SWNOVELXO Chapter 10: Chapter 9
Chapter 9
Once I was back in Sitri Estate I pulled out my laptop. My laptop was another gadget I made before my trip to Japan.
Just like my PC, the laptop parts are extremely easy to change and replace. It was fully designed to be easily upgradable.
With laptop in hand, I walked over to the knocked out brown-haired teen.
Pulling out several magic readers. They looked quite similar to what doctors use in hospitals to read persons heartbeat.
I wrapped them around his left hand, then connected those cables to my laptop and for the last, I put my hand on his left hand then I send some magic into him.
Finding Boosted Gear, now making it physically visible. For some, it's hard for others not so much… all one needs is to find the 'switch'.
Moments later with a burst of red, the twice critical appeared on his left hand.
"It doest look like Boosted Gear…" Serafall said from the side as she was observing this.
"That's because the core of the gear is still asleep. Ddraig is what makes Boasted Gear a Boasted Gear. Otherwise, it's nothing more than a Twice Critical." I simply told her, as white circles started to appear around the pervert's hand.
Seeing all that I started operating my laptop starting Gearscanner.exe Seconds later a window appeared and the magic circles started spinning. A bar with scanning appeared on the screen.
Once the scan started I leaned into the Victorian era couch and simply waited for the basic scan result.
[Scan Completed]
[Sacred Gear Boasted Gear scan complete!]
[Scan uploaded to Aurora Network]
[Do you wish to read the Log?]
Without wasting any more time I pressed yes. Next moment I saw 3d image of Boosted Gear and imagine its core Ddraig. The scan has fully scanned the dragon's signature and its energy readings.
Meaning that just from this reading alone I could start developing either dragons myself since they are beings of pure energy or creating weapons to fight them…
Finding out how energy got consciousness will be interesting side activity.
Nonetheless, the dragon's soul at the moment was not interesting, what Is interesting is the data Boosted Gear collected over the centuries.
The moment I pressed on it my laptop lagged for a second. The amount of information it had was astounding even for me. The moment I started reading I realised that Boosted Gear previous hosts left a small bit of themselves after their death.
Meaning it's like a cache of an app or something like that. According to the logs, the admin of the system should be cleaning it after each cycle. But since the Admin… the Big G kicked the bucket no one could maintain the gears at their proper condition.
Thus the cache continued to pile up and it started affecting the gear. Since the gear is directly linked to the hosts emotional level it can affect fundamentally…
"If this was any less sturdy the Boosted Gear should by this point crumbled and turned into dust...instead it started mutating…" I said to Serafall since I knew she was waiting with bated breath.
"What do you mean?" The black-haired devil lady asked with bated breath she is super focused now that we are researching one of the Longinus.
"The Boosted Gear is full of remnants of previous hosts. It reached the point that the gear started mutating, unlocking something classified as [Juggernaut Drive] by the system. It's something that should not be possible and dangerous for the gear and it most likely kill the host. It's quite simply tapping into Ddraig's power without any restraints. No human should be able to do that without decades of training. There are logs that it has killed countless hosts over the past 2500 years." I explained to her and shown the sorted out logs. Showing a hosts name and reason of death being ERROR [JUGGERNAUT DRIVE].
"This… the gears are like miniatures computers or something?" She asked with confusion and lots of disbelief.
"They are magical computers. In a sense. But… Boosted Gear...is extremely simple… it's like tinkering with the very first windows…" I said honestly. Then again they were created when humans were playing with clay and trying to figure out how to make bronze weapons.
*Snort*
"Tell it to Azazel who has been tinkering with them for the past 1000 or so years…" Serafall shorted at me with a cute pout she crossed her arms and looked away.
"It's not my fault that he is cluelessly walking through the forest without the right direction…" I said with an eye roll before returning to the logs and digging deeper before finding files related to the Balance Breaker… which is recorded as SYSTEM ERROR/// BUG/// WELSH DRAGON SCALE MAIL.
