"Welcome!"
The clerk and owner of the weapons shop perked up immediately upon Daiki entering the shop.
"I'm here for a sword." Daiki said bluntly, eyes flickering over to the corner of the room where a barrel of dusty swords and one specific very rusted sword lay innocently.
"Well, I've got all manner of swords in here, if you want to-" the clerk was rubbing his hands excitedly as he began speaking, but Daiki cut him off.
"Don't bother, I already know what I want." the shinobi replied and made his way over to the barrel.
A grin spread across his face as he reached for the rusted brown handle of a certain sword, "I've been looking for you Derflinger." he said and pulled the sword out of the barrel.
"Oh-ho, you know me guy?" the quill of the sword wiggled and a voice echoed forth, "Actually, you seem kinda familiar."
"Wait you want useless Derf?!" the clerk spluttered.
And was ignored.
"I'm the new Gandalfr, my name is Daiki," he introduced himself, "Honestly, I came to this world mostly just for you, partner."
"Oh another world eh? Sounds like a story there," Derflinger hummed in interest, "I wanna hear all about it once we get outta here partner!"
"Sure," Daiki shrugged, making his way over to the rat faced clerk at the sales desk, "How much?"
"Err…a hundred?" the man replied.
"Done." Daiki immediately accepted.
"So where's your master then?" Derflinger asked as soon as they left the weapons shop behind.
"I cut that connection earlier." Daiki shrugged.
"Eh, but you're still a wielder though?" Derflinger sounded confused, "That shouldn't be possible without the void mage giving you the power."
"I come from another world, with people way higher up on the totem pole than the mages here. I used one of my abilities to cut the connection and connect the runes to my own energy," Daiki explained. He felt no need to hide the fact from his new partner, "Actually, I kind of have my summoner believing I'm a god because of how much stronger I am than the people here."
"Well, that's almost a new one," Derflinger laughed, "It's not the first time I've known someone that got deified but it's weird it happened twice. Even in the whole six thousand years I've been alive, the only other one was old useless Brimir."
"Well, I'm having some fun with it, so don't blow my cover right?" Daiki laughed himself, "I'm planning on leaving this world soon anyway, I'm trying to find my way back to my own."
"Sure, sounds great with me," Derflinger replied easily, "Hah, might be fun. Look at me silly mortals, I'm the great and legendary Derflinger, personal weapon of a god!"
"Yeah, something like that," Daiki nodded, amused, "Actually, speaking of you being my weapon, how do you feel about letting me destroy the one you're in right now and transferring you to a better one?" he asked and hopped fifty feet to land atop a building.
"Damn, you sure are a spry one," Derflinger whistled as he landed, "Sure, go for it if you want partner. Though, it won't be easy. This might just be a common standard sword I'm in, but my presence makes swords way more durable than they usually would be."
"Don't worry about that, I'm pretty strong," Daiki shrugged as he unsealed the Kiba Blades and had them float in the air in front of him, "These are the Kiba Blades. They're special blades that are two half of a single whole and have the power to generate incredibly powerful lightning and amplify my own lightning powers. And I can control them with my mind as well, which is how they're floating, I think it's some form of electromagnetism actually."
"Wow partner, these are some incredible looking ones, you could make a guy jealous showing off crazy things like this," Derflinger guffawed, "Alright have at it then, give me your best shot and break the sword I'm in now and I'll jump into your runes and then into these Kiba Blades, if you can that i-"
Derflinger was cut off by Daiki lifting him up and bringing him down over his knees, where the blade immediately snapped in two.
Amplifying the durability of the blade or not, it was a simple blade from a low tier world made of iron.
Not even steel.
Admittedly, Daiki felt a sting on his knee as a small bruise formed, but was almost immediately healed. It was a testament to how much Derflinger could even amplify a lower tier blade like that.
"Sorry, what was that?" Daiki teasingly mocked, "I couldn't hear you over the sounds of your body breaking in half." he said, waving the two chunks of the sword in his hands with a chuckle.
There was silent for a moment-
"Hey now, you weren't kidding!" Derlfinger's voice came from both kiba blades at once, "You're crazy strong! And wow…these blades holy crap partner! I've never felt anything like this! And this power, chakra is it? So dense and heavy compared to the magic around here! I feel like I could fire off a bolt of lightning that could demolish a castle!"
"You can." Daiki snorted.
"Huh, so I can!" Derflinger laughed, "Oh man, oh man partner! I've never felt like this before! I even have two bodies at once, and I can move!" as if to punctuate his words, the kiba blades started jigging around in the air.
That reminded him, "Hey Derf, you have a soul right?" he asked.
