Dxd Issei : The Gaming Gear

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After several moments an opportunity presented itself. Deflecting a trust from Teeksqueak's staff with one sword, he managed to knock the ratman off-balance for a moment which gave him an opening he gladly took. Lashing out with a straight kick that slammed into the throwing knife still embedded in the Engineer's shoulder.

Critical Hit! Teeksqueak's right arm is crippled!

With a pained spasm and a shriek, the staff fell from Teeksqueak's nerveless fingers as the arm flopped down uselessly at his side. That was the good news. The bad news was that at the same moment, roughly speaking, Teeksqueak's arm started to whine.

"Die-die! [Warpfire]!" The Warlock Engineer shrieked in triumph.

"Are you insane?! In this enclosed space you'll cook the both of us!" Issei shouted. But Teeksqueak just cackled and ignored him, too far gone in pain and fury to either listen or care.

This was going to suck.

With the Gremory Group, Sona and Saji

The sound of guns firing put the devils on high-alert. While firearms were something that could be neutralised beforehand via a clever little spell that turned the chemical propellant into sludge, or even blocked with magic circle shields or body reinforcement, given enough forewarning, they could and had still killed unprepared devils before. Their bodies may be stronger and more resilient than humans, strong enough to even withstand small calibre rounds with nothing more than bruises and occasionally cracked bones, but rifles and heavier weapons were still a very real threat.

"Move!" Rias ordered and the group started running. Not two minutes later, they came across another window looking down on a vast chamber just in time to see their quarry literally dodge a bullet from a pistol-wielding rat-creature with crude cybernetic implants dotting around its body.

Saji gaped at that. "How the hell?!"

"He noticed the rat creature drawing the firearm and dodged the moment he noticed that it was drawing a bead on him." Sona answered as she adjusted her glasses with one hand. "In the end, it was just as much luck and his foes foolishness as skill that he managed to dodge the shot completely. If that creature hadn't aimed for his head and instead gone for a body shot or even waited to aim more before firing, then our friend likely would not have fared so well. As it is, he was lucky enough to just lose a few hairs, metaphorically speaking."

"He has gotten better." Kiba noted mildly as the red-armoured figure below clashed with the gun-wielding ratmen, cutting four of the five down with wide, precise strikes. He winced as one of the swords shattered though. "He really needs to get better weapons though." He winced again when the figure stabbed the jagged remains of the broken sword into one of their throats. "Though he's admittedly quite good at using even the broken remnants." he added a bit irritably.

Using a broken sword so brutally was not something the honourable young Knight enjoyed seeing.

"That doesn't look good." Akeno muttered as the cyborg ratman raised its left arm and green energy surrounded it. Then she was blinking and the purported human was, despite a hastily erected shield, sent flying back and slamming into one of the ratman-sized chairs around the table and the corpse it had on it.

"Gross." Saji wrinkled his nose.

"I'm surprised he can even move after that kind of punishment." Rias mused. "I mean, it wasn't as strong as one of Akeno's Thunder Blast spells, but any normal human should either be dead or comatose from that kind of hit."

"Ufufufu…" the infamous S&M enthusiast wriggled at that. She was always on the lookout for more durable playmates. That one time Rias had joined in had been fabulous…who knew she could be such a good sub?

Rolling her eyes at her old friend's…predilections, Rias very carefully did not think of the one and only time Akeno had convinced her to be a bottom in one of her sessions. It had been…stimulating, to say the least. Who knew that being a sub was so liberating?

Down below, the human had leapt to his feet and pulled a knife out of nowhere, throwing it into the shoulder of the ratman with some skill. Drawing yet another sword out of wherever the hell he kept them (just how many of those damn throwaway swords did he have, anyway?), he then charged at his enemy, who pulled a staff out of nowhere to defend itself.

Sona abruptly shook her head. They were so caught up in watching that they had completely forgotten to do something about it. Fucking bystander's syndrome.

"Rias, we have to get in there." She said crisply. "He might be good against purely physical threats, but magic tips the scales against him."

"Agreed." The redheaded devil shook her own head as if to clear it. "Unfortunately, our old friend the forcefield is back."

And indeed, the crackling green forcefield was in place outside of the windows.

"Just how many of those damned things are there?!" Sona growled in irritation.

"I think we can get out from over there." Kiba pointed at the door on the far side of the chamber, just behind where the ratman was standing. "The door there should lead in here, so we can probably get out that way."

"Let's move then." Rias said decisively, when a curious Saji pressed a button, turning the microphones of the room outside on and piping the content to the room they were standing in.

"Die-die! [Warpfire]!"

"Are you insane?! In this enclosed space you'll cook the both of us!" the red-armoured figure shouted.

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