The Devouring Dragon-Chapter 70: Pulls

"...What the hell are you doing?" Tiamat asked bluntly, staring at the room around me as an increasing pile of junk appeared out of thin air.

"Gambling," I explained casually, "You wouldn't get it, so don't think about it too hard."

"...Fair enough, I don't really care anyway," Tiamat huffed, turning around and promptly walking out of the room.

I was inside a large, very open room that I had ordered Chippy and his Chipmunk Plattoon to build recently. It was like a storage container of sorts, and that was mainly because of the huge amount of quest rewards that had built up.

My reputation-based gacha quests hadn't just disappeared, but I'd put them on the back burner for a while. The [Low] gacha pulls weren't that good anyway, and I couldn't just get the rewards casually because I actually had to put all the items I got somewhere, so I had mostly been ignoring the pulls as they built up.

And built up they had! The only positive reputation tier I didn't get a reward from was reaching [Slightly-Liked] with someone, but I got [Low] pulls for [Liked] and [Strongly-Liked], then [Medium] pulls for [Slightly-Loved], [Loved], and [Strongly-Loved].

Beyond that, the next tier was called [Cherished], which gave me [High] pulls for each quest. It was split into three, just like the other tiers were, with [Slightly-Cherished], [Cherished], and [Strongly-Cherished].

I personally felt like 'Loved' should've been above 'Cherished,' but I was also never read dictionaries for fun, so I assumed the system knew better than I did.

But [High] pulls weren't where it ended. The tier above it was simply named [EPIC], and the reputation needed to get them was [Slightly-Devoted], [Devoted], and [Strongly-Devoted]

[Devoted] was the highest tier I had with any woman at the moment, belonging solely to Raya. After her, my longest-running mates of Shera, Runa, and Layna, sat in varying levels of the [Cherished] tier.

Below them, it was actually Rias, which was a bit surprising considering I'd know her much shorter than the other two women sharing the [Strongly-Loved] tier with her - that being Momo and Kyon.

After that, all four of Velrissa, Tiffana, Tiamat, and Iris shared the middle [Loved] tier. The first three were pretty expected, as they were usuals in my palace and my bedroom, but Iris had surprised me.

I didn't interact with the towering and sexy succubus much, as Velrissa was teaching her to manage the succubus part of my army most of the time, but she'd reached [Loved] pretty soon after becoming an evolved succubus.

Not that I was complaining - she was insanely sexy, and her insane growth rate meant I was glad she was loyal to me. In just a few months after evolving, she was already nearing level 150.

After those four, both of the Nekoshou, Kuroka and Koneko, sat at [Slightly-Loved]. Just below them were Akeno, Sona, Ravel, and Serafall at [Strongly-Liked] - which they shared with most of the Succubus Princesses.

Finally, Yubelluna, Tsubaki, Latia, and a lot of my female subordinates that I didn't interact with as much were sitting at [Liked].

All of this meant that I had a lot of gacha pulls to get through. I had been spamming the literal dozens of [Low] pulls I had for a while, and most of the stuff was pretty useless.

There were a lot of gear-based items, like various swords and armor, that were pretty much useless to the current me. There was a [Scout Sword] from AOT, a [Forehead Protector] from Naruto, and even a [Den-Den Mushi] - which I couldn't use because there was no other Den-Den Mushi to connect it to, so it was sitting in a fish tank now.

From one of the pulls I'd even gotten a literal piece of meat on a bone, so that goes to tell you how useful the [Low] pulls were. Of the bunch, there were only a couple that could be useful.

The first kind of useful one was a [Scouter]. I could already see everyone's levels above their head, but their level didn't account for any special combat abilities they had - like Rias' Power of Destruction.

The scouter's power level could give me a more accurate reading of their actual power, but I'd have to test it out and compare it to the level system for a while.

The next one was admittedly not all that useful, but I liked it anyway. Sitting in the fish tank with the Den-Den Mushi was a dumb-looking red fish, with scales covering its body, its mouth perpetually stupidly open, and yellow whiskers along with a yellow crown-shaped fin on its head.

[Pokemon] [Magikarp] - Level 2

I didn't know how to level up the fish, and I had no intention to find out, but he looked funny swimming around in the tank, so I would use him to decorate the palace a bit.

