"Incredible…I had forgotten what this felt like!" Atlas Flame cheered, "I had forgotten what it felt like to be alive! This is amazing!"
Sitting cross legged and quite exhausted, Daiki stared up at the dragon. No longer in the form of a mere flickering flame, he had taken back his body an now stood before him in the form of a massive flaming dragon, the red scales that had formed over his body now being hidden by a blazing orange red flame.
Damn he was cool looking. He was like a gigantic draconic Meramon. Now this would have been an incredible digivolution for one of them to get!
And the sheer heat coming from his body? Was incredible. If he wasn't actively suppressing most of it, the chamber around him would have probably began melting.
And his magic power looked so much stronger to his eyes. It was like comparing a tsunami to a lake now. Not just the size, but the sheer intensity of it was something else.
"Told you I could do it." Daiki huffed in amusement, looking up at the huge flaming dragon.
Atlas Flame paused in his celebration and looked down at Daiki, nodding, "That you did indeed Daiki," the hellfire dragon nodded, before lowering himself down to all fours and looking him in the eye, "It would be remiss of me not to do my own part then. Are you prepared? I am ready at any time now to bestow my essence upon you, though after that fact, I will need to rest for a few days to recover my strength."
"I'm ready for it whenever," Daiki shrugged, "Once you do that, I'll add your heart to myself using a seal to skip the process of turning it into a lacrima and we're good to go."
At the end of the day, from what he'd gathered at this point, a lacrima was simply like a battery in the end. One that was made from a heart and when transplanted would act like another organ and separate ethernano container, but at the end of the day that was all it is. His clones had been scouring Everlue's mansion and it wasn't long before he found the process.
Quite frankly, the heart would be rendered down to fit a lacrima that would then be implanted and connected to the mages first ethernano container.
Daiki could easily do that with a seal.
Just like he had done before with that vulcans heart and lungs he'd ripped from its corpse earlier.
…Actually thinking on that, he wondered if he could unlock Atlas Flame's second origin as well?
"Hey, before that," Daiki spoke up and peered into and through Atlas Flames flaming body and into his chest, directly into his body and where his hearts and lungs renewed with new life pumped blood through his veins, "There's a thing that I want to try out unlocking within you. It's called second origin, and when unlocked it'll double your magic power."
"Something else you found out through your visions of the future?" Atlas Flame inquired, interested, "I would be remiss to doubt you now after all you have done in front of me so far. Very well, if you wish to unlock this second origin within me as you claim, have at it."
He cocked his head, "Actually, if it does as you say, then it may work out for the best, the more magical power I have, the greater benefit you yourself shall attain when I imbue my essence upon you."
"Alright, then get rid of your flames will ya?" Daiki asked as he stood up and made his way over to the huge flaming dragon.
Atlas Flame nodded and the billowing flames surrounding his body, fizzled away to reveal a large rather normal looking crimson scaled dragon standing before him on all fours, "Will this do?" he asked.
"Yeah this'll be fine," Daiki grinned and reached up to place his hand on the dragons chest, directly over his heart, "This might hurt a shit ton, but it should be quick."
He wasn't sure how the formula worked that Ultear used to unlock the second origin, but he could force it all open at once with his seals. By his reckoning, the sealing formula's of this world, might have been a bit more versatile in use, but vastly weaker than the version he used.
Still, they may have been worth looking into at some point. He should find a book or two on the sealing of this world just in case.
"I don't even need my sealing brush for this." Daiki commented as he injected his chakra into Atlas Flame's chest, his chakra blazing a seal into existence across his scales, "Seal: Release!"
What he was doing was simple. Inscribing a simple seal with his chakra over Atlas Flame's heart and then flowing it into his lungs. And then, he unlocked that seal.
And unlocked everything there, including the second ethernano containers blocked off within the lungs.
"Grrk!" a rumbling growl of pain erupted from Atlas Flame's maw and he ground his great big sharp teeth together audibly as his massive body spasmed, his eyes bulging with agony.
"…You…were not kidding about it hurting." the hellfire dragon grit out between his teeth, before gasping, body shuddering as a whole, "…Unreal, this power! I can feel my strength increasing!"
