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Chapter 56: Returning Home.
- Shin –
I quickly pulled the Devil Fruit out from her and crushed the heart belonging to Linlin as I stored her body in my inventory after restoring it with potions.
There were injuries all over her body.
Rias had really done a number on her.
Quest Completed
[To be the Master]
There are some wannabes that claim what is yours or to be your nemesis.
1. Gekko Moriah.
The bastard claims to be a Master of Shadows and deals with death. End him and claim your rightful title.
2. Kizaru.
You are the shadow and he is the light. Defeat your nemesis and claim dominance over the light.
3. Charlotte Linlin.
She influences the souls which is your domain as 'The Champion of Death'. Claim her life and show her what her true place is.
Rewards: Summoning Gem: Scáthach, Skill Level Up: Umbramancy, Skill: Fertility Control.
Finally this quest was also complete and I only need to do the last quest for the new world.
I looked on the other side.
Sairaorg had taken down Golden Lion Shiki and Kaido was almost on the verge of fainting against Sona's attacks. Hydra poison can melt even Dragon Scales.
Kaido's been quite seriously poisoned.
It was a miracle that he was even fighting in a state like this.
Sona was panting too. The Balance Breaker type state had increased her power drastically but it was her first time and the consumption was hard too.
She had been fighting for almost four hours now.
I took the time to extract Golden Lion Shiki's Devil Fruit and meet with Katakuri and collected the Devil Fruits from his siblings while he imprisoned the ones revolting. We handed the administration of the territory over to the members of the Revolutionary Army and the Minks.
Sona and Kaido wreaked havoc. Serafall being here would take care of things with her new Peerage members.
- Scene Change –
Kaido's unconscious body was brought back to Wano. He was locked in the prison reinforced by Merlin so there was no chance to run.
Serafall had said that she would take care of this herself.
Yamato had mixed feelings about this.
I for one didn't want to stick my nose into that mess. Serafall doing Serafall things is all I termed that mess and shelved it over.
Back in our home, Sona was being pestered by Serafall who was throwing a party for everyone in Wano for her So-tan's victory.
Whitebeard joined us too.
By now the entire New World had fallen into our control. Whitebeard and Shanks were allies and that the small fries didn't count.
The World Government must be shitting bricks by now.
If not, they soon will after I enact the final plan.
The growth of their peerage did push the girls to a decent level of Affection for me.
Sona was at 78, while Tsubaki was at 92, the highest in her peerage.
It was probably because of what I gave her.
Tsubaki Shinra was a member of the Shinra Clan, one of the five Principal Clans just like Akeno. Tsubaki was shunned for being born with a Sacred Gear. Mirror Alice which was considered as the power of a foreign God was shunned by the members of the Clan which was a hardcore Shinto believer clan. They had isolated her and she was only taken out when she was recruited by Sona.
The Shinra Clan was blessed by the Sacred Beast Byakko, the White Tiger and just like with the Vermillion Bird, I happened to chance upon another Devil Fruit with the same power.
Tsubaki was stoic all the time but even she couldn't help but get tears in her eyes when I gave her that.
It would help just rub it in the face of the Shinra Clan when Tsubaki makes a Rating Game appearance with that power. I bet my gold from all three of my houses that they will try to recruit her back because they were post revolt when Amaterasu signed the Peace Treaty.
She has been quite close to me since then, sparring with me and trying to improve her swordsmanship.
She did find some good instructors who taught her to use her Naginata in Wano but she would often find some time since then to come to me for advice.
This was observed by Rias and Akeno and both of them merely smiled and shook their heads in exasperation. I am pretty sure, it was not my fault.
I might have accidentally cut off the discount faker's route.
I didn't pursue her but if she came to me herself, I wouldn't say no. Tsubaki had an A Grade ass. I would know. We trained together after all and Haki training does get close and rough.
Some others were also beyond 60s in Affection.
This was still nothing compared to that one last Affection I got from Serafall.
Yes, when I returned back, the notification for Serafall's final Affection point appeared.
+1 Affection with Serafall Leviathan(100/100) She is thankful to you for taking care of her sister.
Affection with Serafall Leviathan maxed and locked. Obedience with Serafall Leviathan increased to 100.
Perk Gained [Serafall Leviathan - 100]
[Frozen Heart]
+10 Affection and Reputation with Ice Magic Users.
Cryomancer Class Unlocked.
Serafall to her credit didn't show any outward change in emotions even when her Affection level capped. I also didn't bother her during the celebration.
I will get Time for that later on.
I found Sairaorg and sat beside him. "So, how was the fight with Shiki?"
"Hmm, it was nice. You passed him the healing potion didn't you?" he looked at me with a knowing gaze.
"Guilty as charged. I thought you would appreciate it."
"I did. This was a man who could fight Teacher to a standstill. It was a learning experience. Too bad that his character is too bad unlike the rest of my peerage members or I would have recruited him without a doubt."
"Yes. He is a stubborn man. Maybe I should meet him myself. From what was heard, he seemed to respect Roger a lot. Hell, he even raided the Marine's Headquarters when he heard the news about Roger. That was how he was caught but not before wrecking half of the Marineford."
"Ladora was thanking the Satans that he didn't have to fight Kaido upon seeing how strong he was. The rest of the crew heard that and put him against Jozu. Poor guy."
"Hahahaha, to be honest, Kaido was ill-matched against Sona. Against anyone physical or without any counter for his powers, he might have been more than thrice as strong."
"True. His strength was devastating."
We looked at the people dancing and partying in silence for a while.
"Shin."
"Hmm."
"Thank you for this opportunity."
"Hahahaha, I did this so that I can have my rival at his best when we fight the next time. You did promise to meet me in the Rating Games, didn't you?"
