NOVEL NEXT Chapter 2: Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Around a year has passed since that book just popped in front of me.
That means I was twelve years old and... oh, boy how much I did…nothing…
Normally I would beat myself up for wasting a year and not fixing a mere totalled car. But, no! instead I spend that time reading and memorising the grimoire, or Is it a book? More like a journal… yes, a journal it is then.
By this point, I came to realise that I was the successor to the dude who lived around 1000 B.C… meaning 3000 years before me.
The summoning circles were easy, as well as the whole alphabets of runes. The Solomon dude constantly mentioned how difficult these runes are and how factions like the Norse is proud of their runes.
I found them ridiculously easy, maybe that the inner programmer telling me, since I was the one who programmed an A.I, several of those. For my cars, to my homes. Nonetheless, the summoning circles I have mastered in the first week. In the next few weeks, I got the whole Hebraic, Norse, Egyptian, Greek and Japanese... runes, I mean Caligraphy down. All that was left is the test them out. That's where the hardest part was. Meditation, accessing magic and drawing magic letters.
Well, for that I have chosen the attic since the basement is where all the firewood is… yeah… I am back to the era where firewood is still In use…
Nonetheless, after some cleaning done, and moving some scraps… like an old TV… From around ~1990, which I am planning to turn into scraps and reuse it, since now I have magic I can quite literally use alchemy to remould it into parts I know from ~2030 and use them just like that…
And yeah. Solomon learned some alchemy and enchantment from Big G, so all that stuff was in his book, which is now mine as well, I already found some ways to improve the formulas they used back in the day with the stuff I developed myself through programming since higher level enchanting is pretty much magic version of programming.
Well, that will come when I start making stuff, but for now, it's time to call forth my first familiar.
Using chalk to write on the wooden floor was quite child's play. It was feeling quite weird to do occult. Especially since I always teased my sister on that. Thankfully she graduated and moved away from home… otherwise she will be teasing me on doing the goddam same thing she did!
Eventually, a perfect circle was drawn and runic letters in Hebraic language were drawn in between creating a complex system in the circle.
What Big G and Solomon devised is using the devil essence against them. Since Devils were preying on humans. The Big G decided to allow humans to prey on Devils. More like turn them into human slaves.
By using Lucifer's Pillars and their devil summoning against them, a devil is summoned in this specific circle. It only works with pureblooded devils so half-bloods which are born from devil and human is impossible to bind since Ars Goetia doesn't recognise it as pillar devil.
And so once the circle is done, I started channelling my magic. The only issue with this was that the summoning requires a considerable amount of mana, well for me that is.
It took me a year of pure magic training practice, to reach the level where I can summon the devils through the circle.
The circle has a drawing of Bael symbol of the Great King Pillar. If I am to summon a Familiar then it will be the best one it can offer.
"By the covenant drawn between God and Human King!
For punishment against humankind! 72 Pillars of Lucifer shall be punished by the power of Ars Goetia!
Come forth Pillar of Great King Bael! By the Will of Ars Goetia, you shall be bound to a King of Man!"
As the chant was finished, the circle was glowing white and gold. The glow continued to increase to the point that I needed to cover my eyes.
~~~~~~Underworld~~~~~~
A brown-haired woman with a voluptuous body to kill for was enjoying morning tea when underneath her feet. A white circle started to be drawn on its own.
"Hmm? What is this?" She looked underneath her feet and then looked around, she saw white letters and the symbol of ten rings…
"..."
"..."
"Where did I see this before?" She tried to remember the symbol not thinking much on this for the simple reason that she can feel it's a devil summoning. Meaning a…
Then she remembered who used ten rings as his symbol!
Her whole face turned pale.
Before she can do anything the summoning happened and she felt her Devil energy rebelling and doing... something to her very being!
"Solomon's magic! H-How!?" She said with a horrified look. Before she can do anything she was teleported from her house!
And so one of the Pillar devils was summoned without anyone even realising what has happened, after all, it was a devil circle that was used in the first place.
~~~~~~Back with Marcus~~~~~~
When light has settled down I was able to see who I have summoned.
My eyes slightly widened.
What I saw was a woman with shoulder-length brown hair. What truly stands out about her is her enormous breasts which defies the physics of the world. With rack this big, she should have alot of back pain.
But, what truly stands out is that… I think I know her from somewhere.
Nonetheless, the summoning was a complete success because I can feel her being completely tied to me. Ars Goetia was successfully formed.
"You must be the Devil from the Bael House?" I asked her while walking over with crossed arms. My mind was coming up with how useful this Devil will be. I went with Bael because it's the highest house after Lucifer. It means they should be powerful and knowledgeable with magic and magic-related stuff.