The blades stilled, "I sure hope so, otherwise the hell have I been doing the last six thousand years?" he snorted, "Why'd ya ask partner?"
"Reasons," Daiki shrugged and poked one of the blades with his fingers, drawing upon his aura and injecting it straight into the blade, deep into his soul, "For it is in passing we achieve immortality. Through this, we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all. Infinite in distance and unbound by death. I release your soul, and by my shoulder, protect thee!" he chanted.
As he finished, he heard what sounded like a lock click open and for a moment, Daiki's vision flashed and he saw an endless ocean of shimmering crackling light blue.
"Woah Sasha's dirty panties!" Derflinger exclaimed as a shimmering light blue aura hummed into existence around both of his blades.
'Damn, he has more aura than me and Atlas Flame put together!' Daiki gaped for a moment. Not as much as Isobu, but still an absolutely massive amount. Though that did make sense, Isobu claimed that there were quite a few factors such as lineage, power, age and more that contributed to the amount of aura souls had. And Derfligner was not only over six thousand years old, but was inhabiting two of the most powerful blades in existence! "That's a power called aura, I picked up how to use it and unlock it in a world I ended up in before here, it can be used to-"
"Make a big ol' crazy shield that protects me from damage, heals me and I can even shape it as I please, I can fire it as beams or an aura blade, partner you sure give me all the nicest things!" Derflinger cut him off.
"How'd you know that?" Daiki asked, was it some kind of intuition based ability? He never heard anything like that about Derflinger.
"Eh, I'm part of the Gandalfr package y'know?" Derflinger replied, even the aura around him began to shimmer at rapid speeds, before slowing down, then concentrating on the tip of his blades, before once more spreading across the entirety of the blades, "I've got an innate understanding of all my abilities, that includes any weapon I'm stuck inside! The second you stuck me in these I knew how to use all the abilities of these here Kiba Blades and the second you unlocked this aura of mine I knew how to use it like a master."
Huh.
What a cheaty bastard of a sword spirit.
In other words, a perfect sword for Daiki!
Or rather swords, plural now.
"Wait, if you have full understanding of all your abilities," Daiki spoke up as something else clicked, "Do you know how to use your semblance as well?"
"Mmm?" Derflinger paused, allowing his aura to fade, "You mean that other ability I just got as well? Yeah, yeah nifty thing. Lets me become armour like gauntlets or boots for the Gandalfr aka you and give you all my abilities, though it looks like it drains this aura of mine pretty fast."
His eyes widened, "Wait, but you can teleport and absorb magic and-"
"And absorb chakra and aura now as well, I have chakra now by the way since I took over these blades, did you know these things had that energy as well?" Derflinger cut him off, "You get the full package with it partner, even the abilities of the blades I'm in."
Holy shit that was absolutely broken.
"Does that include your aura, chakra and will power?" Daiki asked.
"Mmm, yup," Derflinger bobbed up and down, "Man, I always was the best sword ever, but now I'm like the super best sword ever! Partner, I need an enemy to fight! A big, strong scary enemy!"
"…There isn't any in this world," Daiki deadpanned, "Literally, I could conquer this place in a couple days easily, everyone is so weak here."
"Boooo!" Derflinger huffed, "Sheesh that's disappointing. I mean I…oh wait! What about ol' lava face?"
"Lava face?" Daiki blinked, tilting his head to the side.
"Yeah yeah, that big dumb stupid dragon, looks like a giant ass rock but he's actually all lava underneath it," Derflinger bobbed up and down again with both of his kiba blade bodies, "He pops up every now and then when the four void mages get their familiars and wants to eat them to power up. He still around? I owe him an ass kicking for eating my wielders a bunch of times."
Oh, that thing!
"Yeah it's still kicking, I think it's somewhere around Fire Dragon Mountain?" Daiki mused, "I don't think it's gonna move anytime soon."
"Cheh!" a sound akin to a clicking tongue echoed from both blades, "That lazy bastard is sleeping then? Let's go grab a void mage and have them blast it, it'll wake up hungry for a meal and we can kick its ass for fun!"
Well, that wouldn't be a bad idea to have some fun. He could get Louise to do it and wrap it up real quick and head out again.
'Actually, on the matter of leaving again,' Isobu suddenly spoke up, 'I think you should slow down and stay here for at least a few days more. You've picked up a massive amount of abilities in the last few days, you should take the time to learn about them properly instead of being in such a rush.'
"Eh, who the hell was that speaking?" Derflinger stilled.
'Oh, you can hear me?' Isobu sounded surprised, 'Hello there Derflinger, I am Isobu, I'm a giant being of chakra known as a bijuu that is sealed within Daiki's soul, alongside Atlas Flame the Hellfire Dragon.'