"Heh… it's amusing how everyone is praising the Scale mails and its power. Which in truth is recorded as nothing more than an error in the system." I pointed at the screen. By this point, Serafall walked over and ended up comfortably sitting on my lap.
"So it's true then… Balance Breakers didn't exist when Biblical God was around…" the black-haired devil lady said with wide eyes.
"No. Because they are spiritual level artefacts they get affected by the hosts raw emotions. Most of the time rage on a lesser scale from willpower. For example, our Boosted Gear here has an 86% ratio achieving Scale Mail through Anger and rage alone.
The other ones are the need for power or lust for more power." I explained to her while pointing at the statistics.
"This is incredible… the Boosted Gear is like an open book to you… could you… recreate it?" She asked that while thinking for a bit.
"I am already using what you all know as the Boost ability of the Welsh Dragon. It's in Diamond Core Heart and Castor & Pollux." I said with an eye roll before checking out more on scale mail… what I found is extremely disappointing.
"Well...this primitive beyond belief. I thought the Scale Mail is a masterpiece worthy of study. But this is basic. The dragon energy is spread through the whole body and is crystallised as armour. It's simple." I said with disgust.
"All I need to counter this is an Anti-dragon field. The crystallisation will fail, and the boost in energy will disappear and the Gear user will be naked after that. And it's just an Anti-dragon energy field. I could use anti-dragon magic and this Longinus user would be simply dead. Tell me Sera you call this a God slayer worthy? It's nothing but basics among basics. If Gods are this basics then… it's just sad." I said while shaking my head, I thought there is more. But this is just sad. If they are reliant on a single thing like that then I will abuse it, until they will learn their lesson.
After my outburst Sera didn't say anything. Assuming she knew that she was not different as she is purely reliant on her demonic magic.
Still, there is some stuff to look over. Specifically...Boosted Gears Boost ability.
Turns out it's not that mysterious…
"Heh… so to use it you use willpower to transform it into Magic," I said while having a thoughtful look.
"A perfect ability for an emotional being," I said to Sera. Who nodded back.
"Indeed. Dragons in general are very emotional beings. The pair of Heavenly Dragons were especially like that. At least what I know from history. They were killed way before my birth." Serafall added her own two bits.
I nodded at her before continuing to look for more. I do know that Ddraig had piercing ability. But none of the recent hosts had it so, I went to older logs…
"Hmm. The last Ddraig host to have Pierce ability was around 1500 years ago. After that, there was a spell of average hosts. Making the ability to be drowned in the remnants of the lost souls…"
"Truly? I don't even remember the Boosted Gear having this ability!" The current Leviathan exclaimed from the looks of it she never knew the gear even had this ability.
"That's because the last host was around 1500 years ago" I said simply.
"That's a long time ago even by our standards."
"And the world started to move away from the supernatural and the supernatural started to hide. Meaning that there are fewer chances of Boasted Gear even awakening.
The logs prove that. The periods between awakening of the gear is getting wider and wider as the time progresses. The world was simply a less dangerous place." I sorted out the files before focusing on the last host. Which didn't even have the scale mail.
"The last host was around the Napoleon wars…making it close to two hundred years ago. And the guy didn't even achieve the bug stage." I gave her an overall view from what I read.
"Bug stage?" She asked with a confused and slightly amused look.
"The balance breaker is a bug stage which develops from the fact that no maintenance has been done to the Sacred Gears for the past two thousand years," I explained to the beauty as my fingers stroked her long hair.
"I thought it was because no one is sitting in the chair upstairs there?" She said that while pointing her finger at the sky.
"It's the same. The fact that the chair is empty and because no one can properly maintain the system." I said with a disappointed sigh. Pity that the dude is dead. He would make good chat friends over stuff. I can assume that his art would have been much better after so many years have passed.
"You sound disappointed."
"Of course. I lost an interesting individual to chat with. I bet his gears would be much better if he was around." I said honestly to her.
