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76.27% Reincarnated as a dragon egg in DxD with a Fate System! / Chapter 225: The witch's next move

Chapter 225: The witch's next move

Shikoku, Ehime prefecture——.

Deep, deep inside a certain cave in the mountains...several people from the Magicians of Oz were entering into a room deep underground.

The underground place was a spaciously built cave. Countless mysterious fires floating in midair served as a light source.

The one before the witches was a monster releasing an intense and powerful ghostly air.

A large animal about twenty meters in size. The large eyes that stared at them shone with an ominous red brilliance, and sharp fangs grew in its mouth that could easily swallow a human whole.

Its four limbs were also extremely thick, and beyond those, their eyes were drawn to a very think and long tail.

Around the large animal were gathered countless beasts, whose eyes glittered ominously.

The witches of Oz, who wore deep hoods, greeted the large beast.

"It is a pleasure to meet you. The legendary youkai——Inugami Gyoubu-sama."

In that manner, the witches called out to the large beast——this great youkai.

Inugami Gyoubu——called the chief of the supernatural tanuki, he possessed a level of ability that wasn't inferior to that of Yasaka-hime the Kyuubi no Kitsune, the leader of the youkai overseeing Kyoto.

The enormous youkai——Inugami Gyoubu, after giving the witches a sharp glare, spoke with no apparent amusement.

'Just what business do western magic users have with me.'

Having understood the displeasure of the other party, the witches threw a straight pitch.

"——Are you familiar with 'The Dog God of the Black Blade' Canis Lycaon?"

At those words, the innumerable beasts surrounding the witches——the supernatural tanuki that were Inugami Gyoubu's followers, began making noises.

Inugami Gyoubu let out a snort and spoke.

'Yeah, it's one of the unusual powers said to have been made by the God of you Christians. Recently, it's been reported to me that a possessor of it has awoken in this country.'

Letting out a great sigh, Inugami Gyoubu turned away and replied.

'Get out of here. I dislike the scent of foreign "witches". It's irritating my nose.'

Inugami Gyoubu spoke while making forced sniffing sounds with his nose.

However, the witches continued without hesitation.

"——And if it should happen that the aforementioned 'Canis Lycaon' is residing in someone originating from the Five Principal Clans?"

At this single statement, the underling supernatural tanukis became even noisier, and even Inugami Gyoubu narrowed his eyes and gazed directly at the witches.

The witch continued to display a thin smile on her lips.

"I have been listening to rumors. They say that you hold a considerable grudge against those five clans."

In response to what was contained in what the witch said, Inugami Gyoubu made an assertion while showing bared fangs.

'You're quite indirect, you western witches! If you have something to say, say it clearly! If you're simply turning to me for the cooperation of a mighty apparition of power, then it would have been fine to hold talks with Sanmoto or Akugorou, or surely old man Nuraihyon.'

"Among those ranked as great youkai that live in this country, we've come to you precisely because we've heard that you are curious about the most interesting things. ——We judged that only you would become interested when we said we want to attack 'The Inner Sanctuary'."

The witch held out her hand pointing upwards, and from it made a small magic circle appear. While the magic circle released light, a certain thing was summoned.

——Releasing a sinister ghostly presence, it was a sphere about the size of a soccer ball.

While showing the sphere releasing the ghostly presence to Inugami Gyoubu, the witch spoke.

"We are contriving a plan to attack 'The Inner Sanctuary'. ——While you retaliate against the Five Principal Clans by all means, we'd like you to be the opponent of 'Canis Lykaon' and his guardian."

Inugami Gyoubu studied the sphere releasing the ghostly presence while squinting.

'...Oho, so that's a youkai? Even I've never seen one like that guy. Oh my, seems this comes with a slightly interesting story. Your words have changed my mind.'

...….

After finishing breakfast, everyone dispersed. The only ones who stayed were Lavinia, Valerie, and Drako.

Although Valerie usually studied with Shirone, there were days when the youngest of the Nekoshou sisters would leave with Mordred for private training. It was precisely at those times that Lavinia would help Valerie discover more about her Longinus.

