Chapter 3: Chapter 2
Chapter 2
Her, the Satan Leviathan doing plumber work? What madness is this!?
Well, she is not doing the plumber work, but closes one can get! From putting pipes at a specific location to working on water pressure! She never did anything of this kind of work!
Still, thought the moment her...that brat…Master… told how useless she is, the Satan Leviathan decided to just do it!
And so, a few days into it. She was done! His underground garage has working water! The consequences of her actions? she is behind her work! She missed several meetings and Serafall has no doubt there is a pile of documents waiting for her…
"Are we done here? Please! Let me go! I promise I will good devil!" Satan was nearly kneeling in front of her Master. The woman can't remember the the the last time she begged for anything.
But, by this point, she had to! there is a ton of work to do! And she is behind the schedule!
"Fine. Come to me when you have several hours of free time." He said that with a commanding tone and Serafall almost smiled hearing that!
Finally! Some freedom!
"I understand! I will return to you when I can!" The black-haired devil lady happily said that, thinking that she can return when she can decide the appropriate time!
"No, you will return the moment all the most important work is done. Not, when you can."
*Tsk*
The Satan Leviathan clicked her tongue for a second, her master is prepared!
"Fine… I will do that."
"You are not my first devil Serafall. I already had practise with Venelana. check this one out." Marcus got into position as he is about to ask her something.
"Serafall do you plan on thinking of spreading information on my existence?" The next Solomon asked her with a smile.
"Of course I am! Your existence is one of the worst things that could happen to Devil Race!" The moment Serafall said that she grabbed her mouth trying to stop from spilling out the beans.
"That will be a mistake. Remember? My life is tied with yours. If you spill the beans other factions will eventually know about this.
And two. You forgot that you can't in any way spread the information. The way I have programmed the thought process is that you can't consciously or unconsciously think about spreading the word.
Instead of blocking the thoughts I am making that you can't think of them." I explained to her casually.
"Did you just say that you have Venelana Gremory as your first devil pillar?" Serafall asked with disbelief. When? How? The brown-haired devil lady is the mother of the current Lucifer!
"She is nearly with me for a whole year."
The black-haired Satan that moment felt despair rising in her gut. Just how… powerful is this Ars Goetia thing? Serafall even met Venelana in that period! And she felt nothing is wrong with her!
"It seems now you understand?" He said that with a kind smile.
A smile reminding the current Satan Leviathan of devils of the old, and the stories she used to grow up hearing about.
*Resigned Sigh*
"I understand. Master, as long as you are not plotting anything against my race. I won't be trying to find my way out of this. Can we agree on this kind of deal?"
In the end, Serafall decided that her race takes priority over her personal feelings.
"Indeed we can have this kind of deal. My hobby and my lifestyle is crafting and it always going to be crafting and tinkering. As long as I can get things for my craft I won't going to interfere with your race. The only reason I have summoned Venelana was that she was a Bael and member of Great King house. Your summoning was because of your water manipulation and strength of Ultimate Class Devil."
'I see… He is like Ajuka, this is good news and bad news. The good news is that he won't care about Devil Politics. Which is bad news as well.
I need to establish some ground rules. Easier said than done from such a weak side…'
Serafall then quickly realized that she can use secrecy against him as well…
"I see… then we have an understanding? As Satan Leviathan I have a very busy schedule. If you summon me from middle of meeting or worse case when I have a meeting with members of other Pantheons it will be a disaster." The Black Haired devil said very seriously.
"Indeed. This is where we will use our mental link."
"The... what?" Serafall asked with raised eyebrow.
"Ars Goetia attached you to me, I can feel your emotions to a certain level and…" Marcus stopped talking and instead...
"Do this...we can talk mentally to each other…" Started talking directly in her head.
This made the Satan Leviathan just gulp down nerviously again…
Such power over her was simply terrifying. No wonder Solomon was top class taboo secret…
When she first heard about this human mage, she felt like it was a human boogeyman, a made-up story so that devils would prey less on humans or otherwise Solomon will enslave them.
Turns out he is so real that she ended up as one of his Pillars, well not the original one but his successor.
