NOVEL NEXT Chapter 14: Chapter 13
Chapter 13
*Sigh*
"Just like I thought… this is basic…" I said to myself as I looked at the screen. The scan for the Sword birth is done.
Where Boasted Gear was like a primitive computer, the sword birth is like tv remote. Some basic functions and that's about it.
No wonder it is such common gear. Just thinking about this I could make other energy type gears. Dragon energy sword birth, divine Greek sword birth.
It's so easy… I wonder why Big G never did it?
Well doesn't matter. Now that I have this scanned and the information is stored I no longer need this…
Looking around for a moment I left the Sacred Gear orb on the table and picked up a book on genetics.
It's time to continue reading on genetics. What I found is quite fascinating. Genes are like closed systems. Very, very complex systems. You pull one atom away and it breaks apart. Same with tempering. If you change even the smallest thing like hair colour it can have a chain reaction and the whole thing can break apart again…
So, it's very much fascinating… and very...extensive science.
"Right… I need to find tech they using to study genetics…" Thinking for a bit I went to my PC and booked a tour they do for labs. While they don't truly show everything I will be able to get the general idea.
I mean I know that it's about the micro world in one's blood…
But, I can't make stuff from just that… I could make a microscope, but that's about it…
~~~~~~Around Same Time~~~~~~
Serafall pulled Grayfia aside to talk while their Master is reading stuff on the genetics
"Grayfia listen. This is bad." The black-haired Satan started pacing back and forth.
"What is bad?"
"Marcus only left once to hunt! He encountered Artemis hunt! He wiped the floor with her! The problem is that he earned the right to marry the Amazon Queen!" Serafall said with frowned look.
"And...you think he will just marry her? Our Master doesn't care about this." Grayfia said with an obvious tone.
"The problem is not marry her or not. The problem is that even the smallest of steps he takes shakes the world! The hunt is only the beginning. Artemis has no clue about the capabilities of Freedom mark II! She can't sense Marcus. So even if she lost she believes that it's because of the armour's ability to negate magic. My bet is she is on the hunt to find our Master as we speak." Serafall reasoned as she was back to pacing back and forth.
"Most likely there will be more encounters. And our Master will deal with her. Most probably they will try to move in on him in his hometown.
And as you know yourself… that's suicidal." Leviathan reasoned as she crossed her arms under her ample breasts.
"And after that is done. He captures her and enslave her? I do not know how Ars Goetia works but it can't enslave Gods…" Grayfia said that with raised eyebrow she is trying to find the point of this conversation.
Serafall shook her head in denial. This was not what she meant.
"No. It's not about enslavement. It's that Artemis is one of twelve Olympians. Her capture would eventually be revealed and as you can imagine it shake the whole supernatural world. Master will be under magnifying glass. While it's nothing bad since not many people can do anything to him.
What I am concern is how many females will want his attention. Hippolyta is only the beginning. There is Aphrodite, Athena. And other Minor Goddesses. That is just from the Greek Pantheon. Don't forget that Diamond Core Heart is installed in Kuoh. Shinto could easily find out about this and want his attention.
Then Fallen Angels...they could send their female to seduce him and of course… that Bitch from the Heaven faction…" Serafall explained what she meant and Grayfia just listened attentively.
"I see. So you are afraid that Master will forget about you...Us. I suppose it is possible since there are many different Goddess around the world. But, none of them are Devils like us. We are beings of sin. Where they won't do certain things we can do without even caring. There is a reason why Solomon wanted to enslave us instead of thinking about those crude beings." As Grayfia was telling this the Leviathan was looking at her with a different kind of look. Serafall was quite impressed by what she just heard.
"Yes...yes...of course…For this one, I will need your help…" The black-haired devil lady had a smug look on her face. She recalled that a certain special day in February is close by…
She needs to get some costumes…
"My help? As long its-"
"I know, I know! We are going to seduce our master together, for Valentine's day! What do you think?" Serafall asked with a smug look, Grayfia for a second thought about it.
