Highschool DxD: Dragon's Ascent

Chapter 32: Hydra x Hunt

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New Mission: Hydra Hunt

[New Mission: Hydra Hunt]

You have been challenged, that will not stand. You need to prove yourself, you are the Red Dragon Emperor of Domination, not some nobody. And your familiar must be as remarkable as you. Subdue the Hydra of the Familiar Forest and prove who is the superior dragon.

Objective: Subdue the Hydra and take it as a familiar.

Reward: Familiar Seal, Random Skill, Random Trait

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Thanks for the incentive system. I was already going to prove that old fogey wrong anyway, now I just have a better incentive to do so. Well besides having a hydra as a familiar of course.

'What do you think Ddraig?'

{Well, I can't provide you with much help, even when I was alive I rarely hunted Hydras since they tasted acidic due to their poison. However, I do know their strength can vary from Mid-rank all the way to Ultimate class so be careful. Especially their venom, it's bad news.}

'Well, how bad could it be? It's just a big ass snake with 8 too many heads.'

{You say that but I can feel you rifling through your inventory and organizing your potions so that they are easily accessible.}

'Duh, I am confident, not stupid. I did not develop Brainrot all of a sudden, this is a legendary beast that no High-Class Devil that has come here before has been able to subdue. These pants may really be too big for me.'

{So then why are you still going through with it?}

I grimaced.

'That fucking old man was looking down on me. I refuse to acknowledge that big snake as my better, I am the Red Dragon Emperor. If I am going to back down from every challenge I may as well give my gauntlet away.'

If I was going to take the spot of the main character then I have to prove that I deserve to. A mere hydra is nothing compared to the things I will have to face in the future.

"{BOOST}!"

6.

Feeling myself get closer to the largest mana signature I stopped and uncorked a stamina regeneration potion and drank it. Then I uncorked a mana regeneration potion and drank it.

Then I drank a potion of Ironskin, it would would improve my overall durability. And then a Hawk potion which would improve my field of view and visual prowess massively.

Those 4 were the utmost I could handle at the moment. Any more and I WILL start puking and shitting. Yeah, I am as ready as I could be.

After a minute of jogging at the speed of an overclocked Bugatti, I reached a dropoff into a lower portion of the forest. Looking down I saw a very large swamp but no Hydra in sight? But the mana signature is so close?