I Returned In The Past But Why It Look Different?! (Multiverse Fanfic)

Chapter 14

"Wait-Wait-Wait! Don't kill him! Please!!!"

Another blonde girl came out from the debris and saw the rifle pointed at the blond man, she instantly panicked.

"What now? And you are? Hmm, right, Le Fay Pendragon? A witch… you don't have anything useful to offer…"

The blonde's eyes widened as she was horrified when she heard that! She quickly started to think, she looked at the other blonde. The Joan of Arc spirit holder…

"I am genius at magic! I was part of Golden Dawn! I can teach magic if you want!" She quickly said what was on top of her head.

"Hmm, are you? Very well… I will spare this guy, in turn, your life belongs to me. You will be signing a contract that will bind your magic if you break it you will lose your magic or in the worse case, you will die. Is that clear?" 

She sighed in relief after hearing that. This was not perfect but a good way to get out of this extremely bad situation.

"Y-Yes! I accept!"

"Good. Still, though, I will be taking these swords. Terrorists should not be holding any of them in the first place." Marcus said that happily. Most likely using the best pretext to do so. Even though some people could already call him a renegade and a danger to some Pantheons…

Well, not that it matters now anyway…

Le Fay could only sigh after seeing Excalibur Ruler and Caliburn getting snatched like that…

They only just found The Excalibur Ruler! And Caliburn? There is no need to even think about what kind of repercussion this will cause!

This will cause a shockwave big enough to go through the whole supernatural world when the factions will hear that the strongest holy sword was lost!

Still, her brother is alive that all it matters!

Now Le Fay joined Jeanne as they watched how their new Boss? Master? finished off the rest of the Hero Faction of theirs…

All they could do is be in fear and even awe how regardless of the original strength of the heroes like Georg they were just slaughtered!

After this was done. Both of them were encased into magic circles which Le Fay found fascinating as they looked Devil in original but they were not devil? It's extremely weird… like they use to emulate devil magic factors and make them work by human hand…

'Whoever is this guy he is good. Very good. I shouldn't be excited for the prospect of new magic in this situation but this is hard to resist!' The younger blonde of the pair had a very hard time not getting excited by this. 