Daiki saw it as it happened and understood what he meant immediately. As soon as he unlocked the blockage between his heart and lungs and unlocked the second origin within his body, almost immediately the second container began to fill up with ethernano and spread through his body
Before long it was done, and with a huff, Daiki sat back down on his keister while Atlas Flame adapted to his changes.
"You truly know such incredible things Daiki," Atlas Flame shook his head in wonder, then winced a tremor wracking through his body, "Though I again have to admit, you were not kidding about the pain. If I had not felt the agony of having my soul rent from my very body by Acnologia's claws I would definitely have made some noise."
"Pain's nothing worth bothering about," Daiki shrugged, if it was, he wouldn't have ever went after Orochimaru for the Cursed Seal, "It's all for the grind buddy."
"The grind?" Atlas Flame cocked his head to the side in askance.
"The most holy of all life styles, the path of becoming better continuously and grinding to an all new level," Daiki happily explained, "You'll get a front row seat soon, maybe you'll even want to join in."
"Is that so? I shall keep an eye on this 'grind' you will show me with great interest then," Atlas Flame hummed, while Isobu snorted in his head, "Now then, shall we get down to business and start your transition into the Hellfire Dragon slayer?"
"Let's do it!" Daiki pumped his fist, "How do we do it actually?"
"You do nothing, beyond raising your hand up," Atlas Flame replied, "I will do everything needed. It's a simple process, much like the Dragon Soul Technique that allows we dragons to input our soul within a humans, I will use the Dragon Trait technique to pass on my traits to you. Your ethernano container will adapt to my power to naturally shape into my hellfire. Your fingers will become the claws of a dragon that ignite with flame, your skin that of a fire dragons scales that can diffuse and smother flame, your very lungs will those of a fire dragon and ignite with an inferno of power."
Damn, that sounded fucking badass.
"Alright then!" Daiki clapped his hands together, before hopping to his feet and holding his palm up, "Let's do this!"
"Yes, let's." Atlas Flame grinned and lifted one of his massive clawed hands and place it palm up against his own, utterly dwarfing his own dozens of times over, "Brace yourself!"
That was all Atlas Flame said, before a massive cloak of billowing orange power suffused around his body and swarmed over, washing over Daiki's body like a wave, before swirling around him and sinking into him like bath water going down a sink.
Heat suffused Daiki, a warmness he'd never felt before and a pain he was not expecting, a sea of searing heat rushing over his consciousness.
Perhaps because he'd been through similar things and felt his strength and body change numerous times when being exposed to Isobu's power and more, he noticed it. As his muscles strengthened, as his senses sharpened, his eyes and nose being reinforced.
As his ethernano container stretched and grew and became searing hot within him.
He did not know how long it went on for. It could have been seconds, or it could have been hours. In that moment, he was simply floating along a sea of flames.
Until suddenly, it was done and he found himself staring up at Atlas Flame, lower than before having hunched over as he panted deeply.
And with his eyes, he could see how drained the dragons magical power reserves were.
"It's done." Atlas Flame panted out, "It may take a little bit for you to feel the true changes. But you are now the Hellfire Dragon Slayer, the wielder of my corrosive cursed flames that burn through even magic itself."
"….Cool." Daiki commented, lips curving up into a grin. And it was then he noticed. His canine teeth poking out just a bit more than usual, like fangs.
Hmm…his weights felt disturbingly light again he noticed as he moved his arms around and jumped in place a little bit.
With a thought, he brought up his status screen and his eyebrows rose at what he saw.
Name: Daiki Yurei
Age: 13
Chakra Capacity: 198,600/198,600 (Low-Tier Kage)
Ethernano Capacity: 696/696 (C)
Strength: 243/?
Endurance: 325/?
Durability: 242/?
Agility: 240/?
Taijutsu: 264/500
Ninjutsu: 392/500
Genjutsu: 107/500
Bukijutsu: 184/500
Chakra Control: 332/500
Chakra Affinities:
Lightning - (Expert): The Heavens Spark
Water - (Expert): The Sea Parts Before You
Wind - (Master): The Gale Bows
Earth - (Adept): The Earth Shakes
Fire - (Adept): Burning Soul
Fuinjutsu - (Expert): The World Awaits You.