"I am by birth, though I am now Gremory." I could tell Ars Goetia is working, as it's completely overwriting anything dodgy the Devil is thinking.
The Big G and Solomon were extra careful to mention all about the devils and their nature, so countless amount of runic programming as I call it, went in finding solutions to make them tell only truth and no lies.
Nonetheless, this is not enough because half-truths can still be told by the devils so wording has to come to play as well.
"I see… well it doesn't matter since you are my Bael Pillar now," I said with a shrug. The brown-haired woman slightly frowned, from the looks of she wanted to be extremely angry but Ars Goetia binding is absolute.
"You do know what you did with this summoning?" She asked cooly.
"I used Ars Goetia summoning to summon myself a Devil from Lucifer's 72 pillars. Since you were pulled that means you sinned enough to be pulled in this circle." I explained smoothly, I am not feeling bad for doing this. No matter what I am have summoned someone quite evil, not that I hiding the fact that I am not a good guy either.
"Sinned enough?" She asked with disbelief.
"The Biblical God saw all of us as sinners regardless of anything we did."
"Oh, I know that. That's why I altered and improved the requirements for the summoning circles. Even so, you meet the criteria." I said with a shrug.
"And what is the criteria?" She asked seriously.
"Killing an innocent, ruining innocent life, and several others, if one of those are meet then I can summon someone as my Pillar."
"Those are quite… simple requirements… Devils, one way or another, did one of those things… especially in older times." She said while grimacing, I can assume she remembered her past.
"I have no idea on older days which you talking about, that's why you are here. You will be teaching me everything I want to know." As I said that her eyes widened.
"I-I-I see may I know, how you achieved this? Where did you find means to summon a devil and bind one to yourself?" The brown-haired devil asked me curiously.
"Hmm, maybe I will tell you one day. Tell me what's your name?" I asked curiously now myself, since I definitely, saw her somewhere.
"It's Venelana Gremory." The brown-haired devil lady introduced herself.
That moment I remembered where I saw her before.
'I see… so... somehow… I got transported to my alternative self in that weird reality where the main character gets stronger from his perversion and women have physics-defying breasts.'
'Well, none of that matters, Ars Goetia which I improved made my identity top priority to my pillars. Unlike original Solomon, I won't be telling anyone that I have bound devils to serve me.'
I thought with a frown about my new circumstances.
"I see… I suppose we should start with overall history first from the supernatural point of view."
"As you wish." She said with a simple bow.
~~~
Never in her life did Venelana think that she will be summoned to become a servant to a mere human child.
Especially when the child from the looks of it has Solomon's knowledge. The human mage which is a taboo between pillar members.
The Bael Devil only knows about the man's existence because she was taught about him by Zekrom Bael himself.
The human mage with help from vindictive Biblical God created the Ars Goetia summoning system based on the same teleportation principle which devils of old used to prey on humans.
Reverse summoning a specific devil and binding it to himself for the rest of human's life…
Only Venelana realised that her summoning was even more special, as her new Master has said he improved the circle considerably. Making her incapable of lying to him and incapable of telling anyone about him.
How this works she has no idea, but she was utterly terrified of this boy, the boy was not a boy at all, it reminded her of Ajuka…
The very same Ajuka who became one of the Satans and a Super Devil. If this boy is anything like him then the Devil race can be in danger or… if she is smart enough they can profit from this… Depending on her and how good she can be with manipulation of him.
But… The more she spend her time around him the less she had confidence in manipulating him. The boy has no interest in politics, he has no interest in women, since he is just a boy…
Worse of all she could only tell truth and nothing else, manipulation of him was very difficult. Not only that she could not make him see devils in good light.
Any argument they have about the evil pieces only made her cringe in defeat.
And so… she spend several weeks teaching anything she knew about devils, angels, fallen angels, all the tricks he needs to be hidden from them, the theories on barriers and such…
After that, it was magic… all her life's work on magic knowledge was drained by him in less than a year.
She taught him all about how magic flows, the difference between the devil, angels, fallen angels, and other species and their unique magical energies.
After that… Venelana finally saw the boy's genius in action.
That moment the comparison between Ajuka and her new Master was evident in the boy. First, she saw what he calls the transmutation circle… magic she never saw before. Assuming it was the very same magic that allowed Solomon to craft his artefacts, the infamous ten rings.
Changing... everything… including dust into a plain-looking material which she can assume is some sort of clay. Then what followed was the using runes of several different pantheons… She has no idea how he made them work together like that…
To craft a ring from pure looking gold.
"Is this… one of the Solomon's rings?" She asked with some trepidation.