After all, she just got kidnapped by some super scary dude who made the whole hero group of theirs just disappear!

~~~~~~Back in the Garage~~~~~~

Jeanne was baffled and confused why they were in Eastern Europe. She was able to make some sense of where they were flying. 

She saw Istanbul, it was not hard with the landmark like the Hagia Sofia or the bridge connecting Europe to Asia Minor. Then of course the Black Sea and she saw the city of Kyiv too...well, she assumed that it was the Ukrainian capital since the city was big and there was a large river flowing through the middle.

And in all, she could guess that they were close to the Baltic Sea which is quite close to the Norse Pantheon territory.

The confusion only increased when they landed in some residential area of some small town in God knows where…

Then her eyes widened when she saw part of the driveway just going down into the ground. This looked like some secred base thing she saw in Bond movies…

'Holy shit… this guy is like those supervillains from movies with absurd tech and some big goals of world domination! I am kind of excited and terrified!' Jeanne thought to herself as she followed the guy who quite honestly kidnapped her…

Her eyes slightly widened when she saw the inside of there was another armour similar to the one he is wearing. Well identical except for the colour part and the wings…

Or not… since she just saw the energy wings retract… there was only a colour difference. The stationed armour was simple grey this one was golden and white…

Moments later her kidnapper raised his hands and mechanical arms came out from the ground and started removing the armour.

"That's so cool…" Jeanne said with a little bit of awe. This was like those sci-fi movies…

"They are magical too… I can sense magic...I can sense magic everywhere… This man… he is terrifying…" Le Fay said with wide eyes as she scanned the surroundings.

"Yeah? I guess he truly is a TV supervillain-type…" Jeanne said after hearing what Le Fay said.

"Most likely… we still need to know what he does and what are his goals…" The younger blond said with a nod. She kind of, sort of, can see what Jeanne means.

Once the armour was taken off they could finally see who it was.

"No...way! You like, totally my age!!!" Jeanne said with disbelief.

"Indeed. Which means you wasted your life…" He said with a shrug.

This was quite a jab to her which she realised soon enough… that yeah...she should not act all like they are friends with someone who was about to kill her and take her Sacred Gear…

"I guess, I deserve that one. My apologies." The older blonde from the pair said that with a bow.

"So, you can learn etiquette. Not bad. But, you will be having a teacher soon enough to teach you all you need to become a proper maid." He said that with quite a smug tone. Which made the Reincarnation of Jean of Arc feel shivers going down her spine.

Who will be teaching her!?

Soon enough the pair of blondes saw another two women...one of them was dressed in maid clothes.

"No way… those are… Serafall Leviathan and Grayfia Lucifuge!" Le Fay said with disbelief, and Jeanne joined her when she heard the names.

What pair of extremely powerful devils doing here!?

"Indeed they are my pillars… I suppose I should introduce myself since you two don't know my name."

Le Fay had a shocking feeling in her gut when she heard him call these devils his pillars…

She only knows one human who called the devil kind his pillars…

"My name is Marcus Goldman and I am what these devil ladies call the second coming of Solomon. The King of Magic. Well more like King of Inventions and Engineering...but, well I can stick with magic." He said the last part with a shrug.

"...But...how? He died ages ago! And no remnants of his were left! I have been reading up on him for years! His work

...his magic… all known human cabals and organisations wanted to replicate!" Le Fay said with disbelief and awe, and many other emotions were rolling out from her. Here she was talking with someone who has all of Solomon's magic and stuff!

"Hmm? Who was he?" Jeanne asked with a look that says that she has no clue what they were talking about…

"Solomon was the only guy in history who enslaved 72 devils right under original Lucifer nose. He walked to the Underworld and left with 72 devils who listened to him till his death." Marcus explained as simply as possible to Jeanne.

"What our Lord just said is an extremely abridged version! But, yes what he just said is the truth." Le Fay added two bits of her own.

Marcus slightly raised his eyebrow hearing how Le Fay already addressing him as Lord… 

'I guess the old man has such influence on human mages…' 

"Wait… seriously? Someone did that?" Jeanne said with shock and baffled look.

"Indeed. Someone did that three thousand years ago…" Black-haired devil lady said that as she walked forward.

"Master~~~ you didn't say that you will be bringing any... living souvenirs…" 

Both Le Fay and Jeanne slightly gulped down instinctively. How can someone be this 'cute' and terrifying at the same time?

'So, this is the Satan Leviathan… I guess the rumour doesn't do much unless you see her yourself…' Jeanne said to herself as she remember rumours about Serafall Leviathan cosplaying as a Magic girl and acting all cute…

"Jeanne over there holds the soul of Saint Joan of Arc… she will be going directly under you Grayfia. You will teach her how to be a maid. If it's not to satisfaction I can always remove the gear and dispose of her." 

Jeanne turned pale white after hearing how casually he said that.

"I won't going to disappoint! S-Should I call you Master or... Lord!?" The older looking blood quickly remember how Le Fay called the guy which is the same age as her but he already slaughtered the whole of Hero Band! 

Once again she quickly shook her head not wanting to think that someone the same age as her can do that!

"Both… doesn't matter which one. Anyway, and this witch looking girl is Le Fay Pendragon. Assuming she inherited the magical side of Arthurian Legends." Marcus pointed at the girl. Who quickly and respectfully bowed towards the two devil powerhouses.

"She will be maid as well as assisting me with human-related magic." Le Fay once again nodded. She was nearly on cloud nine when she heard that she will be helping the second coming of Solomon! The original King of Magic was like God to the magical cabals and certain associations. And now she will be serving under his successor!

"I understand. I won't going to disappoint you." Grayfia looked at the pair, her red eyes were digging into the pair. Trying to dig up any things she dislikes, her gaze made both of them uncomfortable. This was the Strongest Queen? How are they going to serve under her if this woman's gaze could kill, they would be dead by now!

"Good. Now come in, I am going to prepare the contracts for you two." Marcus motioned to follow him.

