Chapter 1: Prologue
"Gah!?" I quickly opened my eyes and looked around.
My vision was quite blurry. I was able to understand that I was in a building though. And I could smell very familiar smell of oil, metal and rubber.
Blinking couple more times I was able to get hold of myself. I was in a very familiar garage.
"Is this dad's garage?" I said with wide eyes as I saw the familiar racks of tools, boxes of screws of all shapes and sizes.
More importantly, most of the garage was taken by a car. The totalled BMW M3 my father got for me for pennies when he was drunk.
Yeah… when you want something from your parents always try to get it when they are drunk.
My father was drinking with my uncle back in the countryside, over there I saw brand new but very much totalled BMW M3. The car was going for parts and then into a junkyard. But, by that point, I was in the phase where I was head over heel for anything mechanical.
And so my dad bought this for pennies.
The point for me reminiscing this is that… I already should have fixed this car and it should be fully tuned up and in my LA mansion!
So… why the fuck my hands are this small?
"Oh shit… my voice… why I am sounding like a kid?"
For a moment panic settled in as I rushed toward the car's doors and checked in the mirror and saw myself there.
"Oh god! I am back in my boy self? Wait! this doesn't make any sense!" My brain that moment tried to come up with variables to this situation! I don't remember working with time travelling related stuff!
The last thing I remember was working on an energy source for my house. I means I got tired of paying large electrical bills.
And decided to build a reactor from some experimental data.
"Right… that white burst of energy… I should have done that in a research lab instead of my garage." I said that while trying to remember more.
It turns out I miscalculated how much energy it will produce. I suppose my house couldn't handle it and it went boom.
"But, this doesn't make sense. The energy should have at least turned me into dust. There was no quantum physics in it. Unless the large amount of energy started affecting it.
"Right...and did I see a white-dressed person...strange… Still, through… if I am in my young self again like this… I could… do alot of stuff… lots of stuff before anyone else!" Thinking about all the discoveries through my life…
I nearly started salivating at the chance of profiting on that and having some fun in tinkering along the way!
"Marcus! You up? What did I tell you about sleeping in the garage!?"
'Oh shit, and the bad stuff of being a kid!'
"Sorry, mom! I got carried away!" I quickly got my puppy eye technique. I should use it until it works!
*Sigh*
"I know you are gifted when it comes to machines son, but you can't spend the night in the garage! What if you going to catch a cold?" My mother walked over to me. There was that scrutinising gaze of hers which I have seen for over 20 years…
"Sorry…"
"Just go and take a shower. You smell of oil!" She motioned for me to get into the house and fix myself up.
Sheesh...
As if she never saw a guy working his craft! If only I had my…
Right… all my stuff! It's gone!
"Marcus, what's wrong? Why are you crying?" My mother asked with a concerned tone, as she saw me.
'Take a deep breath, it's only Tesla, Microsoft, Lexus, all the Italian supercars companies...nothing much! I can always buy them back!'
"Nothing… I think some dust got into my eyes. *Sniff*" I quickly said as I rushed into the house. And quickly upstairs to get as cold as possible shower. I need a reality check A.S.A.P can't cry like a baby each time remembering what I lost…
And so, my trip to the past has begun. Me Marcus Goldman. The guy who spend his life tinkering from the basement and getting rich from that.
As weird as it sounds working from house is quite lucrative stuff. It started when my dad first time took me to his garage and fell in love with that.
From then out and spend more time in the garage than he ever did I pretty much took it over from him.
Working from wood to metal, then going higher and higher to the point… well… one can guess what level it is where you build a self-sustaining energy reactor in ones basement garage.
Exploding or not...
Still though. I found it weird… how easily I could pick up things, one called me one in lifetime genius and whatever there other things there are. But, I found it weird. I mean things just come together. Maybe it's what genius is?
Anyway… after waking up in my younger self's body, I found…that things are ever easier than it was before…
After getting an extremely cold shower to which I turned nearly pale blue, thankfully it was the summer holidays… and the weather was hot.
I returned to my garage and saw my first car there. My desire to forget drove me to start fixing it with things I had in the garage.
That moment I realised that I knew the vehicle from inside to out… it reached the point that I could… improve on the already existing design of this German car.
It was that at that moment I realised that I might not be in my past self but maybe I have possessed or fused more like another version of Marcus Goldman.
The way I was thinking like that was because certain… things were different… for example, some companies which I used to work with and used to own a portion of stocks don't exist… and most importantly, the dates don't make sense… I remember getting my car in 2004 but this time I have it in 2003.
It's either I missing something or that blast has sent me to alternate reality, like in those light novels I used to read in my free time.
Nonetheless, this didn't mean anything in the big scale of things. After double-checking the technology level…
Well…
I cried again…
And then I decided to work on the most essential things the smartphones, touch screens, the fibre optics… the list is quite long.
I mean I started crying when I saw the fat tv which can barely show 480p...
While I had never worked on them before, as it was basics among basics. By the time I moved on technology from machinery everyone had smartphones and fast internet. I didn't need to improve any of it since It was already there. Instead, I used my time on app creation…
That's why I need to change my thought process as by this point it's like knowing how to build the building but, not knowing how to build the foundations of the building.
In other words back to basics… but… then it happened… the event which changed my perception of the world…
"This is totally... not strange, when a posh white book with golden letters appears on my table first thing in the morning," I said with a deadpan look as I saw a book just appear on my table.
By this point, I am no longer surprised that supernatural of some sort exist… my crafting and creation skills by this point can be considered supernatural and my existence in a body of my former self in alternative reality is another clue of sort that it can exist.
Nonetheless, the book appearance was like icing on a cake.
Slowly I walked over, not touching it instead inspecting from distance.
After getting a good angle I was able to read the cover.
"The…magic arts of Solomon the Great." I read it out loud as my eyebrow went slightly up.
"Ok...this is out of contest but why Solomon? I mean I would take Tony Starks journal or something… or Reed Richards… but this… well... magical sounding?" I thought for a second before deciding to satisfy my curiosity and check it out.
Slowly… one of my hands touched it…
That moment searing pain washed my whole body, starting from my hand, then like a tidal wave spreading through the whole body.
*Sharp gasp*
"Fuckkkk!" I felt like my nerves got fried that moment, nearly dropping on my ass right there.
But, like this pain has appeared it has disappeared like it never was there before in the first place.
As weird it sounded now I can tell where this book is all the time. Not only that…
Just by thinking…
*Flash*
With a golden white flash, the book has appeared in my hand.
"Right… totally magical it is then…" I said that like it was...totally... normal in my life.
Since it has proved to me that it's truly magical I opened the first pages.
"This book is written by the Great Solomon who ruled the greatest Kingdom mankind has ever seen and was known as King of Magic and the man who was able to mess with Lucifer himself and walk away victorious by taking away 72 devils for himself!
Since you reading this that means my greatest secrets are yours now!" Once I finished reading the intro I realised that yeah… this was The Solomon the dude with 72 demons… devils, the very same one who had a massive harem and ruled Israel.
