Devils & Artefacts c72 (Patreon)
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~~~~~~Underworld, Aboard Axiom~~~~~~
“We currently own around 67% per cent of all land in the Underworld. Wraiths’ numbers are dropping considerably while our forces have reached above 4 million.
We are close to completely crushing them.” Quinella explained to the gathered captains of the airships.
“Any news on where is Master?” Serafall asked with some concern. Him not being here is making her a little bit afraid. She has no doubt that Enterprise is powerful, but who else could fight Angra Mainyu?
“You can track him all the time.” The Assistant deadpanned. She was checking the new absurd data Aurora has been gathering.
‘Other realities? Is he serious? If this is true, then our conquest is only beginning!’ The beauty instinctively licked her lips. More Earths and Cosmos to conquer and civilisation to put under their feet!
She is getting all hot and bothered by the sheer idea of how much they can learn from their conquests in different worlds!
“Oh, right!” Serafall sheepishly scratched the back of her head while saying that.
“By what I saw last time, he was in Japan collecting his Airship. We will get another nine new airships with Graviton technomancy. These airships are the final nail in the coffin for this outdated relic.” Quinella said that while stroking her hair. She was already itching to return and start plotting the downfall of those arrogant mundanes.
“They are that good?” Enterprise asked with a curious gaze.
“There is no competition. The 2.0 uses fundamental forces of the universe. In broadside exchange, the 2.0 would utterly shred our current airships.”
“Impressive, it appears Admiral has outdone himself.”
Enterprise sounded impressed; of course she would! Any vessel upgrades are a good thing. As an incarnation of a ship, she likes these things the most.
“But such a difference. Don't these ships have infinite energy!?”
Quinella's eyes rolled at Serafall.
“Infinite doesn't mean the output can keep up with dished-out damage.” With a sigh, Quinella proceeded to explain.
“The diamond cores will spin and generate energy until the sun goes boom. But the reactors have a certain amount they generate. A single Diamond Heart on a ship generates a High God-level amount of juice.
However, this energy needs to be spread through the airship. Not to lose any of the power, we use hyper-conductive metal designed by Biblical God, the Sacred Gear Metal.
This metal allows 100% of the energy to be spread through all the ship’s parts. As you can see, someone like Artemis, if she were to concentrate her power on her bow and release a powerful arrow, that blast could damage the hull.
But for damage control, we can reroute power to the parts of the ship.”
“...Huh, now that you explained, these ships don't look that impressive.” For Serafall, Quinella has destroyed the image of the indestructibility of her airship!
However, Quinella looked at her as if she was an annoying little brat.
“You do realise that Master created these airships with the idea of raiding small Pantheons and taking their stuff?”
She huffed at the devil.
“They are not intended to be proper war vessels.”
“...They were not?”
“Of course! This war came out of nowhere. So we needed to rush. At very best, this airship would be retrofitted to carry stuff, that's it. Only when we are in space do we develop REAL warships.” The Assistant explained while messaging her forehead.
“Regardless, the 2.0 are combat models, no?” Latia finally spoke, as she was just listening before this.
“Think of them as trade ships equipped with guns and new plating. But yes, Master installed some experimental technomancy to see how they would perform.
Think of this as when Americans switched from battleships to carriers. This change is that moment.”
“I see. Is there a schedule for when we will retrofit the old ones to the 2.0?”
“No. However, I assume when we finish the war and return to base.” Quinella doesn't quite care for the upgrades. Her priority is to end this conflict.
“I see. In that case, I will keep the vessel at the back.*
“Do what you want. But there is barely anyone who can damage this thing anyway.” Quinella snorted, seeing that she had spooked these poor devils. Maybe she should say that these things are paper tigers? This way, they would have stayed at the front lines properly instead of charging blindly behind the enemy lines.
~~~~~~Later~~~~~~
“Mistress, we are approaching Lucifaad.” The navigation officer said to Quinella.
“Hmm, this is the original capital. Keep your guard; this place could have surprises.”
The assistant said with crossed arms. She is standing at the edge of the bridge close to the window and looking at the city in the distance.
‘This city is the original capital of the devils. The original Satans might have had some things hidden here—’
Her train of thought stopped as she saw black mist in the distance.
“Stop the advance. Set a perimeter, surround the city.” She instantly commanded when she saw something she didn't understand.
“R-Right! Sending commands!”
The Mechanised Infantry and the S.P.B.A. stopped the moment they got the commands from the bridge.
