Immoral Saint
High school DxD x Campione!
Notes: From here, this story will contain canon-breaker. I will still use future materials to gain information though.
Disclaimer: I owned nothing.
Arc 1: Arrival of the Immoral Saint
Chapter 1: Youthful Warriors part 1
Dragons attract powerful beings, both allies and enemies. This is the unchangeable philosophy. No matter where it is.
Somehow Issei felt regret being a dragon, why couldn't he achieve his dream in a more easy way? But he had no times to waste on that thought.
Upon arrived in this world, he knew it wasn't the same world he lived in.
The natural of this world, it was full of power, or he would say, divinity.
He didn't know why he could feel it, his type is Power plus Support. The main powerhouse of team Gremory and the supporter of all circumstance, the legendary Sekiryuutei who wielded the power to kill Gods.
Now, the flow of magic, he understood them, as if they were parts of his existence. Had he evolved into Wizard type?
Issei was not good at magic and Wizard abilities. His magic reserve was small.
"You're that [Heretic God]'s champion? Or you're her subordinate?"
Her voice, what was the young girl called her, Her Eminence, liked a song, sung to Issei with the force of tiger and dragon. Put away the thought about his poor magic abilities, Issei focused himself on the enemy in front of him.
Issei knew this is not a normal enemy he had encountered so far. Strong, full of power, a heated warrior, if he could compare the beautiful woman to someone he knew, he would choose Vali Lucifer, his rival, the Hakuryuukou and legacy of the original Satans.
"She is my friend. But I shall fight your underlings with all I got, so leave her alone!"
Fear, but also excited. Issei felt like he had become a beast, a dragon, not a humanoid dragon but a real dragon. The race born from a mass of power who stood against anyone dared to challenge them.
Was this what Vali always feels?
Issei could understand more about his rival now, the thirst to test his strength, the need to unleash his tremendous power.
Peace was too boring for a mass of power like Vali, and now, like Issei himself at the present.
Or should he use the principle of the Dragons 'Live free, fight till the end'?
"Very well. To stand up against a King! To raise your hands against the pinnacle of martial Luo Hao! You have the soul of bold and spirit of brave!"
'The root of my power of Vajra, now is the time for great might that can tear apart heaven and earth!'
Two giants slowly manifested themselves.
Muscular bodies, cleanly shaven heads, half-naked, golden light shone from them.
They looked like the Battle Buddha statues, was this a Sacred Gear ability?
[Partner, this is not a Sacred Gear, they're the avatars of Gods and Buddha. Be careful, unlike last time with Loki, now we're alone in this world.]
His partner, the once proud and powerful Heavenly Dragon, advised him using telepathy connection.
Issei's body was shaking. A mix of emotion. He felt fear, excited, awe. On top of all, an unreasonable feeling rose up in his mind, he wanted to fight these opponents!
"I shall achieve victory!"
The red aura radiated form his armor.
"Come! Show all you got, man in armor!"
Issei entered his combat stance. He would protect Ophis, as A Heavenly Dragon, as a Hero of the Underworld!
Hero, the title he earned from the children of the Underworld. His "Oppai Dragon Show" sometimes made him embarrassed, but seeing the smiles of the innocent children, he couldn't help but accept it.
The Battle Buddha readied their stance, then the Open-Mouthed rushed to Issei!
A combo of chops, punches, rotating kicks in coming... All executed without breaks, swift and quick. It didn't let the enemy had time to grasp his skills!
[Change Star Sonic!]
His armor became slim, speed became maximum while strength decreased and shield dropped to barely protected. Issei entered the realm of God-speed, he could clearly evaded the Battle Buddha's moves like a slow-motion capturing. The training with his pal Kiba had given the result! Calculated to hit the enemy, Issei's energy wings shaped themselves into blade.
VUUUUT!
Like a flying knife, Issei slashed the Open-Mouthed with his blade wings, the damage wasn't deep, but Issei knew he got the sure-shot.
'I need to see how much defense their bodies can take first!'
The Close-Mouthed jumped in the air, intended to dive his leg toward Issei.
[Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!]
Increased his speed to get away from the Open-Mouthed's assault and canceled his attacks, Issei flied up over the Close-Mouthed head.
[Change Solid Impact!]
His armor became thicker in the air, his strength and shield rose up the maximum in exchange for low speed. His fists grew bigger, easily smashed anything in his sight.
"OHHHHHHH!"
Issei targeted the Close-Mouthed's head while he wasn't completely landed, he hold his hands together then combine with the gravity, executed a hammer fist upon the Close-Mouthed's head!
CRASH!