"I see. Then... please, ask me mentally first before summoning me alright? The less people know about this the better is for you, yes?" Serafall asked cautiously and same time using what he wants, secrecy.
"Very well, we have a deal."
"My thanks, Master." She said that while giving him a bow. Then calling forth her Leviathan circle and disappearing from his workshop.
Once she was gone. Marcus looked at his work table.
"It's time… for some tinkering." He was nearly jumping up and down from his seat from that thought!
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At first, I decided to do some basic trigger-based weaponry.
Starting from the basics of basics, and then moving up from there. After this system is done I will be able to work on bigger and better. Like adding elements and things like that.
After getting neutral clay material done, I turned it into thin like paper and spread it through the table.
Once that is done I started drawing runic circles. The first one reacts to motion. Absorbs motion, then it sends that energy into second circle which turn it into magic. Once the transformation of energy into magic energy is done it flows into the accelerator circles. Where it gains more power, passing through magnifying circles for magnified effect before reaching the release circles.
After finishing with these. The thin paper-like clay was full of circles.
The system of shooting magic was done. Now all I need is to give it a form.
The most obvious form is a gun.
*Alarm clock*
"Hmm? It's already 17:00? Damn… this stuff is quite time-consuming…" I said to myself as I looked at my handy work on the table.
"But, first... some food…"
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The next day I was back and started working on the layout of the form.
From paper-like form into that of a gun which can fit into one's hand.
This is where it took me several days which turned into several weeks.
Along the way, I spend alot of time simply typing down the future upgrades for this… magic caster? A magic gun? Castor?
The plain-looking clay transformed into a metal and the item finally looked like a plain metal gun.
The first thing I noticed is that it weighs quite a bit for my 13-year-old body.
Gun itself looked like a plain Glock. There is a cartridge slot for future upgrades and there was no safety trigger as well.
"Right… first test… run," I said that to myself while picking up the weapon and walking to the test room.
The only room where Devil magic in air is very much present. For the simple reason that it was enchanted to take hits.
For this, I have put on some gloves and a little bit more protective clothing. While I did math that it should not explode upon usage. Nonetheless, I was ready to dip just in case it will end up exploding.
"Test number 1!" I pointed the gun at the wall, holding it with both hands.
"3...2...1!" And pressed the trigger.
That moment I could hear a hum coming from the gun. It started heating up before a white circle appeared at the end of the barrel. releasing a burst of energy in the shape of a bolt.
It smashed into the wall creating a least few inches deep hole, seeing that I was success I pulled out my voice recorder.
"Test number 1 is success, key point of interests... The gun heat-ups, the proximity of the circles generate excess heat, powerful enough to start heating the titanium.
A possible substitute is needed, for the metal, possibly a supernatural substitute is recommended.
The shot load is around 3 seconds. Shortening of time is needed. Possibly extra accelerator circles. Hmm... maybe using rail method… on the barrel itself?" I said that into the recorder before pressing the pause.
Then I looked at the weapon. I could see some deformations already manifesting…
"Right… one's of strongest human metal melting like its nothing? Hell, need to check the material used by Big G in his Sacred Gears." Mentally recalling what I read on the sacred gears the dude had several types of formulas… depending on the gear.
The Longinus ones even used the beast's energies as material… for armour but that just asking to bring a weapon to deal with that type of energy… how did that pervert survive that long just on dragon energy? If it was me who is a hunter then I would have gone the Batman route and pulled out everything I could on weaknesses the dragons have like how he did against Superman.
"Well, time to return to the drawing board."
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"Master, what are you doing?" I heard the curious tone of my second familiar.
"Oh, Sera you are back… you've been gone for quite some time…" I mentally remembered that she was gone for several weeks!
Hmm, it would be seen Venelana is enjoying her freedom since she didn't even try to pop in…
Well, I will summon her when I need her.
"Testing a cluster of runes in shape of gun. As you can imagine it can cast bullets every 3 seconds." I said that to Serafall as I handed over the gun to her.
"You made this in the time I was away?" She asked with wide eyes.
