Chapter 841: Nightmare Tower. 5
Finding an opportunity to escape her younger sister's gaze, Natashia looked at Agnes and said:
"Not exactly."
"Unlike your fire, the use of our lightning is more versatile."
"We can strengthen our bodies with lightning, and also enhance our senses if we wish. If we have enough control, we can even increase our information processing capability. Although this level of control has only been seen in our ancestor."
Victor stroked his chin as he listened to this explanation. "Hmm. About sensory overload, how did you solve that problem?"
Natashia looked at Victor with a slight incredulity, and then she smiled. "As expected, you spotted the problem, huh."
"Of course I did, My Honey." Victor smiled gently.
"... About this problem... We solved it by gradually increasing our magnetic field."
"I see... You're letting your body adapt, huh."
"Yes, unlike humans, we have absurd regeneration, so some brain damage won't be a problem. We can exploit this feature to make our bodies adapt more quickly, and thanks to your blood, this evolution is happening quite rapidly."
"I see." Victor nodded. "How many kilometers can you sense?"
Natashia pursed her lips; the fact that Victor immediately thought in terms of 'kilometers' and not 'meters' only proved how broken his sense of strength was.
"Unfortunately, we haven't reached kilometers yet, Darling. But we can see 100 meters around us. If we use our Count Vampire powers, that number increases to 500 meters."
"I, who have the perfect Count Vampire form, can see up to 900 meters."
"Hmm, I assume this doesn't apply when you're in combat, right?" Victor asked.
"Yes, when we're in combat, by necessity, we will lower our static field to 5 meters around us."
"In my case, I can stay up to 15 meters."
"Interesting. Very interesting..." Victor smiled. "There's a lot of room for improvement."
"I can help you improve, or do you want to do it on your own?" Victor asked.
"If you have any ideas, please help us." Natashia wasn't proud about it; she wouldn't reject assistance because of "pride," and the opinion of the "greatest genius of the millennium" was quite valuable.
"In that case, instead of focusing your senses in your brain and overloading it, why don't you spread it throughout your body?"
Natashia looked dryly at Victor. "Excuse me? Could you please speak in English?"
"Hmm... Step back a bit, Roberta."
"Ehh? Ugh, fine." Roberta's hair began to move away from Victor, and soon Victor was completely free, floating a bit away from the girls.
"I will demonstrate; pay attention."
Fushhhhhhh.
Natashia opened her eyes wide when she saw the expanding red static field.
"... Just how big is your static field?"
"Hmm, 15.693 kilometers."
"... Just like your brain..."
"Dragon brain, and I can process information faster. Don't worry, when you evolve, you'll be able to do something similar."
"Oh..." Natashia just sighed; the quality differences between a dragon and a vampire were becoming more evident than ever. He truly had the superior body.
Natashia didn't even ask how he managed to perform this technique without hearing her explanation; after all, he was Victor, her husband was a damn monster in anything combat-related.
"Natashia," Victor called her attention again.
"Y-Yes! I'm paying attention."
Victor nodded, and the next moment, the red static field began to gather around him. In less than a few seconds, the air around Victor was completely static, and this sensation grew more powerful as the static field gathered around his body like a red aura.
Victor's entire body was covered by a red aura, and unconsciously, his hair returned to its original form of pure miasma and began to float around.
Victor looked at his hand, opened it, and closed it.
"Something like this," Natashia said.
"... What did you just do?" Natashia asked incredulously. She had been watching closely, and still couldn't understand.
Scathach just shook her head from side to side as if there was no hope. 'As expected of a monster.'
"I gathered all the energy from the static field around my body, and because of that, my body became like this."
"Attack me; you'll understand the effects of this technique." Victor closed his eyes.
Natashia didn't waste any time; she flew towards Victor and attacked his face, but Victor dodged.
Natashia narrowed her eyes and started attacking Victor faster.
But... all her attacks were being deflected by Victor.
"This... This... What is this!?"
"Superior instinct!" Pepper shouted.
Slap!
"Agghh! My head, what is this, Lacus!?"
"Stop with the bullshit, or we'll get a lawsuit on our ass."