~~~

'This place truly looks like supervillain base! Well more like its garage… my new boss truly likes his techy stuff!' The older blond thought to herself as she was looking around the place.

She saw something akin to a holographic display, a futuristic-looking computer, a table with robotic hands which looks like a futuristic version of grinding stone...

"I suppose I should tell some things before Master comes back." Serafall started talking as she is the most diplomatic of them all.

"Umm? Like what? I suppose I should know his schedule and such, yes?" The older blond said with an uncertain look. While she never was as a maid she saw some in action.

"That as well. Our Master is very… pragmatic I suppose?" Serafall said that with uncertainty she was trying to find an appropriate word.

"We...experienced it… he dealt with our group in less than five minutes… only survivor is my brother… since I offered myself for his life…" 

"Arthur Pendragon?" Serafall asked with a raised eyebrow, she remembered something about the Ancient British family.

"Yes… I left a note which gave a short version of what happened before I was taken away." Le Fay said while fiddling with her robes. She was feeling very uncomfortable when pair of most powerful devil females were staring at her like that.

"Did you tell Master that you leaving a note?" Grayfia asked her with a piercing gaze.

'This woman… she is extreme… how can Lucifuge serve a human to such extreme?' Jeanne thought to herself. She never expected to see a devil serve human with such heat.

"Umm...yes, he watched when I did… and even told him… he approved of it…" Le Fay quickly clarified under such extreme gaze.

"Good. Our Master was with Serafall for over 4 years now. She tested his patience enough. I suggest not to hide anything from him. It's pointless, especially in this place. 

We are in heart of his control here. This workshop holds a pantheon level of security. You can't escape this house, even this nation without him knowing. He will find you. It will be either me or Serafall who will be hunting you two down. And believe me...we can't say no to him. Even if we want to." Grayfia simply explained and the pair of blondes could only gulp down hearing that.

In the end, they realised that they are in nationwide prison.

"It was Pantheon level security Grayfia. Master tripled the output of the Diamond Core Heart. Now whole nation can enter into lockdown mode." Serafall explained with a smug look.

"Truly? I guess I was outdated then. I didn't know Master is increasing the security this much…" The Silver Haired maid said without caring much. While the two blonde's sitting opposite tried to process what they just heard!

Triple the power of a Pantheon security? Aren't the pantheons usually located in a different dimension? So, how can this place be that secure? Barriers? There are barriers here? But, where?

Le Fay tried to sense anything but all she could tell in that there is alot of magic in the air.

'Can he turn the ambient magic into barriers? Just how good are these Diamond Cores?' 

"Indeed, after the whole incident with Artemis hunt, he decided to increase the radius of third layer… anyway, now since you know it pointless to run I can assume Master will give you some devil-like contracts…" Serafall said that as her gaze returned to the pair.

The pair don't want to know what their new Lord did to Artemis that he needs to increase the security. Most likely they will learn it anyway…

Still, though a man-hating Goddess is man hunting him? Well, this will be interesting. At least to Jeanne while Le Fay already thinks that the second coming of Solomon used his magic on the Moon Goddess and made feel useless…

"Right… I am done! Here are the contracts. Read it up." Marcus walked over and handed over the papers to the pair.

The pair quickly stiffed and made sure they sitting straight. As Grayfia gaze was on them. It was somewhat like an instinctual thing towards a threat, that's just how strong was her gaze.

Quickly though the pair started reading…

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…

…

"Umm...this is… like a job… you even going to pay me…" Jeanne said with a confused look. She was expecting a bonafide slave contract where she is selling her life to a human who can enslave devils…

"It is… you will be working for me your whole life and you going to get paid for it," Marcus said with a shrug. He might kidnap them but he will be offering things for work. He might be a self-proclaimed bad guy but even bad guys pay to their subordinates...well...except Frieza...

"I see… this...is not bad actually… " Jeanne continued to read until she stumbled upon something...cool!