'But, seriously? Lucifer is real? This shit is serious, and I need to fortify my garage and get some magic stuff done.'
"Right… but first… this dude is quite arrogant… I mean I was the one who sold the license to shackled A. I, but even then I was not that arrogant…" I thought with an eye roll, before continuing reading.
"Before anything, a mage needs to build up his magic reserves, casting human-based magic normally requires magical calculation but to bypass that is quite simple. At my peak, I had 10 rings which allowed me to cast spells as easily as any Devil or Angel…"
'Right so…Angels are real too… let's assume the most of myths are real too… less surprises that way…'
"Magic is like a muscle to access it several meditations are for that… let me mention some so that you wouldn't need to check other books since my one is the best anyway."
'Right…'
With another eye roll, I skipped to the part where the meditations are described.
'So, chunni stuff does… work, in this reality that is… so, how on earth no one developed chunni magic powers?' I thought for a second.
Anyway, I checked most of them and decided on the easiest one. The one where you have to stare at the candle sounds far too weird.
So mental image, breathing…
'I suppose I could do this when I am resting… until then reading this is then…'
'Once you have basics done, you should know that humans are the most fragile of species, so you either get some magic armour crafted or get your hands on one of those.'
'But, if you want, you can follow my footsteps which is much better! and that is learning how to channel your magic to reinforce your body! If you can do this successfully then you can achieve a body even stronger than devils or angels!'
'Right so both it is then, I suppose magic enchanted items exist? Since he mentioned those…' I hummed internally remembering some of the metallurgy I did earlier in the past. I mean did I craft some of the car parts myself.
I suppose I could invest some time in weaponsmithing… magical weaponsmithing…
'Once you have basics done let me tell you about the best part of my magics! And that is summoning and binding devils permanently to yourself! Devils are quite special beings who look like humans but very much are beings of sin, they have bat-like wings that they can summon or retract! And their magic are based on imagination! But the best part is that they have unique magic depending on the pillar they are from!'
'These devils do sound similar to that silly anime I used to watch back when I was a teen… what was it again? Something school? All I remember are those nice armours through…'
As I thought about it. I checked the next page and saw a bunch of summoning circles and just damn… I will be truly able to bind them just like that! Regardless of their power to mine!
"The power of Ars Goetia… designed by Solomon and the Big G…nice…"
"So Gods are real too...nice…" I thought with some sweat running down my back...
Chapter 1
Around a year has passed since that book just popped in front of me.
That means I was twelve years old and... oh, boy how much I did…nothing…
Normally I would beat myself up for wasting a year and not fixing a mere totalled car. But, no! instead I spend that time reading and memorising the grimoire, or Is it a book? More like a journal… yes, a journal it is then.
By this point, I came to realise that I was the successor to the dude who lived around 1000 B.C… meaning 3000 years before me.
The summoning circles were easy, as well as the whole alphabets of runes. The Solomon dude constantly mentioned how difficult these runes are and how factions like the Norse is proud of their runes.
I found them ridiculously easy, maybe that the inner programmer telling me, since I was the one who programmed an A.I, several of those. For my cars, to my homes. Nonetheless, the summoning circles I have mastered in the first week. In the next few weeks, I got the whole Hebraic, Norse, Egyptian, Greek and Japanese... runes, I mean Caligraphy down. All that was left is the test them out. That's where the hardest part was. Meditation, accessing magic and drawing magic letters.
Well, for that I have chosen the attic since the basement is where all the firewood is… yeah… I am back to the era where firewood is still In use…
Nonetheless, after some cleaning done, and moving some scraps… like an old TV… From around ~1990, which I am planning to turn into scraps and reuse it, since now I have magic I can quite literally use alchemy to remould it into parts I know from ~2030 and use them just like that…
And yeah. Solomon learned some alchemy and enchantment from Big G, so all that stuff was in his book, which is now mine as well, I already found some ways to improve the formulas they used back in the day with the stuff I developed myself through programming since higher level enchanting is pretty much magic version of programming.
Well, that will come when I start making stuff, but for now, it's time to call forth my first familiar.
Using chalk to write on the wooden floor was quite child's play. It was feeling quite weird to do occult. Especially since I always teased my sister on that. Thankfully she graduated and moved away from home… otherwise she will be teasing me on doing the goddam same thing she did!
Eventually, a perfect circle was drawn and runic letters in Hebraic language were drawn in between creating a complex system in the circle.
What Big G and Solomon devised is using the devil essence against them. Since Devils were preying on humans. The Big G decided to allow humans to prey on Devils. More like turn them into human slaves.
By using Lucifer's Pillars and their devil summoning against them, a devil is summoned in this specific circle. It only works with pureblooded devils so half-bloods which are born from devil and human is impossible to bind since Ars Goetia doesn't recognise it as pillar devil.
And so once the circle is done, I started channelling my magic. The only issue with this was that the summoning requires a considerable amount of mana, well for me that is.
It took me a year of pure magic training practice, to reach the level where I can summon the devils through the circle.
The circle has a drawing of Bael symbol of the Great King Pillar. If I am to summon a Familiar then it will be the best one it can offer.
"By the covenant drawn between God and Human King!
For punishment against humankind! 72 Pillars of Lucifer shall be punished by the power of Ars Goetia!
Come forth Pillar of Great King Bael! By the Will of Ars Goetia, you shall be bound to a King of Man!"
As the chant was finished, the circle was glowing white and gold. The glow continued to increase to the point that I needed to cover my eyes.
~~~~~~Underworld~~~~~~
A brown-haired woman with a voluptuous body to kill for was enjoying morning tea when underneath her feet. A white circle started to be drawn on its own.
"Hmm? What is this?" She looked underneath her feet and then looked around, she saw white letters and the symbol of ten rings…
"..."
"..."
"Where did I see this before?" She tried to remember the symbol not thinking much on this for the simple reason that she can feel it's a devil summoning. Meaning a…
Then she remembered who used ten rings as his symbol!
Her whole face turned pale.
Before she can do anything the summoning happened and she felt her Devil energy rebelling and doing... something to her very being!
"Solomon's magic! H-How!?" She said with a horrified look. Before she can do anything she was teleported from her house!
And so one of the Pillar devils was summoned without anyone even realising what has happened, after all, it was a devil circle that was used in the first place.
~~~~~~Back with Marcus~~~~~~
When light has settled down I was able to see who I have summoned.
My eyes slightly widened.
What I saw was a woman with shoulder-length brown hair. What truly stands out about her is her enormous breasts which defies the physics of the world. With rack this big, she should have alot of back pain.
But, what truly stands out is that… I think I know her from somewhere.
Nonetheless, the summoning was a complete success because I can feel her being completely tied to me. Ars Goetia was successfully formed.
"You must be the Devil from the Bael House?" I asked her while walking over with crossed arms. My mind was coming up with how useful this Devil will be. I went with Bael because it's the highest house after Lucifer. It means they should be powerful and knowledgeable with magic and magic-related stuff.
"I am by birth, though I am now Gremory." I could tell Ars Goetia is working, as it's completely overwriting anything dodgy the Devil is thinking.