"...Only you could see Biblical God as a chat buddy…" Serafall said while shaking her head in disbelief, the beauty in my hands simply can't believe it.
"Possibly. Anyway… time for me to run some maintenance for the gear." I said that while starting running diagnostics for the gear.
"...What are you going to do?" Serafall asked with a slight amount of concern.
"Will run maintenance and clear the cache. You don't want him to achieve Juggernaut Drive when Gremory or your little sister says no to showing their boobs or something worse?" I said with an obvious tone.
"He... could do that? I mean achieving Juggernaut Drive because of that!?" The beauty on my lap said with a slight bit of trepidation.
"There are close to a hundred remnants of angry hosts… especially because of the rivalry between those two heavenly dragons. It's even worse since this perverts drive is extra powerful for… breasts he could easily achieve both Balance Breaker and Juggernaut Drive.
So I won't risk something like Juggernaut Drive in an area where my tests are being run." I sharply explained to her.
"...Yes, it will be better this way…" Serafall nodded with a slightly paler look. It seems she started to understand the issue of this.
With a few clicks of my mouse, the Boosted Gear was clean. And the maintenance fixed the issues in the system.
Now. It was safe. There won't be any wacky nonsense of this brat getting power-ups from something ridiculous like poking breasts or just being lust-driven to achieving Balance Breaker.
Still though… I will be keeping my eye on this idiot.
The dragon factor is quite fascinating. And I have a living test subject not just readings on the data I have collected.
"All done you can take him back to this house," I said to her.
"Okay… but, where does he live?" She asked the obvious…
"Take my Aurora Glasses." I handed over a case with glasses inside.
"They work in Kuoh?" Serafall asked curiously as she took them.
"Yes. The Internet is a thing you know." I said with a shrug.
"...You using the internet?"
"Hijacking it more precisely… the firewalls are very primitive," I said with a smile. Remembering all the hacks and wild goose chases…
"I don't even want to figure out how many laws you broke with that…" Serafall said that while shaking her head and getting up from my lap.
"A devil thinking about human laws? Well, that's new…"
She rolled her eyes at me.
"I don't care about them. But, it's you who broke them, so that's why I care." She said that simply but honestly.
Trying to earn her brownie points along the way. As expected from my cute and sexy not so magic girl Sera.
"I see… anyway…let me disconnect this guy first before you can send him on his way…" Skipping the conversation about me breaking the law and instead I got up from my couch and walked over to the pervert's side and removed the scanned and recalled the Sacred Gear back into his body.
"On a different note, Master… can you recreate the Boosted Gear?" Serafall asked me as she was about to teleport away.
"Recreate? I can't recreate Ddraig. Not yet. But, make something better? Quite easy. My M.T.M is superior to Ddraig for the simple reason that he has a limited amount of energy while my M.T.M can generate indefinitely. Both Boost and Pierce can be easily replicated. I could even tamper with Transfer.
There are many ways to make this better Sera. You forget that this gear was created close to 3000 years ago. They were not created to improve like the Juggernaut Drive or Balance Breaker Scale Mail. People in a sense are slowly breaking these toys. And since they are not receiving maintenance I won't be surprised if the stronger gears with beings sealed inside start to explode or break apart to some level." I said with a shrug.
"I thought he make them Impossible to break…"
"Such thing doesn't exist. The Sacred Gears are resilient because of the alchemical metal they are created with. Now that I scanned the Boosted Gear I will be able to recreate this adaptable metal. But, as I said there is a breaking point for them.
100 or 1000? Or maybe 10000 years. the weight of those souls would have made the host go insane quite quickly unless the host would deal himself with previous users." I explained to her while getting back to my seat.
"So… either the remnants of the souls or gears themselves…"
"The Scale Mail is not supposed to exist. It's a bug. Each time an excessive amount of Dragon energy leaves the gear it can damage the Sacred Gear.