The Close-Mouthed fell down, his entire body slammed to the ground below, a crater was created, but at the same time, Issei was caught by the Open-Mouthed's right hand.
Viciously, the Open-Mouthed smacked Issei into his left hand like a thunderclap. The massive impact cracked Issei's armor. Nevertheless, when the Open-Mouthed threw Issei to the ground, his armor repaired itself.
The Close-Mouthed had moved to Issei's right, prepared to collide with his huge palms.
Instantly, Issei remembered his fight with Sairaorg, the man who fought with all his strength. His rival and comrade. The experience came from that battle reminded Issei many things.
Both the Battle Buddha launched their fists at the same time, left no room for Issei to dodge, however, Issei cocked back his fists, lowered his stance, lastly, he aimed for the right moment, then violently countered the Battle Buddha's attacks with his own fists!
[Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!]
[Solid Impact!]
The percussion hammers located on both his elbows maximized the damage his punches could deal!
Overpowering the Battle Buddha, Issei pushed them back, making them lose their balance for a minute. The Battle Buddha stood up, readied for the next assault. Each of their golden fists were cracked and swollen.
"Hohoho, as expected from the title "Red Dragon Emperor", you know how to create a "Live fist" and "Dead fist" situation and damaged my underlings in the process! Now! Face my martial arts!"
"Tch... Such stubborn combatants."
Before this battle, Issei had recovered some stamina from just standing on the ground. He didn't know why he could recover so fast, but this precious stamina left was the key lead him to the victory.
Changing back to [Scale Mail] was also the time the Battle Buddha advanced. Like a kung-fu movie, they attacked Issei with harmonic combo.
Straight-punches, low-hits, middle-uppercuts, high-kicks, sweeps, bashes, round-house kicks, flying-kicks, knee-strikes, elbows, backhands, rams, body-slams, right-hooks, ...
Decided to choose the most balance mode available, Issei exceeded himself to his limit. He tried to guard, countered and hit every chance he got. His Sacred Gear automatically boosted him when he needed power to fight the Battle Buddha like clockwork. Non-stop chain action, hit and got hit, the combatants exchanged their fists and legs all the time. The [Boost] sounds noised up. Sand flied up, water slapped away, tree fell down, stones crush into dusts. If an action film director was here, he would likely want to invite the three to join his newest series of blockbusters, along with Her Eminence for the eye-candy.
From afar, Guinevere watched with shock and awe. The rare male dragon fought on par with the Battle Buddha came from the [Authority] of a Campione! Through the fight, he didn't show any sign of fatigue, the more he fought, the better chance he landed direct hits.
Like a War God, the male dragon fought better as time passed. It was in his instinct? Did he break the dragon snake seal for the sake of victory? Or was he a lost Divine Ancestor?
As Guinevere was asking herself, Asherah, the Divine Ancestor who received her sharing life and boosted from the male dragon, woke up from her slumber.
She was healed, the pain stood still but she was no longer in danger, though the seal of dragon snake had been broken. It was the only way for a Divine Ancestor to fight a Campione.
"Madam Guinevere? How long has I been out of conscious?"
Despite her childish appearance, Asherah's eyes were filled with evil and murder intent.
"You have awaken. Guinevere is watching the fight of male dragon and [King]. You should watch, too."
Guinevere replied without turning her eyes from the screen, she couldn't miss a single second now.
"The male dragon? The one who saved me back there!?"
Asherah was surprise, to think a male dragon do exists, she knew nothing about that.
'His smell...'
Unconsciously, Asherah smelt her body, there was a fainted smell of him, the red dragon.
Asherah watched the fight with enthusiasm. She wanted the male dragon to win, she wanted the one who presented the [Earth] like herself to win against the [Devil King].
She didn't know that she was secretly cheering for him, the red dragon.
Ophis felt disturbed, a little bit.
Back to the fight, Issei needed to change his tactic. The longer he struggled, the closer his loss would be.
His time was running low. After the fight with Jabberwocky, the Hero Faction, Cao Cao, he felt hot and tired, his body was reaching its limit, he could last 10 minutes at best.
'Ddraig, I'm going to charge up my power. Help me store it!'
[I'm on it partner! But doing this means you won't be able to fight afterward, and you cannot repair or Boost while charging.]
'My last shot, my body can't continue any longer!'
Had his partner help him, Issei switched to the defense role. His movements slowed down, but he still insisted on dodge and guard the continuous assault.
"You have become sloppy, is this your limit? Hohoho, for someone like you to tie against me till this time, what an impressive warrior!"
Her Eminence didn't stop her graceful dance on the warfield, indeed, her moments became quicker, deadlier.
