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Once I was back at the Sitri Estate I immediately pulled out my laptop. My laptop was another gadget which I made in preparation for my trip to Japan.
Just like my PC, the laptop parts are extremely easy to change and replace. It was fully designed to be easily upgradable.
With my laptop in hand, I walked over to the knocked out brown-haired teen.
Pulling out several magic readers that looked like what doctors use in hospitals to read a person's heartbeat.
I wrapped them around his left hand, then connected them to my laptop, I then put my hand on him as I started sending some magic into him.
Finding Boosted Gear and making it physically visible. For some, it's quite hard. For others, not so much… All one needs is to find the 'switch'.
Moments later, in a burst of red, the twice critical form appeared on his left hand.
"It doesn't look like Boosted Gear…" Serafall said from the side as she was observing it all.
"That's because the core of the gear is still asleep. Ddraig is what makes Boosted Gear the Boosted Gear. Otherwise, it's nothing more than a Twice Critical." I simply told her, as white circles started to appear around the pervert's hand.
Seeing all that I immediately started operating my laptop, starting the Gearscanner.exe. Seconds later a window appeared and the magic circles started spinning. A progress bar for the scan appeared on the screen.
Once the scan started I leaned back into the Victorian era couch and simply waited for the basic scan result.
[Scan Completed]
[Sacred Gear Boosted Gear scan complete!]
[Scan uploaded to Aurora Network]
[Do you wish to read the Log?]
Without wasting any more time I pressed yes. I saw the 3d image of Boosted Gear and its core, Ddraig. The scan has fully scanned the dragon's signature and its energy readings.
Meaning that just from the readings alone, I could now start developing either dragons since they are beings of pure energy or start creating weapons to fight against them…
Finding out how energy got consciousness will be an interesting side activity.
Nonetheless, the dragon's soul at the moment was not interesting, what is interesting though, is the data Boosted Gear has collected over the centuries.
The moment I pressed on it, my laptop lagged for a second. The amount of information it had was astounding even for me. When I started reading, I realised that all of Boosted Gear's previous hosts had left a small bit of themselves after their death.
Basically, it's like a cache of an app or something like that. According to the logs, the admin of the system should be cleaning it after each cycle. But since the Admin… the Big G, kicked the bucket, no one could maintain the gears at their proper condition.
Thus the cache continued to pile up, eventually starting to affect the gear itself. Since the gear is directly linked to the host's emotional level it can also affect it fundamentally…
"If this was any less sturdy then Boosted Gear should by this point crumble and turn into dust…but instead, it started mutating…" I explained to Serafall since I knew she was waiting for an explanation.
"What do you mean?" The black-haired devil lady asked with bated breath, she is super focused now that we were researching one of the Longinus.
"The Boosted Gear is full of the remnants of previous hosts. It reached to the point where the gear started mutating, unlocking something classified as [Juggernaut Drive] by the system. It's something that should not be possible and dangerous for the gear and it would most likely kill the host. It's quite simply tapping into Ddraig's power without any restraints. No human should be able to do that without decades of training. There are logs stating that it has killed countless hosts over the past 2500 years." I explained to her as I showed her the, now sorted out, logs. Showing a host's name and reason of death being ERROR [JUGGERNAUT DRIVE].
"This… the gears are like miniatures computers or something?" She asked with confusion and lots of disbelief.
"In a sense. They are magical computers, yes. But… Boosted Gear...is extremely simple… it's like tinkering with the very first windows…" I answered honestly. Then again they were first created when humans were still playing around with clay and trying to figure out how to make bronze weapons.
Snort
"Tell that to Azazel who has been tinkering with them for the past 1000 or so years…" Serafall snorted at me with a cute pout as she crossed her arms and looked away.
"It's not my fault that he is cluelessly walking through a forest without the right direction…" I said with an eye roll before returning to the logs and digging deeper, finding the files related to the Balance Breaker… which is recorded as SYSTEM ERROR/// BUG/// WELSH DRAGON SCALE MAIL.
"Heh… it's amusing how everyone is praising the Scale mails and its power. Which in truth is recorded as nothing more than an error in the system." I pointed at the screen. By this point, Serafall had walked over and ended up sitting comfortably on my lap.
"So it's true then… Balance Breakers didn't exist when the Biblical God was around…" the black-haired devil lady said with wide eyes.
"No. Because they are spiritual level artefacts they get affected by the hosts raw emotions. Most of the time rage, on a lesser scale than willpower. For example, our Boosted Gear here has an 86% ratio of achieving Scale Mail through Anger and rage alone.
The other ones are the need for power or lust for more power." I explained to her while pointing at the statistics.
"This is incredible… the Boosted Gear is like an open book to you… could you… recreate it?" She asked that while thinking for a bit.
"I am already using what you all know as the Boost ability of the Welsh Dragon. It's in the Diamond Core Heart and Castor & Pollux." I said with an eye roll before checking out more on the scale mail… what I found is extremely disappointing.
"Well...this is primitive beyond belief. I thought the Scale Mails were a masterpiece worthy of studying. But this is basic. The dragon energy is spread throughout the whole body and is then crystallised as an armour. It's simple." I said with disgust.
"All I need to counter this is an Anti-dragon field. The crystallisation will fail, and the boost in energy will disappear, the Gear user will be naked after that. And that's just an Anti-dragon energy field. I could also just use anti-dragon magic and this Longinus user would simply be dead. Tell me Sera you call this God slayer worthy? It's nothing but the basics among basics. If Gods are this basics then… it's just sad." I said while shaking my head, I thought there was more. But this is just sad. If they are so reliant on a single thing like this, then I will abuse it, until they learn their lesson.
After my short outburst, Sera didn't say anything else. She knew that she was not so different as she was purely reliant on her demonic magic.
Still, there were some note-worthy stuff to look over. Specifically...Boosted Gear's Boost ability.
Turns out it's not that mysterious after all…
"Heh… so to use it you just need to transform willpower into Magic," I said while having a thoughtful look.
"A perfect ability for an emotional being," I said to Sera. Who nodded back.
"Indeed. Dragons in general are very emotional beings. The pair of Heavenly Dragons were especially like that. At least that's what I have heard. They were killed way before my birth." Serafall added her own two bits.
I nodded at her before continuing to look for more. I do know that Ddraig had piercing ability. But none of the recent hosts had it, so I went to older logs…
"Hmm. The last Ddraig host to have the Pierce ability was around 1500 years ago. After that, there was a spell of the average host. Resulting in the ability being drowned in the remnants of the lost souls…"
"Truly? I don't even remember Boosted Gear having such ability!" The current Leviathan exclaimed, from the looks of it she never knew the gear even had this ability.
"That's because the last host to have it was around 1500 years ago," I said simply.
"That's a long time ago even by our standards."
"And the world started to move away from the supernatural as the supernatural started to hide. Meaning that there were fewer chances of Boosted Gear even awakening.
The logs prove that. The period between awakening of the gear is getting wider and wider as time progresses. The world was simply a less dangerous place." I sorted out the files before focusing on the last host. Which didn't even have the scale mail.
"The last host was around the Napoleon wars…making it close to two hundred years ago. And the guy didn't even achieve the bug stage." I gave her an overall view from what I have read.
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