57 Chapter 57: Question why police have dive-bombers

The Great Red, the True Dragon, was floating in the Dimensional Gap, a 'space' or the 'anti-space' between the realms of existence such as Underworld, Human World, Heaven, and countless others.

It occasionally poked holes into the 'layers' of the dimensional gap, causing them to collapse upon themselves and suck whoever was unfortunate to be near the 'reality' part of the gap into the Dimensional Gap, and then when the 'existence' and 'nonexistence' met, an explosion of gigantic proportions resulted.

Indeed, it had gotten quite a bit of practise of what it considered 'cool' maneuvers by poking multiple holes in quick succession and then 'flying' through the explosions while putting on a pair of gigantic sunglasses while facing away from the explosions…

Something exploded somewhere in the Dimensional Gap as the Great Red contemplated making another 'explosive run'.

The fact something had exploded in the Gap that wasn't caused by the dragon gave it ample cause to investigate the disturbance, but when he 'arrived' the place was already clean of evidence, and only a vague feeling of 'boom' was left.

The Great Red felt a bit wary so it flew over to a 'barrier' of sorts, triple-checking that it was in place and holding stable.

It had felt something alien attempt to pass through the Dimensional Gap and into the 'Reality' that lied beyond, and the dragon had stood to stop it. I had managed to mostly do so, sealing it behind a massive barrier, but a drop had spilled over and landed somewhere not in the Dimensional Gap.

The fact worried Great Red quite a bit, as it had taken over the duty of guarding the Dimensional Gap from the beings beyond it, the Outer Beings that haunted the both the stars, their warm-hearted sons and daughters, and the void beyond them.

...Mostly because the dragon who had lived in the Dimensional Gap had become scatter-brained and had left it, leaving it ripe for invasions, and making Great Red 'bite the bullet', so to speak. The fact the Dimensional Gap was a growth-bed for some of the biggests explosions in reality and not-reality was an added bonus that only slightly affected the Great Red's decision to invade Ouroboros Dragon's home, rummage through her stuff and kick her out when she tried to come back.

The Great Red sighed as the barrier seemed to hold whatever was sealed beyond it.

The dragon turned and 'flew' away, the memory of the alien explosions causing the creature some odd thoughts.

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"Hm, quite. It looks like [Boost] does what it advertises." Momonga mused as he lied on his back. "I'll have to remember to cast [Fly] before using area-of-effect abilities, or at least not stand on buildings as while [Body of Effulgent Beryl] can be activated to negate the blunt damage, the building or ground I stand on is going to get tossed around and lose stable footing. Not to mention that using [Boost] also doubles the mana drain, which means I need to be a bit careful or I'll burn my reserves off with just one or two spells..."

"That… was… awesome!" Ddraig seemed to be in high spirits. "Do it again! Please! Please!"

Momonga lifted himself up as he figured that Serafall might recover soon as well.

The first thing he saw was, beside a huge mushroom cloud settling above, was the state of the 'city'. Or rather the massive but not too deep crater that had absolutely leveled the city and blown it away like an omni-directional leaf blower tossing off dust.

Then he looked behind him, and saw a pair of fairly nice legs sticking out of the ground a ten or so feet away.

Bare legs, which told him that Serafall would have suffered a wardrobe malfunction during the blast.

'Hm, she doesn't seem all too vulnerable to blunt and fire-based damage. That's… hm… five percent of her health gone?' Momonga observed the girl's health through [Detect Life]. He then noticed that he too had suffered a wardrobe malfunction as his buffs hadn't managed to preserve his clothes, so he made a set of clothes akin to what he had seen Sirzechs wear, except khaki yellow as he figured that outrageous colours would resonate well with the observers...

Momonga realized that his decision to wear khaki 'uniform' wasn't entirely 'his', and quickly retreated into his 'mental-scape' to board up the alarmingly huge chasm in his mind, whacking the furry, smoke-covered creature that attempted to emerge from it with Ddragi's tail.

The dragon protested the weaponization, but Momonga disregarded it as the danger was too high.

"Kyaaah! That was awesome! Do it again!" Serafall seemed to be in high spirits as she wiggled her way out of the ground.

