Highschool DxD: Dragon's Ascent

Chapter 16: UNLIMITED POWERRR!!!!

After my meeting with Rias, I managed to secure some more funding and more ingredients since I managed to impress Rias a fair bit, she was more than willing to bankroll my Alchemy addiction.

This time along with supernatural materials I found interesting I also requested a decent quantity of rather asinine to acquire mundane materials.

It would be good to explore the more... offensive sides of alchemy I can make use of since my coming-up operation requires it. I had a thorn in my side I needed to remove.

It was my time to act on the crow issue, first of all, the fallen angels. They are a problem and they have to go, the same thing with their excommunicated priest army and Freed.

I can't rely on the support of the Devils because one: I don't want to owe them and two: Because I cannot let them know about the extractinator in the basement. If I do it would be quite easy to correlate the guy who is supposed to have a sacred gear not having a sacred gear but the local magician having one after taking down the crows.

So it's my job to take them down, they haven't tried to honeytrap me with Raynare nor have I gotten struck by a stray light spear so I don't know if they will approach me on their own volition soon or at all.

But that's fine too, maybe even better. I can take the fight to them if that's what they want. If I make some very combustible potions I could pipe bomb them or I could make some poison gas to either kill them or smoke them out of there and when they do I will strike them with my mana arrow.

Well, that's the ideal scenario anyway.

But just in case that doesn't come to pass I want to get some extra firepower on my side. After all, hope for the best, and prepare for the worst.

For that, I decided to focus on a very useful aspect of Alchemy one that I had yet to touch on for good reasons.

Poisons.

After all, I was not going to go into a building full of battle-hardened exorcists equipped with nothing but my Kelvin Catalyst and exaggerated swagger.

No, in the first place, there was no need to confront them head-on. After all, there is no such thing as exp to gain from killing people. So, why not approach the fight as an actual Alchemist?

How do you take on several dozen enemies cramped into a basement with a single exit and no access to outside air outside of that?

You are right on the money. Poison Gas.

They already walked into the chamber of their own volition, I just needed to give them the gas.

But what gas would I use? Well, actually it was rather simple.

Turns out, there are a lot of fruits such as cherries that contain cyanide. So, with Alchemy you can extract that bad boy and mix it with some other painful stuff like Nightshade and Hemlock and you get this bad boy in my hands.