"Yeah. More like I did it casually. Since I had ideas constantly popping in along the way… I could have done it several days earlier." I casually explained as I went over the stuff I had on my table.
"Since you are here. Can your devil magic create durable mannequins?" I asked her off-handily.
"Oh? Yeah! I mean yes!" Serafall snapped out from her shock as she looked at the gun then at her Master.
"Great. Then you will be making me some of them in the testing room. Oh, and I will need to reinforce the walls there as well." I said that as I remembered how brittle the wall was.
"Okay…"
I motioned for her to hand the gun over since I need to start with my upgrades.
"Master I can only be here for 3 or so hours before I need to return to my duties." She said that seriously.
"I see. It is enough time for me to upgrade this to mark II."
Serafall didn't say anything as she watched me doing my stuff.
Deconstructing it was quite easy since I build it for easy assemble and disassemble.
Once I checked the inside of the gun as I have expected. The titanium started to deform it's either the magic itself or the heat generated from the circles… which should be not normal…
For now, I quickly used the transmutation circle to fix it and then started working on the upgrades.
First, small barriers will be built inside, in barrel included Acting like rail for the energy. This will improve the energy flow, then more accelerator circles. For shorter casting.
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"And done…" I said that as I finished assembling the gun.
"Did you just put barrier magic inside of this gun?" She asked with disbelief.
"Oh dear Sera. How little you know how much a simple wall can help, in this situation. It's not just barrier magic. Have you ever heard of magnetism?" I asked her with a smile.
"Umm? How it's related to that?" She asked me not getting what I am saying.
"You see the barriers are keeping the heat from reaching the metal in turn that heat stays inside generating more magic.
But that's not the main part. See, the barrel itself? I use it as a rail to build up power. The longer the barrel the more power it can build up.
It is a simple concept humans use In general." I said with a shrug.
"Says you…" She said something under her breath.
"Hmm? Did you say something?"
"Nope! Let's go and see how good it is!" She happily said that as she grabbed my hand and started pulling towards the testing room.
"Right…"
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With crack like thunder, a bolt of blue energy smashed into a mannequin…
*Crackling Explosion*
Disintegrating it completely.
"Test 2 is successful as expected. The railing system and barrier magic has fixed the heating issue and increased the power by around 150%. The downside is the recoil. I believe I nearly dislocated my shoulder.
Possible solutions is natural magic reinforcement and regular exercises with natural body growth." Marcus said to the voice recorder.
'The brat truly is the human version of Ajuka… maybe even worse. I don't remember Ajuka being like that at that age, he used to spend his early age reading like... a lot of reading… he only started proper experiments when he was done with magic.'
Serafall thought with a sweaty forehead as she has drawn a comparison between Satan Beelzebub and the next Solomon.
They are the same in regards to making new things. While Satan Beelzebub is left to bis devices for the simple reason that no one can't control him as he would simply leave and still do his thing. Which is extremely dangerous. That is why the devils council don't try to control him.
While her Master is different… The boy is barely 13 and he already created a superior weapon to the ones used by the church!
Worst of all she has no idea how to control him!
"Any comments?" Marcus asked Serafall as he walked over to her side.
"Well, it's superior looking to the weapons used by exorcists." The Satan Leviathan said with a sigh.
What can she say? 'Please don't sell these to the church?'
"Yeah. Thought so, the point is that I made the ammo cartridge area act like more like a program." He said that as he showed the empty slot for the ammo cartridge.
"Act like a program?" She asked confused.
"You know about video games right?" He asked her remembering that Serafall is a Magic girl Levi-tan…
"Yes?"
"Well, you know the old style ones where you put a cartridge to play a specific game?"
"Yes…" She had realising look as she started putting things together.
"So think this way. Depending on the cartridge the gun can shoot, demonic energy, holy energy, dragon energy." He said that with a smirk.
"That's not all, depending on cartridge it can be a minigun, a particle canon, or even magic canon," Marcus clarified more with a smile.
"But it's a handgun…"
"Did you miss the part when I said that it's an item that turns motion into energy, then energy into magic which is accelerated and released like a weapon?" He said with raised eyebrow.
