Devils, Angels, and a Gamer

by Phoenix Champion

Vincent Lane, once had a boring life, now finds himself as The Gamer in Kuoh Academy. Now's he's got several things on his to do list: Survive, help Rias and her Peerage, and completely screw over any and all opposition to the safety of his friends and perhaps some other people. Now if only he could figure out where to draw the line on this harem he's getting. OCxHarem, IsseixHarem

16. Chapter 16

Oh dear lord these Admin need a new server…

Breya: I know, these crashes keep happening and they take all day.

Liefe: Exactly that's why Phoenix is having to write this chapter in Google Doc's like he did a long time ago.

Mila: Pop sure was stressed today, headache plus no mental relief means… Eh… Not something I want to think of pop doing.

PC: Yeah yeah, let's just hope I'm sane enough to write this one tonight… And that I can remember who was who off the top of my head so I don't have to go back and edit.

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"So." I asked as I took Misha and Rogue to my Sanctuary's market, specifically the Weapon shop, "What kind of weapons do you two prefer?"

This was something I actually wanted to know, because my knowledge of the Werewolves in the DxD world is this… Sona's got a half werewolf in her Peerage, and they are rivals to the vampires… Literally, that's it. I don't even know if they can transform at will or not.

"Don't worry about getting me anything." Rogue said grinning, "Unlike full blooded Werewolves we half blooded Werewolfs can transform whenever without needed to train like hell."

"So does that mean you've got to strip for milord before you're any kind of help?" Misha asked with a twitching eyebrow… Oh this in not going to end well is it?

"Nah." Rogue said, "You ever seen a female Werewolf when we're sanely transformed? This things don't just go away." Rogue emphasized her chest by grabbing her tits, "I begged mom to get me a suit that stretches with my body because everytime I transformed my tit's were swinging everywhere and it was sooooo embarrassing."

I… have no idea what to say to that, so i turned to Misha, "So, how about you Misha?"

"Knives." Misha said, "I'm no murderous psychopath, but I do fancy myself a good knife thrower and knife fighter." Misha puffed her chest up in pride with that, "Why Carmilla decided to give me a sword is beyond my comprehension."

"Does that chick really think you guys are just cannon fodder?" Rogue asked tilting her head, "Cause that is really dumb. That's like buying the wrong ammo for a minigun, it won't be shooting anything… But I suppose if you whack someone in the head with it you can kill them…"

I quickly bought a set of 50 throwing knives, with belt holsters, and a Combat Knife for her to use close combat.

"Thank you milord." Misha said attaching the belts and putting the combat Knife on her thigh, "So what are we hunting to show you our capabilities?"

"I'm going to open up an Instant Dungeon filled with creatures." I explained summoning a Shade, "In that Dungeon there will be an infinite supply of these Shades, all hostile. That's what we are hunting."

"How many are we killing?" Rogue said as she, literally, dropped her pants, revealing as black suit that was skin tight and reached her knees… And by skin tight I mean if I were to focus on her I could probably trace her lower lips through the contours of the suit.

I thought on the Shade killing for a moment… "About… As many as I feel." I deadpanned, "I need a lot of Shade Cloth, because that stuff is damn good for weapon modification."

"Why is that?" Rogue asked throwing off her shirt, revealing the red of the suit holding her breasts back and the sleeves being non-existent.

Instead of answering I pulled out my Shade Revolver and fired it at my feet, making a hole in the ground with no sound.

Misha whistled in approval, "That explains why we could never hear the sniper from the attack." Misha said.

"Let's go then." Rogue said, "I feel like I'm getting rusty with my claws." She then gave a feral looking grin, teeth glinting in the light as her canine teeth appeared much larger than the rest.

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It didn't take long for the first Shade to appear in the I.D. Though I was surprised it was all alone.

Misha didn't even have time to react when Rogue ran forward and began her transformation.

First off, her muscles bulged… As in she looked like a steroid induced bodybuilder in a few seconds, then black fur started to grow from her body, a tail slipping out of a hole built into her suit, her legs turned digitigrade as he feet turned into paws, her face stretched out into a wolf's muzzle, her fingernails turned into intimidating claws.

