LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 6: Chapter 5
Chapter 5
The scan results of Power of Destruction were weird. I needed to use several types of circles to understand what I was reading.
Scientifically what I was seeing was simply impossible. Because the power should technically erase everything in its path. But it doesn't!
It's like selectively complete erasion...
The caster selects what he is erasing from existence. The target in the end is completely erased at the sub-atomic level.
Leaving nothing behind. The way it works it's like a semi-conscious energy.
Now the question is can I recreate it? The answer is yes. But, to do that I will need to use Solomon's technique and retract it.
The way Solomon dude did it is was he could negate it by cancelling it through copying the energy pattern. How the guy did that back in 1000 B.C is beyond me. Well same could be said about the Biblical God who started programming even earlier.
First things first I won't be able to do it with one circle. Only those who are born with the Power of Destruction can do it.
Four circles at minimum will require to cast Power of Destruction. One for altering the energy, second for emulating the frequency of it, third one for manifestation and four one for control.
With this discovery, my previous work on cartridges will need to be adjusted because I was only thinking it will require one circle.
That were redesigning was in order.
"Any luck?"
"It is done. I will need four circles to reproduce it." I said that to Venelana who was out of words after hearing it.
"One of greatest Devil kind magic is reproduced in less than an hour… I would like to see the face of Zekram Bael when he hears this." The brown-haired devil lady said that with an almost mocking smile.
From the looks of it, she doesn't truly like her birth family.
"Well, I am the one who is reproducing. So, it should not be such a large surprise." I said to her as I looked at the computer screen I could see four white circles being drawn.
Though I did notice that its efficiency is only around 67%, I can assume that I won't be able to select who to erase and who not to…
It would seem that I will going need to experiment more on this before Power of Destruction is completely mine.
"I suppose it is true. Nonetheless, my family will try to deal with you once you reveal that you can use my family magic. Remember that." Venelana warned me seriously.
"I will remember that. Not that it will be Devil magic. The residue will be that of neutral magic. Your kin more or less will be able to see it that I have reproduced it after watching a Bael using the power." I explained to her.
"I see… then it might be going to work in your favour." The brown-haired devil lady said with a nod. She was satisfied with the answer.
Once our conversation was done I went over to check the circles and see how good my OS was in crafting them.
To my small surprise, I only needed to edit small bits. Before it was usable to run some tests.
For that, I needed to start working on another bit which I was procrastinating for some time…
"Sera I need your help, I need another room done," I said with a sigh.
"Hmm? What for?" She asked from the side.
"It will be an assembly line."
"You making a factory?" She asked with a slightly baffled tone.
"Not mass production one. More like at a personal level." I clarified to her.
"I see… okay where do you want it to be done?" She asked me as she got up on her feet my first devil familiar followed after Serafall.
"Over there." I pointed at the left side of my workshop.
"Isn't… your neighbours there?" She said with raised eyebrow at me.
"Yeah, they live on the surface," I said plainly.
"Uhhh… if you say so…" She just said that with a resigned sigh. Before following me to where I want to expand.
But, then I thought about the comfortability of this and future expansions...
"On second thought… let's build it underneath the workshop," I said that while turning around.
*Sigh*
"Very well…"
~~~
The brown-haired devil realized that the current Leviathan was pretty much head over heels for the Second coming of Solomon. And this quite terrified her as what can happen to Devil race as a whole if Marcus would try to do something to them.
Seeing someone who is always behind a mask, not have it like this and being extremely honest truly send warning bells to Lady Gremory.
The Ars Goetia is one terrifying power.
While she was with her thought like that she still assisted with what her Master asked her.
In a matter of days, the room underneath the workshop was done. With two devils working like that Marcus was able to rapidly finish the transmutation/assembly systems.
This is where Venelana noticed something… the way her Master was doing this… it's like he did this before…
She knows that a project of such scale requires multiple test runs and what a not. But, the way he did it it's like he already went through this before…
But it should be impossible…
"Don't you think it's weird… how easily he did all of this? Even Lord Beelzebub needs time to test this kind of thing? But for Marcus… he did everything in single try…" Venelana whispered to Serafall.
"I know… and I have a theory on my own." The Leviathan said with a nod.
"You... do?"
"He is most likely a reincarnation of the original Solomon," Serafall said with a knowing look.
"Like the heroes? But, this doesn't explain why he is that good with this! This is already at realms beyond what even Lord Beelzebub can do! And he is as we know is a Super Devil!" Venelana said with a somewhat frantic tone.
