Chapter 534: The Will Barrier, The Shackles the God of the Bible Gave to Devils

Regarding Rias’s question, Hakuto shook his head. “For now, I still don’t know the specific situation. But if you want to increase your power, then eat this. This can increase your power. As for the rest, wait until I’ve researched it thoroughly and then I’ll tell you.”

“What is this? Don’t tell me it’s sleeping pills. Trying to knock us out and then do some strange things?”

Akeno showed a strange smile on her face, her gaze toward Hakuto full of teasing intent.

“This is my magic crystal. As long as you eat it, your magic power can be greatly increased. Raising an Ultimate-class Devil to Satan level, and a high-class Devil to Ultimate-class, is no problem.”

Rias, Akeno, Toujou Koneko, and Kiba Yuuto all widened their eyes in disbelief, ‘Eat one and become a Satan?’

“I don’t believe this thing has no cost. So what’s the cost!!”

Rias asked Hakuto!

“Cost? There isn’t one. The main thing is what kind of cost I want to collect. I can take this thing back anytime. Even your own magic power, if I wanted to, I could take it all away. But for Sona’s sake, I can give it to you temporarily for free use. After all, I quite dislike that fiancé of yours too. After you dissolve the engagement, I’ll just take back the magic power that doesn’t belong to you.”

“That’s it?”

Rias clearly hadn’t expected Hakuto to not want any cost at all.

Hakuto rolled his eyes at Rias. “Could it be you want me to say: Rias, you don’t want to become that turkey’s fiancée either, right? Then threaten to take your virginity?”

Rias had black lines on her face but said nothing.

Rias said nothing and took one magic crystal from Hakuto’s hand. The magic crystal’s exterior was purple, looking like a glass bead.

“Can this really be eaten?”

Rias was very doubtful, but Hakuto rolled his eyes and couldn’t be bothered to pay attention. Rias no longer hesitated and directly swallowed this magic crystal.

The next moment, dark red magic power appeared on the surface of Rias’s body. These dark red magic powers continuously raised Rias’s power—high-class Devil, Ultimate-class Devil, and finally, as if breaking through some kind of barrier, Rias’s strength rose to Satan level.

Although it had only just crossed the Satan threshold, it was undoubtedly the strength of a Satan-level powerhouse.

Seeing this scene, everyone couldn’t help but feel their eyes grow hot. Looking at the magic crystals in Hakuto’s hand, they no longer hesitated.

With bursts of aura erupting one after another.

In the Occult Research Club, the weakest now had high-class Devil strength. Rias and Akeno had even directly broken through to Satan level.

“This is ultimately not your own strength. Right now, it’s just a temporary transition for you. After Rias finishes dissolving her engagement, I’ll take back this strength. It’s not that I’m stingy and unwilling to give it to you, but borrowing someone else’s power is ultimately not your own.”

“Only what’s your own is the best!”

Suddenly, Rias spoke to Hakuto.

Hakuto nodded affirmatively. “Yeah, what’s your own is the best.”

“But you can also use this period of time to properly experience your own power. After you raise your own strength later, it won’t seem so abrupt, and you won’t need to familiarize yourselves with it all over again.”

Rias suddenly looked at Hakuto. “Then I want to try again and see if I can now break through the so-called will barrier.”

Hakuto looked at Rias with some surprise, seemingly not expecting Rias’s obsession with becoming stronger to have become this strong.

But he still nodded.

“Alright, I’ll grant your wish. Then get ready!”

Rias and her group immediately stood ready, concentrating fully.

Then the next moment, a massive pressure instantly pressed down on them.

Everyone felt as if they were in the deep sea, seawater constantly squeezing their bodies, followed by a sense of suffocation.

“I absolutely cannot admit defeat just like this!”

Such a thought emerged in Rias’s mind. She gritted her teeth desperately. In the end, Rias felt as if a shackle in her body had been unlocked.

Instantly, that massive pressure weakened a little. Rias seemed to have grabbed hold of a lifesaving straw.

Hakuto looked at Rias with some astonishment. The shackle in her body had actually been broken free.

Logically speaking, Hakuto completely didn’t think the other party could break free of the shackle.

‘Speaking of which, the God of the Bible in this world seemed to have set it so that only humans or human hybrids could use Sacred Gears. And for a Sacred Gear to reach Balance Breaker, it depended on the Sacred Gear user’s will. Could there be some connection here?’

Hakuto fell into thought. He didn’t know about the Angels’ side, but if his guess about the Devils’ side was true, then Devils absolutely had their will locked by the God of the Bible, which was why they couldn’t use Sacred Gears.

‘So now that Rias had broken this lock, did that mean she could use Sacred Gears?’

Such a thought emerged in Hakuto’s mind.

Afterward, Hakuto withdrew the pressure he had been applying to Rias and the others.

Rias’s whole body immediately relaxed. She panted heavily and looked at Hakuto. “I succeeded.”

Hakuto nodded, then looked at the others who had already fallen into a coma. “Only you succeeded.”

It was somewhat regrettable, but afterward, finding other Devils to experiment on would confirm whether his guess was true.

Rias glanced at Hakuto, wanting to say something, but in the end didn’t speak.

Seeing Rias’s expression, Hakuto knew what Rias wanted to say.

“No need to say thanks. After all, I’m helping you because of Sona. Moreover, during this process, I discovered some interesting things. Perhaps it’s possible to let Devils use Sacred Gears.”

Rias: “!!!”

‘Let Devils use Sacred Gears. How was that possible?’

Unless it was a human who first awakened a Sacred Gear and then reincarnated as a Devil, otherwise it was absolutely impossible.

Pure-blooded Devils like them simply couldn’t use Sacred Gears.

“You’ll know once you try. But first, we need to find you a Sacred Gear, a suitable Sacred Gear.”

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