"Your power isn't normal. Is it [Authority]? I can feel huge divinity leaking from your body."
'What is [Authority]? Is it the power she using?' Asked Issei to himself. He would research about this or asked Guinevere later, that girl, she seemed to know about this world.
Distancing himself, Issei hold up for more, his charge up power wasn't enough yet and he couldn't use [Boost] when charging. He needed more energy, to focus into one more shot to defeat this superb woman's underlings.
The lightning strikes from the Battle Buddha broke his armor, bit by bits, his left face, shoulders, low abdomen had exposed. But he couldn't waste his energy to repair, he placed his bet on the last shot.
The tide was turning. Issei was at the loss side. Several cuts and bruises now visible on his exposed body, yet he still tanked the attacks. Blood came out form his lips, his entire body felt exhauted.
'Almost there... For Ophis...'
Issei whispered to himself. Yes, he was the Hero, he would stand up every time for his precious ones!
[Now!]
Immediately after heard Ddraig's word, Issei flied back a dozen of meters. The turning point now lied in his hand!
[Change Fang Blast!]
The one and only chance of the thousand to win against an opponent on par with Gods!
Losing his combat-oriental armor, Issei's magic pool now became enormous, the charged up power was ready, waiting his order to release on his enemies.
Her Eminence's instinct was sharp, she knew the male was going to use his trump card, pursued him now only result in defeat. She had ordered her underlings to stand before her, braced themselves for the impact.
Issei aimed each cannon for each Battle Buddha. The targets were locked. He could not miss them.
[Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!Boost!]
[Dragon Blaster!]
The twin cannons discharged, painting the surrounding with red light.
The sheer power from Issei's blast shook the area, even Guinevere and Asherah could feel it from afar. The blast pushed the Battle Buddha back with great speed, they stood still, protecting their master, but not for long before completely annihilated.
The blast had destroyed the Battle Buddha, but Luo Hao suffered no harm, she had some minor burn but that's it. Her [Authority] had done the good job on protecting her.
Issei collapsed on the grassy ground. The armor dismissed, he gained no more protection. His fate now lied within others' hands. 'At least I defeat them'.
"Rias... Everyone... Ophis..."
He lost his conscious.
The Mother Earth Goddess reappeared, she stood next to the male.
"Ise."
She called out his name with her trademark monotone voice, but he didn't hear, or he couldn't hear.
Ophis sit by his side. She didn't moved. She was just there. The only things in her head were the current generation's Heavenly Dragons and the fall of Great Red.
"Your champion has fallen, like a brave warrior. He even managed to vanquish my underlings, you should be proud of him, [Heretic God]."
Ophis didn't care. Nothing mattered to her except for him and her rival.
"As promised, I'll leave you alone. But next time, I will defeat you and take your champion in as my disciple! He is a rouge diamond, but with my martial arts, I will shape him into a great warrior! His name will be recorded into history, along with my name as his Master!"
…
No reactions came from the Mother Earth Goddess. She simply ignored them all.
'I don't like seeing Ise gets harmed.'
Ophis whispered to herself. But why? It had been over thousands and thousands years, why now? Why did she feel concern about Ise? Was it just about his abnormal growth?
Guinevere reappeared in front of her, along with Asherah.
"Her Eminence, that was a great fight."
"Of course, I had my joyful moment today, now, shall we continue with what we should?"
"Ddraig?"
I wake up finding myself in the white room, where once my senpai were here.
[Partner, you won, but lost your conscious in the end.]
"Is that so?"
I won, huh, but will Ophis be harmed by that woman? I hope she kept her promise. And Ophis, she won't get any wound even if she was attacked, I guess.
[This world, this dimension, unlike our universe. In here, I'm healed faster every second.]
"What do you mean?"
[Partner, I have spent most of my strength to attach your soul to the armor. I should have slept now, but, have a look, I'm totally fine. The tiredness and fatigue are erased. And you, after the fight with Cao Cao, you shouldn't have been able to continue fighting, but you managed to defeat a superb enemy.]
"Yeah, I see, about that. Ddraig, did you hear what she said? The [Authority]?"
[I don't know. It would be some kind of super power in this world. Regardless, partner, what are your plan? Do you want to come back?]
"What!? Of course yes! How could I abandon my love!?"
Yes! Rias, the girl I love, I will never leave her! Her oppai! Everyone's oppai!
[I think you should learn about this world first, try asking these guys. I need to sleep to fully recover my strength.]
"Wait! Ddraig! Who!?"
I'm forced to close my eyes because of the light. Seriously, give me a break! This is just awfully seems like a guy about to awake in movies!
Guinevere was looking at the male dragon, or she should say his name: Hyoudou Issei.