"Very well. Since I was the one who mentioned this." The silver-haired maid sighed in defeat. Well, she was the one who mentioned the sins… the only thing the gods can't brag about.
She doubts any Goddess would double team with another Goddess just to seduce a man.
That's why Devils are superior in this regard.
"Good, good we shall be victorious." Serafall clenched her fist while saying that. It sounded like just found The formula to win her Master over.
~~~~~~Back to Marcus, Later~~~~~~
The tour in genetics labs was not bad. While tech is not the best. Since I saw some stuff over in America which is cutting edge of its time. Here stuff was not as cutting edge, then again my birth country doesn't have a substantial budget, to begin with.
Nonetheless, it did its job now I can start the ground running as they say. Know where to start and what I need to do to start this.
Quickly entering some calculation in main computer after returning from the tour I looked at the screen.
[Calcutions done. With current computer parameters, this decoding will be done in 34 years 74 days and 23 hours.]
*Whistle*
"So… 46 GB ram computer only that much is worth… well I guess 16 quad-core processor won't going to do it…"
Thinking for a bit… spinning in the chair, I started to think about how to move forward from here.
"Open me the map of this area. I want the satellite image of this." I said after thinking for a bit. While I know the area to a certain extent I want to confirm something.
[Understood. Loading the map.]
Moments later I saw the map of the surrounding area. Northwest there are forests. Well, there are forests of various sizes in most of the areas around the city.
But if you go from Northwest to West some open fields are assuming some farmlands… then if you go more West is the Sea around 180 km away.
Changing some altitude readings, as well as the sea level and such…
"Hmmm… so the main processing facility here. That open area will be the launch site… and then strait west… to the sea…" doing some quick thinking about the ground compositions.
If my memory is right this area a long time ago was a delta of a massive river, then the ice age…
Working through the earth will not going to be hard. Since I won't be doing regular way…
With the idea in mind, I closed the map and created a folder next to Engineering, Projects, Systems, and named Expansions.
But before that, I went to the Projects folder and created another one. It was the time to create grunts who can do manual labour for me.
Naming simply Aurora Bot. I quickly opened the design app and started to draw one.
Can't believe how simple is to design one. Most likely because I have been doing upgrades for my Freedom which required extreme precision with the whole barriers between armour laying. And doing alot of holographic manipulation of the design… and making manual labour robots? That's absurdly easily compared to that…
The OS for them was mostly done by Aurora. I only skimmed through that then moved with something more fascinating… and that is allowing mechs to use magic.
Not as difficult as one expects the circles are not hard to make especially with certain tools.
Once the labour bots designs were done I started working on my expansions. Now teleportation are fun and all. But something like bus, train, or ship travelling are good for few things. From experience I can say that travelling allows one to spend time thinking. Many of my designs came from that, especially in my previous life.
That's why I decided to make an underground railway network.
With perpetual energy, unlimited resources which come with alchemy and tireless labour force I can easily create whole networks throughout the whole nation.
The best part is that it can rapidly grow with barely any maintenance or attention needed towards that. I do different things simply knowing that my bots are still working either way.
My assembly line can create ten labour bots in less than two hours.
'Hmm, still need to create some more specific circles for this…' Thinking for a bit I started working myself in the Labour bot software update.
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When Serafall appeared in the workshop at her regular time she noticed that the place was empty…
The design table and the computer place was empty the main area where the suits are stored both Mark I and Mark II are there.
The current Leviathan was confused that her Master was not doing something related to genetics which he has started delving into.
Even to this day, she has no idea why he is working on that…
Nonetheless, she won't be questioning any of it. The black-haired devil lady knows better than just asking things. Because for one she will get lost in his explanation, and second for better or worse she doesn't want to know because it's most likely very much groundbreaking and she will need a couple of days to get over it…
So, she will just wait for his reveal…
Still, though she needs to figure out where her Master is. As she knows his schedule like the back of her hand. After several years with him, she knows where he should be.