And her tit's grew a cup size… Naturally.

Rogue howled in delight as her claws tore the Shade into ribbons… Quite literally.

Five more Shade's showed up in front of Rogue, with their hooks at the ready.

Rogue turned into a black blur of fur and claws as she appeared in front of one Shade with her jaws biting off the hood of the Shade, spitting the hood out she quickly tore the other Shades into flecks.

"Yikes." I said.

"Feral bitch." Misha grumbled as she crossed her arms. Rogue's wolf ears twitched when Misha said that.

And Rogue calmly flipped Misha off.

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"Let Misha take care of these next Shades Rogue." I said sternly as I held Misha by the scruff of her neck, "You've killed all of the last twenty."

Rogue looked at me with wide eyes, her ears drooped, and she was making a whining sound that was really testing my mental fortitude.

Misha was just snickering at Rogue's misfortune.

"I'll find a way to punish you too Misha if you don't cut it with that laughing." I warned, "I'm pretty sure getting your foot stomped on hurts no matter who you are."

"S-Sorry milord." Misha said.

Thankfully for Misha a set of seven Shade's appeared, which caused the Vampire to grin and pull out a set of her throwing knives.

Her first five Knifes were all quickly embedded in the body of a Shade, quickly killing it before Misha dashed up to the rest of the Shade's with her Combat Knife out. She cut the arms of a Shade before stabbing it in the chest, the next had it's chest cut open, and the rest were hacked apart in various ways.

"Not bad." I mused as Misha sprinted to my side.

Misha beamed at my comment as she slightly blushed, only to glare at Rogue who stuck her tongue out at the Vampiress.

"Grow up puppy." Misha growled at Rogue, who returned it with a literal growl.

"Hey! Knock it off you two!" I shouted hitting the two in the back of their heads.

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We, this time including me and my revolver, spent the next few hours killing off hordes of Shades.

That's when I knew we killed too much

[Warning! Boss approaching!]

[Boss Appearance OST: Persona Q- Equilibrium]

"Oh shit." I muttered reloading my gun.

"What's wrong?" Misha asked.

"It's boss time." I said, "Kill enough monsters in an Instant Dungeon and a Boss Monster appears ready to kick your ass."

'OoOoOooOoOoOoOoOoOoUuUuUuUhHh…'

That was the sound that rang out through the forest as the boss appeared.

It was massive, about as big as my house, it's body was a black robe with a pointed hood, except the robe was opened up in the front, and was constantly billowing at the bottom inside the robe was nothing but a dark smoke, it's sleeves however were split open in several places as deep gray skeletal hands that was as big as me hovered at the end of the sleeves, which were leaking black smoke.

[Lord of the Shade's]

[Shadow Wraith]

[Lvl 30]

[HP 1,000/1,000]

[MP?/?]

"Okay… That's bad." Misha said as she took a step back as Rogue growled at the Shadow Wraith.

"OoOoOoOoOoAaAaAaAaAaHhHhHhH!" The Shadow Wraith roared, which actually was loud enough to kick up a strong wind.

[I.D. Boss Ost: Shantae Half Genie Hero- Boss theme]

"Kill it!" I shouted firing my Shade Revolver at the Boss, which only dealt 5 damage to it, "Oh shit." I muttered as I noticed that Rogue couldn't reach it and Misha's knives were only doing 2 damage to it when she threw three at it.

"We're not doing any damage!" Misha shouted as the Shadow Wraith turned invisible.

"It's a boss!" Rogue shouted, apparently she could do that in wolf form, "If Vincent's life is like a video game then- Whoa!" Rogue was cut off as the Shadow Wraith appeared in front of her and slammed it's fist down on where she was if she hadn't dodged the attack before vanishing again.

"Then it's either got a weak spot of a moment of vulnerability!" I finished, "Play the waiting game and don't stop moving!"

Right as I said that the Shadow Wraith appeared again and slammed it's fist down on the ground, thankfully I jumped out of the way as Misha did the same.