"No, this is my foci." the boy explained to her as he picked up the ring from the circle.
"Foci? Like a mage's staff?" She asked with much more relief.
"Indeed, this will allow me to cast magic similarly how devils do." He very simply explained to her that.
His tone was that of someone who did something extremely simple, but if information about this kind of foci spreads out then Devils will lose a large edge in human recruitment… after all Devil magic is one of the points which humans accept the proposition to become Reincarnated devils.
A magic that can be used through nothing but imagination is extremely versatile and deadly.
And this boy who was no older than twelve created an artefact which can use it…
What he can do with more resources? Or just time… it made the brown-haired woman shiver in fear from that thought alone.
~~~
"You can use your magic to build a floor below that garage, yes?" I asked Venelana who was standing next to me.
The Ars Goetia abilities are fascinating because I can summon Venelana anywhere I want, the devil magic is quite something, and using their magic against them gives me a little bit of satisfaction.
I did remember more on high school DxD, I remembered watching it when I was in that horny teenager stage back in the day.
After that, I barely remember following it since I spend time buying stocks and getting rich by selling licenses from phone apps to computer apps.
It was a time where I went from mindless fan service anime like DxD to Seinen in my free time.
The amount of plot I can remember is bare-bones, all I remember is that Kouh, a city, on the other side of the globe is the pivotal point of all action.
This means that I will be staying right here. More than 8 thousand kilometres away from Japan.
"Yes. All devils can do basic things like these. Do you have specifics… Master?" She asked simply, still trying to get over the fact that she is calling me Master subconsciously. A trick old Solomon added to the system it seems, I glossed it over since I found no point checking the part how devils will be addressing their Master.
As expected from a man who had a harem and army of wives…
"We will start with stairs. Then a main room followed by several sets of corridors…"
"You wish for an… underground base? That's quite…childish of you Master…" Venelana said that with a giggle.
*Snort*
"I don't think alot of people will like the light show I would do in the attic," I said with an eye roll. Her trying to poke at me like this is not the first time. I can assume she is trying to find more about me as we progress this Master-Servant relationship.
"Yes, I suppose you are right… I could use some of my family resources to buy you some land." She offered with a very 'kind' smile.
"Nice try. But, no." I shook my head at the devil lady's try to snag me into their network.
"What about your family? Should I continue to alter their memories?" She asked me on another note.
"Yes, once you are done with what you won't be needing to hypnotise them anymore."
Yes, my family almost immediately found out something was not right with me when I summoned Venelana. The devil lady needed to alter their memories with hypnosis. I haven't learned any hypnotic magic yet, but I will touch that once I will start studying mind related arts.
After some alterations were done I was able to move around my house more freely. No major alterations were done, only the fact that I am practising magic.
And of course Venelana's existence, the less they know the better.
Once we walked ot the garage I found the spot where I want the stairs to go under the garage will be.
The brown-haired devil lady with casual hand wave summoned several Gremory magic circles and started quite literally digging the ground.
Well more like removing it from existence.
In less than thirty minutes later I was standing in a room which was just after descending the stairs.
"Hmm...while the creation of the room was rapid there is alot of ambient magic in the air," I said after feeling the magic in the air.
The method for this is quite simple, it's part of training to strengthen one's body. You channel magic through ones body as much as possible until one is tired, rinse and repeat.
Eventually one develop a natural sense of magic. It helps having a magical connection to someone as well. For me, it was the brown-haired devil woman next to me.
Thus accelerating the whole process of developing the sense.
"Is it bad?" Venelana asked with a raised eyebrow as she heard my comment.
"Normally? No. But I am planning to make artefacts and tinker with rituals and magic circles, so devil energy will mix with regular human magic energy or whatever else energy I will be emulating in future." I explained casually to her since there is no need for me to hold anything away from me on that front.
"What kind of artefacts we are talking about? Like the ten rings?" I could hear how on edge she was when the ten rings came up.
Yeah, the rings are simply absurd even by DxD standards, the Solomon dude could negate any type of energy, including Touki the only way to beat him is through pure physical combat. Which was quite impossible since he could use any magic from any pantheon plus his 72 pillars.
One could say he was Biblical God's triumph card against the devils.
In other words, if the dude didn't die the Underworld would have lost and Lucifer's 72 Pillars would have become Solomon's Ars Goetia 72 Pillars.
"Hmm? The rings are quite good, but I already improved on that formula when I was reading up on the Sacred Gear construction. I am planning on making greater stuff." I said with shrug. As I was looking away from her and looking around imagining how I would want to make my workshop.
I could feel how the devil lady turned completely stiff for a moment.