"Whoa… you are going to allow me to test things!?" She asked with shell shocked look. She already saw the armours and the rifles!

'This is going to be so cool!' 

She skipped a bunch of warning signs though something about might losing a limb and things like that. She is looking at the bright side…

"Yeah. Sacred Gears and things like that you will be using them. Even will be able to keep them for future data gathering." Marcus explained simply.

Jeanne nodded happily hearing that. She has no idea what is data gathering in specific but, she assumes her usage of it will be recorded to make even better gear. So, it's like a double win for her.

"That's great! Much better than I expected!" 

Serafall looked at the girl, another happy test subject… She thought those should be rare. But, somehow her sister ended up as one and now these two from the looks of it.

The younger blonde didn't say anything nonetheless, she was deep in reading her contract…

Eventually, Jeanne signed it up with a grin and so did Le Fay with a satisfying smile.

At that moment the pair got reminded that they just sealed the deal with their magic as they felt a pull from their magic flowing into the contracts.

Serafall sweat dropped for a bit. Now more than ever her Master was like Lucifer himself. He just made pair of girls with a considerable amount of background and legacy sign away their lives…

"Good. Now why don't you two go with Grayfia who will start showing around. At this moment it's not much but, my base is rapidly expanding." Marcus said that as he remembered that the tunnel works is rapidly increasing as the assembly line is producing labour bots every two hours...

"I knew it! This is like a garage right? And you building up your real base!" Jeanne said with a happy and quite smug look. Even Le Fay had realising look.

It would seem their wild guess that their new Lord is like a supervillain building up his base...was right on spot.

"True this place going to be a garage for my cars in future. While my real base will be build-up away from the city and more towards the centre of the nation."

Serafall eyes slightly widened hearing that! That was new! She didn't hear about that! Marcus is building a new base somewhere? And he is not calling it garage anymore!?

That's big! It is hard to call the current place a 'garage' in the first place… since it has a bunch of things like ritual room, testing room, kitchen, bathroom, a fully automated assembly line that produces things from thin air! Well, more like using perpetual energy to create raw materials through transmutation… nonetheless he still called this place a garage after having things build-up to this point!

So, it begs the question. How much bigger is going to be the base. When he calls it?

"Oh, I see… is going to be pretty big then?" Jeanne asked and the rest were just waiting for him to answer.

"More or less few times bigger." He shrugged back casually.

"Don't worry. There will be enough things for you to do." Marcus said that with a wide smile. For some reason, the blonde had a cold sweat going down her spine. It was out of nowhere so she was slightly confused why she was feeling nervous.

