Isao Tsumugi
With a quiet sigh, I slowly landed to the ground. My feet, encased in armor just like the rest of my body, crunched against the earth. I looked around with interest, while telepathically shedding my armor and crushing it into a perfect sphere that began to hover behind my back.
Kiriko's police forces had established a temporary safe zone with a radius of half a kilometer, where everyone could stretch their legs for a while. This gave us about ten minutes to quickly discuss our plans, find people who knew how to operate a ferry, and only then would we be on our way.
Kiriko and the others were standing off to the side, discussing logistics, but me...?
I was standing ten meters away, pondering the infinitely important... Heh, of course, the "infinitely important." In reality, I was just staring at the Gacha screen.
Somewhere in the middle of the flight, I had swapped out some abilities and pulled something truly special.
The first was, as always, my favorite: Metallurgy. Honestly, if I'd removed it mid-flight, I would have dropped five meters to the ground. I'd be fine, of course, but still.
The second was Wind Edge, which I'd used to coat incredibly thin, almost disposable metal blades with wind and launch them into crowds of zombies.
The third was my new favorite: Invisible Air, from Artoria Pendragon herself... I think. Honestly, this stuff was just incredible!
First, it could conceal objects by covering them in layers of compressed air, making them vanish. Against zombies, it's useless because they're too stupid, but against people? Most wouldn't even realize what killed them. And I could use it like this:
If someone were taken hostage, I could create a small ball of invisible metal inside a sphere of compressed air and use it to kill person who took hostage stealthily, without them ever knowing what happened.
Second, by covering anything with Invisible Air, I couldn't just make it invisible to all senses; it became incredibly destructive on its own. A metal ball covered in Invisible Wind could easily punch through a dozen walls if I just launched it forward, without needing further telepathic control from my side. Just a shot of a metal ball.
The third facet of this ability was that I could release invisible blades or balls of compressed air, creating a sort of "wind spell."
Heh, all of this was just incredibly cool!
The fourth ability I chose was Soul Read, just so I'd know if someone was lying to me, yeah, all my questions should be something that person should answer by yes and no, but still it is useful for me.
The fifth was Cor Leonis. Thanks to it, all people who perceived me as an ally—and whom I perceived as an ally—were highlighted in my perception, letting me know who was who. What's interesting is that everyone except one person was highlighted, even those who had only arrived yesterday and hadn't even seen me yet considered me an ally. Though judging by their looks, I was more than an ally to them. Everyone except one.
And that only person was, of course, Tadashi Miyamoto.
Dude, what the fuck? Seriously, what did I do to him that he wouldn't perceive me as an ally?
Having calmed down after yesterday, I didn't feel any burning rage anymore, just cold contempt and a promise of revenge. But I also felt confusion. I hadn't really touched his wife, nor did I the same with his lover, his daughter was in love with me all be herself, I'd saved him and all the kids that were in school, I was saving almost everyone in need... yet for some reason, he didn't like me. What the fuck?
It was slightly annoying, but fuck it. What else could you expect from a clown like him? Someone who tried to act like a Prime Minister candidate just to dig up dirt on people, while being nothing but a lowly cop... what a moron!
Alright, fuck it. Moving on.
The sixth ability I slotted in was View Air. Being able to sense the air as an extension of myself was wonderful, especially combined with the Sensor trait, which, along with this ability, allowed me to easily feel everything within a radius of just under six or seven kilometers...
Uh-h… six, seven...
Anyway, thanks to this, I racked up over fifty thousand kills of regular zombies, and over three hundred mutated.
[Kill 20,000 regular Zombies]
[Kill 30,000 regular Zombies]
[Kill 40,000 regular Zombies]
[Kill 50,000 regular Zombies]
[Received 8 Silver tickets]
For every 10,000th zombie killed, I got two silver tickets at once, which was fucking awesome!
I'm going to level up the View Air ability to the max on the island, and then I'll fly over the entire city of Tokonosu and go back! I'm going to kill every last fucking zombie!