"Indeed… I can guess that he has partial memories of the original. Since he is far too mature for a teenager. He only started looking at me as a woman after his puberty hit him. As we know original Solomon was a massive pervert who wanted to conquer the devil race for the women." Serafall said the last part with a deadpan look.
"True… this is most likely the answer we going to get…" Venelana said with a sigh. She then decided to ask something quite important.
"Is it true then? You did it with him?" Marcus first familiar asked the second one.
"...oh yes. Master is natural at it. That's why I think he is the reincarnation of Solomon to a certain level. He is very good for someone who has never done it before." Serafall nodded with the certain lewd look she remembered all the times they did it. Almost daily. That's why she want him to get all pumped up for work once it's done he will have his time with her.
"...You do realise that he is a human and you are a Satan?" Venelana said with a sigh.
"That the most silliest excuse I have heard. In front of Solomon's magic, Gods or devils were easy targets for the King of Magic. And Marcus is his successor…" She said that as she looked at Marcus sitting at his computer looking over something.
Moments later… a portion of the floor opened and a pedestal came out. On It was another golden ring…
"It would seem… he has his second ring…" Serafall said with a knowing look.
"So he is bringing those things back!" Venelana had horrifying look when she saw Marcus putting another ring on his finger.
"I asked him before about them. And he said that Solomon rings were his shortcuts to magic. This means that he had 10 different shortcuts to specific magics. And the negation one was only one of those 10. The other 9 were different ones altogether." The black-haired Satan explained to the other Devil lady.
"This makes it even more terrifying...dont you think? How can humans achieve such power?" Venelana said that while using one hand to cover her face.
"No idea. That's why I am watching him over as much as I can. That's why I am afraid of what he will do to our race if we are to cross him? You don't know it but he already established a pantheon worthy barriers system around his house…
Before he even had proper setup for his workshop." Serafall said that seriously as she remembered Diamond Core Heart.
"...I see… I guess we should try guiding him away from our race and towards other races?" the brown-haired devil offered that.
"That's the wrong way of thinking. He doesn't care for the race only what it can offer to him. As long as no devil offends him devils race is safe." The current Leviathan said with the knowing look she already has a clear image of her Master.
"You think he would just erase the whole race?" Venelana asked with wide eyes.
"I have the feeling that it would escalate to point that Satan's would need to act as he would reveal Solomon's magic. Devil would panic and they would want him to get captured. Which would lead to a very bloody and one-sided fight." The Leviathan said as the way she has predicted this fight would progress.
Marcus is not a fighter. He would simply crush what is in his way. He doesn't have a 'sportsmanship' spirit how many devils or fighters in general have.
"I see… then we hope nothing like that would happen…"
"..."
"..."
"..."
"Let's go and test this ring out!" Both of the devils got brought back from their thoughts when they heard their Master's words.
~~~
Marcus and the pair of devils entered the testing room. Venelana noticed that it was much bigger than she remembers and the flooring has been improved considerably. There are rows of mannequins at the end of it.
The teen inventor pointed right-hand palm at one of the mannequins. There is around 50 meters distance between them.
Next moment a four circles appeared they were very close to each other at the last one a familiar black/redish orb started to form.
"Power of Destruction…"
"It's familiar...but different, there is no demonic energy in it," Venelana said as she was very much familiar with the energy.
She said after having feel for it.
Marcus didn't say anything instead he focused on controlling it.
Going through several forms. Like a lance, followed by small orbs, then other shapes like rectangular or triangle.
"Is it just me or Master can control it better than most Bael's can do?" Serafall whispered to Venelana.
"...it appears so…" The brown-haired devil lady said with twitchy lips.
Then he decided to test its destruction capacities…
It morphed back into a ball before charging up and releasing it like a beam.
With a loud cutting-like sound the beam rushed forward completely erasing several mannequins and digging into a wall.
"Test number one result: success. Things of note: As previously predicted to copy selective destruction at this moment is impossible, unless the controls can be increased through one more circle. The reason for the selective destruction comes from the Demonic nature of the energy." Marcus said that as he was recording this through his earpiece, his gaze was at the destruction caused by the beam of destruction.
"So, you can't replicate that huh…" Venelana said that with a slightly relieved tone. She was happy that some of her family power specialness remained.
"Indeed it most likely comes from your Demonic energy nature. I still need some more testing done. To see if I can replicate it or find some sort of replacement for it." He said that while crossings his hands.
"Well. Anyway, the test was a success, and I can return to my work with the gun." He said that with a satisfied look.
He realised that this gun is going to be more than he expected. For the simple reason that if he plans to shoot beams of destruction he needs to revamp the whole M.T.M system he has created.