He only said a few times bigger… so, it shouldn't be that big...right?

~~~~~~After~~~~~~

"Rubbish…"

"This is one rubbish too…"

"Uhh… this one garbage…"

"Looks different but, still garbage…"

"Well, this one is below average but above garbage…" 

I looked through the five demonic swords I got from that silver-haired dude. They all look ugly and have below-average powers.

Demonic energy is quite dangerous to humans, even to devils themselves when it's not their demonic energy. 

So, these five demonic swords are useless and will be stored in the showcase vault.

For safety sake, they will be vaulted and holographic displays will be shown in their place. It will be done for all the Sacred Gears and the swords. Meaning that no one will be able to just grab it and bond with it.

Still, through where the Demonic Swords are useless, the pair of Holy Swords were not. Caliburn has space controlling powers and Excalibur Ruler has mind control ones.

The best part from this raid though is the Sacred Gears… True Longinus, Dimension Lost and Annihilation Maker. And of course some common ones like Twice Critical several times over and something used by Hercules… 

Anyway… 

Dimension Lost is a wonderful piece of gear that could help me improve the Diamond Core Heart. Who knew that a mist can do such things.

As it stands. The lockdown mode can be improved, instead of damaging the barrier, it could send the attack to the Dimension Gap.

Then, Annihilation Maker is quite an interesting piece of Gear that allows the creation of monsters from ones shadow.

Further data implies that it's something extremely close to the creation of living and breathing beings. Only a few steps away from creating true life.

The core itself is that of a concept instead of a creature for source similarly like the lesser gears from the likes of Sword birth, only instead of swords it creates monsters with abilities. Still though just because it's a concept, the gear itself holds quite a bit of programming and processing worthy of Longinus name.

Then… of course, the True Longinus… the spear. While the gear is basic. Like any gear, the core is fascinating and very powerful. The amount of holy energy it emits made Serafall stay metres away even in a sealed state like this.

The spear originally was a simple steel weapon. But upon stabbing the Jesus himself and recovering the relic it has been reworked by Big G himself. Not only that it holds some of his power. 

While reading only shows Holy and Devine energy mixture in the very core it read one's mind, ambition, ideology and judges if it's worthy to receive extra help against the opponent.

'Hmm, while I won't be able to recreate the miracle of the Big G will, I could recreate the spear… with this much data I could… crystalline concepts of my desire...and make something like Rhongomyniad…

Though it wouldn't be the same as fate one. There are no layers of reality being tower anchored here. Through the world's end concept... now that should be possible

Again different interpretations…' 

After scanning all the gears and swords and then storing them away did Serafall properly approached me.

"Phew… Finally, those are gone! But, seriously… True Longinus and two Holy Swords! How on earth did they have those! This kind of looks bad on Heaven, which is quite a good rub at them from my point of view." The black-haired devil said with a smug tone.

"None of them were with Heaven, to begin with, so it's kind of half-assed but, you are right. The Holy relics should be secured as soon as possible but they didn't. So, now they are mine." I said with a shrug. I don't care much but this is my win and my loot so it stays with me.

"So? What are planning to do with THREE Longinus gears and SEVEN swords?" The beauty curiously asked me. I used this moment to pull her in into my lap.

I kind of noticed how her dressing habits have changed quite a bit. She now prefers to dress in beautiful dresses regardless of whether it's needed or not. They make her look quite hot.

She instantly snuggled and positioned to sit comfortably.

"Dimension Lost will help to improve Diamond Core Heart, Annihilation Maker will improve my understandings in genetics…"

"Truly? But, how? Isn't it monster creation from imagination?" 

"Normally yes, but we talking about adding magic to the mix…"

"Oh...OH… are you trying to make an army of creatures or something?" Serafall asked with a joking tone, then realized that I might not be joking.

"Wait...you are serious aren't you?"

"Not quite, same time yes in a way. As I said, since I am expanding the processing capacities of Aurora I will be able to simulate tons of more things. That includes Annihilation Maker and its capacity… for example, creating a creature of fire I will be able to understand how fire abilities affect the being at the genetic level. If this work, I can alter beings to any ability to any standard."

Her eyes bulged out, taking a few minutes to grasp what I just said.

"If...this is true what you just said then you can make any being of any power… that level of True Gods like Great Red or Ophis…" Serafall said with wide eyes.

"It's not as easy as it sounds. For example, human genetic code is... let say a seven-story building. We can work with what the seven-floor building has. But… if we remove let say... the third floor then the whole building will collapse. So, when we genetically altering we have to stick with what we have. If we add the eighth floor which is too big it can collapse again." I explained to her as simply as possible.

"That's why genetically altering someone is an extremely difficult and long process. The process which with new expansion I will cut down by many many years."

"So...what can you do once you finish with this? You will add some abilities to yourself?" She asked curious this was a new plateau for her. Since I could technically have any ability…

"Eternal life, eternal youth, superhuman regeneration, better magic control, At least Ultimate Class level strength at base… haven't checked everything yet. So, these are just basics among basics…" I said from the top of my mind. I haven't checked everything but this was the surface information… almost like recon over genetics.

Her eyes widened to a comical level when I said all that.

"B-B-But isn't like building extra floors and all that? Isn't it dangerous!?" She asked with a squeaky tone.

"Not at all. This is working with pieces already there. Humans have regeneration. The power of it is set in our DNA. All I am going to do is alter that. But, it's not as easy as just changing a number in an options menu. As the moment you alter it you send a chain reaction to the rest of the 'floors'. Thus the processing power for Aurora." 

"...I see… to figure out where the reaction happening…" She said while nodding. From the looks of it, Serafall understood.

"This means if you want something like complete fire manipulation you need to build extra 'floor' as you just said."

"Sort of. As the fire is already there to a certain extent. The human body is warm. So, in a sense, you already have some fire there."

"Still you need that extra floor no? There is no control of fire in natural human genetic make-up." This time she was certain with what she said.

"Indeed. That's where you have to be careful. this is like adding to the already existing construct. One can end up with extra limbs by accident." I said with a shrug.

"...Yeah… I can see this being a long term thing… or should be…" 

I nodded at her. Internally I was somewhat sceptical about this myself. I only checked my DNA a couple of times. But… it should be more difficult…

My talent was always cars, electronics, programming, now… after reading up on genetics… it just started to make sense… it's like a mystery that always fascinated me now for some reason is no longer that… mysterious. It's like walking through a sort of familiar forest. While you may going to get lost you still will find a way to exist.

It's either the extra genius I got in this world or the DxD universe is just that simple… I hope it's my talent and not the reality I am in…

"Hmm?"

"You had that look just now…"

"What look?" I asked with raised eyebrows looking at her blue eyes.

"That you figure out something… its usually leads to some crazy stuff… last time you had that look you ended up making those rifles…" 

I snorted hearing that. This woman she is reading far too much into my facial expression…

"Maybe...who knows…" I said that with a smirk.