"Yes...but it looks like handgun…" She tried to process how can a handgun be like canon!?
"The looks are purely for sake of how human hand is holding it. There is nothing of 'human gun' inside of it. All there is, is 37 magic circles inside of it. Working like a system.
Basically, low to mid-tier Sacred Gear. since low one's only have 31 circles inside generally. But, I distress I can only call this a pseudo gear since I used human materials as base." He said to her as he swirled the weapon on his finger.
He feeling satisfied. Inside his element! Which is making stuff! Finally, he is back!
The moment Serafall heard him mentioning Sacred Gears she remembered the infamous Ten Rings of Solomon. The pseudo-Sacred Gears build by Solomon for Solomon.
The very same ones which make most of supernatural regardless of their powers quite simply useless in front of this human.
One of the reasons why he was called the boogeyman of the Devil Race.
"So, it's true then? That Solomon could make Sacred Gears?" Serafall asked with more fear than ever before. Does this mean her Master isn't just Ajuka level genius, can bind devils to himself, but has Biblical God's blueprint to make Sacred Gears!
Just how dangerous is he!?
"In layman terms? Yes. The way I am with some testing I could craft a high-level one. But a Longinus? I need to check one in action. Do some surveying. Check the energy readings.
Big G used a concept as a base for some of them, I could do the same. With the right emulation of dragon energy, I could make something similar to Booster Gear and Divide Dividing."
The moment the black-haired devil lady hear that he could make something akin to Boaster Gear or Divide Dividing her mind stopped to a crawl.
The way he said it sounded as if it was only a matter of time for him!
"Impossible… there are only two Heavenly Dragons. and they serve as cores of those gears!" Satan Leviathan reasoned with him she wanted to believe that he can't do it as he was already dangerous as he is! But, the more she is around him the more she feels fear towards what he can do!
"Hoh? Do you think it's impossible?" He questioned her.
"At base tell me what is a dragon?" He added another question on top of it with a raised eyebrow.
"..."
"In layman terms, a dragon is a sapient energy which crystallized into the physical realm. All I need to do is mimic it, create artificial intelligence for blob of energy and it will be a dragon core for me.
Give it some previously programmed dragon abilities and I will have something similar to Boaster Gear or Divide Dividing."
"Even so. They won't be as powerful as the original pair of gears." Serafall reasoned with him.
"True… but what about Mark II? Mark III? Or Mark XX?" He asked her with a curious look.
Now… the Black-haired Devil Lady realised what this means… once he cracks how to make it… well it will be… chaotic… everyone will want a piece of him!
That moment fear which he had towards him disappeared. It was replaced by desire… desire that she needs him on her side! Since she can't kill him! For the simple reason that she will die as well! It only leaves a simple desire that he needs to be on the devil side!
Knowing current Angels they will never want second Solomon to be around them since the majority of angels hated the man, only the Biblical God liked him for the simple reason that Solomon wanted to control and enslave the devils instead of killing them off.
"Don't worry since you are mine I will make some for you." He casually said to her.
"Hmm? You would? But why?" She asked that with disbelief her brain is for second didn't understand.
"Because you are mine, my pillar, my power. You forgot that already?" He said that with disbelief she still doesn't understand her situation? Or some of them are just that slow?
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That moment Serafall almost face palmed herself. A small groan escaped from her lips.
'How slow I am? Of course… I am his, I am his power. I don't need to think in this regard. Giving me his creations will make him more powerful!' She understood that yes, she will probably going to be one of the first to wield them in some sort of battle.
"I am a high profile person Master. Your secrecy won't going to last that long if I am to show them in front of everyone." The devil lady said with a frown. She started using a different mentality around her Master. Instead of being reluctant she now is actively trying to help him.
"Don't worry I am not planning to hide forever. Besides, I won't be deploying 'Scale mails' anytime soon. Foundations are needed for that. But it doesn't mean I can't help you with gadgets." He said with a knowing smile. A smile which means that he knows something important about her.