The Big G and Solomon were extra careful to mention all about the devils and their nature, so countless amount of runic programming as I call it, went in finding solutions to make them tell only truth and no lies.
Nonetheless, this is not enough because half-truths can still be told by the devils so wording has to come to play as well.
"I see… well it doesn't matter since you are my Bael Pillar now," I said with a shrug. The brown-haired woman slightly frowned, from the looks of she wanted to be extremely angry but Ars Goetia binding is absolute.
"You do know what you did with this summoning?" She asked cooly.
"I used Ars Goetia summoning to summon myself a Devil from Lucifer's 72 pillars. Since you were pulled that means you sinned enough to be pulled in this circle." I explained smoothly, I am not feeling bad for doing this. No matter what I am have summoned someone quite evil, not that I hiding the fact that I am not a good guy either.
"Sinned enough?" She asked with disbelief.
"The Biblical God saw all of us as sinners regardless of anything we did."
"Oh, I know that. That's why I altered and improved the requirements for the summoning circles. Even so, you meet the criteria." I said with a shrug.
"And what is the criteria?" She asked seriously.
"Killing an innocent, ruining innocent life, and several others, if one of those are meet then I can summon someone as my Pillar."
"Those are quite… simple requirements… Devils, one way or another, did one of those things… especially in older times." She said while grimacing, I can assume she remembered her past.
"I have no idea on older days which you talking about, that's why you are here. You will be teaching me everything I want to know." As I said that her eyes widened.
"I-I-I see may I know, how you achieved this? Where did you find means to summon a devil and bind one to yourself?" The brown-haired devil asked me curiously.
"Hmm, maybe I will tell you one day. Tell me what's your name?" I asked curiously now myself, since I definitely, saw her somewhere.
"It's Venelana Gremory." The brown-haired devil lady introduced herself.
That moment I remembered where I saw her before.
'I see… so... somehow… I got transported to my alternative self in that weird reality where the main character gets stronger from his perversion and women have physics-defying breasts.'
'Well, none of that matters, Ars Goetia which I improved made my identity top priority to my pillars. Unlike original Solomon, I won't be telling anyone that I have bound devils to serve me.'
I thought with a frown about my new circumstances.
"I see… I suppose we should start with overall history first from the supernatural point of view."
"As you wish." She said with a simple bow.
Never in her life did Venelana think that she will be summoned to become a servant to a mere human child.
Especially when the child from the looks of it has Solomon's knowledge. The human mage which is a taboo between pillar members.
The Bael Devil only knows about the man's existence because she was taught about him by Zekrom Bael himself.
The human mage with help from vindictive Biblical God created the Ars Goetia summoning system based on the same teleportation principle which devils of old used to prey on humans.
Reverse summoning a specific devil and binding it to himself for the rest of human's life…
Only Venelana realised that her summoning was even more special, as her new Master has said he improved the circle considerably. Making her incapable of lying to him and incapable of telling anyone about him.
How this works she has no idea, but she was utterly terrified of this boy, the boy was not a boy at all, it reminded her of Ajuka…
The very same Ajuka who became one of the Satans and a Super Devil. If this boy is anything like him then the Devil race can be in danger or… if she is smart enough they can profit from this… Depending on her and how good she can be with manipulation of him.
But… The more she spend her time around him the less she had confidence in manipulating him. The boy has no interest in politics, he has no interest in women, since he is just a boy…
Worse of all she could only tell truth and nothing else, manipulation of him was very difficult. Not only that she could not make him see devils in good light.
Any argument they have about the evil pieces only made her cringe in defeat.
And so… she spend several weeks teaching anything she knew about devils, angels, fallen angels, all the tricks he needs to be hidden from them, the theories on barriers and such…
After that, it was magic… all her life's work on magic knowledge was drained by him in less than a year.
She taught him all about how magic flows, the difference between the devil, angels, fallen angels, and other species and their unique magical energies.
After that… Venelana finally saw the boy's genius in action.
That moment the comparison between Ajuka and her new Master was evident in the boy. First, she saw what he calls the transmutation circle… magic she never saw before. Assuming it was the very same magic that allowed Solomon to craft his artefacts, the infamous ten rings.
Changing... everything… including dust into a plain-looking material which she can assume is some sort of clay. Then what followed was the using runes of several different pantheons… She has no idea how he made them work together like that…
To craft a ring from pure looking gold.
"Is this… one of the Solomon's rings?" She asked with some trepidation.
"No, this is my foci." the boy explained to her as he picked up the ring from the circle.
"Foci? Like a mage's staff?" She asked with much more relief.
"Indeed, this will allow me to cast magic similarly how devils do." He very simply explained to her that.
His tone was that of someone who did something extremely simple, but if information about this kind of foci spreads out then Devils will lose a large edge in human recruitment… after all Devil magic is one of the points which humans accept the proposition to become Reincarnated devils.
A magic that can be used through nothing but imagination is extremely versatile and deadly.
And this boy who was no older than twelve created an artefact which can use it…
What he can do with more resources? Or just time… it made the brown-haired woman shiver in fear from that thought alone.
"You can use your magic to build a floor below that garage, yes?" I asked Venelana who was standing next to me.
The Ars Goetia abilities are fascinating because I can summon Venelana anywhere I want, the devil magic is quite something, and using their magic against them gives me a little bit of satisfaction.
I did remember more on high school DxD, I remembered watching it when I was in that horny teenager stage back in the day.
After that, I barely remember following it since I spend time buying stocks and getting rich by selling licenses from phone apps to computer apps.
It was a time where I went from mindless fan service anime like DxD to Seinen in my free time.
The amount of plot I can remember is bare-bones, all I remember is that Kouh, a city, on the other side of the globe is the pivotal point of all action.
This means that I will be staying right here. More than 8 thousand kilometres away from Japan.
"Yes. All devils can do basic things like these. Do you have specifics… Master?" She asked simply, still trying to get over the fact that she is calling me Master subconsciously. A trick old Solomon added to the system it seems, I glossed it over since I found no point checking the part how devils will be addressing their Master.
As expected from a man who had a harem and army of wives…
"We will start with stairs. Then a main room followed by several sets of corridors…"
"You wish for an… underground base? That's quite…childish of you Master…" Venelana said that with a giggle.
*Snort*
"I don't think alot of people will like the light show I would do in the attic," I said with an eye roll. Her trying to poke at me like this is not the first time. I can assume she is trying to find more about me as we progress this Master-Servant relationship.
"Yes, I suppose you are right… I could use some of my family resources to buy you some land." She offered with a very 'kind' smile.
"Nice try. But, no." I shook my head at the devil lady's try to snag me into their network.
"What about your family? Should I continue to alter their memories?" She asked me on another note.
"Yes, once you are done with what you won't be needing to hypnotise them anymore."
Yes, my family almost immediately found out something was not right with me when I summoned Venelana. The devil lady needed to alter their memories with hypnosis. I haven't learned any hypnotic magic yet, but I will touch that once I will start studying mind related arts.