"Well, Pepper isn't wrong, the technique has similarities, but instead of using our 'instinct,' this technique uses our 'reaction' as a trigger."
"This aura is my field; when something approaches me, I can predict the direction and evade with minimal effort."
"How are you predicting everything? Your brain should be fried by now, even if it's a dragon's brain, there must be some negative effect, right?" Natashia stopped attacking when she saw he wouldn't accept it.
"It's because I'm not using the brain, but rather my instinct."
"... Ugh, that doesn't make sense; you just said you were using the reaction." Natashia pointed out.
"Hmm... Think of it this way: when you raise your arm, do you think about it, or does it happen naturally?"
"I do it naturally?"
"Wrong, the brain sends a small 'shock' to make your body move."
"What this aura around does is just that; it controls your body for you. It reacts automatically to anything entering my space, both offensively and defensively; you can switch."
"... So it's like auto-hunting in those mobile games." Pepper nodded.
"Basically."
"..." Several girls sighed at the same time when they saw him improve an already absurd technique to become even more absurd.
"Although this technique isn't complete."
"It's not complete!?"
"Yeah, I'm not a fan of not being able to fully control my body, so..." Victor narrowed his eyes, and the red tone around him grew denser.
"What did you do?"
"I changed the technique from before; instead of lightning controlling me, now I control it."
"But won't that..."
"Yes, it overloads my brain, but it's not a problem; I have a dragon's brain and the ability to think doubly. I can easily handle it."
Rumble, Rumble, Rumble.
Thunderous rumbles were heard, and the static field around Victor became even stronger.
Victor's wings opened wide; in the next moment, the properties of his wings changed, turning entirely into lightning, just like his two horns.
"Hmm, it worked."
"... What did you do now?" Natashia asked.
"Think of it like the Count Vampire transformation, but only for my wings."
"And... what does that do?"
"Hmm, I'm not sure if it's just my species or all dragons, but my wings and horns act as energy storage. So, I thought, what if I put this excess energy into these places?"
"And by doing that, I can reduce the process it takes to use this technique, as well as ease the burden on my brain."
"... How does that even make sense?" Natashia wanted to bang her head on the floor now.
"A characteristic of dragons, I guess. I don't even fully understand my own species yet."
"Just for context, some dragons had the ability to store energy in certain parts of their bodies. A perfect example of this would be Fafnir, who could gather his fire throughout his entire body," Zaladrac spoke.
And her voice made everyone look at Agnes's sword.
"Some dragons could store energy in the spikes on their backs, like storm dragons. Because of these characteristics, dragons were highly sought after; after all, those spikes would make excellent elemental weapons."
The dragons in the group began to ponder Zaladrac's words, and various ideas began to form in their minds.
"If I focus the power of ice into my hands, does that mean I can reach absolute zero?" Scathach was thinking menacingly for her enemies.
"Hmm... Spikes, huh?" Victor removed his clothes and revealed his body; he closed his eyes, and in the next moment, spikes began to appear on his spine.
And just like before, he filled these spikes with lightning.
Suddenly, Victor's entire atmosphere became even more terrifying; the very air crackled.
Out of curiosity, Scathach created an ice spike and threw it at Victor.
And the result? The spike disappeared from existence.
"... Dragons are a broken race," Natashia sighed.
Victor opened his eyes and smiled happily; in the next moment, his oppressive atmosphere disappeared.
"Thank you, Natashia. Because of you, I was able to understand something more about myself."
"... You welcome? I guess," Natashia smiled neutrally.
"As a thank you…" Victor makes a hand gesture, and pulls Natashia to his body, he holds the woman's waist and kisses her.
"!!!" Natashia wastes no time, grabbing her neck and kissing him back.
Just as she was starting to 'warm up', her eyes opened widely as a flood of information started to come into her head.
She tries to separate herself from Victor, but she can't, and with no choice, she had to enjoy this painful kiss... Although this experience wasn't bad either.
Victor lets go of Natashia's waist and lets her breathe.
"Haah… What was that?"
"All Zeus' useful knowledge and memories of his use the lightning."
"..." Natashia, and the Greek goddesses who heard these words were speechless.