'He's a Japanese? But I have never heard about a title "Red Dragon Emperor". Ddraig, Y Ddraig Goch, Madam Ophis called him Ddraig. He has something to do with that name.'
He was about to wake up. Guinevere had prepared for him. She would persuade he to join her faction. His power would be a great asset to further her plan.
And the Mother Earth Goddess...
She didn't say anything. She was there, sitting beside him. Guinevere had thought about getting information from her, but her divinity, it was too high, too huge, even on par with the Holy Grail. Guinevere wanted to be careful as much as she could, she believed with her Sir Knight, she could be saved, but it wasn't a smart choice. So she chose to wait for when he woke up.
Guinevere didn't really understand why Sir Ise fought in Ophis' place. If the Mother Earth Goddess was the one fighting, Her Eminence could very well be … lost, thus, allowed them to gain the upper-hand.
"Ugh, where am I? Ophis!?"
Issei woke up seeing Ophis climbing on his body.
"Ise, wake up. How do you feel?"
Rubbing his temple, Issei opened and closed his eyes multiple times, perhaps he hadn't taken out all the fatigue.
"I'm okay, what's about you? Are you alright?"
"I, okay."
Ophis answered him using her monotone voice.
"Guinevere couldn't stop Her Eminence's intention, please forgive her."
Issei replied her.
"It's okay. I'm alright now. But can I ask you, where am I? And what is [Authority]?"
"We're currently at one of Guinevere's hideouts. About the [Authority], it is the power of [Heretic Gods] usurped by human who later becomes [Campione], the God-slayers."
In a comical way, Guinevere could see Issei's jaw was dropping. He had fought a Campione and survived, why should he feel too shocking about it?
Guinevere gave Issei a cup of water, then waited for him to drink down. She continued.
"Sir Ise, what are you, Guinevere means, she wants to know who you are, why do you have [Authorities] in your body, despite not being a [Heretic Gods] or [Campione]?"
Guinevere had re-checked Ise, twice, not a God, nor God-slayer. But he did have [Authorities], she couldn't be wrong with her conclusion.
"[Authorities]? No, those, they're not [Authorities]. Look, this is my power."
A red gauntlet manifested on his left arm, it covered his arm up to the elbow.
"I'm not from this world, I mean, I'm from another world. This is a [Sacred Gear], a special tool God in the Bible gives human, they have various abilities. Mine called [Boosted Gear], it can double my power each 10 seconds."
"Ise, is not a human. Ise is a dragon. Like me, like him, Great Red."
To her surprise, The Mother Earth Goddess talked with Guinevere.
'So Sir Ise is very important to Madam Ophis. I must treat her with great respect. And Great Red? If Sir Ise is "Red Dragon Emperor", then this Great Red...'
"About that, yeah, you can view me as a dragon, partially, I guess."
Guinevere would ask about "Great Red" later, to her, the name was so fishy. For two powerful dragons to call another dragon with the fancy name "Great Red".
"But if it can just double Sir Ise's power each 10 seconds, then what was the armor Sir Ise wear on the battlefield? And Guinevere certainly could feel that Sir Ise used his [Authorities]!"
It had to be it! Sir Ise could somehow use the powers on par with [Heretic Gods] and [Campione], thus allowed him to hold his own against them.
"Oh, you see, because my Sacred Gear isn't a normal one, it is one of the 13 [Longinus], the weapons that can kill Gods. The ability to double the user's power belongs to a Sacred Gear named [Twice Critical]. This, my [Boosted Gear] can double my power each 10 seconds without limit, the only restriction is how much [Boost] my body can hold."
!
Double one's power without limit!? That ability seemed simple at first but was quite terrifying if looked carefully!
'So, if Sir Ise trains his body hard, he can hold enough power to slay Gods!?'
"The armor, it is the [Scale Mail], I gained it when my Sacred Gear reached [Balance Breaker], each Sacred Gear has its own [Balance Breaker], the ultimate power Sacred Gear can have. My armor allows me to fight better, in that state, I can [Boost] freely without waiting for 10 seconds."
'10 seconds, so the longer Sir Ise on the battlefield, the harder effort to take him down. And in his armor, he can boost without limit... Sir Ise has the power, or rather, the tool to kill Gods, on top of that he's not God-slayer nor [Steel]. He's a dragon! A male dragon!'
Guinevere was feeling unease, it was her first time interact with a male dragon who could understand and communicate with her using language. Her heart missed some beats, what was this strange feeling?
'So he isn't that certain Divine Ancestor...'
(Hohoho, beloved child, you're cute when you think about him, the male dragon.)
