Chapter 25
Issei stood on top of a mountain and looked down to see a huge opening filled with monsters all around his level. However, the difference between these monsters and the boss level monsters from before was that they had normal stats. Their strength, agility, endurance, and intelligence were closer to their level rather than matching his strength stat.
'What if... I land a nuclear blast in the middle without them noticing me from up here?' Grabbing a few large mana potions, Issei chugged them to max out his mana and did the same with his health. Using all of his potions, Issei looked straight into the middle of the large crowd of monsters, who were fighting each other, and began charging as much as he could. Igniting himself with his own magic, his health began draining, but his body began shining so brightly that the sky itself began illuminating from his brightness. His entire body was filled with the crimson-dark energy to the point where the outline of his body disappeared.
Shooting straight into the sky as high as he could, Issei looked down and blasted himself straight towards the crowd of monsters. There was at least a thousand of them... Issei would call this attack...
"The Final Wish"
The monsters looked up to see a bright projectile the size of a human crash straight into the surface with so much force to the point where the entire mountain itself collapsed. A huge wave of pure illuminated plasma energy began expanding at such speeds that it blinded anyone who looked even closed to his direction. Incinerating everything in the area, every single monster screeched before becoming ashes as Issei annihilated them all. With his huge strength boost that he got combined with using all his mana at once, Issei shook the entire area and caused the clouds, from the shockwave of his explosions, to circulate all around him. In seconds, the weather changed from snowy to rainy and continue alternating.
Once the explosion dissipated, nothing was left besides a crater that continued spewing out magma. Not even Issei himself remained...
He only received four level ups from his nuclear ending...
Opening his eyes while gasping for air, Issei jumped off from his bed to see his surroundings. Looking confused... Issei finally remembered that he would respawn back to his original location once he died in the dimension.
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Monsters defeated: 1000+
Time survived: 4 hours 20 minutes
Host had defeated 3 true boss level enemies.
Evaluating performance...
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Host had performed impressively well and went off with a bang. Killing many more enemies than what was expected.
Race change options will be given...
1. Crystallized Golem (Rank: Legendary)
2. Titan (Rank: Legendary)
3. Dragon (Rank: Legendary)
Dragon will be more magic focused than the other two. Titan will be more focused on tanking and strength while Crystallized Golem will be pure strength.
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Issei immediately chose Titan. Crystallized Golem would make him a true glass cannon which is what he didn't want. He wanted to tank and hit hard and not just be a fucking nuclear bomb but can't take a hit at all.
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Titan has been chosen...
Changes will occur...
Benefits: Every endurance point will now give 200 HP rather than 100 HP. Strength stat will be increase by 1.5 and from now on, every level up will increase strength by 1.5 plus an additional 30% passive damage reduction. However, host will be restricted from ever having a shield.
Drawbacks: Intelligence will increase MP by 5 for every level in that stat. Agility will continue to increase by 0.5 for every level.
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Issei looked surprised at seeing his magic stat being reduced to such a large degree... He had barely any mana points to begin with... now that solidified that he would never become a magic user. Nuking his enemy was out of the question unless if he doubled his intelligence stat.
However...
Strength stat will be increase by 1.5...
That was worded differently than before...
Checking his stats, Issei was fucking flabbergasted... his stats were out of this world now.
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Name: Issei Hyoudou
Title: Guardian of Kuoh
Race: Titan
Level: 74
HP: 19600/19600
MP: 390/390
STR: 160 (+47)
AGL: 87.5 (-2)
END: 87 (+11)
INT: 76 (+2)
Bonus:+58% Damage Reduction
+25% Pierce Damage
Skills: Iron Flesh
Berserk Wrath
Chaotic Manipulation
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While checking his stats, Issei noticed that his strength stat had reached over 200. Just the boost from becoming a Titan was able to shoot his strength all the way up. He could easily crush Rias if he wanted to... not only that, but his health pool was reaching absurd levels. While Issei was paying attention to his stats, he didn't notice his body beginning to change. Instead of growing, his body began shrinking to the point he was his normal size... however, the difference was that his muscles began to become super ultra dense. His body was the same before he became a golem in height, but his muscles were bulging out of his shirt to the point where he was just... muscular to the point of it being way beyond excessive.
Taking a single step forward, Issei felt his room slightly wobble. "Holy shit... How much do I fucking weigh? Also... I need to ask... someone with more magic to help me make everyone think this is my normal body... at least use magic to make my parents think that."
While Issei was in his room, someone else was at the door.
"What do you mean he isn't here?" Artemis was bamboozled.
"He usually does this... he just leaves and comes back a little later. Just give him a couple hours and he'll be back." Issei's mother gave a sad look to Artemis and Sofia.
Sofia looked at Artemis with a sad look, "Arty... Is... this the right house?"
Artemis nodded, "Don't worry... we'll wait here for that silly man to show up."
"Hey! My little boy is not silly! My Issei is a brave hero!"
Artemis chuckled at hearing the mother defending her son. "I'm not denying that... that boy is truly a hero. He saved his little girl and her best friend from dying... I will forever always be in debt to him."
His mother simply smiled upon hearing her son's great achievements and moved to the side of the door and let the two in. Artemis gladly entered the house while Sofia rushed inside towards the living room. "Oh my gosh! It's a TV!"
Being amazed, Sofia rushed to the TV and began watching the shows with sparkles in her eyes. "Mom... who is here?"
Hearing her son's voice, Miki softly spoke back, "There's this beautiful woman and a little girl next to her."
"Oh... could you tell them that I am in my room and they can enter if they want to see me." Artemis, upon hearing this, nodded to Issei's mother and walked with Sofia in her arms to Issei's room.
Upon opening the door, she noticed a smaller... Issei standing in the middle of the room. His shirt being a little large and his body being small... he was shorter than her. "Issei... what happened?"
"Magic... I don't even know." Shrugging his shoulders, he looked to see Sofia in Artemis's arms.
"Mr. Dummy... is that you?" Sofia questioned while being hesitant to hug the new Issei.
"I don't know... is that little girl the one who cried to the big bad cyclops?"
Upon hearing that, Sofia leaped out of Artemis's arms and rushed to Issei and hugged him. "MR. DUMMY!"
"Small little girl!" Issei hugged the girl back. "Artemis... I need your help... badly."
After a few minutes, Issei was seen sitting down in the living room with Artemis right next to him and Sofia on his lap. The TV was playing with some cartoon and Sofia was ultra fixated on it.
"Hey... Issei... I wanted to ask... Can I... speak with you privately?"
Looking at her, Issei noticed her body tensing and her gaze averting from him, she was definitely going to tell him something vulnerable to her. Deciding that she was willing to ask him and wanting to tell him, he nodded softly. "Sure... Sofia... This show will be running on for a while. Just stay here... Mom, could you make sure that Sofia doesn't do anything stupid."
Sofia pouted, "HEY! YOU'RE MR. DUMMY NOT ME!"
"And you're also half my age... now go back to watching or I'll be shutting the TV." Sofia quickly went back to watching the TV in hopes that Issei doesn't turn it off.
There was something telling Issei that...
He was going to be in for a long day with this talk...
Wait... why did she even want to tell him something important?