Highschool DxD: GAMER

Chapter Eight: Selfish Sharing

What the fuck just happened?

'Ddraig... can you give a hand?'

On it. I'm as shocked as you are. Something like this shouldn't be possible. Give me a minute and I see what I can gleam from your current body.

I nodded slowly as I stood in the center of the ruined room where Rias had attempted to turn me into a devil. THAT had been my plan from the beginning. I would become a member of Rias' peerage since they were tied to all the major events, which meant opportunity for me to get stronger and get more women for my harem. Thanks to Gamer's Mind, Rias was not going to be able to control me and make me do things I didn't want to do. I knew that my plans needed a massive adjustment now and until I didn't get all my facts right, I didn't know how I was supposed to adjust those plans.

That didn't mean, however, that this was completely a bad thing. As the initial panic I felt bleed away thanks to Gamer's Mind I became acutely aware of just how much my strength has increased. My 'base form' was many times stronger than my enhanced form from before, to start. I opened my status window and I quickly went through all the information it provided and after I made the calculations on my own, I reached the same conclusion that the numbers displayed: I was more than twice as strong as before due to my unexpected transformation. I felt like I could take on the entire world even if my logical mind reminded me that even with this massive increase in power I was still an ant compared to people like Sirzerchs, Rizevim, Azazel, Ajuka and so on.

Hm. This is interesting... and bizarre... in a good away.

'Don't beat around the bush, Ddraig! I need to know what happened.' I urged the overgrown lizard.

Ddraig sighed before he went to explain. Look, partner. I don't know what or why it happened. I only know the 'how' and it's more a possible speculation than a definitive answer. I sent him a mental nod of understanding and he took that as his cue to continue. From what I could see the process began when I turned you into a Dragon/Human Hybrid and you began to produce draconic energy. After that you acquired a lesser affinity to darkness and it began to merge with the draconic energy but it couldn't find the balance it needed. Then you absorbed the Light Magic of that first black bird you fought and the Draconic Energy, Darkness Magic and Light Magic began to merge but they couldn't find balance because of the uneven amount of each you possessed. When you absorbed the Devil Power, which is basically a branch of Darkness Magic, you brought balance to the three different powers inside you and I think that it was that which triggered the transformation.

That made a surprising amount of sense and after thinking about it for a few seconds I realized that it was likely what happened. The first comparison that came to mind was when Naruto Uzumaki merged his own chakra, Kurama's Chakra and Nature Chakra to go into Tailed Beast Sage Mode. The only difference is that my transformation was going to be slightly more... permanent than his.

Anyways, plans were already forming in my head and I deduced that this outcome, while unexpected, could possibly be better than my original plan. Not only this made me many times stronger than becoming a normal devil, it also allowed me to have more freedom to act. And there is that Peerage system I unlocked. I had an inkling to what it entailed, because it was obvious, but something told me that it was more than just giving me the opportunity to form my own peerage. I needed to study that as soon as I could.

"No..." I heard Rias muttering in dread and I turned towards her as she called for her Pawn Pieces. Her eyes widened when she saw they had mutated. "I can still feel my connection to them. Their energy signature is similar to Issei's... but... they are not connected to him." She turned towards me with shocked eyes. "What happened?"