But, today was different she thought that he will start working on something with Sword Birth he acquired or some genetic nonsense…
Besides she has some information on that Cao Cao fella he asked…
"Hmm, where are you Master~~~?"
Serafall started walking around the workshop main floor. She checked the main area, the testing room, the summoning/ritual room, then she walked to the back and the kitchen with bathroom was empty…
'Strange… this is far too strange… he would have notified me with his connection through Ars Goetia…' The older Sitri looked around for a bit more. She then tried to sense her Master to find out where he was and once again... the workshop is far to… magically amplified for her to find him!
This is one of those weird feelings of feeling like a human in this place. Her power here means quite simply nothing… her master regularly makes things at the Ultimate class…
It's like a tool of that level barely enters into his radar…
'Well… I should probably check downstairs…' The black-haired devil lady sighed and turned around and started walking to the back of the workshop where the stairs are.
She knows quite well that she is not allowed regularly to go down here.
For one it's where the Diamond Core Heart, the database and the assembly line is located.
The reason why she is not allowed there is according to Marcus words is that klutz regularly should not go there…
Why he thinks that she is a klutz is beyond her…
Nonetheless, she will do a quick check and then will try to use their connection to contact him.
The beauty gently and quietly descended to the lower floor. She noticed something almost immediately…
The lighting in this area used to be almost nonexistent, more precisely in the corridor areas. Her master always loved the whole barely any light in heart of base thing. There was only some light at the feet level so that people could see some of the paths they can walk.
However, now that was gone and the area had proper lighting.
Realising that yes, this is where he is Serafall immediately gained her confidence walked down with a much quicker pace.
Her eyes widened when she saw a brand new corridor! It was twice as wide! She looked around for more and saw the corridor which led to the Diamond Core Heart and the rest is gone!
Instead, she found a door which have appeared in an area away from the sight and was crafted from some sort of metal. She assumed a new brand of alloy?
'What on earth is he doing… more expansions? Is he building a supervillain base? I won't be surprised in truth… with him anything is possible… It wouldn't be a shock if one day he wakes up and decides to take over the world just to find out how the nations around the world would act to his declaration of war…'
Serafall shook her head as started walking the wide corridor.
Soon enough few moments later she heard sounds of hammers and the noises of metal cutting and melding…
Her eyes widened and she rushed forward with an extra step. She heard the sound of multiple people working she knows Marcus is always doing things alone but now this!?
Once she arrived at the much wider area, almost as wide as the whole workshop upstairs…
'Is this…' Her eyes scanned the whole area and saw… something akin to railway station…
"This is a railway station…" She looked around assuming she was standing on the platform area, walking forward she saw the rails or she assumed they suppose to be rails but, it was more like a platform of some sort… like the train will be sliding on it or something like that…
'He won't be making regular trains that for sure… assuming it will be floating or something like that…' Once she inspected that she saw… robots… humanoid robots using magic to drill the tunnel and more robots to assemble the rails…
This was… approaching realms of true sci-fi in her eyes.
Robots? As in real robots… making posh armour is nothing new to her. Well not at Marcus creation level but armours are nothing too fancy… but properly functioning robots like workforce?
'Marcus… he is building his faction… with his bare hands… this is like Biblical God all over again!' Serafall thought with a sweaty forehead this was something she expected. But, she thought he will start doing this when he is at least in his twenties or thirties. But, he was moving faster than she has predicted!
How did genetics push him to expand? Making robots? This doesn't make sense to her at all!
Eventually, she found him at the end of the platform with tablet in hand doing something. He even had his glasses on. From the looks of it, he was in his designing mode. Only this time it was designing…on a grander scale…
Serafall quickly sneaked up to him… well, tried too…
As her instincts already told her that he was aware that she was there.