"Certainly, but before that... " Momonga sighed as Serafall made a T-pose, clearly expecting another nuke and preparing to be sent away in style. Instead Momonga teleported in front of her and placed his hand on her chest. "[Create Item]."

He teleported back, leaving Serafall clad in simple and peach-coloured casual dress.

"Hyaah! That's super stinky!" Serafall didn't seem to approve of the choice of clothes, so Momonga turned away, snapped his fingers just in time for the delayed [Create Greater Item] to go off and change her clothes to a set of 'cool' pink-and-black gothic lolita-style clothes…

Momonga froze. 'Oh… Oh no! Not you too! Brutus! Et tu?'

Indeed, Peroroncino-plushie had betrayed him, seeding some evil ideas in his head while he had been panicking and trying to keep the rift in his mind sealed.

"Oooooah!" Serafall seemed to be instantly in love with the few pink details the dress had. "I love it! Thanks Mo-tan! I'm super sorry if I tear it!"

"Not to worry." Momonga turned around, pointing the [Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown] at her. "I plan to rip it off myself."

He froze. '...That came out wrong...'

The look in Serafall's eyes caused him to pause further.

A drop of sweat ran down the neck of his fleshy body.

The Maou had heart-shaped pupils as she stared at Momonga.

'Oh no.'

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Rias felt wobbly as she watched the battle unfold.

She wasn't sure what she had been expecting, but somehow, it all fit in her expectations. 'Figures that Issei's [Dress Break] would evolve to a ridiculous degree, somehow…'

"And our combatants are off again! Who could have seen this coming? Momon holds the edge! For now! Serafall-sama's giving him the heart-eyes! IS this going to turn into a bloodbath? Of course it is! Rias-chan! Comment from you to the audience?" Belial turned the mic towards Rias while winking, having adopted his usual 'caster' persona which was far more energetic than the face he wore when fighting.

"...It seems that Momon-kun's signature skill [Dress Break] has 'leveled-up', so to say, to a point where it can level entire cities." Rias felt a bit light-headed as she spoke to the mic. "Of course, this is an ability mostly used for removing clothes from girls."

"It looks like this time it removed Kuoh from the face of the earth! Or Rating Game pocket dimension, at least!" Belial turned back to commenting on the match. "It looks like Serafall holds the advantage in close quarters though! And those spiffy clothes match her quite well!"

Rias looked at the fight, spotted a slight glint of red around Momon's arm, and nodded as he resolve came back. 'Right, I can't space out right now. I'll have to cheer for Momon!'

"Indeed! But as we've seen, Momon can teleport! So for how long does he plan on letting Serafall whack his face around? Perhaps he's just gauging the strength of her melee attacks!" Rias wrestled the mic from Belial, who just winked at her again, approving of the co-commentator becoming less passive.

"Ooh! it looks like Momon's doing exactly that! What an explosion! That looked like a fireball!" Belial commented, and Rias rolled her eyes.

"Indeed! That was a [Grand Fireball], I believe! I have seen it used only once, and back then it instantly killed two Church Exorcists and Holy Sword wielders… at the same time!"

"Impressive! But will the epic skill of being able to squash two flies at once enough to prevail against a Leviathan? We'll see!"

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'Hm, fire seems to work.' Momonga considered his options as he used [Boost] to keep track of Serafall's movements while he dug himself out of the ground after getting punched by the girl. "[Maximize magic: Weaken]!"

The ninth-tier explosive spell, [Nuclear Blast] had leveled the battlefield, so to say, and had given Momonga the advantage of having long uninterrupted sight-lines to Serafall who he recognized had vastly better close-combat abilities as it was.

The fact she could overpower him in melee made him more than a little worried, as he knew she was a caster-type from the brief overview of her abilities the Overlord Wiseman had given him, since Lord Phenix had fought alongside Serafall in the civil war, but she was more or less still doing the devil-equivalent of using [Perfect Warrior] and toying with her opponent. It was fortunate that Momonga had managed to re-cast [Body of Effulgent Beryl] before she had recovered as the heavy-handed attacks had splattered the chest of his fleshy body all over the ground, but he had reduced the damage dealt to his 'actual' body a good bit while [Regeneration] restored his fleshy body before it's state could cause anyone to raise questions.