"Help me with gadgets? What gadgets are you talking about?" Serafall tried to understand what he could give her. All she cares about is So-tan and her work as Leviathan…
"The one which will shrink the amount of paperwork you do as Leviathan." He said that with a knowing look.
That moment Serafall's opinion about her Master went from +10 to +70. For the simple reason that he was the very first person in her whole life who asked if she needs help with her work!
Even Satan herself didn't know his offer will have such a fundamental change in perspective!
The solution was obvious like day and night! All she needed is to deal with paperwork! If she can deal with it, then she will have more time with So-tan! And even more time to herself that is... if her Master won't be summoning her often.
"You can do that?" She asked hopefully. She was nearly begging him. Not only she needs to deal with her paperwork but she often needs to deal with Ajuka side of paperwork from time to time as well!
"Yes. But, first lest return to the workshop." He said that before starting to walk out.
She nodded and with a few magic circles, she fixed the room for him. Before leaving the testing room after him.
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"First. Answer some questions about the type of documents you do? Are they the same size? Ar they have the same layout? The same sorting system?" He asked her as he started typing down something on a notepad paper.
"Hmm, I think it will be better if I bring some of them here?" She asked with raised eyebrow. It's better to show the real deal than just describe it.
"Sure. You can do your paperwork here if you want." He said with a casual shrug.
"I can?" She asked with wide eyes.
"Yes. But first, we need to increase the security of this place. Once the barriers I want are up. You can do the paperwork here." He said with a shrug.
"But why?" Serafall still asked with disbelief.
"I need someone to talk to, no doubt you want that too, second I said before but you are my pillar, if my pillar is not 100% then I search for solutions to make you 100%. Easy enough?" He explained to her simply.
'So… I am simply married to someone who controls me to large extent. At first, I thought that I am just a tool for him… good to know that he does care about me… but, I doubt he cares about my surroundings…
Maybe I can use this to my advantage? Maybe I can make devils profit from this through me until we can find ways to bind him to the devil race…'
"Since you want my company! Very well! I will be back in just a few moments!!!" After saying that much more happy Satan Leviathan disappeared with her magic circle.
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A few moments later she returned with several types of documents.
"Nice… this is what I needed…" Marcus said to her as he checked out an empty document, then a filled up one.
"Those are the only ones you are using?" He asked her after checking the documents. The second coming of Solomon had no interest in what is written on the paper he only cared about the similarities.
"Yes. We use a completely standardised form." Serafall said with a serious nod. It's like they are discussing battle plans against enemies.
"I see… then this is easy… I only need a basic A. I for this…" He said that more or less to himself.
"Hmm?" The black-haired devil was slightly baffled seeing him just turn around and walk towards his plain-looking clay… which now the devil lady knows is the main material… or more like base material he uses to transform into whatever he wants…
Before long she started seeing him starting to draw with a finger on the clay. She saw him using a small white/gold circle at the end of his index finger.
He was quite simply drawing runes with a finger.
"Umm… Master… my time is running up… sort off need to return to office?" She said that with a slightly uncomfortable look. Serafall doesn't want to interrupt someone who is working to make her life easier!
"Then go, I will contact you when I am ready, make sure you have some paperwork ready to test. Presumably some dummy ones at first." He said to her without even looking at her.
"Don't worry I will make sure you have those." She winked at him before disappearing inside her magic circle.
Once the devil lady was back in her office. She grinned silly. Her gaze went to the stack of paper on her table. A sinister smile worthy of the devil appeared on her beautiful face.
"Soon your reign of terror will end! Hehehehahaha!" She sinisterly laughter. A laugh was borderline creepy. Probably no one knew but Satan Leviathan and Satan Lucifer were going borderline insane from the paperwork they have to do.
So, Serafall is feeling like she is on edge of being reborn, the moment she heard there was a solution to this insanity-inducing bureaucracy of her office. She never signed for paperwork when she won against Grayfia for the position of Leviathan! And she never signed for this when they won the civil war!
Nope! She suppose to be the one of most important people in the underworld! One of the leaders! The whole paperwork non-sense is conspiracy created by those old devils in the council!
