Reincarnated into a Multiverse of Anime, but High School DxD

As her words fell, time seemed to freeze.

Hearing such a shocking truth, Lavinia froze where she stood.

A trembling voice barely squeezed through the girl's clenched teeth. "Y-you're lying! You're lying!"

But Jaucusta only laughed louder.

"If you don't believe me, then I'll let you have a word with the mentor you've always believed in."

With that, a small communication magic circle opened in her hand.

"Glinda, can you hear me?"

Then, an elderly woman's voice that sounded incredibly familiar to Lavinia slowly came through.

"...Jaucusta, didn't you go to the Far East? Why are you contacting me all of a sudden?"

"Nothing much. I'm currently fighting your disciple, the Ice Princess. She seems to have been working hard to find you, so out of the kindness of my heart, I'm letting her hear your voice."

"I have nothing to say to her."

The cold voice carried not the slightest trace of emotion.

"?!"

Lavinia's entire body trembled at that answer. She could barely keep hold of the staff in her hand.

Her slender figure hovering in the sky swayed unsteadily. Even her supply of magical power was affected, and both the magic circle and the manifested Divine-Destroying Gear became unstable and blurred.

Jaucusta thoroughly enjoyed the girl's reaction.

"Hehehe, Glinda, you're really cold-hearted. You seemed quite fond of this disciple of yours, didn't you? Is there nothing else you want to say?"

"Lavinia, I have nothing to say to you. Don't come looking for me again."

After saying that in an exceptionally indifferent tone, the communication magic circle dispersed.

Yet those simple words directly shattered the wall around Lavinia's heart.

The wavering magic circle and Divine-Destroying Gear dissipated as easily as floating duckweed.

To her, Glinda was the benefactor who had given her a second life. When her parents died and she had no one to rely on, it was Glinda who had gently taken her in and given her hope.

Yet the person she had believed to be her benefactor turned out to be allied with her enemy.

The reality was too fantastical for Lavinia to accept.

With the walls around her heart already fragile, she even imagined that what had just happened was nothing more than a dream.

Ren was somewhat surprised.

He hadn't expected to uncover such explosive inside information just by coming over to watch the fun.

And judging by the situation, that Glinda clearly hadn't been brainwashed. She had genuinely done this.

The mentor she had always searched for and revered had turned out to be her enemy. Just thinking about it was thrilling!

"Hehe, what a perfect opportunity!"

Jaucusta hadn't expected Glinda's two sentences to be so effective, directly tearing down her powerful enemy's psychological defenses.

Lavinia now was probably so vulnerable that even Walpurgis, her own disciple, could easily toy with her.

She had no intention of letting this opportunity slip away and prepared to cast the body-stealing magic she had carefully prepared.

Jaucusta had made this decision the moment she learned that Lavinia possessed a Divine-Destroying Gear.

For that reason, she had specifically sought out Glinda. At first, she hadn't expected the other party to reveal information about the Divine-Destroying Gear so readily, but it was obvious that even as Lavinia's teacher, Glinda also coveted the Divine-Destroying Gear's power.

However, just as she was about to act, Ren was ready to move as well.

Though there was no mission to complete, Ren wasn't about to stand by and watch someone die.

Jaucusta was clearly preparing to use some kind of evil dark magic on Lavinia.

If it had been the kind that tore off clothes, Ren would definitely have waited a little longer.

But judging from that black mass in Jaucusta's hand, it was clearly not that kind of improper magic.

Without drawing attention, he put on the Superman Glasses, then slipped into the darkness and activated super acceleration.

--ClockUp.

Although Jaucusta stood high in the air, Ren jumped astonishingly high. In an instant, he leaped forward and swung the demonic sword at Jaucusta, stabbing it into her.

Squelch!

Hm?

Divine-Destroying Gear

Chapter 35

In Ren's eyes, the world slowed drastically while he was in a state of super acceleration.

His speed was so extreme that once he entered this state, ordinary people had no idea what was happening.

However, his previous battle with Satanael had made Ren realize that super acceleration wasn't invincible, so he was especially cautious when dealing with Jaucusta.

But when he saw the automatically retrieved demonic sword effortlessly pierce the old woman's heart, Ren realized that he had accidentally beaten her into a near-death state.

"She didn't even react?"

If it had been Satanael, he would at least have been able to exchange several blows with him.

Yet this mage, whose strength was almost on par with Satanael's, had been taken down by Ren in a single exchange.

Still, it was fairly normal when he thought about it.

The key part of the word "mage" was "magic."

The mages of this world weren't like Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings, who smashed people's skulls with a staff. Magic was magic. Under normal circumstances, mages would never use their staffs to engage in close combat.

Although Jaucusta, as a top-tier mage, had a defensive barrier around her body.

On one hand, her magical power had been partially depleted while fighting Lavinia. On the other, the dark magic she was currently using forcibly drained most of her magical power, reducing her defenses to an extremely low level.

On top of that, the demonic sword in Ren's hand had been specially modified by Fallen Angels, which was why it had produced this result.

Just as Ren was preparing to finish things once and for all, he suddenly felt a shocking wave of heat rush toward him.

The reason was that the flame giant Jaucusta had created with her Divine-Destroying Gear had reacted and was attacking him at an unhurried pace.