Ethernano Magic Style
Hellfire Dragon Slayer Magic
As expected, his physical abilities had jumped up by a noticeable amount. More even than when he gained his ethernano containers. And incredibly, his magic power capacity had jumped straight to the C-rank, bypassing the D-rank as a whole.
And there was now a whole other part to his status screen. Ethernano magic huh? And Hellfire Dragon Slayer Magic was added to it.
Interestingly, there was no rank of mastery beside it like his elemental affinities, odd.
'Hmm, lemme try something.' Daiki thought, lifting his hand up palm facing upward and called upon his magic power from his ethernano container and then focused.
A moment later, blazing flames roared into existence within his palm, flickering with an incredible intense heat.
"…Amazing, I've never heard of a dragon slayer so easily calling upon their power so quickly," Atlas Flame commented, eyes wide, "But I suppose I should not be surprised with what you've accomplished so far."
"Hmm," Daiki hummed, not commenting one way or another on that fact. He only really had an idea what to do, because while the energy was different, he'd trained quite a bit when it came to fire style already. Which reminded him, "Hey, will I be able to learn that flame form thing of yours and be able to turn my entire body into fire?"
If he could do that, he was basically a boot leg logia.
"Of course, it's my signature ability!" Atlas Flame replied back, sounding almost affronted at the idea he couldn't do as such.
Atlas Flame had been pretty laid back so far, but he too held the pride of a dragon after all.
Despite his proud declaration though, Atlas Flame wasn't long in slumping over again tiredly. It seemed passing on his essence to him was actually incredibly draining.
No wonder he thought he would have died in the process before Daiki had regenerated his body for him.
"Alright, with that out of the way," Daiki casually put him turning into a part dragon behind him for the moment, "How about I seal you now and you can recuperate within me?"
"Very well." Atlas Flame dipped his head.
"Cool," Daiki nodded before bringing his hands together in a ram seal and focusing, "Don't fight the pull, you'll be completely fine, I've done this before."
Atlas Flame merely raised a scaly brow at him.
Daiki grinned at the reaction before focusing his chakra into the seal upon his chest, "Seal!" he declared aloud, dozens of large ethereal chains of chakra erupting from his chest and shooting out like striking serpents to wrap around Atlas Flame's body.
A surprised shout left the dragons body in surprise, but to his credit, he didn't fight back against the chains as they bodily lifted him up and dragged him towards Daiki.
And a moment later, the chains dragged him into Daiki's chest where he was slurped up like a big flaming noodle and disappeared out of sight.
Lowering his hands from the ram seal, Daiki rubbed his chest where the Four Trigrams Seal was and frowned a bit as he felt it, "Still enough space for now." he mused The Four Symbol Seal on his chest, could comfortably hold even Gyuki and his power, and even both Isobu and Atlas Flame together weren't a match for that.
Though Isobu would of course surpass Gyuki one day in the future, as well as Kurama if he had anything to say about it!
"Now then," Daiki said to himself as he summoned the pulsing beating heart he'd ripped from Atlas Flame's corpse into his palms, "Let's see about dealing with you, hmm?"
In a short amount of time, Atlas Flame had been exposed to an absurdly crazy amount of things. Even crazier than the time he'd been dragged through time, enslaved by a maniacal dragon slayer, met his technical nephew and son of his best friend Igneel in Natsu, before returning back to the past after helping him out and being defeated thoroughly by that bastard Acnologia.
This perhaps though, took the cake as the humans liked to call it. Or so the giants who had worshipped him as a god liked to say.
He found himself with a vast dark space. It was like a voice of pitch darkness, yet felt warm in a way, he could feel the boy he'd met and taken as his legacy, Daiki all around him.
And despite the inky blackness, it was lit up within a soft and warm green glow that emanated from beneath him.
Matching the void of inky blackness that stretched on forever above him, was what appeared to be a peaceful lake surface of green liquid that gave of the feeling of the boy he'd met stretching on into the distance and paralleling the inky black void above it.