"That I did. Although I am not sure you will win." He smirked at me.
"Oh yeah? Be careful. Even if you use your special friend, you might be in for a surprise."
He raised an eyebrow, "So you know about Regulus."
"I do now." I grinned.
He punched my arm lightly.
"Then it will be a fight to remember."
I nodded my head and we drank while enjoying the party.
- Scene Change –
I was in Fishman Island to help move the island as per my promise to Shirahoshi.
After the plot of the Magic Circle was revealed, I just couldn't wait any longer.
It helped that Shirahoshi had gone around telling everyone how much fun she had under the sun and how helpful the people of Wano and the Kuja were to her.
The blast of the Big Mom Pirates collapsing was not even clear and the World Government was too busy cleaning their backs. No one had time to worry about Fishman Island.
The entire New World had been silenced after the defeat of Big Mom. Pirates were quiet, wondering if they were going to be next.
The news that my alliance had taken down three of the World's top pirates at once had completely shaken the world.
Two of the Emperors together could rival the Marine force that we fought that day and might even have an upper hand and this was not mentioning Shiki who was a legend altogether.
Morgans had been printing news from his hidden place and the World Government was scrambling around like a headless chicken.
Finally Neptune decided to follow through with the plan.
"Merlin, are the Wards in place?"
"Yes." She answered as she set up the last barrier around the island.
"Then we will begin. Let's get this over with today."
I spread my Observation Haki and soon enough scores of Sea Kings started appearing around the island. The people were already informed and were reasonably calm….reasonably.
"Activate the wards."
The wards were activated soon after on Merlin's signal.
A semi-transparent dome formed around the island and chains made up of energy were attached to the Sea Kings one after another.
"Start the barriers. Start relocation."
The Sea Kings hummed at my command as they moved in synchronization.
Ingvild stood at the top of the palace of the island. She was tasked to stop any underwater currents or storms that we might encounter along the way.
The island shook but the barrier and the wards took care of most of the shaking as the entire island moved.
Shiki's fruit was a boon for these things.
The movement had taken around a week to plan. The World Government couldn't be alerted about it.
We had placed a ward to block communication over the island. It identified anyone who tried to contact another place from the island.
Those people were arrested and questioned.
One hundred and twelve spies were revealed inside the entire island belonging to CP0 from the cleanup.
We took over them and started sending false messages to Mariejois.
During this time, any and all ships were stopped inside Fishman Island and were prevented from leaving. Simply the sight of Jibril flying over the docks was enough to silence everyone immediately.
The island's relocation was quite fast because the Sea Kings worked in tandem. Ingvild changed the current of the seas to help in our relocation.
Any stray sea creatures didn't stop our way because of the procession of the Sea Kings along the path.
Two days later we reached the vicinity of Wano.
The islands of Wano got another neighbour this time in the Fishmen.
Now the only thing left was the Red Line.
This unfortunately would take some time.
- Scene Change –
The relocation of Fishman Island was done very covertly. The Sea Kings guarding the area around Wano made it almost impossible to attack Wano through the sea route anymore.
On the other side, I had talked to Dragon, Shanks and Whitebeard and explained to them about the Red Line and the Tequila Wolf Bridge.
Safe to say they were beyond shocked. They however did believe me considering the things they knew about me. I had come clear to them about myself and what I was.
It was kinda hard not to when my peerage members flew around with their wings out. The people even took it quite easily because of how we had helped them all and how there were many weird races in the One Piece world.
I mean the Lunarians did look like Fallen Angels and could even make fire naturally so to them, Devils were simply another race of people.
There was absolutely no resistance at all, so much so that even Serafall had been stunned into silence by this.
We all planned a way to dismantle the entire Redline at once.
All my stock of Dyna Stones were used up in this and they will all go around setting them up at different points all around the Redline.
But before anything else could happen, I needed to complete my last quest of freeing the Slaves from Mariejois.
And that was almost prepared with the information from my Queen.
Apparently the security in Mariejois was increased greatly.
It will need some planning to get through that.
If only I had Dimension Lost, this would have been a piece of cake.
Now though, with the Book Book Fruit, I managed to make an artifact that would allow him to just capture all the slaves and spit them all out in our territory.
It will need a big diversion though and that will happen when the Redline breaks.
For now I had something else to do.
"Morgiana, start." I had eaten fire already and had buffed my already insane Mana reserves.
"Transfer."
I felt my energy bubble up.
"Upgrade Artifact."
I fused the Devil fruit Spirits into my Mirror Alice.
Katakuri was helpful enough to help me exchange the Devil Fruit spirits from his siblings.
There were some very good ones that I had wanted for a while.
The Mirror Mirror Fruit and Kizaru's Glint Glint Fruit.
The final ingredient needed to push my Mirror Alice into the Legendary Level and maybe even above.
The Sacred Gear absorbed the Spirits and I felt them being sealed inside.
This one was solely for the Mirror Alice.
The power subsided and I got the Notification.
Artifact Upgraded
[Mirror Alice](Legendary)
The Sacred Gear merged with spirits to gain sentience and thus pushing its power forward.
Finally,
"Thanks Morgiana. That was very helpful." I patted her head. It was sometimes hard to remember that she was just a fifteen year old girl, just a year older than Koneko.
"Umm." She nodded with a smile.
She had come a great way from how she always kept to herself.
Morgiana had found herself at home with the Minks. Even Kuroka and Koneko spend a lot of time with the Minks.
Kuroka is practically treated as a Goddess there while Morgiana because of her Red Lion side is respected a lot. This has done miracles to increase her confidence regarding her Red Lion form.
She spent a lot of time in her half human form among the minks and no one ever felt anything odd. In Fact the children all stared at her with awestruck eyes.
"Are you going to the Minks?"