Sir Knight! Please don't tease Guinevere like that!
Suppressing her strange feeling, Guinevere told Issei.
"Sir Ise, Guinevere has a request to make! She wants Sir Ise to join her on her quest to wake up the King of the End!"
"King of the End? Who is he?"
Issei had a face with question mark after hearing that.
"He is very important to Guinevere. She promises Guinevere will be in favored of Sir Ise if he decides to help her."
"Well, the only thing I wanna do right now is get back to my world as quick as possible."
"Home."
"Guinevere will help Sir Ise and Madam Ophis with all her heart! But she needs Sir Ise to help her first."
Sratching his head, Issei answered Guinevere.
"That's okay, I guess."
"Thank you so much, Sir Ise! Now, please rest, Guinevere will have things to discuss with Sir Ise later."
Finished her talk, Guinevere left the room, about the Mother Earth Goddess, she would deal with her, but not now, not until she gained Sir Ise's trust.
"So, you mean that Dragon is [Serpent]? I can see the similarity between them, but, to think [Serpent] and the damsel in distress are the same one. I didn't know anything about this."
Issei found it too unbelievable, who knew that the legends and tales he had heard were all changed? These "Heroes", turned out they weren't what he was once admired.
'It's unfair. The [Serpent] was enslaved by violent force.'
"That's why I hate them, Sekiryuutei, they, the God-slayer, they're all deserved to die!"
Asherah told him while teaching basic mythologies to Issei. Madam Guinevere had ordered her to help him, as a Dragon, his talent in magic was very high, along with his [Longinus], he would be a great powerhouse to them.
"Wow, wow, calm down. You shouldn't have such thought."
Issei tried to break it down. He didn't want to see anyone burned in hatred. Especially this young girl, er, maybe not so young, he glanced at Ophis before returning to face Asherah.
Ophis was playing with her black snakes, one big snake behind her back so she could lean on, smaller snakes crawled around, amusing Ophis. Her powers were more stable at the moment, unlike last time, Ophis confident that she wouldn't hit anyone by accident.
Issei glad he stopped Ophis's speech, "Impossible, you cannot defeat me.". Yes, it was impossible to defeat this "Infinite", but her powers were unstable, and Issei himself didn't want to stand there idly watching Ophis fight.
"Why!? They're the sinful ones, why must Mother Earth Goddess like us be obeyed to them because human discarded matriarchy!?"
Asherah threw her tantrum, after learning that Issei was the Sekiryuutei, she had insisted called him by that title, he felt a bit weird but didn't mind too much.
"Asherah, I was once a human, too. Back there, I, I was a pathetic human, I had no power, I didn't know about supernatural world. You know what, you can't judge people by seeing them in one aspect, there are good people, there are bad people. About the things in mythologies, I don't know how to fix it, I wasn't there, but I know the future is still ahead, we can make it real. When the Mother Earth Goddess is no longer enslaved by [Steel]."
Asherah looked at Issei, these words he just told her, was it a lie? Was it just to comfort her?
"H-How can we do it!? We can't never change the mythologies!"
"If human, a race that minor to Gods, can change theirs, then why we can't? Why not start with writing books about the Mother Earth Goddess? People will read it, then long, long after that, they will continue to tell their children, soon, what was once a book will become legends, and legends will become mythologies."
Issei thought it was a good plan, at least that what he could make it. Should he had been more intelligent, he would do something bigger, easier to persuade the young girl. Hatred didn't suit her. He didn't want to see a child (okay, maybe not a child) live in her hatred mind all the time.
Asherah couldn't pick a word to counter Issei, she continued to teach him about magic.
"Sekiryuutei, please focus, with the [Earth]'s traits, you're a high-class witch, Divine Ancestors like us can control magic like control our limbs, should you put your heart into it, you can master all the magic in no time."
Issei was not a Wizard type, he always knew it, he couldn't remember all the spell words, they were hard to read, and hard to speak out loud. The demonic power, on the other hand, was too low for him...
'My combat style is rush in and beat them down. Now I have to take advantage of my [Earth]'s traits. More works in waiting, haizz... But... Is demonic power and the magic reserve [Earth] has are similar to each others?'
"Asherah, I think I can start with something easier?"
Asherah took up a moment to think, then she answered him.
"Okay, if you say so. Let's start with defense magic. Defense magic has many types, the most basic ones are creating a barrier before you, a shield to guard you. It will break after take the damage equal to its energy."
Asherah demonstrated for Issei, she put up her hand and the shield automatically appeared.
"See? Now do the same, Sekiryuutei."
Issei put his hand up, wasn't this like when he learned Devil magic? He would give it a try, hopefully he wouldn't disappoint the young girl.