“Scan the mist and find out what this is,” Quinella asked with narrowed eyes as she looked at the mist in the city.
“Scanning!”
The officers swiftly started to use their consoles and scan with the ship's sensors and utilise the satellites in orbit.
“...Mistress. It's some sort of— soup? An organic soup of some sort.”
“We are picking up DNA of all sorts of Devils! Gremory, Agares, Sitri, Bael—all their signatures come from this.”
The Assistant’s eyebrows went up when she heard this.
“This doesn't make sense. I am going to investigate this in person. Maybe my Psionic powers will pick up something.”
“...But…Mistress! If anything happens to you, we will pay with our lives!” The girls started to panic when their commander decided to enter the fray like this!
“Hmm? How cute. Did you forget that my power is equivalent to Ultimate Class being, and I don't mean Ultimate Class Devil?”
“...But still!”
“Now relax and let me do my thing. I need to finish this before Marcus returns. I do want to be praised for ending the war after all!”
As she said, the disappearing in purple burst.
With impressive speed, she appeared outside the airship and used her senses to determine what this was.
“...A being? I sense one person's brain waves, but it's all over the place?” She said with a confused look. The only conclusion she comes up with is that this being is not humanoid in a literal sense.
Quinella raised her hand and condensed a purple ball of energy before shooting at this mist.
The mist instantly reacted and surged to condense into a single spot in the city.
***SCREECH!!!***
With a loud screech, the earth shook as humanoid wraiths with bat wings rushed out from the buildings and other hiding spots.
“To arms! Destroy these Devil Wraiths!” The assistant commanded her troops, which opened fire on the incoming devil creatures.
‘I guess we know where dead devils disappeared too.’
While there were many of them, Quinella’s troops were ready for ‘evil’ creatures. And these souls were mutated devil souls. They are extra vulnerable to light energy.
However, the mist itself finally revealed its form. It was a woman with pale skin, elf-like ears, long, lush black hair and dressed in a black dress. She was emitting a dark aura thicker than any devil Quinella had seen.
“...Lilith…” A realisation struck the AI-turned-human.
With a smirk, the assistant rushed to face this, and a purple-white sword appeared in her hand.
“...You are… strange,” Lilith spoke with a plain voice as she floated to the same level as Quinella. Her black aura allowed her to fly without any need for wings.
“Same to you. Your form is not solid.” The assistant replied with a frown.
“...Solid? My form is what I want. I am Progenitor of the Devils, the sea which gave birth to them.” As she said that, her power surged, and a massive amount of black water rose from Lucifaad and washed towards devil wraiths and the Technocracy’s army.
“...you bitch! Do you know what you did!? How am I supposed to explain this to Master!?”
Quinella momentarily panicked as she saw S.P.B.A Forward Knights melting alongside XC-M1, Yeagers and the Spider walkers. This black water was like de-atomisation!
It's almost like separating bonds between atoms and absorbing them!
“Now it's your turn.” Lilith motioned with her hand as the water rose and rushed towards the sword-wielding assistant.
Before that could happen, Quinella was surrounded by purple energy; her psionic powers roared to life and blasted the water aside.
Lilith looked impressed by this.
“You can deny my water?” She sounded shocked. Regardless, her black hair came to life as her aura also surged. This time around, she started to utilise an array of abilities from Devil Clans.
Water manipulation, Power of Destruction, bees, and even turning water into animals like lions and horses.
All of these rushed towards Quinella. The assistant realised that she was getting cornered. With her troops down, the wraiths were gaining the upper hand! Those things could fly with their bat wings while most of her force was on the ground!
Still, Axiom and 05 rushed to respond by sorting Starscream units. The ground was not good for the ground troops with that water.
While the Technocracy is responding, Quinella is using her psionic powers to fight back.
With several powerful sword swings, she nearly reached the Progenitor of Devil kind. But at that moment, something happened.
As Quinella was about to attack, she felt her world slowed while the black water attacks accelerated!
‘Time manipulation? Agares trait! Shit!’
A powerful blast slammed into her as she flew away and rammed into a building.
“...Impressive, even in direct contact, I couldn’t kill you just like that.” Lilith was surprised at how sturdy this weird human is.
Quinella blasted large slabs of stone away from her as she looked at Lilith with fury.
That moment she lifted her hand, she touched something around her mouth.
“...B—Blood? You cut—me?” The platinum-haired girl trembled. Her purple aura went out of control for a moment.