"Umm, they invited us to a party tonight."
"Okay. Take care of yourself. Make sure to spend some time with them. We will be returning back home in a week and will be staying there for months. Schooling cannot be missed." I smiled at her.
Sona would never let her spend all the time here without studying so the girls took their time to study here as well but it's better to attend schools.
I might have memories of schooling but other girls don't. They still need to experience such a life.
"Hmm." She nodded and then left in a teleportation circle.
- Three Days Later –
The Redline couldn't be sunk completely because that would cause a massive tsunami, that would wash away many islands in its path.
Too many lives will be lost, not to mention that I didn't have so many Dyna Stones so, we finally came to the decision that we will blow and sink Mariejois into the sea along with the part of the Redline it sits on.
So Ingvild and Sona along with hordes of Sea Kings surrounded the place on one side.
Serafall, Aokiji and others on the other side did the same.
My Clones and Shadows had taken almost an entire day to set the Dyna Stones.
This will probably be the biggest undertaking so far.
As a distraction, several places inside Mariejois was set up with bombs. They will start blasting and my Queen and the rest of my clones will use this time to rescue the prisoners.
I spoke in my Den Den Mushi, getting everyone ready.
The blasts commenced near Mariejois and my clones rushed forward through the shadows, using the Mirror Mirror Fruit to get any and all the prisoners in the Mirror Dimension.
The rest of the Clones had disguised themselves and along with the shadow servants, had started throwing bombs on the guard posts and Celestial Dragon Houses.
Mariejois was going to burn today.
I took the chance to lead the way.
And soon enough five Conqueror's Haki descended on Mariejois.
The five dumbasses of Im.
They were decently strong as well. Each as strong as an average Admiral. Zephyr level strong but not quite Akainu or Aokiji.
I however didn't have enough time for them. The Redline was going to sink and I was running on the clock.
Sakuya stopped time. I had however maxed the Chronomancy Class recently and I could move in stopped time. Sakuya could probably use more power to try and overpower me as she had innately more control over Time but I wouldn't be stopped either way as I had more Demonic Power than her.
What she had in quality, I made up for in quantity.
Chronomancy was broken as fuck but it was also something that needed a lot of power.
This time however the spell was Sakuya's and I was just keeping my time normal so the consumption was not high.
My clones quickly pulled out their devil fruits.
Five small laser strikes from my fingertips rapidly shot through their heads. They couldn't even react due to stopped time and the five were already down.
The five auras disappeared quickly.
Sakuya had summoned her swords all over the guards and as she released the time, every guard facing us fell down suddenly.
I pushed my Observation towards the Pangea Castle but it was blinded by the Tree of Eve. That thing just had too much energy. Considering that it was the outlet for the Magic of the whole world. It had to be so.
I sensed the movement of the Energy of the Tree of Eve a minute after the Five Elders died. Im seemed to have found it too.
"Merlin, Kuroka, do it." I spoke through my earpiece.
"On it."
As soon as she said those words, the entire flow of magic in the Tree of Eve stilled and then the Tree's magic started retreating back.
Whatever magic was being cast suddenly stopped.
Kuroka's move was much more noticeable as the roots of the Tree of Eve sprung out and crushed the Pangea Castle under it.
I sensed Im's aura flaring as I took hold of Sakuya and Shadow Walked through the shadows of the castle.
I sensed the movement of the space around as it twisted in our direction as if to crush us and I quickly escaped using Mirror Alice's new powers by taking Sakuya with me into the Mirror World and appearing out of another castle window pane. A Devil Fruit or a Spell of the Space Type?
Was this how he made the levels of Impel Down?
He still seemed to be connected to the Tree of Eve to somehow escape the Time Freeze.
"Merlin, Kuroka, remove the connection of Im from the Tree of Eve."
"Sakuya, we need a long range time freeze. I just need a couple of seconds."
There was a chance that he might escape if he sensed the connection breaking. The Space Type move might be his personal magic or even a Devil fruit power.
"Yes Master." She didn't even blink.
Sakuya had grown tremendously powerful in these months. This time she concentrated and a red clock formed in her eye.
The time in the area stopped once more but this time it was covering the entire Mariejois.
She couldn't maintain it for long but it was still enough for me to do what I wanted.
I wanted to cut off all escape paths of Im in case he could use the Space Powers to teleport. I directly Shadow Walked into the area we were before and the first thing I did was pull out his Devil Fruit Spirit and cast all the curses I knew on him and all kinds of seals.
This bastard had somehow crossed the level cap for a normal One Piece human.
Name: Im
Race: Mutated Human
Level: 123
Rank: Champion
Giving him a chance to fight would have been a bad decision. His stats were beyond Garp's and not to mention what else he might have learned over the centuries.
If Merlin didn't want him for experimentation, I would have killed him the first chance I got.
I don't even know what Devil Fruit this bastard had.
He slumped down as the time resumed.
I had learned a lot from my mistakes back in the fight against Kokabiel.
No need to give these people time to speak at all.
I snapped my fingers and he turned into a candy and I stored him in my Inventory.
"Boss, we are on the countdown. The Slaves have been rescued. Everything we could find by any method of observation was confiscated, all treasures and weapons, Devil Fruits in the residence of the Five Elders and even in the Pangea Castle have all been taken."
"I am done here too." With my words said, Shadow Walked back to Sakuya and we teleported away as fast as we could from the place.
We appeared near the gathering on the other side near Ingvild.
"5."
"4."
"3."
"2."
"1."
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
If the day I wrote my name on the Redline was amazing, today was worthy of being written in epics.
The mountain crashed down and began to sink in the Ocean. Ingvild raised her hands and pushed her powers as well as her Sacred Gear to the maximum.