The cartridges need another makeup while the variations of what form the gun is releasing will need to be added directly into the very gun.
'Possibly voice-based at first and then intent one later.'
"Sera if you would?" Marcus asked the devil lady.
"One moment."
Serafall called forth her circles which fixed the room in just a few moments.
The teen inventor returned to his workshop where he went over to the holographic table and started to work on the design for the gun.
He reworked the whole M.T.M once again this time with the idea of cartridges having more than one circle. If Power of Destruction has four possibly five, if he is planning to add that extra control. Then other powers like healing will have more than five. So it's better if he doesn't have a limit in mind.
Once again he needed to work on the design as he needed to add a fourth system into it. This one will go at the back of the barrier rail and above M.T.M, Marcus calls it the Revolver system.
For now, it only going to have, bullet, beam, cannon and scattered versions of the things which the weapon can eject.
So, this mean it will have four circles in rotation. Possibly the most easiest system in the whole of the gun.
Finally after several hours of tinkering. Right before his time to call it a day he was done with the internal design… now for the hardest part the gun outer design…
'Since this gun is for one hand only, well it should he for one hand. Then I need another one for this… hmm… Castor and Pollux… the twins…' Marcus thought to himself as he types the name for the gun on the project name which was empty before.
Once the name was done he pressed Enter to save it. And turned off the PC for the day.
~~~~~~Later~~~~~
"This is the city… I can sense some of Serafall's demonic energy… it's extremely faint." A silver-haired woman said with a small frown. She looked around the city, it was quite small.
Similar in size to the one her King got rented out for the devils in Japan. The very same city where Rias and Sona are moving in soon.
Is Serafall in this city with the relations to the one in Japan? Apart from the size, there is no other similarities.
No, such an idea was brushed aside by the silver-haired devil lady. After looking around she started to look for clues where could the Leviathan be.
In the end, she ended up not far from a building which looks like a school.
'Serafall pretending to be a student?' Grayfia looked with a frown she looked around for more after this discovery.
In the end, she realised that the time for classes was over. So, instead, she decided to return tomorrow.
At least now she now where she needs to for.
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…
The next day she finally noticed her target going to school while holding a teenager's hand.
The teenager was a good human specimen, the physique was someone who takes care of himself. With short black hair, quite developed muscles. But there was something else around him which was interesting… it's an aura of self-confidence in...something...
Grayfia can assume that it's Serafall who combed his hair into more modern fashion making it slightly spiking up. As from the looks of it the Satan was telling him how better he looks now…
'She is definitely in love with this human. And I can sense a considerable amount of magic coming from him. Now, how did he make the Leviathan herself fall in love with him?' The silver-haired devil thought curiously to herself. She was in truth fascinated by this discovery. The Queen of Lucifer is curious by this unprecedented event.
Countless pureblood devils wanted to court Serafall, but none of them even came close to seeing her real face…
Yet, this teenager from a small town in Church controlled territory no less! made Serafall Leviathan pretend to be a schoolgirl so that she could attend school with him!
By this point, the silver-haired devil lady was more interested in this juicy story than learning the method of doing paperwork fast!
So, she waited for the time Serafall and her human boyfriend are done with school. And then decided to track them down to the human's house.
Thankfully it was not as boring as she thought to watch them over from a distance as she saw that they spend quite a bit of time outside enjoying their own company.
To say that Grayfia was impressed by the Leviathan was an understatement as the devil lady spend the majority of her time on his lap.
From kissing to cuddling to feeding him food.
If not for the fact that the Queen of Lucifer knew personally how dangerous Serafall can be on the battlefield or with her ice magic then the one she is looking at could easily pass as a teenage human girl.
Eventually, her wait was over and she could track them down to the house of the teenager…
Once she was in front of the two-floor regular looking house she decided to ring the doorbell…
Only the moment she passed into the territory of his house she felt her magic stopping listening to her!
Her eyes went wide as she quickly looked around.
Cold sweat started rolling down her forehead.
'What is this!?'
"I am sorry Grayfia… you should have not tried to track me down…"
A familiar voice of Serafall appeared behind her.
"Serafall...what is the…" That moment she started losing consciousness….
~~~~~~Marcus~~~~~~
"I wasn't expecting for Sirzechs to send his Queen after me like that," Sera said to me as she was looking downed form of the silver-haired devil.
Not going to lie the silver-haired devil lady has the same type of body like Venelana does.
What is with these female devils and their absurd bodies?
"So she is the Strongest Queen and the rival to your title?" I asked curiously as I looked at her. The amount of magic she is emitting is off the charts. Thankfully we are inside my workshop otherwise someone would have picked it up.