After some alterations were done I was able to move around my house more freely. No major alterations were done, only the fact that I am practising magic.
And of course Venelana's existence, the less they know the better.
Once we walked ot the garage I found the spot where I want the stairs to go under the garage will be.
The brown-haired devil lady with casual hand wave summoned several Gremory magic circles and started quite literally digging the ground.
Well more like removing it from existence.
In less than thirty minutes later I was standing in a room which was just after descending the stairs.
"Hmm...while the creation of the room was rapid there is alot of ambient magic in the air," I said after feeling the magic in the air.
The method for this is quite simple, it's part of training to strengthen one's body. You channel magic through ones body as much as possible until one is tired, rinse and repeat.
Eventually one develop a natural sense of magic. It helps having a magical connection to someone as well. For me, it was the brown-haired devil woman next to me.
Thus accelerating the whole process of developing the sense.
"Is it bad?" Venelana asked with a raised eyebrow as she heard my comment.
"Normally? No. But I am planning to make artefacts and tinker with rituals and magic circles, so devil energy will mix with regular human magic energy or whatever else energy I will be emulating in future." I explained casually to her since there is no need for me to hold anything away from me on that front.
"What kind of artefacts we are talking about? Like the ten rings?" I could hear how on edge she was when the ten rings came up.
Yeah, the rings are simply absurd even by DxD standards, the Solomon dude could negate any type of energy, including Touki the only way to beat him is through pure physical combat. Which was quite impossible since he could use any magic from any pantheon plus his 72 pillars.
One could say he was Biblical God's triumph card against the devils.
In other words, if the dude didn't die the Underworld would have lost and Lucifer's 72 Pillars would have become Solomon's Ars Goetia 72 Pillars.
"Hmm? The rings are quite good, but I already improved on that formula when I was reading up on the Sacred Gear construction. I am planning on making greater stuff." I said with shrug. As I was looking away from her and looking around imagining how I would want to make my workshop.
I could feel how the devil lady turned completely stiff for a moment.
"So it's the truth that Biblical God has left the method of Sacred Gear creation to Solomon?" She asked with disbelief.
"Not quite. There is no true 'method' or specific blueprint. They all are artefacts which are two dimensional." I decided to explain this since she needs to be on the same wave line as I am.
"Two dimensional?"
"Indeed. A Human is a three-dimensional being, made from physical body, soul, and essence or spirit energy. The Sacred Gear upon creation is transformed into a spiritual item then it is attached to one's soul. And detached after host death. There are ways to make the gear physical. But, two dimensional is much safer as one can't truly touch it without some sort of training." I explained to her as simply as I could.
Big G has a system or like a foundation how all gears of his are made into physical and spiritual, but that foundation by this point has many cracks. Especially by the Fallen who are trying to crack the mysteries of his items.
It's like a firewall for one's OS… now that brings back some memories…
"I see… I am sure Fallen would like to know where you live." The brown-haired devil lady said with a fake smile.
Sorry Venelana but after the time being around you I already cracked some of your personality, she always likes to 'joke' when she is nervous. Especially around me. It seems she is afraid for her Devil Race.
Hmm, should I tell her that if they are not naughty, they don't need to fear me?
Well, I doubt, since I have kidnapped one to be my familiar…
So, she is probably afraid I won't be holding back since I think they are evil…
"Maybe? By the time we are done here Venelana, I doubt many will be able to simply enter my garage." I said with a smirk as I was thinking of things to add to my 'garage'.
"You still going to call this a… garage?" She asked with raised eyebrow.
"A garage is man's fortress…" I said sagely, I remember my garage! A five stories down, with more than 50 super and mega cars, some of them were even my creation.
While I never added any lethal security there. I had one of the best securities available on the planet.
"But… you are not even a man." The Bael devil said with an eye roll.
"... You talking physically or mentally?" I asked her crossed arms.
She raised both hands in defeat. Not wanting to go in that direction it would seem.
"You forgot that I am almost 13. My point is, that a man naturally wants his special place, Especially me. Since all I want is to tinker with stuff in peace."
"Very well, since this what you want. Not that I can say no to you." My devil familiar said with a sigh. I can see that she doesn't understand. Well... she is a female…
"Good. Now we need to adjust where the main workshop is… it needs to be just below that parkway. So that once a car is finished the section can lower and the car can drive out." I said while remembering my villa in Germany. The nation where I used to test out my cars on their highways.
*Sigh*
"As you wish…" The brown-haired devil lady just sighed and continued with her work in expanding my garage.
By this point, Venelana was a builder, a teacher, a psychologist, a profession where a person is listening to another person's story for money...
And then reverse happened and she ended up being taught by a 12-year-old nearly 13... about magic of all things which she even now can't wrap her head around!
Nonetheless, she finds this time of her life quite fascinating…
But, then… it happened…
Her husband with quite an...arbitrary decision decided to engage their baby daughter to youngest Phenex…
It was so random by him that Venelana was out of words… and her baby daughter Rias? She went hysterical that they took the choice from her hands …
"Master… please… I need to return home… can I take a week off?" The Bael Devil asked her Master who has finally moved into his new garage.
"Hmm? Sure. I don't have use for you right now." He motioned for her to leave.
Marcus had several white circles drawn and a bunch of plain-looking clay laying next to them.
The very same material he will use to make his artefacts. The Bael can assume her Master is already thinking of plans to make some of the crazy artefacts he told her before.
Not that Venelana can remember much, as she was still in shock that her master knows how to make Sacred Gears and she can't tell anyone or write it down to anyone! Her brain does not even operate in that direction when she is not around her Master.
Meaning that her train of thought was affected by that Ars Goetia!
That is just terrifying!
Well, for now, she should stop thinking about this, and focus on her baby girl who learned the grim truth of being Heiress of a Pillar House.
~~~~~~Few Days Later~~~~~~
While Venelana did her job perfectly, she used her magic extremely… loosely… meaning the moment I dispersed and collected it the whole underground garage of mine turned dark…
Meaning that I needed light, and then I realised that I needed water as well. Since I am not planning to go surface just to wash my hands or take a piss…
So, first light. Extremely simple, with magic especially, I was done with that in just a few days.
I could have gone with a simple runic cluster to illuminate the room. But instead, I decided on a perfectly sealed glass container that gives pure LED light.
No magic was used after alchemy, the electricity is. flowing through wires as energy through the ceiling.
And energy source? The magic generations are stupidly easy to make in this lax world.
If devils or any race knew this simple concept I am using right now they could easily take control of the world's energy issues. And monopolise energy…
Oh, well… anyway… after creating simple air to magic, magic to energy reactor I was done with light issues and have enough energy to power my garage and run some PC's…
But, then… the more difficult thing came up… and that is plumbing.
*Sigh*
"I should have learned that Devil magic trick before I send Venelana away," I said with a sigh while crossing my hands.
Thinking for a solution to this problem…
Oh well…
"I suppose I should summon someone who knows water better than anyone." Thinking for a moment I recalled what my devil familiar told me about devils…
A specific pillar came to my mind.
