When Maulketh and his family stepped through the gate, they appeared inside the Dining Hall. It was essentially the living room of his castle as there were plenty of comfy seats and everyone could enter it.
For Maulketh, the moment he entered his castle, he felt like the castle itself reached out to him. The castle was not exactly sentient, but it was made of Runeas' Demonic Power, then reinforced with Maulketh's Mana along with Hephestus' Divine Energy.
That along with it being inside a time formation, caused the castle to slowly begin to form a weak will that could one day become a soul. This was his castle, his volcano, but he also liked his other castle and volcano in the other world.
He did not have to pick as he would soon begin his plan to begin making major moves in the DC reality.
"Feels nice to be back home."
Trihexa liked the other castle better.
"This castle is lacking compared to the one you built."
"I did make that one from pure Divine Energy and then fuse a Planetary Core to it. Not the same thing, but I don't have to pick. I will just fuse them together to make an even stronger volcano."
As for Ophis, she probed the volcano and castle before as she was curious.
"Now this is a lair. And your other volcano is stronger?"
He nodded.
"Much stronger."
Hearing what they were saying made Runeas curious.
"Did you take over the Super Volcano over there as well?"
He nodded.
"Yup, it got me into a fight with the Justice League which I won of course."
Runeas was instantly curious.
"You are going to have to tell me that story later. For now, sit here."
She pushed him down and sat him on a chair she made from Demonic Power. Once he was seated, Runeas ran out of the Dining Room to do something. If he had to guess, it was to get Kuroka, Shirone, and Kimmi to show them off.
As she did that he turned to Rias.
"What are you scheming?"
Rias just smirked as she knew he would not read her mind this time.
"2 months in a time formation is a lot of time. Let's say that we have all been busy for your sake. And I have been raising three ravishing prizes for you."
She ran her soft hand down his beard making him smirk.
"You really want your peerage as my harem don't you? Akeno was one thing, but Shirone and Kimmi as well?"
Ophis as a Dragon Goddess shrugged.
"Your harem is tiny all things considered, so add more. And once you feel ready, you can fight me and Great Red as you said you would defeat us."
He saw her cracking her knuckles, but he just leaned back.
"Yeah, wait until then."
As he was looking at Rias, Akeno sat down on his lap. She wrapped her arms around his thick neck as he looked down at her.
"Well, they are our friends and now are very sexy. We thought, why not try to reward you with two sexy strong females and give them the honor of being in your harem? You can say no if you want though?"
Ingvild grabbed his shoulders and placed her chin on his shoulder.
"But it would waste all the effort we spent to make those girls as strong as possible."
Even Valina had something to say.
"Even I can say they earned my respect from their training drive. Of course, it was not all about you, but they also did it for themselves. You once said that besides Kuroka, the other two had weak wills. After, the training course they underwent, that little issue is certainly not an issue anymore."
He was curious now at what they did to Kimmi and Shirone.
"Did you make them eat Apples of Torment or something?"
Calypso nodded.
"Of course. We all did, as those apples are a really good way to awaken or strengthened latent powers or bloodlines. We have several which were given to us by Nyx if you want any more. But I don't think they will have much effect on you."
That got him thinking.
"I will need to talk to Nyx soon. I want to see if we can't make a stronger Apple grown from my Conceptual Energy. That could really be a useful thing."
Tiamat flicked him on the head which he did not even feel.
"Schemes can wait. Just wait for your prizes, and even I can say they look absolutely ravishing."
"Keep that up and I will ravish you."
"That a promise?"
She licked her lips making him smile.
"Yeah."
Just as he was talking to her, Runeas stepped inside with a proud look on her face.
"Mark, your not secretly looking with your god senses right?"
He shook his head.
"No, I have them restrained."
She smiled as she opened the door.
"Girls, you can come in."
Kuroka was the first to walk into the room as he already liked her. She was wearing a pink and black maid outfit. She was also wearing a cat bell around her neck which was kinda cute. He also noticed 9 wagging cat tails behind her.
She spun around to show her whole body to him.
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"Like what you see, Nya."
Maulketh nodded as he looked her over.
"I already liked you, but now, I really like you."
Maulketh as a Dragon God did not 'see' in the regular sense. His sight could see normally, but he saw in every dimension he could understand. Even the soul, so from just looking at Kuroka he could see just how hard she had worked to get this strong.
"I see you worked hard, I am proud of you."
She smiled as she reached behind the door and it pulled out Kimmi and Shirone.
"Don't get too excited just yet."
Shirone looked very different from the last time he had seen her. She had had a huge growth spurt as her body now looked like her sister Kuroka's. Her breasts were big, her ass was very perky, and she had some long thick legs as she had been training.