"Master! I wasn't around for a day and this is what I find~~~? You building railway!?" The current Leviathan hugged him from behind as she was now smaller than him so she was leaning into his back.
"Yep. I need much bigger facilities for processing information. Genetics need alot of processing power. It will take 34 years just to process mine one. Not to mention to alter and improve. So, I decided to expand finally. I will build a processing facility, space launching platforms and docks area." He explained casually to her.
"Maybe build up a new workshop along the way. Since having my place so close to my parents one is quite dangerous." He added more things on the top.
"I see…" Serafall slightly sweat dropped hearing that. Space launching pads? He is planning to go to space?
That's the first time she heard that!
"Space launching pads… and docks? You never mentioned those! And here I thought you telling stuff to your girlfriend!" She said that with a pouty tone.
"Just came up with docks recently… I am thinking about diving. The suits pressuring test are much better deep underwater than in space. Besides, there are so many sunken ships… just itching to be rediscovered and brough back for fixing up!" He said the last parts excitedly.
This reminded Serafall about how males sometimes have weird tendencies to collect things… is her Master has a thing for ships? Or more specifically sunken shipwrecks?
'Well, it's better than world domination… still through… will he bring back Titanic? It's a kind of symbolic ship…'
"Like Titanic? Are you planning to bring it back to the surface and fix it?" The black-haired devil asked him curiously. Pity that she wasn't there when that ship sailed for the first time and last time. The movie however was quite a good one.
"One of them yes. I am thinking to bring back the Titanic, Bismarck, Musashi, Yamato… those are first." He mentioned from the top of his head.
"I only know the first one how are these three special?" Serafall asked with a curious look. Especially hearing the Japanese names.
"They are the worlds biggest battleships. They are really big. No nation builds that size anymore. Instead, they build aircraft carriers. That's why I want to get them." He said with a shrug.
"Men… and their toys…" The beauty sighed hearing that they are military ships…
"You have no idea… I was thinking of doing that with cars… but meh… diving into depths of sea. Pulling up wrecks and then rebuilding with state of art magic and technology...now that is beautiful…" Marcus said with a dreamy tone.
And Serafall instantly felt chill going down her spine…
'Is he planning to make them like Sacred Gears!?' She paled for a second imagining those ships turning into massive Japanese mechs…
'My imagination is running wild… I should lessen the amount of Gundams I am watching…' The current Leviathan shook her head internally she was imagining far too much…
There is no way her Master will turn those ships into mechs!
"I see… well, I suppose it's not a bad hobby to have. Anyway, on another note, I have the information you wanted!" Serafall smugly pulled out an envelope from somewhere and handed it over to him.
"Hoh? Stuff on Cao Cao? Let's see how many people he has recruited." He with an excited face opened the envelope and checked in detail the information the Leviathan had gathered.
'Jeanne, Hercules, Sieg, Arthur, Le Fay… Heh? The Pendragon pair have not joined Vali yet… interesting… the last location was around Greece… assuming they will be recruiting Perseus soon…'
While Marcus reading through the papers Serafall closely looked at his expression. She saw him being quite excited and happy with the amount of rarer Sacred Gears these people collected just for him.
"You will be collecting them then? The True Longinus… it will...attract the attention of Heaven." The Black-haired beauty said to him as she looked at Cao Cao picture.
"Good for them. They had years to recover it."
"They did. Many previous exorcists had it and they were under Heaven banner. But like any other gear, the Heaven system is quite random with the gear placement. The Angels didn't expect someone from China to receive the spear." Serafall explained to him.
"As I said they had years. Years to patch the system, years to upgrade it and perfect it. At this point, I see this nothing more that they don't care who has the True Longinus. It's not my problem that they are incompetent in fixing and running the system."
The current Leviathan could hear her Master's distaste towards the Heaven's faction. Assuming he doesn't like them because of how they can't run Heaven's system.
'This is too early for me to decide if he is going to have a cold relationship with them or not. There is still a chance of that bitch pulling something out of her large tits!' The black-haired beauty furrowed her eyebrows for a moment thinking about that woman who wears a mask more than she ever does!
