Later.
Bell walked across the streets of Rivira. Every single muscle and bone in his body aching with pain. Even [Super Regeneration] was taking considerable time to heal his internal injuries and vitality.
[Ittou Rasestu] was no joke. Yet, what he had used could barley be considered the real deal. The original would have increased his base strength by a hundred times for a single moment.
What he used however, merely increased his base strength by approximately 16 to 17 times. It was merely a bootleg version of [Ittou Rasestu].
It would take a long time to master the original version, since this was something he had deduced on his own from the framework of [Ittou Shura]. He'd probably need to dedicate all of his brain cells to deduce something further.
Bell thought while keeping his hand wrapped around Ais' shoulder. Needing her support to walk properly.
Adventurers around them were looking at them. Especially at Bell's hand around Ais. Their faces practically green with envy. One adventurer among them even looked at Bell with murderous intent.
'Huh?' Bell stopped his steps with a sudden jerk. His head snapping in the approximate direction of the killing intent. He had noticed some time ago that from the moment he got [Asura Soul Reaping], his sensitivity to divinity and killing intent had increased exponentially.
Gold flashed across his perception. His instincts pinpointing the exact location of that killing intent.
A burly adventurer with brown hair and golden-brown eyes came across his vision. He had two long scars on his face, one on his left cheek, and the other across his forehead.
Names flashed across Bell's mind before zeroing in on one.
Mord Latro.
The one who had tried to rough up the original Bell. Due to envying the original for his newfound fame and being surrounded by beautiful women like Ryuu and Syr.
Some things...Never change, no matter the timeline or world.
If this was not Rivira town and he didn't want to keep his power under wraps. Bell would have already hung someone like Mord upside down from a tree in repentance, that too naked.
He ignored him for now. But if Mord dared to make a move, then a certain executive of Evilus won't mind appearing in Rivira for a little hunt.
Bell tightened his hold over Ais' shoulders to steady himself further. Glares of the surrounding adventurers sharpening like knives at his action.
His hold on her did not loosen though. 'Did he have to mind what other losers wanted?'
While he and Ais were moving across the streets. A vendor selling medicine shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Best medicine in Rivira! For anyone sick, sick, sick!"
Bell nearly lost his footing at those words, barley being able to keep his laughter under control.
It had reminded him about that one fanfic in his mind written by an absolute legend.
It was a fanfic of *High School DxD*.
The story goes like.
A person was apparently reincarnated in Kuoh town with a cheat and joined the Gremory peerage. While our original protagonist Issei was killed by Raynare and was reincarnated as a devil not by Rias, but by Riser.
There was no logic or plot function here. Just that Issei was somehow reincarnated by Riser.
However, something unexpected happened when he was saved by Riser. Issei was killed by a women and saved by a man. That, along with the trauma of being killed...was not something his perverted mind could handle. It apparently short circuited something inside him.
Afterwards, he was taken by Riser to the underworld. There, the Phoenix house celebrated the addition of a Red Dragon Emperor into their family.
In the party hall...only Issei and Riser were left after the party. Both of them being drunk and high as hell.
Riser felt a familiar itch in his intoxication and mistook Issei for Yubelluna. Dragging him into his room.
Issei was also tipsy with a new trauma of women and had also been saved by Riser, so he didn't resist much.
Hence, a new door was opened for Issei.
From then on, Issei changed from chanting 'Breasts, Breasts, Breasts,' to 'Dicks, Dicks, Dicks.'
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Two seconds of mourning for our boy Issei. Who was done dirty by that author.
"Haha...Hahahaha...Hahahahaha." Bell really couldn't hold it in anymore. He laughed right there while clutching his stomach.
Ais looked at him in confusion. He had suddenly started to laugh like a madman. The surrounding people also looking at him like gazing at a lunatic.
But he didn't care. That Issei was too tragic and funny. From Riser to Sairaorg...from Sairaorg to Azazel, Vali and even Sirzechs.
He indeed fulfilled his wish of becoming a harem king. Just his harem was a bit crooked.
Hahahahaha...
Bell really would have tumbled to the ground if Ais wasn't holding him as he laughed his ass off.
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18th Floor of the Dungeon.
"So...this is the 18th floor, huh? The safe zone other people keep talking about?" Welf asked after walking through the entrance of the 18th floor.
"Is this your first time here, Welf-dono?" Mikoto asked with a curious tone while following behind him.
"Yea...something like that. Isn't this your parties first time too?" Welf asked while rubbing the back of his head.
"You're right Welf, it's our first time too." Ouka answered. Walking besides Mikoto.
They continued their talk as Goddess Astraea, God Hermes, Asfi, Ryuu and Tsubaki walked through the entrance.
Chigusa following them from the very back.
"Bell should be in Rivira town. Let's not dawdle." Goddess Astraea spoke with worry. Wanting to meet Bell quickly and check on his wellbeing.
'Seems like my new junior is even more outrageous than Alise. Otherwise, how could he reach the 18th floor alone in such a short time?' Ryuu thought. Her emotions complex. She was proud. But also envious. If she was so monstrous, she might have saved her friends instead of helplessly watching them give their lives to protect her.
"Damn! Bell is something else. He reached all the way here...that too alone?" Welf muttered with a hint of disbelief.
Asfi shared in his astonishment. Her own face morphing in shock.
Something hard to decipher flashed across Hermes' eyes at the same time. The sides of his lips curling upwards.
Everyone else shared in the shock of what Bell had done.
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"Hey, Ais... I have a brilliant idea for your [Ariel], do you want to hear?" Bell asked while sitting on the same bench they sat at yesterday. Ais besides him.
"Hm?" She tilted her head while looking at him from the corner of her eye.
He translated her gesture into - 'Tell me more.'
"So...You use [Ariel] to cover your body and sword to increase their strength and speed. But why don't you try to cover your [Ariel] over desperate in multiple layers of highly compressed air?"
..."That way, you can make the wind act as a makeshift sheath for your sword. Making it invisible to the naked eye...It would confuse your enemies and make your sword more deadly due to the hidden the length of your sword."
Yes...He was telling her to develop her [Ariel] in a similar way to [Invisible Air] of Artoria Pendragon from *Fate*.
Among all the 2D waifu's he knew. Artoria Pendragon (Lancer) was his number 1.
If he somehow taught [Astra-Vesta Calibur] to her and she somehow developed [Invisible Air] on her own.
Then, he could say with pride,
The taste of a fake King of Knights ain't bad.
A certain Emperor Roselle would be proud.
Hehe.