Systematic Shinobi: Multiverse Mayhem - Chapter 10.1 (Patreon)

"Welcome!"

The clerk and owner of the weapons shop perked up immediately upon Daiki entering the shop.

"I'm here for a sword." Daiki said bluntly, eyes flickering over to the corner of the room where a barrel of dusty swords and one specific very rusted sword lay innocently.

"Well, I've got all manner of swords in here, if you want to-" the clerk was rubbing his hands excitedly as he began speaking, but Daiki cut him off.

"Don't bother, I already know what I want." the shinobi replied and made his way over to the barrel.

A grin spread across his face as he reached for the rusted brown handle of a certain sword, "I've been looking for you Derflinger." he said and pulled the sword out of the barrel.

"Oh-ho, you know me guy?" the quill of the sword wiggled and a voice echoed forth, "Actually, you seem kinda familiar."

"Wait you want useless Derf?!" the clerk spluttered.

And was ignored.

"I'm the new Gandalfr, my name is Daiki," he introduced himself, "Honestly, I came to this world mostly just for you, partner."

"Oh another world eh? Sounds like a story there," Derflinger hummed in interest, "I wanna hear all about it once we get outta here partner!"

"Sure," Daiki shrugged, making his way over to the rat faced clerk at the sales desk, "How much?"

"Err…a hundred?" the man replied.

"Done." Daiki immediately accepted.

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"So where's your master then?" Derflinger asked as soon as they left the weapons shop behind.

"I cut that connection earlier." Daiki shrugged.

"Eh, but you're still a wielder though?" Derflinger sounded confused, "That shouldn't be possible without the void mage giving you the power."

"I come from another world, with people way higher up on the totem pole than the mages here. I used one of my abilities to cut the connection and connect the runes to my own energy," Daiki explained. He felt no need to hide the fact from his new partner, "Actually, I kind of have my summoner believing I'm a god because of how much stronger I am than the people here."

"Well, that's almost a new one," Derflinger laughed, "It's not the first time I've known someone that got deified but it's weird it happened twice. Even in the whole six thousand years I've been alive, the only other one was old useless Brimir."

"Well, I'm having some fun with it, so don't blow my cover right?" Daiki laughed himself, "I'm planning on leaving this world soon anyway, I'm trying to find my way back to my own."

"Sure, sounds great with me," Derflinger replied easily, "Hah, might be fun. Look at me silly mortals, I'm the great and legendary Derflinger, personal weapon of a god!"

"Yeah, something like that," Daiki nodded, amused, "Actually, speaking of you being my weapon, how do you feel about letting me destroy the one you're in right now and transferring you to a better one?" he asked and hopped fifty feet to land atop a building.

"Damn, you sure are a spry one," Derflinger whistled as he landed, "Sure, go for it if you want partner. Though, it won't be easy. This might just be a common standard sword I'm in, but my presence makes swords way more durable than they usually would be."

"Don't worry about that, I'm pretty strong," Daiki shrugged as he unsealed the Kiba Blades and had them float in the air in front of him, "These are the Kiba Blades. They're special blades that are two half of a single whole and have the power to generate incredibly powerful lightning and amplify my own lightning powers. And I can control them with my mind as well, which is how they're floating, I think it's some form of electromagnetism actually."

"Wow partner, these are some incredible looking ones, you could make a guy jealous showing off crazy things like this," Derflinger guffawed, "Alright have at it then, give me your best shot and break the sword I'm in now and I'll jump into your runes and then into these Kiba Blades, if you can that i-"

Derflinger was cut off by Daiki lifting him up and bringing him down over his knees, where the blade immediately snapped in two.

Amplifying the durability of the blade or not, it was a simple blade from a low tier world made of iron.

Not even steel.

Admittedly, Daiki felt a sting on his knee as a small bruise formed, but was almost immediately healed. It was a testament to how much Derflinger could even amplify a lower tier blade like that.

"Sorry, what was that?" Daiki teasingly mocked, "I couldn't hear you over the sounds of your body breaking in half." he said, waving the two chunks of the sword in his hands with a chuckle.