"So it's the truth that Biblical God has left the method of Sacred Gear creation to Solomon?" She asked with disbelief.
"Not quite. There is no true 'method' or specific blueprint. They all are artefacts which are two dimensional." I decided to explain this since she needs to be on the same wave line as I am.
"Two dimensional?"
"Indeed. A Human is a three-dimensional being, made from physical body, soul, and essence or spirit energy. The Sacred Gear upon creation is transformed into a spiritual item then it is attached to one's soul. And detached after host death. There are ways to make the gear physical. But, two dimensional is much safer as one can't truly touch it without some sort of training." I explained to her as simply as I could.
Big G has a system or like a foundation how all gears of his are made into physical and spiritual, but that foundation by this point has many cracks. Especially by the Fallen who are trying to crack the mysteries of his items.
It's like a firewall for one's OS… now that brings back some memories…
"I see… I am sure Fallen would like to know where you live." The brown-haired devil lady said with a fake smile.
Sorry Venelana but after the time being around you I already cracked some of your personality, she always likes to 'joke' when she is nervous. Especially around me. It seems she is afraid for her Devil Race.
Hmm, should I tell her that if they are not naughty, they don't need to fear me?
Well, I doubt, since I have kidnapped one to be my familiar…
So, she is probably afraid I won't be holding back since I think they are evil…
"Maybe? By the time we are done here Venelana, I doubt many will be able to simply enter my garage." I said with a smirk as I was thinking of things to add to my 'garage'.
"You still going to call this a… garage?" She asked with raised eyebrow.
"A garage is man's fortress…" I said sagely, I remember my garage! A five stories down, with more than 50 super and mega cars, some of them were even my creation.
While I never added any lethal security there. I had one of the best securities available on the planet.
"But… you are not even a man." The Bael devil said with an eye roll.
"... You talking physically or mentally?" I asked her crossed arms.
She raised both hands in defeat. Not wanting to go in that direction it would seem.
"You forgot that I am almost 13. My point is, that a man naturally wants his special place, Especially me. Since all I want is to tinker with stuff in peace."
"Very well, since this what you want. Not that I can say no to you." My devil familiar said with a sigh. I can see that she doesn't understand. Well... she is a female…
"Good. Now we need to adjust where the main workshop is… it needs to be just below that parkway. So that once a car is finished the section can lower and the car can drive out." I said while remembering my villa in Germany. The nation where I used to test out my cars on their highways.
*Sigh*
"As you wish…" The brown-haired devil lady just sighed and continued with her work in expanding my garage.
~~~
By this point, Venelana was a builder, a teacher, a psychologist, a profession where a person is listening to another person's story for money...
And then reverse happened and she ended up being taught by a 12-year-old nearly 13... about magic of all things which she even now can't wrap her head around!
Nonetheless, she finds this time of her life quite fascinating…
But, then… it happened…
Her husband with quite an...arbitrary decision decided to engage their baby daughter to youngest Phenex…
It was so random by him that Venelana was out of words… and her baby daughter Rias? She went hysterical that they took the choice from her hands …
"Master… please… I need to return home… can I take a week off?" The Bael Devil asked her Master who has finally moved into his new garage.
"Hmm? Sure. I don't have use for you right now." He motioned for her to leave.
Marcus had several white circles drawn and a bunch of plain-looking clay laying next to them.
The very same material he will use to make his artefacts. The Bael can assume her Master is already thinking of plans to make some of the crazy artefacts he told her before.
Not that Venelana can remember much, as she was still in shock that her master knows how to make Sacred Gears and she can't tell anyone or write it down to anyone! Her brain does not even operate in that direction when she is not around her Master.
Meaning that her train of thought was affected by that Ars Goetia!
That is just terrifying!
Well, for now, she should stop thinking about this, and focus on her baby girl who learned the grim truth of being Heiress of a Pillar House.
~~~~~~Few Days Later~~~~~~
While Venelana did her job perfectly, she used her magic extremely… loosely… meaning the moment I dispersed and collected it the whole underground garage of mine turned dark…
Meaning that I needed light, and then I realised that I needed water as well. Since I am not planning to go surface just to wash my hands or take a piss…
So, first light. Extremely simple, with magic especially, I was done with that in just a few days.
I could have gone with a simple runic cluster to illuminate the room. But instead, I decided on a perfectly sealed glass container that gives pure LED light.
No magic was used after alchemy, the electricity is. flowing through wires as energy through the ceiling.
And energy source? The magic generations are stupidly easy to make in this lax world.