"Was rival to my title. But I won and she decided to stick with being Sirzechs Queen and his maid."
"Maid? As in real maid? And not his wife or something?" I asked her. This is where this is getting weird as I remember she suppose to be Sirzechs wife. Well, I can't truly recall all stuff I watched nearly 40 years ago.
"No. She is not. the council didn't want for current Lucifer to marry a servant of previous. Instead, they allowed him to have her as his Queen for the legitimacy of his title. As no Lucifer can be without a Lucifuge to serve him." Serafall explained to me as she was slightly annoyed and distressed.
"This council has quite a bit of say in affairs of the Satans…" I said with a frown this reminds me of a constitutional Monarchy of some sort with politicians bitching constantly at their King.
"They are ruled by Zekram Bael, the first generation Devil and Great King. One could say he is the one who is running the underworld. The man is old and very knowledgeable on pretty much anything. And no one wants to end on his bad side. Sirzechs included." Serafall said with a serious tone.
"I see he is like the old man who has alot of connections."
"Precisely. Now, what are you going to do with her? Ars Goetia doesn't have power outside the Pillars…" The black-haired devil asked with a slightly nervous tone.
"Indeed. Ars Goetia doesn't work so I am going to make one for extra houses." I said with a shrug.
"...that's… I guess my concern was not needed here." She sighed in relief before turning back to look ar Grayfia.
"Just make sure she does leave the workshop," I said seriously, before going over to my PC.
Going over the list of countermeasures I had, I selected on 'case a high ranking devil arrived'. Once I selected that there was several countermeasures I have cooked up.
Since she is Lucifer's queen, I have a good chance to have a perfect spy at the very top.
So, I selected a new form of 'Ars Goetia' since she is from Lucifer's servant house. The binding is even more stronger as Ars Goetia originally was to bind 'Lucifer's pillars' a branch system can easily be done.
All I needed is to alter a few lines in the chant and change some runes in the circle. It was done in less than 5 minutes after I took my seat.
"Done. Take her to the summoning room." I said to Serafall, as I got back on my feet.
"Already? How easy is to bind devils for you!?" She asked with a fearful and shell shocked tone.
"Sera the hardest part was to invent Ars Goetia. Once invented I could run in circles with this binding. If applied properly I could even enslave gods." I said with an eye roll. Making her even more ghostly white.
"You are a scary one…"
"Then it's a good thing that you are on my side," I said with a smile to which she automatically nodded.
"Good now bring her to the room. Let's get this over with. I still need to return to drawing the design for my guns."
"Guns?"
"Yeah, it's going to be pair! I can't wait!"
~~~
When Grayfia opened her eyes, she saw an unfamiliar ceiling. One thing for sure she was laying on some sort of couch and the sound of fans reminded her of computers in Ajuka's lab.
Was she moved to some sort of lab!?
She tried to move but then she was assaulted by head pain.
"You finally up! I hope I didn't hit you too hard!" That moment she heard the familiar voice of Serafall. Grayfia quick moved through the pain and looked around.
Finding the black-haired Satan Leviathan sitting not far from her on another couch.
"You! You knocked me out! What is the meaning of this!?" Grayfia's red eyes nearly glowed as she snapped at fellow devil.
"Because you can't tell anyone what you find here. There is a reason why I am hiding my movement." Serafall said with a sigh.
"Who possibly requires such secrecy!? Even from Lucifer himself!?" The silver-haired maid was not buying this at all!
"Because my allegiance just like yours have changed." The black-haired devil said sharply.
"What!? What are you talking about!?"
"Just check yourself and tell me what do you feel?" The current Leviathan simply said to her.
Grayfia quickly inspected herself… she felt something… has happened to her very being! It's like… she was rearranged at a spiritual level!
"What...is this!?"
"Ars Goetia."
"..."
"...impossible! Solomon is dead! His heirs are dead, his magic is lost to time!" The silver-haired devil lady said while shaking her head. She was in denial but she can tell that it truly has happened to her!
How did a simple, even absurd mission end her into hands of the Devil race boogeyman?
"Well. He indeed died without any heirs but his magic is very much alive." Then she heard a male voice from behind.
That moment the Queen of Lucifer simply knew it was her Master. It was a gut feeling, a strong gut feeling. This make her quite terrified how her instincts telling her to serve him.
"Y-You are the successor to that man's magic?" Grayfia turned around and looked at him. Now she was not seeing him as just a mere human. Nope! that evaporated the moment she understood that he inherited that man's diabolical magic.
"Not just succeeded his magic, but improved it considerably. To the point that I can enslave extra house members like you." He said that with a simple shrug.
