Dxd Issei : The Gaming Gear

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Of course, Issei wasn't having entirely his own way. He was being it by staves, whacked by clubs and clumsily stabbed by pitted swords. All of them bounced off of his armour, naturally, but the odd point of HP was lost with every strike. This was in addition to the continuing damage from the poisoned atmosphere. This raised a question for Issei; why was it that the ratmen were perfectly fine in this kind of environment while he was getting poisoned?

[Poison Resistance] has levelled up! LV3-LV4!

One of Issei's eyes twitched underneath his Menpō. This had to be the fastest any of his skills had ever levelled up. Just how poisonous was this air?!

Once the last Ratman Slave fell…

You have slain Ratman Slave X50! You earn 500EXP!

Do you wish to loot the bodies? Y|N

Issei severely doubted that there would be anything remotely approaching decent on the bodies of these things, but he hit 'Y' anyway. If nothing else, he could sell the stuff for Yen.

As expected, the stuff was rubbish, all 'rotted', 'rusted', 'splintered', or 'rotted, rusted, and splintered' if applicable. Altogether, he barely got ¥1000 for over 100 pieces of equipment. Barely enough to buy a couple of burger meal sets at a fast food place.

Looking around at the room full of ratman corpses, Issei had to sigh. He was getting far too used to this sort of thing.

Without a word, he examined the Durability status of his two swords and snorted. They were almost fully used up, with two or three DP left each. He stabbed them into the ground and pulled out two more from his inventory before heading out of the room through the other side of the room, leaving a scene of carnage and two swords behind to serve as a makeshift grave marker for the fallen fodder.

Pausing just inside the doorway, Issei's eyes narrowed as he spotted several glowing squares on the floor. He guessed that these were traps revealed by his new necklace, but were they the triggers or were they the actual traps?

Grabbing a stone from the floor, Issei lobbed it at the square furthest away from him. As soon as the stone touched the glowing square, the ceiling dropped down on it. Not the entire ceiling, but a four square foot, three meter long chunk of it.

"Okaaaayyyy….going to have to watch my step here." Issei sweatdropped. That would likely kill him, HP or not.

Stepping carefully around the golden squares, which were definitely pressure or touch-sensitive plates of some sort, the boy breathed a sigh of relief as he came to the end of the stones.

He really should have known better.

As Issei entered the room at the end of the corridor, he was itching for a fight. He had just gone through a maze full of traps of the likes of Tomb Raider and the Prince of Persia games. Pitfalls, walls that shot arrows, more collapsing ceilings, Warpfire traps, other more esoteric traps. There were even a few that he could have sworn had been ripped from the God of War games.

Damn copyright-infringing rats!

The twenty-five Clanrats armed and armoured to the teeth with leather armour, bronze swords, numerous daggers and bucklers were very unfortunate indeed to come across him in that room, as he needed to vent some stress.

Clanrat Warrior LV8

[Darkfang]

They never stood a chance.

First, Issei bombarded them with his [Earth Shot] spell before wading in with his [Bronze Skin] and [Force Absorption Field] active. Whatever blows struck him bounced off of the combined force of his armour and his spells. Before long…

You have slain Ratman Clanrat Warriors X25! You gain 2500 EXP!

Congratulation! You have levelled up! LV10-LV11!

You have 5 Attribute Points to spend.

[Earth Shot] has levelled up! LV4-LV5!

[Ambidextrous] has levelled up! LV4-LV5!

After looting the bodies and selling everything but the weapons, Issei once again abandoned the swords he bore, as they too were almost out of Durability. It was getting to the point where he was glad that he had stolen all those swords from the last place, because he was going through them at a terrific rate. On the other hand, they were crudely made, so maybe that was speeding up the rate of Durability consumption…?

He immediately placed the five points into INT, because he might need them to figure out these stupid traps and puzzles, even with the skill [Puzzle Solving].

"Still no good loot." He muttered absently as he gave the room a final once over to make sure there weren't any hidden spaces or doors there before heading out. Again, there was nothing. Seriously? Why give him the necklace if there wasn't going to be any goodies to find with it?

Looking into the corridor that led out of the room, and the numerous golden glowing sections that he could see, Issei scowled.

Oh, that's right; because this place was trapped to within an inch of his life, that's why!

Issei made his way through the maze of traps once again. There was no need to describe them; if you've seen one intricate and deadly array of traps, then generally, you have seen them all. He did raise his [Evade] and [Puzzle Solving] skills by a level though, which was just about the only good thing to happen. Oh, and his [Poison Resistance] skill had grown to Level 6 after he got hit with some kind of liquid poison on an arrow and he had chugged a Health Potion to aid his beleaguered [Lesser HP Regeneration] skill.

[Lesser HP Regeneration] has levelled up! LV2-LV3!

And that happened. Moving along…

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