Simply put. Don't use artefacts that are not meant to be used in that way
Even here… " I showed her the logs.
"The Gear had to adapt to 1340 different cases of burst of energy. While it survived and will survive much more in future there is always a chance it... might just break." I explained to her.
"I see… this means that you could simply create a gear which can and is supposed to achieve Balance Breaker instead of being a bug in the system." She said that with an understanding nod.
"And could simply upgrade later in the day too. While these… they can't be upgraded unless they are back in Heaven and are pulled out from the system and going through maintenance. The worst part of this is that the user still has to have good relations with the dragon inside of it." I added more, by this point Serafall understood what she wanted to understand and disappeared with the brown-haired pervert.
~~~~~~Later~~~~~~
Now the holiday season is over I have no chance to hunt some stray devils.
Not that minded that. By that point, I was far too interested in the things I have recorded from the Boosted Gear.
Especially since I was back in my garage. With a much bigger screen. And Aurora which sorted everything for me. I was able to dive into data much better.
First the metal. The metal of Boosted Gear is special. Its fusion of Ddraig's energy and transmuted metal. Meaning it's much more durable, and the history of it speaks for itself. But at the same time, it's extremely vulnerable to its weaknesses.
Anti-Dragon fused weapon with soul damage… could one-shot it or critically damage the structure worst case even destroy it permanently.
It's powerful but it's powerful towards specific things.
Now that I know the method I can start creating my version of Scale Mail. Only that mine won't be this primitive. All the Boosted Gear Scale Mail does is bypass the restrictions placed on the Boost and Ddraig leaks his energy around the host. Boosting overall performance of the host by 9~11 times depending on host body durability.
The armour itself has nothing special, it's simply crystallisation of the draconic energy. There is no special magic in it. No special technology... nothing… Only Juggernaut Drive develops Longinus Smasher which is nothing more than dispersal of excess energy the body has accumulated. A fail-safe to protect the gear.
That's why… I have to create this myself from grounds up just like with my guns…
Minimising the logs from Boosted Gear I went over to the folder named Projects and opened it there were only two projects there… Project Diamond, and Project Aurora, other things like M.T.M or Barrier Rail are in separate folders under name systems.
Project Diamond was a project before I even created my PC so I had to backtrack it and type everything down after it was set.
This new one though…
I need a name with some personal meaning… remembering all the mecha anime I watched… remembering the very first one…
That moment I went to my internet browser and checked if it exists in this world…
"Gundam...Seed…" Entering the name in the Google search bar and pressing enter I saw….it…
It is around… and I am in the period when Gundam 00 is still in the works…
"Well, this is going to be interesting…" I closed the internet browser and went back to my projects creating a new file and naming it Project Freedom.
After my favourite mech. Sounds ironic how I am the one enslaving devils but talking about freedom…
It always can be how the Scale mail or a suit whatever it's going to end up as. Will give one Freedom to go where normal human could never go.
After the project file was created I started in the designing stage.
Quickly drawing Freedom Gundam. It was weird drawing a mech, I was quite used to drawing cars. But, I drew a perfect copy of it. Funny how the last time I saw this anime was around 30 years ago. I should rewatch it in this timeline to see if they changed the plot in some way.
Nonetheless, once I got the front done I drew the back of the mech. Then from the sides as well.
Once those are done I sent it for 3D rendering.
Turning around and looking at the mech appear on the holographic display I went over there myself and put on the design gloves and the stylus. It was time to make a drawing to come to life….
First was the obvious. Making humans fit inside of it. Unlike the original Freedom, it won't be a 50-metre tall machine but instead around 3 to 2 metres tall.
So resizing then putting a human inside was the next thing. Nothing too scientific. Then the real deal adjusts the suit to the world.
First the chest piece. The thrusters are to be discarded, The suit will run on magic, not uranium. Once thrusters are gone.