"Serafall it is then… A Satan will serve me as muscle if need be as well. Since she is one of the strongest beings the devils can offer and is knowledgeable with water and ice…" With that idea in mind, I went to the room that will serve me as a summoning station.
Moments later I started drawing another Ars Goetia summoning circle.
~~~~~~Underworld~~~~~~
In the capital of the Devil Race, the city Lilith, in the main office of the Satan Leviathan, a certain Satan was doing her work with a slightly annoyed look.
The black-haired devil was annoyed with the amount of work she has to do every single day. As someone responsible for diplomatic relationships between her Devil race and other pantheons she constantly has to deal with things related to High-Class devils snatching humans from right under some deity noses.
Most of the time it's just for some Gods to bitch around since they are bored and looking for an excuse to cause some trouble.
Then she has to deal with the elder council who are bitching about some nonsensical things…
Serafall can't remember when there were some real issues she had to deal with apart from these hot air nonsense constantly popping up and making her deal with the paperwork…
"Hmm? What now!?" She snapped out from her documents and looked around. Her sensitive magical senses picked up that some weird devil energy just appeared underneath her.
Her gaze went down and she saw a white magic circle forming there.
"Hmm? I don't remember a scheduled contract summoning?" The black-haired devil said to herself before she noticed the symbol of the house who is summoning her…
"This is… what house is this!?" Her mind quickly went through the list of symbols she used to see. But, this is none of those!
In truth, she does not remember any white colour used to summon she was about to call her magic power but…
"What…" her eyes widened to a comical level when she felt her magic not listening to her!
"No...way the ten rings… the ability to nullify and take over demonic energy! This… is…" Serafall's facial expression turned pale… there is only one being who could do that… no! There was a mere human who did that to the devils!
But how!?
Before she could make another noise this time for help, she was summoned from her office just... like... that…
~~~~~~Back with Marcus~~~~~~
When I thought about Serafall it was that she was devil obsessed with magic girls.
But, when I summoned her… it was nothing like I thought…
In truth, she was dressed blue dress reminding me of those silly balls people used to hold for me for any silly achievement I ever did... they would hold it! It was truly annoying the only good thing about it though were the female dresses that had those exposed backs.
"You… you are the next Solomon?" She asked with disbelief.
"Hmm? Next Solomon? I suppose I am." I said with a shrug as I looked at the current Leviathan.
"I see… so you are like Ajuka then. I can tell that my thought process is severely affected by this. I never heard of this from the original Solomon. I heard he liked his devil women as little affected as possible…
This means you have upgraded a summoning circle devised by Biblical God and Solomon… you are a little monster aren't you?" She said with a twitchy eyebrow and her lip was slighly quivering. The Satan lady was pissed but same time very much… well…
*Sigh*
"I have heard the legends. My life now is yours, isn't it? I have heard that Ars Goetia Pillars are fully connected to the owner."
"Hmm, indeed the devils know quite a bit about Solomon. Especially since the book never was studied."
"No devil can touch it. The moment Solomon was corpse the book was destroyed by the devils. How do you have it then?" Serafall asked with narrowed eyes, this was the limit of the amount of anger she can show to me.
"That's my Devil lady is something you might going to learn one day. Now, however, I need your expertise in water manipulation." I decided not to answer that. It was quite satisfying seeing Serafall pout like that.
"Fine… not that I can say no to my...Master…Grrr, you… this...just how powerful is this binding!?" The black-haired devil's shoulders shook for a bit.
"The more powerful you are the more binding it is… in your case, it's off the charts. Since you are an Ultimate Devil." I said with a smirk.
"Nonsense! The stronger I am the weaker it should be! It's common sense!" She said with an angry and pouty look.
"The binding was made from your energy and carved into your very soul by Ars Goetia summoning. The only way to take it off is for me to die, in turn for you to die. The moment your soul leaves your body and demonic energy evaporates your corpse will still have echoes of Ars Goetia. The Biblical God was very thorough with the design and Solomon only relished the fact of enslaving the bad devil ladies…"
Serafall was utterly pale now after hearing that. It seems the stories were not as scary as the reality, a rare occurrence.
Chapter 2
Her, the Satan Leviathan doing plumber work? What madness is this!?
Well, she is not doing the plumber work, but closes one can get! From putting pipes at a specific location to working on water pressure! She never did anything of this kind of work!
Still, thought the moment her...that brat…Master… told how useless she is, the Satan Leviathan decided to just do it!
And so, a few days into it. She was done! His underground garage has working water! The consequences of her actions? she is behind her work! She missed several meetings and Serafall has no doubt there is a pile of documents waiting for her…
"Are we done here? Please! Let me go! I promise I will good devil!" Satan was nearly kneeling in front of her Master. The woman can't remember the the the last time she begged for anything.
But, by this point, she had to! there is a ton of work to do! And she is behind the schedule!
"Fine. Come to me when you have several hours of free time." He said that with a commanding tone and Serafall almost smiled hearing that!
Finally! Some freedom!
"I understand! I will return to you when I can!" The black-haired devil lady happily said that, thinking that she can return when she can decide the appropriate time!
"No, you will return the moment all the most important work is done. Not, when you can."
*Tsk*
The Satan Leviathan clicked her tongue for a second, her master is prepared!
"Fine… I will do that."
"You are not my first devil Serafall. I already had practise with Venelana. check this one out." Marcus got into position as he is about to ask her something.
"Serafall do you plan on thinking of spreading information on my existence?" The next Solomon asked her with a smile.
"Of course I am! Your existence is one of the worst things that could happen to Devil Race!" The moment Serafall said that she grabbed her mouth trying to stop from spilling out the beans.
"That will be a mistake. Remember? My life is tied with yours. If you spill the beans other factions will eventually know about this.
And two. You forgot that you can't in any way spread the information. The way I have programmed the thought process is that you can't consciously or unconsciously think about spreading the word.
Instead of blocking the thoughts I am making that you can't think of them." I explained to her casually.
"Did you just say that you have Venelana Gremory as your first devil pillar?" Serafall asked with disbelief. When? How? The brown-haired devil lady is the mother of the current Lucifer!
"She is nearly with me for a whole year."
The black-haired Satan that moment felt despair rising in her gut. Just how… powerful is this Ars Goetia thing? Serafall even met Venelana in that period! And she felt nothing is wrong with her!
"It seems now you understand?" He said that with a kind smile.
A smile reminding the current Satan Leviathan of devils of the old, and the stories she used to grow up hearing about.
*Resigned Sigh*
"I understand. Master, as long as you are not plotting anything against my race. I won't be trying to find my way out of this. Can we agree on this kind of deal?"
In the end, Serafall decided that her race takes priority over her personal feelings.
"Indeed we can have this kind of deal. My hobby and my lifestyle is crafting and it always going to be crafting and tinkering. As long as I can get things for my craft I won't going to interfere with your race. The only reason I have summoned Venelana was that she was a Bael and member of Great King house. Your summoning was because of your water manipulation and strength of Ultimate Class Devil."