'A pleasure to meet your acquaintance.' Atlas Flame added himself.
"Huh, neat," Derflinger hummed, "Man partner, you are the weirdest partner I've ever had."
"I'm the best one you've ever had," Daiki snorted, shaking off the surprise that Derflinger was connected so deeply to him he could hear the two sealed within him, "What do you mean Isobu? I'm kind of in a rush, Konoha will get-"
'Daiki, promises are one thing, but a relationship is a two way street, just like ours,' Isobu interrupted him, 'If Konoha can't survive without you for a small period of time, then they're just leeches that will drag you down in the end. I'm not saying to give up going back, I'm just saying, don't wear yourself down, enjoy your life and don't squander it. They can survive without you for a small period of time, they did before didn't they?'
….But!
'No buts, even with your power and your endurance and you gaining life force day by day and extending your life, you're becoming manic and sloppy in your rush to go home,' Isobu cut him off, 'I don't want to pull this card, but if you don't pace yourself, I'm cutting you off from my chakra and Atlas Flame is doing the same with his ethernano.'
Daiki grit his teeth, "You're treating me like a child!" he bit out, and he was annoyed at how whiny he sounded.
'You are a child!' Isobu thundered back, stunning Daiki, 'Shinobi like you might mature vastly quicker than any normal child you'd see in other worlds we've visited. You might be infinitely stronger than most adults could ever hope to be, you might be capable of crushing even a few gods and you have so much knowledge to use to your advantage it's incredible. But, you are still just thirteen years old.'
Daiki was stunned absolutely silent.
'It's not your duty to carry Konoha and our world on your shoulders,' Isobu's voice was gentler as he continued, 'Take the time here to enjoy yourself, play up the god act as you wish, fornicate with the females you find yourself lusting after, conquer this world even if you wish and make any woman you please into your concubine. Just take the time to relax a bit and stop rushing, even your precious grind is becoming sloppy at this point.'
Daiki wrestled with himself internally. The problem was, as always, Isobu was not wrong. And his grind was becoming sloppy? That was blasphemy.
Had he really let himself become that manic in the past few days?
'Well, I can't say I know you as well as Isobu, but I have noticed you seem a bit off,' Atlas Flame commented, 'It feels like you were making mental checklists and speed running your way through worlds you ended up in.'
….Oh.
Daiki closed his eyes and released a deep sigh, "Alright, I'll try and calm it down a bit." he relented.
And as soon as he did-
"Hah, you just got scolded partner, like a naughty brat!" Derflinger chortled.
Daiki opened his eyes and rolled them blatantly, "Alright, you want to beat a giant dragon? Okay, let's go get some void mage power and beat up a dragon." he decided.
And while he was at it, he may as well go cement himself as a god to these people and end this silly little war.
Louise sighed tiredly, flopping down on her bed and staring up at the canopy. She was exhausted. More mentally than physically. Honestly, even after the blur of a pleasure filled night she had with Daiki the previous night, she still felt more energized than she ever had before.
It was a simple testament to the power Daiki had granted her.
No, her exhaustion was all mental. From dealing with Kirche. Question after question after question. She would not shut up asking questions about Daiki, from what kind of women he liked, to how it felt to have his obscenely large manhood filling her up to what kind of outfits he would like to see her, Kirche herself specifically in.
Annoyance flared at the thought of the redhead. She was always such a bother. She'd ended up snapping and told her Daiki had said the most appropriate attire for Kirche would be the garments of a dancer or concubine.
She'd never seen the redhead move so fast, dragging Tabitha off along with her. Hopefully she wouldn't see the annoyance again for a while.
Not that her luck was that good.
Well, at the very least she'd did as Daiki told her and sent out the letters she was asked to, and was very particularly descriptive in the one she sent Wardes. Actually, the words she'd penned in that later should even have been ever thought of by a young lady of her station.
Sighing, Louise lifted her hand up and stared at her fingers, wiggling them for a moment, and with a bit of concentration, a pink glow surrounded them.
Her aura.
After a life time of her magic fighting against her, it was such a wondrous feeling to feel such an energy move so easily at her bidding. If she had to describe it in a feeling, it was like her magic power always jerked away from her grasp, where as the aura slithered straight into her palm.
'Not that I'll need to worry about that ever again soon.' a giddy smile spread across Louise's face.
Soon her lord Daiki would gift her a book on wind magic that would allow her to learn to use the other magic power she had obtained, ethernano.