But I'm not going back to the city to restore it—fuck that, why bother? At least not until I clear all of Japan, and the islands nearby. I don't need some hidden zombie biting an Awakened, only to find out that zombies created from such people retain their powers—that would be a fucking disaster.
Even worse if they mutate even further. I don't need awakened super-mutated zombies! There have to be people who understand how incredibly dangerous this is!
By the way, speaking of mutated zombies...
[Kill 200 Mutated Zombies]
[Kill 300 Mutated Zombies]
[2 Gold Tickets]
To my surprise, there were quite a lot of mutated zombies, but most were just hanging around the place where a massacre clearly happened.
Most of them were just "Brutes"—zombies mutated only for strength—four-armed bastards with skin like asphalt... I still remember getting hit by one when this all started. Good thing my "Steel Man" trait fortified me, or I'd be lying there like a broken doll.
Tsk, whatever.
Like I said, most were Brutes, but there were some fucking new mutated ones—over a dozen of those "Runners" I met here at the port—but to my interest, others appeared.
The bastards looked like those Runners, but less muscular, with fucking massive deformed upper torsos, and a huge mouth opened wide enough to fit their own head inside. And their eyes... they weren't blurred. They were looking around, observing, and I saw a base, incredibly small, but still, intelligence in their eyes.
To be honest, that scared the fuck out of me. Like, seriously scared me.
So, I dealt with those assholes as soon as I felt them in my perception.
Honestly, having received View Air, I was like a God punishing all the wicked!
All it took was to focus, and a ball of metal covered in Invisible Air would fly toward the living dead like fucking ballistics, artillery, or a shell—call it what you want—smearing half their body across the asphalt, turning that half into a fucking puddle of nothing but torn organs, blood, and meat.
And the people felt it. The people sitting in the transport felt how I perceived and saw them thanks to View Air, so it's no surprise that the following happened:
[Get 500 people to believe in your Divinity and join your "Cult"]
[Get 750 people to believe in your Divinity and join your "Cult"]
[Get 1,000 people to believe in your Divinity and join your "Cult"]
[Received 4 Silver tickets and 1 Gold ticket]
Fucking crazy, right? It was fucking awesome! In just one display of my power, slightly less than half of all these people became my believers.
It was... it was just something else! I received over 10 silver and 3 gold tickets in just an hour or an hour and a half of flying!
And that's exactly why I was standing away from everyone... because if they saw my face right now, they'd be shocked by the expression I was wearing.
An overly enthusiastic, wide, toothy grin was plastered on my face!
Because YES BITCH, 15 TICKETS IN ALMOST ONE HOUR! I AM SO FUCKING INCREDIBLE!
Gacha, roll 'em up!
[Meteor Strike]
|Elite Ability|
Call down meteors from the sky, the size of the meteor and its speed are dependent on the amount of energy you expend.
[Momentum]
|Uncommon Ability|
The longer you are moving, the faster you start going, with a maximum of 500%. This limit can be expanded through training.
[Scholar]
|Uncommon Trait|
You are an expert at reading, learning, and retaining information, you could read 50 books in a day and still be able to retain all of the information from the individual books.
[Oedipus Simple]
|Uncommon Trait|
"Complex? I think you'll find it is quite simple." There is nothing wrong with keeping it in the family. Society as a whole does not find it particularly morally wrong if you marry your own kin. In addition, all genetic problems that could possibly occur with inbreeding are resolved. Any biological conceived and born children of yours inherit your traits far better and inherit at least two of your abilities. It is easier to earn the affection of your family, platonically or romantically.
[Moonless]
|Common Familiar|
Fear and Hunger - A normal cave wolf that was transformed by the influence of the god of the depths, after tens of years of brutal survival this wolf towers over even tanks and can swallow a fully grown man in one gulp.
[Slipper]
|Common Ability|
Your skin is really slippery like it's made of ice covered in oil, anyone trying to grab your body will be really annoyed.
[Wyvern]
|Uncommon Familiar|
A large sky-dwelling reptile with fire breath, they are often referred to as lesser dragons, a wyvern can easily swallow a man whole and roast an entire battalion with its fire breath. This Wyvern is female and can produce eggs to reproduce.
