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The first two were flashy attacks that he recognised from One Piece and Busou Renkin respectively. Monkey D. Luffy’s Rubber-Rubber Fruit and the Arms Alchemy Little Gulliver.
Both were abilities that both looked awesome and would immediately add to the [Gamer’s Gear]’s combat ability. Both could likely be groomed into a fighting style that relied solely on using the blue gauntlet as their weapon of choice.
However, it was the third choice that caught Issei’s attention. While not as impressive looking or as immediately valuable, the short and long-term benefits it would provide would far outweigh the immediate benefits of either combat upgrade.
Added to that he’d already developed several abilities and skills to allow him to fight without his gauntlet active, and neither his developing swordplay nor his magic would mesh well with either of the first two abilities. Choosing either combat ability would merely be adding another weapon where he already had several decent ones, while the third option augmented all of his abilities, allowing him to grow faster in several ways.
You make a very sensible, logical and calculated decision! You earn +1 WIS and +1 SGP!
A vein pulsed on Issei’s forehead. That sounded far more like an insult than anything complimentary. "Cheeky bastard...!"
Selecting the upgrade, which was named [Learned Wisdom], Issei inspected the next level.
Each of the four available abilities cost three SPG each and had to select two of them before this tier locked and he could move on. The first, [Sapphire Armour], added additional armour to the [Gamer’s Gear], tripling it to 300. The second, [Sapphire Blade], let him reshape the blue gauntlet, and the arm beneath it, into a sword that was not only nearly indestructible, having no durability score to worry about, and could be upgraded and enhanced via an independent screen. Lastly, [Ruby Vision] let him see the names of his enemy’s attacks and spells, and [Ruby Sight] let him have some form of combat precognition.
Unlike the last three options, all four of these had about the same level of potential, and in similar ways. The least useful, at least for him anyway, was the [Sapphire Armour]. While it would give the [Gamer’s Gear] an impressive shield/armour buff, he relied on moving out of the way of attacks rather than absorbing the hits with armour. Not useless by any means but not fitting with the character design he was building on, a DPS over a Tank. Not to mention he didn’t usually fight with either of his Sacred Gears active, saving them for trump cards in case he was overwhelmed.
He was seriously considering its counterpart, the [Sapphire Blade]. He’d only developed the most basic of skills in hand-to-hand combat, instead having chosen to focus on developing his swordplay instead. Having an indestructible sword that couldn’t be removed from his person without killing him up his sleeve (almost literally) in case he was somehow unable to access his [Inventory] or had simply had all his other option destroyed was a tempting offer. Plus, he could upgrade it as well, meaning he could likely develop it into a truly badass weapon.
[Ruby Sight] and [Ruby Vision] were a bit of a toss-up, both looked like they could be very useful in similar ways. In terms of sheer combat practicality, a form of precognition was hard to beat, even if it was limited to...just ten seconds. However, the ability to tell just what type of attack or spell his enemies were launching could be very useful in predicting what they did and how to counter or avoid them.
In the end, the choice was made when he looked ahead. [Sight] had no upgrades linked to it in future tiers, leaving it at just what it was. [Vision] on the other had had at least four different boxes linked to it, showing a great deal of potential for growth.
The choice between a stagnant skill and one that could grow and evolve as he did was a fairly obvious one in Issei’s books
Nodding, Issei decided to go with [Ruby Vision] first and save [Sapphire Blade] for after he gained some more SGP. It would hopefully not take long to do that so long as he started using his Sacred Gears in fights more frequently. He was already planning on putting them through their paces after he found ’Agent Flamberge’. That one had been responsible for the murder of over thirty of his own comrades, and Issei would be only too happy to show the bastard why he was upset with them.
That kind of senseless slaughter needed to be answered for.
He didn’t know if Flamberge was male or female, or even what they looked like, but he would be able to find them thanks to his [Gamer’s Gear]. For anyone other than the Gamer, a title represented an important aspect of a person that influenced either how they thought of themselves, how other’s perceived them, or both, such as Rias Gremory’s [Heiress of the House of Gremory] Title. Someone who had one title that they considered important to them and a title considered important by others would sometimes have a dual title, showing both at the same time. Again, to use Rias Gremory as an example, she was both a [Heiress of the House of Gremory], which was likely based on others’ perspective, and the [Crimson-Haired Ruin Princess], which linked to her own personal views. Unless Flamberge was able to hide their title somehow, there was no hiding from Issei’s gaze.
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