Chapter 43
Issei and Gabriel looked at each other and nodded before rushing at the skeleton. Gabriel, staying a bit afar and watching as the Skeleton tried to swing at Issei once more. She quickly casted another barrage of light spears straight at the skeleton.
Before the skeleton could attack Issei, he quickly boosted himself to the max.
[Boost X 29]
Increasing all his stats by twenty-nine points, Issei swung his hammer while the skeleton dragon was stunned by Gabriel's attack. Impacting the hammer, Issei noticed that he truly needed something else if he wanted to defeat the skeleton quickly. The quicker he defeats the skeleton, the less likely Gabriel will die. He really wanted to level up more, he will finish that bonus quest.
The skeleton dragon shook off Issei's attack and swung again at Issei, striking him square in the chest. Issei simply shook the pain off and swung again, counter attacking the dragon. Needless to say, the two behemoths continued swinging back and forth while tanking each other's blows. Issei, having immense damage reduction, immense health, and higher level thanks to the Boosted Gear resulted in him chipping away the skeleton dragon's health far faster. Combine that with his skills allowing for him to gain more pierce damage, Issei was beginning to break apart the skeleton dragon.
*CRACK*
Shattering a part of the skeleton dragon, Issei watched as the skeleton dragon's bonus was cut down because it lost a skeleton in its formation. Gabriel was also shooting the skeleton dragon from the distance. Sooner or later, Issei watched as the skeleton dragon began losing more of its bonus stats. Eventually, with a powerful strike with his hammer, the skeleton dragon shattered into pieces leaving nothing but broken bones in its original location.
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Level Up
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Rushing towards Issei and tackling him into a hug, Gabriel squealed in glee upon winning.
"WE WON! WE WON!"
That was odd... They had won. That was, oh dear god, that was only a regular mob because Issei didn't get the notification of finishing the quest. Sensing something approaching, Issei quickly pushed Gabriel out of the way to receive a powerful axe ramming him straight in the chest causing for a massive explosion blinding everyone in the room.
In front of him was another skeleton dragon who had twelve skeletons in its formation. Coughing up blood, Issei saw that the strength and endurance difference between him and the dragon was much larger.
Quickly, using his speed against the skeleton dragon, Issei backed away from the dragon and grabbed Gabriel to get her away... However, before he could escape through a route... Issei was met with another skeleton dragon blocking his getaway. Turning around frantically, Issei noticed that he was surrounded by dozens of them.
"What the hell?" Issei began noticing them moving towards him. They were all the same level, 112.
However, the issue wasn't the level, but the sheer gap in strength and endurance.
What the hell was he going to do?
"Issei, what do we do?" The sheer fear in Gabriel's voice was evident. They didn't know what else to do besides escaping.
Activating Speed Demon and using his sheer speed advantage, Issei rushed straight away from all the dragons with Gabriel in his arms. Having all his senses at a critical high in case one of them shot a powerful beam at him, Issei quickly rushed straight into a different path away from the skeleton dragons.
That was when he noticed another dozen of skeleton dragons in front of him. There was no escape... What the hell was he going to do?
They began approaching him, placing Gabriel down, Issei equipped his armor and had all his coins ready to fight against them. He didn't think he would make it out alive neither did he think Gabriel would come out alive either.
Gabriel, seeing as though there was nothing else to do, formed a holy sword with her holy magic...
Wait...
Wait...
Weapons coated in elemental magic.
Could he?
"Gabriel, listen to me! I need you to supercharge my hammer with all of your holy magic now." Hearing the abrupt request, Issei screamed at her, "DO IT NOW!"
Nodding and rushing to his hammer and using all her magic and infusing it with his hammer. Issei noticed that his hammer began glowing a bright golden color.
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Holy Magic Coating: Your weapon will be empowered by holy magic making it a super lethal weapon to the undead for three minutes... Not only that, but the sheer strength of the weapon will naturally increase by ten percent.
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Issei smirked before holding his hammer and raising it high above his head.
He had the level advantage, elemental advantage, and skill advantage. Now he just needed to make sure that he could chunk through each skeleton dragon.