And just like Kuroka, she also had 9 tails. She smiled when she saw him, but her face was flushed red. Kuroka had been training her to control her heat cycle, but she was currently in heat.
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"Uhh, hi."
Kuroka hugged her from behind and gave her big boobs a firm squeeze
"See Maulketh, look how big and bouncy they got."
Kuroka played with them a bit which caused her extreme embarrassment.
"SIS! NO! Not THE BOOBS! AHH!"
She was super sensitive which made Maulketh gulp. Kuroka smirked when she saw that.
'Score.'
As for Kimmi, well she also looked very different. When he met her, she was just 15, and she looked like it. But now, she was well over 400 years old, and it showed how much her body had changed from a cute teenage girl he met to a gorgeous woman.
She gave a small smile as she had honestly done all this just to be stronger for Rias. If Maulketh liked her, then that was a good thing, but it was not a necessity for her.
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"I am glad to see you doing well Maulketh. Sorry if all of this is annoying for you."
Maulketh stood up and walked over to the three girls. He walked around them a few times while thinking. From their strength, he knew they had gotten much stronger than when he first met them and much more beautiful.
But that was just a part of it. He looked each one in the eyes as he gazed at their souls and wills. He expected them to be at least a bit weak, but he was met with solid willpower.
Rias walked up to him with a smile.
"So? What do you think? Worthy? Not worthy?"
He sighed and gave her the truth.
"Worthy."
Rias jumped in the air.
"YES! YES!"
She gave him a tight hug as ever since she became a member of his harem, she had wanted her friends in it. And now she had a chance to do so. She was elated.
"Thank you Maulketh, you won't regret it."
"I never said they were in already."
Kuroka walked over to him and hugged his arm.
"Really? Not even me?"
She pressed her breasts into his arm which were even bigger than before. He noticed she was also slightly taller. It was only like 4 inches, so now she was 5'5. A good height as it allowed her proportions to get even bigger.
"I had pretty much already accepted you anyways, I just never got around to saying it. But, since you all seem to obsessed with adding more women to my harem, so be it. Kimmi, you can just say no if that is what you want. As it stands, we barely know each other and it would be weird for you to accept just because Rias wants it.
As for Shirone, well she is a Nekushou, and it seems Kuroka wants to share her mate with her sister. Is that normal?"
Kimmi, thought about it.
"You know, I did not really think about it much. When you first met us you gave us the advice we needed, and I have accepted it all this time. And I have been training to better serve Rias, but as you said, just joining you because of that would not be fair to you. But, for me, I want to give it a shot. Would you consider it?"
She looked up at him with bright blue eyes making him sigh.
"I would. If you feel you don't belong, we can break this off as we will just be getting to know each other more. But Kuroka and Shirone, don't seem to need that.
Kuroka nodded as she pulled Shirone to Maulketh. Kuroka used her own Senjutsu to relieve Shirone's heat.
"True. As for it being normal for the both of us to be with you, maybe not. However, we are the last two Nekushou around. So, why not give ourselves to the strongest Dragon God ever."
He ruffled both Nekushou's ears which he liked a lot. That reminded Akeno of something.
"Why can't you resurrect the other Nekushou? You did it for my mom? Can't you do it for her?"
"I should be able to. But for your mom, I had her body as a link to her soul. Yet, now that I am a Dragon God I should have access to the afterlife of the many pantheons. I will have to find where her soul is, and then build her a new body as from what I saw in your minds her body was destroyed."
Kuroka and Shirone for the first time in a while felt hope at having their mom back. Their father could burn in hell, but their mom was only a victim of her own instincts. But while he was here, Maulketh decided to speak on his plan.
"Alright, I will try. But while we are all here, let's talk about my plan for DC. We know it is a deadly place with dangers everywhere. However, it is also a treasure trove of knowledge, powers, and a means for us to all grow stronger.
But before we do that, we need to deal with our world first. We will spend time here, consolidating our control, dealing with unstable elements, and gaining as much power as we can from it.
It does not matter what you do, steal Sacred Gears you feel will benefit you, get Symbols of power made, kill and eat gods who refuse to submit, and find ways to evolve your bloodlines. Do it all. Yes?"
They all looked at each other before they smiled.
"YES!"
He grinned.
"Good. Once we are ready, we can begin to search for alternative universes of this world. The multiverse is real, so we all have infinite alternatives. My goal is to absorb them all and gain all of their power. How? I don't know, but I will do it.
Get ready as the power we all have now won't be enough. Be ready for that."