"Heh… once I have the tool, those fools can go and kiss their asses! Once I have more time I will be able to spend it with So-tan!" She giggled happily thinking about her baby sister.
But, then all of her happiness disappeared and was replaced with a thoughtful look.
Instead of walking to her office table, she went to the couch and got herself comfortable laying there and looking at the ceiling with a curiously look.
Now the black-haired Satan was thinking about the enigma which is her Master and his personality. She was able to build a solid profile on him mentally that is. And of course, find out how much her thought process is affected by Ars Goetia.
She can safely assume he cares about her, to point that he wants her to spend time with him. This means he doesn't have some sort of prejudice against the Devils… and doesn't things about them as dispensable tools.
'Right… he only summoned me because he wanted someone with expertise with water… since he had Solomon's knowledge he used that to bind a powerful devil who will be useful to him even after using my water knowledge.'
'This means I can get items for someone like So-tan! But how to persuade him?'
For a second she thought about the obvious way of getting what she wants. She is a devil after all… but then again once she starts doing that with him… she won't be able to stop him…
So timing and reason should be the most important ones. That is when he starts caring about females that is… and knowing human bodies… her Master should hit puberty soon…
Once there… she can move in… for a second Serafall had a lewd look on her face.
For some reason having lewd thoughts about doing it with someone who can build stuff like Longinuses makes her hot?
Is it a devil thing? Thinking of corrupting someone who can recreate Biblical God's work?
"Well...Master… just wait… Levi-tan shall teach you all you need to know about the ladies…" The Satan Leviathan said with a hot but bubbly tone...
~~~~~~Few Days Later~~~~~~
A few days later Serafall was summoned by her Master. She had a small pile of dummy files ready for the test.
What she saw was something akin to a printer… no it was an actual looking printer… more like a futuristic one with those sharp edges.
"Is this it?" The black-haired devil lady asked with a curious gaze. Was this her salvation.
"Yep. Let me explain." Marcus with quite excited tone said that. The Satan Leviathan quite quickly picked up his happiness with the item.
Internally she smiled, yes… if she wants his attention then all she needs to do is talk about his stuff.
"See that screen? when you put a document inside of Mass Signing Work Simplifying Machine or… signer for short… it works out key points of the document for you. Instead of reading a few paragraphs, you only need to read a few lines and all you need to do is press Yes or No. And the machine will sign your signature for you.
If you don't understand the simplification you can always press No and the Signer will pull that paper out for you to read normally." As he was explaining to Serafall she already started to drool by the halfway point.
She already understood what this does. And it's simply amazing! Why Ajuka never come up with this!?
By this point, her Master in her eyes was already a better inventor!
Well, that's probably her bias because of this machine! But still!
~~~~~~~~~Inventions/Tech/Sacred Gears~~~~~~~~~~~~
M.T.M (Motion to Magic) Castor MK II :
A magic (shooting) casting device in the shape of a handgun.
Classification:
Pseudo Low-Medium Sacred Gear made of 37 magic circles fused into a system.
Composition:
The case is built purely from Titanium, the insides are purely magic circles that are placed within barrier magic that keeps the heat from touching the metal. (Marcus assumes that magic power is what is deforming the metal instead of regular heat as normally titanium is much more heat resistant.)
Key magic techniques inside:
Basic M.T.M technique: Using a magic circle to capture motion and turn motion into energy and then energy into Magic even a regular human can use this weapon as they all need to do is press the trigger.
Basic Barrier Rail technique: By using barriers like rails empowered by Acceleration circles the blast builds up the force, the longer the rail is the stronger the blast will be at the end of the rail.
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Mass Signing Work Simplifying Machine (Signer)
An electronic device created with a single intention of making one's job of signing documents much quicker.
Classification:
A futuristic item which won't appear in the human market till at least 2025 for the simple reason that it has a basic A.I
Composition:
Trasmutated items like plastic, metal and rubber. Much more durable than regular stuff.
Technology:
Basic A.I: An A.I am capable of sorting out text by finding keywords in text in specific areas of the paper. Simplifying the text for the user.