The next useful item was also not combat-oriented, but it was actually one I was pretty excited about. It was a simple thick book, with a lot of pages but a blank front and back cover. The official name for it was [Cook Book].

At first, I thought it was just a simple cookbook, but from looking through the recipes and names of the dishes - as well as the chefs listed as the authors of each recipe - I quickly realized it was from Food Wars.

Y'know, the series where the food's so good that people orgasm and rip their clothes off from just a bite? I was excited to try the foods listed in the book, and I was even more excited to abuse the recipes and gain a ton of negotiation power.

That was where the decent [Low] pulls ended, and I turned to the [Medium] ones. I had a whopping nine of them from my quests, and I was hyped to see if they were significantly better than the low ones or not.

I quickly pulled up the higher-tier completed quests, tapping on the gacha pull.

[Medium] Gacha Pull activated!

Calculating rates...

Rolling...

[Meito] [Skillful Grade] [Yubashiri] obtained!

In front of me, a sword appeared out of thin air. It looked relatively normal, with a long silver blade that tipped at the end, and a black hilt with golden accents.

Despite the sword not looking like anything special, it was definitely something at least a bit exciting.

[You have equipped [RARE] [Meito] [Skillful Grade] [Yubashiri]

[RARE] [Meito] [Skillful Grade] [Yubashiri] - One of the 50 existing Skillful Grade Meito's

You have been granted buffs by [Yubashiri]!

Your AGI has been temporarily increased by 1%!

You have temporarily borrowed a skill!

[Strong Grip] - Lightly increase your grip strength when holding a weapon, allowing you to wield heavier weapons easily.

The sword was from the One Piece world, and was the one Zoro had used for a large portion of the series before it was damaged beyond repair on Thriller Bark. Compared to my [Beast King's Blade] it was rather disappointing, but that didn't mean it was useless.

While I personally wasn't going to use it, I could give it to one of my subordinates in the future. The skill was decent, as it just seemed like a much inferior version of my [Titanic Grip] skill, and the percentage boost to AGI was nice too.

I carefully leaned the sword against a wall, turning to the next gacha pull.

[Medium] Gacha Pull activated!

Calculating rates...

Rolling...

[Teigu] [Erastone] obtained!

I blinked as a golden ring appeared out of thin air, dropping into my palm. It looked like a large golden ring and had a purple stone in the middle.

When I saw the word 'teigu,' I was excited. They were essentially the Sacred Gear of the Akame Ga Kiru world, but my excitement died as I realized which one it was.

Compared to all the overpowered Teigu's in the series, this one was definitely one of the worst. Its only power was to instantly destroy another Teigu with a weekly cooldown.

That didn't sound all that bad, but considering I was in a world with no Teigu's, it was useless at the moment. Considering it was a [Medium] pull, I assumed it wouldn't work on Sacred Gears either. I'd have to keep it around for potential use in the future.

The next couple of pulls were pretty disappointing as well, at least for the [Medium] tier. If I'd gotten these while opening the low ones, then I'd be rather happy.

The first looked like a simple fishing rod, but the blunt name of [Gon's Fishing Rod] told me who it belonged to. It was a tougher-than-usual fishing rod that could maybe be used for mid-range attacks, but it wasn't my style.

The next two were different types of weapons, with one being a long spear and the other being a mace. They didn't have names that stood out to me, or buffs even close to as good as the Meito's, so I just tossed them aside and moved on.

The next one was a bit more interesting, and I didn't recognize where it came from.

[Medium] Gacha Pull activated!

Calculating rates...

Rolling...

[MP Refill Pill] obtained!

I wasn't sure if this was a game-specific item, or if it really did come from another world - or if it even came from this one.

But where it came from didn't matter - it was a one-time use pill, but it could save me in a pinch if I needed it to. The name was pretty self-explanatory, as it seemed that taking the pill would refill my MP, hopefully completely. Overall, I was happy with the reward.

The next pull resulted in a very similar one-time item as well, which I was also satisfied with.

[Medium] Gacha Pull activated!

Calculating rates...

Rolling...

[Energy Steroid Pill] obtained!