'I see… He is like Ajuka, this is good news and bad news. The good news is that he won't care about Devil Politics. Which is bad news as well.
I need to establish some ground rules. Easier said than done from such a weak side…'
Serafall then quickly realized that she can use secrecy against him as well…
"I see… then we have an understanding? As Satan Leviathan I have a very busy schedule. If you summon me from middle of meeting or worse case when I have a meeting with members of other Pantheons it will be a disaster." The Black Haired devil said very seriously.
"Indeed. This is where we will use our mental link."
"The... what?" Serafall asked with raised eyebrow.
"Ars Goetia attached you to me, I can feel your emotions to a certain level and…" Marcus stopped talking and instead...
"Do this...we can talk mentally to each other…" Started talking directly in her head.
This made the Satan Leviathan just gulp down nerviously again…
Such power over her was simply terrifying. No wonder Solomon was top class taboo secret…
When she first heard about this human mage, she felt like it was a human boogeyman, a made-up story so that devils would prey less on humans or otherwise Solomon will enslave them.
Turns out he is so real that she ended up as one of his Pillars, well not the original one but his successor.
"I see. Then... please, ask me mentally first before summoning me alright? The less people know about this the better is for you, yes?" Serafall asked cautiously and same time using what he wants, secrecy.
"Very well, we have a deal."
"My thanks, Master." She said that while giving him a bow. Then calling forth her Leviathan circle and disappearing from his workshop.
Once she was gone. Marcus looked at his work table.
"It's time… for some tinkering." He was nearly jumping up and down from his seat from that thought!
At first, I decided to do some basic trigger-based weaponry.
Starting from the basics of basics, and then moving up from there. After this system is done I will be able to work on bigger and better. Like adding elements and things like that.
After getting neutral clay material done, I turned it into thin like paper and spread it through the table.
Once that is done I started drawing runic circles. The first one reacts to motion. Absorbs motion, then it sends that energy into second circle which turn it into magic. Once the transformation of energy into magic energy is done it flows into the accelerator circles. Where it gains more power, passing through magnifying circles for magnified effect before reaching the release circles.
After finishing with these. The thin paper-like clay was full of circles.
The system of shooting magic was done. Now all I need is to give it a form.
The most obvious form is a gun.
*Alarm clock*
"Hmm? It's already 17:00? Damn… this stuff is quite time-consuming…" I said to myself as I looked at my handy work on the table.
"But, first... some food…"
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The next day I was back and started working on the layout of the form.
From paper-like form into that of a gun which can fit into one's hand.
This is where it took me several days which turned into several weeks.
Along the way, I spend alot of time simply typing down the future upgrades for this… magic caster? A magic gun? Castor?
The plain-looking clay transformed into a metal and the item finally looked like a plain metal gun.
The first thing I noticed is that it weighs quite a bit for my 13-year-old body.
Gun itself looked like a plain Glock. There is a cartridge slot for future upgrades and there was no safety trigger as well.
"Right… first test… run," I said that to myself while picking up the weapon and walking to the test room.
The only room where Devil magic in air is very much present. For the simple reason that it was enchanted to take hits.
For this, I have put on some gloves and a little bit more protective clothing. While I did math that it should not explode upon usage. Nonetheless, I was ready to dip just in case it will end up exploding.
"Test number 1!" I pointed the gun at the wall, holding it with both hands.
"3...2...1!" And pressed the trigger.
That moment I could hear a hum coming from the gun. It started heating up before a white circle appeared at the end of the barrel. releasing a burst of energy in the shape of a bolt.
It smashed into the wall creating a least few inches deep hole, seeing that I was success I pulled out my voice recorder.
"Test number 1 is success, key point of interests... The gun heat-ups, the proximity of the circles generate excess heat, powerful enough to start heating the titanium.
A possible substitute is needed, for the metal, possibly a supernatural substitute is recommended.
The shot load is around 3 seconds. Shortening of time is needed. Possibly extra accelerator circles. Hmm... maybe using rail method… on the barrel itself?" I said that into the recorder before pressing the pause.
Then I looked at the weapon. I could see some deformations already manifesting…
"Right… one's of strongest human metal melting like its nothing? Hell, need to check the material used by Big G in his Sacred Gears." Mentally recalling what I read on the sacred gears the dude had several types of formulas… depending on the gear.
The Longinus ones even used the beast's energies as material… for armour but that just asking to bring a weapon to deal with that type of energy… how did that pervert survive that long just on dragon energy? If it was me who is a hunter then I would have gone the Batman route and pulled out everything I could on weaknesses the dragons have like how he did against Superman.
"Well, time to return to the drawing board."
"Master, what are you doing?" I heard the curious tone of my second familiar.
"Oh, Sera you are back… you've been gone for quite some time…" I mentally remembered that she was gone for several weeks!
Hmm, it would be seen Venelana is enjoying her freedom since she didn't even try to pop in…
Well, I will summon her when I need her.
"Testing a cluster of runes in shape of gun. As you can imagine it can cast bullets every 3 seconds." I said that to Serafall as I handed over the gun to her.
"You made this in the time I was away?" She asked with wide eyes.
"Yeah. More like I did it casually. Since I had ideas constantly popping in along the way… I could have done it several days earlier." I casually explained as I went over the stuff I had on my table.
"Since you are here. Can your devil magic create durable mannequins?" I asked her off-handily.
"Oh? Yeah! I mean yes!" Serafall snapped out from her shock as she looked at the gun then at her Master.
"Great. Then you will be making me some of them in the testing room. Oh, and I will need to reinforce the walls there as well." I said that as I remembered how brittle the wall was.
"Okay…"
I motioned for her to hand the gun over since I need to start with my upgrades.
"Master I can only be here for 3 or so hours before I need to return to my duties." She said that seriously.
"I see. It is enough time for me to upgrade this to mark II."
Serafall didn't say anything as she watched me doing my stuff.
Deconstructing it was quite easy since I build it for easy assemble and disassemble.
Once I checked the inside of the gun as I have expected. The titanium started to deform it's either the magic itself or the heat generated from the circles… which should be not normal…
For now, I quickly used the transmutation circle to fix it and then started working on the upgrades.
First, small barriers will be built inside, in barrel included Acting like rail for the energy. This will improve the energy flow, then more accelerator circles. For shorter casting.
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...
"And done…" I said that as I finished assembling the gun.
"Did you just put barrier magic inside of this gun?" She asked with disbelief.
"Oh dear Sera. How little you know how much a simple wall can help, in this situation. It's not just barrier magic. Have you ever heard of magnetism?" I asked her with a smile.
"Umm? How it's related to that?" She asked me not getting what I am saying.
"You see the barriers are keeping the heat from reaching the metal in turn that heat stays inside generating more magic.
But that's not the main part. See, the barrel itself? I use it as a rail to build up power. The longer the barrel the more power it can build up.
It is a simple concept humans use In general." I said with a shrug.
"Says you…" She said something under her breath.
"Hmm? Did you say something?"
"Nope! Let's go and see how good it is!" She happily said that as she grabbed my hand and started pulling towards the testing room.
