kiba used his speed to disappear from his initial spot before reappearing in front of Hyoudou with his sword already swinging downwards. The wooden sword came down, and —

*BANG!*

And Hyoudou fucking blocked it with his Boosted Gear. He blocked Kiba’s full speed attack. The look on both fighter’s faces was filled with surprise, but Hyoudou was the first one who recovered as he threw out a rudimentary punch towards Kiba’s face.

*SWIFT!*

Kiba’s body disappears just before Hyoudou hit him, and his punch cuts through the air, the power behind that punch sending a gust in the distance. The Boosted Gear wielder darted his face to try and find the Knight, and then looked up after process of elimination.

Kiba who was in the air came crashing down as his wooden sword slammed onto Hyoudou’s head, causing a very loud THUNK! to sound.

“Ouch! — ”

Hyoudou once again recovered with abnormal rates as he swiped his right leg towards Kiba who just landed on the ground on his legs. Safe to say, that Hyoudou’s fighting instinct were spot-on, he would have done that too if he were fighting Kiba, attacking him while he was landing to the ground.

*SWISH!*

He managed to dodge the kick, though it did graze Kiba’s left arm slightly. And as Kiba took a few steps back to distance himself, Buchou shouted out.

“Ise! Fire your demonic-power! Shoot it with a shape you imagine the most!”

Hyoudou obeyed Buchou’s words as he reeled his left arm back while his right was raised towards Kiba. A small ball of black demonic energy formed in front of the right arm’s palm, the size of a rice grain.

His face flashed with frustration as he punched the rice grain shaped ball of energy with his left arm when suddenly —

*GUOOOOOOHHHHHHH!!!*

The ball of demonic energy expanded in size and shot out like a beam, its radius dwarfing the height of its user as it flew towards Kiba with speed. Of course, with this speed, Kiba dodged it easily, but it continued its journey with nothing stopping it until it hit the mountain far from them and —

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!*

… The mountain blew up. Holy shit, the mountain’s tip is gone with a clear “u” shape that was carved by the beam of demonic energy. Akira just stared at the damage done by the 12 Boosted beam of demonic energy.

Yep, definitely have to create some kind of multiplier to enhance his abilities.

Damn, that Sacred Gear is just bullshit.