The Shadow Wraith vanished again before repeating the same attack on Misha, who managed to barely dodge the attack before it vanished again.

It appeared in front of me once more, only this time with it's hand open. I jumped backwards and pulled out the Defiler as I knew what would happen, and I was right. The Shadow Wraith slammed it's open hand into the ground, getting it's fingers stuck in the ground.

"Take this!" I shouted pouring my energy into a downward swing with the Defiler.

The hammer-axe combo weapon smashed the Bosses hand, dealing 142 damage to the creature, causing it to shriek and turn invisible.

[You've created a New Skill]

[You've created Power Swing.]

[Basically a blunt Power Slash, NOW FOCUS ON THE BOSS!]

I pushed aside the notification screens as the Shadow Wraith appeared above us and cradled it's injured hand for a moment while curling it's fingers.

"Nice one!" Rogue called out, "That one really hurt it!"

The Shadow Wraith hiss as it raised it's hand, which formed an orb of electrical energy before it threw it at us.

"Incoming!" I shouted as we all jumped away, only to get caught in the after shock, I took 12 damage from it, not much but still something to be careful of.

The Shadow Wraith laughed as it raised it's hand once more and created another ball of electricity… Then I recognised this scene.

"I hope this works." I muttered pulling out my steel Katana and stood still with my sword held in front of me.

"What are you doing!" Misha asked.

"Toss Rogue a knife." I said, "And get ready to do what I do."

Misha nodded and tossed Rogue the knife, "And that is?" Misha asked as the Shadow wraith threw it's orb.

"Dead man's volley." I said before swinging my sword at the orb. The result being the orb flying back at the Shadow Wraith, which reacted well enough, batting the orb at Misha with the back of it's hand.

"I see." Misha said grinning as she slashed the orb back at the Shadow Wraith.

This repeated a few times for each of us before I used a Power Slash to reflect the orb, and the Shadow Wraith couldn't react fast enough and was struck by it's own attack.

Not only did it take a solid 100 damage from the orb itself, but it was thrown to the ground.

"Now! Pile on!" I shouted running toward the Shadow Wraith with Rogue.

My first strike was a quick single handed draw attack with my Katana, which did 32 damage and got me a skill

[You've created a new Skill]

[You've created Draw Slash]

[Draw your Katana for a quick and effective that can stun enemies, but not Bosses]

Putting that aside for later, Rouge slammed her claws into the Shadow Wraith just as Misha threw a set of ten daggers at it while I used a Power Slash, the total damage was 212.

Right after that though the Shadow Wraith vanished before reappearing in front of me… And charging at me.

"Whoa!" I shouted and dove out of the was as it punched Rogue and sent her flying."Rogue!"

"I'm good!" Rogue shouted as she stood back up, "Misha duck!"

Misha's body reacted quickly as she ducked under the Shadow Wraith which tried the same punch on her, only to instead slam it's fist into a tree that broke in half.

"Thanks!" Misha said as she stood up.

I glanced at the broken tree, "Misha, Rogue, grab the biggest part of that tree you can lift and throw it at the Shadow Wraith when it appears!" I ordered and began looking in a circle for the Shadow Wraith.

"Ready!" Misha shouted as the two lifted what I could assume was half a tree.

I turned around to see the Shadow Wraith barreling at me and the two behind me, "Now!" I shouted dropping to the ground as the two hurled the tree.

The chunk of wood slammed into the Shadow Wraith, causing it to twist back and do a backflip as it took 137 damage, vanishing soon afterwards.

"Nice job you two." I said standing up.

"Thank you milord." Misha said.

"I knew we could do it." Rogue said patting Misha on the back.

"It's not dead yet." I warned as the Shadow Wraith appeared at ground level.

"OoOoOoOoOoHhHhHhH!" It roared, sending out another shock wave that knocked me down. I stood back up in time for it to point it's palm at me, which briefly hold a black vortex and blast me in the chest with a short beam of darkness.

I took 101 damage from that.