"Right…"
With crack like thunder, a bolt of blue energy smashed into a mannequin…
*Crackling Explosion*
Disintegrating it completely.
"Test 2 is successful as expected. The railing system and barrier magic has fixed the heating issue and increased the power by around 150%. The downside is the recoil. I believe I nearly dislocated my shoulder.
Possible solutions is natural magic reinforcement and regular exercises with natural body growth." Marcus said to the voice recorder.
'The brat truly is the human version of Ajuka… maybe even worse. I don't remember Ajuka being like that at that age, he used to spend his early age reading like... a lot of reading… he only started proper experiments when he was done with magic.'
Serafall thought with a sweaty forehead as she has drawn a comparison between Satan Beelzebub and the next Solomon.
They are the same in regards to making new things. While Satan Beelzebub is left to bis devices for the simple reason that no one can't control him as he would simply leave and still do his thing. Which is extremely dangerous. That is why the devils council don't try to control him.
While her Master is different… The boy is barely 13 and he already created a superior weapon to the ones used by the church!
Worst of all she has no idea how to control him!
"Any comments?" Marcus asked Serafall as he walked over to her side.
"Well, it's superior looking to the weapons used by exorcists." The Satan Leviathan said with a sigh.
What can she say? 'Please don't sell these to the church?'
"Yeah. Thought so, the point is that I made the ammo cartridge area act like more like a program." He said that as he showed the empty slot for the ammo cartridge.
"Act like a program?" She asked confused.
"You know about video games right?" He asked her remembering that Serafall is a Magic girl Levi-tan…
"Yes?"
"Well, you know the old style ones where you put a cartridge to play a specific game?"
"Yes…" She had realising look as she started putting things together.
"So think this way. Depending on the cartridge the gun can shoot, demonic energy, holy energy, dragon energy." He said that with a smirk.
"That's not all, depending on cartridge it can be a minigun, a particle canon, or even magic canon," Marcus clarified more with a smile.
"But it's a handgun…"
"Did you miss the part when I said that it's an item that turns motion into energy, then energy into magic which is accelerated and released like a weapon?" He said with raised eyebrow.
"Yes...but it looks like handgun…" She tried to process how can a handgun be like canon!?
"The looks are purely for sake of how human hand is holding it. There is nothing of 'human gun' inside of it. All there is, is 37 magic circles inside of it. Working like a system.
Basically, low to mid-tier Sacred Gear. since low one's only have 31 circles inside generally. But, I distress I can only call this a pseudo gear since I used human materials as base." He said to her as he swirled the weapon on his finger.
He feeling satisfied. Inside his element! Which is making stuff! Finally, he is back!
The moment Serafall heard him mentioning Sacred Gears she remembered the infamous Ten Rings of Solomon. The pseudo-Sacred Gears build by Solomon for Solomon.
The very same ones which make most of supernatural regardless of their powers quite simply useless in front of this human.
One of the reasons why he was called the boogeyman of the Devil Race.
"So, it's true then? That Solomon could make Sacred Gears?" Serafall asked with more fear than ever before. Does this mean her Master isn't just Ajuka level genius, can bind devils to himself, but has Biblical God's blueprint to make Sacred Gears!
Just how dangerous is he!?
"In layman terms? Yes. The way I am with some testing I could craft a high-level one. But a Longinus? I need to check one in action. Do some surveying. Check the energy readings.
Big G used a concept as a base for some of them, I could do the same. With the right emulation of dragon energy, I could make something similar to Booster Gear and Divide Dividing."
The moment the black-haired devil lady hear that he could make something akin to Boaster Gear or Divide Dividing her mind stopped to a crawl.
The way he said it sounded as if it was only a matter of time for him!
"Impossible… there are only two Heavenly Dragons. and they serve as cores of those gears!" Satan Leviathan reasoned with him she wanted to believe that he can't do it as he was already dangerous as he is! But, the more she is around him the more she feels fear towards what he can do!
"Hoh? Do you think it's impossible?" He questioned her.
"At base tell me what is a dragon?" He added another question on top of it with a raised eyebrow.
"..."
"In layman terms, a dragon is a sapient energy which crystallized into the physical realm. All I need to do is mimic it, create artificial intelligence for blob of energy and it will be a dragon core for me.
Give it some previously programmed dragon abilities and I will have something similar to Boaster Gear or Divide Dividing."
"Even so. They won't be as powerful as the original pair of gears." Serafall reasoned with him.
"True… but what about Mark II? Mark III? Or Mark XX?" He asked her with a curious look.
Now… the Black-haired Devil Lady realised what this means… once he cracks how to make it… well it will be… chaotic… everyone will want a piece of him!
That moment fear which he had towards him disappeared. It was replaced by desire… desire that she needs him on her side! Since she can't kill him! For the simple reason that she will die as well! It only leaves a simple desire that he needs to be on the devil side!
Knowing current Angels they will never want second Solomon to be around them since the majority of angels hated the man, only the Biblical God liked him for the simple reason that Solomon wanted to control and enslave the devils instead of killing them off.
"Don't worry since you are mine I will make some for you." He casually said to her.
"Hmm? You would? But why?" She asked that with disbelief her brain is for second didn't understand.
"Because you are mine, my pillar, my power. You forgot that already?" He said that with disbelief she still doesn't understand her situation? Or some of them are just that slow?
.
That moment Serafall almost face palmed herself. A small groan escaped from her lips.
'How slow I am? Of course… I am his, I am his power. I don't need to think in this regard. Giving me his creations will make him more powerful!' She understood that yes, she will probably going to be one of the first to wield them in some sort of battle.
"I am a high profile person Master. Your secrecy won't going to last that long if I am to show them in front of everyone." The devil lady said with a frown. She started using a different mentality around her Master. Instead of being reluctant she now is actively trying to help him.
"Don't worry I am not planning to hide forever. Besides, I won't be deploying 'Scale mails' anytime soon. Foundations are needed for that. But it doesn't mean I can't help you with gadgets." He said with a knowing smile. A smile which means that he knows something important about her.
"Help me with gadgets? What gadgets are you talking about?" Serafall tried to understand what he could give her. All she cares about is So-tan and her work as Leviathan…
"The one which will shrink the amount of paperwork you do as Leviathan." He said that with a knowing look.
That moment Serafall's opinion about her Master went from 10 to 70. For the simple reason that he was the very first person in her whole life who asked if she needs help with her work!
Even Satan herself didn't know his offer will have such a fundamental change in perspective!
The solution was obvious like day and night! All she needed is to deal with paperwork! If she can deal with it, then she will have more time with So-tan! And even more time to herself that is... if her Master won't be summoning her often.
"You can do that?" She asked hopefully. She was nearly begging him. Not only she needs to deal with her paperwork but she often needs to deal with Ajuka side of paperwork from time to time as well!
"Yes. But, first lest return to the workshop." He said that before starting to walk out.
She nodded and with a few magic circles, she fixed the room for him. Before leaving the testing room after him.
"First. Answer some questions about the type of documents you do? Are they the same size? Ar they have the same layout? The same sorting system?" He asked her as he started typing down something on a notepad paper.