Serafall stumbled on the spot and the ice-lance she conjured and threw at 'Momon' missed his head by few inches while one went right though his stomach, missing the bones but slicing the flesh apart with ease. "Wheeewh! Momonsh gots a drunkening-spell! Dis awesum!"

'Hm, good initial impact from a curse...' Momonga noted as he cast a fireball, forcing the girl to dodge and flop on the ground on her face as she stumbled.

"Heyyw! Is unfair to hafve… have twentysh Mo-taaans vershsus one magical gurl… dis unfairh! Dis a gangbang! Bukkake!" Serafall protested while wobbling on the spot after hopping up on her feet again.

Then she punched herself square in the face, causing a meaty thumb to ring in the clearing that used to be a city that used to be formless void.

"Whoaa! That was pretty cool, Momon-kun! But party tricks won't get far with me! To the bedroom, maybe, but not far from the battlefield!" Serafall jumped on the spot, drawing her legs under her mid-leap and landing on a dragon made from ice that sprang into existence under her. "Out-cool this!"

Momonga teleported away before the ice-dragon could squash him, then teleported again as the ground he had teleported on sprouted ice-spikes. 'Hm, she's starting to get used to my skirmishing around and poking at her resistances… I'll have to engage harder next time. She doesn't have anti-teleportation abilities though… Do the locals not use repeated teleportation in combat?'

He landed in the next spot and dodged as Serafall's fist occupied the space where his head used to be a half a second ago. 'I see, so she was reserving to use teleportation to catch me off-guard… Assuming I had been off-guard for her to use such tactic.'

"[Dimensional Lock]!" Momonga realized that she was starting to use teleportation to counter his, and thus he locked down both from using it with [Dimensional Lock], re-leveling the playing field to his advantage. Afterwards he used [Explosion] to blast Serafall away and opening distance between the two.

"Oho? You saw through me, Mo-kun?" Serafall swiped at her lip which had a cut. "Hehe, first blood goes to you!, Mo-kun!"

'Ten percent… Hm, fire-based spells seem to work on her the best. Not surprising, considering, but it was a good idea to check… I wonder how poison works? It should contaminate the water she uses…' Momonga thought as he covered his face, and then slid his hand up his hair to toss it back. "Indeed. We'll, however, have to see who gets the last blood!"

"Aww, fanks!" Serafall smiled cutely and swooned a bit. "I feel re-energized now!"

"[Hold Species]!" Momonga took advantage of the girl's distraction. "[Boost]! [Vermillion Nova]!"

The ground and the air around Serafall exploded in flames that burned like the surface of the sun.

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Momonga's Peerage was quite quiet one as they watched the portal in the middle of the Arena, and saw the fight unfold.

"Momon-kun seems… a bit scary." Xuelan noted and most of the Peerage nodded in agreement, while Koneko withdrew into her shell like a tortoise. Except her 'shell' was 'curling into a ball like a cat'. "Still, that much strength makes him pretty hot."

"I imagine we'll have to pull double-shifts." Yubelluna noted to Xuelan. "That amount of 'destroyer mode' isn't going to go away anytime soon on its own."

"Got it, Yubelluna-chan." Xuelan flexed her muscles, then glanced over at the crowd of devils who had apparently managed to buy tickets into the Game, and quite few of them had Momon, or rather 'True God' related merchandise like small flags and… Dominion Authority-like angel-plushies? "Although, we may have to do some damage control to get the skanks to back off."

"Hm, good point." Yubelluna noted as she looked at the crowd, which seemed to contain quite a few devil girls, all of whom looked at the viewing portal to the Game, and a good portion of the girls looked positively thirsty.

"Ara?" Akeno reached to pat Gasper's head as he wiggled on her lap, drawing Xuelan's attention to her for a moment.

"Heavyyyh…" Gasper whined at the weight of the two melons resting on top of 'her' head. "And I feel creepyy.. some old man is watching meee… I dun wannah… I wannah kish Momooon agaiinh… Hish lips are so soooft..."

"Oho?" Yubelluna seemed to gain a glint in her eye.