~~~~~~Greece~~~~~~

"It was like a white star which descended into the building… it released lighting bolts and destroyed the building! It was like a God himself descended!" A farmer said with glassy eyes.

"Sleep."

The farmer nodded and collapsed on the ground. A silver-haired woman has put her hand on the farmer's head. Silver glow surrounded the downed man's body.

"It the same… they all saw the same thing." 

"Yes. He was here. From the looks of it, he attacked something. If my guess is right he attacked someone who had Sacred gear or gears." 

"Lady Artemis… for him to raid something in heart of Greece…" The lion girl said with some disbelief in her tone. She can't believe someone had the balls to act so open!

The silver-haired Goddess snorted with a pissed look.

"He is not afraid if I am to bring my whole family to face him! He told that to my face! This is nothing!" She pointed at the destroyed warehouse as she said the last words.

She knows he is not afraid to do raids like these. This is might be her family's turf but the Olympus is leagues away from here!

"What I wanted from this is any clues! I wanted to find out his location or destination!" Artemis said with a commanding tone.

Hippolyta and Atalanta nodded at their Goddess and they started to search the destroyed building for anything to lead her to him.

She could ask Apollon for help. Her twin could show some visions to her. But, like hell, she will ask him for her help in this! 

No, she will find him herself! And once she is done grinding him through the ground. Then she will bring him back to Olympus so that he could slave away as their blacksmith!

In a sense this attack was good. She was skulking around in Eastern Europe without any clues. It was frustrating. That he could easily hide from her.

Thankfully her Father always goes to her for field adventures like this. Especially when someone talks about lightning, thunder and god in the same sentence.

"My...lady… from looks of this… he slaughtered at least 30 people… and there are residues of holy energy… powerful holy energy… as well as... Heracles…spawn…"

Artemis slightly grimaced hearing that. Hippolyta tracking is pearless but sometimes she is far too good…

"I see… so, there were alot of people with quite special backgrounds…"

"More than few my Lady…" Atalanta said as she used her nose and tracking skills which she sharpen over a few thousand years.

"Quite a few extremely talented people were here," Atalanta said as she looked around the destroyed building. Thankfully inside of it was in quite good condition.

"That man hit a jackpot. If my guess is right he has few Longinus gears now…" The blonde lion girl said with a frown.

"Like?" Artemis asked with wide eyes when she heard Longinus being mentioned.

"True Longinus and Dimension Lost." The catgirl said as she looked around her senses can tell her that it was those gears. There is only one relic she knows of who can leave such a strong remnant of Holy Energy and those ripples in the air… it something similar to Dimension Lost. 

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