Drako was really curious about Shirone's fighting style. Maybe he was going to stop by after he finished with Lavinia and Valerie. Drako felt that he had left the little nekoshou aside for a long time.

But, for the moment, Drako had to focus on Valerie and her Sacred Gear.

Leaving the dining room, Drako and the two girls took the elevator down to the first basement. This was the floor dedicated to entertainment and training. They entered one of the special rooms, which was usually used as a training room.

Once inside, Drako took his time to get to the main subject.

"Tell me, Valerie, how is your life being here?" Drako asked.

Valerie, who had been walking a step behind Drako and Lavinia as they talked on the road, had her head down. Although she raised her head a little when Drako addressed her, she was slow to respond.

"I-I'm g-good," Valerie stuttered.

"Yes? That's great."

Despite Valerie's obvious difficulties communicating with Drako, he smiled politely. Drako knew Valerie's circumstances, and he also knew Valerie's future circumstances if Mordred hadn't rescued her. Unfortunately, it was too late when Mordred had arrived in Romania, as the experiments with Valerie had already begun.

It was true that Drako could have arrived earlier to save Valerie, but he had not done so as he did not know where he was in the timeline. It wasn't until he met Valina that he could guess more or less how many years were left before the critical year arrived.

Valerie nodded to Drako's words, but did not respond verbally. Meanwhile, Lavinia only smiled as she watched Drako's attempts to gain Valerie's trust.

Valerie's encounters with Drako had been few and far between. They consisted of small casual encounters where Drako would greet Valerie, and she would respond with a gesture most of the time, and hopefully sometimes say a few words.

Drako had not wanted to force anything on Valerie because of the previous issue. He, who knew what she would suffer, had not been able to save her before the experiments with her began. The same had happened with Kuroka, being that when he saved her, they had already experimented with her. Whereas with Shirone and Akeno, he had saved them in time.

He understood that not everyone could be saved, and he also understood that it was impossible to save either of them in time. They had already experimented with Kuroka by the time Drako came into this world, and Valerie had decided to sacrifice herself to save Gasper many years before Drako was reincarnated.

Still, Drako still had a bit of a guilty conscience. Perhaps this was one of the few human traits he still had, although he had lost most of them over time. (There isn't a single healthy-minded human who thinks of living beings as experience points, or who has the idea of eradicating a third world country just to level up). That, along with the various events that had kept him busy for a long period of time, had caused Drako not to ask Valerie about the girl's Longinus.

The training room was quite large, and was designed so that people could watch the training match. There was an indoor room, where Drako and the two girls were currently, with two tables and four chairs surrounding each of them. They were sitting around one of those tables, with Valerie and Lavinia sitting to Drako's right and left respectively.

"Well," Drako said. "First of all, tell me everything you know about the Sephiroth Graal."


Chapter 226: Sephiroth Graal

Inside the training room, Drako was sitting at a table with Lavinia and Valerie.

"First of all, tell me everything you know about the Sephiroth Graal."

That was what Drako had told them.

Although he knew a lot about the Sephiroth Graal, he wanted to see if Lavinia had discovered anything else. After all, Valerie's Longinus was a special case, a mutation, so it could contain many more powers than had been discovered in the Light Novels.

Lavinia shook her head.

"All the information I have comes from the writings I have managed to obtain from Grauzauberer," Lavinia said.

She pulled out a folder that said "Classified Information" and passed it to Drako. Obviously, this folder was very important to one of the most influential magicians' organizations in the supernatural world, Grauzauberer. Lavinia, who knew of the importance of this document, had no hesitation in handing it over to Drako.

In that folder, there were many papers, but many of them were not really important. Obviously, everything was about the Sephiroth Graal, but the great majority spoke of this Longinus's past holders. All this was not important information for Drako, far from it.

What really mattered to Drako was the abilities of this Sacred Gear. As an ancient and powerful organization, Grauzauberer should have a lot of information about this Longinus' abilities. And that's what Drako was looking for.