"Ehe?" Xuelan gained a glint in her eye as well as she spotted some prime teasing material.

Yuuto just kept staring at the fight, transfixed, and starting to feel lucky to be still alive after his 'duel' against Momon that he had 'won'.

Xenovia was rubbing her belly. "Look, Irina-chan-junior? Your daddy's strong, and you'll be strong as well…"

"...Did you name your baby after me? No, wait, are you actually pregnant already?" Irina sweatdropped while Asia let out a 'eep' sound and covered her ears.

"No, but it pays to train before the actual situation is at hand." Xenovia looked totally serious.

"L- lewd…" Asia whined and Koneko broke out of her shell for a moment to pat Asia's head.

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'Hm, I may have to adjust my tactics.' Momonga thought as he re-cast [Body of Effulgent Beryl] after he had activated it to nullify a devastating blow from Serafall which would have likely caved his skull if he hadn't had it active. 'Hey, Ddraig?'

"Yeah?" Ddraig sounded a bit worried.

'I saw a few mentions in [Boosted Gear]'s data that you can eat things and assimilate their power into [Booster Gear], right?' Momonga thought as he let his body ragdoll across the ground after eating a one-two light punch combo from Serafall who had broken the [Hold Species] and, after eating a full-force [Boost]ed [Vermillion Nova], had gone ballistic.

The shock of losing nearly ten percent of her 'health' from a single hit must have caused her reasoning to blank out, but she recovered at quite impressive rate as she paused, shook her head, and lost her [Berserking] status, or the ero-world equivalent of it, that she had fallen into.

"I can assimilate items into [Boosted Gear], yes. What of it?" Ddraig moved the conversation onwards as Momogna used [Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown] to block Serafall's attack, and then placed in on the ground while letting go of it.

The staff's automatic attack-and-defense 'AI' activated, and it drew from Momonga's 'profile' for Serafall's abilities and resistances to calculate the most optimal attack patterns.

To that end Serafall was blasted back as the staff cast a [Shockwave] at her, sending her flying, and then the staff summoned a [Greater Fire Elemental] to punch her a hundred feet or so into the ground from mid-flight, turning the area where she had landed to lava and the elemental dived after her in a burning frenzy.

'Can you use the items you assimilate to alter the appearance of [Boosted Gear]?'Momonga asked. He had used the verbal command for [Boost] quite a few times in the fight already but he hoped the ruckus would be enough to conceal his use of the ability. He couldn't quite conceal the look of the armor though, since he planned on unleashing the Ero-World class item's second stage.

"I can, to a degree." Ddraig nodded and Momonga concentrated on his Chuuni, drawing a picture from its murky, dark and embarrassing depths.

'Eat this.' Momonga used [Create Greater Item] to make something that'd suit the narrative Serafall had set for him- that was, his 'three-stage transformation'.

Even if the thought of actually using that of all things was causing all sorts of worrying quakes in Momonga's head, specifically around the deep chasm part.

"Holy crap! Ow!" Serafall popped over the ground, or rather was punched out of the ground, and was immediately hit by three simultaneous [Fireballs], then a [Grand Fireball], and when she landed on the ground, it erupted around her as the [Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown] cast [Inferno] on her, instantly dispersing the ice spikes she attempted to form.

The [Greater Fire Elemental] let out a roar and performed a two-handed whack on Serafall, turning the area around her into lava and letting sizzling sounds.

Momonga noted that Serafall had caught the fire-elemental's arms, but was hit to the side with [Magic Arrow] which forced her to let go of them before she could do anything about it.

'Hm, the staff's abilities seem to be working nominally. As I expected.' Momonga nodded as the staff kept up its unrelenting barrage of spells at Serafall. 'She's lost… thirty percent of her health in total? Seventy to go...'

Momonga double-took the number as it began to rise. 'Oh.'

"Puhaa! You're good, Momon-kun! Sona-chan warned me that you might be able to defeat me! I first though she was being all tsun-tsun and was more or less saying 'it's not like you'll ever defeat Mo-kun, you baka-nee!', but it now looks like she wasn't kidding me!" Serafall seemed to find her footing as Momonga motioned for the staff to pause, which then ordered the elemental to pause.