“You dare to cut me!? A relic of the ancient past! I will turn you into dust!” Her hair started to glow as she looked at her Axiom.
That moment, she used her Psionic interface; she used the information flow to travel to Lilith and then access the wormhole to Earth’s orbit.
She then accessed Ars Almadel Salomonis and checked the Inventory it had.
‘There it is!’
The beauty grinned with a feral look.
[Quinella, you do not have permission to use Golden Dragon Emperor Neo Gear.] Aurora said to her.
‘Overwrite code 27108.' The assistant said without even blinking.
[Permission granted. I do hope you know what you are doing.]
‘I will slaughter that bitch!’
With a blink, Quinella returned to her body and looked at Devil Lilith, who was aimlessly staring at the platinum-haired girl.
“It doesn't matter what you say about me. I will defeat you, defeat Marcus Goldman, then I will rebuild the Underworld in my image—and then I will destroy Heaven for what they did.”
“...Right. With your ancient arts, you will cease to exist soon.” As Quinella said that, a pillar of light slammed into her.
Golden red wings spread out of the pillar as a booming, deep, draconic voice spoke.
[BALANCE BREAKER!]
[GOLDEN TYRANT DRAGON SCALE MAIL!]
With a burst of gold, the pillar of light was shattered, revealing a golden armoured person with broad golden red wings and sharp horns coming from elbows. The helmet had a couple of horns coming from the sides, too. It was a more tyrannical version of a Silver Dragon Empress.
Lilith frowned when she sensed a massive spike in energy from this armoured girl.
With a hand motion, a red and golden dragon spear appeared in Quinella’s hand.
“This is the power of Technocracy. Now die for me, you relic!”
[TIME REND]
With a spear stab, the armour-clad girl was before the Progenitor of devils.
Lilith’s eyes widened as black water swiftly intercepted the stab, but the stab overpowered the water, running right into the devil.
“Ugh…”
The stab was clear, but this only caused Lilith to lose her physical form, retreat, and reform. This time, she turned into a massive snake.
‘Leviathan’s form?’
Quinella pondered for a second before taking her stance.
“It doesn't matter what form you take; you are powerless before this Gear’s might!”
The serpent roared before rushing at the Assistant, who thrust her spear at the incoming Leviathan.
[TIME COLLAPSE]
A golden shockwave slammed into the Leviathan, which caused it to shatter into a thousand pieces and drop to the ground like a waterfall.
Once again, Lilith reformed and looked at Quinella floating in the air.
“Your time powers are brutal and inelegant.”
“Say the woman who turns her descendants into acid.” The armour-clad replied with a spear twirl.
“I am doing what needs to be done.”
“Right. Then let's end this. I still haven't shown this Gear true power.”
The golden red wings stretched out as a golden circle appeared behind her. The circle glowed, and Quinella’s power skyrocketed.
Lilith’s eyes bulged out. What the hell is this dragon’s ability!? It magnified her power just like that!?
‘It's not Boost either!? No, it's like its sheer existence just grew greater!’
“Hahaha! That look on your face! This power is the Golden Tyrant’s Sovereignty over Power itself! Just like Silver Dragon Empress has Sovereignty over Elements, this gear has Sovereignty over power itself!”
Quinella dismissed the spear as she brought her hands closer together. The chest piece opened up, revealing a red crystal.
Newly created energy started to gather in the chest area as a ball of raw power started to form.
Lilith frowned and answered in an identical fashion; black and red water started to gather in her outstretched palm.
Once the charges reached a critical point, a golden beam erupted from Quinella, rushing towards Lilith, who released a red and black beam to counter.
However, the golden beam overwhelmed the red and black beam with no difficulty and slammed into Lilith, who was stupefied by the outcome.
‘Any ‘power’ falls under this sovereignty!? Impossible! What nonsense power is this!?’
The Progenitor was able to dodge a portion of the blast. The blast destroyed half of her body.
Once the beam settled down, the helmet retracted and revealed pale and heavily breathing Quinella.
“...Why—you—just—don’t DIE!”
Lilith reformed and looked at her opponent.
“It appears, for all that might, your gear has serious drawbacks.”
Quinella chuckled nervously after hearing that.
“...You have no idea. It appears our fun time is over.” The Assistant said that as she looked at what was happening behind Lilith.
Space ripped itself apart as three people walked out of the space hole.
“...Quinella, can you explain to me why overwrite code was used on Ars Almadel Salomonis, of all things?”
