Systematic Shinobi: Multiverse Mayhem - Chapter 24.1 (Patreon)

"Back up, back up a second," Daiki sighed, "If my soul becomes an afterlife? Putting aside the fact you stole the essence of a god and never told me about it a-"

'I stole nothing, he showed up uninvited, picked a fight and was promptly put in his place,' Isobu cut him off, 'He left his essence behind, was I supposed to just let it sit there and take up space?'

Honestly, for once Daiki wasn't sure how to reply. So instead he changed the subject, "Whatever, what's this crap about my soul becoming an afterlife?" he asked.

'A prediction of mine, nothing more, and not something you currently would really understand all too much at the moment as you are,' Isobu replied, 'Admittedly I might have jumped the gun a bit when you bungled up one of my other plans, but it's not like you would understand the quantum mechanics of divinity now would you?'

How even would he!?

It wasn't like he even met or interacted with that buffoon back in Mirajane's world, he only heard about him trying shit after he'd already got his shit smacked in. Isobu himself was the closest he'd ever interacted with to a god.

Somehow he doubted old man Sarutobi counted.

'Exactly, but to sum it up simply. I'd been cultivating this power for you anyway, and it was ready to be given you to. I figured now that you're actively taking the souls of people inside yourself, that I may as well do it now before you end up going blundering into an Apotheosis by complete accident,' Isobo continued, pulling out the big words now just to make Daiki feel even stupider for sure. Isobu snorted at his thoughts, before adding, 'And no, as mighty and skilled as Hiruzen Sarutobi is, and definitely has the strength and ability to contend with some real gods, he does not count.'

'I wouldn't put too much thought into it Daiki,' Atlas Flame piped in, 'As I've told you, most gods aren't all that and you're already stronger than any of the gods of my world. At least any that appeared on Earthland. They loved to boast about the tiers of godhood, apparently there was like seven or eight of them. But the only one of the gods of my world that I knew of that were above the first tier, was Ankhseram himself.'

…There were tiers to godhood now? Just being a captital G god wasn't enough?

'That's the thing, as far as I'm aware none of them were actually worthy of that capital G, except this hypothetical final and eighth tier they boasted of a lot, they were quite annoying with it actually,' Atlas Flame snorted, 'Like starting out you have your standard god, nothing else to it or added on to the name, we liked to call them lesser gods though. It really made them mad.' he burst into amused chuckles.

He wanted to make a comment, but stayed silent because honestly, Daiki was just along for the ride with this explanation at this point.

'Up from that was where Ankhseram stood, they called it a greater god, and where gods apparently got access to conceptual powers. The ones below it were all basically just incarnations of whatever power or element or whatever they were born from,' Atlas Flame continued, 'Those two are the only tiers of godhood I know exist for sure and-'

"Wait!" Daiki cut him off, "Conceptual powers!?"

Why were they talking about that is if it weren't a big deal. Weren't conceptual powers absolutely bullshit and insurmountable things.

'…Whatever gave you that idea?' Isobu snorted, 'Conceptual abilities are quite powerful yes, but they're hardly the be all and end all. You've been sipping too much of that conceptual juice nonsense from that Typemoon series haven't you?'

'True, I mean every dragon of my world is born with a conceptual ability,' Atlas Flame agreed, 'We're conceptually immune to any energy but our own. That does not mean however if Isobu here fired off his Bijuudama at me I would be okay. Well, okay I kind of would be because I would just assume my flame form. But other dragons wouldn't be. We might be immune to the energy but not the after effects of the attack, like the shock waves and force behind it. And he could literally just beat even Acnologia to death with his bare hands. At the end of the day, conceptual abilities are simply authority on reality that lets you tell reality how it works in that instance. But you already do that, no?'

When did he-

Daiki's eyes widened, "Seals are conceptual?" he gaped.

'What did you think they were?' Isobu snorted, 'You are literally imposing your own will upon reality and making it do as you please. You manipulate the very laws of reality with them. Why do you think even we Bijuu can't break free from a seal easily? Each stroke of a seal is at its basis conceptual, and you stack dozens, if not hundreds of them together, thousands in some cases altogether to make one greater seal. Even your own Four Trigrams seal that we currently reside within, is made up of thousands of minor conceptual laws all stacked together. Honestly even souls themselves are conceptual.'

Oh…

Well that…it didn't really change anything, not really. But, he felt something click in his head. As if he understood things more than he did previously.

If seals were actually conceptual, then they were actually even more powerful than he realised, and that was saying something because out of everything he had at his finger tips, he would have still ranked seals as being the most powerful potentially.

That gave him much to think about.

'Alright, putting that all aside for the moment, what are the other tiers of godhood?' Daiki asked.

