Transmutation Master DxD (arifureta X Highschool DxD)

Ancient Magic

Sunday, the day I can freely devote myself to my hobbies.

Usually, I game all day or read manga, but today I have different plans

"Underground base is a romance"

I'm building a hidden base under my house

"Damn, it is"

Alter is with me on this one, rather he's with me in almost everything.

Anyway, I already have all blueprints drawn out, all that's left is to begin.

If a proper architect were to see my plans, they would have a heart attack, but a proper architect doesn't have magic, so I can't really give a damn about it.

Though even with magic, I don't think building it would be that easy, for now, I just want an empty space underground, other things can wait for now.

Well, alter has already done this kind of thing in his world so there won't be many errors

"Time to get going, Transmute!"

The moment I said that the ground beneath me collapsed, after getting to sufficient depth I started expansion.

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Sometime later I was done.

I didn't go past the borders of my house, it is around three and a half meters in height, somewhat small for an underground base, but I'll expand it in the future with space magic when I get better at it.

"This looks quite good if I do say so myself"

The floor, walls and ceiling are reinforced with magic so they'll not collapse under any circumstances.

"Too bad there's nothing for you to do here for you"

"Yet!"

Alter makes a valid point though, even if I have the knowledge to make crazy things I don't have proper materials yet

"By the way alter, compared to you how strong am I right now?"

Alter put his hand on his chin in thought

"Your parameters should be a bit lower than mine when I just consumed the monster flesh, so all-around two hundred I guess"

The starting point was ten across the board when I was human, It increased a bit when I reincarnated as a devil, but not much.

Well, the stats don't really matter for now, with time they will gradually increase, but there's a thing, alter never relied purely on his tough body, his strength lied in the equipment he made and while I inherited some knowledge, and continue to do so, to create them myself, unfortunately, I've yet to fully master creation magic, so I'm bit short on some quality materials

"No need to rush, you'll get there eventually"

"I know"

There's that

"How's the progress on stacking 'Limit Break'?"

Alter asked

"Pretty good, I'm working on removing the backlash from it or lessen it somehow"

Truth to be told, staking itself wasn't that big of a deal, using multiple 'Last Zell' worked like a charm, but the backlash after that is ridiculous, breaking limits one time is exhausting and leaves body sore all over, more than that and I almost died

"You don't need to remove it, redirecting would be easier, something like 'Soul Shell' might work"

'Soul Shell' is a necklace-type artefact that protects the wearer from mental attack using spirit magic, it does so by redirecting all mental attacks to the pseudo-soul inside the necklace