[Transfer]
Using this skill that he heard from Ddraig a while back, Issei empowered his hammer even further beyond... The holy magic combined with the Boosted Gear's power along with his sheer strength. He now needed to make sure that Gabriel doesn't do anything stupid. Looking at her, Issei screamed, "MAKE SURE TO STAY AROUND ME AND DON'T DO ANYTHING STUPID!"
Nodding her head in fear, Issei rushed straight at the first skeleton dragon and slammed his hammer straight into its head. Using all his skills again, Issei shattered the head... Chunking a quarter of the dragon's health. Not giving the dragon any time nor any of the other dragon's to attack him, Issei swung again, again, and again before killing his second skeleton dragon.
Activating Overcharge, Issei pushed his limits even further.
"Let me solo them," Rushing towards the next, Issei didn't have much time with his holy magic...
Killing one after the other, level up a couple of times, Gabriel was still alongside him watching as Issei showed no mercy to any of the undead.
Kill after kill, It eventually got to the point where there was only one skeleton dragon... And his hammer ran out of magic.
However, Issei had leveled up a few more times. To the point where he was nearly invincible from the skeleton dragon. His sheer damage alone even without the holy magic would be enough. The skeleton dragon's beforehand had tried using their magic to attack him. He simply rammed straight through it with Titan Smash and ripped them apart.
There was nothing that these skeleton dragon's could do anymore... Gabriel watched Issei in awe before she watched the skeleton dragon turn its face towards her. Shooting out a powerful beam towards her, Gabriel tried to counter with a holy beam, but that was useless. The beam of the dragon pierced straight through her attack leaving Gabriel to holy close her eyes to take on the impact of the blow. However, she didn't feel pain.
Opening her eyes, she watched as Issei tanked the blow without flinching. Smirking and throwing his hammer at lightning speed at the skeleton dragon's mouth, Issei shot the hammer at the perfect trajectory to where the dragon began choking. That's where Issei landed on the skeleton dragon's nose and ripped the hammer right out of the mouth and shattering the skull in the process.
Another one bites the dust...
"Could you remind me why the fuck are we here again?"
"First of all, language, and we came here to find some holy relics."
"Umm... look around you. The entire building is already on the brink of collapsing."
Gabriel, finally looking at her surroundings, noticed that the walls were shattered, the floor was broken, and the ceiling was filled with holes thanks to Issei. Sighing to herself, Gabriel turned her head back to Issei to watch him raise his hammer again. "Issei no!"
"Issei yes!"
"Bad Issei!"
"Issei good!" And he slammed his hammer again into the ground causing for the entire building to break apart and collapse on top of the two.
"If the temple broke apart. There is nothing else for us to explore. We're done."
Ending the exploration quickly, Gabriel shouted at Issei, "Hey! I wanted to explore."
"And I want to sleep and be at peace but we can't get everything we want." Issei walked away.
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Quest Completed: Survive the death trap
Bonus Quest Completed: Make sure that Gabriel survives
Reward: + 6 Large Titanite Shards
+ Level Up x 4
+ 25 Silver Coins
Bonus Reward: + 6 Large Titanite Shards
+ Level Up x 4
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Not only that, he also got the notification for finishing the entire quest.
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New Side Quest: Help Gabriel
Reward: +++++Reputation with Gabriel
+Level Up x 5
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He truly did level up a little too much with this temple. Immediately using the titanite to bring his Hammer to +6, Issei gained another +10 STR from those upgrades.
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Name: Issei Hyoudou
Title: Hero of the Devil Faction
Race: Shadow Colossus
Level: 125
HP: 67502/101560
MP: 0/732.5
STR: 324.5 (+102)
AGL: 152.4 (-10)
END: 355.24 (+51)
INT: 154.5 (-8)
Bonus:+88% Damage Reduction
+20% Pierce Damage
Skills: Crystallized Frame
Titanic Smash
Chaotic Manipulation
Overcharged
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Issei was a fucking monster at this point... His strength and endurance were in leagues above nearly anything that was in this world around his level. Well, anything that the system doesn't create because the system makes nearly everything around his level.
"You big meanie! Wait for me!" Gabriel whined before running at Issei again.