The gigantic tsunami that rivaled the size of the Mountain itself was stilled.
"Morgiana." I ordered.
"Transfer."
The entire wave fell back into the Ocean quietly.
On the other side, Serafall had pushed herself to the limit and simply frozen the other side of the Grandline for hundreds of kilometers around the area.
The gigantic tsunami now looked like an icy wall in place of the Redline.
Soon Rias followed and used her Power of Destruction and barraged the Icy Wall.
Sairaorg and Koneko took the opportunity to attack the wall as well. Whitebeard and all the others who had come with us joined and soon leveled the mountain sized iceberg into pieces.
The frozen ice will still last for a few weeks though.
It happened as soon as the things settled.
We felt it as the entire world itself breathed.
The flow of pure magic.
It was amazing.
It will probably take a few centuries for the Leylines to naturally heal unless I call for some professional help. Maybe Kuroka can learn from Yasaka and control the Leylines on the now Sea Level Mariejois.
It was on a collection of Ley Lines and I could see why he would choose this place to put a seal.
In Fact it was very similar to Kyoto and even stronger to some extent because of the Redline, the leylines under it are the ones that cover a large majority of the entire One Piece world.
The Tree of Eve sank a bit but was controlled by Kuroka and its roots were soon enough planted into the ground at the bottom of the ocean.
The top level of the World Government was destroyed.
The mist that had covered Marineford and blocked the sight of our expedition was removed. Those marines might be thinking that it was another appearance of Dio Brando.
I can't bother about the newspapers tomorrow.
- Scene Change –
The world was in chaos.
The blast had alerted the Marines and half the world about the attack but we had left before anyone could come to follow us.
The news that the World Government had been practically erased from the world had spread far and wide within a day. The news birds flew overtime to deliver the news to all over the world.
The nations which were suppressing their citizens were already on edge after the truth about the World Government was exposed and were desperately supporting the World Government to help them handle the Revolutionary Army. Dragon on the other hand was on fire. His army had been enhanced due to the potions and could easily take down the untrained armies of the countries. The citizens who were afraid of the World Government interfering had now grown wings and supported the Revolutionary Army openly.
This however also meant that the Pirates had also increased.
We had planned for this and with the help of all our allies, we had devised a method.
The Sea Kings played a very important part in it.
They had spread all over the world from the Calm Belt under my orders, sinking pirate ships if they caused any trouble.
The Sea Kings sometimes teamed up with other allies we had and helped pull their ships through the Calm Belt making the travel quicker and chasing the ships of pirates much easier.
The intervention of the Sea Kings was a massive shock to the whole world.
People all over the world were calmed down in a week
The ones who were in a mess were the Marines.
They were like headless chickens, running around without any kind of leadership.
Sengoku tried to control the situation but many of the pro World Government Marines denied his orders.
It was then that Zephyr was asked by Dragon to contact Garp and Sengoku. Zephyr met with them and Tsuru who suggested contacting me and having me support them.
I had anticipated this already however and had thrown all of the responsibility to Dragon.
They had decided on selecting the Marines who had a real sense of justice and sending them to Zephyr who was establishing Allied Nations Marines in the new world.
In the meantime, due to Tessoro's support and now the large financial backing of allies I had, I got plenty of resources to just buff up all my soldiers above standard level.
Another good thing that happened was that the Sage Body and Sharingan fruits were successfully completed. At least the first version of them.
The Sage Body did give the people the ability to use Chakra. It created a Chakra Network in the bodies of the people and slightly enhanced their bodies. Sharingan added another special Optic Nerve that allowed the chakra to flow to the eyes. One had to eat both the Fruits to get a Sharingan.
We decided that any higher versions of the Sage Body Fruit will be produced separately. This was named Chakra Fruit.
I twitched when I heard the name but didn't spoil the series for Rias. Maybe when she sees the new episodes then she will realize the meaning of that name.
On the other hand, the Sharingan Fruit's true extent still needed to be checked.
Raizo was the first one to open a one Tomoe Sharingan.
I had to keep Rias from declaring it as 'World Ninja Day' because it sounded ridiculous. Serafall's cheering didn't help.
The Sharingan needed people to engage in life and death battles to evolve. It might take some time to know the true extent of the Fruit's development.
Merlin had completely crushed Im's mind and got a treasure trove of information from him.
Apparently his Devil Fruit was the Moon God Fruit that let him control the Moons themself to some extent. Match that with the power of the Tree of Eve's almost limitless amount of magic and the five moons in the sky and you get the King of the Skies, Uranus, the power to influence the tides and the sea of a world whose majority is covered by seas. It was no wonder that the Ancient Kingdom didn't stand a chance. Only the ones that could survive in the sea had any chance of surviving.
Also, the Ancient Kingdom wanted to open the Magical World for everyone's use.
I kind of understand why now. They invented the Devil fruits as a means to give everyone a way to access magic so that they could get along with everyone.
It sounded very Hashirama-like to me and thus I was on the fence about the idea. That said, imagine a kingdom where everyone can use magic and were basically from the same clan as Garp and Roger both.
They were just too strong.
Im on the other hand was a genius of the same kingdom who was basically Voldemort, someone who believed that Magic users should rule over the non-magic users and he should be the one to sit at the top.
He was a genius though. Not a shred of doubt about that.
He was well versed in a lot of magic.
I was right about the Horcrux theory. The Horcrux was the Tree of Eve. He used it to control the magic from the Tree. It was why he could move in Sakuya's Time Stop.
Too bad for him that Kuroka was now experienced at controlling trees now….and the Tree of Eve was a tree.
The Redline was that strong not because it was a Horcrux but because the Tree of Eve was reinforcing it basically.
Thankfully, all this is over now and I am finally free to do whatever I want.