"Shit that hurt." I groaned as rolled back to my feet as it aimed it's palm at me again, "Don't let it's attack hit you!" I shouted pulling out my Shade revolver and shot the vortex in it's palm.

This actually created a backlash of energy to the Shadow Wraith, causing an explosion of black smoke in its hands that did 34 damage to it.

"Nintendo must have had a hand in creating this." I muttered, causing Rogue to snicker.

"That was a terrible pun." Misha deadpanned.

"Oh no, he wasn't trying to pun." Rogue said, "I'll tell you later, it's aiming for you."

Misha snapped to the Shadow Wraith as it opened its palm to her, only for it to receive a dagger to the hand, causing another backlash that dealt it 37 damage.

Next it opened both it's palms to me and I did not want to be in that attack so I pulled out my Shade revolver and shot both it's hands. This caused one hand to fizzle out, but the other exploded with twice the force, dealing 71 damage.

It then opened both it's palms again, while Rogue was sneaking behind it, to me and Misha, I shot and she threw creating two explosions on it's hands that dealt a total of 79 damage to the Boss.

The Shadow Wraith had learned it's lesson and raised both it's hands into the air, causing a large dark beam to form in the air.

"Run!" I shouted to Misha as it began to swing downward.

Misha reacted and started running away from the path Rogue was sneak, and toward me, as the dark beam reached where she was standing and the Shadow Wraith began to slowly turn toward us.

Then Rogue slammed both her claws into the Shadow Wraith's back, cancelling the beam and dealing a critical 145 damage to it.

"Now!" I shouted dashing forward to the stunned Boss, "Sayonara!" I declared using Power Slash on it's hood, bringing its HP to 0

[OST End]

[You've reached Lvl 21]

[You've reached Lvl 22]

[You've reached Lvl 23]

[You've reached Lvl 24]

[You've reached Lvl 25]

The Shadow Wraith was frozen for a moment before it lurched upright and grabbed it's head while slowly floating into the air.

"UuUuUuUuUaAaAaAaAaGgGgGgGhHhHhH!" It cried out as the darkness inside it began to dissipate, it's robe burned away, and it's hands crumbled to dust.

When those things were halfway done the Shadow Wraith exploded into black smoke.

What fell was a small black glass orb with a swirl of dark red, green, and blue moving within it.

[You've defeated a Boss Monster]

[Boss Monsters are powerful opponents, their loot however is stored in Loot Orb's like the one you see before you, putting the Orb in your inventory will automatically open it and reveal what you aquired.]

[You also have the chance of getting the Boss's Spirit… but that's a 1% Chance so don't bet on it, plus you have to have killed the Boss at least once before to have a chance of getting the Spirit.]

"Well, that's the reward." I said walking up to the orb and picking it up.

"That's it!?" Rogue cried out, "That's what we get for our hard work?"

"I don't believe it…" Misha groaned.

"Not quite, I just need to open it with my ability first, I'll split the money with you two fairly though." I said putting the orb in my inventory, "When we are out of here of course."

[Loot Orb Opened, you recieved-]

[30,000 Yen]

[50 Shade Cloth]

[1 Wraith Cloth]

[10 Shade Spirits]

[Shadow Wraith Robe]

[5 Element Shards (Darkness)]

[Info: Element Shards are items used in Weapon Modification to give a weapon an elemental affinity.]

"The reward is much better." I said looking at the Shadow Wraith Robe in my inventory.

[Shadow Wraith Robe: The Robe of a Shadow Wraith, this robe is highly durable against magic and can also allow the wearer to turn invisible at night in the dark, but it's less effective the more the wearer moves. It's Physical Defensive properties however may lead to one considering some form of armor underneath it though.]

"It better have been." Rogue said reverting to her normal self, "My tail is gonna be sore from that landing when it punched me."

I chuckled softly at that, "Let's just go back for now."

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Thank you all for reading this chapter and I just have to say one thing about the Reading for this story…

It ain't gonna happen if all you guy do is say 'I can't wait for the reading' Someone needs to get out of the Waiting Room and step into the Authors Study.

Please, not all at once.