Bab 87: 87
After a strenuous chase to recover the blackmail material Catherine tricked me into I teleported back to my workshop. Knowing that Shea might have to fight Obsidian sooner than expected I put aside various projects to work on her gear.
Earrings and other accessories to increase her damage and recovery of her demonic energy, then armor that will focus on resistances of all varieties. The full set doesn't give any set bonuses but is all geared toward her abilities and general resistances.
None of the artifact blueprints the system sells in the shop are remotely comparable to the royal family artifacts. But they are enough to make her low demon overlord level of power enough to compete with Obsidian's peak overlord. His peak overlord is minuscule compared to Catherine's peak overlord, Obsidian likely doesn't even know of the existence of kingdom rank.
Shea will also be wielding the fallen angel sword that does damage to the soul of the one it injures and heals damage to the wielder every time it damages the enemy. So it's got stupidly overpowered abilities and will wreck Obsidian while the gear I made her will keep her in the fight and topped off on demonic energy and stamina.
She will be an unkillable cockroach as long as she keeps attacking and healing the damage done to herself by attacking. A completely busted strategy that makes me question the logic behind these game-like items.
I feel something rip through the casual protections I have placed over the dark moon as a whole, these are very weak and are more for alerting me to someone entering by force. Using devil teleportation will just straight bypass these, demons teleporting will not.
I set down my tools and with a pulse of demonic energy feel a headache coming on.
Zola is here.
I told her I would be gone a while after I started to plan for the upcoming tournament, I didn't want to get caught up in something that couldn't be put down. But it seems her curiosity has led the dragon out to investigate.
I don't even bother and pick my told back up and start to finish a bracelet, Zola can easily find me with the tracking rune she has on me. I should have messed with her and tried to remove it and graft it onto some random imp or something. She would have been very confused when she tracked the imp down.
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The front door upstairs is opened and closed letting me know she finally made her way to my workshop. Footsteps echo into the massively expanded and reinforced basement and I oddly get nervous.
Why does it feel like I am suddenly in a horror movie or something? I scratch my head as I set down the finished product and look at the system notification.
[ Bracelet of the sinful
Recovery - Demonic energy recovers at 80% quicker while equipped - doubles when Last resort is active
Last resort - Stored demonic energy can be consumed to activate a shield capable of blocking darkness-attributed attacks ]
Tossing the Bracelet into storage I spin my swiveling chair around and look toward my guest.
"Sorry, no soliciting." She tilts her head.
"What?" I nod, the best way to break through the fake daze is to steamroll through it.
"I said no soliciting, I am a very busy man." Standing up I walk over to my minifridge and pull out two bottles of juice. Still not many choices as far as drink, Alcohol or water being the most popular for obvious reasons. I tried to recreate soda but my knowledge on the subject is sadly lacking, I remember watching a random documentary on how it was made but not the entire details.
I pull two couches from across the room, handing her the second bottle as I walk by she takes it and I plop onto a couch.
"Why?" That's new.
"Why what Zola, get a bit more specific." She walks to the other couch and sits.
"Why did you stop coming by if you're just doing the same stuff here that you would in my lab?" At least she didn't try to drag me back like she didn't Chen Rui. She even went as far as using magic to make herself look like a fat ugly woman, She then told nearby guards that saw their odd exchange that she had to track him down because they were married.
"I am just casually making a few things, I took a break from visiting so we wouldn't get caught up in anything that I couldn't leave in the middle of. I have a duel coming up, multiple duels." She nods and goes to remove the top of her drink.
"Duel for what?" She asks with some curiosity.
"A duel to prove I am worthy to marry the empress of the Dark shadow empire." A crack sounds out from the poor bottle that just burst in her grip.
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- Zola POV -
He left to go get hitched? Unacceptable.
He said he had a harem but he didn't say he was married to any of them, I assumed it was just for the reproduction of his species like how the demons do. Their low birth rates drive the strongest of the demons to take multiple women into their harem to create more strong demons.
But if he is marrying her doesn't that mean he loves her? I feel uncomfortable at the thought.
And he has to prove himself in such a barbaric way as duels? He is already proven to be very intelligent and capable of learning quickly, isn't it a waste of time to worry about fighting?