Quest Completed
[Journey towards the new Horizons]
Any further world jump can only be unlocked by completing this quest.
Objective:
1. Make an Empire of your own and make it rival that of a Yonko. (Completed)
2. Steal from the World Nobles and free the slaves. (Completed)
3. Destroy Mariejois/ Defeat the World Nobles. (Completed)
Reward: World Jump Unlocked.
I however want to go back home.
Things had calmed down quite a bit. I remember there being space pirates and such but I don't have the energy to deal with them right now so I will leave it for a later date.
This world is going to become my Hub World and I need staff to work for me.
I discussed this with Rias, Merlin and even Serafall and came to a decision that I should expand my staff from just the wizards I have hired to maybe even some low class Devils and such.
Low Class Devils get too less opportunities and have a lot of potential.
With such an opportunity, they would all jump at the offer.
Serafall has said that I should work on becoming an Ultimate Class Devil along with Rias.
With the two of us getting territories of our own, not just belonging to Rias' family, we can then recruit people from there.
It is a long term project but then again, the magic will take a long time to repair the Leylines.
I can take some time for myself.
- Scene Change –
"So you are returning back to that world?" Shanks had come over to send me off when he heard from Rayleigh that we will be leaving for a few months.
"I will keep coming back. There are important things which require us to go back there."
"You are just skipping the paperwork, aren't you?" Rayleigh smirked beside me.
He had been free and looked much more relaxed than his normal self since Roger left. This time happily rather than being executed. This might have given him the much needed closure.
"Obviously. I helped the world become free of the World Government. I don't need punishment for that." I quipped back pouting.
"Hahahaha I don't like managing these things. That's why a pirates' life is the best for me." Shanks laughed.
"You just drop everything on Beckman."
"And you on your fiancé."
"Touché."
"So when will you be returning?" Rayleigh asked.
"I don't know. There is a major event going to happen there. Something even more monumental than what we did here. It might take some time to settle things. That said, I will try to recruit people that can help fix the leylines. I know someone who is an expert at dealing with them. I plan to open a school of Magic in Wano just like in the Ancient Kingdom and will be searching for suitable teachers and staff to hire. It will take a few months at the very least."
"Take your time. The things that you have done here are already more than anything we could ever hope to accomplish. We will protect this place." Rayleigh said, resting back in his chair and picking up his glass of wine.
"Then I will leave to all of you." I said nodding back.
We drank and they left soon after drinking.
I looked at my Stats once more to see what I have earned during this jump.
Game, initiate the World Jump back to our first world.
Sure.
- Scene Change –
Shin Kageyami
Title: Jack of All Trades
Level: 920
Class: Luxmancer – LVL 80/100 [40%]
Race: Devil(12 Winged Devil)
Rank: Mortal
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
HP: 435,000 [72,500 per minute]
MP: 1,880,000 [447,500 per minute]
SP-: 435,000 [72,500 per minute]
STR: 3,000
END: 2,900
DEX: 3,140
INT: 4,700
WIS: 4,475
CHA: 1,800
LUK: 1,470
My INT Stat is almost at the Racial Cap for my Devil and Angel Races of 5,000.
In this time gap, I had focused on my crafting when I was done with Chronomancy.
Since crafting is going to be my main focus, then I'd better go all in.
I mastered two new classes, Blacksmith and Runesmith that meshes well with all my previously gained crafting Classes.
Class Gained: Blacksmith [Level 50/50]
[4 STR, 3 END and 4 DEX gained per level]
Class Gained: Runesmith [Level 50/50]
[5 DEX and 5 WIS Gained per level]
It was also for the Mythical Grade Artificing Skill.
On that note, I now have my first two Mythical Grade Skills.
My Umbramancy has increased to the Mythical Grade after I got the Quest Reward for killing Gekko Moriah.
[Shadow Magic (Mythical)](Passive)
Gained instinctual knowledge about shadow magic.
Shadow Magic related spells are 250% stronger.
Skill Upgraded
[The Power of Destruction]
MP cost varies.
Deal [2xMP Cost + (INT x 5)] magical damage.
The Upgraded Power of Destruction is really broken.
The current skills are my Mythical Artificing and Master Fire God Slayer Magic.
The Fire God Slayer Magic is quite easy because I just have to kill a certain number of mobs for this. The Artificer skill on the other hand is a massive pain in the neck because I need other classes and skills for it as well as to craft a certain number of artifacts for that.
Skill Upgrade Quest Created
Artificing
Give the term overgeared a new meaning.
Objectives:
1. Get the Legendary Grade Alchemy Skill.
2. Get the Legendary Grade Blacksmithing Skill.
3. Get the Legendary Grade Runecrafting Skill.
4. Craft 50 Legendary Ranked Artifacts. (7/50)
5. Craft 100 Epic Ranked Artifacts. (12/100)
Reward: Artificing (Mythical) Skill.
Those two classes have been quite rewarding.
I got a new title out of it too.
Title Gained
[Jack of All Trades]
20% less MP cost for crafting related skills.
All Crafting related Classes level up 20% faster.
This quest is a massive undertaking because I need the materials for making the Artifacts too.
My current Class is Luxmancer which is basically Light Manipulation.
It combined with the new Devil Fruit power I have and is a deadly combo.
I had tried using it with my Angel Race Change and the range of the attacks makes me wonder how strong the God of the Bible might have been. I completely cleared everything within my line of sight in a single flash of Light. My Light Devil Fruit was raised to the legendary level using a Skill Token I had from earlier. The Legendary Rank gives access to the Awakening status of the Devil Fruit and a temporary increase in power.
I am raising both Umbramancy and Luxmancy Skills to the Mythical Level to see if I have any hidden achievements or titles I can unlock just like the Jack of All Trades.