Ophis watched Issei. With amused.
The barrier appeared before Issei, he could feel it, just a thought, and the magic reached to his desire.
'Sweet! I can do magic easier! Akeno and Rossweisee-san will be awe when I return!'
Practicing a bit more, Issei now had basic magic at his disposal. Spells like enhanced his muscle, his jumping, flying, hiding his presence, creating plain clothes, etc
'So I have high demonic pool to use! I don't have to rely on Bishop too much.. Wait, can I do promotion without using Triana?'
Issei would test difficult level magic later. As Guinevere had interrupted his learning session to give him his first mission: Escort Asherah to Japan.
A long journey awaited the Red Dragon Emperor.
Somewhere among the peaceful islands of Africa.
It was afternoon, the people was walking back to their home, a long day of work was over.
To the north of the small village, there were 4 people, they weren't supposed to be here.
The man with the eye-patch was training with his strange spear, a long, beautiful spear. He stabbed, slashed, spun the spear in the air with great skills, if careless looked at him, people would think that he was a master of lance user, or a descendant of a famous spear user.
From the small house, another man walked out, he had only one arm, and his leg was injured, nevertheless, he asked the training man with tired voice.
"What will we do now?"
"How is the condition?"
"Leonardo is still sleeping, he has been broken down. His mental state is unstable. I don't think he can go out for the battlefield right now. Heracles is mediating, he said he wanted to attain the next level of his Sacred Gear."
"I'm not only asking about Leonardo and Heracles."
Cao Cao had stopped his training sessions, he needed to know about his team's condition. No leader could guide his team without such requirements.
"Me? I'm fine, just a bit more tired to do magic with one arm only."
Cao Cao looked back at his friend and comrade, the hero descendant silently shed a tear in his heart. Had he been more careful, had he been less arrogant, things wouldn't have to be like this.
A week had passed since Georg used his [Balance Breaker] to teleport Cao Cao, Heracles, himself and Leonardo to this dimension. Cao Cao was the one who banished Sekiryuutei, but he didn't have enough strength to maintain [Balance Breaker] and escape. Now spending his time to shape his powers, Cao Cao realized he or his Hero Faction couldn't fight against Supernatural beings with them only being human, they didn't have enough units as well as tools, equipments, he needed to become someone, something stronger than human, this body of his was too fragile, he couldn't stand up after one hit by the enemies.
'Then again, what is the point of slaying supernatural beings but our own existent aren't human at the first place?'
At least they still had their Sacred Gears, the only available weapons to slay Gods and Satans. Still, he knew Sakra wouldn't let him get out of this mess without pursuit.
"Cao Cao, about the rumor..."
"Yeah, I'll investigate it tonight. This can be served as a chance to test my new powers."
"Should Heracles go with you? He has been completely recovered."
"No, we need him to guard this place. If both of us go then how would you defense yourself and Leonardo without effectively?"
Lately, it had been said that, by the local residents, a strange silhouette had been walking in the forest, then shot down any men in sight, the wild animals were also hunted down, their corpses were left back with only useless viscera, the rest wasn't found.
Even though this wasn't his born dimension, Cao Cao still wanted to to something, he thought that this strange pheromone was related to supernatural. This world, it was full of "power", or he would say "magical power". The feeling when he injected his "Ki" into his spear made him know it. Nevertheless, tonight he would go hunt down the pheromone, it was the duty of the hero to protect human and slay supernatural beings.
Night.
Cold, the air was dry, clearly this air wasn't normal, Cao Cao slowly strolled into the forest. Georg were at home, he needed someone he trusted to protect and took care of Leonaldo, but Georg also played a support role. He had placed a spell on Cao Cao, if things got dangerous, Cao Cao would be teleported immediately and the whole group would runaway.
Heracles was patrolling around the neighborhood, he would report if something happened. After the fight with Bael, Heracles had changed. He no longer looked down on others, and he trained himself, both mind and body non-stop, just like Cao Cao himself.
'I have to do something for Heracles, his Sacred Gear is powerful, but it is not a [Longinus], he would need more powers, the [Chaos Break], is no longer has its usefulness.'
The moon tonight was shining brightly, Cao Cao lightly tapped his spear on his shoulder. The culprit was close, he had to study it. But not for long before his turn to do that.
An arrow was shot. Flying through the forest to pierced Cao Cao's head.
CLANK!
Cao Cao used his spear to slash it, but the impact was strong, this wasn't an arrow shot by normal hunter, or a military trained soldier. Indeed, this strength the arrow contained was on par with Heracles.
Whoops!