And if Daiki was to be believed, he had placed what he called a seal upon her, that would filter her excess innate magic power into what he called her 'ethernano container' and and force her ethernano to grow stronger each day even if she did not use it and train with it.
…Not that she planned to do such a lazy thing. That was merely a passive benefit of being blessed by her lord, it would be blasphemous to the holy grind if she sat upon her rear like a fat useless tub of lard.
As soon as she was able, she would pursue the grind in full and train her ethernano magic power every single day!
A ripple in the air at her side suddenly appeared, before forming into a familiar looking portal, just like the one she'd seen this morning.
And out stepped Daiki!
Or was it one of his clones?
Well no matter, the way he explained it to her, even his shadow clones were him. As a god, he could be in multiple places at once after all.
"Yo Louise," he grinned, "I finished translating the book for you." he said, the portal closing behind him.
"Already?" Louise bounced up on the bed to a sitting position and smiled excitedly.
"Yup." Daiki grinned, holding out his hand with a book held out towards her.
Happily, Louise accepted the book from him and felt herself near vibrate in happiness, "Thank you so much Daiki!" she beamed at him.
"Don't worry about it," he waved her thanks off and sat down beside her, wrapping an arm around her shoulders, "Just put in the effort to learn it all and I'll be happy."
"I'll do my best!" Louise nodded, leaning into the side of the younger boys chest, a content feeling swimming through her as she basked in the closeness with her god, "What kind of spells will I be able to use with this wind magic? Do you think I'll be able to match up to mother?"
"Karin Of The Heavy Wind huh? She's a skilled one, but limited by an inferior magic," Daiki replied, "This wind magic I've gave you a book on. It'll eventually let you use wind barriers in the form of hurricanes that can cover entire castle, conjure tornado's that could decimate entire armies of this world. Fly as you please through the air, and even create an armour of wind around your body few here would be able to get through. And once you master the wind magic, you'll be able to open up the storm magic avenue which will allow you to control the very weather itself."
Such a casual assurance that even her mother could not match up to the power she would gain, left her in awe. And to think, there was a higher branch of magic that would open up once she mastered the wind magic.
Then…was it akin to wind magic alone even with all the power it granted, being a dot mage? And then the storm magic would be akin to a line mage? Only of course of a vastly higher scale.
Then what if she mastered the storm magic, would another form of magic be open to her akin to a triangle mage? And beyond, such as one akin to a square mage?
Such power, Louise could barely even fathom it. And he just casually handed her the instructions on it.
"As expected of a god…" Louise breathed out.
Daiki snorted, "Louise, I think you've got the wrong idea about gods," he said, "Well, I suppose more that you're generalizing and thinking all gods are unstoppable beings."
Louise blinked, "…They're not?" that didn't seem right. She couldn't fathom any being more powerful than Daiki.
"Well, it varies I suppose," he mused, "You know how onions have layers?"
"Yes?" Louise replied, confused. She didn't have any idea what that had to do about anything with gods.
"Then think of this entire world you live in like the layer of an onion," Daiki said, "And the layer above that layer is a world above this one, where the people are stronger, faster, more powerful, have access to more potent technology and weapons and live longer and things such as that. What you think of as gods, are really people from worlds dozens, if not hundreds, maybe even thousands or more layers of worlds above yours."
That sounded odd…but Louise thought she understood what he meant. But, that sounded nothing like what gods were supposed to be like. "Then…are you telling me there isn't an after life? A heaven? A hell? That gods cannot grant miracles such as bringing back the dead?" she asked.
And she prayed to all that was holy that what he was saying simply wasn't true.
"What? No there's a bunch of after life's like heaven and hell, the one from my world is called the Pure Land," Daiki waved her off, "And there's definitely gods that can perform miracles and resurrect the dead. Hell, I can resurrect the dead for the most part. I'm just saying that while I might be a god to you people, to my people I'm just a person from my world, granted an obscenely strong and high ranked person, but still a person."
Louise…was lost. He just confirmed the existence of worlds beyond death, a real after life, more than one even. And confirmed he could bring the dead back to life. But he was not a god…because his people did not refer to themselves and each other as gods?
But that only made sense. Gods did not worship each other as gods, they were gods. Of course a to a god, another god would simply be a person, because they were equal.
Actually, if she thought about it, what he said made sense. The way he described the worlds. If each world above was stronger noticeably than the one below, then of course the world of gods would be thousands upon thousands of worlds above her own.
Daiki was just being humble.
He was a kind god like that, that did not even smite her classmates after they mocked him. Those damn filthy heretic frenchies.
"That's the definition of a god." Louise pointed out, even if it was not her place. As he was her god, Louise couldn't let him debase himself for one as lowly as her and her people.