I can however be confident with my power now.
With my words, the Game proceeded with the World Jump and as I opened my eyes, I found myself in my living room in our home back in Kuoh.
It was morning outside, the same day I had left. Hell, even Shuri and Lily were sitting right in front of me.
They noticed I was back and others were not present.
Will Sairaorg and Serafall go back to the places they were summoned from, Game?
Yes, Host.
Cool.
"So….you are back already?" Lily asked me, hesitating a bit.
I nodded.
I summoned everyone back.
"Ara ara, did you all go to a different world without us? That's not very nice, you know?" Shuri was smiling that chilling smile towards both Akeno and Suzaku who were trying to avoid her eyes and looking toward me.
"The world needed some work. We needed to wait until the place we lived in was safe enough for us. In Fact, we are planning to open a magic school in that world. You can teach there if you want." I offered placating the two.
"Was the place dangerous?"
"Hmm, not much as dangerous as it was distorted. The whole world was more or less ruled by a corrupt government whose head had sealed off the magic of the entire world using a giant mountain range that formed a ring around the world. The world itself is a beautiful place. I even own a few islands there."
Lily hesitated a little and opened her mouth again, "H-how long?"
"Five months." Almost five months for me.
She nodded.
Soon enough everyone was summoned back.
The girls had brought souvenirs for everyone.
We had left early in the morning so everyone was well rested.
Rias took on the time to introduce the new members to everyone. I had already made a Gaea Foundation for Yamato to hide her original size.
Rindo was looking at the electrical appliances and TV in the place with tears in her eyes. She must have missed modern society.
"I will get identification made for everyone." Rias told me and I nodded back.
I needed to prepare for the night too.
We had brought all the new members of the Peerages with us which included Hancock, Robin, Yamato, Issho, Perona and Law.
I left Patrick Redfield and Aokiji for when Serafall arrived.
I somehow wanted to run out of the room as soon as possible because of the looks Hancock was giving Lily. It looked as if she would jump and hug the woman as soon as possible and I didn't want to be near that train wreck when that happened.
Issho however was looking around. His Observation must be taking in the scenes of the new world completely
His kimono didn't look out of place unlike Perona's gothic costume.
"This world is a beautiful place, Young Sir. I held some anxiety in my heart alongside my wish to see a peaceful place but now seeing everyone happily like this, I am very relieved. This is indeed a world that I would love to see with my own two eyes."
Shuri got up and tried to guide the man.
"This way. Please take a seat."
"Hohohoho thank you for showing kindness to this old man. You are a very kind person." The old man laughed and took a seat while the rest of us merely rolled our eyes.
The old man was too good at pretending.
A teleportation circle lit up and Sona and Tsubaki arrived as well. Perona quickly flew over to their sides.
"Sona. Here to pick up the new members, I guess?" I turned around welcoming the two girls.
She nodded. "I got a message from my sister that she would be back by the afternoon and we can summon her peerage members after that."
"That's fine."
Serafall was acting a bit odd. After I maxed her Affection, she started avoiding me slightly. I mean she still acted normally but whenever I tried to get closer, she used to laugh it off.
It was a bit surprising and confusing for me.
The Game didn't say anything about this either.
Rindo was guided by Sakuya towards the kitchen and I waited till she cooked something up before taking a plate of snacks to the Room of Requirements V2.
I wrapped myself in my Demonic Power as I opened the door. The room has been set to remain as the Dimensional Gap for Ophis' permanent use.
We will need to make another room for ourselves.
Sound didn't travel inside so I didn't knock and opened the door.
Inside the room was Ophis, sitting on her bed, floating in the middle of the Void….playing the Pokemon game on her gaming console.
She noticed my presence and raised her head and I flew towards her. My Demonic Power spread and covered the area around us as I let down the plate.
"Hello, Ophis. How have you been?" I asked, patting her head lightly.
I had enough Affection and the Weekly revival left to ensure my survival in case of any kinds of accidents happening.
"You left. Different place?" she tilted her head.
….oh.
"Yes, I did have some work. I left for a while. Now I am back." I brought out the snacks that I had taken from the One Piece world.
To be honest, I could offer the entire Whole Cake Island to Ophis and ensure World Peace there. The only problem was that the girls had somehow declared their sovereignty on the so called land of sweets and I am not suicidal enough to come between the girls and their desserts.
"These are foods from the place I went to. There is a river that has molten chocolate flowing through the place. Candies grow out of plants and cupcakes bloom on the tree branches. There are ponds of ramen and volcanoes that have hot broth pouring out of it every day to fill the ramen. The food gets renewed almost every day so it never gets bad either. There is also a country where every island is made up of sweets. Chocolate Island, Cupcake Islands, Cookies Islands and Smoothie Islands. Almost every type of sweets is found there from all over the world. My new cook has been learning to cook all those things."
Ophis listened to everything with a shine in her eyes.
She then ate the snacks and the glint in her eyes grew stronger. It was both scary and very amusing to watch the Dragon Goddess of Nothingness gain emotions.
After finishing the plate, she looked at me and held my hand. "That world. Let's go."
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"I just came back from the world. It will take some time before I go there. I will take you with me the next time around."
She looked a bit reluctant but she nodded and sat back on her bed.
I couldn't see her downcast expression and brought out loads of snacks and sweets to almost fill the entire bed for her. This would keep her busy for a while.
"I will ask my new cook to make other snacks for you. Her name is Rindo. You can ask for her as well."
She nodded and spread her Magic to cover the food to protect them.
It reminded me of the stories of the dragon and its horde.
Ophis the Dragon who hordes cookies. Yeah…. I can see that actually happening.
I thought of something and brought out the Pokemon egg from my inventory.
She turned to look at it with interest.