"Hmm, I think it will be better if I bring some of them here?" She asked with raised eyebrow. It's better to show the real deal than just describe it.
"Sure. You can do your paperwork here if you want." He said with a casual shrug.
"I can?" She asked with wide eyes.
"Yes. But first, we need to increase the security of this place. Once the barriers I want are up. You can do the paperwork here." He said with a shrug.
"But why?" Serafall still asked with disbelief.
"I need someone to talk to, no doubt you want that too, second I said before but you are my pillar, if my pillar is not 100% then I search for solutions to make you 100%. Easy enough?" He explained to her simply.
'So… I am simply married to someone who controls me to large extent. At first, I thought that I am just a tool for him… good to know that he does care about me… but, I doubt he cares about my surroundings…
Maybe I can use this to my advantage? Maybe I can make devils profit from this through me until we can find ways to bind him to the devil race…'
"Since you want my company! Very well! I will be back in just a few moments!" After saying that much more happy Satan Leviathan disappeared with her magic circle.
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A few moments later she returned with several types of documents.
"Nice… this is what I needed…" Marcus said to her as he checked out an empty document, then a filled up one.
"Those are the only ones you are using?" He asked her after checking the documents. The second coming of Solomon had no interest in what is written on the paper he only cared about the similarities.
"Yes. We use a completely standardised form." Serafall said with a serious nod. It's like they are discussing battle plans against enemies.
"I see… then this is easy… I only need a basic A. I for this…" He said that more or less to himself.
"Hmm?" The black-haired devil was slightly baffled seeing him just turn around and walk towards his plain-looking clay… which now the devil lady knows is the main material… or more like base material he uses to transform into whatever he wants…
Before long she started seeing him starting to draw with a finger on the clay. She saw him using a small white/gold circle at the end of his index finger.
He was quite simply drawing runes with a finger.
"Umm… Master… my time is running up… sort off need to return to office?" She said that with a slightly uncomfortable look. Serafall doesn't want to interrupt someone who is working to make her life easier!
"Then go, I will contact you when I am ready, make sure you have some paperwork ready to test. Presumably some dummy ones at first." He said to her without even looking at her.
"Don't worry I will make sure you have those." She winked at him before disappearing inside her magic circle.
Once the devil lady was back in her office. She grinned silly. Her gaze went to the stack of paper on her table. A sinister smile worthy of the devil appeared on her beautiful face.
"Soon your reign of terror will end! Hehehehahaha!" She sinisterly laughter. A laugh was borderline creepy. Probably no one knew but Satan Leviathan and Satan Lucifer were going borderline insane from the paperwork they have to do.
So, Serafall is feeling like she is on edge of being reborn, the moment she heard there was a solution to this insanity-inducing bureaucracy of her office. She never signed for paperwork when she won against Grayfia for the position of Leviathan! And she never signed for this when they won the civil war!
Nope! She suppose to be the one of most important people in the underworld! One of the leaders! The whole paperwork non-sense is conspiracy created by those old devils in the council!
"Heh… once I have the tool, those fools can go and kiss their asses! Once I have more time I will be able to spend it with So-tan!" She giggled happily thinking about her baby sister.
But, then all of her happiness disappeared and was replaced with a thoughtful look.
Instead of walking to her office table, she went to the couch and got herself comfortable laying there and looking at the ceiling with a curiously look.
Now the black-haired Satan was thinking about the enigma which is her Master and his personality. She was able to build a solid profile on him mentally that is. And of course, find out how much her thought process is affected by Ars Goetia.
She can safely assume he cares about her, to point that he wants her to spend time with him. This means he doesn't have some sort of prejudice against the Devils… and doesn't things about them as dispensable tools.
'Right… he only summoned me because he wanted someone with expertise with water… since he had Solomon's knowledge he used that to bind a powerful devil who will be useful to him even after using my water knowledge.'
'This means I can get items for someone like So-tan! But how to persuade him?'
For a second she thought about the obvious way of getting what she wants. She is a devil after all… but then again once she starts doing that with him… she won't be able to stop him…
So timing and reason should be the most important ones. That is when he starts caring about females that is… and knowing human bodies… her Master should hit puberty soon…
Once there… she can move in… for a second Serafall had a lewd look on her face.
For some reason having lewd thoughts about doing it with someone who can build stuff like Longinuses makes her hot?
Is it a devil thing? Thinking of corrupting someone who can recreate Biblical God's work?
"Well...Master… just wait… Levi-tan shall teach you all you need to know about the ladies…" The Satan Leviathan said with a hot but bubbly tone...
~~~~~~Few Days Later~~~~~~
A few days later Serafall was summoned by her Master. She had a small pile of dummy files ready for the test.
What she saw was something akin to a printer… no it was an actual looking printer… more like a futuristic one with those sharp edges.
"Is this it?" The black-haired devil lady asked with a curious gaze. Was this her salvation.
"Yep. Let me explain." Marcus with quite excited tone said that. The Satan Leviathan quite quickly picked up his happiness with the item.
Internally she smiled, yes… if she wants his attention then all she needs to do is talk about his stuff.
"See that screen? when you put a document inside of Mass Signing Work Simplifying Machine or… signer for short… it works out key points of the document for you. Instead of reading a few paragraphs, you only need to read a few lines and all you need to do is press Yes or No. And the machine will sign your signature for you.
If you don't understand the simplification you can always press No and the Signer will pull that paper out for you to read normally." As he was explaining to Serafall she already started to drool by the halfway point.
She already understood what this does. And it's simply amazing! Why Ajuka never come up with this!?
By this point, her Master in her eyes was already a better inventor!
Well, that's probably her bias because of this machine! But still!
~~~~~~~~~Inventions/Tech/Sacred Gears~~~~~~~~~~~~
M.T.M (Motion to Magic) Castor MK II :
A magic (shooting) casting device in the shape of a handgun.
Classification:
Pseudo Low-Medium Sacred Gear made of 37 magic circles fused into a system.
Composition:
The case is built purely from Titanium, the insides are purely magic circles that are placed within barrier magic that keeps the heat from touching the metal. (Marcus assumes that magic power is what is deforming the metal instead of regular heat as normally titanium is much more heat resistant.)
Key magic techniques inside:
Basic M.T.M technique: Using a magic circle to capture motion and turn motion into energy and then energy into Magic even a regular human can use this weapon as they all need to do is press the trigger.
Basic Barrier Rail technique: By using barriers like rails empowered by Acceleration circles the blast builds up the force, the longer the rail is the stronger the blast will be at the end of the rail.
Mass Signing Work Simplifying Machine (Signer)
An electronic device created with a single intention of making one's job of signing documents much quicker.
Classification:
A futuristic item which won't appear in the human market till at least 2025 for the simple reason that it has a basic A.I
Composition:
Trasmutated items like plastic, metal and rubber. Much more durable than regular stuff.
Technology:
Basic A.I: An A.I am capable of sorting out text by finding keywords in text in specific areas of the paper. Simplifying the text for the user.