Sword Saint Of The Omniverse (On Indefinite Hiatus)

Severed Strings

"I had strings but now I don~'t."

-Ultron
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"When you get into being a scientist at the Esper Faction, you may ask yourself what the point of it all is, what with the earth-shattering revelation of demons, ghosts, spirits, and souls being all too real yet separated from the scientific community.

It is not the scientific spirit to just...Give up. The scientific spirit is to explore this horizon, even if we must overturn every preexisting law of physics, we as researchers and pioneers of the Known have the great responsibility of starting a new age of discovery even greater than that of the early 20th-century atomic science.

We shall engrave ourselves upon the annuals of history as the pioneer of a new age, a brighter age, looked back upon with the same reverence as people now would look upon the works of Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and Marie Curie."

-Esper Faction Scientist Introduction Video.

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Walking above the area where the hallway she resided in was easy. The next bit is the hard part.

You see, Reinhard's ability mostly consisted of the large area of effect types, i.e. not well suited for rescue operations involving closed-off spaces such as a cave or in this case- an underground hallway that's got debris collapsed in on both sides.

Realizing I have no other options, I quickly grabbed a throwaway blade from {Divine Protection of Storage} and proceeded to tweak the damage output from devastation to vaporization.

Before realizing that the Swordplay of House Astrea required mana or at least some form of mystical energy. And highly concentrated AIM Field radiation renders mana regeneration and magic, in general, to be unusable in the best-case scenario.

And I am standing in the highest concentration of AIM on the goddamn planet, the only reason why we haven't been discovered was due to a mana distribution shield set up by the Crowleys over Academy City to ensure an even distribution of mana to an outside observer.

God-DAMN IT ALL TO HELL. Kaede I know you want to help, you always feel like I'm babying you too much but how in the HELL did you get so far down underground? Question for later, I need to get her out first.

Kaede is stuck down there...With a few minutes' worths of air left.

I rack my brains for ideas.

Here's a thing about {Divine Protections} that I came to find out about when I first came here, the more of those blessings I have active, the more...Bright I become, sort of like a beacon to the supernatural forces.

When I first came to DxD I had over a hundred active...I was shining like the moon in the night sky, resulted in the 'False-Apotheosis Incident' which gave all the governing bodies of the Supernatural Races a scare... According to the Angel Faction(who mistaken me for their fallen God) that the rest of the races thought that a new Magic God had to be birthed into the world with how much of a presence I had.

So for the next 7 years, I had to limit my total {Divine Protection} count to at max 6, maybe 10 if I want to risk it.

I'm currently at 13. The longer I use this many for, the more likely it is to paint a target on my, and thusly, Kaede's back.

Then came in mind the potential technology I could use.

The first one being the Synchronous Multilayer Bomb, or simply known to the ESPnet as the Multi-Synchronous Bomb. It's a tactical weapon designed by the Urban Explosive Department in the event where the Esper Faction needed to bomb a stronghold in the middle of a populated city.