"Here." A wave of his foreign energy passes over me and I feel it dry my wet clothes and he takes the broken bottle and hands me his opened one. "Try not to break this one." He summons another bottle and opens it before sitting back down.
Did he just give me the one he drank out of? He most certainly did and I feel like tossing it at his head. But first I need to figure out why he would bother wasting time with other people's opinions when he could be pushing to discover a way into the next realm.
"Why do you have to duel people? If you're going to marry her can't you just do it without the opinions of others?" He rolls his eyes.
"I wish, it was Catherine that cares about other people. She is an empress and even if she can beat anyone in her empire by a wide margin she still would rather solve things without wide-scale damage." That does make some sense, I take a sip of the drink and find it is the same one he brought with him last time he came by and I said I liked it.
"I see, so you didn't want to get caught up in an experiment and miss the event." he nods.
"Yep, the next thing I wanted to show you is going to take a long time to explore and research so I wanted to have ample free time. After the duel and the wedding, I think an opportunity will appear to replace a different emperor with a devil and I will be helping her so I am booked for a little while. After that we can start something I think will benefit you a lot going forward." A devil as emperor? He also seems convinced this next project will be of help to me and he isn't one to lie in the short time I have known him.
"What other devils are in the demon world?" I would rather not know anything about whatever he wants to show me or my curiosity to know more will just fester and annoy me.
"One of my reincarnated devils, a Lucifer family member."
"What?"
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- Nova POV -
I have neglected to tell her about the evil pieces since she would just want to study it or may even think I was scheming against her to reincarnate her. Admittedly, I am doing that, but can anyone blame me when she is ridiculously broken in this setting once she gets rolling?
"I reincarnated A royal family member of the lucifers and made her into a devil." Her genuine dazed look is quite cute but I hope this doesn't cause her to come to any conclusions about why I approached her. If she finds any other devil that is currently in the dark moon she will realize that there are more and would have asked about it and I might as well come clear sooner rather than later so it doesn't look like I was actively hiding it.
"You can change people's species?" I summon one of the knight pieces I bought to let Friday study in Olympus.
"With one of these, I can convert someone freshly dead or someone willing, into a devil. They mainly only gain attributes from the devil race like long life and my race's magic system and energy. Only a few species lose anything intrinsic to their beings, it would defeat the purpose in some cases if it did." she looks curiously at the piece and I offer her to hold it and she surprisingly does without much concern.
"I can feel that energy of yours inside of it but other than that it's a mystery. What?" She looks away from the piece and sees my confused look.
"You just grab it without any worry? I could have lied, and it converted you without your consent for all you know." She tosses it back and I store it away.
"We spent quite a lot of time together in my lab and I never felt you were trying anything to harm me or trick me. You did keep looking at my figure but that's expected from a lustful man like you." I take a sip of my drink to avoid a response to her accusation. "I am curious why you didn't let me know about this before?"
"I didn't want you to think I was offering to do that to you and make you feel like that was my goal. Given we have a contract to exchange information and keep it secret you might have thought I was scheming on the side or something." I debate if I should just go ahead and offer, worst case she says no. I am willing to bet everything I got that once she becomes a devil she will lose the inheritance of the elemental goddess and won't have to become her new avatar. This can save her life without having to rely on a fragment of a different god inside the royal demon's artifacts to save her.
Before I can come to a decision she speaks up.
"So you don't have any interest in reincarnating?" Well since it's this way I might as well go for it.
"I definitely would."
"Oh." She doesn't seem put off or outwardly displeased. "What is it like? I am curious, I am not sure I want to lose my naturally born race but I am curious to know what would happen." Huh, that's more to work with than I was expecting from her.
"Well first your spirit power would disappear and instead become demonic energy, and it would be boosted. Your other parameters would also raise and you would gain devil wings, which you don't need as a dragon. The other dragons I reincarnated kept everything that made them a dragon and gained demonic energy and a power boost, obviously the devil magic system to top it off." She seems pretty interested when I mentioned other dragons, probably should hold off on her meeting Paglio though. She might gut the poison dragon for stealing the silver case from her.
"You reincarnated other dragons already?" I nod.
"Yea, you want to meet her? She is an emerald dragon or was an emerald dragon. As I said earlier, she still has her dragon form and all her abilities." She thinks about it for a bit before agreeing and I reach out to Krobelus and see if she is busy.
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