It was quite the sight.
The very insides of Daiki's soul.
And yet, it was not what caught his attention and forced Atlas Flame to stare up gobsmacked.
No, rather, it was the titanic being staring down at him, one rippling eye looking down upon him with boredom, while three absolutely monstrously large tails larger than most mountains lazily floated behind the creature.
This was Isobu then, the three tailed beast as Daiki had called it. The power emanating from it, was cloying, choking in a way. It felt almost as if this creature could crush him with its raw power alone in a way.
No wonder Daiki had such confidence in Isobu's ability to defeat Acnologia.
"Hello Atlas Flame," Isobu greeted him politely, "Welcome to the inside of Daiki's soul. It's quite empty, a lot like his head really. But it's home, happy to have you I suppose."
Atlas Flame was not honestly sure what he was expecting upon being sealed within Daiki.
This was not it though.
"…Glad to be here I guess?" Atlas Flame responded awkwardly.
And so huge flaming dragon and titanic three tailed turtle demon beast stared at each other for a while.
Before making small talk, as one does.
Now that he had an actual magic style he could use and a teacher to coach him in the usage of it, Daiki was able to finally get a proper feel for what using ethernano for actual magic was like.
Him and all three hundred of his clones.
While he only took them off of their usual training for an hour. That was plenty of time when the training was sped up by that amount.
Three hundred and one hours including himself as the main body, equalled out to a grand total of twelve and a half days of training.
Or so it would seem. In actuality, it was much more potent than that. It was simple really to understand. For example. Say there was a thousand path ways and only by finding the right one, would it be possible to use magic in the style he was trying to.
Usually, one would have to go through those one by one. Even doing three hundred fold at once, would only speed it up by that number. But that wasn't quite. Because he was actually taking three hundred of those paths at once.
And it wasn't also as simple as the clone who found the path dispelling and giving the information to all the rest to go down that path. But rather, all of them dispelling and spreading forth the information they gained from manipulating their ethernano in the path they chose, which bolstered the knowledge and experience of the original point, who then spawned three hundred clones once more with all that knowledge, to use it all.
It wasn't anywhere as simple as just speeding his learning and training up by three hundred times.
'I…am not sure whether to be proud that the dragon slayer I have gained is such a savant…or angry at how lightly you have made of the process of learning my prized techniques and abilities.' Atlas Flame commented.
Sitting on a boulder within Isobu's dimension overlooking his three hundred clones spread out all over the place and training away, Daiki idly swished his hand back and forth in front of his face.
His hand now covered in crimson red scales straight up to his shoulder, his nails transformed into razor sharp claws that were currently clad in blazing hot hellfire.
"Eh, don't mind it, I've already trained quite a bit when it comes to fire manipulation." Daiki waved the dragon within him off. Two main things he'd learned, was both how instinctual dragon slayer magic was thanks to the very essence of a dragon being imbued within his body and bolstered by his dragon lacrima and how much easier ethernano was to manipulate than chakra.
In a word, chakra was incredibly more dense and rigid. It was much more powerful than ethernano. With his experience with manipulating his chakra and transforming it into multiple elements and forms, fire being among them even if he wasn't a master of it yet, it made the process vastly more simple and easy to do.
Even the Dragon Force he was currently in which had transformed both of his arms into crimson scaled dragon ones, turned his pupils slitted and elongated his canine teeth even further, was incredibly easy to use, as simple as drawing on the power of his dragon lacrima.
The basic techniques of Hellfire Dragon Slayer magic, were incredibly simple to get down. Granted, they were called the basics for a reason and there was only a few of them. Five in total.
Hellfire Dragon's Roar
Hellfire Dragon's Claw
Hellfire Dragon's Talon
Hellfire Dragon's Fire Spin
Hellfire Dragon's Flame Form
If Daiki was being honest, alone, in raw power, they didn't quite match up to the power of his fire jutsu. Especially since, after becoming the Hellfire Dragon Slayer he'd noticed that his affinity for the fire element? Had amplified massively.