“...Tehehe… Oww, can't move…” The platinum-haired girl tried to move. But the gear is starting to feel heavy to her.
“Aurora, send a beam to recover my gear.”
Seconds later, a pillar of light slammed into the assistant and the golden armour was recovered.
Once it was gone, the assistant nervously chuckled one more time before passing out.
“Who are you?” Lilith asked him as she was feeling nervous in this guy’s presence.
“Sleep.” He looked at the Primordial devil's eyes. His eyes glowed purple as a mental hammer slammed into her consciousness. This attack forced her to sleep.
“Sirin, crowd control, please. Kill all these devils wraiths.”
“...Sure, since you're asking.”
The Herrscher snapped her fingers as a massive orange translucent bubble appeared above the whole of Lucifaad. Subspace lances appeared through portals and impaled every single wraith.
The next second, the space lock was gone, and all the devils dropped to the ground.
Marcus nodded at his Void Queen and looked at Axiom floating outside the ancient city.
His copy appeared there.
He ordered a retreat to Lilith and regroup and rebuild their numbers. At the same time, they are retrofitting the Airships. Portions of the space centre are already operational in Lilith, so it has enough assembly lines to retrofit the vessels.
Once he was done with orders, he contacted his AI and told her to send the new airships to replace the collapsed front line.
~~~
*Groan*
With a groan, the platinum-haired assistant opened her eyes and noticed an unfamiliar aristocratic ceiling.
“...Where is this?”
“Japan, Kuoh Town, in Sitri Estate,” Marcus said while holding a tablet, checking something fascinating.
“...I am back to Earth?”
“Of course you are. You think I will leave you in the Underworld where you can act all recklessly?” He snapped at her.
His action made her blush from shame and embarrassment; at the same time, she was feeling all fluffy.
“...I thought I had it all in my bag! By my calculations, I could use Golden Dragon Gear for three moves!”
“You were breaking protocol you created yourself.” He replied with a frown.
“And you were testing a faulty gear. The consumption ratio and generation of power ratio is 3 to 1. That thing would suck you dry in less than 5 minutes.” He said with an even bigger frown.
“As I said, Master three moves! But that bitch— she survived Tyrant’s cannon!” She puffed angrily.
“Yeah, as I said, faulty and unfinished gear. So now, we will discuss your insubordination AND how long you will be grounded.”
*Gulp*
“... I–surrender? I am raising a white flag of surrender?”
The beautiful nervously fiddled with her hair. She was wondering how much ‘damage’ she had caused with this!
“Well, at least you know you are guilty. Well, I suppose I could relegate you to sorting data without support.”
“...Huh!? Are you serious!? B-B-But— that's like cleaning messy houses! We have robots for this gibberish!”
“Exactly my point.”
“B-But I have a frontline to take care of!”
“I am engaged to a Goddess of Warfare. She knows a thing or two about tactics.” He replied to that very casually.
“...Guh…Fine…” Quinella gave up as she realised that she wouldn’t win and only get worse if she complained.
“It's for the best. You are so reckless when angry.” He said with a sigh.
*Hmph!*
“I was programmed this way!” She huffed with crossed arms. Of course, she was angry! That bitch cut her! She was bleeding! As a perfect creation, that was a sin she couldn't allow to pass.
“Yeah-Yeah, now rest and recover your energy.”
“...Okay…”
She nodded her head, but then she had a scheming look.
“I could recover faster if I was hugging my Master!”
He rolled his eyes at her before getting into the bed and pulling her for a hug.
“...Much better~.”
~~~
Sirin looked through the doors towards where the recovered girl was resting.
‘So this is his second in command.’ The Herrscher looked at the sleeping girl, her eyes narrowed, and with a mental command, her HUD appeared, taking over half of her vision.
To think that she will have a built-in HUD interface is quite scary. Does this make her a cyborg? Well, it doesn’t matter for now. She checked all the stuff she could on this girl.
‘With the amount of permission she has, this girl could command everything. Technically, even me, considering she is second in command.’
That made her frown. Considering she has no other place to be or go, the only place she can go is up in this hierarchy.
“Interested in the new girl?” A voice spoke to her.
She looked to the side and saw a silver-haired dragoness standing there.
Before Sirin can speak, Gu Yuena places her finger on her lips.
“Focus on your mind, and you can speak back. This is the basis of Psionic powers.”
It took her a few tries, but she got it down.
