"Resetting back to Level 1? That's going to be a high hurdle for her... Well, if Line didn't come today, that is." Medusa commented.
"Setting that aside for now, how's the Dungeon's reaction to your Divinity?", asked Yoruichi.
Medusa shook her head, "Nothing. It's as you've said. The Dungeon has gone silent. Should we continue our testing and have Hestia-sama and Artemis-sama release their Divinity?"
Yoruichi went quiet and started rubbing her chin in contemplation. After a few moments, she came up with a decision, "Let's not. It's too risky to go further when things are starting to get hot."
It all started when Irina lost control of her powers while testing it and ended up releasing her entire aura that could provoke the Dungeon. However, nothing happened. Sona consulted Serafall and Yoruichi regarding this and asked the girls training in the Dizara Dungeon to stop holding back and release everything they could against the monsters. But even with that, there was still nothing.
Finally, Yoruichi released her own aura and even that did nothing to the Dungeon. She thought that a Divinity would finally provoke a reaction from the Dungeon, but there was also no reaction to Medusa, which put them in this awkward position.
Of course, Yoruichi tried contacting the mysterious voice of the Dungeon, but there was no answer. For now, Yoruichi asked the girls to train without holding anything back while Kuroka watched them in case any emergencies were to emerge, "This might be the freedom that the Dungeon was giving us."
Yoruichi then returned her sights to the irregular monsters that were flooding this floor, "Let's not waste this opportunity to finally put to the test everything we've been learning."
And Yoruichi guessed it correctly, while in the Dungeon, they were being provided with cover from Chaos' prying eyes, and right now, the mysterious being was currently suppressing the Dungeon's activity so no mutations could happen.
But just as the three of them were about to dive into the sea of monsters, Yoruichi's communicator began vibrating, "Hmmm?"
She stopped in her tracks and pulled out her smartphone and saw Kuroka trying to reach her, "What's up?"
"Kisuke connected, nya~ He said he wanted to say something important to us, nya."
Hearing her words, Serafall and Medusa got closer to see the screen.
Immediately after, a feed showing Kisuke's appearance covered the screen, "Yo~ How are you all doing? It seems that things are starting to heat up over there."
"Things are about to get interesting. Though I'd prefer it if Sona and the girls could intercept them. After seeing the tournament, all of them wanted to participate."
Kisuke chuckled, "Is that so? Then give them this opportunity. It'll be good practice before the main stage."
Yoruichi's eyes slightly widened, "So you've already resolved the restriction problem? Is that what this call is about?"
"Exactly~! I've finally analyzed and modified the Leveling blueprint that I've received, so I'm sending it to the camp's database. I made it so that Hestia-sama and Artemis-sama could use it to overwrite their blessings."
"Will we finally be able to Level up safely?" Serafall asked curiously. Even though it may seem useless to her on the surface, the 'Soul Improvement and Purification' of this world's blessing was extremely useful for stabilizing her Super Devil Form.
However, Kisuke shook his head, "Nope. I've removed the entirety of the Leveling system and only left the part where the world's restrictions won't affect us."
"I thought you already analyzed it?"
"I did, but I'm still skeptical of my own analysis. This affects the Soul directly after all. I just can't easily approve of it. Besides, from what I can see, it's too artificial. This is just like forcibly filling in the blanks and gaps in the Soul to increase its strength. Still, it's without a doubt a very sophisticated process and I learned a lot from it. Give me some more time and I'll create a simplified version that'll allow the practitioner to shape their Soul to their own needs. It'll take longer to get stronger, but it'd be more natural and compatible."
Serafall gave him a thumbs up and said, "I think that's a lot better~ Take all the time you need!"
"Say, could you modify it further to have a Level 1 restriction when needed?", asked Yoruichi. Right now, instead of Leveling up, the group chose to reset their Level back to 1 as the training benefit that it gave is a lot better than the improvements they'd get when Leveling up. The harder the restrictions, the better it was to practice finer control, which will carry over no matter how strong they became.
"I can, but not right now since I'm busy. I'll work on it once I'm done here. By the way, I also finished stabilizing the 'World Gate'. If you can send someone over to test it out, let me know."
Yoruichi thought about it for a moment and said, "Everyone has momentum right now and it'd be too dangerous to test it out with Claire. We'll decide about it later."
"Got it. If I'm busy on my side, I'll send someone to meet them."
The five of them then started talking about random things like how their day-to-day lives are going on for about half an hour with Hestia, Artemis, and the kids joining in the middle of it.
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"Urahara-san, this way." While talking to his family, Kisuke got called and turned around to see the smiling Dulio, "Got it. Give me a second." Turning to his smartphone, Kisuke bid his farewell, "I'm hanging up. I'll call again later."
While walking through a bright white hall, Dulio apologized, "I'm sorry for interrupting when you're having fun."
"It's fine. I can always call them back."
Right now, the two of them are within the highest and deepest part of the Angels' base, the First Heaven, and Dulio was currently leading Kisuke towards the innermost part of the place.
A few minutes later, the two of them finally saw massive and grandiose double doors that seemed to be made out of white stone. In front of it was an extremely beautiful woman with curly blonde hair and a voluptuous figure, and was known as the most beautiful woman in Heaven, the only remaining one of the Four Great Seraphs and the current leader of Heaven, Gabriel.
"Thank you, Dulio. I will take it from here."
Dulio bowed down before turning around and nodding towards Kisuke and leaving the two of them.
"Shall we go?" asked Gabriel with her angelic voice.
"I know I'm just repeating myself at this point, but are you really sure about this?"
Gabriel smiled bright and answered, "Yes. Michael, Azazel, and Ajuka trust you and I want to do the same."