The sound of shooting arrow, this time was one, but two, three, four, six arrows!
'There isn't one enemy?'
Cao Cao asked himself while dodging, blocking and repelled the arrows. His body wasn't fully recovered, he had to calculate his moves, or else he would lose.
"How strange, for a human to evade death many times."
From the deep of the forest, a lovely, high pitch voice was heard.
"Come out here, I would like to have a chat with you."
Cao Cao needed to get close to his enemies, there was one, he sure of it, and this one had the power to shoot many strong arrows at the same time, not normal arrows but magical ones. If his spear wasn't a [Longinus], it should be smashed by now.
Silent.
Then a chant, spoke out by the high pitch voice, could be heard.
'Oh Calydonian that day! Hunt them down! Extract revenge on those who wounds you!'
ROOOOAAAAARRRRR!
A huge, black fur boar ran out of the forest, intent to crash Cao Cao, it was 10-odd meters high, the dense fur could be seen from where Cao Cao was standing.
Dodged the black boar by barely last second, Cao Cao slashed at its legs, causing it to fall down, but didn't stood still for long.
ROOOOAAAAARRRRRR!
Hurt by a mortal weapon, the black boar wanted to revenge, it jumped into the air, using the gravity and its weigh to crush the mortal below it!
'This isn't a normal beast, I will go out all to deal with this, then use [Balance Breaker] against its master.'
Cao Cao didn't move from his position, instead he lowed his center, waiting for the right moment when the black boar fell down on his, Cao Cao stabbed its throat and took advantage of its weigh to shoulder-throw it!
'O Light! Illuminate! Burn all the Gods!'
Didn't let the black boar get a chance to escape, Cao Cao used his [Longinus]'s light attack to completely destroy its head!
The light shone from the spear, the black boar couldn't scream the last breath, it was destroyed by the spear Cao Cao was holding.
"Interesting, a human like you can kill my minion."
The culprit came out, this male human had gotten her interested. She was young, her appearance was close to a 17 years old model, her silvery-white hair swayed each times she step closer to Cao Cao.
"Do tell me your name, Lancer."
"Didn't you just give me a name? How about you? You're not human, I can tell from the aura you're spreading around."
Not a Devil, close to an Angel, but higher, if Cao Cao could utter a title, he would use...
"I am Atalanta! Goddess of the Hunt! Your abilities have caught my interested! Why don't we play a hunting game? Let's see who can hunt down more animals, your spear or my arrows!"
A Goddess!
Cao Cao wasn't expecting this, but, to call this woman a Goddess, he felt somewhat weird in his heart. This Goddess's aura was strong, but didn't close to what he had tasted when he fought the Heavenly Dragons, or Sun Wu Kong.
"To call yourself a Goddess, what a joke, but that doesn't matter. Come, be Gods, Goddesses or Satans, I will kill all you abomination."
Challenging a Goddess who he just had a faintest idea about, but this pressure, he felt he can do it! Cao Cao had learned more, trained more, now it is the time for he to test his new powers. His very first victim would be this "Self-proclaim Goddess" as she called herself. It was the duty of Hero to vanquish all supernatural beings!
Human gives birth to heroes, and heroes will triumph over supernatural!
"You dared to challenge a Goddess! Such blasphemy you!"
Her aura was increasing to a whole new level, however, Cao Cao didn't fade. He would fight this Goddess and achieved victory! He would show her human isn't the weak!
"Let's see if you're a real Goddess, tell you this, I've faced worst."
[Balance Breaker].
His spear shone, the entire area was painted white, like a second sun had rose up, a calm moment before dead night. The seven orbs rotated around Cao Cao, ready to receive his orders at any times.
"Indeed, for a mortal to weird that weapon, a weapon to kill Gods. But you're not a monarch, truly interesting!"
'Monarch? What is she talking about? Looks like I have more things to do after this.'
"Let me use your skin as an offer to Artemis!"
Atalanta drew her silver bow, from her hand, 3 arrows were there, but the moment she released it, the 3 arrows become 9! The arrows cut through the air, heading themselves to Cao Cao.
"Too bad, you're a woman, Goddess but also a woman, and you're using weapon to fight against me, have you used bare hands, your chances likely would increase, a little bit. Let the dance begins, Chatsuka Ratana, Mala Nitana, Itsutei Ratana. "
Ordering his orbs to break the closest arrows to his, while the rest were sent back to the shooter, also, Atalanta could feel some of her moments had been sealed off.
"What!? What is this powers!?"
"I have trained harder than usual, my feeling, my desire to slay all of you. My spear reacts to it and gain me this very powers. Be happy you're the first to taste it."