“Not bad. This power is not like your Herrscher’s abilities, which you can just use. Psionic powers take practice, similar to muscle training.”
“I see…”
“Regarding Quinella—” Gu Yuena walked over to Sirin.
“You are here because of her. It's the same for me. Our Emperor decided to make us because he wanted to give his AI a form.” Gu Yuena explained. But the title she used was what caught Sirin’s attention.
“Emperor?”
“Indeed. I am the Empress; he is the Emperor.”
“...Excuse me?” Now she wants a fancy title! Obviously, she should start calling herself the Void Queen!
“In this world, there is a tradition to give people fancy titles if they have fancy gears or abilities, like White Dragon Emperor, Red Dragon Emperor, Crimson Satan and so on. Since I am Silver Dragon Empress with a gear with the same name, I have the title.
Of course, if I am Empress, my Creator and Master is the Emperor.” She explained her reasoning.
“...If he made you, then he is more than Emperor.” Sirin pointed that out.
“I suppose it is, but Gods are overrated. He is just a guy tinkering in his garage.” Gu Yuena shrugged casually.
“...right.” Sirin sarcastically replied before walking away.
‘This world is crazy, and I thought me being Herrscher wanting to erase humanity was terrible. This place is just crazier.’ The Void Queen just walked away gingerly. She needs to sit down and think for a while.
While Gu Yuena just shrugged her shoulders. That is why a proper creation like her is superior in her eyes. She doesn't see anything her creator does wrong or out of place. On top of that, she knows what Marcus expects from her and what her purpose is in life. Someone like Sirin still needs to figure out herself.
In the meantime, Rias and Sona, with their Queens, are discussing the course of action.
Their trip to restaurants has been interrupted by events in the Underworld.
“He won't be staying here long. We need to do something!” Rias impatiently complained.
“Yes. Well, the alternative is still here. We only need to train.” Sona commented.
“Isn't war going on as we speak? While I understand that he does not need soldiers, what about commanders with the ability for tactics?” Sona’s Queen suggested.
Her reasoning is that he is engaged to Athena, who is in the building as they speak, which is crazy to a certain degree. The Goddess’ domain is Warfare. He may be attracted to the art of beautiful warfare.
Sona’s eyes lit up when she heard that! What Tsubaki said made sense!
Even Rias had a certain glint in her eyes.
“It's good to see you girls trying so hard.” A beauty with brown hair and blue eyes entered the room. She had sharp glasses, just like Sona Sitri. However, her sharpness was much more serious. This beauty was Athena in the flesh!
“G-Goddess Athena!” The group instantly stood up and got respect.
“Relax, I am not here to finger-point. In truth, I don't even have an Olympian title anymore.” The Goddess casually sat on the opposite couch a few seconds after Atalanta walked over and placed a cup of tea for her.
“...You— don't?”
Did Greeks lose another God!?
“But of course. I am a full-time Fiance now.” Athena quite smugly said that. That is the best job for her! Like a housewife! Well, a housewife to a guy who can end life on the planet by accident. But still! A housewife!
No more pointless meetings, no more enduring ego clashes between her siblings and uncles and aunts!
Peace and Quiet!
“...Oh, wow…” Rias and the other devils were somewhat dumbstruck. They can't recall something like that ever happening in history.
The only thing which meets criteria similar to this is Susanoo, who made a mortal girl into a goddess and married her.
“Yes, well, my father couldn't say no since, well, he didn't do anything about the Underworld, and now Marcus is taking all of it. I turned out to be collateral damage.”
‘Goddess as collateral damage?’ The Heiress glanced at each other; it would seem this war was touching more than Biblical factions.
“Regardless, towards your goals. If you two want to be officers for S.P.B.A. That would be possible, but Marcus would test your abilities first. I suggest training first.” Athena explained to them.
“...I have been studying warfare since I got my Peerage.” Sona, with a nod, replied; Rias nodded to those words, too! She did similar; she studied Riser’s tactics and rating games for a while.
“Oh?” The Greek Goddess narrowed her eyes and focused her Divinity on them.
“I can sense some echoes in you two,” Athena said with an interested look. It appears she found some fascinating devils.
“Atalanta, do you know if there is a Realitus system in the base under the school?” The Goddess asked the Lion maid.
“...Realitus system? Do you mean Entertainment Dome?” The Huntress asked back with a confused look.
“Yes, the one where we can simulate battles.”