[Mimic]
|Uncommon Familiar|
A curious shapeshifting bloodthirsty creature, the Mimic can turn into the shape of any creature or object as well as being able to manipulate its texture and density. Being able to turn into a chest, or a woman with a large chest, or maybe even a mount. They also get larger and stronger the more you feed them flesh, especially human flesh, they may even get smarter if you feed them brains.
[Branding]
|Elite Ability|
You can brand unresisting targets, marking them as yours, you are able to know the location and condition of the branded targets and you can even summon yourself to them or them to you with a 24-hour cooldown.
[Stockpile]
|Uncommon Item|
A Simple cardboard box that contains a seemingly infinite amount of mundane raw materials like wood, stone, ore, rope and other such materials that the average person could get their hands on. Only 50kg of materials may be taken out every 24 hours. If the box is somehow lost or destroyed, you will be able to stumble upon it in perfect condition if you go searching for it.
[Sexercise]
|Common Trait|
Sexual activity now works as a full body workout for you, a very efficient and comprehensive effect. The effects of this workout will only apply after the sexual activity has ended and scales with the effectiveness of your sexual activity.
[Sensual Prescence]
|Rare Trait|
You are a sensual kind of presence around you, it's not exactly too noticeable but people find themselves more attracted to and aroused by you. The longer they are exposed to your presence the higher the effects, but only works on people friendly to you.
[Greater Beastkin]
|Elite Trait|
Race Change - You are a greater beastkin, a creature that is half Dragon and Human. As a Greater Beastkin, you possess superhuman physical abilities and enhanced natural senses and instincts. You possess more affinity towards nature-based abilities and spells, allowing you to utilise them more effectively. Your Dragon side is powerful too; even simple cat claws are tough as iron.
[Air Jet]
|Rare Ability|
Allows you to create air jets, streams of powerful air currents
[Intermediate Ninjutsu]
|Rare Skill|
You are a Ninja, although more around the rank of a Ninja grunt. You are able to handle throwing weapons, knives and swords with relative skill. And you are also decent at sneaking around and performing feats of acrobatics and espionage. Your training allows you to use tools in combat with more finesse.
[+1 Ability Slot] - [Branding] put into the new slot.
Something in me crunched quietly, making me cough and fall to my knees. A sensation of warmth and heat surged through my body as my bones literally rearranged themselves.
My hands gripped the ground with force and... with a crack, the fabric covering just below my coccyx tore, and right before my eyes, a thick, black, scaled tail burst out. From my back, large dragon wings tore through the fabric of my clothes, just as black as the tail.
It seemed horns appeared on my head, and my ears... they lengthened and became sharper, resembling those of elves.
For a few long seconds, I struggled to keep my composure while waves of heat surged through my body. Sounds, smells, everything began to feel much clearer, in incredible detail, forcing me to grimace at the sheer amount of disgusting things I could perceive.
People stank... they stank of sweat, unwashed asses, saliva, and some even of the secretions after sex... the elderly smelled of their age, and the children... they seemed to smell fragrant, but only the very young ones, like those few dozen babies their parents were holding...
Their scent seemed to want to calm me, as if calling me to protect them, and at that moment, I remembered that some people said children have a specific scent that makes others want to protect them... and fuck, they weren't wrong.
My perception sharpened. Ten times over. Every one of my senses grew dozens of times sharper, and it felt like, with a mere whim, I could skewer a fly on a toothpick from hundreds of meters away.
I quickly stood up. Everything happened in just a few seconds, and no one really noticed me falling to my knees and standing back up, thanks to being far away from everyone, hidden by the shade of the trees.
A sense of power flooded my body—it felt incredible!
At that moment, my eye caught one of the traits I pulled...
"Oedipus" Simple...
Heh, heh-hehe, HAHAHAHAHA!
Below my stomach, a feeling of heat appeared—born from my excitement at all these traits and abilities I'd gained, not to mention "Oedipus"...