Kisuke couldn't help but smile wryly, "But this is our first time meeting, though? You don't seem to be the naive type, so any other reason?"
Gabriel's smile grew wider, "I'm not naive? Aside from my fellow Seraphs, you're the first one to think of me that way. Even Azazel thinks I'm a naive person. I may not look like it, but I have a good eye for people. It's the reason why I was the chosen one to remain here."
'From the rumors, I'm hearing, she may be naive in a different manner, but definitely not as a leader. I heard that Heaven has been clearing out spies and traitors on a large scale. Is it her doing?'
Gabriel didn't wait for Kisuke's reply and turned towards the door, touching it. Light momentarily shone from her palm before the whole area began to tremble as the massive doors dragged themselves open.
What Kisuke immediately saw in the distance were enormous wheels of different sizes dotted with innumerable eyes intersecting each other.
Gabriel turned to Kisuke once again and said, "Welcome to the core of the Sacred Gear System, the Ophanim."
Editors:
28th00: I haven’t seen that word before, period. Angels got weird names dood…
Goyya: Names are the least weird if we’re talking about biblical angels.
Redemperor D
After Kisuke hung up, The Goddesses and kids also left the conference. With just the four of them, Yoruichi started, "Once we receive the modified blessing, we'll immediately have Artemis-sama and Hestia-sama take care of it."
"But seriously, Ki-tan's timing is too good. Just as we were thinking about how to deal with the problem in Dizara, he presented us with this. Looks like it'll be fine to just leave it to Sona-chan and the rest."
"But we still don't know how many Gods are involved in this." Medusa was worried that they'd be overwhelmed since even they still had no clear idea as to how they'd execute their plan of letting a God descend.
"Don't worry. I'm already working with Kuroka to isolate the battlefield whenever necessary." Yoruichi reassured while Kuroka also added in, "I'm done laying the foundations for the Space Isolation, nyaa. Thanks to the data we've received about the Rating Game Field and Dimension Lost, the barrier is going to be a lot more sturdy and should be enough to contain and control the number of engagements for a week or two. If they want a one on one, we could give it to them, nyaa~"
"What are you talking about, Kuro-chan~?" Serafall interrupted, "You're joining them~! While you're a bit of a veteran, you haven't gone through much hardship and struggle and can still improve massively through them. You'll be taking on two by yourself."
"Wait. I'm not part of the seniors, nya?"
Yoruichi, Serafall, and Medusa looked at each other before answering simultaneously without any hesitation, "No."
"Guh!"
Yoruichi laughed softly and explained, "You're at the mid-point between the newbies and us. But don't take it badly, as you can still improve greatly when pushed to surpass your limits. For us three, our calculative sides shaped by our experience is already proving itself harder to suppress than we originally thought. We're not the same as Kisuke, who could just go crazy while also scheming."
"So going crazy isn't going to cut it for you?" Kuroka asked while tilting her head.
"It could, but most of the time, you'll only end up dead." Serafall answered while shaking her head, "And even if you're confident that it could work, the experience you carry will always present you with another, safer, method. It just doesn't make sense to go crazy at that point and hopefully pull out a potential that you've been hiding only to get betrayed by your own expectations in the end. In hindsight, I really admire those who can just discard their thinking and simply go for it."
"Master is a bit different, as his ideas are crazy to begin with. But even then, we could only improve systematically or through some form of enlightenment."
"To explain it easier, I just can't master my Super Devil Form by fighting stronger opponents. Analyzing my own technique and slowly improving them is the better way to go. Of course, some techniques are special and could be easily improved through fighting like Sona's 'Water' that transforms and moves through her will. The crazier she gets, the stronger it becomes."
"What? I thought your Super Devil Form was the same as Sona's?" Yoruichi asked in genuine confusion.
In response, Serafall could only smile wryly, "Sadly, I'm not a natural like Sirzechs-chan and Ajuka-chan, and I didn't develop this technique out of desperation like Sona-chan. Even if I go crazy with it, I'm too afraid that it'll only backfire."
One might think that becoming stronger and more experienced in life or death situations could overcome the fear they were feeling, when in fact, the more they went through such battles, the more they'd discover fearsome things that'd make them even more careful in the end. Only naive and arrogant people could become fearless, and aside from very few special individuals, it didn't really work out for them either.
"I see. I guess that's true. In any case, Kuroka. Take this chance as this is still within your growth period. Don't let it go."
"Understood, nyaa~! I'll go first since there are still things that I have to do."
"Remember not to tell the girls about this. The surprise factor should add some sense of danger for them."
"Got it nyaa~!"
After Kuroka hung up, Yoruichi asked the other two, "Now then, who should we send?"
"Even though it's completed, it's still unadjusted, so as Kisuke said, we can't really send Claire with that kind of risk.", Medusa muttered.
"And the girls still have momentum. Breaking it will only result in further delays in their training.", added in Serafall.
"We ourselves can't exactly go either since one of us leaving will leave a pretty big hole in our surveillance and defenses. And it's not like we can send either Hestia-sama or Artemis-sama...", murmured Yoruichi.
They contemplated for a few moments until Medusa asked, "Say... It doesn't have to be someone from our group, right?"
Everyone went quiet and looked at each other for a few seconds. There was only one person that came to their mind and all of them simultaneously said,
"Riveria?"
"Riveria, huh..."
"Let's go with Ria-tan."
Yoruichi smiled as they reached a unanimous decision, "Alright. Looks like there's no need for a debate. Our test subject number 1 will be Riveria."
By being a native of this world and having no big issues that would arise if she were to leave, Riveria was chosen thanks to her potential of giving more useful experimental data.
Editors:
28th00: Elf Bulli time? Poor Riveria… Designated Test Subject 1…
Redemperor D
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