“I do know there is one aboard, Scavenger,” Atalanta said with a knowing look.
“We should check the base then. I do wish to test these two.” Athena said with a pondering tone as she looked at Rias and Sona.
She wants to see if these have enough to be standing next to Marcus. As his future wife, she should manage his harem.
“No need to look.” Gu Yuena entered the room and dropped into the seat next to the Goddess.
“It's standard training practice for S.P.B.A to sharpen their fighting prowess constantly. The bigger the garrison, the bigger the simulation is needed. Most basic Forward Knights must pass World War 1 and 2 to be combat-ready.”
“...What you're saying is that every soldier has at least experienced two massive wars!?” Sona asked with disbelief.
“What I said is ‘at least’. The newly born have those two experiences. The older they are, the more wars they experience.”
Athena looked at the Dragoness.
‘No wonder Ares respects Marcus this much. Marcus has a group of lunatics similar to Ares! As they say, birds of similar feathers flock to each other.’
“...This is…”
“Realitus, why do you think it's called like that? It's a reality inside reality, mixed with memory synthesis. A massive army can be prepared in a matter of hours.”
“...”
“...”
“...”
“...”
“Yes, well, by this point, it's obvious. Since Technocracy is winning the war.” Athena moved the conversation forward.
“Since this is the case, the base here has a sufficient Entertainment Dome?”
“Yes, for a 10 thousand soldiers barracks, it has a sufficient simulation system.”
The devil’s eyes bulged when they heard the number!
“T-Ten thousand!?”
“Yes. It's an average size barracks.” Gu Yuena looked confused at the shock from the devils.
“Y-You saying there are 10 thousand men under the school!?” Sona was horrified when she learned that.
“Yeah. At least 500 spider walkers and several thousand Yeagers. It's not that big.” The Dragoness, with a clueless look, continued to tell what kind of force was under the school!
As someone who saw millions of men in packed, neat formations, these few thousand mean nothing to Gu Yuena.
“I-I see…”
“Then it's settled! Let's go! I will test you two!” Athena stood up, and the devil girls automatically followed her. Gu Yuena shrugged and followed them. Well, she will find some entertainment in this.
Seeing no choice, the devils steeled themselves. First, they will impress the Goddess, and then her future husband!
“Here we go again.” Atalanta sighed and followed as well.
~~~
“Hmm? Where is everybody?” Marcus walked into the main living room. There was no one here!
“...Your Fiance said something about simulation warfare? Those devils were discussing becoming officers in your military.” Sirin said comments as she was holding a small plate of sliced cake.
“And how did you know that?”
Herrscher’s eyes rolled at him.
“You gave me these powers, yet you don't know what I can do?” She explained with a huff.
“I see, so you were ear-dropping.”
“You do realise that we are in the house of a devil. My natural prejudice is to be alert against species like that.” The white-haired girl explained with a serious voice.
Sirin is a naturally cynical being. She will not easily accept hospitality like that.
“True. But then again, you do realise that they want me. Either as a man or my power, influence, or my faction’s might. They wouldn't dare to do anything questionable.”
She smirked a little bit after hearing that.
“At least you are not clueless.”
“I am not.” As he said that, he motioned to come with him.
The Herrscher slowly nodded and followed after him. They ended up sitting on the couch.
“Tell me, how was the transition from Earth to the Underworld?” He asked her as his console appeared before him, and then several more windows appeared to his sides.
He might take a short nap with his darling assistant, but he is too excited to sleep for more. He has Lilith, and her DNA, or more like a DNA soup, is a treasure trove!
“...Transition?” She asked after swallowing some cake.
“When we crossed dimensions, did your honkai powers fluctuate?”
“Hmm, Now that you mentioned there was a short moment where I had no power, it swiftly returned when we entered the Underworld.
But I have to say, this Underworld is nothing like I expected.” Sirin was disappointed. She expected sinned people to be cooked in large pots in a volcanic realm.
But it was just like Earth but with a purple sky.
“What you saw was just the first layer of the underworld; there are other layers where dead souls reside or are prisons for evil people.”
“...Hmm, I guess it makes sense.”The Herrscher nodded. Her disappointment slowly receded to some extent. Still, she finds it lacking unless she sees something impressive; it will be a mild first impression.
“Yes~ now let's talk some more~” As he said that, his hands sneaked to her waist, picked her up, and placed her on his lap.
Sirin’s eyes continued to grow from what she was experiencing! This guy is bold!