"You're a stubborn one huh?" Daiki snorted and her cheeks flushed, she had seriously overstepped her bounds and-
He cupped her cheek, "I was bringing it up because I've decided, you're the first of my women in this world, and I wanted you to act as you naturally would, get mad and angry at things that annoy you, even if I do it," Daiki told her, "There's no point in having Louise as my woman, if you stop acting like Louise, if you get what I mean?"
Her heart thundered in her breast as he stared into her eyes with deep beautiful scarlet eyes that shimmered like stars, "Okay." she understood. Be herself right? He had told her before hadn't she, that he saw her worth. If she stopped being who he saw worth in, then she she was no longer of worth.
Act as she pleased and do as she wanted then?
A wide smile spreading across her face, Louise crawled over and sat atop the younger boys waist and leaned back against his chest, "Then teach me about the holy grind." she grinned up at him, wiggling her hips.
He grinned right back, "You minx," the boy rumbled, "I will, but first I need something from you."
"What's that?" Louise wet her lips with her tongue and resisted the urge to kiss him. Heat was spreading through her body once more, a tingle in her belly and betwixt her thighs.
She wanted him to take her again and make her scream his name to the heavens.
"I need one of your school uniforms." he informed her.
…Huh?
"…Why?" Louise couldn't help but ask.
"As a disguise," Daiki merely grinned at her, stroking her cheek with his thumb, "I'm planning on paying a visit to your old friend Henrietta."
Her oldest friend. The person she cared about the most in the world, before she met Daiki. Her queen.
Ah, it clicked.
"You want to see the queen in my school uniform….that will not fit her?" Louise's tone was dull. She was not an idiot, she knew what it implied. She was well aware of the…curves her oldest friend had, "Why does she even need a disguise?"
She should be outraged that he planned such a thing for the queen. But she knew…how heartbroken Henrietta was after losing her father and her lover. How stressed she was. How she regretted having to be queen.
Daiki had said it before didn't he? The two he saw worth for in this world the most, were her and Henrietta. If he helped her, then surely he could make things better for Henrietta as well?
"I'm gonna take care of a few problems for her," Daiki merely shrugged, "And one thing she's really jealous of is you're freedom as a student here, she always wanted to be a student here with you. that, and I think she'll look really sexy in your uniform."
"…Are you a god of lust as well?" Louise wondered.
"Silly Louise," Daiki laughed, squishing her cheek with his fingers teasingly, "All gods are gods of lust, haven't you ever heard of that pervert Zeus?"
No, no she had not. But if Daiki was calling him a pervert, then she had no interest in ever learning about this so called god Zeus.
"Here, I'll even trade you for it," Daiki continued and lifted his other hand and suddenly there was a sword like none other she'd seen before in his hand. It was a short blade with a beautiful golden hilt, and a sea green blade that curved like a cloud, "This is the Gale Sword, it'll convert ethernano into powerful wind magic and even amplify your normal wind magic when used through it."
"…I'm more partial to a wand." Louise pointed out, even as her eyes were entranced by the beautiful blade.
"It's fine, with your strength increase you should be able to wield it easily," Daiki merely laughed, "Besides, wands are for wimpy mages. The type that don't follow the path of the grind."
…So then all the mages of this world that needed a wand to use their magic, were wimps that were unworthy of the holy grind?
Louise's eyes widened at the thought.
They were below the elves!?
And thus we return with chapter 10, the big one to the zero tennie ol' boy woop woop woop!
And so quite a bit went down in this chapter. Daiki finally got his hands on Derflinger, but not only that, he upgraded him and had him possess the Kiba blades, on top of unlocking his aura. As of now, Derflinger is above even Samehada. The only weapons in the Naruto world that are better than him now are the Sword of Totsuka and the sword of nunoboko, but that's to be expected. One can pretty much seal away any opponent and the other could cleave planets.
Beyond that, Daiki got a talking to from Isobu. This stop in Familiar of Zero wasn't just for Derflinger, but a place where Daiki could relax for a little bit and where Isobu would hammer some hard truths home. So Daiki has full on decided to play the god route in Familiar of Zero to the finish for shits and giggles, so he'll probably let go of a lot of his inhibitions for a bit here.
Welp, beyond that We're still a few chapters ahead on the Pa-atreon if you wanna read ahead.
Anyway, again, shameless Pa-atreon plug. I've got one, go by the same username on there, easy to find and all that jazz. Support me if you want, it'd be swell, but don't feel pressured lads and ladies, I'll be uploading my stuff outside it regardless and not keeping it all behind a paywall or anything like that.