'I know nothing really about them besides their supposed titles, so I'll just list them off in order,' Atlas Flame said, 'After Greater God, you have Higher Gods. After them is Ascended Gods, what a redundant name. Beyond them are Transcendent gods, above them are the Elder Gods. And above the Elder Gods are Omnipotent Gods that are second only apparently to some mysterious eighth tier of god that none of the gods I ever questioned even knew the name of. Personally I think it was all made up bullshit. Sure there's probably stronger gods out there, most definitely actually considering Isobu's existence but I think they made those tiers up to make themselves seem more powerful and grandiose than they actually were.'

Well he wasn't going to lie, that was a shit ton of tiers of godhood. It did sound not only redundant, but overly self important.

And that was coming from him.

So, pretty much fitting the archetypical god he supposed. Honestly, he was just surprised there wasn't anything like a 'primordial god' tier, that sounded like the kind of things they'd go gaga over after hearing Atlas Flame's explanation.

But at the very least, it could give him something of a basis to work off of when it came to godhood.

"What should I expect then when it integrates?" he wondered, "You said I'd inherit the authority of Ankhseram right? Where would I be on that tier system?"

'Eh, his powers weren't all that great to be honest. He could drain life force and enhance it. Curse people on the general scope of his power. Apply the concept of death to targets, which I suppose is decent because there are beings out there from your memories that are immune to death, or simply don't have the concept of death in their being. He could lay claim to souls and all that, just general god of life and death stuff, but stronger than the others about in my world,' Atlas Flame casually listed off, 'Usually just getting his authority wouldn't mean you'd jump to being a Greater God like him or on his level, but...well, you're already stronger than him. Much stronger actually. Not to mention you have those seals of yours, and have fused my heart with your own, so you're technically a dragon and could assume your own dragon form if you pleased…' he trailed off, before Daiki got the mental image of the giant hellfire dragon shrugging.

'Honestly, if those other tiers of godhood are a thing, then you're definitely going to at least be above that wimp Ankhseram,' Atlas Flame snorted, 'Mazel tov, it's a baby boy Higher God…or maybe Ascendant?'

Wait, so he didn't even need Ryukyu's quirk to take on a dragon form?

'You in fact do not, I'm pretty sure the reason you haven't transformed fully yet is simply because you've not actually called upon your Dragon Force fully at this point since the fusion of our hearts,' Atlas Flame Flame mused, 'Not that you'd want to use it anyway, with your whole only wanting to have your bijuu mode thing as your real transformations. But yes you could definitely assume a full dragon form, conceptual scales and all. Which means you technically have four conceptual powers or will. Life, Death, Seals and the dragon scales. Heh, I suppose that technically makes you a dragon god, aren't you something Daiki?'

…Daiki the Dragon God of Life, Sealing and Death.

That did sound amazing actually.

'And chuuni.' Isobu snorted, but Daiki ignored him. He had other more pressing thoughts.

"I wonder if I can fuse my scales then with just my skin?" Daiki wondered. Or at the very least, if he could do something with the concept of them to imbue it into his Bijuu Mode.

He'd be pretty much invulnerable at that point. With his sheer durability in Bijuu Mode, amped with Majestic Attire Susanoo to amplify everything including making him even more durable. Plus his aura. His physical defence would be unreal.

And if he could add the conceptual immunity of his dragon scales to it all, he would then be immune to all energy but dragon magic from the world of Fairy Tail and thus could only be effected and hurt by physical attacks.

"Honestly, everything really is coming up Daiki." he snorted, shaking his head. Well, it was still kind of hard to wrap his head around the fact that he was literally going to become a god.

But whatever, he could deal with that later.

"For now, I should really just get a move on." Daiki sighed, honestly, he wasn't even feeling having fun with the heroes anymore. He was half tempted to just leave and move on now.

But he'd made some promises, especially to Ragdoll. And he knew from her, that the other Wild Wild Pussycats were up above him right now as part of the Anti Daiki Force.

He'd need to go yoink their quirks and replace them with cloned versions to hold up his end of the deal to Ragdoll. And he did make that big boast of suping up All Might. He wouldn't want to be known for just big talk with no ability to back it up.

….After that he'd go grab that Kota kids quirk as well and give him a clone version, then go rob the graves of his dead parents to see if it were possible to do the same with him.

Time to speed run this shit.

He left the cell of the now very much deceased All For One behind. Hands stuffed in his pockets and a whistle on his lips, Daiki casually walked down the blinding white hallways of Tartarus.

Only to pause outside a specific cell.

"Purple and pink is an interesting combination, I have to admit." Daiki laughed as he checked out the chick behind the massive titanium cell door.

Honestly, he'd already had a lot of his fill really. He'd fucked Mirko for hours, gaslighted Ochako and flirted with Nejire. But, those were all heroes. He was honestly a little curious why hot villain chick was behind bars.

…Ah fuck it, he could see what she was about before getting to that speed run of his.