"...I see…"
"Indeed. You will be working for me now as well. But, don't worry though. Serafall does more than an admirable job in keeping me company. So you can return to your usual duties of being Lucifer's Queen." He said plainly to her.
"I see… you want me to spy on my King?" She asked with a dull look. She looked like she wanted to kill herself.
"I have no interest in regular things. I am an inventor. I would prefer if you were Ajuka's Queen but beggars can't be choosers. So I will stick with Lucifer's Queen instead." He explained simply and shrugged at her again.
Showing that he doesn't truly care.
"That's the best part Grayfia. He is better at inventing than Ajuka!" Serafall found a good moment to brag about her man in this situation.
Nonetheless, she followed the black-haired devil's gaze and saw… something from Sci-fi movies she had to watch with Rias a couple of times as her babysitter…
A holographic display which showed some sort of magical circles and pieces which looked like a... gun of some sort.
"Master is designing something which can be considered a high-level Sacred Gear!"
The Leviathan's words were like thunder in clear skies. That moment the maid remembered that Solomon was Biblical God's only true disciple of some sort and he inherited the secrets of the Sacred Gears thus the ten rings!
That moment Grayfia put her hand on her mouth trying to process what this means to Devil Race.
"Beautiful isn't it? I saw this weapon evolve from nothing more than a mere metal construct! When it's going to finish even a regular person will be able to kill easily a High-Class devil without any issues!" Serafall said with a proud tone. By this point, Grayfia has realised that Leviathan has completely gone to second Solomon's side.
"Do you even realise what this means to our race? We were this close to being enslaved by a human 3000 years ago!" Grayfia motioned with her fingers how close they were to getting enslaved by Solomon. The only reason they lost was because Solomon was getting old! That's it! Quite simply because of his natural human limits!
Nothing could stop him before that! While Biblical God just sit back and relaxed and watched how Lucifer is getting owned by a mere human again and again…
"And who said we getting enslaved by him now?" Serafall asked Grayfia with raised eyebrow. After all Leviathan observed Marcus for a few years now. There is no indication that he wants to enslave her Devil race!
"...well… you were enslaved?" The silver-haired maid reasoned with her.
"Right… so you two can discuss my invasion of the devil race while I return to my work. I love conspiracy theories but I prefer the technological ones. I mean I usually try those out for shits and giggles, but possible invasion? Those are discussed by nerds who like military stuff." Marcus said that while shaking his head turning around and walking back to his PC.
"As I was saying… I was enslaved because he wanted an expert on water manipulation. And because I was a Satan…" Serafall clarified to Grayfia who was blushing red like a tomato. The maid was extremely embarrassed. The unnatural fear she had for Solomon which she never thought she would have, has manifested the moment she realised that the boogeyman of Devil Race was the real deal…
And she was now his pet, slave or whatever, since she does feel urge to serve him. Most likely an effect from this new type of binding which was used on her.
"I see… so he has no interest in invading the underworld and enslaving our people?" The Queen of Lucifer asked with a relieved tone.
"Most likely not. As long as our people don't provoke him. To the point that he has to move out with force then there is no need to fear him." Serafall explained to her.
"Easy said than done! Serafall! He enslaved me and you! There will be war if people learn about this!" The silver-haired devil lady said with a sigh.
"That's why I approve of his secrecy! But you needed to stumble on my location like that!" The current Leviathan said with an angry pout.
"I had a mission from my King! Now that you reminded me, how do you do it!?" Grayfia asked with a pissed off tone. Here she was a slave to second Solomon because of some silly paperwork!
"Do what?"
"Don't play games with me. How do you do your paperwork so fast?" The silver-haired woman asked with a tired tone.
"Oh, that! Marcus invented an electronic device to do it! Now I can spend almost all my day with him!" The black-haired devil said with an extremely happy tone. The paperwork, the threat to her sanity has been completely subdued and it never raise again!
"I see… I still need to return this information to my King." The strongest Queen said with a sigh. She massaged her eyebrows, how is she going to do that?
"Indeed we have prepared with information for you when you were out of commission," Serafall said that as she handed over a piece of paper with information she needs.
Grayfia read it over a couple of times before freezing it over with her magic and turning it into dust.
"Are you sure this is wise? If Sirzechs learn about the genius of...our...Master…" the Queen of Lucifer grimaced while saying the last word…" then the rest will learn and there is the possibility that the connection will be made between us and him…"
"Our master won't be hiding forever he only needs to build up bis power base once he is powerful enough there won't need to hide anymore," Serafall explained plainly.
"And that's is what I am afraid off… what comes after…"