"Not everyone is your level Master. If my guess is right that blonde tried many times to fix the system. He wasn't created to run it…" She used the moment to jab some at the current leader of Heaven.
"...I suppose so. Nonetheless, I will be leaving for Greece. I will be back shortly." He said after giving another glance at the envelope.
"Be careful… It's the home of the Greek Pantheon. There is a chance you will encounter another one of their Deities." Serafall said with a little bit of concern. Not for his safety or anything like that. Well, she is a little bit concerned about it. But, more like what kind of things he can pull. She doesn't want the most eccentric Pantheon to start having weird ideas about her Master.
"Irrelevant. I don't care about them. I have no interest in them at this moment. I will leave them alive." He said that casually as he started walking back to the main floor.
Serafall grimaced hearing that. He is treating them as something like a nuisance. Like they are no threat and he is the one deciding their fate.
Then again if she had such gear as he does she won't be afraid of anything…
"I see… while I don't care or anything…" that's a big lie and he saw through it as he looked back at her with a raised eyebrow.
"You shouldn't just provoke them… their egos are fragile…"
"As I said it's irrelevant. For one I know their power and their scaling. I already scanned their divine energy. And I have even their DNA. My magic negation system is attuned to their energy As much as I have towards regular humans, dragons, devils and now Greek Gods." He explained casually while shrugging his shoulders.
"If… you say so. I don't want you to cause any incident which will cause them to move."
"Move? Move where? Even if they discover my home location by some miracle there will be less pantheon in the world by the end of it.
I am not going to take their mountain or anything like that I am going to collect and purge wanted criminals." He simply told her what will happen to the Greek Gods if they will get some 'funny' ideas of trying to find him.
Serafall could only gulp down nervously. She doesn't want to know what the devil council will do once they find out that their P.O.D has been recreated by a human.
So, she can already imagine egos flying high and Marcus not caring about that. Which could lead to devil extinction…
~~~~~~Evening~~~~~~
[Aurora OS boot up]
[Boot Complete]
[OS Start-Up in process…]
[Aurora Battle Support Online]
[Aurora H.U.D online]
[Exoskeleton System online]
[G-Force MAX support online]
[Diamond Triangle Core Stable]
[C.E.F.S on online and on standby]
[S.N.M.S.S on online and on standby]
[Synchroning Systems…]
[Synchronisation Complete!]
[Freedom Scale Mail MK II is ready and Standby!]
Marcus checked the system of his suit before walking towards where the ceiling is lowered and the driveway could be seen.
Moments later he was outside
"Deploy wings time to fly south."
[C.E.F.S deployed]
The while wings ignited on the back as Marcus rushed high into the air the next moment.
A few seconds later he was very high in the air and the scale mail connected to GPS satellite to assist him in flying towards his destination.
Less than an hour later the visor changed into magic view and the teen inventor started looking around for his targets.
'Hmm… well this is going to be quite annoying…'
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Several hours later Marcus finally found several Sacred Gears signatures in a single area. His eyes lit up as he flew there.
Soon enough he found several bunch of people resting in a makeshift looking warehouse.
Assuming they don't want high profile because this Greece.
'Hmm? What this… there is a layer of some sort of energy in the air.'
"Scan the energy in the air."
[Scanning…]
[...37%]
[71%]
[91%]
[Scan complete]
Moments later portion of Marcus vision was covered by the new window.
"Heh… Georg Sacred Gear. So instead of hiding themselves in a dimension, they used this as an early warning alarm.
As in anything bigger would attract the pantheon. Quite smart."
Reading a bit more on this the teen inventor found how it works…
"In the end, I should not worry about this…"
Marcus lifted his hand and Phobos appeared in his right hand.
He pointed where Georg was sleeping.
"Deploy negation magic field target Sacred Gears signature."