It couldn't possibly hurt Ren, but the flame giant had already blocked Jaucusta's body. Ren didn't prolong the fight. After dodging the attack, he looked toward Lavinia, who was still standing there in a daze.

After rapidly approaching Lavinia, Ren slung the girl, whose mind had collapsed, over his shoulder.

Super acceleration stopped.

The battle hadn't been particularly intense, so Ren had no need to keep pushing his body to its limits.

"Pfft—!"

The flame giant's attack missed, but the scorching purple flames still fell from the sky.

After carving a dark purple streak through the black night sky, they descended like a meteor toward Walpurgis and the others.

The mages gathered there were instantly alarmed and hurriedly used every kind of magic to flee.

In the end, with a loud boom, the land within several dozen meters was turned into scorched earth, and the nearby forest was set ablaze, erupting into a raging wildfire.

But after that strike, the flame giant lost its target and could no longer continue attacking. Its form also began to blur.

The reason was that Jaucusta's heart had been pierced, and her life force was rapidly draining away like a receding tide.

Only then did Jaucusta react.

But what made her mind go blank more than the intense pain was the fact that she had been ambushed just as she was about to succeed?!

As the agonizing pain in her chest continuously assaulted her nerves, Jaucusta's body swayed unsteadily.

Yet it was often at times like these that a dying person erupted with extraordinary strength.

Adrenaline surged through Jaucusta's entire body. Her pale body halted its descent in midair, and the magical power throughout her body swelled once again.

"Chosen Holy Cross, Sacrificial Lord of the Purple Flame!"

In the next instant, purple flames burst from Jaucusta's entire body.

Those flames could originally separate from her body and form the independently manifested Purple Flame Giant, but at this moment they enveloped her whole body. Like a pilot, she was encased within it as it expanded and took shape around her, transforming into a flame giant clutching a massive cross.

Once it had formed, Jaucusta glared furiously at the figure carrying Lavinia over his shoulder.

Bright blood dripped from the black demonic sword.

Jaucusta understood that it was her own blood, and she also recognized the demonic sword as the blade Satanael had wielded before.

That Fallen Angel had originally boasted that the demonic sword suited him perfectly as a Fallen Angel, yet after they split up to begin the plan, he had vanished in the blink of an eye.

Consumed by rage, Jaucusta swung her fist, and the flame giant moved along with her. With what seemed like a light sweep of its arm, it turned the surrounding forest into a sea of fire. Its presence was terrifying.

If an ordinary person were touched by even a trace of those flames, they would likely die instantly.

The Purple Flame Giant might have been fast compared to ordinary people, but to Ren, it was simply too slow.

And its overly massive body made its attacks look sluggish and cumbersome. Even with a 36D beauty slung over his shoulder, Ren could easily dodge its attacks without using super acceleration.

Watching Jaucusta's movements grow slower and slower, Ren had originally planned to leave directly. But when a possibility suddenly occurred to him, he instead began playing cat and mouse with her.

Walpurgis and her group had been injured by Jaucusta's stray attack anyway, so they definitely had no time to worry about him.

"You damn... insect! Aaaaaah!"

Faced with Ren, who was slicker than a loach, Jaucusta could only let out a helpless roar because she couldn't hit him.

But the more she did so, the more it tugged at her wounds.

The hole in her heart had originally been plugged by magical power, but the dual consumption from her magic and Divine-Destroying Gear made it difficult for her to sustain herself. With Ren avoiding direct confrontation and Lavinia being snatched away after she was practically in hand, she was overcome with fury.

The flame giant's movements became slower and slower until, in the end, the purple flames shrank into a tiny flicker.

"Aaaaaah!"

After letting out one final scream, Jaucusta finally fell unwillingly toward the ground.

Until her death, she couldn't understand why they had still lost this battle when the plan had been executed so perfectly.

Nor did she know where this glasses-wearing guy had come from?!

If Jaucusta had known that the person who killed her was Ren, whom she had previously intended to use as cannon fodder, she would probably have been angered back to life.

For Ren, although he had taken out Jaucusta, the benefits outweighed the drawbacks overall.

After all, even with the Superman Glasses, there was still a risk of his identity being exposed.

Though it wouldn't really affect anything even if he was exposed, Ren still felt that in this world, having one more identity was always better.

And there hadn't even been a system mission for this operation.

He really had been exceptionally merciful.

But just then, Ren suddenly saw a special cluster of purple flame rise from Jaucusta's corpse.

It moved like a mouse in a house, peeking around after emerging from its hole before quickly slipping away in one direction.

But Ren was faster. After activating super acceleration, he grabbed the flame in his palm without anyone noticing.

Cross of the Purple Flame Sacrificial Lord

Chapter 36

Ren didn't immediately check this thing's description. Seeing that it could be placed into his storage space, he tossed it inside and left the troublesome area directly.

Only after he could no longer sense the presence of any other mages did Ren finally have time to inspect the loot he had just obtained.

However, unlike before it had been placed into the storage space, the purple flame had already gone out. In its place was a purple cross no larger than an adult's palm.

Just holding it in his hand, Ren could feel a powerful force brewing within it.

That old witch Jaucusta had simply been wasting a treasure.

If she could have unleashed one hundred percent of this thing's power, Ren definitely wouldn't have been able to take her down so easily.

"I thought Divine-Destroying Gears were weak. Turns out the user was too weak."