"You'll be alright, Se-tan! After all, you're regenerating, no?" Momonga used his secondary stratagem- that of of leveraging his good relationship with the girl to make her turn over her secrets willingly. "Are you actually related to the Phenix family?"

"Whaaaa? Noooo…" Serafall pat her forefingers together guiltily, then struck a pose. Luckily her gothic-style clothes had managed to survive the whole battery-by-elemental, most likely because they were technically high-class items as they were created by [Create Greater Item]... at least as long as Momonga didn't decide to disperse them. "Just kidding! Like ninety-percent of everyone's body is water, so I just use the water in tissue to patch it up! I can even give myself a deep-muscle massage with just my powers! It's awesome, wanna feel that too?"

"I'd love to… after the match." Momonga agreed. 'Hm, interesting. She has that much control over her abilities? That, or she's lying to me. Both are possible cases.'

Nevertheless, he placed the [Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown] against the ground again, and Serafall sprang towards him in full sprint, creating a whirling vortex of ice-water around her fist while the sky began darkening and raindrops began falling.

The [Greater Fire Elemental] sizzled as it intercepted the blow, and the punch broke right through its chest, putting it out.

"Ha! Tricked you! I meant to punch it in the first place!" Serafall celebrated, and then screamed in pain as Momonga had crept closer to her during the interception and in the cover of the resulting steam cloud.

He tied his hands around her waist much like how he had done for Rias, except that he imbued his hands with [Negative Energy Touch] during the initial touch and then deactivated the ability after confirming its effect on the girl. 'This is a bit risky, but let's see how this works…'

"Indeed… now we get into the proper… fight" Momonga lowered his voice a bit in a way that he hoped was dark and seductive, at least if his Chuuni was anything to go by, and he slid his hand up Serafall's stomach, over her chest and then turned her face towards him while the other rested on top of her abdomen as he hugged her from behind.

He kissed the now-confused gothic-lolita wearing magical-girl-Maou deeply, causing her to pause, and then she disappeared in a stumble of limbs and black-and-pink cloth after forcing herself off his grip.

"S-super unfair! Unfair! Under the belt! No! Bad Mo-kun!" Serafall accused while blushing to her eyebrows and shaking. "Not when So-tan is watching from the VIP seats! Her innocent eyes can't handle your dark seductive glory like I can! She's going to go all mushy and squishy and faint! Moreover there was something seriously creepy at work just now!"

Unfortunately for Momonga, he couldn't quite tell if her shaking was from the [Negative Energy Touch] or from something else, but the initial reaction the girl gave had given him enough evidence of her apparently hidden weakness.

"Hooo? Perhaps. In that case, I'll make sure So-tan watches everything, and make sure she loves all she sees." Momonga went from physical attacks to mental ones as he figured that he had softened Serafall up enough for the mental attack-words to have a good effect. "And then I'll pile you two on top of eachother, and make sure you both have a good time and love it. And then I'll take responsibility."

"H-hey! No bedroom talky! Lewd!" Serafall blushed even harder. "I control water! Making me wet is only going to make me more dangerous!"

'Hm, good point.' Momonga noted as he drew a useful tidbit of information from Serafall's panicked speech.

"...You actually believed that?" Ddraig sounded quite dry, which made good contrast to the sky as it had started to pour rain and Momonga started to see flashes of thunder in the distance. "Careful, Momonga. She's buying time so she can flood the area with water and then she has a definite advantage."

'I'm counting on it, actually. Lord Phenix saw her 'trump card', so to speak.'Momonga grabbed the staff again as Serafall stumble-lunged at him with both her cheeks bright red. "[Hold Species]! [Boost] [Triplet maximize magic: Grand Fireball]!"

The explosion of three simultaneous massive fireballs caused Serafall to pause, specifically as she froze still for a moment before managing to break the hold and thus couldn't fully dodge the explosive flaming projectiles.

'There should be enough water now... ' Momonga nodded to himself as the downpour was enough to cause fire-spells to go out instantly after detonating and removing any 'burning' from Serafall. "[Maximize magic: Call Greater Thunder]!"