Some arrows pierced through her body, she couldn't dodge it all.
"Ho, so my Itsutei Ratana can't completely seal off your moments and abilities, despite the upgrades it got. Good, very good! You truly live up to the title of Goddess!"
His Balance Breaker could be countered when the opponents reached certain level, but Cao Cao had upgraded it, his Balance Breaker would continue to affect the stronger ones, at smaller scales.
Cao Cao closed the distance between him and Atalanta, he wanted to fight head on, fighting a low-level (?) Goddess is fun, he would enjoy this moment to slay a supernatural being.
Atalanta didn't know it, just a hour ago she was in the forest, hunting animals to offer to her Artemis, she wanted to revive her, to extract revenge against the hated Devil-King who slayed her Artemis, but now, this man, he was cornering her. With his unoriginal weapon, she didn't expect to face a weapon to kill Gods, and she had covered her aura, there was no Devil-King here. Well, maybe shooting down male could attract attention, but this, this situation she was in is too bad for her.
Her bow cracked more each time she blocked Cao Cao's spear, the orbs continued to assault her non-stop, even when she distanced herself from him and shot, the arrows were still broken, finally at the six clash, her bow was destroyed, Cao Cao was close to stab her, but she had pushed him back several meters, even with her moments were restraint.
Atalanta became panic, her favorite silver bow, the bow given to her by Artemis was broken! She did get angry, but the panic part was more, since when normal human can fight against Gods? She wasn't a full God, an aspect of Artemis, but her powers didn't fully recover, had she had 3 months more, she wouldn't fear this human. The Divinity protecting her didn't work against his tools.
"Hm, so it is your end. Well, have any more moves? Can you summon two black boar at the same time?"
'Oh branch of life, fire up and end this life before my eyes!'
A branch appeared, it was lifted on fire, at the same time Cao Cao felt his life was being cut down.
"That branch, it is the branch of life? The one killed Meleager!?"
"Impressive! You can tell it just by looking! You are far too dangerous, I will retreat now, but your name, Lancer, shall be remembered by me, as the one who cornered me without being a Devil-King!"
Atalanta ran back to the forest, but she did leave something back for Cao Cao. A flock of hunter hounds, each one was as big as a full grown tiger, 20 of them were blocking Cao Cao, protecting their master. But Cao Cao had the counter move right after that, the warriors had manifested, they intercepted the hounds, blocking, slashing while Cao Cao used the orbs.
Atalanta had run deep into the forest, the branch would burn after 1 hour, the male would die.
STAB
"How... How did you...?"
"Atsusa Ratana, it can teleport me to anywhere. You lose the moment you step into the forest. You didn't know every of my abilities, so am I, the point is, you could have cut down the branch or increased the power of fire, you didn't, it's your loss."
Cao Cao executed his stabbing combo, quickly targeted Atalanta vital points. Then he chanted the attack he used to test Ophis but failed.
The light shone again from the spear, illuminating Atalanta in it.
"Hahaha, to think I lost against you, Lancer. Very well! Very well! I will remember this! This, have my eyes! I couldn't use it because I want to offer to Artemis, but for now, use it! Use it and become stronger!"
Atalanta turned into dust.
'It seems she wasn't a Goddess, or else she would have put up a better fight.'
Cao Cao took a break, her hounds had been vanished, then he felt a power was being injected into him.
"Cao Cao!? Are you okay!? I heard a loud sound earlier."
Heracles had run to Cao Cao's place, even he was told that he should patrol the neighborhood.
Cao Cao couldn't open his mouth to answer, he felt tired, and pain, so intense. His body...
Cao Cao collapsed.
He didn't know, far from his position, a magi was there, he had been assigned to visual and investigate the circumstance of this area.
The young magi was trembling in fear, it was his first mission. He had hoped that what he would do was just take a look at the forest, find some kind of Divine Beast, then report back to the HQ, they will send Great Knights or a [Campione] to deal with it. But what he had seen was too much for him, first a [Heretic God] then seeing a human defeating said [Heretic God] so easily, the human had no bleed, he looked a little tired but that was it. For once he thought the man was a secret [Campione], because only the [King] and their peers can fight against the [Heretic Gods]. But , his magic was running all the time.
"It's me HQ, have you seen the footage?"
"Ah, yes, please return. To think such a being like he exist. Don't contact him for now, we need a meeting to discuss about this matter."
The young magi breathed out lightly, his job was done. He didn't have to contact the male and persuade him to join the association. Quickly leaving the scene, the magi returned to his HQ.
Notes: Feel free to discuss at my topic, you can find the link in my profile. Atalanta was treated as canon fodder, so, Cao Cao slayed her.