In the end, he didn't take long to find it.

What it said was this:

ABILITIES

The Sephiroth Graal has the ability to make contact with the principle of life, where the possessor is being forcefully told about how the life and soul is made. The possessor also takes in the mind and the concept of the dead, the living, and various other things as they use the Holy Grail which would result in the possessor being broken by the abundance of thoughts that enters their heart and soul when overusing the Sephiroth Graal.

From its power to control the principle of life, the Sephiroth Graal can bring the dead back to life. The Sephiroth Graal can also revive the dead as many times as the user desire as long as the soul of the deceased remains intact. This power depends on the ability of the user.

SIDE EFFECTS

A side effect of the corrosion caused by overusing the Sephiroth Graal is the possessor gaining the ability to talk with and apparently see the dead from the other world. 95% of the users has gone crazy by overusing this Sacred Gear.

When I finished reading this, Drako was a little disappointed. This was very important information, yes, but it was nothing he didn't know beforehand. What he was looking for was confidential information, but he hadn't been able to find anything. It was okay to refresh what he already knew, but... Drako expected a lot more.

But Valerie's Sacred Gear was special, not your average Longinus. Throughout DxD, they have seen irregular Balance Breaker how they can be those that get Issei, Vali, Cao Cao, Tobio Ikuse... but there are only two Sacred Gears that are irregular in their most basic form.

One of them is Siegfried's Twice Critical, while the other is none other than Valerie's Sephiroth Graal.

The anomaly in Valerie's Sacred Gear came in the form of three grails instead of one. And it also came with more powerful ones than those usually carried by Longinus.

Among them was the ability to remove any creature's weaknesses, although only to a certain extent. Not only that, but it could grant immortality as long as the soul of the target is not damaged. Drako still remembered how Marius Tepes remained alive even after Rias Gremory destroyed 75% of his body with the Power of Destruction.

Of course, Grauzauberer couldn't know about all this. After all, anomalies in Sacred Gears were very rare, and they probably only appeared to give the Light Novels a thrill.

Drako put the documents back in the folder and returned it to Lavinia.

"Anything else?" Drako asked.

Lavinia frowned. "It's complicated, Valerie's Sephiroth Graal is... strange."

Drako looked at the Dhampir, who lowered her head as if she had done something wrong, then looked back at Lavinia, feigning ignorance.

"What do you mean, strange?" Drako asked.

"Valerie, can you show him?" Lavinia asked her.

She nodded, and just as Drako expected, three identical grails appeared on the table. He examined them carefully, trying to uncover the secrets of this one.

Drako had always been fascinated by everything about Sacred Gears. They had a mystery behind them that was very difficult to understand.

The God of the Bible... was a person Drako had a lot of respect for.

A divine being able to take beings, weapons, and souls from other mythologies for his own... how powerful did he have to be to do that?

Having known the Greek Gods, Drako doubted very much that they would have peacefully accepted that God would take Lycaon, for example, to create a weapon (Longinus Canis Lycaon) that had the potential to kill them. It was impossible that they would have peacefully accepted this decision.

How powerful was this God of the Bible really?

Could he have reached the level of Shiva?

Drako didn't know, and he wasn't going to give much thought to a dead God either. What he was really giving importance to was DxD's ultimate enemy, Tri-hexa. The beast of the apocalypse, 666, was the most powerful enemy without a doubt, since both Great Red and Ophis could not be considered enemies. They were powerful beings, but were more neutral than anything else.

Shiva was the only god who had a power relatively close to that of the Tri-hexa, and even he had recognized that his power was inferior to that of the beast. If Drako really wanted to get as much experience as possible, he should have at least more than half the power of the Tri-hexa.

"This is... definitely interesting," Drako said as he watched the three grails placed on the table.

"What do you think? Lavinia asked.

Drako leaned over the table as he looked at the two girls.

"I have a theory," Drako flashed a mysterious smile. "Have you tried to eliminate weaknesses with the Longinus?"


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