"This is something I got during my travels. This is a Pokemon Egg." The shine returned to her eyes quickly. "I don't know which pokemon egg it is or which pokemon will come out of it but you can raise it. Would you like to raise it, Ophis?"
She spread her hand and hugged the egg like a mother hen.
"Be careful to not break it accidentally. It is very weak. I think it might be ready to hatch soon."
"I will train to become the best. We will defeat Baka Red and Baka Tet." She nodded with such determination that even the ridiculous talk of fighting against two of the strongest beings in the world didn't seem that ridiculous anymore. In Fact if she got some insane pokemon from that, it might not just be talk anymore.
"Umm, do your best." I patted her head and she went back to silently nibbling on her snacks while one of her snakes held it to her mouth. Both her hands were busy playing with the console.
We sat there in silence each to our own.
I can somehow appreciate why Ophis likes silence so much.
- Scene Change –
I sat on a chair behind Sirzechs, Serafall and Ajuka. The so-called 'Peace Conference' was going to be held.
There were some new additions to the room.
The entire Vali team was present. Arthur, Bikou and Le Fay had been contacted by Vali and had taken refuge in the area.
Le Fay was talking with Meridith who was sitting in the corner of the room and sneaking peeks at me.
The Slash Dog team was also present behind Azazel. They were throwing some looks at Suzaku and Lavinia but didn't say anything.
On my side, Rias and Sona sat behind the Satans.
On the Angel's side were Michael and Gabriel with four exorcists.
Two new faces had joined them this time. Griselda Quarta and Dulio Gesualdo.
Amaterasu sat with Yasaka behind her. Surprisingly Kuroka was with them.
Odin sat there with Barakiel behind him as his guard.
The most important of all, Ophis sat between Luna and Asia. Luna had joined Rias' peerage as a Bishop.
This was a lineup that would deter almost any faction.
The reason for all this was because due to the rage of Ophis, a major part of the attacking force had perished. For this reason, they changed their plans.
From the information we got from Vali, the Old Satan descendants were joining. Two of them.
Along with the so-called Hero Faction who were brought in because Dimensional Lost and Annihilation Maker would be very useful in such a case.
If that were the case then, I had doubts that Cao Cao would even take this opportunity to try and snipe a leader with the True Longinus.
That would be a clusterfuck.
Apparently Vali didn't discount the probability either and neither did any of the leaders and thus the force we had amassed here.
Sirzechs had to escort Odin and Amaterasu so he didn't get the chance to meet us beforehand.
Serafall was the one who picked us up and I summoned both her Peerage members.
"I see some new faces among your peerages." Azazael broke the silence, his gaze lasting a moment more than necessary towards Hancock who wouldn't have blinked an eye before turning him to stone.
"Yes yes. We took a trip. Shin-kun had been called for a job and he invited us. It was amazing. That place looked directly out of a fairy tale." Serafall chimed in animatedly.
We had discussed it over the time we were in the One Piece world about how to disclose the news about the world. After all, there was only so much I could do to hide.
Apparently Roger had a lot of effect on my mentality.
So instead of letting the world figure out about it and point fingers at us, we decided to figure out a way to let the news break out in a way that would cause the least amount of backlash. Hiding things at the start of a Peace Treaty was not the right kind of attitude. Although they wouldn't be able to do shit to me.
The main problem would be the old devils who think they are entitled to everything so we will keep the news from them as much as possible until my businesses start running in full.
"Oh, which place are we talking about?" Azazel asked, his scientific curiosity picking up.
They already knew about my contacts with other worlds.
"It was a different world, around two and a half times bigger than earth. A majority of the world is covered by oceans with islands scattered all around the place, with a single mountain continent dividing the world as a ring all around the planet. It is a wonderful place with many new things. There are different races, some like our own while some completely different and unknown ones. The average strength of the people in that world is much higher than this one. I have met and fought humans as strong as Satan Class Devils who relied only on their own physique to fight." I explained briefly.
"Really, that strong? I don't think there would be many humans like that even in this world? Were they blessed by any God?" Michael asked, interested now.
"No. They are just built differently. I didn't sense any God's presence in that world. There was however an Underworld where the dead souls went. The world has a very wide range of flora and fauna. Almost every island has different seasons. There is an island that has forty eight seasons per year. I even know of an island that had dinosaurs, while another was an underwater island full of mermaids and fishmen, who are actually our allies. There are islands on clouds which are dense enough to support the weight of entire islands."
"There was also a race of Youkai-like beings called the Mink. They were all very helpful to us nyaa. Their country was on the back of an elephant that was thirty five kilometers tall. It was the tallest creature I had ever seen." Kuroka chimed in for the first time too.
"I have no memories of creatures that big in this world." Yasaka said looking at the Nekoshou.
"The Minks could turn into their Moon Lion forms which increased their power by a level. There were at least a dozen of them who could reach the levels of Ultimate Class in that form." Kuroka informed everyone.
"Oh and the best part was the artifacts of that world. Just like Sacred Gears, that world also has artifacts created by an ancient kingdom of magicians. These were called….Devil fruits." Serafall lit up as she revealed the names.
"Oh, like Sacred Gears but created by Humans? I would love to research some of them if possible." Azazel perked.
"Why are you always preparing for War, brother?" Michael shook his head exasperatedly.
"I am just preparing for eventualities. It is my hobby." Azazel pouted and looked at me.