If devils or any race knew this simple concept I am using right now they could easily take control of the world's energy issues. And monopolise energy…
Oh, well… anyway… after creating simple air to magic, magic to energy reactor I was done with light issues and have enough energy to power my garage and run some PC's…
But, then… the more difficult thing came up… and that is plumbing.
*Sigh*
"I should have learned that Devil magic trick before I send Venelana away," I said with a sigh while crossing my hands.
Thinking for a solution to this problem…
Oh well…
"I suppose I should summon someone who knows water better than anyone." Thinking for a moment I recalled what my devil familiar told me about devils…
A specific pillar came to my mind.
"Serafall it is then… A Satan will serve me as muscle if need be as well. Since she is one of the strongest beings the devils can offer and is knowledgeable with water and ice…" With that idea in mind, I went to the room that will serve me as a summoning station.
Moments later I started drawing another Ars Goetia summoning circle.
~~~~~~Underworld~~~~~~
In the capital of the Devil Race, the city Lilith, in the main office of the Satan Leviathan, a certain Satan was doing her work with a slightly annoyed look.
The black-haired devil was annoyed with the amount of work she has to do every single day. As someone responsible for diplomatic relationships between her Devil race and other pantheons she constantly has to deal with things related to High-Class devils snatching humans from right under some deity noses.
Most of the time it's just for some Gods to bitch around since they are bored and looking for an excuse to cause some trouble.
Then she has to deal with the elder council who are bitching about some nonsensical things…
Serafall can't remember when there were some real issues she had to deal with apart from these hot air nonsense constantly popping up and making her deal with the paperwork…
"Hmm? What now!?" She snapped out from her documents and looked around. Her sensitive magical senses picked up that some weird devil energy just appeared underneath her.
Her gaze went down and she saw a white magic circle forming there.
"Hmm? I don't remember a scheduled contract summoning?" The black-haired devil said to herself before she noticed the symbol of the house who is summoning her…
"This is… what house is this!?" Her mind quickly went through the list of symbols she used to see. But, this is none of those!
In truth, she does not remember any white colour used to summon she was about to call her magic power but…
"What…" her eyes widened to a comical level when she felt her magic not listening to her!
"No...way the ten rings… the ability to nullify and take over demonic energy! This… is…" Serafall's facial expression turned pale… there is only one being who could do that… no! There was a mere human who did that to the devils!
But how!?
Before she could make another noise this time for help, she was summoned from her office just... like... that…
~~~~~~Back with Marcus~~~~~~
When I thought about Serafall it was that she was devil obsessed with magic girls.
But, when I summoned her… it was nothing like I thought…
In truth, she was dressed blue dress reminding me of those silly balls people used to hold for me for any silly achievement I ever did... they would hold it! It was truly annoying the only good thing about it though were the female dresses that had those exposed backs.
"You… you are the next Solomon?" She asked with disbelief.
"Hmm? Next Solomon? I suppose I am." I said with a shrug as I looked at the current Leviathan.
"I see… so you are like Ajuka then. I can tell that my thought process is severely affected by this. I never heard of this from the original Solomon. I heard he liked his devil women as little affected as possible…
This means you have upgraded a summoning circle devised by Biblical God and Solomon… you are a little monster aren't you?" She said with a twitchy eyebrow and her lip was slighly quivering. The Satan lady was pissed but same time very much… well…
*Sigh*
"I have heard the legends. My life now is yours, isn't it? I have heard that Ars Goetia Pillars are fully connected to the owner."
"Hmm, indeed the devils know quite a bit about Solomon. Especially since the book never was studied."
"No devil can touch it. The moment Solomon was corpse the book was destroyed by the devils. How do you have it then?" Serafall asked with narrowed eyes, this was the limit of the amount of anger she can show to me.
"That's my Devil lady is something you might going to learn one day. Now, however, I need your expertise in water manipulation." I decided not to answer that. It was quite satisfying seeing Serafall pout like that.
"Fine… not that I can say no to my...Master…Grrr, you… this...just how powerful is this binding!?" The black-haired devil's shoulders shook for a bit.
"The more powerful you are the more binding it is… in your case, it's off the charts. Since you are an Ultimate Devil." I said with a smirk.
"Nonsense! The stronger I am the weaker it should be! It's common sense!" She said with an angry and pouty look.
"The binding was made from your energy and carved into your very soul by Ars Goetia summoning. The only way to take it off is for me to die, in turn for you to die. The moment your soul leaves your body and demonic energy evaporates your corpse will still have echoes of Ars Goetia. The Biblical God was very thorough with the design and Solomon only relished the fact of enslaving the bad devil ladies…"
Serafall was utterly pale now after hearing that. It seems the stories were not as scary as the reality, a rare occurrence.