I started working on the main power source and for this, it will be customised Diamond Core Heart, unlike the ones here in my hometown or Kuoh it won't be shaped properly like diamond, instead I only going to have the triangle look. To make up for the lessened durability I went with extra layers of protecting casing after this was done Aurora did some basic rendering. Adding basic systems and laying down the technology.
Next was arms. Readjusting for human physiology, and continuing with spreading the network of magic systems and technology like the servo motors for the elbows for extra power of the limbs empowered by magic it could generate even more power.
Then moving to legs. Repeating process. Now moving to the helmet. The design of Freedom is to remain. And instead, the inside of the helmet was adjusted to the human head. Adding an Aurora visor and making a full Holographic support display.
Once this was done… now the hardest and most important part…
The energy wings…
Probably the most difficult part. As no matter what I came up with It ended up in failure.
Meaning another system needs to be created just for this.
'Heh… let's go with magic crystallisation for this…'
After thinking about this I went over to Boasted Gear logs and found this in Juggernaut Drive…
Tinkering for a bit. I created a basic circle for this….
Adding it to a handle. A basic M.T.M circle… and…
*Sound of Beam*
A blue lightsaber…
"Is that a lightsaber?" Serafall asked me as she heard the sound of a lightsaber.
"Nice right? Pity... that it has no force behind it." I swirled the blade like an amateur for a bit before showing how harmless it is…
"You could make a bunch of money if you are to sell these…" The older Devil said with a thoughtful look.
"Right… I am not sharing M.T.M with wide world…" I said with a dull tone.
"... You could always replace it with something else…" She reasoned with me.
" I am sure magic crystallisation is not widespread either. I haven't heard that anyone even uses it." I said that while turning off the lightsaber and returning to my PC table. Now that I can turn magic into energy wings I need to make it fly…
'That's quite simple actually…'
After thinking for a bit the energy wings will be channelling flight spells…
'Not only that… it can emit other spells… like Solomon's signature one…'
Adjusting quickly the designs and imputing specific changes I pressed enter for Aurora to do the math to see if my ideas are feasible.
A few minutes later after spinning in my chair. And making Serafall pout at me again for ignoring her. The math and emulation was done…
[The design rendering is complete]
[The armour is possibility at:99.97%]
'In other words, the current design is possible.' I thought seriously.
This means the rough design is done. Now for the real deal.
"It's done. The rough design is done." I said to the pouting devil lady.
"Oh? Already!? But you have only been working on it for 2 months!"
"Isn't this like a large step forward? Tonnes of new systems! Making things come together…" Serafall walked over, Checking the computer screen.
Instead, I pressed the mouse button and dragged it into the Holographic display.
"You… I wanted to say this before… but, you just decided to make Gundams become reality…" The Leviathan said while shaking her head and walking over to the holographic display.
"Heh… you know Gundam?" I asked her, thinking that she only knows magic girl stuff.
"I should be the one who is asking this. You never said you were into Japanese Anime in the first place!" She pouted hard on me.
"You could easily ask me to cosplay if you want you know!" She said while taking a stance from Sailor Moon… yeah for some reason I remember those…
"Right… we can discuss that at a specific time."
"Sure thing~~~ as I said I can dress however you want~~~" She said that with a seductive wink before looking at the armour.
"So… what are the specs?" She asked me while crossing her hands.
"The material it will be made is the very same one Big G is used to make his gears. The M.T.M inside of it will continuously make the armour stronger. Making it indestructible in a sense.
While powered by Diamond Core reactor. Meaning that I don't even need to use my magic in any sense."
Her eyes widened for a second before calming down.
"In a sense?"
"Indeed. The space inside is limited and there isn't as much I can do to make it better." I said that while putting my hand on my chin thinking for a bit.
"Meaning that G-Force or outside elements can affect it."
"And magic circles or magic spells can't sort it?" She asked me with crossed arms.