A massive thunderstrike landed near Serafall as she dodged, electrocuting her and causing her to splash into the now-knee deep water. "Whee!"

Momonga cast [Explosion] on the ground in front of himself to knock himself quickly away from the girl as she rose from the water inside a massive water-made creature that looked vaguely like a centipede if its legs were turned to fins, and had strings of bioluminescent beads running its entire length. The glow was further accented by the fact the huge rain-clouds were obstructing sunlight, causing the battlefield to be covered in dark gloom.

He used [Fly] mid-stumble to launch himself further away, albeit at slower speed, as the massive centipede-fish-thing took shape and coiled like a spring as it rose like a tower or a skyscraper.

'Perfect. She's putting all her eggs in one basket… or a coffin.' Momonga danced internally as he saw the massive creature take shape.

"I hope this plan of yours is a good one…" Ddraig noted as he looked at the massive creature rising from the water and turning its two huge bulbous, bioluminescent eyes at Momonga and opening its vertical jaws to show thousands of razor-sharp water-blades.

'...Me too.'

Momonga took a deep breath, then brought his left hand up after casting another fireball at his feet, causing a sharp bang and hiss of steam that clouded him from view as the water evaporated. "[Balance Break]- [BoostBoostBoostBoostBoost]!"

He grasped his now-armored hand, looking at the yellow trench coat above the bulky khaki-covered armor that made the [Boosted Gear: Scale Mail] now that the item had absorbed the 'cosmetic' item Momonga had made for it with [Create Greater Item] to change its appearance.

Indeed, he was clad in a military-style dress uniform, and on his shoulders was a opened heavy trench coat that hung on him like some sort of cape.

And underneath the uniform was the now-khaki coloured [Scale Mail] that Ddraig's previous users had worn, which made the uniform on top of the armor look all kinds of bulky, even though the suit's waistline was quite narrow. The combination made Momonga look incredibly ridiculous, at least in his opinion, but his Chuuni side disagreed.

Both of the coat's arms were lying freely against his sides, and he held to his helmeted head that had a officer's cap with one hand, and his other hand was on his hips, making him strike a pose that practically screamed. 'Yare yare, daze', or "good grief.'

Momonga's more sensible self felt something crack and break as he struck another pose, the now-khaki coloured armor under the uniform causing the cloth to bulge in all the right places and making him look roughly three times the weight in muscle than his actual fleshy body was.

More importantly, the crack in his mind had exploded open, and something emerged from it in perfect concert with Momonga's equally breaking self-esteem.

Ddraig was stuck between cowering in the 'corner' of his mind and eating mental-popcorn while watching the disaster unfold.

"Greetings, Ulbert-dono." Ddraig managed to get out as a hunched figure of a man with goat's head and hooves opened its arms wide, the creature's black-and-red suit and cape floating in the nonexistent wind of Momonga's mental-scape.

The plushie waved its hands like a conductor, and struck a pose pointing at Serafall, which was mirrored by Momonga's uniform-armored body.

The creature's grand flourish, the chuuni radiating from it, and the resulting feeling of embarrassment caused Momonga's head to tilt and he crushed an Cash Shop item between his fingers that he hadn't even realized had pulled out after the Chuuni had taken him over like if he was a puppet on strings.

Thus, putting up a grand show was only appropriate, and cringy bad-guy speak was only expected of him.

No matter how much it rend Momonga's 'Suzuki Satoru' personality.

After all, this was Ulbert Alain Odle-plushie's time to shine and take the stage, leveraging the power of the strongest Chuuni-user in the entire guild of Ainz Ooal Gown.

Indeed, Momonga lifted both of his arms in grand display while the [Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown] pointed at the 'sky' "Behold the power of Super-Tier spells and despair, Serafall Leviathan! My beloved Levi-tan! [Great Malediction: Curse-killing Poison]!"

The spell activated, and a grand magical circle formed around him, strengthened total of thirty-two times from the five [Boosts] he used consecutively as the [Scale Mail] removed [Boosted Gear]'s ten-second cooldown for [Boost].

Momonga heard a 'pop', and everything turned sickly and pallid as he had targeted the water with the poison-type Super-tier spell...

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