This trait, Oedipus Simple, was incredible, and useful beyond measure. All my children would possess my traits and at least two of my abilities!
Meteor Strike, which I could now rain down from the heavens; the ability to move five times faster than I already do; the Scholar trait; three incredible familiars—a fucking huge wolf, a whole Wyvern, and a Mimic; Branding, so I can mark anyone with power and summon them to me if they betray me; the fucking cardboard box with infinite materials; two sex-related traits that would synergize to make me stronger and help me get women easier!
And above all, the most important and useful one: the Race Change to Greater Beastkin.
I clenched my hand. My forearm was now covered in black, diamond-shaped scales shimmering with black and a violet-tinted black. As I tensed my muscles, the fabric of my turtleneck stretched, nearly groaning as it was about to tear.
Strength, endurance, reflexes, perception—everything had improved dozens of times over. And the heavy tail swaying behind me, along with my new ears, were just the beginning. I ran my tongue over my teeth and realized they had become much sharper and more durable, not to mention my regular human canines had become longer, now resembling a dragon's. And my... claws? Yes, black claws, not too long—only 2-3 centimeters—but I knew I could make them longer, up to eight centimeters with just a thought.
This... this was something else.
Explaining how strong the changes were was incredibly difficult, because literally everything in me had changed! From my internal organs, tendons, nerves, even the blood itself, to my external features.
My organs became much stronger and more efficient; ordinary cold weapons wouldn't even be able to harm me anymore, nor would firearms—not at all. Even tank shells would only slightly scratch my skin, since even my skin had changed. My gaze became sharper, and I saw my skin; it looked like the scales covering my spine, forearms, shoulders, the outer sides of my thighs, down to my knees, then becoming... oh, damn.
I have dragon legs!
I looked on in surprise as my torn sneakers hung off my feet, while my paws stood on the ground without feeling even a drop of discomfort—paws covered in scales, with four toes(?) with long, large claws the same color as the ones on my hands.
They obeyed me freely, and I didn't even feel awkward with them.
Heh...
At that moment, as I smirked slightly, a lock of my grown-out hair fell in front of my face, leaving me looking at it in confusion and shock.
Because it wasn't the blonde I'd been dyeing it every month; it was... black.
My natural black hair color, the raven-black I'd had since birth until my teenage years.
My hands moved, and I pulled the hair on my head forward, seeing with my own eyes that it was all my natural color again, instead of blonde.
No... no, calm down, everything is fine... my natural hair color would have returned in a month anyway; this trait just accelerated it. The main thing is that Kiriko doesn't get offended, and the fact that I got my natural hair color back isn't even close to the fact that I'm now a half-dragon!
I sighed and turned my attention to the last two Gacha prizes. The first was an ability, Air Jet, which would allow me to create air currents strong enough to help me fly... which was already useless since I have wings. And the second... a skill.
The knowledge implanted in me thanks to this skill was unprecedented. My ability to track prey, which I got from Greater Beastkin, was incredible, but I didn't have enough stealth—or rather, I wouldn't have, if not for this skill.
Dear Me, everything I got from the Gacha this time was incredible!
Although, it would be nice if this heat from my excitement would retreat a little, just a tiny bit, since I still don't have enough time to fuck anyone... or do I?
I drew the air into my nostrils and easily sensed the scent of the people. Some were calm, likely not even noticing my changes yet, but others...? Oh, those few people whose scent clearly said they'd noticed my changes were incredible. The women smelled of shock, arousal, and light submission... and the men? Soichiro and Tadashi, who were standing near the others? They smelled of something close to defeat—at least Tadashi did—and Soichiro's scent suggested his submission had grown in the few seconds he noticed my changes.
I gritted my teeth at the fading rage beginning to awaken against Tadashi. Asshole... heh, thought he could capture me? Of all people, me?! Once we reach the island, I'll tie him up with ropes and, right in front of him, fuck his wife and lover, make this ass licking, dogshit eating cuckass bitch suffer!
No one dares to touch what is MINE!