"I will be using both tech and magic to fix those as much as possible. But I won't be flying to space or deep underwater with this. It will protect me from extreme cold or heat. It does have limited protection from extreme radiation.
" I will be using barrier magic in future though. At this moment this is nothing more than Mark I. To have some data to work on when I am making the next model." I explained to her while looking at the holographic display of Freedom Mark I.
Even when this is not done I already have extra ideas for future models.
But for now, I need to make this a reality and then I can add these new ideas.
~~~
I wasn't just working on my scale mail. When I was resting I would occasionally check on how the girls were doing in Kuoh…
While as expected of Sona, she did progress with her powers, she did progress with her peerage, the girl regularly trains with her peerage.
And Rias? Aurora showed me that she improved… 0% since I installed Diamond Core Heart.
The only peerage member who improved on its own was her Knight the blonde kid with the swords Sacred Gear.
The devil girl played the regular school student, did her devil contracts and spent time watching anime and indulging herself in modern human society…
When she has marriage hanging on her head…
'Right… that's the wisest thing to do…' I deadpanned after going through the data. She constantly talked with her Queen about the marriage… but she never did anything… didn't try to look for new members even with the Diamond Core Heart.
In truth, she did use the barriers a lot. But, more like to satisfy her devil nature and observe humans…
Unlike Sona who did use the power to check people if they had gears.
After taking a deep breath I decided to show this to Venelana. Either she straightens her daughter out or the redhead won't be receiving any help from me in the future.
Before long the brown-haired devil lady was in front of me. Serafall and even Grayfia was here as well.
All of them were curious about my abrupt calling.
"So around 9 weeks have passed since I installed the Diamond Core Heart in Kuoh. As you all know I have been monitoring everything that has been going on there.
Including the pair of Devil Heiresses living there." That moment Serafall and Venelana stiffed for a bit.
Seeing how serious I was, they assumed the worst…
"Here is the report on their progress…" I pulled out two tablets and placed them on the table. On the screens, there was a pair of pictures one is of Sona another one of Rias. And next to it there was a percentage…
Where Sona improved by 7% in overall while Rias was at… 'respectable'...0%
"..."
"..."
"As you can see Venelana your daughter has done nothing over the past two months. Neither she trained her peerage which overall has higher potential than Sitri Heiress. Neither she trained herself. In truth, the only thing she did of worth is her homework. Which I no doubt will help her with her marriage problem…" I said with a very sarcastic tone. Which made her blush from shame for her daughter.
"So, to fix this you will talk with her. And remind her that she is under a devil contract with me. And as a contractor, I am dissapointed in her. This disappointment can lead to the point that she will lose any help from me in the future.
I do not need people who use my invention to peep on people constantly and watch what they are doing."
The brown-haired devil lady nodded seriously multiple times as she was fighting back her shame.
"I understand I will talk with her as soon as possible. Please give her another chance!"
"We will see. I suggest you go now and talk with her it's morning in Japan at the moment." I said to her as I looked at the clock on the computer screen.
~~~~~~Venelana~~~~~~
The Lady Gremory was furious with her daughter. She has positioned her in the perfect place. To receive attention from Genius inventor like her Master.
The only thing her daughter needed to do was show some motivation to get stronger! She saw what Sona did in the report. She did basic things and it was enough for Marcus.
All she needed to do was not be lazy! Especially since the arranged marriage was coming up and her Master wanted to see how Rias will deal with this issue!
What she does is... nothing! Even if she doesn't know what to do you could spend time practising your family magic! Like Sona does!
That's why she was infuriated will all this! Especially for getting scolded instead of her lazy daughter's place!
Without wasting any time Venelana teleported directly into Rias 'office'.
"M-Mother!? What happened, why are you here!?" Rias asked with disbelief and complete shock. She did not expect her mother would come to the human world like this!
"We need to talk Rias. We need to talk about your laziness for which I was scolded by Leviathan herself…" Venelana said with a pissed off look.
Rias gulped down seeing her mother like this….