"Since you've seen through me, I'll stop pretending. Just become my food obediently, and I'll make it quick for you."
The woman gave a malevolent smile. Her pupils turned crimson red, and her kagune—a predatory organ unique to ghouls—erupted from her body, tearing through her skin and clothes. The blood-like threads clinging to her made for a strangely grotesque sight.
This "kagune" is a ghoul's weapon. It's as hard as steel, and their physical abilities are far beyond those of ordinary people. They are impervious to normal blades. For a regular human, encountering a ghoul is a death sentence.
"You look a bit like Doctor Octopus," Luo Guang muttered.
The woman didn't hear him because the rain had grown heavier.
"Hehehe... little brother, I'm going to eat every single piece of meat on you, one by one."
After revealing her true form, the woman felt Luo Guang's scent become even more delicious. Drool mixed with the rain as it flowed from her mouth.
She approached Luo Guang slowly, confident that he couldn't escape. Many predators enjoy toying with their prey. She was no exception; the struggle of a dying meal made the meat firmer and more flavorful.
Luo Guang said nothing more. He simply pulled his hand out of his pocket.
With a flash of light, a silver longsword, shaped like a medieval knight's blade, appeared in his hand.
He easily held the sword, whose weight was immeasurable.
He looked at the woman before him without expression.
Luo Guang wasn't a native of this world. He had transmigrated here with his memories and soul. His body was his original one, just given a new identity.
He was still an orphan, but when he turned twelve, he awakened a special ability.
The ability's origin was unknown. Besides granting him a "starter pack" that gave him the Demon-Slaying Holy Sword Est he held in his hand, it also gave him the "Diligence Rewards" ability.
This ability gave Luo Guang the genius-level comprehension of a protagonist from a fantasy novel. It allowed him to continuously grow stronger no matter what he did. Even if he practiced a cultivation technique to its limit, he could break through and make his abilities even more powerful than before. This included, but wasn't limited to, physical constitution, swordsmanship, magic, cursed energy, and even mundane artistic skills like writing, painting, singing, and even "bedroom arts."
Ever since he activated this system and was told by his ability that he was in a "crossover" hodgepodge of different universes, Luo Guang gave up most of his leisure time and dedicated himself to training.
For an ordinary person, it takes months to see the results of their training.
But with his ability, Luo Guang saw the results of his self-training every day. This is why, at a young age, he had a sculpted eight-pack and a physique with golden-ratio proportions that made him stand out among the generally shorter people of Japan.
Additionally, his ability came with a final basic function: the "Inter-Dimensional Gateway."
[Inter-Dimensional Gateway: A function that provides the ability to travel between different worlds. It requires the energy gauge to be filled to 100% to activate. Once activated, the energy will slowly deplete. When the energy is completely exhausted, you will automatically leave the current world. You can also return early, but you can only activate it again once the energy is full.]
The reason Luo Guang could face a ghoul so nonchalantly was due to his past accumulation. The first world he traveled to after the gateway's energy was 100% was Campione!
After experiencing various setbacks and difficulties, he successfully became an unranked disciple of the Bronze Black Cross, a renowned magical organization in Italy.
Using his "Diligence Rewards" ability, he spent only a few months to master all the swordsmanship and magic taught within the auxiliary magical society.
If the energy gauge hadn't run out, he would have earned the title of "Grand Knight," a badge of honor for magicians, right there and then.
While the "Grand Knight" rank isn't rare, it's a remarkable achievement for a twelve-year-old child. The only two who could surpass Luo Guang at that age in the entire Magical Association of Southern Europe were the prodigious children of the Bronze Black Cross and the Crimson Black Cross.
However, Luo Guang had no contact with them, so he didn't know much about them.
When he saw that the energy was about to run out, he faked his death during a mission to eliminate cultists, making sure his body was untraceable. This allowed for a perfect escape. After all, who knew how long it would take to recharge and return?
Since then, Luo Guang had been living in this chaotic crossover world, enjoying high school life again.
The main reason he chose to go to school was that it was a special one.
The school he attended was called Kuoh Academy, and it had many familiar names: Rias Gremory, Akeno Himejima, Issei Hyoudou, Touka Kirishima, Mai Sakurajima, and more.
Likewise, this world had many monsters lurking in the shadows: ghouls, cursed spirits, evil spirits, and even powerful, magical demons.