There was silent for a moment-

"Hey now, you weren't kidding!" Derlfinger's voice came from both kiba blades at once, "You're crazy strong! And wow…these blades holy crap partner! I've never felt anything like this! And this power, chakra is it? So dense and heavy compared to the magic around here! I feel like I could fire off a bolt of lightning that could demolish a castle!"

"You can." Daiki snorted.

"Huh, so I can!" Derflinger laughed, "Oh man, oh man partner! I've never felt like this before! I even have two bodies at once, and I can move!" as if to punctuate his words, the kiba blades started jigging around in the air.

That reminded him, "Hey Derf, you have a soul right?" he asked.

The blades stilled, "I sure hope so, otherwise the hell have I been doing the last six thousand years?" he snorted, "Why'd ya ask partner?"

"Reasons," Daiki shrugged and poked one of the blades with his fingers, drawing upon his aura and injecting it straight into the blade, deep into his soul, "For it is in passing we achieve immortality. Through this, we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all. Infinite in distance and unbound by death. I release your soul, and by my shoulder, protect thee!" he chanted.

As he finished, he heard what sounded like a lock click open and for a moment, Daiki's vision flashed and he saw an endless ocean of shimmering crackling light blue.

"Woah Sasha's dirty panties!" Derflinger exclaimed as a shimmering light blue aura hummed into existence around both of his blades.

'Damn, he has more aura than me and Atlas Flame put together!' Daiki gaped for a moment. Not as much as Isobu, but still an absolutely massive amount. Though that did make sense, Isobu claimed that there were quite a few factors such as lineage, power, age and more that contributed to the amount of aura souls had. And Derfligner was not only over six thousand years old, but was inhabiting two of the most powerful blades in existence! "That's a power called aura, I picked up how to use it and unlock it in a world I ended up in before here, it can be used to-"

"Make a big ol' crazy shield that protects me from damage, heals me and I can even shape it as I please, I can fire it as beams or an aura blade, partner you sure give me all the nicest things!" Derflinger cut him off.

"How'd you know that?" Daiki asked, was it some kind of intuition based ability? He never heard anything like that about Derflinger.

"Eh, I'm part of the Gandalfr package y'know?" Derflinger replied, even the aura around him began to shimmer at rapid speeds, before slowing down, then concentrating on the tip of his blades, before once more spreading across the entirety of the blades, "I've got an innate understanding of all my abilities, that includes any weapon I'm stuck inside! The second you stuck me in these I knew how to use all the abilities of these here Kiba Blades and the second you unlocked this aura of mine I knew how to use it like a master."

Huh.

What a cheaty bastard of a sword spirit.

In other words, a perfect sword for Daiki!

Or rather swords, plural now.

"Wait, if you have full understanding of all your abilities," Daiki spoke up as something else clicked, "Do you know how to use your semblance as well?"

"Mmm?" Derflinger paused, allowing his aura to fade, "You mean that other ability I just got as well? Yeah, yeah nifty thing. Lets me become armour like gauntlets or boots for the Gandalfr aka you and give you all my abilities, though it looks like it drains this aura of mine pretty fast."

His eyes widened, "Wait, but you can teleport and absorb magic and-"

"And absorb chakra and aura now as well, I have chakra now by the way since I took over these blades, did you know these things had that energy as well?" Derflinger cut him off, "You get the full package with it partner, even the abilities of the blades I'm in."

Holy shit that was absolutely broken.

"Does that include your aura, chakra and will power?" Daiki asked.

"Mmm, yup," Derflinger bobbed up and down, "Man, I always was the best sword ever, but now I'm like the super best sword ever! Partner, I need an enemy to fight! A big, strong scary enemy!"

"…There isn't any in this world," Daiki deadpanned, "Literally, I could conquer this place in a couple days easily, everyone is so weak here."

"Boooo!" Derflinger huffed, "Sheesh that's disappointing. I mean I…oh wait! What about ol' lava face?"

"Lava face?" Daiki blinked, tilting his head to the side.

