"Anyway, Akuto-sama, let us settle this battle first!"
Boom!
With her face flushed bright red, Ravel unleashed a towering flame of the immortal bird behind her, over ten meters tall, surging straight toward Akuto!
"Good~ Then I'll just look forward to the feel of your hair in advance, Lady Ravel."
Akuto drew a cylindrical object from his waist.
With a click of the red button, a blade of light more than a meter long extended.
"That's… a light sword? Only priests of the Church carry those! Why do you have one, Akuto-sama?" Ravel clearly disliked the holy aura emanating from the weapon.
"Oh, nothing special. A stray priest tried to attack me, so I put him down and took his gear, that's all."
Grayfia's brows knit tightly at his words.
(A stray priest already targeted him? I'll have to strengthen his security. At the very least, Akuto-kun must not fall before the Old Maou Faction makes their move.)
…..
Ravel also froze for a few seconds. Hadn't Akuto only just awakened? And yet he'd already gained real combat experience?
"Eh? To defeat a stray priest so soon after awakening… Akuto-sama, you have quite the talent for battle."
"Then let me see—whether your Leviathan's water can overcome my Phenex's fire!"
Boom!
Behind her, the crimson-gold flames of the Phenex burst forth, launching a rainstorm of fire bullets straight at Akuto!
Seeing she was serious, Akuto didn't hold back either.
[Boost!]
The Boosted Gear manifested, his aura surging as he broke past the limits of a low-class devil, stepping firmly into the power of a mid-class devil!
"Hm? That looks like… a Sacred Gear that doubles one's power?" Rias murmured.
"No… that's the Boosted Gear—the Red Dragon Emperor's gauntlet!"
Akuto leapt backward, slashing apart the incoming flames with his light sword.
[Boost!]
Ten seconds later, his strength doubled again.
"The Red Dragon Emperor's gauntlet?! Could it be… one of the Thirteen Longinus Sacred Gears?!"
Witnessing Akuto's strength doubling twice over, not only Rias but even Souna stood up in shock.
"According to legend, the Boosted Gear doubles its wielder's power every ten seconds. So long as the host's body can endure it, the boosting never stops!"
"What!? That's completely broken!" Ravel couldn't help but blurt out.
"No wonder you're so confident about beating me, Akuto-sama. You've got the legendary Longinus…"
"But even a Sacred Gear has weaknesses. It takes time to build up those boosts!"
Ravel quickly spotted the flaw—Boosted Gear's ten-second interval.
[Phenex Style: Flame Vortex!]
Behind her, Phenex flames converged, whirling into a blazing vortex of scarlet and gold.
Facing it, Akuto simply drew in a long breath.
"Fuuu~~~"
Vast spiritual energy poured into him with each inhale.
Of course, breathing alone didn't amplify his attacks—but it circulated the energy throughout his body, fully activating his Leviathan blood!
As his pureblood heritage awakened, the light sword became wreathed in waves of Leviathan power, surging like the tide.
[True Water Breathing: Fourth Form – Striking Tide!]
One strike, two strikes, three…
Ten, twenty, thirty…
"Haaaaah!!~"
With one swing, hundreds of crashing waves roared alongside his blade, surging against the flame vortex!
At first, he barely held his ground.
[Boost!]
With one amplification, no flame could touch him.
[Boost!]
With the second, his tides pressed the vortex back.
[Boost!]
With the third, the vortex was almost entirely extinguished, leaving only faint embers around Ravel!
As Grayfia had said—so long as the blood is pure, the Leviathan suppresses the Phenex.
"Ravel—be careful!"
Akuto's body flowed with the tide, his speed creating afterimages across the water.
[True Water Breathing: Third Form – Flowing Dance!]
With a single dance-like strike, the golden vortex shattered completely!
…..
"Akuto-sama, I admit I underestimated you. But…!"
From Ravel's body burst forth endless flames, converging into a massive fireball. She clearly intended to decide the match in one strike.
But Akuto had no intention of allowing her the chance.
[True Water Breathing: Sixth Form – Twisting Whirlpool!]
If hers was a flame vortex, his was a vortex of water!
Swirling like a spiral tide, Akuto's waters tore straight into her blazing sphere, shocking her eyes wide—
Shhhhhh!!
Steam erupted, drowning the battlefield in a heavy mist.
Though much of his water evaporated, Ravel's massive fireball vanished in kind!
…..
Seconds later, the fog dispersed.
At the center, Akuto's water blade rested at Ravel's pale neck. Her delicate face was a mix of shock and fear.
She knew—if his Leviathan water entered her body, it could very well extinguish the Phenex flames in her blood, crippling her regeneration entirely.
Without fire, without recovery, what was a Phenex but a punching bag?
Instinctively, fear flashed in her eyes.
Noticing it, Akuto withdrew his blade.
Then, before Ravel's startled gaze, he reached out with both hands—and tugged firmly at her springy golden twin drills.
Her unique twintail drills bounced up and down, and in his mind Akuto automatically added the sound effect—
Duang~
[Ding!]
[Congratulations, host, location sign-in complete.]
[Sign-in Location: Ravel's Twin Tails.]
[Task Rank: Blue]
[Reward: Enhanced Slime Suit (Symbiotic Version).]
[Enhanced Slime Suit: An advanced form of the Slime Suit. It possesses no will of its own and perfectly follows the wearer's commands. Even users with no mana can control it flawlessly.
It boasts immense offensive and defensive adaptability, purifies toxins automatically, and adapts to hostile environments instantly.
Note: Even if damaged in battle, it restores itself while always covering 'important areas.' A must-have for home, travel, killing, and arson.] [TL: Source: The Eminence in Shadow]
"A slime suit?"
"According to the system… doesn't this mean I could wrap Rias or Akeno in slime, leaving openings only where I want?"
What slime suit? It was basically a full-body black stocking! No… not just black—white, sheer, anything he wanted!
As Akuto imagined each heroine wearing the slime suit, his blood boiled hot.
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