He'd tested out his Fire Style: Grand Fireball earlier while he was training, and not only did it cost a lot less chakra than before, but the sheer size and heat of the jutsu had increased massively.
Granted, he didn't plan on letting it stay that way forever. Once he could freely use his chakra and ethernano together at once as one energy, he'd be able to use his Hellfire Dragon flames bolstered by his chakra.
It was not quite Sage Mode, because ethernano was weaker than the natural energy of his world, but it would be a bastardized pseudo version of it and should have a similar bolstering effect on both his chakra and physical body, albeit to a smaller degree.
And until then? His Dragon Force gave him a boost not that far off from his one tailed cloaked form, and the flame form made him a bootleg logia.
"Hmm, actually lemme try something." Daiki stroked his chin with a red scaled hand, before hopping to his feet. He pulled upon the Heavenly Star Seal and grinned in relish as he felt the power over it sweep through his body, enhancing him as black lightning-like tattoo's spread across the entirety of his body, "Oh, yeah, I can work with this!" the teen laughed.
Before he landed in this world, after his training with the old man. Isobu had said, that without drawing upon his heavenly star seal seal or anything else, he was probably around the level of Raiga Kurosaki.
Now, after the boosts he'd went through upon gaining ethernano and becoming a dragon slayer, combined with his dragon force and heavenly star seal….he might even be able to give Kakashi a run for his money!
Thinking on it, he called up his status screen to give it a look over, before nodding approvingly.
Name: Daiki Yurei
Age: 13
Chakra Capacity: 123,400/198,900 (Low-Tier Kage)
Ethernano Capacity: 236/3279 (A)
Strength: 243/?
Endurance: 325/?
Durability: 242/?
Agility: 240/?
Taijutsu: 264/500
Ninjutsu: 392/500
Genjutsu: 107/500
Bukijutsu: 184/500
Chakra Control: 332/500
Chakra Affinities:
Lightning - (Expert): The Heavens Spark
Water - (Expert): The Sea Parts Before You
Wind - (Master): The Gale Bows
Earth - (Adept): The Earth Shakes
Fire - (Adept): Burning Soul
Fuinjutsu - (Expert): The World Awaits You.
Ethernano Magic Style
Hellfire Dragon Slayer Magic
"This'll do for now," Daiki grinned, especially liking the rank A of his magic after he'd sealed Atlas Flame's heart inside himself to use as a dragon lacrima, before a thought occurred, "Hey Atlas, what about dragon slayer secret arts like the ones Natsu has?" he asked.
'You've already gotten my secret art,' Atlas Flame responded, 'Originally I was no more different from any other fire dragon. I created both my flame form magic and imbued the corrosive effect that would allow my flames to even burn through magic into my flames. Beyond the basics you've learned already, I actually do not have much left to teach you.'
Hmm, well that sucked a bit, but it was completely understandable. With him already being a powerful dragon, with his flame form and corrosive flames, there was few that could have actually been a danger to him.
And he was the one fought Igneel for the title of the Fire Dragon King for a reason.
'Indeed, while I may not be as strong as…Isobu here, I like to think of myself as no slouch,' Atlas Flame replied, 'The fire dragons were the strongest race of dragons as a whole, and I was the second strongest of all the fire dragons in our time.'
Yup, his inner soul dragon sure was a badass.
Still, that left him with incredibly little to do here now.
He supposed he could move on with his Dimension Flight Seal, but at the same time there was something he wanted to do.
He wanted to go see Fairy Tail in the flesh before he moved on. And become a member if he could. As cool as it would be to stick around and become a member of the place and much less stressful to live in this world than back home.
He had made promises, and he had people that relied on him. He was a cunt, Daiki wasn't going to deny that. He was a perverted lustful bastard that had killed hundreds brutally and planned to kill a great many more.
He was even a massive hypocrite.
But one thing he wasn't, was a piece of trash who would go back on his words and abandon people who believed in him and relied on him.
"Then I suppose I'll go sleep for now." Daiki nodded to himself, cutting off the connection with the dragon lacrima within him and allowing the dragon force enhancing his body and the tattoo's covering his body to recede and fade away.