"Yeah yeah, that big dumb stupid dragon, looks like a giant ass rock but he's actually all lava underneath it," Derflinger bobbed up and down again with both of his kiba blade bodies, "He pops up every now and then when the four void mages get their familiars and wants to eat them to power up. He still around? I owe him an ass kicking for eating my wielders a bunch of times."

Oh, that thing!

"Yeah it's still kicking, I think it's somewhere around Fire Dragon Mountain?" Daiki mused, "I don't think it's gonna move anytime soon."

"Cheh!" a sound akin to a clicking tongue echoed from both blades, "That lazy bastard is sleeping then? Let's go grab a void mage and have them blast it, it'll wake up hungry for a meal and we can kick its ass for fun!"

Well, that wouldn't be a bad idea to have some fun. He could get Louise to do it and wrap it up real quick and head out again.

'Actually, on the matter of leaving again,' Isobu suddenly spoke up, 'I think you should slow down and stay here for at least a few days more. You've picked up a massive amount of abilities in the last few days, you should take the time to learn about them properly instead of being in such a rush.'

"Eh, who the hell was that speaking?" Derflinger stilled.

'Oh, you can hear me?' Isobu sounded surprised, 'Hello there Derflinger, I am Isobu, I'm a giant being of chakra known as a bijuu that is sealed within Daiki's soul, alongside Atlas Flame the Hellfire Dragon.'

'A pleasure to meet your acquaintance.' Atlas Flame added himself.

"Huh, neat," Derflinger hummed, "Man partner, you are the weirdest partner I've ever had."

"I'm the best one you've ever had," Daiki snorted, shaking off the surprise that Derflinger was connected so deeply to him he could hear the two sealed within him, "What do you mean Isobu? I'm kind of in a rush, Konoha will get-"

'Daiki, promises are one thing, but a relationship is a two way street, just like ours,' Isobu interrupted him, 'If Konoha can't survive without you for a small period of time, then they're just leeches that will drag you down in the end. I'm not saying to give up going back, I'm just saying, don't wear yourself down, enjoy your life and don't squander it. They can survive without you for a small period of time, they did before didn't they?'

….But!

'No buts, even with your power and your endurance and you gaining life force day by day and extending your life, you're becoming manic and sloppy in your rush to go home,' Isobu cut him off, 'I don't want to pull this card, but if you don't pace yourself, I'm cutting you off from my chakra and Atlas Flame is doing the same with his ethernano.'

Daiki grit his teeth, "You're treating me like a child!" he bit out, and he was annoyed at how whiny he sounded.

'You are a child!' Isobu thundered back, stunning Daiki, 'Shinobi like you might mature vastly quicker than any normal child you'd see in other worlds we've visited. You might be infinitely stronger than most adults could ever hope to be, you might be capable of crushing even a few gods and you have so much knowledge to use to your advantage it's incredible. But, you are still just thirteen years old.'

Daiki was stunned absolutely silent.

'It's not your duty to carry Konoha and our world on your shoulders,' Isobu's voice was gentler as he continued, 'Take the time here to enjoy yourself, play up the god act as you wish, fornicate with the females you find yourself lusting after, conquer this world even if you wish and make any woman you please into your concubine. Just take the time to relax a bit and stop rushing, even your precious grind is becoming sloppy at this point.'

Daiki wrestled with himself internally. The problem was, as always, Isobu was not wrong. And his grind was becoming sloppy? That was blasphemy.

Had he really let himself become that manic in the past few days?

'Well, I can't say I know you as well as Isobu, but I have noticed you seem a bit off,' Atlas Flame commented, 'It feels like you were making mental checklists and speed running your way through worlds you ended up in.'

….Oh.

Daiki closed his eyes and released a deep sigh, "Alright, I'll try and calm it down a bit." he relented.

And as soon as he did-

"Hah, you just got scolded partner, like a naughty brat!" Derflinger chortled.

Daiki opened his eyes and rolled them blatantly, "Alright, you want to beat a giant dragon? Okay, let's go get some void mage power and beat up a dragon." he decided.

And while he was at it, he may as well go cement himself as a god to these people and end this silly little war.