[Deploying S.N.M.S.S]
But burst of light from the energy wings the whole Warehouse area was bombarded by the Solomon Negation Magic next Marcus pressed the trigger and a large bolt of electricity rushed forwards from the barrel.
*BOOM*
*Electrical Crackle*
"WE UNDER ATTACK!!!"
The teen inventor heard a male voice shouting inside the warehouse.
Marcus didn't stop here as he started shooting more with both Deimos and Phobos. Bolts of lightning-like strikes of thunders descended into the warehouse disabling majority of the hero band members. The teen doesn't stop there he continued that before the majority were out, he then descended into the warehouse, most of the roof was already disintegrated so he could easily do that.
"Preemptive strike success."
He said that as he descended into the half-destroyed building.
"Who the fuck are you?" Big burly man said with an annoyed look as he slowly got up pushing away the debris from himself.
"An inventor, engineer, enthusiast Sacred Gear creator and collector. And you Cao Cao did a great favour to me for collecting so many rare gears." Marcus happily said that as he lifted Phobos and pointed at sweaty looking Chinese guy.
"Oh yeah!? Let's see how you going to like thi---ahhhh!" A clap of thunder followed by a ball of lightning smashed into the tall muscular guy which should be descent of Heracles.
"You are irrelevant. So be silent." The teen inventor said as he shot into the guy without even looking at him.
"You… who are you? I have never seen Sacred Gear like those…"
"Did the part where I said an inventor, 'engineer and sacred gear creator' escape from you? Nonetheless, it doesn't matter. I am only talking with you since you did a favour to me. So, pick an underworld you want to go and pray to that deity governing it." A rifle pointed at the Chinese guy who was sweating buckets by this point he was looking around looking for a way to get out of this.
In process of course trying to call forth his True Longinus…
"Wait! we can discuss this! You are human! Right? I am trying---" Ball of lightning smashed into the guy as he didn't finish explaining.
"I don't care what are you trying to do. Science is a priority. Your gear is peak and The Longinus… unless you have something equivalent to that there is no dialogue…" The genius inventor said that as he approached the downed man… magic circles appeared around him as moments later a translucent orb with a golden spear inside of it came out.
It was quickly collected, then he pointed Deimos and at him and pitch-black beam with red wisps erased the guy.
That moment a girly squeaked spread through the warehouse as Marcus quickly looked at the source and saw a blonde girl with blue eyes staring at him with a pale look.
He point Phobos at her.
"W-Wait! D-Don't shoot! I surrender! I surrender!" The girl did Japanese style begging... going on her knees and touching the ground with her forehead.
"You… are Jeanne… you have Sacred Gear which creates Holy Swords…"
"Yes! I can do that! I can create as many as you want! Just don't kill me!" She begged with a terrified look. Jeanne just witnessed how their strongest member turned into nothing right in front of her eyes.
"Hmm… very well… tell me… is it true that you are the reincarnation of the Saint Joan of Arc?" He asked her as he approached her.
The girl had to look quite high as the Scale mail made the inventor tall almost like a giant.
And those glowing blue eyes from the helmet make him look even more monstrous.
"Yes! I am! The sacred gear is deeply connected to her soul. So, it became a generation like thing. Not only that but according to the church we look extremely similar as well! All the reincarnations of Joan of Arc had the same Sacred Gear."
"I see… very well. Then this is quite fascinating how Gear doesn't detach after users death. Probably an extra system in place."
Jeanne gulped down when she heard death being mentioned so casually. She realised that she ended up with a bonafide cold researcher…
"I have decided. You will be coming with me. I will make you one of my maids. It will be a beautiful way to show to Heaven that yes… their Saint is nothing more than a maid to me."
The blonde slowly nodded with a gulp yes, this is better than just dying!
"As you wish…" she said while bowing again.
Marcus nodded before turning around and starting to collect the other gears.
Once again Jeanne could only twitch each time she saw members of her old group cease to exist one by one…