"While not exactly at the top Longinus Class, there are a few Devil Fruits that would reach the lower reaches of the Longinus level. The elemental Logia are especially ones to be looked out for, The Devil Fruits bestow the user with one power which can be anything, from making an area silent to having complete control over an element, from creating space quakes to controlling a fundamental force of nature like gravity. The power greatly depends on the user and how they develop the Devil Fruit." I said in thought as I brought out a simple devil fruit from my inventory. "This is a Devil fruit. It is called the Pull Pull fruit. As the name suggests, it can affect the force of attraction. Now the extent to which it is developed depends solely on the user. This can attract small pebbles to conceptual things like stamina and magic and give them to the user temporarily. I wouldn't be surprised if the user could even pull a meteorite from the sky with this." I said while sending an imperceptible look towards Issho who merely bowed his head slowly towards me.
"So how does this work?" Azazel asked looking at the fruit intently, not that he was the only one.
Even Odin was looking at the fruit with a raised eyebrow.
"They have a System of Sorts for the Devil fruits. When the user dies, the Fruit goes and reincarnates in another fruit of the same type. That Fruit would then change and become a Devil fruit. The reason why it was called so was because eating a Devil Fruit would place a curse on the user that would cause them to be sapped of most of their strength and willpower upon coming into contact with still water above knee height which won't be the case in this world since that weakness like our Devil ones to Scripture, holy water, holy objects and Gods name is placed by and enforced by that worlds system. That was honestly one of the few weaknesses of the Devil Fruit."
"So….are we going to get access to it?" Odin asked this time.
"I am planning to sell these in my business as artifacts."
I stored away the Devil fruit.
"So you were in a different world? I guess Rias was also with you and somehow Serafall?" Sirzechs asked, pouting a little bit.
He couldn't get a break and probably wanted to get to know me better.
"I brought Rias and Sona for training because I wanted them to be stronger in case today's fight became more complicated and I needed Serafall's help. I had acquired a country in that world but I didn't know anything about managing it. If you want to visit there, I can take you for a holiday. The time will be paused in this world while we are there."
"I will hold you on to that." He smiled, excited at the same time.
"So you were in that world for a while I take it?" Ajuka spoke for the first time.
"A few months, yes." I answered back and he nodded in return.
"Listen to this Ajuka-chan. I recruited Peerage members too. I have two new peerage members while two more are waiting in reserve. Meet my new peerage members, Patrick and Kuzan." She said pointing towards the two behind her.
The two merely nodded.
"This world does sound interesting. I wouldn't mind a trip there as well." Azazel said.
We were discussing different things and I answered the questions of the Leaders. Apparently Death's name and the fact that she considered that world important enough for me to visit, was keeping them from interfering too much.
Azazel did offer to help me in my research of the Devil Fruits. Serafall had suggested Vegapunk as a member of Ajuka's peerage and the man was actually considering it.
The one who had opposed it was surprisingly Rias who needed Vegapunk's help for her Village Hidden in the Cherry Blossoms. Ajuka decided to meet the man regardless and lend a hand in Rias' research if he liked Vegapunk as a potential member of his peerage.
It was during this that Ophis suddenly became quiet or rather stopped playing her game. We sensed the change in the environment immediately afterwards.
"We have been relocated somewhere." Merlin spoke up.
"Dimension Lost. Our home has been separated in a different Dimension too. They are probably planning to infiltrate and capture Gasper." The Damphir however was sitting behind us.
Ajuka and Merlin had already started on their spells to counteract the effect of the Dimension Lost.
Issho and I got alerts at the same time.
Thousands of energy signatures started appearing one after another. Devil, Fallen, Youkai and monsters created from the Annihilation Maker.
"They are here." I spoke while getting up.
I looked back at my peerage members who were all present except for Diablo.
We had a war on our hands.
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Beta Reader: LuluViBritania(FF.N, SB and QQ)/-LuluViB|99th Britannian Emperor(Discord)
[Beta Note: if you don't read the characters Source Material that's fine but at least wiki search the character in question that has yet to appear in the Adaptation you do read/watch before you make yourself look silly with your reviews about those characters you don't actually know about]
Author's Note:
This chapter came in very late. I know. I am sorry. I am stuck with too much work for the month.
I am literally writing this on my break.
The chapter might be of lower quality than I normally write. I was in a hurry.
I will probably get free time in the next few months and will write more then.
The One Piece world needs some time now for the waves to calm down.
With all the major enemies out of the way, Shin has decided to jump back to the DxD/HP world.
I know many people will complain about how Im was taken down but this was for the best in my opinion. We know nothing about Im and I didn't want to explore too much into his abilities. Having Shin and Sakuya speedrun the whole thing was for the best.
If you think it was too easy, do remember that Shin had been planning this for months and had prepared almost everything to counter their moves and that's not even mentioning the strengths of the members of Shin's peerage and himself.
The next part of complaints will probably come from Shin revealing about the One Piece world.
I have already explained the reasons for this and if you don't like them, fuck off. [BN what he said]
I don't care. You could write your own stories if you don't like mine. [Beta Note: rather if your gonna give constructive criticism about it atleast put all your reasons in it instead of a stupid "this sucks, and was a terrible descision on his part" the end, because those half assed reviews are bad and you should feel bad if you post them]
I am sorry guys but there have been some comments and some people going so far as to directly cuss at me in pms. I am a bit frustrated with my current workload and then this bullshit. Really, you will find other stories if you don't like mine. I am not dragging anyone here to read this nor am I charging anyone for this so if you don't like it, please don't be a dick about it. You can just leave. [BN: this ain't an airport either you don't need to tell us your leaving (unless you want to give proper constructive criticism on your way out)]
Some people have raised a point about the girls. I will clarify this once and for all. At the present time, Shin is in a relationship with only five girls. He flirts with Kuisha and Rossweisse while Hancock and Tsubaki follow him. Shin is not following them.
As for others, they are friends. I haven't written anything about their relationships in the story yet.
Please don't make assumptions and start flaming about everything.
Enjoy the new chapter.
Good Day, Peace Out.