He didn't need a whole lot of sleep, but it had been two days now since he had slept and he'd expended quite a bit of effort. Having a rest in a bed would let him recharge his energy quicker and any get rid of mental exhaustion as well.
"Is it always like this?"
The question was posed from Atlas Flame to the great big three tailed turtle creature resting not far away from him, head lowered atop a pair of massive and yet very human arms.
Just one of those arms was bigger than Atlas Flame was himself. He did not come close to the size of the three tailed beast known as Isobu.
Said turtle, opened his singular ringed eye at Atlas Flame's question, "You'll have to be more specific, in what way?" he asked, "…Though, even without that. Knowing Daiki, yes."
Atlas Flame snorted despite himself, "I meant the manic training," the dragon responded, flexing his wings and pacing around, it was odd to be once more in his body and he was still getting used to it again, "Daiki wasted no time in throwing himself completely into mastering his abilities as a dragon slayer and within just an hour, he has learned all I have to teach him."
It was incredibly impressive. Albeit, he cheated for the most part with those incredibly amazing shadow clones of his, but incredibly impressive nonetheless.
But the boy barely even blinked upon gaining the abilities and took no time to adjust before throwing himself clear into the training to master it. Atlas Flame was no expert on humans, he barely had ever interacted with any and the most he knew of them, was actually through the giants who lived within the Sun Village, and one singular human girl raised by those giants whom he had passed a tiny amount of his essence to as a blessing because of how dangerous the area was around the Sun Village for such a small helpless human.
"Ah, then yes it's normal, for him," Isobu shrugged his massive shoulders, "It's just his beloved grind nonsense. He lives, breathes and even sometimes sleeps training. It's pretty much his biggest passion in life beyond wanting to fornicate with beautiful human or humanoid females. Albeit it seems to have mostly stemmed initially from the fact training so intensely gave him a sense of peace and blotted out the massive fear he has for Madara Uchiha."
Ah yes, the boogeyman in the room.
Atlas Flame was hardly an expert in the mechanics of the soul, and living with a dragon slayer. He'd never used the Dragon Soul Technique before after all, and he honestly wasn't big on the idea of trawling through Daiki's memories and invading his privacy unless strictly needed, he hadn't been able to resist the urge to peek on his memories of this 'Madara Uchiha'.
…Monster did not even big to describe that man. He could wholly understand why a young human child, a raised soldier from childhood or not such as Daiki, feared such a being.
Even if every dragon that ever existed in this world teamed up to fight that man, they would have been slaughtered with ease.
"I see," Atlas Flame settled on saying with a nod of his large flaming head, "May I ask another question?"
"Feel free." Isobu responded simply.
"Okay," Atlas Flame nodded, before lifting a huge flaming claw and pointing to something in front of Isobu, "What is that?" he asked.
It was completely out of place.
It was a pitch black liquid that stood out within the serene green energy that was Daiki's chakra within his soul. It felt like magic.
And he could feel divinity coming from it.
"It's my new project to keep me busy," Isobu gained a faint grin, "Some uppity god tried to force his way into Daiki's soul to curse him for reviving you, so I gave him a beating and kicked him out, in the process some of his energy got left behind."
Ah.
He thought he recognised that feeling of divinity.
Ankhseram.
Despite himself, Atlas Flame laughed, "The gods, they never change, do they?" he chortled, "Always so feeble ego'd over one touching upon their domains. I remember when they still walked this world, before the war of dragons and gods. We crushed them thoroughly and they fled to an all new dimension to escape us."
The thing about most gods, was that while incredibly powerful, they relied only on that power. Few of them were capable physically as well as magically. So when they as dragons got tired of their arrogant existences and went to war with them, it was a slaughter.
For they as dragons were immune to all forms of energy beyond Dragon Magic and physical attacks.
"Well he wasn't very impressive, I'll say that much," Isobu snorted, "Though on the subject, let us talk magic. Specifically, slayer magic."
"Hoh?" Atlas Flame cocked his head to the side in interest.
Alright, here we are back again with chapter 3.
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